Just when you think you've gotten cynical enough, the GOP goes and tries to rebrand its energy policy as economic populism:
In a strategy memo obtained by POLITICO, Republican staffers for the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works say Republicans should argue that Democrats are embracing “Wall Street traders,” “polluters” and “others in corporate America” who are “guilty of manipulating national climate policy to increase profits on the backs of consumers.
Your Republican Party, forever vigilant against upward redistribution of wealth!
Dan Weiss gets off a good line:
“Joe Barton’s alternative energy bill is full of more handouts to big oil companies that made $650 billion in profits over the past eight years,” said Daniel J. Weiss, a climate director at the Center for American Progress Action Fund.
Weiss said that the GOP effort to cast itself as “the party of consumers is as laughable as Bristol Palin advocating teenage abstinence.”
Republicans are no longer "pro-business," they're pro some businesses, specifically old-line energy companies and utilities. They're anti-GE, anti-Vestas and eSolar, anti-Dupont, PG&E, Nike, and Google. Just as their electoral success depends on proportionally declining demographics (rural white men, holla!), their muscle in energy politics is bound up in declining industries and perspectives. More and more American businesses are chomping at the bit to innovate in markets from which they're currently excluded by an unpriced externality.
And that is not true why?
Republican national establishment is in the pocket of smokestack/manufacturing management class. Long time.
Democratic national establishment, especially urban upper class base, is in the pocket of the financial services sector, since the early 1980's.
Another way, Republicans manufacturing capital, Democrats finance capital.
Their interests are not mutual usually. Republicans are open about their purchase, Democrats still have to preserve their branding about caring for the poor, so they are more deceptive.
Read more Nader.
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as public health care would take the burden OFF the backs of business both big and small.
The only business that would hurt from a public option would be the health insurance industry--they would indeed take a hit--though they could restructure and sell supplemental health policies and expand into auto, life, home(flood and fire), personal property, disability, malpractice and pet health insurance.
Republicans have their loyalties pinned to the oil, chemical, health insurance and big pharma industries--those who set policies against what is in the best interest of the people.
For those of you interested in a public health care option, please sign Dr. Howard Dean's petition:
http://www.standwithdrdean.com/credo
Here's more information on a public health option--Medicare for ALL Americans-- check it out:
http://www.pnhp.org/change/
Tonight 9:00 EST, Bill Moyers on PBS will have a special on national health care.
Dr. David Himmelstein from PNHP will be his guest.
Americans can't seem to see the Republican party is fascist through and through ..
So they've picked out a few large corporations to oppose this week. Big deal! They don't like GE, because they own MSNBC and employ Keith Olberman. Throw in a couple more which might have boards which don't donate so much to them. In their core, they are still about the interests of the uber wealthy and the largest corporations.
GE is the biggest polluter in the nation, responsible for more superfund sites than anyone else. You think they suddenly got religion? They are trying to force tens of millions of acres of our wilderness into extinction with erratic, barely productive, highly destructive Industrial Wind plants while blocking all efforts to implement democratic, non-deadly power production (like rooftop solar) and conservation/efficiency gains.
Chevron and BP are funding companies like Bright Source so they can continue their egregious supply and pricing manipulations in an era of Big Solar, while Robert Kennedy, Jr. greenwashes their wholesale slaughter of pristine desert ecosystems and massive depletion of scarce groundwater resources.
If it takes Republicans to oppose these guys, then I have to reluctantly say " Go Republicans!" because this Big Solar/Big Wind/Big Transmission boondoggle will CRUSH democratic power production in its infancy, will slaughter over 50 million more acres of wilderness for private profits and will permanently increase GHGs (including uber-deadly SF6), while sucking our aquifers dry. They are wasteful, polluting, destructive and NOT NEEDED.
Don't believe me. Just what democrat would have predicted that President Obama would bailout our largest corporations and let the CEOs keep their jobs and bonuses. I still have trouble believing it. I would have bet cold hard cash our current admin would have been much more likely to help people restructure their home loans and limit interest on credit cards. Never would I believed that we give bailout money to banks who charge us 30% interest plus penalties on our credit cards.
They will say anything they have to in order to trick people into voting for them... and when that doesn't work, they'll rig the vote.
“If you want a balanced view of this try this link:
http://www.junkscience.com/Greenhouse/”
In Huffington Post we must discuss this article instead of Republicans, or Democrats policy.
“Since the Northern Hemisphere contains the greatest proportion of landmass and land heats more than oceans the Northern Hemisphere summer season causes significant increase in the global mean temperature”
Men activities changed reflection, evaporation, cloud formation, convection forces and wind direction. In these directions, NOT GHG I SEE REAL POSSIBILITIES TO MAKE differences.
“ Water vapor accounts for about 70% of the greenhouse effect, carbon dioxide somewhere between 4.2% and 8.4%.
Much of the wavelength bands where carbon dioxide is active are either at or near saturation.
Water vapor absorbs infrared over much the same range as carbon dioxide and more besides.
Clouds are not composed of greenhouse gas -- they are mostly water droplets -- but absorb about one-fifth of the longwave radiation emitted by Earth.
Clouds can briefly saturate the atmospheric radiation window (8-13µm) through which some Earth radiation passes directly to space (those hot and sticky overcast nights produce this effect - that is greenhouse but has nothing to do with carbon dioxide).
Greenhouse gases can not obstruct this window although ozone absorbs in a narrow slice at 9.6µm.
Adding more greenhouse gases which absorb in already saturated bandwidths has no net effect.
Adding them in near-saturated bands has little additional effect.”
Among many, many other out-and-out inaccuracies and nonfacts fom out of nowhere: the Eurasian landmass is definitely larger than North America.
This is confirmation that properties of water cool the air better than carbon dioxide heat it.
It is not only carbon dioxide or other GHG.
It is winds and their direction, which send hot air to cloud level.
It is reflection, which send short wave back to space.
It is huge convection forces.
It is cloud formation.
It oceans streams.
It is properties of water and ice.
It is water evaporation, which take a lot of energy on the ground level and send vapor as lighter gas to cloud level, where infrared radiation escapes to space. Mankind activities changed not only carbon dioxide, which is not main player in Nature, but only tilling of land changed reflection, convection forces, evaporation and cloud formation.
Claiming only carbon dioxide will direct our activities in wrong direction.
Only tilling changed reflection, evaporation, cloud formation, convection forces.
We need to use all natural properties to reduce effect of global warming especially cooling effects of water vapor, water droplet, water, and ice.
It is huge mistakes if our Government, senators (as Democrats, as Republicans) solutions depend from this kind of science.
There are lots of measurements and lots of feed back loops, but I think the most reliable indicators of climate change are observations of life from temperate zones moving northward, responsive to the overall progress of global change (commercial examples include changes in planting zones on seed company packets), and the changes in dates of ice out and first frost at a given latitude.
Dearjoebaggadonuts, In Texas CO2 concentration bigger than in Hawaii, but what about concentration of H2O?
Please reread my point.
That's a Republican for you...make sure to protect the profits of yet another huge corporate interest. Remember United Health Care? Their CEO personally took one dollar of every 700 people spend on their insurance premiums. How does that kind of greed turn to care for anyone other than CEO's
Go ahead...call Blue Cross and tell them about your lack of money and a pre-existing condition and ask for them to insure you and fix your health problem. Yea right. There is no Republican plan that would provide any care at all for the poor who cannot afford it.
So if they're pro small business, why don't they want healtcare reform? Because it will lose profit for who? The big insurance and drug companies.
If they're pro small business, why vote against the bankruptcy bill, which would affect alot of small business owners who have gone under? Oh, it was because the banks won't get their loan amount in full.
Yeah, gotta love that pro-small business slant.