Busily engaged in doing that on the environmental front is that great conservative, John McCain [/snark]: After spending several weeks staking out positions on taxes, Iraq and judges designed to appeal to conservatives, John McCain is shifting his attention to independents and Democrats, with proposals on climate change.
McCain Breaks Sharply from Bush on Environment
blogs.abcnews.comFound 88 days, 5 hours, 59 minutes, and 56 seconds agoABC News' Ron Claiborne Reports: Campaigning in the Pacific Northwest, presumptive Republican nominee John McCain, R-Ariz., broke sharply from the Bush administration on climate change, calling for urgent steps to confront its threat and saying that as president he "will. ...
McCain Climate Speech
dotearth.blogs.nytimes.comFound 87 days, 22 hours, 59 minutes, and 39 seconds agoI'm immersed in unrelated reporting at the moment -- on the shape of the next green revolution -- but will start annotating the speech shortly (with your help, please) as we did with President Bush's recent climate speech. McCain is clearly trying to woo independents by rejecting the hotter climate-as-calamity ...
McCain urges free-market principles to reduce global warming
apnews.myway.comFound 88 days, 7 hours, 58 minutes, and 33 seconds agoPHOENIX (AP) - Republican John McCain, reaching out to both independents and green-minded social conservatives, argues that global warming is undeniable and the country must take steps to bring it under control while adhering to free-market principles. He also sets a goal that by 2050, the country will ...
John McCain 2008
johnmccain.comFound 87 days, 22 hours, 22 minutes, and 34 seconds agoWind power is one of many alternative energy sources that are changing our economy for the better. Wind is a clean and predictable source of energy, and about as renewable as anything on earth. Our economy depends upon clean and affordable alternatives to fossil fuels, and so, in many ways, does our ...
McCain's "climate change" tour bypasses cooler heads
michellemalkin.comFound 88 days, 4 hours, 59 minutes, and 5 seconds agoJohn McCain kicks off his "climate change tour" in Portland today. […] Read the rest »
Beware of Cap and Trade Climate Bills
heritage.orgFound 88 days, 51 minutes, and 17 seconds ago2191), sponsored by Senators Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) and John Warner (R-VA), is the latest and fastest-moving "cap and trade" bill introduced in Congress this year. All such climate change measures warrant careful scrutiny, as they would likely increase energy costs and do considerably more economic ...
Why pump prices need to stay high
csmonitor.comFound 88 days, 12 hours, 39 minutes agoThat may be one reason they reject the campaign stunt of urging a holiday for the federal gas tax. A gas price threshold has now been reached to influence behavior. That Congress must impose a "carbon" tax on fossil-fuel use, from electric utilities to home furnaces to gas-guzzling ...
McCain Breaks with Bush on Climate Change
blog.washingtonpost.comFound 87 days, 20 hours, 41 minutes, and 20 seconds agoJohn McCain broke sharply with President Bush today, arguing for mandatory curbs on greenhouse gas emissions and issuing emissions credits to polluters. --Juliet Eilperin
McCain appeals to independents with environment pitch
cnn.comFound 88 days, 2 hours, 43 minutes, and 31 seconds agoKicking off a week-long push seen as outreach to independent and Democratic voters in crucial swing states, John McCain on Monday delivered a speech outlining his vision for combating global warming.
Govt to seek 'up to 80%' emissions cut by 2050
yomiuri.co.jpFound 88 days, 4 hours, 6 minutes, and 25 seconds agoFour Cabinet ministers, including Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura and Environment Minister Ichiro Kamoshita, are among those discussing the issue. The European Union says major countries should reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 60 percent to 80 percent by 2050 from 1990 levels. Japan has ...
McCain Woos Democrats on Environment
online.wsj.comFound 87 days, 22 hours, 50 minutes, and 59 seconds agoWASHINGTON -- After spending several weeks staking out positions on taxes, Iraq and judges designed to appeal to conservatives, John McCain is shifting his attention to independents and Democrats, with proposals on climate change. The Republican presidential candidate also is using his stance on energy ...
Newsweek Taking Heat for Obama Article Critical of McCain
newsbusters.orgFound 88 days, 2 hours, 41 minutes, and 26 seconds agoOn Sunday, my colleague Warner Todd Huston apprised readers of a truly disgraceful Newsweek article which continued to demonstrate just how in the tank media are for Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama. ...
blog.wired.com
The feds will soon be collecting about one million DNA samples a year under a new program that lets federal agents collect cheek swabs from citizens merely arrested for any federal crime or from any non-citizen detained by federal agents -- including visitors to the country who have visas. ...
Found 87 days, 16 hours, 20 minutes, and 31 seconds ago
dailykos.com
It took 52 minutes to get to a question about Iraq. Took 64 minutes to the economy, and then in John McCain's terms.
These are the top two issues cited in poll after poll, but ABC doesn't think they're important enough to ask the presidential candidates on, or will let a Republican frame the debate. It's flat shameful.
And Charlie Gibson is promoting capital gains tax cuts. Not that it would be in his personal interest or anything with what he makes -- but it seems like some sort of obsession with him.
Found 113 days, 19 hours, 22 minutes, and 30 seconds ago
ace.mu.nu
Apparently he's going to spend the next week or so advocating for action on climate change .
In an implicit rebuke to the Bush administration, McCain will say in remarks prepared for delivery at the Vestas Wind Energy Training Facility in Portland, Oregon. "I will not shirk the mantle of leadership that the United States bears. I will not permit eight long years to pass without serious action on serious challenges." Referring to the Kyoto Protocols on greenhouse gas emissions the U.S. never signed, McCain added "I will not accept the same dead-end of failed diplomacy that claimed Kyoto.
Found 88 days, 5 hours, 59 minutes, and 44 seconds ago
valleywag.com
American corporations that keep profits earned overseas can indefinitely keep that money out of the country in order to avoid paying American taxes. Former HP CEO and current John McCain campaign spokesperson Carly Fiorina says that gives companies an incentive to develop factories and jobs in markets abroad. Rather than close the loophole, Fiorina says it's better to lower the taxes. But then I have to ask, how will we pay for those wars overseas? I mean, besides slashing the social safety net and borrowing more money from China?
Found 87 days, 16 hours, 20 minutes, and 33 seconds ago
proteinwisdom.com
The Washington Post reports on the incoherency of John McCain's positions on environmental issues. For example, when it comes to drilling for oil off the shores of California or Florida, he is a federalist. When it comes to drilling in Alaska, he opposes it as though it was drilling in the Grand Canyon or the Everglades (though the latter is in Florida, last I checked). Except if it is attached to a must-pass defense spending bill, in which case he reluctantly votes for drilling in the ANWR.
Found 88 days, 6 hours, 48 minutes, and 9 seconds ago
newsbusters.org
Recession or no, Playboy's losing money ( Reuters )
Found 87 days, 21 hours, 14 minutes, and 6 seconds ago
newsbusters.org
In this week's cover story , Newsweek's Richard Wolffe and Evan Thomas juxtapose Democratic talking points about the sliminess of Republicans ("successfully scaring voters since 1968") and testimonials to the managerial wizardry of Barack Obama ("he has 'grace under fire'") and present the entire package as an insightful look inside "The O Team."
The eight-page spread , decorated with several behind-the-scenes photographs of the candidate and his top aides, paints Republicans and independent conservative groups as the source of all campaign nastiness.
Found 87 days, 23 hours, 30 minutes, and 57 seconds ago
freerepublic.com
My Way News ^ | 5-12-08 | Glen Johnson
Found 88 days, 7 hours, 58 minutes, and 15 seconds ago
WWW.samefacts.com
McCain gave a big climate speech at a wind turbine company in Oregon today. I'm writing this as the Sox drop the third out of four to the Twins, and I'm thinking, dammit, I deserve a simple world in which I can have clear binary opinions. Boston should win all the time, McCain should be wrong about everything and say so, America is good, everyone else is bad except maybe Canada...that sort of thing.
No such luck. I know, God is in the details, some of what he said was vague and weaselable, he got price and cost (of nuclear reactors) mixed up, cap-and-trade (the banner he raised) is not as good as a carbon charge, maybe he doesn't really mean it, quibble quibble yada yada:
Found 87 days, 17 hours, 38 minutes, and 58 seconds ago
archpundit.com
"Which one issue would you most like to hear the candidates for president discuss during the 2008 presidential campaign? "
Found 289 days, 32 minutes, and 17 seconds ago
harvarddems.com
problematic -- rather it's a specific function of this country's politics in the past 30 years. And I think that that anti-tax attitude is reaching the end of its shelf life; supply-side economics are totally discredited (among the sane), there's no Ron Reagan in sight, and on the whole fiscal issues are losing their salience behind more pressing concerns like job security, health care, and of course the war.
Found 289 days, 31 minutes, and 54 seconds ago
dailykos.com.
It took 52 minutes to get to a question about Iraq. Took 64 minutes to the economy, and then in John McCain's terms.
These are the top two issues cited in poll after poll, but ABC doesn't think they're important enough to ask the presidential candidates on, or will let a Republican frame the debate. It's flat shameful.
And Charlie Gibson is promoting capital gains tax cuts. Not that it would be in his personal interest or anything with what he makes -- but it seems like some sort of obsession with him.
Found 113 days, 19 hours, 22 minutes, and 29 seconds ago
misslaura.dailykos.com
It took 52 minutes to get to a question about Iraq. Took 64 minutes to the economy, and then in John McCain's terms.
These are the top two issues cited in poll after poll, but ABC doesn't think they're important enough to ask the presidential candidates on, or will let a Republican frame the debate. It's flat shameful.
And Charlie Gibson is promoting capital gains tax cuts. Not that it would be in his personal interest or anything with what he makes -- but it seems like some sort of obsession with him.
Found 113 days, 19 hours, 22 minutes, and 27 seconds ago
economist.com
, David Brooks forbids "whining" about the National Enquirer style moderation because, for better or worse, "issues like Jeremiah Wright, flag lapels and the Tuzla airport will be important in the fall." This is the journalist's equivalent of "I don't want to bring this up, but the Republicans surely will," and it is, if possible, even more circular.
Found 113 days, 2 hours, 28 minutes, and 30 seconds ago
gasoline.fuelspace.com
window.document.getElementById('post-7932′).parentNode.className += ' adhesive_post';Christian Science Monitor: Driving less? More than two-thirds of car owners already are. It's a natural reflex to $50-$70 tank fill-ups. But US drivers may also know it's time to pay a price to curb global warming. That may be one reason they reject the campaign stunt of urging a holiday for the federal gas tax. US politicians can't have it both ways. Most seek the type of solutions for climate change that would
Found 88 days, 12 hours, 38 minutes, and 48 seconds ago
anklebitingpundits.com
reports :
"For all of the last century, the profit motive basically led in one direction - toward machines, methods and industries that used oil and gas," said McCain. "Enormous good came from that industrial growth, and we are all the beneficiaries of the national prosperity it built. But there were costs we weren't counting, and often hardly noticed.
Found 88 days, 7 hours, 58 minutes, and 7 seconds ago
evervigilant.net
The latest example comes from none other than the presumed Republican presidential nominee, John McCain, who was busy over Mother's Day weekend campaigning against global warming. His non-free market solution to this mythical threat includes implementing a cap-and-trade program on carbon-fuel emissions and forcing businesses to adhere to strict emission limits. In other words, more government control over the nation's economy.
Found 88 days, 7 hours, 57 minutes, and 40 seconds ago
sistrunk.net
McCain urges free-market principles to reduce global warming
Found 88 days, 7 hours, 57 minutes, and 57 seconds ago
autobloggreen.com
Following the economist revolt against John McCain's "gas tax holiday" idea, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee is going to try and change the current dialogue about his stance on climate change. He will do this by getting into specifics today, according to chief McCain surrogate and economic adviser Carly Fiorina. As WIRED puts it , Fiorina is working hard to distance McCain's environmental stances from those of President Bush, and it's likely that emphasizing this difference will be a big part of the new message.
Found 88 days, 7 hours, 38 minutes, and 27 seconds ago
rightpundits.com
Just when you thought it was safe to vote for McCain, just when I was kinda feeling alright about the guy, he comes out with this crap .
In an implicit rebuke to the Bush administration, McCain will say in remarks prepared for delivery at the Vestas Wind Energy Training Facility in Portland, Oregon. "I will not shirk the mantle of leadership that the United States bears. I will not permit eight long years to pass without serious action on serious challenges." Referring to the Kyoto Protocols on greenhouse gas emissions the U.
Found 88 days, 5 hours, 14 minutes, and 4 seconds ago
seablogger.com
Many big businesses are capitulating to the environmentalist movement. Often they find convenient ways to go along, get along, and profit. The costs are borne elsewhere, by domestic customers, and residents of foreign countries. A few days ago I wrote about California outsourcing its energy demand to other states. Alcoa Aluminium is playing this game globally. Steven Malloy explains in a FrontPage interview. He has all the dirt on Big Green business.
John McCain loves this stuff. It's another reason to loathe him.
Found 88 days, 4 hours, 58 minutes, and 26 seconds ago
jevica2003.blogtownhall.com
Like Barack Obama, McCain touts a "cap-and-trade" system as the
free-market answer to reducing carbon emissions. Analysts who haven't
been bitten by the global warming alarmist bug beg to differ -and evidence from cap-and-trade systems already in operation back them up
Found 88 days, 4 hours, 57 minutes, and 40 seconds ago
maroonedinmarin.blogspot.com
Today, John McCain starts his "climate change" tour , as he panders for liberal votes he'll never get.
Found 88 days, 3 hours, 51 minutes, and 10 seconds ago
rrwr.blogspot.com
Are you ready for the John McCain global warming tour ? Because apparently he's going to spend the next few weeks advocating for action on "climate change." In an implicit rebuke to the Bush administration, McCain will say in remarks prepared for delivery at the Vestas Wind Energy Training Facility in Portland, Oregon. "I will not shirk the mantle of leadership that the United States bears. I will not permit eight long years to pass without serious action on serious challenges." Referring to the Kyoto Protocols on greenhouse gas emissions the U.
Found 88 days, 2 hours, 19 minutes, and 38 seconds ago
coldfury.com
Christ on a crutch, you gotta be kidding me . I'd take it with a grain of salt, to say the least, early as it still is. But if it does come to pass, well, if this ain't the final straw for conservatives, I'm sure I can't imagine what would be.
Found 88 days, 1 hour, and 6 seconds ago
clubforgrowth.org
Washington - McCain's cap-and-trade bill to limit CO2 emissions is badly flawed and would do great damage to the economy. Although McCain promotes the cap-and-trade plan as a market-based solution, it is just another heavy government regulation with tremendous costs to American businesses and economic growth.
The cap-and-trade system has a number of flaws. For starters, the proposal is no different than a tax on carbon emissions; it merely hides the cost increase through a trading mechanism in order to make the bill more politically palatable.
Found 88 days, 50 minutes, and 55 seconds ago
politicalmavens.com
The more McCain talks up this trendy propaganda, the less it matters to me that he wins in November. If he's all for this kind of costly junk, then-really-what's the difference between him and his opponent?
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Found 87 days, 23 hours, 17 minutes, and 9 seconds ago
blueoregon.com
Judging by the headlines, John McCain's global warming pitch in Oregon this week is having the desired effect. While CNN announced that "McCain appeals to independents with environment pitch," the Wall Street Journal declared, "McCain woos Democrats on environment." With Americans' support for President Bush and the direction of the country at record lows , John McCain is running away from his party and his president by stressing the environment, the only substantive issue on which he and George W.
Found 87 days, 22 hours, 50 minutes, and 41 seconds ago
nydailynews.com
Paterson spent some quality time upstate with Sen. Chuck Schumer, who was no big fan of the governor's predecessor.
Schumer has changed his mind about the dream ticket.
Clinton struck a poignant note with a "thank-you" Web video to supporters .
The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg interviewed Obama on Zionism and Hamas (not to mention kishke).
The Working Families Party endorsed "Baby" Joe Mesi in the 61st SD.
Schumer and Mayor Bloomberg disagree over development on the West Side.
Found 87 days, 22 hours, 22 minutes, and 16 seconds ago
daily.sightline.org
Today, John McCain traveled to Portland, Oregon and speechified on his new climate policy. His plan is far from perfect -- more on that later -- but it's a remarkable departure from a certain president who shall remain nameless:
Instead of idly debating the precise extent of global warming, or the precise timeline of global warming, we need to deal with the central facts of rising temperatures, rising waters, and all the endless troubles that global warming will bring. We stand warned by serious and credible scientists across the world that time is short and the dangers are great.
Found 87 days, 20 hours, 56 minutes, and 53 seconds ago
latimesblogs.latimes.com
John McCain got an unexpected boost in his bid to woo independent and Democratic voters this afternoon: a shared stage with Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski .
Kulongoski is a Democrat who has endorsed Hillary Clinton for president. So reporters were stunned to see him turn up at wind-power firm Vestas near Portland International Airport along with McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. The event, a major speech on global warming , was designed to pitch McCain's environmental views to moderate Western voters.
Found 87 days, 20 hours, 40 minutes, and 56 seconds ago
politikditto.blogspot.com
Most conservatives recognize the hysteria surrounding global warming for the great liberal hoax/marketing scheme it really is, unfortunately Republican candidate for President John McCain is not one of them. For that reason, the McCain skeptics in the GOP have a right to be angry with him concerning his idiocy on this issue:
Found 87 days, 13 hours, 20 minutes, and 24 seconds ago
unitedconservatives.blogspot.com
Now here's McCain's take :
Found 86 days, 20 hours, 48 minutes, and 13 seconds ago
bhfrick.dailykos.com
It took 52 minutes to get to a question about Iraq. Took 64 minutes to the economy, and then in John McCain's terms.
These are the top two issues cited in poll after poll, but ABC doesn't think they're important enough to ask the presidential candidates on, or will let a Republican frame the debate. It's flat shameful.
And Charlie Gibson is promoting capital gains tax cuts. Not that it would be in his personal interest or anything with what he makes -- but it seems like some sort of obsession with him.
Found 113 days, 19 hours, 22 minutes, and 27 seconds ago
news.aol.com
Carly Fiorina, whose term as CEO of HP was an absolute disaster , is now speaking up for John McCain. GOPers must be hoping that she doesn't apply any of her management magic to her stump for McCain routine. But hope fails, and Carly starts by emphasizing that McCain is not Bush, by emphasizing that McCain is not a conservative!
Found 88 days, 7 hours, 38 minutes, and 21 seconds ago
osi-speaks.blogspot.com
The presumptive (I use that term because of what Ron Paul's supporters have in store for John McCain ) Republican nominee and "Maverick", John McCain, has acknowledged -- to the chagrin of some Republicans, I'm sure -- that global warming is undeniable and the country must take steps to bring it under control while adhering to free-market principles.
Found 88 days, 6 hours, 2 minutes, and 53 seconds ago
iloveamericamorethananyone.com
ahh, the free market… is there any problem it has made for us that it can't fix? john mccain sure doesn't think so !
PHOENIX (AP) - Republican John McCain, reaching out to both independents and green-minded social conservatives, argues that global warming is undeniable and the country must take steps to bring it under control while adhering to free-market principles.
In remarks prepared for delivery Monday at a Portland, Ore., wind turbine manufacturer, the presidential contender says expanded nuclear power must be considered to reduce carbon-fuel emissions.
Found 88 days, 4 hours, 57 minutes, and 26 seconds ago
idrunk.com
As a boss & Larry Kudlow remind us, Maverick's "third way" battle plan towards a greener planet sounds suspiciously like a Democrats' own, which may be due to a fact that he's never had a consistent comprehensive Drunk Newsproach to environmentalism -- a worrisome sign given that he'd be dealing as president with a deep blue Congress. […] Read a rest »
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Found 88 days, 2 hours, 12 minutes, and 57 seconds ago
bigmikelewis.blogspot.com
He is on record as saying that the reason he became interested in global warming in the first place is because he recognized how much hotter it was getting at his home in Sedona, Ariz. Unfortunately, the data don't back him up on this. If we look at the temperature records from the nearby Childs weather station, we can actually see a downward trend in temperature of slightly over 1° F. since 1986, when McCain was elected to the Senate. Another nearby station, Fort Valley, shows a very slight upwards trend.
Found 88 days, 50 minutes, and 46 seconds ago
ecoecon.wordpress.com
McCain Breaks From Bush Administration on Climate Change, Calls for Mandatory Caps |
Found 87 days, 16 hours, 20 minutes, and 28 seconds ago
pollingreport.com
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