Discussion: Lindsey Graham Blames Al Gore For GOP's Climate Change Apathy

Evolution is a fact. Graham has evolved from being a typical white southern male jerk to a full-blown participant in The Crazy.

The zealots who turn out in droves to vote Republican so as to quell, momentarily, their fears and hatreds can, in their arrested state, be “understood” (in the way a psychiatrist understands a psychotic) for their actions.

Not so the Republican “False Equivalent” enablers of the MSM.

Todd, Mitchell, Stephanopoulos, Blitzer all know about the Planet as we do.

And, they persist in enabling the Pauls and the Grahams of the political world. Because of the particular dimensions of the 0.001% capture of the Fourth Estate, they literally cannot do anything to adequately inform the population of the nature of what is menacing us–they are bound to present Graham’s insane pronoucement of “Gore’s Fault” as though it came from a responsible political leader.

They are STRUCTURALLY PLACED in a “media” system devoted to pacification and information management. If any of the aforementioned shills would dare to break from Protocol and say to Mr. Graham, “Sir, you are misleading the public, including the coastal state you represent,” there would be the following new employees on the MSM scene:

George Step-in-it
Wolf Flincher
Andrea Republican
and last but not least, Chick Toad

Also it’s beginning to dawn on the GOP that the majority of people in America accept climate change as scientific fact. And that majority will remember who opposed any action that will reverse climate change in the future. Because people have finally realized we’ve mortgaged our children’s future for the almighty dollar. And that is unconscionable to a great many people.

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Gore feels climate change – like other major threats to the well being of society and the state of our children and grandchildren – is a moral issue. Some evangelistic Christians who are otherwise pretty conservative agree. Then, you have conservatives and the like who feel otherwise, partially I guess out of some sort of political spite against Gore. If he cares deeply about something, you know …

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So Al Gore turned the topic of climate change into religion, he says; since when has that been a problem for the so called moral majority, party of family values, just say no party, no contraceptive or abortion party? And he says it may be a problem but we can’t ruin the economy by fixing it. Well, one day there will be no economy because of no clean air or water. The economy could begin rebounding towards green energy production in so many ways that would improve the economy (if they keep the jobs here) while working to reverse global warming. Win-win.

“I’d like to have a debate within the party. Can you say that climate change is a scientifically-sound phenomenon? But can you reject the idea you have to destroy the economy to solve the problem, is sort of where I’ll be taking this debate,” — Lindsey Graham

Right now, increased flooding, droughts, forest fires, harsher and longer winters, the dying off of bees, etc.— all a result of climate change, are making a dent into the economy and will eventually destroy it IF the problem is not solved.

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In Florida the governor doesn’t even allow his administration to use the words global warming or climate change. Honest, they punish you if you do. Scott will probably want to run for president next, since he conned Floridians so easily.

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At one point McCain, who was then the candidate, states he believed in climate change. They all wavered, and then all slowly became adamant deniers. Climate change is a clear threat to the US to anyone with half a grain of sense. The Republicans have all been purchased by the oil/gas/coal industry.
They should all be tried for either bribery or treason.

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That’s the subtext!

Classic Equivalents:

Einstein: Enegy = Matter x Lightspeed Squared.

Gore: GW = FatAl x Gore’sFault Cubed

Does anyone else tire of the GOP’s gigantic character flaw–throwing responsibility for their own misdeeds, bad judgment and worse on others?

He hit, so I hit him back first. That is the child’s excuse.

The GOPers are PATHETIC in their evil.

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So, the entire GOP platform on the environment ultimately amounts to “If libz are fer it, Im agin it”. How is that different from the GOP stance on every other issue?

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you forgot to mention he’s fat, and that he uses electricity in his mansions. what a jerk, that al gore.

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The senator then said that Republicans do not have a clear stance on climate change, or a plan to address it.

“I think the Republican Party has to do some soul-searching. Before we can be bipartisan, we’ve got to figure out where we are as a party. What is the environmental platform of the Republican Party? I don’t know, either,” he said.

so we all have to wait around indefinitely for the GOP to find its ass with both hands before we take action on climate change? The climate is not going to wait around.

This is why we can’t have nice things. Conservatives have just enough power in this country that they can hold everyone else back, whether it’s climate change action or health care reform or gun safety.

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I sincerely hope you are right.

Exactly. The GOP reaction is to take the maximilist position, therefore rendering any action possible. The economy needs to adapt to new conditions - just as my hometown of Pittsburgh did when turn of the century steel mills where no longer nationally, let alone internationally competitive.

But the Kochs and their ilk would rather keep polluting at the same or greater levels, because doing otherwise would make their coal and oil assets less valuable. They could invest some of that wealth in new energy sources - pace Ted Levitt, they’re in the energy business, not the coal or oil business, but that would require investment vs. rent-collecting.

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The problem for all Republicans these days, including fucking Graham Cracker, is that they decide first if there’s money in it for themselves, to be for or against an issue, and then devise a bullshit operating principle around that notion, even if its at a human cost on any level.

Never do people, the planet, or even the next generation take particular priority unless there’s personal profit to be gained by any policy plank within their party. They are a wholly owned subsidiary of BIG BUSINESS INTERESTS. As a result they’ve turned themselves into unprincipled grifters and corporate shills and ideologues, willing to sell out the country if it helps them make their personal fortunes out of the misfortunes of others.

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I would like to start a petition for Al Gore to start a religious doctrine that demands that all Republican congressmen not punch themselves in the balls.

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it’s also Obama’s fault that certain people hate him so intensely, out of all proportion to the significant accomplishments of his two terms. Why are you so divisive, Mr. Obama? Why did you make them be so racist? Why don’t you just let the Republicans have the White House and we can end all this divisiveness. Just walk away.

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“… climate change is not a religious problem for me… I think the Republican Party has to do some soul-searching.”

I wonder how Graham is reconciling these two concepts.

Actually I think it was James Inhofe who tried to bring religion into it. Every time I think these people can’t get any more ridiculous, they prove me wrong…