(2008-05-13) — A day after Republican presidential candidate John McCain unveiled his cap-and-trade plan to defeat the imminent threat of global warming, a coalition of conservative voters announced it would enthusiastically support his proposal by refusing to burn fossil fuels on November 4, 2008.
“We’re eager to live out Sen. McCain’s conservative vision for the earth,” said the group’s unnamed spokesman, “by keeping millions of Republican-owned SUVs and pickup trucks in their garages on election day.”
The coalition said the symbolic move would not only “cut carbon emissions by thousands of tons,” but it would also “put a president in the White House with John McCain’s views on the global warming issue.”
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1 boberinyetagain // May 13, 2008 at 12:57 pm
Don’t threaten us, we don’t scare easily.
Good stuff Scott!
youngster number…1?
2 da Bunny // May 13, 2008 at 1:38 pm
"The coalition said the symbolic move would not only “cut carbon emissions by thousands of tons,†but it would also “put a president in the White House with John McCain’s views on the global warming issue.â€
I love it, Scott!!
McCain doesn't want any of our Republican or conservative votes anyway. He's going after the dim's "base" and the ever-popular-with-the-LSM "moderate" voters. Good luck with that, Johnny!!
3 Fred Sinclair // May 13, 2008 at 1:48 pm
“(2008-05-13) — A day after Republican presidential candidate John McCain unveiled his cap-and-trade plan to defeat the imminent threat of global warming”, brought an immediate response from CMI
The e-mail newsletter of the Culture and Media Institute
May 13, 2008 | Volume 2, Issue 19 (slightly modified, for sanity reasons)
1) NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams on Monday evening gave
credibility to the extremist environmental theory that the Earth is
reacting to mankind’s mistreatment by spawning a rash of killer tomatoes.
Williams reported how “this has been one of the most active, deadly
killer tomato seasons in a long time” with more killer tomatoes so far this
year than through August last year. He then forwarded to NBC Weather Plus
meteorologist Bill Karins the kind of reasoning he hears during his daily
routine: “I talked to three people about the killer tomato attacks, in casual
conversation today, all of them smart, saying ‘I don’t know, we must be doing
something to our Earth.’” Karins gently corrected him: “Well, there are
correlations that can be made. Global warming not quite one of them. La Nina, more likely.”
Heirborn Ranger
4 Fred Sinclair // May 13, 2008 at 1:51 pm
Maybe if the liberals would just stop adding their CO2 to the atmosphere!
5 Just Ranting // May 13, 2008 at 1:57 pm
So, who is this Bob Barr fellow?
6 gafisher // May 13, 2008 at 1:58 pm
It’s a bit tough to believe anyone’s warming to the McCain campaign, but of course he’s got access to satellite data.
7 boberinyetagain // May 13, 2008 at 2:08 pm
Both sides have a fair amount of insanity to thier “credit”
CLEAR FORK, West Virginia (Reuters) - Both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are talking more about “clean coal” and less about global warming as they woo voters in West Virginia and Kentucky — two states that sit at the heart of the nation’s coal economy.
Between that, the suggestion to stop the federal gas tax and the even dumber idea to stop filling the fedral reserves it’s a very tough call which of the “big 3″ is the looniest. I’m hoping they all realize full well how dumb these ideas are and that they could never puch them through but that hope was dimmed by the apparent complicty of congress on the reserve issue. They fell that 30 days is enough to come up with an alternative apparently.
Near total insanity already has a death grip on this election.
experience in…just about nothing reality based apparently
8 JamesonLewis3rd // May 13, 2008 at 3:24 pm
Currently, the stockpile “is 97% full at 701 million barrels, equal to two months of oil imports.”
26 million barrels shy of being topped-off. Bummer.
A lot of that petroleum is royalty payments, so I figure the input volume will decline but not cease. And, since it is a “reserve,” I don’t see it going anywhere soon (I pray we won’t ever need it, ever).
9 boberinyetagain // May 13, 2008 at 3:31 pm
The real issue is…will we benefit from either scheme…
Math is an exacting thing…I use 12 gallons a week. At the .18 cents federal tax that will “cost” me $25.92 for the 12 weeks of summer.
I’m willing to forgo that tremendous savings in order to have somewhat safer bridges and such.
Halting the reserve fill up will amount to even less “savings”.
vote remington…did possum write that one?
10 RedPepper // May 13, 2008 at 4:36 pm
Just Ranting #4: Glad you asked, J.R. …
Bob Barr is the unacknowledged love child of Leola McKinney (mother of former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney) and Beelzebub. Apparently, a fiddle contest wasn’t the only leisure activity the devil engaged in when he went down to Georgia that time.
I’m sure Possumtrot would be happy to provide additional details if he’s not busy …
11 da Bunny // May 13, 2008 at 5:31 pm
RedPepper #9…muwahahaha!! Well played!!
12 Beerme // May 13, 2008 at 6:41 pm
McCain’s perfectly willing to hock our children’s and grandchildren’s futures on a fearfully expensive boondoggle that will bankrupt the nation…just to grab him some independent voters. Yep, that McCain speaks truth to power.
Sign onto Kyoto and watch as our commitment to curb carbon emissions actually brings them to 1990 levels, while the entire bankrupting scheme results in zero change in carbon emissions for the planet. Zero!
It will change our lives though…stock up on whale oil.
13 Beerme // May 13, 2008 at 7:02 pm
boberinyetagain // May 13, 2008 at 3:31 pm
The real issue is…will we benefit from either scheme…
We would benefit from drilling in ANWR, off the coasts of Florida and California and in the Dakotas, as well as increasing refining capacity, pushing nuclear energy and reducing our dependence on global powers that hold us hostage. These countries hate us and benefit from our dependence. They also use the riches they receive to further their agenda which includes the destruction of Israel, Lebanon and any other free state in the Middle East or South America.
I would be for this avenue of action even if it cost me more for the energy I received. Unfortunately the Senate earlier today defeated an energy plan like the one described above., just before they voted for halting additions to the oil reserve. ‘Course making expensive ethanol from corn makes good Senate-sense…
14 Beerme // May 13, 2008 at 7:08 pm
Here is a good article describing my position above, by Ariel Cohen.
Read it and tell me it doesn’t make sense.
I dare ya.
15 Backing McCain Energy Plan, GOP Voters to Stay Home - Right Mind // May 13, 2008 at 7:08 pm
[...] From Scott Ott over at Scrapple Face: [...]
16 Shelly // May 13, 2008 at 7:21 pm
Beerme, anyone who doesn’t think increasing supply is the answer to lowering prices doesn’t grasp the most fundamental principal of economics. And using food to make more expensive fuel - and further drive up the price of food - is a double whammy the libs are eager to saddle Americans with.
17 Maggie // May 13, 2008 at 7:58 pm
Clearly,John McCain is for Obama.
Great,Scott!
18 Ms RightWing, Ink // May 13, 2008 at 8:34 pm
The gas station across the street is $3.96.9 cents a gallon. Yup, looks like $4 a gallon is going to happen.
I hope the liberals won’t be able to afford gas come election day.
(Pray their bicycle tires go flat also)
19 da Bunny // May 13, 2008 at 10:03 pm
“Clearly, John McCain is for Obama.”
Excellent comment at #17, Maggie!!
20 camojack // May 13, 2008 at 10:16 pm
Yes…I have a REAL problem with McCain’s position on this (B.S.!) “issue”.
Especially since the “issue” itself is NOT a real problem…
21 Fred Sinclair // May 13, 2008 at 10:22 pm
#’s 17 & 19 - Rush today said, “It looks like McCain is angling himself for a position as Obama’s VP instead of running for the Republican Presidency.”
Maggie & da Bunny you’re both right on track.
Heirborn Ranger
22 RedPepper // May 13, 2008 at 10:45 pm
Fred S. #21: Obama’s veep ? After McLame’s latest outing, are you sure that John is even qualified ?
If this arrogant , geriatric glue horse had the common sense God gave a mosquito , he would shut the [bleep!] up and find a place to hide for the next 6 months ! With any luck, we might forget by the end of that time period what a simpering old fool the man is !
Grrrrrr …
23 RedPepper // May 13, 2008 at 10:51 pm
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moderationValium .24 conserve-a-tips // May 13, 2008 at 11:56 pm
Heh guys. I’m up late again tonight. I was reading some things and came across Obama’s statement about us bitter Americans and had to break out in song.
In memory of the Great One - Santini:
(to John Anderson’s Swingin”)
There’s a politician in our neighborhood
His name’s Barack Obama and he thinks he sure looks good
I thought I’d go and see him since I’d watched him on the tube
I’d swear I heard him tell the crowd he found us to be rubes
His wife was looking sour, having trouble feelin’ proud
Their kids were on the stage and lookin’ darlin’ fer the crowd
His pastor had been preachin’ but they made him quiet down
And Barack started tellin’ us, with passion and a frown
That we were clingin’
Yes we were clingin’
Said because we like our shotguns
And our churches where we sing
We’re bitter racist honkies
Who don’t really know a thing
Just a clingin’
Yep, it’s getting late.
pricing that going from gas station to gas station
25 Garnzo // May 14, 2008 at 2:26 am
Great piece. My feelings exactly.
Not sure who McCain thinks he’s appealing to here with his global warming stance. He has turned off conservatives who think it’s B.S., and he’s turned off liberals who think it’s too little, too late. I guess that’s the beauty of being a “maverick” — you don’t need to worry about having appeal.
26 Fred Sinclair // May 14, 2008 at 6:28 am
“Backing McCain Energy Plan, GOP Voters to Stay Home”
Why I can’t stay home. I’m in serious disagreement with the vast majority of John McCain’s platform. I don’t see it as being the RNC’s platform. BUT- - - I’m in 100% disagreement with the platforms of The DNC; HillBilly, Inc.; and B. Hussein Obama.
So though it will be like (worse actually) getting a tooth pulled, I have to vote for McCain because of his stand on the War on Terror, the War in Iraq and Afghanistan AND ABOVE ALL - I don’t want a liberal Democrat nominating anybody to fill one or more vacancies on the Supreme Court!
Heirborn Ranger
27 RedPepper // May 14, 2008 at 7:54 am
Fred S. #25: “I don’t want a liberal Democrat nominating anybody to fill one or more vacancies on the Supreme Court!â€
I feel the same way, Fred, but John Sydney McCain is not likely to care about how we feel …
28 Fred Sinclair // May 14, 2008 at 9:46 am
May 14, 1948 - Today is the 60th anniversary of the rebirth of the Nation of Israel, which according to prophesy, was brought back into being in one day.
Heirborn Ranger
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