No Coal Country for Old Men via It's Getting Hot In Here
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McBush Panders on Gas Tax, Sacrificing Climate for Ambition via Earth Blog
U.S. Presidential candidate John McCain is given accolades for accepting rock solid climate change science [search] (apparently this is progress within the flat Earth, born again, "value voter" crowd). Yet apparently his concern is secondary to populist pandering on federal gas taxes [ark] -- as he suggested yesterday they be waived over the summer.
McCain's attitude, thinly veiled under a bitter temper and sense of entitlement to the Presidency, is damn the climate, it can wait until I am elected. How will necessary climate policies be maintained [essay] when even the issue's supposed champions so easily bend? McCain shares much with his predecessor -- formerly hard partying, war criminals, who are willing to say or do anything to get elected. A McBush presidency means continued war...