All Hail the Tea Party
Oct. 21st, 2010 03:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Via Jonathan Chait, our new overlords on climate science:
“This so-called climate science is just ridiculous,” said Kelly Khuri, founder of the Clark County Tea Party Patriots. “I think it’s all cyclical.”It's going to be a long two years.
“Carbon regulation, cap and trade, it’s all just a money-control avenue,” Ms. Khuri added. “Some people say I’m extreme, but they said the John Birch Society was extreme, too.”
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Date: 2010-10-22 05:06 am (UTC)I do think you can make a reasonable separation between climate science and proposed solutions to the problem (as many climate scientists do). A lot of climate proposals, like paying off China and India to not develop their infrastructure until we can develop clean-energy alternatives to sell to them, are quite silly.
This is in the nature of proposals of any kind, obviously, but the current form of the GOP will never pass up an opportunity to deny a problem exists because the solution created to deal with it is not optimal. The healthcare bill made that clear.
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Date: 2010-10-23 02:29 pm (UTC)Ike. Eisenhower.
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Date: 2010-10-23 02:37 pm (UTC)That's why he put all the fluoride in our water. It was a secret plot to control our minds and make us vulnerable to takeover. Not at all the same as putting radioactive wastes in our water and air. That's for our own good.