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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThey Are Who We Thought They Were (Republicans And Their War On Our Kids)
My son was born in 1981 by 2050, at the threshold of that second half of his century, hell face the world we make for him now. The Republican party is conspiring with their paymasters in ways that will make his world significantly worse than the one our parents generation left for us.They Are Who We Thought They Were (Republicans And Their War On Our Kids)
Posted by Tom Levenson at 11:58 am
Nov
11
2014
Republican priorities are not becoming, because they always were clear. Facing the one unequivocal existential threat to the American way of life (for starters) over the next century, heres the GOP response to the oncoming rush of human-caused global warming:
The new Republican Congress is headed for a clash with the White House over two ambitious Environmental Protection Agencyregulations that are the heart of President Obamas climate change agenda.
Senator Mitch McConnell, the next majority leader, has already vowed to fight the rules, which could curb planet-warming carbon pollution but ultimately shut down coal-fired power plants in his native Kentucky. Mr. McConnell and other Republicans are, in the meantime, stepping up their demands that the president approve construction of the Keystone XL pipeline to carry petroleum from Canadian oil sands to refineries on the Gulf Coast.
At this point, Republicans do not have the votes to repeal the E.P.A. regulations, which will have far more impact on curbing carbon emissions than stopping the pipeline, but they say they will use their new powers to delay, defund and otherwise undermine them. Senator James M. Inhofe of Oklahoma, a prominent skeptic of climate change and the presumed new chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, is expected to open investigations into the E.P.A., call for cuts in its funding and delay the regulations as long as possible.
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http://www.balloon-juice.com/2014/11/11/they-are-who-we-thought-they-were-republicans-and-their-war-on-our-kids/
MORE Proof:
http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar5/wg2/ar5_wgII_spm_en.pdfhttp://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/11/us/politics/republicans-vow-to-fight-epa-and-approve-keystone-pipeline.html?&hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
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They Are Who We Thought They Were (Republicans And Their War On Our Kids) (Original Post)
kpete
Nov 2014
OP
WorseBeforeBetter
(11,441 posts)1. The "war" lingo needs to be dropped.
It's turning off more voters than drawing in, especially suburban women. And Millennial turnout was low, in spite of being bombarded with ads about "the war on women." It didn't resonate.
Ink Man
(171 posts)2. Good call.
+1
Also the term global warming is a hard sell when people living in the north are digging out of three feet of snow on Nov 11.
WorseBeforeBetter
(11,441 posts)4. Climate change, marriage equality... Dems suck at framing. (n/t)
Old Nick
(468 posts)3. Aw, jeez!
Why ya gotta be insulting demons by comparing them to GOPers?