Inglis: “Conservatives Have a Powerful Approach to Global Warming”
There are no approaches to climate change mitigation and other forms of environmental protection that are truly consistent with unbridled free enterprise and small government. What Inglis is proposing is simply a revenue-neutral carbon tax, which is something essentially everyone, liberal or conservative, understands to be necessary to hasten the reduction of carbon emissions.
Now, one can say that the basic idea of making progress in this arena without raising taxes is a “conservative” concept. Say what you will. Maybe that’s why Inglis is no longer in congress, because voters don’t buy that. Conservatives believe that any manipulation of the free market is unacceptable, especially if its purpose is to advance “liberal” ideas like climate stability.
Last January, somewhere in Michigan, a bunch of Republicans decided, “Let’s create some documents to the effect that we, not those who represent the true winner, are the legitimate voices on which the outcome of the presidential election is to be based.”
A spokesmen for the Kremlin was on Sunday morning television today, explaining that the Russian aggression, which became a threat to world peace only within the past few months, actually began with the re-unification of Germany more than 30 years ago. He never really got around to explaining why this is happening right now.
The photo here offers a full and complete explanation of how the United States found itself teetering on the edge of losing its democracy.
I don’t understand spoken Spanish well enough to offer a translation, but seriously, would that add any value to this guy’s presentation? He’s scolding “
Not a bad time to review the Freedom to Vote Act.
Always good to see things like this, but remember, this is Georgia, the state in which the most senior election official recorded a call in which the then-president threated criminal charges unless he was (somehow) awarded an extra 11,780 votes.
Sci-fi great Robert Heinlein has put his finger on something that may help us understand how it was possible for the Republican party in the United States to squirt so far and so fast to the ultra-right. Does all this racism, hate, exclusion, cruelty, lying, cheating, and denial of science make any rational sense? Can arguing against these people be effective? Of course not.
Bob Inglis is one of the more interesting characters in American politics. A moderate Republican from South Carolina who served six terms in the House before the Tea Party removed him from office in 2010, Inglis was perhaps the only person in his party who embraced the science of global warming and overtly wanted to make climate change mitigation an important part of his platform.
A right-wing reader sent me this video 
