Forbes: Cap & Trade won't go far w/McCain
It shouldn't be news that Republicans aren't exactly the party in favor of combating global warming. And John McCain should be no exception.
Flashback to 2000, when George W. Bush promised that he would cap carbon emissions if elected president. It took him about a nanosecond to break that promise. In fact, Bush has gone out of his way to do nothing about global warming, which, in effect, is a reversal, since in the last eight years, our environment has gotten so much worse.
Fast forward to now - John McCain is simply the latest Republican candidate for national office who is painting himself green and promising to do a great deal about global warming if elected.
Don't believe it.
What's more, one of McCain's economic advisers, Steve Forbes, had this to say in the footage above about Cap & Trade, a program that would limit corporations' carbon emissions, but would allow them to trade and pay for the right to emit more:
I think cap and trade is going to go the way of some other things, as you may remember, when he came into office, Bill Clinton had a proposal of tax carbons and stuff like that. I don't think those things are going to get very far as people start to examine the details of them.I sincerely doubt that many environmentalists are buying into McCain's empty rhetoric about global warming anyway, but anyone who is should certainly take a look at the footage above and do just a bit of reading. Some cursory reading, McCain's voting record, as well as which organizations he accepts campaign cash from, will quickly reveal that he's no friend of the environmental movement.
Labels: 2000 election, 2008 Presidential Race, Cap and Trade, John McCain Voting Record, John McCain's Environmental Positions, President Bush, Steve Forbes
posted by RJ at 5:13 AM
2 Comments:
If you're really committed to the environment, then why tear him apart for addressing the issue of global warming? Applaud him for being virtually the only Republican to take the issue seriously and propose solutions. We need to put the issues above politics and parties.
Jessica,
You make an important point, and I don't mean to sound testy, but did you read the post? He's running on environmental issues like "Cap & Trade," and Forbes, one of his economic advisors, is saying that it will go nowhere in a McCain administration. Not much to like there.
And you're right, he is one of the few Republicans to address global warming, but that's also setting the bar pretty low, since the Bush administration (one that McCain has voted overwhelmingly with) has done less than nothing about global warming. For every John McCain, there are three like the detestable Jim Inhofe. In fact, in ways large and small, Bush has made the problem much worse. Actually, you can count the number of prominent Republicans on one hand who have done anything significant about global warming.
Worse yet, McCain has flip-flopped so much on so many things (Bush tax cuts, abortion, torture, the list is longer than the Vietnam War), who's to say this won't be merely one more? If Mac does get elected, I sure hope I'm wrong and you're right, because another eight years of Bush's policies, and the planet's cooked. Literally.
So, while I don't vote blindly Democratic, I'm more inclined to believe the Democratic candidate for president than I am the Republican one. It's a matter of track record.
Thanks for reading and for your comments. I will definitely check out your blog.
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