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Friedman: GOP Denial Is Destroying The Party And The Nation
First published on ClimateProgress.org, a project of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, which was recently named one of Time magazine’s Top 25 blogs of 2010.
The political obsessions of the Republican base — from denying global warming to defending assault weapons to opposing any tax increases under any conditions, to resisting any immigration reform — are making it impossible to be a Republican moderate, said Carville. And without more Republican moderates, there is no way to strike the kind of centrist bargains that have been at the heart of American progress — that got us where we are and are essential for where we need to go.
That’s NY Times columnist Tom Friedman in his latest column, “Send in the Clowns.” He notes:
… if Republicans continue to be led around by, and live in fear of, a base that denies global warming after Hurricane Sandy and refuses to ban assault weapons after Sandy Hook — a base that would rather see every American’s taxes rise rather than increase taxes on millionaires — the party has no future. It can’t win with a base that is at war with math, physics, human biology, economics and common-sense gun laws all at the same time.
Nor can we stop catastrophic climate change without a Congress that will support strong action. The fossil-fuel-funded Tea Party is apparently content destroy the GOP, the nation’s future, and the climate — though not necessarily in that order.
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- National Journal: “The GOP is stampeding toward an absolutist rejection of climate science that appears unmatched among major political parties around the globe, even conservative ones”
- Washington Post stunner: “The GOPs climate-change denial may be its most harmful delusion.”
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2012-12-25 07:03:53
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The GOP does not deny global warming, they deny humans are the cause or cure for it and with good reasons. All the planets in our solar system have been warming and undergoing radical changes to their storm patterns. Additionally Venus’ atmosphere has changed composition with a rapidly increasing level of oxygen in particular. These changes have been ongoing for forty years but abatement appears to be drawing near. Earth has been cooling the last 10 years but you don’t hear that fact being much emphasized because new industries have made climate change profitable.
If Carvil and Friedman think the GOP is losing respect for defending the Second Amendment they need to pay better attention to social media. Americans realize they are being violated by Liberals who have zero respect for the rights this country was founded upon. The Constitution and Bill of Rights are what made this nation and made it Great!!! The NDAA, DHS, etc have taken away many of our rights legally but not lawfully. Any law that is repugnant to the Constitution is not binding. Americans want Liberals seeking a socialist society in jail for their unlawful activities. Speaking up for the Second Ammendment will garner support for, not the abandonment of the GOP.
People no longer trust the media, its pundents nor politicians. Carvil and Friedman will be looking for new jobs if they don’t stop talking about conservative issues with more respect. The Clowns are obviously at large but those two need only look in a mirror to find them.