Comments on: Lisa Murkowski proposes to fiddle while Alaska burns http://climateprogress.org/2009/09/21/lisa-murkowski-fiddle-while-alaksa-burns-epa-regulation/ The Latest on Climate Science, Solutions, and Politics Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:19:39 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: mike roddy http://climateprogress.org/2009/09/21/lisa-murkowski-fiddle-while-alaksa-burns-epa-regulation/#comment-202897 mike roddy Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:38:08 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/?p=11590#comment-202897 Politicians who are proved wrong rarely get punished for it. It's more dangerous to be out front. In the middle stages of Vietnam, for example, the Senators who took a courageous stand against the war were mostly defeated in the next election. All it took was a little flag waving and accusations of aid and comfort etc. By 2012 it's likely to be difficult for Republican oil employees to deny climate change, and even now their hearts don't seem to be in it. Don't worry- they'll mix up their language and not skip a beat, and the public's memory is too short to hold them accountable. In the meantime, it's quite a spectacle, and a national embarrassment, really. Aren't we supposed to be the global leaders in science? Politicians who are proved wrong rarely get punished for it. It’s more dangerous to be out front. In the middle stages of Vietnam, for example, the Senators who took a courageous stand against the war were mostly defeated in the next election. All it took was a little flag waving and accusations of aid and comfort etc.

By 2012 it’s likely to be difficult for Republican oil employees to deny climate change, and even now their hearts don’t seem to be in it. Don’t worry- they’ll mix up their language and not skip a beat, and the public’s memory is too short to hold them accountable.

In the meantime, it’s quite a spectacle, and a national embarrassment, really. Aren’t we supposed to be the global leaders in science?

]]> By: Cynthia http://climateprogress.org/2009/09/21/lisa-murkowski-fiddle-while-alaksa-burns-epa-regulation/#comment-156082 Cynthia Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:27:15 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/?p=11590#comment-156082 It seems the republicans are constantly putting the brakes on any agenda that trys to solve the climate change problem! They can't all have stock in oil companies, can they? Why are they doing this?! It seems the republicans are constantly putting the brakes on any agenda that trys to solve the climate change problem! They can’t all have stock in oil companies, can they? Why are they doing this?!

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