stephanie
03-30-2008, 02:46 AM
:poke:there is so little difference between these three candidates running for President..........we are so totally screwed..
March 30, 2008
Another Unconservative Moment from John McCain
By Jeffrey Schmidt
John McCain's unconservativism was on display this past Wednesday in Los Angeles. Perhaps not in all ways, but in one telling way. Before a gathering of the World Affairs Council, the Arizona senator outlined his thinking on national security and foreign policy. The speech's larger elements have received plenty of coverage. One element did not.
McCain made a stalwart's argument for finishing the job in Iraq. That's a good thing, and expected. He made a case for greater collaboration with America's allies. That's a nod to the prevailing sentiment that Cowboy America needs to become Settler America-you know, an America that spends endless hours over bottomless cups of coffee chatting with allies about what it should do with their permission to defend itself and defeat its enemies. Call it the "Pretty Please" approach to national security. And good luck in getting that permission. One can't help think that it was McCain window-dressing to either preempt or mollify critics. Let's say he gets a pass for that little maneuver.
But there was one passage in his speech that stuck out like a palm tree in the Arctic. The passage where he discusses the threat of global warming. (http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/News/Speeches/872473dd-9ccb-4ab4-9d0d-ec54f0e7a497.htm) No window dressing here. The Senator has discussed it regularly. So he must be a true believer. And if not a true believer, then McCain is taking a lot of bad advice from his pal, Joe Lieberman, and other liberals, who he enjoys cordial across-the-aisle relationships with.
In either case, it's no small thing. If McCain wins the presidency, we can expect this self-described straight talker to act on his convictions. That means translating what he believes into policy. His global warming proposal includes the "cap-and-trade" (http://www.heritage.org/Research/EnergyandEnvironment/bg2075.cfm) mechanism that he mentioned. Just as there are no tax increases in the liberal lexicon-merely "revenue enhancements" or obligations by the rich to pay their fair share-there are no higher taxes in the world of global warming hucksters-err, apostles.
But in unliberal America, a tax is a tax; penalties are penalties.
Simply put, the mechanism would impose limits on industrial emissions. Industries would be granted allowances. Within that framework, an industry would have the prerogative of "buying" allowances from others that have underutilized their emissions quotas. Anyway it's sliced, cap-and-trade saddles industries with substantially higher costs for doing business, costs that will inevitably be passed along to consumers. Those costs will range across the spectrum. That includes the cost of cars, gas, housing, home heating, groceries, TVs, airline travel-you name it. Anything that carries the label "Made in the USA" will come with a heftier price tag.
Take that, middle class America.
Snip:
McCain's global warming proposal, if enacted, would cause great damage to the economy, thereby undercutting the nation's ability to press the War on Terror or do whatever else the nation needs to do for its protection.
It is Reagan conservatism, not patchwork McCainism, which has irrefutably demonstrated its success as a governing philosophy. It is to the former, not the latter, that conservatives owe their true allegiance.
In rejecting McCain's global warming position, conservatives, above all, remain true to themselves.
read the rest..
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/03/another_unconservative_moment.html
March 30, 2008
Another Unconservative Moment from John McCain
By Jeffrey Schmidt
John McCain's unconservativism was on display this past Wednesday in Los Angeles. Perhaps not in all ways, but in one telling way. Before a gathering of the World Affairs Council, the Arizona senator outlined his thinking on national security and foreign policy. The speech's larger elements have received plenty of coverage. One element did not.
McCain made a stalwart's argument for finishing the job in Iraq. That's a good thing, and expected. He made a case for greater collaboration with America's allies. That's a nod to the prevailing sentiment that Cowboy America needs to become Settler America-you know, an America that spends endless hours over bottomless cups of coffee chatting with allies about what it should do with their permission to defend itself and defeat its enemies. Call it the "Pretty Please" approach to national security. And good luck in getting that permission. One can't help think that it was McCain window-dressing to either preempt or mollify critics. Let's say he gets a pass for that little maneuver.
But there was one passage in his speech that stuck out like a palm tree in the Arctic. The passage where he discusses the threat of global warming. (http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/News/Speeches/872473dd-9ccb-4ab4-9d0d-ec54f0e7a497.htm) No window dressing here. The Senator has discussed it regularly. So he must be a true believer. And if not a true believer, then McCain is taking a lot of bad advice from his pal, Joe Lieberman, and other liberals, who he enjoys cordial across-the-aisle relationships with.
In either case, it's no small thing. If McCain wins the presidency, we can expect this self-described straight talker to act on his convictions. That means translating what he believes into policy. His global warming proposal includes the "cap-and-trade" (http://www.heritage.org/Research/EnergyandEnvironment/bg2075.cfm) mechanism that he mentioned. Just as there are no tax increases in the liberal lexicon-merely "revenue enhancements" or obligations by the rich to pay their fair share-there are no higher taxes in the world of global warming hucksters-err, apostles.
But in unliberal America, a tax is a tax; penalties are penalties.
Simply put, the mechanism would impose limits on industrial emissions. Industries would be granted allowances. Within that framework, an industry would have the prerogative of "buying" allowances from others that have underutilized their emissions quotas. Anyway it's sliced, cap-and-trade saddles industries with substantially higher costs for doing business, costs that will inevitably be passed along to consumers. Those costs will range across the spectrum. That includes the cost of cars, gas, housing, home heating, groceries, TVs, airline travel-you name it. Anything that carries the label "Made in the USA" will come with a heftier price tag.
Take that, middle class America.
Snip:
McCain's global warming proposal, if enacted, would cause great damage to the economy, thereby undercutting the nation's ability to press the War on Terror or do whatever else the nation needs to do for its protection.
It is Reagan conservatism, not patchwork McCainism, which has irrefutably demonstrated its success as a governing philosophy. It is to the former, not the latter, that conservatives owe their true allegiance.
In rejecting McCain's global warming position, conservatives, above all, remain true to themselves.
read the rest..
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/03/another_unconservative_moment.html