The editors at NRO wrote a bit about McCain's recent speech, and his cap-and-trade policy proposal. They were not impressed. Their piece concludes:
The scariest sentence in the speech was: “If the efforts to negotiate an international solution that includes China and India do not succeed, we still have an obligation to act.” This is posturing in the place of thought. It puts us in the worst possible negotiating position, and confirms that Sen. McCain is not engaging practically with the costs and benefits of his own policy. It indicates a foolish willingness to sacrifice trillions of dollars on the altar of fashionable, though uniformed, opinion and political expediency.
Once you leave reason behind, there is no logical stopping point, and his Democratic opponent will always be willing to one-up him. Sen. Clinton’s reaction to his speech (literally before it was even delivered) was: “Senator McCain’s proposal simply does not go far enough…”
A young girl was trudging along a mountain path, trying to reach her grandmother's house. It was bitter cold, and the wind cut like a knife. When she was within sight of her destination, she heard a rustle at her feet.
Looking down, she saw a snake. Before she could move, the snake spoke to her. He said, "I am about to die. It is too cold for me up here, and I am freezing. There is no food in these mountains, and I am starving. Please put me under your coat and take me with you."
"No," replied the girl. "I know your kind. You are a rattlesnake. If I pick you up, you will bite me, and your bite is poisonous."
"No, no," said the snake. "If you help me, you will be my best friend. I will treat you differently."
The little girl sat down on a rock for a moment to rest and think things over. She looked at the beautiful markings on the snake and had to admit that it was the most beautiful snake she had ever seen.
Suddenly, she said, "I believe you. I will save you. All living things deserve to be treated with kindness."
The little girl reached over, put the snake gently under her coat and proceeded toward her grandmother's house.
Within a moment, she felt a sharp pain in her side. The snake had bitten her.
"How could you do this to me?" the GOP cried. "You promised that you would not bite me, and I trusted you!"
"You knew what I was when you picked me up," hissed McCain as he slithered away.
Did they just call climate change "fashionable, yet uninformed, opinion"? I love conservatives, they can refute anything! Evolution? That's just a "theory"...
Maybe god put the carbon emissions in the atmosphere and now he's testing our faith in our... uh... devotion to selfish consumption?
Did they just call climate change "fashionable, yet uninformed, opinion"?
No, actually I think they called mandated CO2 reductions as a viable "cure" for global warming a "fashionable, yet uninformed, opinion".
It indicates a foolish willingness to sacrifice trillions of dollars on the altar of fashionable, though uniformed, opinion and political expediency.
The NRO is anti-war?
The war was never "fashionable" and certainly isn't now.
Well, those "Support Our Troops" magnets on the back of SUVs were certainly fashionable. And doesn't everyone remember the popularity of camoflage clothing? I think Tim Fite had a great song about that.
When I chose to speak out against the war before and after it started, it seemed very fashionable to claim that I was unpatriotic. Meaning, of course, that the person slandering my patriotism was much, much more patriotic than I was. "Love it or leave it!" was the mantra in those heady days.
Indeed, patriotism has rarely been more fashionable that it was before and immediately after the beginning of the Iraq War. I wonder how many of those Air Force jumpsuits were sold right after "Mission Accomplished" was declared? I'd bet it was more than a couple.