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The Spectacle Blog
At Politico’s Arena, Americans for Prosperity vice president Phil Kerpen weighs in on Mitt Romney’s statement of belief in climate change. Americans for Prosperity’s activism was key in Gov. Chris Christie’s decision to withdraw New Jersey from a regional cap and trade program. Kerpen thinks that Romney may be thinking along the same lines as Christie:
Mitt Romney’s new position follows the template recently established by Chris Christie when he announced he was a strong believer in catastrophic manmade global warming but would nonetheless withdraw the state from participating in a cap-and-trade program he deemed a failure.
The new Christie/Romney position is the only logical one for someone who believes in global warming because no policy response yet proposed would have any discernible impact on atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide or on global average temperature.
Needless to say, such pointless programs fail a cost/benefit analysis. The stronger form of this argument would be that even a policy response that would lower CO2 emissions and the global average temperature would cost more than the benefits it would provide.
Kerpen continues:
This is a welcome change from the previous default blue-state Republican position of supporting disastrous energy taxes like cap-and-trade in the name of global warming. But the problem for Romney is that he is trying to campaign as someone considerably more conservative than a typical blue-state Republican.
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The big question now is: What specific policies does Romney support in the name of global warming, and what will they cost us? Those details remain to be seen.
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Chuck| 6.20.11 @ 1:07PM
"Romney may be thinking along the same lines as Christie"..."new Christie/Romney position". I haven't heard Romney has adopted Christie's position. In fact Romney helped set up the Northeastern Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) cap-and-trade program which Christie ditched. Be more precise in your blog..."new Romney/Christie position" is false.
Anommynous| 6.20.11 @ 2:07PM
Romney needs to be defeated.
Wayne | 6.20.11 @ 2:52PM
But what Romney leaves himself open to is some other program that he thinks would pass some cost/benefit test. This is in keeping with the old GOP policy of maintaining the essence of Democratic Socialism, just managing it better.
Instead Romney needs a mea culpa on the junk science, marketed by Gore and the NASA Marxist Hansen, and accept that science does not support the premise that CO2 causes global warming. Therefore there will NEVER be any benefit.
Wayne | 6.20.11 @ 2:52PM
But what Romney leaves himself open to is some other program that he thinks would pass some cost/benefit test. This is in keeping with the old GOP policy of maintaining the essence of Democratic Socialism, just managing it better.
Instead Romney needs a mea culpa on the junk science, marketed by Gore and the NASA Marxist Hansen, and accept that science does not support the premise that CO2 causes global warming. Therefore there will NEVER be any benefit.
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 6.20.11 @ 2:55PM
Perfect!
JP| 6.20.11 @ 3:27PM
Mitt thinks he can win the primairies by going to the Center-Left. That was the strategy used by McCain in 2008. Look how well that turned out.
Mitt's heart is with the Left-Center. He is a statist in the mold of Nixon, Ford, and Rockefeller.
Bob K.| 6.21.11 @ 2:26AM
You forgot Mussolini, the ultimate statist! "It is not the people who make the state but the state who make the people." Proclaimed by him in the Fascist manifesto of 1932.
PattyMor| 6.20.11 @ 4:17PM
The "new position" is just marketing flimflam for election purposes. Its the same old position, only it sounds better. We need to run not walk away from this statist.
Man made global warming is a U.N. inspired socialist hoax designed to make us poor and redistribute wealth. I'll believe it when China goes first ruining their economy on the altar of Gaia.
JmsA| 6.20.11 @ 9:47PM
Mitt believes the Republican nomination is in the bag, and as such, he's in general election mode, as is the annointed One.
Nite| 6.20.11 @ 9:59PM
Nope,Mitt does not get my vote. Too liberal for me.
Cheap golf clubs | 6.21.11 @ 8:29AM
so nice post