John McCain is sweating the Bush White House over global warming

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Hot enough for you, John?

Sen. John McCain is sweating the Bush White House over global warming. Why didn't he support the candidate who would have done something about it?

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By Amanda Griscom Little



Nov. 24, 2004 | Presiding over his final hearing as chair of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee last week, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., delivered a feisty swan song assuring GOP colleagues and environmentalists alike that he won't be giving up his fight for climate-change regulations anytime soon -- even if the Bush administration and the 109th Congress seem likely to thwart his efforts.

The hearing took place just two weeks after Bush's reelection, setting the stage for a rancorous debate inside the Republican-dominated Beltway over the next four years, likely deepening the divide between moderate, pro-environment Republicans and the more right-wing, anti-regulation members of the party.

McCain was not shy about reproaching the White House in his commentary at the hearing: "We do have a major task in convincing the administration ," he said. "Its performance so far, to date, is disgraceful."

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/11/24/muck_mccain/index.html

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1. too late asshat

you had your chance during the election period and you sold what was left of your soul. Don't try to reclaim it now that you helped convince moderates that the chimp in chief was acceptable for another four years.

[teryang]

2. McCain an environmentalist?

http://www.counterpunch.org/stclair11232004.html

Meet the Senator Most Likely to Start a Nuclear War
The Mark of McCain
By JEFFREY ST. CLAIR

<"Anybody who promotes McCain is environmentalist is either an idiot or a liar." >


<snip>Yet McCain is legendary among those who have worked with him for a pathologically vicious temper, also for his skill in adopting apparently principled stands which are never exposed to any rigorous test.<snip>

<snip>If there's one thing we know about McCain, it's that he can't be trusted", says Roger Featherstone, director of the GREEN, an Albuqueque, New Mexico environmental group. "Anybody who promotes McCain is environmentalist is either an idiot or a liar." Much of the blame for McCain's reputation can be laid to our gullible press. Living on Earth, the NPR environmental show, recently produced a puff piece touting McCain as the Senate's most environmentally conscious Republican. Of course, most of McCain's act is scripted for the photo op. When the chips are on the table, McCain can be counted on to do the bidding of industry.<snip>

<snip>Witzeman left the meeting stunned: "I'm a lifelong environmentalist, but what really scares me about McCain is not his environmental policies, which are horrid, but his violent, irrational temper. I think McCain is so unbalanced that if Vladimir Putin told him something he didn't like he'd lose it, start beating his chest about having his finger on the nuclear trigger. Who knows where it would stop. To my mind, McCain's the most likely senator to start a nuclear war."<snip>

There's a lot in this opinion piece about McCains dishonesty and posturing. The one thing that is unfair about the article is that it attempts to belittle his military career and wartime experiences. In this regard, the author doesn't know what he's talking about. The rest of the article is fair depiction of his character.