That Lindsey Graham - He's Concerned! GOP Climate Stance Driving Away Young Voters!

[hatrack]

No shit, Senator.

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Politics is not far from the calculation, either. Graham shrugged off the notion that he might feel a conservative backlash in 2014, when he's up for re-election, by pushing forward with an agenda that counts clean air as a central objective. "I'm concerned that if the Republican Party doesn't embrace the idea it's OK to clean up the air, we're gonna lose young people forever," Graham told ClimateWire. "Whether you like it or not, young people are environmentally sensitive. I happen to like it."

"So the Republican Party has to find out where are we at on carbon? The more, the better, or is it something we should control in a business-friendly manner?" he added. "I'm in the camp that all things being equal, that it would be good to clean up the air, carbon being just one pollutant. But I want to do it in a way that creates jobs, not loses jobs."

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But a clean energy standard is "a good agenda item" for conservatives, said Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), a key supporter of incoming tea party lawmakers. "I think a conversion to nuclear makes a whole lotta long-term economic sense," he said. "And it's certainly good for the environment. So it doesn't make a whole lotta sense to come up some elaborate cap-and-trade scheme."

DeMint, however, never mentioned renewable energy in a brief interview and provided a clear warning about government intrusion on the energy markets: "We just want to do it within some reasonable cost-benefit parameters, and not keep picking winners and losers with subsidies."

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http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/12/14/14climatewire-one-republican-unhappy-with-his-partys-posit-93728.html

[Jackpine Radical]

1. Inconsiderate little whippersnappers--

not wanting to boil for the common corporate good.

[notesdev]

2. that's the least of his problems

he's one primary away from being a banking lobbyist

[Kennah]

3. It's not so, Senator.

Filibuster climate change legislation. It will be historic, just like Strom Thurmond filibustering the Civil Rights Act.

[burnsei sensei]

4. He's just repeating policy statements

made in 1990.
There's nothing smart or inventive to see here.
Since when is there anything inventive in Conservatism any way?