Al Gore: 'The United States Government as a Whole Has Failed Us' on Global Warming

[kpete]

Source: Media Research Center

Al Gore: 'The United States Government as a Whole Has Failed Us' on Global Warming
Former vice president, now climate alarmism activist, bemoans the inability of the Senate to pass cap-and-trade legislation.

By Jeff Poor
Business & Media Institute
8/11/2010


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Gore, the leader of the global warming alarmism movement, told supporters during an Aug. 10 conference call that despite his best efforts to inspire fear over this issue or else it is the end of civilization, the battle has been lost for the time being. He placed blame solely on the U.S. government, specifically the Senate, controlled by Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada.


“I have a difficult task tonight,” Gore said. “I want to call you to action but I have to begin by telling you what you know, in all candor – the United States government in its entirety, largely because of the opposition in the United States Senate to taking action on clean energy and a solution to the climate crisis, has failed us.”


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“In the last few months and weeks, the United States Senate has failed to meet the challenge of the climate crisis,” Gore said. “The Senate announced just last month that they would not take up comprehensive climate and clean energy legislation bringing to a temporary disappointing and frustrating halt a fight that we have been waging for the past year and a half and really longer – comprehensive legislation is now likely not to be debated when the Senate returns from the August recess.”

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“So I have to tell you in all candor and honesty, this battle has not been successful and it’s pretty much over for this year,” Gore said. “I hope I’m wrong about that, but I want to be realistic because we need to re-double our efforts for the battle that lies ahead. It’s not over. It may be over in this session of Congress and who knows how these elections will turn out, but the battle is not over and we simply have no choice but to win this battle. Even while we are so painfully and so profoundly aware of the crisis in which we find ourselves, even as we recognize the common thread linking the climate crisis and the economic crisis and our national security challenges, the Senate has still failed us. The United States government as a whole has failed us. The House of Representatives did its job in large part because of your efforts.”

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[Oceansaway]

1. K&R...n/t

[truthisfreedom]

2. Jebus, Al, you failed us when you didn't grope that crazy masseuse.

Could have been a great story.

[closeupready]

3. Well, you know, Al, I love ya, but you didn't want to run.

n/t

[w4rma]

4. Al Gore should have run for President instead of the guy that won. Gore got conned too. (nt)

[wysimdnwyg]

22. I just wish the real Al Gore would have run in 2000

Instead we got that watered-down, DLC stooge who caved in and let them hang Joementum around his neck. We all know that Al has the courage to stand for his convictions as well a healthy sense of humor, but none of that was allowed to show through in 2000 and it cost him the election. (Yeah, yeah, blame Florida. That wouldn't have mattered if Al had run a better campaign.)

[breadandwine]

23. Gore's daughter said he would never run for prez again and I think she spoke the truth.

Al was just sick of the whole process. He doesn't have the taste for it.

It's just not in him anymore.

[bananas]

5. "the united states government in its entirety, largely because of the opposition in the...senate"

Gore said:
"the united states government in its entirety,
largely because of the opposition in the united states senate"

[mod mom]

6. Yep. I saw an "I 'heart' Global Warming" bumper sticker just below a Palin '12

We have many stupid people who receive too much attention from the media providing false claims that influence policy. It's unbelievably frustrating. :mad:

[lunasun]

17. Very frustrating -they don't just" don't care" or ignore CC, but actually use energy to mock!

[burnsei sensei]

7. How's that Third Way ideology working out for you, Al?

Don't have faith in a cross-party elite that may listen attentively for a few minutes.
They've got their own ideas about your concerns.
There are no corporate solutions to global warming.
And so nothing will be done, with the exception of feeble appeals to volunteerism.
It's not our fault that you helped a new Herbert Hoover get elected.

[90-percent]

19. good bumper sticker

"There are no corporate solutions to global warming."

thank you. i just happen to like getting concepts expressed succinctly enough to be understandable as bumper stickers.

90-percent Jimmy

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

8. You really should have run, Al.

We'd have given it to you on a silver platter.

Don't EVEN talk about the failings of others before standing a while in front of the mirror....

[BuelahWitch]

25. +1

[Scurrilous]

9. K & R

:thumbsup:

[malaise]

10. He is 100% correct n/t

[highplainsdem]

11. K&R

[Uncle Joe]

12. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, kpete.

[Uncle Joe]

13. P.S. You know the thing I really find astounding is that Reid's home state of Nevada

could both be a primary winner from energy/environmental legislation, ie; solar/wind and a smart grid and a major loser from the looming catastrophe of global warming climate change as their water supplies are so limited.

I would think that energy/environmental legislation addressing global warming climate change would be a major priority with him.

[SammyWinstonJack]

14. Yikes!

:yoiks: :evilgrin:

[gratuitous]

15. Drug test him!

He clearly wants to eliminate the Pentagon and institute Canadian healthcare!

[breadandwine]

24. Yeah! Al must be one o' them professional libruls! What a lousy stinker!

Fuggin tree hugger.


Everybody knows global warming is for losers.


Once you learn to love the corporations, you'll stop worrying Al.


Besides, if you've seen one dead planet, you've seen 'em all......

[orleans]

16. ugh. well, maybe if he had taken more of a leadership role it would have

made a difference.

[lunasun]

18. wait til Gibbs hears about this naysayer!

in a serious comment wish this Gore piece would have gotten more media attention yesterday/today .... stuff like google news=0

[FourScore]

20. To all of those who said Al Gore could do more for climate change by NOT being President...

Ya sure are silent now....

I wish he had run.

[amborin]

21. K & R

[OwnedByFerrets]

26. They have failed us on almost every front, not just GW.

[InvisibleTouch]

27. He's right. Again. Still. n/t

[JJW]

28. Pee in cup

Mr. Gore, baby Gibbs would like you to pee into a cup for drug testing.

[Overseas]

29. Horrible subheading calling him a "climate alarmism activist"

shows how strong the propaganda against ecological realities is.

[defendandprotect]

31. When we're all living underwater and the land is on fire ... they'll still be spinning that crap!

[Overseas]

32. The dangerous consequences are already on an accelerated course.

We tried to be non-alarmist years ago when introducing the dangers of global warming. Gave the milder scenarios in order to encourage people to change toward alternative energy, rather than thinking it was too late. Instead of taking action, people thought "aw, that's not so bad, so let's keep going" and Big Oil certainly pushed that thinking along.

Sad to see.

Also very sad to have seen the great power of millions of dollars of right wing PR to sow doubt achieve such success.

[defendandprotect]

33. Agree . . . it is 50 years of oil industry propaganda which has lied to the public ....

about Global Warming -- spent tens of billions on propaganda --

one avenue for it was its alliance with the NY Times which ran its propaganda on

its Op-Ed pages as "advertising" which couldn't be referenced or replied to in

Letters to the Editor. But many other outlets -- plus the oil industry investment in

buying government and elected officials.



Royal Academy of Science called out ExxonMobil a few years ago demanding that they

stop the deception, lies, misinformation, disinformation.

The recent flap about inside e-mail by scientists was also, of course, another way

to try to confuse the public. RW corporate-press -- how often do they mention it?

Coup on JFK and "people's" government was also prologue --


In 1992, we had a press conference by scientists -- "Warning to Humanity" --

no response by corporate-press -- silence.

And, we've known about Global Warming for 60 years or more -- since mid-1950's --


When they attacked and buried JFK, they were also burying the urgent issues of those

times -- Global Warming, Chemical harm to crops and environment, pollution of planet --


Eventually, the public will ask . . . "How could this have happened?" --

It happened because we trusted our leaders to act for us -- !

And we have been betrayed by leaders more concerned with their own financial well-being

and their careers than the planet or humanity!

[Overseas]

37. I really thought the Bush Economic and Moral Crash and accelerating climate change

would have given my Democrats more courage to have urgent Truth & Reconciliation commissions on all levels-- economic, ecological and national security, including national health security.

I wasn't worried about a practical, pragmatic president coming in because it would have been most pragmatic to undo the national focus on corporate quarterly profits in favor of our longer-term survival.

And the green stuff could have been done as a traditional Democratic response to millions of our fellow citizens having been bankrupted by the Bush Crash, medical expenses, and being evicted from their homes-- a jobs program to repair our country after the government-hating Republicans had run it into the ground. To repair our country and balance out our energy use with intense installation of conservation technologies and alternative energy sources through millions and millions of jobs, which Democrats know puts money into local hands who spend it locally, keeping their regional economies alive.

It could have been done-- Our people are desperate after Republicans drove us over the cliff! We need Medicare for All now! We need millions of jobs now-- we have seen our infrastructure crumbling around us-- we need to revoke the Bush tax cuts immediately to put people to work repairing the roads, bridges, and power systems the Bush Gang allowed to decay in order to fund their privatized wars.

I thought, surely THIS time, after the Bush destruction which millions of us recognized and voted out of office, surely this time my Democrats will band together to rebuild our country for longer-term survival. Millions of people crossed party lines and voted for the first time for the Party of FDR because they could see how desperately we needed good government again.

But I guess a lot of legislators really do prioritize their own political survival over our planetary survival and national economic health. They didn't strategize as a party to recognize that millions wanted the FDR stuff Republicans despised. Will they be able to change course now that the right wing activist judges they allowed onto our supreme court gave multinational corporations the chance to spend even more on political smearing and propaganda?

[defendandprotect]

38. Clinton administration was elected by 37% of the public? Think that was it ....

more Democrats did come out to vote -- but many still stayed home fully understanding

the false notes and deceptions of our elections --

Clinton and Gore, of course, were big time players in the DLC -- co-founders -- evidently

Clinton quickly saw tha the couldn't raise all the money he wanted to raise from unions

which had already been damaged by the rw and their financial resources depleted.

Yes -- we do need Truth Hearings --

I think, Jim Garrison, nailed it when he talked about us all being "Hamlet's" wondering if

our father had been murdered, wondering if our fears and suspicions are correct . . .

Americans are still stilling in front of their TVs waiting for someone to confirm or deny

what's real for them!

Had Obama not pointed his administration in the direction of more corporatism -- had he not

brokered away and dealt away our best opportunity yet for MEDICARE FOR ALL -- had he acknowledged

the role the trade agreements play in sucking jobs out of America -- had he begun by regulating

capitalism and reinstating Glass-Steagall -- we'd be well on our way now to recover ....

and, btw, 5-6 weeks ago, Yahoo did carrying comments by Obama which referenced our situation as

a "Depression." Before I could post it -- it was scrubbed and the word "recession" put in its

place.

IMO, the huge Obama/Dem vote did reflect your feelings about an awakened citizenry -- rightly so.

In fact, so did the '06 vote ... where the next morning Pelosi proclaimed: "Dems were elected

to end the war!" Also re '08, some suggest that the Dem vote was so huge that we would likely

have had something like 24 more members of Congress!! Keep in mind, computers are still ruling

our elections -- and Thom Hartmann says a Dem confirmed for him that the reason the leadership

doesn't want anyone talking about problems with computers is because they fear that if Democrats

get the idea the elections aren't on the up and up, they will stop coming out to vote!!

You and I probably see this a bit differently! An opportunity, for instance, to get rid of the

computers!!


But I guess a lot of legislators really do prioritize their own political survival over our planetary survival and national economic health. They didn't strategize as a party to recognize that millions wanted the FDR stuff Republicans despised. Will they be able to change course now that the right wing activist judges they allowed onto our supreme court gave multinational corporations the chance to spend even more on political smearing and propaganda?

I think every Democrat -- and every Repug -- know exactly what citizens want --

They poll frequently enough to know -- that's why the questions have to be convoluted in

regular polls! This is a liberal nation -- even if confused about it!

76%+ of Americans wanted single payer, government run health care --

and among Catholic, it was also 76%+ -- even higher when Latinos were included!

And they wanted reproductive services included --


Hang on -- liberals/progressives are just now first talking -- they still have to decide on

what actually to do!! But, we do have to organize and unite -- !!

[defendandprotect]

30. Al -- what role does organized patriarchal religion ... "Manifest Destiny" and

"Man's Dominion Over Nature" play in the exploitation of nature?

Of course -- they are the licenses given to the rich -- to exploit and destroy!

Are you asking that question -- ?

Might also ask how you came to select the fanatic Lieberman as a VP Trojan Horse?



Yes, government has failed us on GW -- we've known about it 60 years --

JFK was probably killed in part because of this growing knowledge and awareness --

How long were you in Congress, Al?

How much did you raise the subject of Global Warming when you were campaigning for President?

You remember . . . BEFORE you realized that you shouldn't have listened to the DLC . . .

which you helped found!!

Corporate wing of Democratic Party have anything to do with government's inaction on Global

Warming, Al???

[gulliver]

34. We should make Republicans pay for it in November

The science is on our side, and with the hot summer, the politics should be too. Republicans need to pay for blocking action in the Senate. Solving global warming and our oil addiction are vital, and Republicans stood in the way.

[depakid]

35. Alarmism movement, eh?

I only hope the fucks that wrote edited and published this live long enough to see and feel the consequences.

[happy_liberal]

36. Al Gore Failed US! This is bullshit.

Unless and until he starts the effort to end NAFTA and the WTO, I won't believe a damn thing he says.

The real threat is large corporations, largely overseas, polluting without regulation...all of which was made much easier and promoted by him.

It is time for him to take responsibility, and all of our government....for not only increasing pollution but sending all of our jobs overseas. They want to increase people's power bills(and they are already outrageous) in a depression environment with over 10% out of work and already unable to pay bills. And he wants us to pressure Congress to charge us more for power? That is so absurd and just plain stupid.

Al Gore needs to put all of his effort into discussing WTO and what it has done to our environment and jobs. Work to end the WTO, NAFTA and all other 'FREE' trade agreements and then I will listen.

[ProSense]

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"Former vice president, now climate alarmism activist, bemoans the inability of the Senate to pass cap-and-trade legislation. "

Everyone knows the Senate fell down on its job, and Gore is right. But why promote RW sources and that label Al Gore a "climate alarmism activist"?