Bad Deeds for 6-17-2008

Fox News Promotes “Carbon Belch Day”: Waste as Much Energy as You Can – Fox News aired a story about driving Hummers around for no particular reason, cranking the air conditioning with the windows open, mowing your lawn twice, and other wasteful acts to counter those of us concerned about global warming and to defy “carbon-footprint guilt” imposed by Al Gore. The Fox News anchor says he thinks this is a “humorous way” to make a point.

 

McCain Does Not Understand That the Cap in “Cap and Trade” is Mandatory – At McCain’s press conference on June 16th, when asked if he would set mandatory targets on renewable energy, he answered he “would not … impose a mandatory cap at this time.” McCain new position is “completely out of line with his own proposal for a cap-and-trade scheme, both the plan he proposed with Joe Lieberman last year and his own presidential plan, released last month. They both would, by nature, be mandatory — hence the ‘cap’ in the name.”

He also appeared confused about the definition of cap-and-trade in an interview with Greenwire

It’s not quote mandatory caps. It’s cap-and-trade, OK. It’s not mandatory caps to start with. It’s cap-and-trade. That’s very different. OK, because that’s a gradual reduction in greenhouse-gas emissions. So please portray it as cap-and-trade. That’s the way I call it.

 

Pin at the Republican State Convention in Texas: “If Obama is President… will we still call it the White House?” – At the Republican state convention, a booth hosted by Republicanmarket was selling a pin Saturday that says: “If Obama is President… will we still call it the White House?”

 

The Texas Attorney General’s Wild Goose Chase – Read editorials from two prominent Texas newspapers about how the Texas Attorney General wasted our money going after non-existent voter fraud.

 

Tucker Carlson Doesn’t Know Presidential History (But Talks About It Anyway) – Tucker Carlson said, “Barack Obama has the thinnest resume of any modern presidential candidate with a shot of actually winning.” Carlson is apparently not aware of the career of Ronald Reagan, who served as the President of the United States from 1981-1989, despite having only eight years of government experience – three fewer than Obama – on his “resume.” Similarly, 20th century Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson had thinner resumes than Obama (Wilson, for example, served a single two-year term as the Governor of New Jersey prior to becoming President).

Regards,

Jim