“Nocera notes that his support of the Keystone pipeline has gotten him called a climate change “denier” in certain circles.”
Reason’s Ron Bailey writes:
In the past two weeks, New York Times columnist Joe Nocera has published a couple of insightful columns about President Obama’s cave-in to the environmentalist lobby on the Keystone pipeline. That pipeline would transport about million barrels of oil a day from Canada to refineries in the U.S. Environmental activists oppose the building the pipeline largely on the grounds that the oil it transports will exacerbate man-made global warming. The hope of activists is that stopping the pipeline will result in keeping the petroleum derived from Canada’s oil sands in the ground forever. That won’t happen explains Nocera. Why? One word: China…
Wall Street Journal columnist and former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan and former John McCain adviser, Time columnist, and MSNBC contributor Mike Murphy were caught on tape disparaging John McCain’s selection of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his Vice Presidential running mate.
I am So on the floor with this…………..
Can we all say its OVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR…
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/03…
Mike Murphy: You know, because I come out of the blue swing state governor world: Engler, Whitman, Tommy Thompson, Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush. I mean, these guys — this is how you win a Texas race, just run it up. And it’s not gonna work. And —
PN: It’s over.
MM: Still McCain can give a version of the Lieberman speech to do himself some good.
CT: I also think the Palin pick is insulting to Kay Bailey Hutchinson, too.
PN: Saw Kay this morning.
CT: Yeah, she’s never looked comfortable about this —
MM: They’re all bummed out.
CT: Yeah, I mean is she really the most qualified woman they could have turned to?
PN: The most qualified? No! I think they went for this — excuse me– political bull**** about narratives —
CT: Yeah they went to a narrative.
MM: I totally agree.
PN: Every time the Republicans do that, because that’s not where they live and it’s not what they’re good at, they blow it.
MM: You know what’s really the worst thing about it? The greatness of McCain is no cynicism, and this is cynical.
CT: This is cynical, and as you called it, gimmicky.
MM: Yeah.