Noted atmospheric scientist and Nobel Prize winner in Physics, Paul Krugman, has a rant in the New York Times today saying that House members — the “deniers” who voted against the pork-filled energy bill — were guilty of “treason against the planet.”
As Krugman wrote:
And as I watched the deniers make their arguments, I couldn’t help thinking that I was watching a form of treason — treason against the planet.
He must have been watching a different debate. I was most taken with the fact that the Democrats didn’t seem at all perturbed about voting on a bill with 300 pages of amendments missing. But the Republicans were, and repeatedly asked how they were supposed to vote on a bill that no one had read in its entirety.
But no, Krugman didn’t think that the Dems were acting irresponsibly in blatantly bribing recalcitrant Members to vote “aye” to get the necessary votes for a bill that would drastically restrict energy use, increase energy prices, subsidize every remote technology favored by Dems’ constituents, and, incidentally, would have a negligible effect on the earth’s temperature.
He was too busy ranting about “the irresponsibility and immorality of climate-change denial.” In his apocalyptic view:
. . . the deniers are choosing, willfully, to ignore that threat, placing future generations of Americans in grave danger, simply because it’s in their political interest to pretend that there’s nothing to worry about. If that’s not betrayal, I don’t know what is.
Note: Krugman is not an atmospheric scientist and did not receive a Nobel Prize for Physics.
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“the deniers are choosing, willfully, to ignore that threat, placing future generations of Americans in grave danger, simply because it’s in their political interest to pretend that there’s nothing to worry about. If that’s not betrayal, I don’t know what is.”
Oh, I thought he was talking about the unsustainable American welfare state for a second…
Love the end note.
There is plenty to worry about. Raising the cost of our cheap energy while at the same time refusing to allow nuclear development. 3rd world country bound are we. Not a peep about why those earning under $250K are to be hit with this energy cost increase (across everything, food, clothing, shelter, travel). Everyone will get their share of this one.
These sign the “unknown” bill crisis stuff is the real TREASON.
Talgus Lies!
Everyone knows that the Messiah pronounced that NO ONE EARNING LESS THAN $250,OOO WILL PAY A PENNY MORE IN TAXES DURING THE OBAMA SALVATION SHOW. He said it repeatedly. Enough people believed him — and now its his turn to veto the legislation unless those who earn under $250,000 are protected from paying that penny.
After all, what kind of messiah deliberately lies? A Democrat Messiah !
Of course there was Clinton who promised a tax cut … and two weeks into his first term went on television to say that after working harder than he ever had in the past, not only could he not deliver on that promise, but that there would be a retroactive tax to cover the problems he didn’t know about.
WAKE UP, DEMS !!! The “little people are buying pitchforks and making torches. They’ll be at the Capital Building soon … November, 2010, for sure.