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There he goes fracturing his base again.
Michelle Malkin
McCain’s “climate change” tour bypasses cooler heads
A rational, free-market-based approach to environmentalism requires a commitment to scientific truth, accuracy, and honest cost-benefit analyses.
For the last several years, McCain has been committed to none of those.
Climatologist Patrick Michaels had McCain pegged four years ago, when The Maaaveerrick convened ridiculously, eco-Chicken Little-stacked hearings
Larry Kudlow
As good as John McCain’s pro-growth, supply-side tax plan is, his cap-and-trade strategy unveiled this morning is very hard for conservatives to swallow. The whole cap-and-trade experience in Europe and elsewhere reveals that this is a huge government command-and-control operation that taxes, spends, and regulates on a grand scale. The “cap” part rolls back production to an extent that undermines economic growth. The European cap-and-trade plans are prohibitively expensive, and are themselves hostile to economic growth.
Roy Spencer
McCain’s Assault on Reason Another Al Gore for president.
Along with Clinton and Obama, McCain’s proposal to attack global warming now gives voters three choices for a car color — as long as it is black. Like Clinton and Obama, McCain’s proposal involves a “cap and trade” mechanism to legislatively limit CO2 emissions in the coming years, with the free market minimizing the economic damage by allowing a trading of emission credits between companies. He also includes an allowance for carbon offsets, although everyone (except Al Gore) believes this to be more smoke-and-mirrors than a real-world strategy for reducing carbon emissions.
Hot Air
New McCain ad: Let’s fight global warming, but in a good way
Maverick’s “third way” battle plan towards a greener planet sounds suspiciously like the Democrats’ own, which may be due to the fact that he’s never had a consistent comprehensive approach to environmentalism — a worrisome sign given that he’d be dealing as president with a deep blue Congress. How likely is it that he’d veto an emissions bill heavy on regulation and light on the sort of free-market solutions he claims to be such a fan of?
McCain's New Ad
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