I’ve posted on the recurring commonality between racism, homophobia, misogyny, and climate denial.
It wasn’t too long ago that no less a Republican than Colin Powell warned his party to knock off the racism – which he referred to as “..a dark vein of intolerance”, and by-the-way, the climate denial as well. (you can skip ahead to 10 minutes to hear the warning about climate in the video above)
Following the recent revelations of Congressman Steve Scalise’ connections to white supremacists, and his boast that he is “David Duke without the baggage”, I poked around looking into his record on climate. Actually, not much available, since neither “Climate’, nor even “Environment” make the cut as “Issues” on his website.
He does hate carbon taxes, though.
Is anyone surprised?
Congressman Steve Scalise website:
Republican Study Committee Chairman Steve Scalise’s anti-carbon tax amendment passed the House today by a vote of xxx to xxx.(sic) Passage of the amendment marks the first time the House has gone on record opposing a carbon tax.
“President Obama’s plan to impose a tax on carbon would cause household electricity rates to skyrocket while destroying millions of American jobs,” Scalise said. “The House sent a strong bipartisan message to President Obama that a tax on carbon would devastate our economy and he needs to drop any idea of imposing this kind of radical regulation. The Obama Administration has used every trick in the book to implement its radical agenda through back door regulations. This amendment is necessary to prohibit a carbon tax from being imposed by unelected bureaucrats on behalf of the President without legislative action and oversight. We need to restore common-sense to Washington, and put an end to the liberal tax, regulate, and spend agenda that is destroying our middle class economy and reducing opportunities for the poor.”
Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI), a strong supporter of the Scalise amendment, noted that the amendment prevents the President and the EPA from bypassing Congress and imposing a devastating national energy tax that would affect every American.
“Struggling Americans who have been unable to find a job or have not seen their paychecks grow would be hit with this national energy tax every time they pay their utility bills or fill up their gas tanks or go to the grocery store,” Camp said. “It would also be another tax on manufacturers and another increased cost of doing business imposed on middle-class families by the Obama administration.”
Can we in the UK have Colin Powell as our next PM and Chancellor, we sure as hell need some thinking like his in our administration.
If he’s sane enough to NOT run for POTUS, why would you think he’d be crazy enough to join the political circus in the UK? (Or AUS, NZ, or CAN for that matter?—-the countries of the old Empire have all gone crazy)
I need to apologize for mentioning NZ—-the Kiwis are actually the sanest of the bunch.
misogeny? Should be misogyny, no?
knew there was a “y” in there somewhere.
Deniers have been whining here in Ireland for years (and in the UK as well) that carbon taxes were keeping heating costs so high, impacting the poor and elderly (sob, sob, even though those groups are compensated for the tax).
Now that home heating oil prices have halved thanks to the low international price of crude oil, will any of them admit they were talking a load of boll*cks? Not likely.
It never ceases to amaze the overflowing compassion for the plight of the less fortunate when profits and the status quo are at stake.