Republican Heresy

And they are never called on it, for some reason. The top contenders for the GOP nod for President: Tim Pawlenty, Mitt Romney, and Mike Huckabee have all made calls for the limiting of greenhouse gases. If you're a liberal, read: environmentalists. A few have even comitted what may be seen as political suicide, by embracing cap and trade. A cap and trade is where the government puts a limit on how much pollution a company may create. If they want, or need, more, they can buy from the government or each other. Probably, in my mind, not the best system ever invented. Anyway, if you dig, you'll find things, such as Tim Pawlenty's guess that Congress, in 2008, would pass a system in a year, year and a half. He even went so far as to say he "supported a reasonable cap and trade system." Even Sarah Palin has said she "believes some activities contribute to ...climate change," as well as saying "we have to do something about it." She has since flipflopped, saying that it is a "snake oil science." Really, Sarah? Here's an idea: before you call on anyone for flipflopping, make sure to youtube yourself on global warming. But it doesn't end with just the Presidential nominees. John Boehner, now Speaker of The House, and Represenitive of the Cheeto-State, has said "Humans clearly contribute to this...It depends what kind of safety valves there are." Watch as conservatives start to say that global warming is either: A.) not real, B.) not man made, or C.) does not require cap and trade, which is simply inefficient and awkward, but instead requires nuclear, wind, or solar energies, as well as clean coal, which just doesn't exist.