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Where's the examples of "green" republicans, or the GOP presenting environmental legislation?
The false premise you are making is that it has to fit the agenda of environmentalists, for example the Republicans in my state control the legislature and the Governors mansion, they can pretty much do what they want. They passed new regualtions for the booming natural gas industry, of course they didn't go far enough for the environmentalists so they get to join the "Hates clean air and water" club.
god I hate the term "Green" anything. I prefer camo. I give a substantial amount of money every year to conservation groups and through funds which my hunting and fishing licenses go to. Get out of the city sometime and see some real green.
Which will soon start to look a lot like Mars, if Obama and the GOP get their way. I don't consider Obama pro-environment by any means. He's as pro-fracking, pro-drilling everywhere, pro keystone XL pipeline as anyone in the GOP. Don't be fooled by the PR. Obama has accepted campaign money from oil lobbyists as much as anyone in the GOP. Most progressives are still drunk on the Obama kool-aid to realize it.
They're at least supposed to be monitoring corporate maleficence.
Not their fault that we have allowed the fox to guard the chicken coop, so to speak.
With Exxon board members revolving in and out of the EPA, etc etc etc.
Anyways, I ask because there are a few things I really side with conservatives about.
But environment is really a huge issue with me. And it seems like the hot rail issue for the Right.
So, I was hoping to get some good links and book suggestions are Green Republicans, or whatever.
I hate labels, but consider me a conservative that very much cares about the environment, wildlife and all the critters dependent upon this land. The liberals use these issues as platforms that sound good, but don't DO any good. The forest fires are an example, the people in Idaho that can't build on their lot, removal of dams that provide energy to millions, and irrigation for farms - to save the fish. We all want to save the fish, but liberals have to be willing to compromise and be reasonable. I just heard CA wants to raise taxes on smokes again. This state has spent way beyond it's means and keeps sqeezing the poor people to pay for their lack of fiscal responsiblity. Throwing away billions on green energy that amounts to 1% of our energy needs is STUPID. I want to stop the slaughter of horses, but sending them to other countries to be slaughtered is a STUPID solution, and adds to the suffering.
Liberals just carry things too far and always seem to have a hidden agenda, that is why we can't and don't trust you. Liberals seem to dream of utopia, but we conservatives are more grounded in reality. I think that is the main difference.
I would like to see us work together toward a kinder, more conscienscious way of living. That can happen thru education, not force.
Where's the examples of "green" republicans, or the GOP presenting environmental legislation?
You mean besides the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Restoration Act, The Wilderness Act, The Antiquities Act, The National Environmental Policy Act or The Alaska Lands Act?
The very title of this thread is not reality-based.
Of course millions of us "care about the environment."
It is that most of we conservatives aren't brainwashed into screaming that the sky is falling. We have not been indoctrinated to hate mankind, blaming us all for what ails much of the earth. We are too wise to fall for the "Global Warming is a manmade disaster" crap.
The very title of this thread is not reality-based.
Of course millions of us "care about the environment."
It is that most of we conservatives aren't brainwashed into screaming that the sky is falling. We have not been indoctrinated to hate mankind, blaming us all for what ails much of the earth. We are too wise to fall for the "Global Warming is a manmade disaster" crap.
It is that most of we conservatives aren't brainwashed into screaming that the sky is falling. We have not been indoctrinated to hate mankind, blaming us all for what ails much of the earth. We are too wise to fall for the "Global Warming is a manmade disaster" crap.
I'm going to hazard a guess this is exactly why they dropped 'Republican' from their name.
http://www.rep.org/climate_faq.html (broken link)
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