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Subscribe to RSSRepublican presidential hopeful Tim Pawlenty called his previous support for cap-and-trade legislation “a mistake” on Monday, noting that other GOP presidential candidates have also backpedaled on similar measures to manage climate change.
“Anybody who’s going to run for this office who’s been in an executive position or may run has got some clunkers in their record,” he said on the Laura Ingraham Show. “As to climate change – or more specifically cap-and-trade - I’ve just come out and admitted and said, ‘Look, it was a mistake. It was stupid. I’m not going to try to defend it.’”
The former Minnesota governor signed a bill in 2007 that authorized a task force “to recommend how the state could adopt" a cap-and-trade system. The same year, he also joined onto an accord with five other governors urging the creation of “a market-based and multi-sector cap-and-trade mechanism.”
And he appeared in a radio ad – played by Ingraham during the Monday segment – in which he and then-Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano urged Congress to curb greenhouse gas emissions and create “enviro-friendly” jobs. The ad, aired in January 2008, was sponsored by the Environmental Defense Action Fund.
Pawlenty, who last week announced the formation of a presidential exploratory committee, said on Monday that cap-and-trade measures are a “ham-fisted, unhelpful, damaging thing to the economy.”
Without naming any specific candidates, he noted that he’s not the only GOP hopeful who has previously warned of the dangers of climate change and advocated for market-based solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
“Everybody in the race, at least the big names in the race, embraced climate change or cap-and-trade at one point or another, every one of us, so there's no one who has been in executive position whose name is being bantered in a first or second-tier way who hasn't embraced it in some way," he said.
Potential Republican candidates Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich have backed off of previous support for carbon regulations, as have Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee. (Here's Time's guide to some of the major Republican contenders' positions on global warming.)
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You're kidding right stevie?
We couldn't make this stuff up if we tried! LMAO @ U Stevie!
Feisty Redhead Roselle, IL
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Beverly in Chicago
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#1 - Tue Mar 29, 2011 10:45 AM PDT
anything to be first
You're kidding right stevie?
We couldn't make this stuff up if we tried! LMAO @ U Stevie!
Someone is looking for importance. Attention whores do that.
Nope. Not kidding at all NASTY.. Just doing like you libbies. how does it feel whatever i have to do to show the Lunacy of you Crazy lefties i will do it.
I couldn't make this stuff up...........................
Still thinking you are Funny with your LMAO in your posts. we got news for you Nasty. you are the only one that things you are funny
TPaw is like my 3 year old grandchild. "But all the other kids are doing it." So that makes it OK. Give me a break! And he wants to be President? Give me another break!
Bev,
Oh.. the Racist one Chimes in. Nice i feel Really important now.
Seriously, little stevie makes a big deal out of critizing someone and turns around NOT 10 minutes later and does EXACTLY the same thing! LMAO
Good Grief! What a pathetic excuse for a human being!
OH. Nasty, come on you can insult me better then that. My Shoulder are Big i can take anything you got.
My Feelings are not hurt. you dont have that kind of power over me. but i see that you think Bev is a Pathetic Excuse for a Human. I mean afterall I did what she did. And i didnt Criticize Bev, I just posted what she did in the very first post.
Anything to be First. Spin it however you wish NASTY. but it seems that you are the one always calling people Names. Because its all you got. You are always on the losing end . it makes you so mad you have to call someone names
Global warming= progressive myth, used to fleece taxpayers and accumulate political power.
Time magazine did sell some magazines with it, when they had all those dire cover stories warning about the planet melting, the rivers rising, and Al Gore is God.
You got that right Bob,
Not to mention Wasted Tax Payer Monies so Al Gore could buy himself a Big mansion on the Coast of California
Bob..get with the program. Its no longer Global Warming. It's man made Climate Change. How else can it be used to explain the fact we have snow in the North East in March. Funny thing is they never extol the benefits of climate change like a longer growing season.
OH .. Come on Alan, dont you know thats just Weather and not Climate change. Get with the Program. dont you know the libbies talking points......
Except that while some areas may have longer growing seasons, others will have prolonged drought (the US high plains will lose their agriculture), and you can expect wider changes in weather, more frequent severe storms which are not agriculture friendly. While England was able to grow grapes in the early middle ages, at the same time the Mayan civilization disappeared for lack of fresh water.
Just being like Bev..
Anything to be first
Of course it was for T-Paw. The insane T-baggers said support for cap-and-trade legislation is "a mistake". He has to go with the flow of gaseous blurbs coming from the young and dumb T-baggers new found form of their endangered species they want to preserve.
I agree. Cap and trade IS a mistake.
It doesn't go nearly far enough.
Dyamm I'm good. So good a certain ignorant attention -seeking - troll will stalk because that's its function..
The Bob and Steve show. Today's topic: Climate change is good for home prices if your front yard becomes the new ocean front. P.S. We still don't like Al Gore.
And tell them not to forget their sunglasses.
Those UV rays can be killers.
But I DO like Al Gore. In the end, he'll be remembered ... if only because he TRIED.
UV was not because of Climate Change that was because of the hole in the Ozone layer.
Stop attacking me with science, okay? Sheesh. I'm still trying to work past the possibility that the Earth may be more than 6,000 years old.
Besides, what difference would it make what caused it AFTER you fry your eyes with UV?
We should do something about that, too, whether they're related or not.
In the meantime, don't look up, if you know what I mean. ;-)
Anna Molly---Once climate change becomes common knowledge even among the "Don't worry be happy" crowd, Al Gore will be remembered for pointing out that we could have done something instead of nothing.
Only if someone's left to remember him, Tom. :(
....Even if climate change is real...it isnt, it is called the weather, which is erratic and unpredictable (like Feisty's moods)
...and Even if this climate change is caused by human activity ( no proof of that ),
....by their own accounting, the climate change zealots admit that what the US does or doesnt do is miniscule and will have no impact on alleged "global" warming.
So we cant 'do something' other than have a liberal condescending attitude about "saving the planet" and 'greenhouse gases' . Go buy an electric toaster, the Volt, if it makes you feel better.
Bob,
come on now. Feisty has an Excuse. its PMS...............
From the whine you laid down above, it's no suprise you're familiar with PMS!
Midol is in the second drawer - help yourself hon!
Sorry nasty Us men dont get PMS. We get SRH. . but we dont need to take a pain killer for that...
Now please do us all a Favor and spend the Rest of the day trying to Figure out what SRH is I will come back and Explain it to you tomorrow..
Two and a half years ago, McCain, Palin and a host of republicans supported cap and trade. Now, they oppose it. How much more proof does anyone need that big oil and big coal are seeking payment for their investments in the GOP/TP campaigns? Whether it is T-Paw or any other presidential wannabe or pretender, cap and trade is bad. Why care about the environment, and their children and grand children's health--it doesn't matter because big oil and big coal have spoken.
Last month, GOP/TP House republicans used a budgeting process (continuing resolution) to strip the EPA of its regulatory authority. This was the most anti-environment bill ever passed by the House of Representatives.
In 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling that "requires" the EPA to regulate greenhouse gases if they are proven to endanger health. The Bush administration avoided compliance by claiming the adverse effects of greenhouse gases required further study. President Obama's EPA Administrator, Lisa Jackson completed the study, issued an endangerment finding, and began regulation as required by the Supreme Court. The GOP/TP House Amendment, offered by Texans John Carter, Joe Barton, and Ted Poe would shut off funding to implement the regulation as required by the U.S. Supreme Court. Apparently, republicans only support Supreme Court rulings they like and their big oil and big coal donors do not like this one--so much for our children and grandchildren when money speaks louder than their health and well being.
It's funny how right wing ignorance is extolled as a virtue by that crowd to protect their big oil and coal interests. Go ahead and deny we need other energy sources that don't damage our eco-system and offer us some energy independence. Republicans and right wingers will go down screaming rather than admit they are on the losing side of this argument. The problem is they take too many unsuspectiing individuals with them that don't know the difference.
Laurie, nicely said. Your last sentence especially sums it up.
Global warming is a fact that Republicans and Tea baggers know is happening. However, the Big Boys with the money have told them to deny it. Shame on you people. You are little blind sheep.