Because I selected, in infinite irrelevant punditry, "the environment" as one of two issues I thought might be good Obama signature issues to bring into a battle with McCain, I'll follow Yglesias, who points out "The Myth of Green McCain."
Update: more from Media Matters - proving that the media has not vetted McCain, perhaps because of his rapid 10 week rise to power, from New Hampshire to his March 5th clinch.
If I read one more "Myth of" story about McCain, I think we'll have to call him a mythical candidate.
McCAIN AS PRODUCT OF SPECIAL INTERESTS, NOT MASTER OF THEM
Seriously trying to pin down what fumes are running the political phenomenon of John McCain is one difficult task.
The collection of his failure on issues his marginal supporters seem to excuse (at least for now).
The one issue I think that will get out of his control is his abiding reliance on federal lobbyists.
Monday, May 12, 2008
Signature Issues
Saturday, April 26, 2008
The GOP's Triple-twist, Double-Flip Dismount on Environmentalism
ONE OF THE BIGGEST POLITICAL FLIP-FLOPS IN 50 YEARS?
It's just stunning to see various GOP hacks and luminaries walking around and talking as if there were not 50 years of two-steps-short of
completely whoring the environment in their political legacy.
Could be at least even-odds that we are "too late" on global warming (the effects are cumulative and self-reinforcing and there is no known way to reverse them).
They seem oblivious to the realization that there is a non-zero probability that the GOP's past political choices will have fried the planet, no matter what their pandering on the issue today ...
And it is pandering. When they controlled all levers of government, they did nothing. Now, at the advent of a Democratic Administration, they join hands to ask Americans for "sacrifice" and "putting difference aside". How cheap-suit is that?
Stunning.