Esteemed liberal writer, Jonathan Chait, wrote in the May 19th issue of New York Magazine that voters aren't really energized enough by the Republican-created "scandal" of Benghazi to last untill November. He's predicting that climate change will become the big issue instead.
Chait cited the recent U. S. National Climate Assessment's report that: “Climate change, once considered an issue for a distant future, has moved firmly into the present.” And that was even before the West Antarctic ice sheet began to disintegrate before our very eyes -- and irreversibly, say the scientists.
So how can Republicans oppose any and every regulation that would begin to affect climate change? Don't put anything beyond their insatiable search for an issue that might defeat President Obama.
As Chait points out, on the very same day that the Antarctic bad news broke, Republicans had filibustered to death a very sensible bipartisan, corporate-friendly energy conservation bill that Republican Sen. Rob Portman and Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen had worked on for three years, carefully designed to get bipartisan support. It even had the backing of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers.
Why did they kill it? Simple, political perfidy. They kept loading it up with poison-pill amendments that they hoped would force Democrats to vote on things that they could then use against them in the fall elections.
Get the picture? Repubicans are playing politics. And they will screw the future of our grandchildren and of the planet itself for a cheap hope of winning. How pathetic that they have nothing positive to run on, but fall back on suppressing the vote measures, on lies and distortions, and on opposition to modern science.
Ralph
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