May 27 2008
Club for Growth Hits Dole on Global Warming Bill
The Club for Growth wants to scuttle a bill by Sens. Joe Lieberman, an independent from Connecticut, and John Warner, R-Va., that the Senate is scheduled to begin debating in June. Even without the ad campaign, the bill seems to lack the votes needed to overcome a filibuster.
With $250,000 in radio and television spots, the Club for Growth is targeting Republican Sens. Dole and Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, and Democratic Sens. Robert Byrd and Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, and Max Baucus and Jon Tester of Montana. Dole, a co-sponsor of the bill, faces re-election this year, as do Alexander, Baucus and Rockefeller.
Toomey explains further down the precise problem with this bill:
Club for Growth President Pat Toomey, a former Republican congressman from Pennsylvania, called the legislation a “massive redistribution of wealth.”
“This would be extremely destructive to economic growth,” he said. “If it dies here in June, we will be very alert to any prospects of its revival.”
Republicans are jumping on this bill simply to placate environmental alarmists in an election year. For all the hype over global warming, we have seen revelations over the past few months that the planet might actually be cooling now. In fact, you’ll notice the global warming crowd doesn’t refer to it as global warming anymore, the term is now “climate change.” It’s kind of hard to get people to swallow your argument when reality is showing otherwise.
Regardless of what is happening, the jury is still out on whether or not the human race has anything to do it. I think the idea that we puny humans can have the kind of effect these people claim is absurd, personally. The planet has gone through warming and cooling trends throughout its existence, but that is completely irrelevant to these people. The bottom line is that the whole global warming spiel is nothing but a method to fool people into engaging in global Marxism. Let it be known, that is the ultimate goal. Elizabeth Dole shouldn’t allow herself to get caught up in this. It will be economically destructive to the people she is supposed to be representing.
The Heritage Foundation has done a state by state analysis on how this bill will effect the American people.
Table 1: Estimated Economic Impact of S. 2191 in North Carolina
Table 2: Changes in Household Energy Prices in North Carolina Due to S. 2191
[...] of Charleston to be severely crippled in the coming years because that is exactly what the Lieberman-Warner Climate Bill will do if it is passed. It will be an economic disaster for the entire country, a knee jerk [...]
It is shocking that Dole co-sponsored this big government bill. Is she drinking Gore’s kool-aid? She needs to wise up an vote against this monstrosity if she doesn’t want to lose votes to the Libertarian nominee.
In even sponsoring this bill, she is NO Jesse Helms!
Do we really need Al Gore in a skirt? What is she smoking? I’ll bet its not a tobbaco product!
Dole not only voted for cloture, to try to ram this ghastly high-tax big-government bill through Congress without even allowing opportunity for amendments, but on her website she laments its defeat and says she will continue to work for it in the future. She is indeed Al Gore in a skirt, and NOT what North Carolina needs in the Senate. I am a longtime Republican activist, and actively supported Dole 6 years ago. Now that she is one of the clowns in Gore’s three-ring circus, I cannot vote for her unless she makes a public recantation of her Global Warmist views. I will be voting either Libertarian or writing in Jesse Helms. It is a travesty that this woman is sitting in Jesse Helms old Senate seat. We need to get her out of it.