Dems: Public Is With Us On Climate Change
It’s become an article of faith that the battle over the cap and trade bill will extract a heavy toll from Dems. But a Democrat sends over numbers from new polls that have left Dems cautiously confident that the public, despite the noise, is with them on climate change:
* The new NPR poll finds that when respondents are read a description of the Dem and GOP claims about the bill, 53% agree with the Dems and 40% agree with the GOP.
* The new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll finds that Dems hold a 27-point advantage, 40%-13%, on who’s more trusted to combat global warming.
* The new George Washington University battleground poll finds that people agree, by a slim four-point edge, with the Dem description of the climate change bill, and that Dems hold a double-digit lead on who’s trusted to better promote energy independence.
* An internal poll done for House Dems in 60 battleground House districts found the public evenly divided over whether they back the bill, but when it’s described in Dem-favorable terms the Dems gain a 10 point advantage.
Still, Republicans do really think this is their issue. NRCC spokesman Ken Spain notes over 40 Dems bailed on cap and trade, showing even Dems know it’s “a political loser.” Conservative blogger Michael Goldfarb wrote recently that cap and trade was the Dems’ “overreach moment.” The thrust of coverage of the issue has tended to agree, but the above numbers suggest it’s way too soon to call this one.
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Please increase the cost of energy (essential to not less than everything) and do it in a manner that can be shown to have no impact on global carbon emissions.
Ask most people what country borders the US to the south and you get at least 20% “don’t know/undecided”. But ask people what they think about cap-and-trade after they’ve seen the cost of everything increase in the name of stopping carbon emissions (which don’t get stopped; we’ve already distributed 90% of the “carbon offsets”, or whatever you are calling these pices of blue sky, to politically favored industries). This isn’t politics, this is physics.
And then you get to tell people that the Employee Free Choice Act is really a way to eliminate the secret ballot and impose union control on every business in America. Sucks to be you.
Without question, great deals of money expended to forward a long-term and massive disinformation campaign has been effective. But not effective enough.
I have given up on passing real climate change legislation. The Democratic Party in Congress is nearly half ideologically aligned with conservative principles. The Senate, especially, is full of Dems who don’t want to have any real impact on the country, they just want to get re-elected.
Health care is where it’s at now.
More and more scientists are challenging Anthropomorphic Global Warming which is now being labled “climate change”. It keeps becoming more apparent the science is not settled and the models used to forecast disaster are flawed.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/07/30/american-chemical-society-members-revolting-against-their-editor-for-pro-agw-views/#more-9680
http://joannenova.com.au/2009/07/23/massive-climate-funding-exposed/
There is good evidence that the climate started cooling about 8 years ago and will continue to do so for 25 or 30 more.
More: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/07/27/american-physical-society-reviewing-its-climate-stance/#more-9604
Stop hyping the hysteria and trying to make poor people in the world more desolate while using this as a tactic for increasing taxes to support measures that do nothing to alter a constantly changing climate.
I had until now been a huge fan of Lou Dobbs, but it seems that has fallen in with the wackos from Fox on the birther issue. If he can’t do better than this, it is time to give him a pink slip.
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