Michele Bachmann Watch, 6/23/08

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from the DumpMicheleBachmann blog:



More Bad Press for Michele Bachmann in the Star Tribune

Andy Barnett - not to be mistaken for Michele Bachmann's fired radio host fan, Andy Barnett - wrote an oped in the Strib earlier this week responding to Bachmann's hysteria laced oped about Cap and Trade.

Bachmann's thinking on cap-and-trade is polluted
By ANDY BARNETT

June 15, 2008

It is not possible to argue sanely in favor of increased droughts, floods, famine, disease, hurricanes and hundreds of millions of refugees due to rising seas. These are the consequences of unabated climate change, they have already begun, and they will worsen unless we act with fortitude and wisdom.

Cap-and-trade is government's fastest, cheapest, most democratic tool to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, regrettably, misrepresented this policy in her June 10 article ("Cap and trade? More like tax and spend"). Bachmann and the Exxon-funded Heritage Foundation have resorted to baseless scare tactics that must be refuted.

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Cap-and-trade schemes can be globally linked; carbon taxes cannot. Bachmann is right to worry about China and India, but she should know that cap-and-trade provides the best policy framework for international collaboration. No climate policy will work unless we engage the international community, and cap-and-trade is our best bet.

Bachmann's argument for inaction is flawed and misinformed. Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, along with General Electric, BP, Ford, GM and Shell, all favor some form of cap-and-trade. These are hardly Chablis-drinking environmentalists.

We improve our economy when we invest in energy-efficiency and renewable energy, and when we have accurate price signals to stimulate these investments. Cap-and-trade is government's best economic tool to catalyze the next industrial revolution.

http://dumpbachmann.blogspot.com/2008/06/more-bad-press-for-michele-bachmann-in.html

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1. Minnesota's Bat Shit Crazy Congresswoman.

I despise her.