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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLindsey Graham Admits That The GOP Doesn't Have An Environmental Platform
and blames... Al Gore!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/23/lindsey-graham-climate-change_n_6926376.html
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Monday admitted that Republicans need to do some "soul searching" on climate change and blamed former Vice President Al Gore for making it difficult to make progress on the issue.
Graham, who is weighing a bid for the White House in 2016, said that he believed that climate change was real and that human activity was contributing to it. But he added that he wasn't quite sure what the GOP's environmental platform was and said that he would like to see some debate on the issue within the party....
Graham blamed Gore, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2007 for his efforts to combat climate change, for blocking progress on the issue.
"The problem is Al Gore has turned this thing into a religion," he said. "You know, climate change is not a religious problem for me, it is an economic, it is an environmental problem."
Graham, who is weighing a bid for the White House in 2016, said that he believed that climate change was real and that human activity was contributing to it. But he added that he wasn't quite sure what the GOP's environmental platform was and said that he would like to see some debate on the issue within the party....
Graham blamed Gore, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2007 for his efforts to combat climate change, for blocking progress on the issue.
"The problem is Al Gore has turned this thing into a religion," he said. "You know, climate change is not a religious problem for me, it is an economic, it is an environmental problem."
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Lindsey Graham Admits That The GOP Doesn't Have An Environmental Platform (Original Post)
KamaAina
Mar 2015
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The "responsibility" party constantly blames others for their own shortcomings.
City Lights
Mar 2015
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valerief
(53,235 posts)1. Lack of progress on climate change controls is Al Gore's fault. Riiiiiiiiight!
It never ceases to amaze me what these GOP assholes pull out of their asses.
CTyankee
(63,899 posts)2. Plus, the whining! NOW, they are sorry about some of the batshit stuff
coming from their repuke compadres. Honestly, I hate their whining more than anything. Their ideas are laughable, but their whining grates on the nerves big time...
City Lights
(25,171 posts)3. The "responsibility" party constantly blames others for their own shortcomings.
They are useless when attempting to make forward progress on anything that helps society at large.
I've had it with all of them.
more like "Brags".
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)5. Graham says GOP needs some "soul searching." Begs the question.