{"id":32522,"date":"2013-02-14T09:25:07","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T16:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/14\/rubios-patriotic-leadership-on-climate-change.html"},"modified":"2013-02-14T09:25:07","modified_gmt":"2013-02-14T16:25:07","slug":"rubios-patriotic-leadership-on-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/14\/rubios-patriotic-leadership-on-climate-change.html","title":{"rendered":"Rubio's Patriotic Leadership on Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summed up as:<\/p>\n

1. The government can't do anything about it.
2. Even if it could, the US can't do anything about what the rest of the world is doing.<\/p>\n

I find it endlessly fascinating that the GOP (in particular) touts the US as the Leader of the Free World, the Greatest Super-Power, the country that everyone looks to and admires (or fears), the nation that can do anything, because it is, in fact, Number One at Everything …<\/p>\n

… but when it comes to climate change, "America is a country, it\u2019s not a planet." \u00a0In any other context but climate change, a Democrat saying that would be roasted over the coals by the GOP for dissing the United States' Exceptional Greatness\u00a0and God-Granted Ability\u00a0to Do Anything.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Les Jenkins<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

So his argument is that we're fucked either way so we may as well continue to contribute to the problem.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMarco Rubio On Climate Change: \u2018The Government Can\u2019t Change The Weather\u2019<\/a>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThis is the Florida senator\u2019s reasoning as to why the government shouldn\u2019t get involved in climate change.
\n\u201cThe government can\u2019t change the weather. I said that in the speech. We can pass a bunch of laws that will destroy our economy, but it isn\u2019t going to change the weather,\u201d Rubio said on Fox and Friends, as part of a series of interviews on the morning shows following his response Tuesday. \u201cBecause, for example, there are other countries that …\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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Summed up as: 1. The government can't do anything about it.2. Even if it could, the US can't do anything about what the rest of the world is doing. I find it endlessly fascinating that the GOP (in particular) touts the US as the Leader of the Free World, the Greatest Super-Power, the country that … Continue reading “Rubio's Patriotic Leadership on Climate Change”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24990,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/01\/once-again-rush-rules-the-gop.html","url_meta":{"origin":32522,"position":0},"title":"Once again, Rush rules the GOP","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 1-Jan-12 10:31am","format":false,"excerpt":"After a \"concerned\" citizen raised to Newt Gingrich how Rush Limbaugh had criticized an upcoming chapter in Newt's new book that asserted climate change is real, Newt immediately made it clear that the chapter would be scrapped. 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