His Record Doesn't Lie: Tom McClintock
The way in which a politician is viewed by the people he now represents indicates how he will perform in the future. Comments from Tom McClintock's District 19 constituents reveals why his home turf in Ventura County - - known as Reagan country - - went from Red to Blue:
- "This district was unrepresented for 8 years under McClintock. McClintock is so far to the right that his own party has problems with him."
- "Conejo Valley residents are an educated bunch. A good number of us are employed by Amgen or Baxter, biotech firms... [we] are savvy about climate change and will discriminate between the good arguments offered by scientists and bad arguments offered by a few feckless politicians. McClintock has “consistently opposed sensible measures to protect our air, water and wild places.” He “opposed important measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles (AB 1493, 2002), to recycle toxic electronic wastes (SB 20, 2003), and to increase California’s supply or clean, renewable energy (SB 1078, 2002).”
- McClintock Attacks Gore, Conservationists; Disputes Global Warming Science (October 29, 2007) - In an October 12 speech to the Western Conservative Political Action Conference, California State Senator Tom McClintock mounted a persuasive, and yet poorly informed attack against Al Gore, conservation, and the most widely accepted scientific theory of global warming. This is fortunate: McClintock’s comments have assured his well-deserved fate of political irrelevance and ignominy. McClintock repeated well-worn Republican jokes about personal jets and Gore’s electricity bill. He mentioned several laughably out-of-date theories about the causes of recent climate change. He even proudly admits that his knowledge about climate change has its most profound roots in his grade school musings... This position is damaging to the Republican party and will cause it to lose votes in California and nationally."
Tom McClintock has long enjoyed a reputation for being a straight-shooting, principled conservative. You may not believe what he believes, but you usually get a sense that he knows what he's talking about. That's why people [here]were stunned when McClintock, in a speech to the Western Conservative Politcal Action Conference, called global warming a "farce." In a rant against environmentalists he blasted the state's new greenhouse emissions law, saying it would hurt industry and (get this) even cause starvation in the world. Republican supporters said McClintock "seems to be in a time warp. The most recent PPIC poll shows that even 60 percent of Republicans see an immediate need to tackle global warming (82 percent of independents did too). McClintock didn't do himself any favors on this one. He's just handed Democrats and even his likely 2010 Republican gubernatorial primary opponent, Steve Poizner, an issue to campaign on, making it even easier to paint McClintock as an extremist out of touch with California values." If voters in Los Angeles and Ventura feel McClintock is an anti-environment extremist, consider what he may do to our Auburn-Sierra-Tahoe area?
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"The most recent PPIC poll shows that even 60 percent of Republicans see an immediate need to tackle global warming"
This only represents the effectiveness of ongoing and continual propaganda.
We elect leaders to make good decisions, regardless of how badly people are informed by the media.
Global Warming is outside of human control and there is nothing we can do to cause it, or to stop it.
This week, Americans for Prosperity (AFP) planned to have town hall meetings in Ft. Myers and West Palm Beach, FL. As Brad Johnson notes, “AFP is a front group for the right-wing pollution company Koch Industries, with an agenda of attacking ‘global warming alarmism‘ and promoting increased offshore drilling.” In an ironic twist, AFP has canceled its meetings because of Tropical Storm Fay. From a message on the group’s website: Ft. Myers and West Palm Beach Town Hall Meetings Rescheduled - The August 19th Ft. Myers town hall and August 21st West Palm Beach town hall will be rescheduled as a result of Tropical Storm Fay."
Why does God hate AFP? Why does God hate Florida global warming deniers? Why are 60 percent of Republicans taken in by God's holy effective propaganda?
Whatever does NOT fit the Right's agenda is twisted any which way to make it fit the agenda. Since the Right believes in supernatural beings, it has no difficult believing other myths, any myth that validates its extremism such as the myth that man does not in any way cause global warming. The Right's willingness to deceive itself is endless. What is amazing is the Right's willingness to manufacture a lie and then believe it.
Actually, Obama was asked about this and his view was "Well, I think that whether you're looking at it from a theological perspective or a scientific perspective, answering that question with specificity, you know, is above my pay grade."
R_T, You're wrong, you posted the answer to another question. The answer to this question was Huh- huh-huh-huh-huh. That's the most used word in his vocabulary when there's no teleprompter or memorized speech.
RT has posted that same "quote" to answer three different questions this am. Hey RT...how about some factual, "rational" responses instead of childish mis-information for once?
And as for McClintock...he's the worst of his ilk, a life long Gov employee with no business, real world job experience. He has to win here so he doesn't have to compete with qualifed applicants in the big old scary world of private sector employment.
Dear Mr. McClintock,
Laughable are the arguments of global warmers, those who believe global warming is a problem that's caused by man and circumventable by taxing and mandating the masses into poverty for the sake of governments and corporations. Sadly, by failing to acknowledge the only facts about global warming, they are perpetuating the greatest fraud in modern human history.
Among the only demonstrable, observable facts about global warming are that shamefully rich people (like Albert Gore and Tom Perkins) are trying to use law for making money from the hype, so that poor to middle-income consumers are forced to pay for it.
Please know you have my support for continuing your pragmatism, working in favor of middle-income Californians who are left, right and even fascist green, so long as it's the people and not the government determining what parks in our driveways, what heats our homes and what's on our dinnerplates.
Sincerely,
Buckelew,
CC: Thos Payne, et al
IndiLyndi, before I get to the issue, just what experience does Charlie brown have? You want to call McClintock a lifelong politician, well I think that is a good thing. Who would I rather have, someone who actually knows what they're doing, or someone like Charlie Brown who has retired from the air force, lied about his service in Vietnam, and then served as a desk clerk for the roseville police department? Hmmm....
As far as the issue from the article goes, Tom McClintock is a huge conservationist. He supports finishing the Auburn Dam, which will undoubtedly save Californian's huge amounts of money in energy costs. He is supported by the Forrest Service and many other wildlife institutions. Don't let a few liberals from SoCal make generalizations on a conservative who is trying to protect and conserve the environment and our resources.
Charlie Brown adamently opposes finishing the Auburn Dam simply because it was a project Doolittle started. He has no regard for what is best for his constituents. He says "patriotism before partisanship", but I don't see any sign of brown living that.
P.S. The "Above my pay grade" comment by Barack Obama was on the issue of abortion. When asked when a child is considered "alive" or "a being" Obama replied with that stupid comment.
David0,
Obama's comment "...above my paygrade" was a cop-out. Last night I heard a debate on a talkshow about his comments, and I laughed at the ridiculous defenses of the "educated" Obama supporter. Funny how he has a supposed answer (teleprompted?) for everything else.
The global warmers and others on this forum better wake up. Obama is an empty suit to be filled by a corporate, hard-center agenda. Their liberty, sovereignty and rights as American's are in the balance -- Obama is, politicially speaking, an invalid. Someone else is going to walk his walk and talk his talk. And we'll pay dearly.
Buckelew,
Yeah, that's all Obama is good for is canned speeches. Same with Charlie Brown, because he wants to sound like he's in lock-step with Pelosi all the time. The thing that some people don't realize is that it's all talk. They have nothing to back it up with. Obama has served briefly in the Senate, and Charlie has... wait... wasn't he answering phones and filing paperwork for the Roseville PD. Yeah, that's right...
It's been ten years since 1998. Ten years! How many years of cooling have to pass before we can stop saying the climate is still warming? Those so called scientists in the IPCC would have us say 30 years at a minimum. But when you examine their record it was a scant 8 years between Dr. James Hansen penning a study on the impending ice age in 1979, and his congressional testimonial trumpeting "global warming" in 1988.
Enough. It has been ten years since the high temperature mark of the 1998 el nino.
It is no longer acceptable to say in one breath that you are well educated, and in the next breath say you believe in global warming.
You can be one, or you can believe the other. You can't do both.
James_Mayeau - The subject is Tom McClintock's voting record. I believe you have been misdirected.
Not only is the issue of "when does life begin" above his paygrade, it is none of his business. He's running for president, not pope or gynecologist-in-chief. The answer was appropriate for an inappropriate question.
I'm in the right place. The state legislature is about to hand land use planning over to the Air Resources Board through SB 375 sponsored by Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento), This state needs every clear thinking politician it can get. McClintock Attacks Gore, the ecologists and Global warming that makes him a precious commodity in this state. Practically alone. He's the only pol I have heard that isn't brainwashed on global warming. We can't spare him.
McClintock isn't brainwashed? So I guess pollution's OK with him. Sad. Can't fix stup.. never mind.
Mr. Mayhew'
Thank you for raising a significant concern. With Tom McClintock's long and dedicated history of voting for Big Oil and against environmental protection, he cannot be spared from the good people of District 19. The question is how do we entice him to remain there?
Tom McClintock (R-Los Angeles) is dramatically out-of-step with most Californians on the issue of the environment. A July poll by the Public Policy Institute of California (http://www.ppic.org) found that an overwhelming majority of Californians (92% of Democrats, 82% of Independents, and 60% of Republicans) believe that steps must be taken right away to address global warming. While support for last year’s Global Warming Solutions Act (AB 32 – Nunez) is nearly 80%, half of Californians believe the state is still not doing enough to protect the environment.