Romney: McCain’s Cap And Trade Plan Would ‘Just Kill Jobs’ In The U.S.
Romney: McCain’s Cap And Trade Plan Would ‘Just Kill Jobs’ In The U.S.
Today, the right wing — enthusiastically joined by Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) — attacked Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) for advocating in a January interview a cap and trade plan that would mandate new coal plants to be built with carbon capture technology. McCain said he wanted to control emissions, but insisted, “I’m not going to let our coal industry go bankrupt.” Palin said Obama has been “talking about bankrupting the coal industry,” and pledged, “John McCain and I, we will not let that happen to the coal industry.”
Now former governor Mitt Romney is using McCain’s attacks against Obama to attack McCain himself. On Glenn Beck’s radio show today, he denounced McCain’s cap and trade program, saying it would “kill jobs” in the U.S. and that he would “endeavor to convince” McCain to change his plans:
BECK: How would you address the cap and trade on the day when everyone’s paying attention to coal?
ROMNEY: Well as you know, there were a number of places in the primary campaign where I disagreed with John McCain, and his cap and trade proposal was one of them. … If you want to negotiate with someone and you feel it’s important to bring down global CO2 emissions then China has to be part of the picture. And if we go out there and put a burden on our own industry and they don’t put a burden on theirs, why you’ll just kill jobs here.
Listen here:
Both McCain and Obama support the development of carbon sequestration technologies; in fact, in the same interview conservatives are now hyperventilating over, Obama said, “This idea of no coal, I think, is an illusion.” What’s more, a green energy-based economy built through an aggressive cap-and-trade program would create millions of jobs and generate billions of dollars for investment into clean energy, as John McCain himself noted just six months ago:
As never before, the market would reward any person or company that seeks to invent, improve, or acquire alternatives to carbon-based energy. … A cap-and-trade policy will send a signal that will be heard and welcomed all across the American economy. Those who want clean coal technology, more wind and solar, nuclear power, biomass and bio-fuels will have their opportunity through a new market that rewards those and other innovations in clean energy.
It can’t be a good sign for McCain that one of his top surrogates has turned McCain’s own campaign lines back against him — on the day before the election, no less.
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Relax. It’s just Mittens’s way of doing what he can to seal the deal on McPalin’s defeat tomorrow, so he can run on 2012.
November 3rd, 2008 at 8:02 pmOh God, just as I was about to celebrate a break from the nastiest, I suspect Mitt and Sarah will throw their hats into the 2012 ring on November 5th.
November 3rd, 2008 at 8:08 pmSorry OT — I just saw this at Daily Kos via Americablog.
If it wasn’t so pitiful, it would be funny. On the day before the election, the California Republican Party has filed a complaint against Barack Obama and his campaign:
Obama for America violated federal law by converting its campaign funds to Senator Obama’s personal use. Senator Obama recently traveled to Hawaii to visit his sick grandmother…Therefore, the Obama Campaign violated the FEC’s ban on “personal use” of campaign funds when it paid over $100,000 for the Campaign’s charter to fly to Hawaii without obtaining reimbursement from Senator Obama.
Comedy. Did John “Thank God My Wife Owns A Jet” McCain, reimburse anyone after he “suspended” his campaign, yet continued to travel? Did he reimburse anyone for the weekend jaunts to his ranch to wait for his cell phone tower? Is this really the road the GOP wants to go down?
November 3rd, 2008 at 8:09 pmOn topic
November 3rd, 2008 at 8:09 pmLooks like Republicans are eating their own.
One more rock under the wheels of the straight talk express as it careens into the abyss.
November 3rd, 2008 at 8:21 pmThe last thing Mittens wants now is a McCain/Palin success, which would screw him out of the 2012 nomination and potentially out of 2016 if the McCain survived into the beginning of a second term (god forbid!). In that most hellish of scenarios, he would be screwed out of 2020 as Palin went into her second term. Of course, in that scenario there probably wouldn’t be an actual US of A, or maybe even much of a planet.
But still, the man has to think of his career!
November 3rd, 2008 at 8:26 pmI can’t help but wonder if Mitt might be a little concerned about out Bible Spice would deal with the Mormon church. I would be a little worried about a self-professed “spiritual warrior” in the White House.
November 3rd, 2008 at 9:27 pmMittens must still be really pissed at Blinky for being dissed for the VP selection. Can’t really blame Blinky, though, he probably wanted to avoid all of the “magic underwear” jokes we could have had fun with.
November 3rd, 2008 at 10:39 pmYou folks better take your meds before the election results come in tomorrow… I think you will be in for a pretty big surprise!
November 3rd, 2008 at 10:40 pmoh Timmy . . . how cute “compassion” . . . for the sake of America and the World, I hope “pretty big surprise” is “that one” being ELECTED by the People . . . .
November 3rd, 2008 at 11:58 pmTimmy–go hang out with the Halloween Grinch B*tch. She seems right up your alley.
November 4th, 2008 at 12:25 amThat’s a fair trade-off. Save some American jobs, decimate the human race, as well as most animals. But hey, as long as a coal mine owner is still rich.
November 4th, 2008 at 12:48 amAnd not one word for improving the safety of coal miners world-wide. Or strip mining bans.
November 4th, 2008 at 12:57 am.
R E M E M B E R:
Mittens stumps for McMaverick!
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November 4th, 2008 at 1:03 amPlease take some time to share this video with your undecided friends on this election eve. Watch this explosive new video on John McCain. It is in the style of Obama attack videos and those of The MouthPiece. It is fast paced and has an excellent soundtrack.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0c_oI3eb2s
November 4th, 2008 at 1:23 amCan you say “2012″?
Cheers,
November 4th, 2008 at 2:00 amTim Vaculik Says:
You folks better take your meds before the election results come in tomorrow… I think you will be in for a pretty big surprise!
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You wish. I suggest you get your whining and snivelling in early you worthless cretin
November 4th, 2008 at 3:13 am