Sarah Palin attackerar Obama i liberal tidning

The Weekly Standard tar upp Sarah Palins op-ed igår i liberala Washington Post. Den är faktiskt inte alls så pjåkig. Från ett av de inledande samt ett av de avslutande styckena:

"'Climate-gate,' as the e-mails and other documents from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia have become known, exposes a highly politicized scientific circle -- the same circle whose work underlies efforts at the Copenhagen climate change conference. The agenda-driven policies being pushed in Copenhagen won't change the weather, but they would change our economy for the worse."

"[Obama] plans to fly in at the climax of the conference in hopes of sealing a 'deal.' Whatever deal he gets, it will be no deal for the American people. What Obama really hopes to bring home from Copenhagen is more pressure to pass the Democrats' cap-and-tax proposal. This is a political move. The last thing America needs is misguided legislation that will raise taxes and cost jobs -- particularly when the push for such legislation rests on agenda-driven science."

I och med att Obama låter EPA genomdriva "endangerment findings" för koldioxid -- d v s klassar koldioxid som hälsorisk för amerikanen, där en diger lunta regleringar av alla möjliga produkter och restriktioner mot ökning av utsläpp förberetts -- anser exempelvis David Harsanyi i Reason att Obama i en slags utpressning kan genomdriva radikal politik vad kongessen än säger:

"Obama, as we know, has no authority to enter into a binding international treaty (isn't the Constitution irritating?), as any treaty must be ratified by the Senate—a Senate that won't pass a cap-and-trade scheme any time soon if we're lucky."

Men med EPA...

"...who needs treaties when the Obama administration already has threatened the Senate with unilateral regulations on greenhouse gases unless a cap-and-trade bill is passed? The administration need only mirror the agreement it can't make."

Uppdatering/NYHET: Republikanerna funderar på att bryta sig ur den amerikanska Köpenhamns-delegationen och bilda en "truth squad" i motsats till vad som då blir demokraternas "doom squad".


Intill Daily News artikel om Palins op-ed fanns denna poll:



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