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I'm old enough to remember fiscal conservatives

by: Carnacki

Tue Dec 15, 2009 at 09:16:34 AM EST

Clem made an excellent economic argument against clean coal. But it does make me wonder: where are the fiscal conservatives?

Once upon a time you had conservatives who cared about financial issues. I mean really cared about them as opposed to those "conservatives" who cheered on George W. Bush and Dick Cheney's budget busting record deficits and then immediately jeered Barack Obama for not immediately balancing the budget after inheriting two wars and the worst economy since the Great Depression.

The support among Republicans for a massive govement subsidy for coal is proof they are not principled on conservative issues. Just as GOP Party chairman Doug McKinney and Shelley Moore Capito and other Republicans are willing to throw the social conservatives under the bus for electoral reasons, why are they not taking a stand against clean coal on fiscal conservative reasons?

They are willing to spend billions on government subsidies on an unproven technology for coal, when we are running out of the amount of coal that makes economic sense to mine. So much for believing in free market principles.

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since when (0.00 / 0)

has either side of the aisle honestly given a crap about the cost of something they want?

by: stevewvu @ Tue Dec 15, 2009 at 14:43:56 PM UTC

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steve (0.00 / 0)

So how do you feel about "clean coal?"

When a man embarks upon a crime, he is morally guilty of any other crime which may spring from it. Sherlock Holmes.

by: Carnacki @ Tue Dec 15, 2009 at 17:09:47 PM UTC

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it think (0.00 / 0)

its a mythical term created by coal proponents to rebut the mythical hysteria surrounding climate change

by: stevewvu @ Tue Dec 15, 2009 at 18:14:43 PM UTC

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rebut (0.00 / 0)

is not the appropriate term...in respone to is better

by: stevewvu @ Tue Dec 15, 2009 at 18:21:43 PM UTC

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So the DoD was wrong (4.00 / 1)

So the DoD, that bastian of liberal tree huggers, under the Bush administration, was wrong when it warned of the dangers we face because of climate change?

When a man embarks upon a crime, he is morally guilty of any other crime which may spring from it. Sherlock Holmes.

by: Carnacki @ Tue Dec 15, 2009 at 19:35:59 PM UTC

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Carnacki, why argue (4.00 / 2)

with an idiot?

by: JBdem4usa @ Tue Dec 15, 2009 at 22:20:59 PM UTC

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He's still an optimist? (4.00 / 1)

I want to know if the invisible unicorns in stevewvu's world are pink like they are in mine.

The sockpuppet obviously has no respect for the Navy.

NFTT: Support My Team or I Will Dance

by: CA Berkeley WV @ Wed Dec 16, 2009 at 03:55:59 AM UTC

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