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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow the Citizens United Case Reshaped the Political Debate About Global Warming.
From The New Yorker by Jeffrey Toobin:
Link: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2014/06/republicans-united-on-climate-change.html?utm_source=tny&utm_campaign=generalsocial&utm_medium=twitter&mbid=social_twitter
Uncle Joe
(58,506 posts)the military's decision to calculate and plan for the very real national security threat of global warming climate change.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017196345
Ring of Fire: GOP Attacks Pentagon Climate Assessment
It's all about the money.
Thanks for the thread, RiffRandell.
RiffRandell
(5,909 posts)That decision by the SC was a death knell for our country. I'm not optimistic in conquering global warming; it's not even discussed in my children's schools although I live in a pretty red state. My daughter, who was in second grade last year told her teacher "Happy Earth Day" on April 22...teacher had nothing planned for it.
We should have started tackling this issue decades ago, and now the Republicans will never cooperate with it (like they ever do).
We just do what we can at home.
Uncle Joe
(58,506 posts)it isn't "government" that the Republicans want to shrink down small enough to drown in a bathtub, that's just a code word, democracy is their target.
The Republicans in power would love nothing more than a large, invasive government controlled by the oligarchs and mega-corporations.
The Citizens United decision goes a long way toward those ends.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Norquist
Norquist favors dramatically reducing the size of the government.[13] He has been noted for his widely quoted quip: "I'm not in favor of abolishing the government. I just want to shrink it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub."[55] Journalist William Greider quotes him saying his goal is to bring America back to what it was "up until Teddy Roosevelt, when the socialists took over. The income tax, the death tax, regulation, all that."[56] When asked by journalist Steven Kroft about the goal of chopping government "in half and then shrink it again to where we were at the turn of the [20th] century" before Social Security and Medicare, Norquist replied, "We functioned in this country with government at eight percent of GDP for a long time and quite well."[5]
RiffRandell
(5,909 posts)Everything they stand for says so. I can't think of the name of it and have been searching to no avail, but I read a book written by a Republican about taxes and how disastrous the Bush tax cuts were...it was really informative....I think the author also wrote for The Washington Post.
This is going to drive me crazy; I know he went by 3 names.
Found it: http://www.amazon.com/Perfectly-Legal-Campaign-Rich---Everybody/dp/1591840694/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1402420026&sr=1-1&keywords=johnston+taxes