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Daily Kos —
Monday punditry. Now get to work. NY Times editorial: Congressional committees heard a lot this month about the devious schemes used by health insurance companies to drop or shortchange sick patients. It was a damning portrait — and one Americans know from painful personal experience — of an industry that all too often puts profits ahead of patients. Paul Krugman: So the House passed the Waxman-Markey climate-change bill. In political terms, it was a remarkable ...
Krugman Accuses Republicans Of 'A Form Of Treason'
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... dissent was patriotic? Fuggedaboutit. Dissent isn't merely unpatriotic now. It's downright treasonous. Just ask Paul Krugman.
If, like virtually all House Republicans and a handful of Dems, you don't agree with the likes of Henry Waxman on the need to take radical measures on the climate, you're guilty of . . . "a form of treason." Treason against the planet, to be precise.
That was Krugman's formulation in his New York Times column of today, Betraying The Planet.
Krugman has obviously drunk deep from the carafe of Al Gore ...
So-called "Moderates" Have Become The Problem
Open Left - Front Page —
... These so-called moderates are the real barrier to the progressive change that the country needs right now. As such, we should be directing our fire at them, rather that at the right-wing. Currently, the right-wing has no power whatsoever unless the moderates in Congress choose to side with them. And yet, it is the right-wing that progressive media keep aiming most of their attacks. For example, consider Paul Krugman's column on the passage of the climate change bill, where he characterizes the main opposition to the bill as climate change deniers (more in the extended ...
Re: Enemies of the People
The Corner on National Review Online —
... Waxman-Markey climate-change bill treason is ridiculous. What's more disturbing is that while Krugman goes on and on about what's wrong with climate change skeptics, he never talks about what policies would actually address the threat of global warming. He writes: In other words, we re facing a clear and present danger to our way of life, perhaps even to civilization itself. How can anyone justify failing to act? What does "acting" mean? Would any action do? It seems like it. In his article , he doesn't spend any time talking about whether or not this particular bill would ...
Too Many People
Seeing the Forest —
... -- by Dave Johnson Krugman: Betraying the Planet , Temperature increases on the scale predicted by the M.I.T. researchers and others would create huge disruptions in our lives and our economy. . . . In other words, we’re facing a clear and present danger to our way of life, perhaps even to civilization itself. How can anyone justify failing to act? It doesn't affect people who are not here . If we see famine, mass migration and other mass-scale disruptions coming there is something we can do roght now to ease the suffering and that is conceive fewer people ! 1) Conceiving ...
Alternative Universes
The Mahablog —
... In his column today Paul Krugman writes that the congresspersons who opposed the climate bill last week are traitors to the planet. And he added, ...
NY Times Op-Ed Page of Climate Change & Dirty Coal
Hit & Run —
... posed an "existential threat" to America, a threat in whose face normal rules no longer applied? That was hyperbole—but the existential threat from climate change is all too real. Yet the deniers are choosing, willfully, to ignore that threat, placing future generations of Americans in grave danger, simply because it's in their political interest to pretend that there's nothing to worry about. If that's not betrayal, I don't know what is. Whole bit here. To its credit, on the same page, the Times ran a ...
Does This Nonsense Ever Stop?
Balloon Juice —
Way to be, Krugman:
So the House passed the Waxman-Markey climate-change bill. In political terms, it was a remarkable achievement.
But 212 representatives voted no. A handful of these no votes came from representatives who considered the bill too weak, but most rejected the bill because they rejected the whole notion that we have to do something about greenhouse gases.
And as I watched the deniers make their arguments, I couldn’t help thinking that I was watching a form of treason — treason against the ...
Coming Home to Gaza, Ahmadinejad Hearts Neda, Ron Paul Rides Again
Notes From a Grumpy Old Man —
Paul Krugman Gen Wesley Clark “It’s time to yank the shroud off the Fed and shine some light on these events,” - Edolphus Towns Well, Bernie Madoff got 150 years, which means very little compared to the many lives he destroyed, the big fish investors are still thrashing around in the small pond looking for chum... Too bad when they sell off the assets from the Madoff estate the ones at the bottom of the list can't get payed back first. you know, the elderly grandparents who have had to move back in with their ...
Traitor to the Planet?
Weekly Standard Blog —
That's what Paul Krugman calls me and the 70 percent of Americans who don't think "dealing with global warming" should be a top priority for the United States government:
Still, is it fair to call climate denial a form of treason? Isn’t it politics as usual?
Yes, it is — and that’s why it’s unforgivable.
Do you remember the days when Bush administration officials claimed that terrorism posed an “existential threat” to America, a threat in whose face normal rules no longer applied? That was hyperbole — but the ...
Waxman: Opposing cap and trade means “rooting against the country” or something
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... Actually, he says, it’s more like “rooting against the world,” echoing Krugman’s declaration this morning that opposing C&T constitutes “treason to the planet.” I wonder who came up with this new lefty talking point, in which disagreeing with leftist solutions to environmental problems constitutes the rape of Gaia herself. [...] ...
Waxman: “You Hating Haters! I Hate You!!”
Knowledge is Power —
... ...as I watched the deniers make their arguments, I couldn�t help thinking that I was watching a form of treason � treason against the planet. ...
Y2Kyoto: Nobel Winning Economist Slams Climate Traitors
small dead animals —
June 29, 2009 Y2Kyoto: Nobel Winning Economist Slams Climate Traitors In related news: New York Times still going broke. Posted by Kate at June 29, 2009 5:46 PM Comments Post a comment Before submitting, review the post to ensure your comment is on topic and does not contain words that might get caught in the spam filter (eg: insurance, viagra, online, poker). This is not a forum or a repository for off-topic link dumps. Profanity is discouraged. Take your extended debates and/or flamewars to private email. Thankyou. Name: Email Address: URL: Remember personal info? Yes No ...
Paul Krugman: Global warming “deniers” are committing “treason” against the planet
Sister Toldjah —
Here we go:
So the House passed the Waxman-Markey climate-change bill. In political terms, it was a remarkable achievement.
But 212 representatives voted no. A handful of these no votes came from representatives who considered the bill too weak, but most rejected the bill because they rejected the whole notion that we have to do something about greenhouse gases.
And as I watched the deniers make their arguments, I couldn’t help thinking that I was watching a form of treason — treason against the planet. ...
Cole's Law
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
John Cole combats Krugman: There needs to be some form of one of the corollaries to Godwin’s Law that applies to the word treason, in that anyone who accuses someone of treason for non-treasonous behavior automatically loses the argument. Yes, the climate change ...
The Great Betrayal Of The Tax And Traitors
Nice Deb —
... To fully appreciate the irresponsibility and immorality of these traitors you have to read…. Paul Krugman’s article in The New York Times….What? You thought I was talking about the Republican Cap and Tax 8? ...
A Cleaner and Greener American
NJDC Blog —
... Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist, Paul Krugman, is a supporter of the bill and considers the Representatives who voted against the bill guilty of “treason against the planet.” ...
Intergalactic Treason!
Whiskey Fire —
... All day I've been sort of avoiding thinking about Paul Krugman's use of the word "traitor" to describe the GOP and Democratic House members who voted against the climate-change bill: ...
Earth Treason
Jules Crittenden —
... They have betrayed the planet, and they must suffer the fate of traitors! Paul Krugman at NYT , on warmalism deniers: So the House passed the Waxman-Markey climate-change bill. In political terms, it was a remarkable achievement. But 212 representatives voted no. A handful of these no votes came from representatives who considered the bill too weak, but most rejected the bill because they rejected the whole notion that we have to do something about greenhouse gases. And as I watched the deniers make their arguments, I couldn’t help thinking that I was watching a form of ...
Betting Blind on ACES:
The Volokh Conspiracy —
... how ridiculous the Waxman-Markey bill is, while Paul Krugman has a conniption over "treason against the planet" even though he supported the bill and it passed. Roger Pielke Jr. ...
Krugman: Treason against the planet
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
Paul Krugman: The fact is that the planet is changing faster than even pessimists expected: ice caps are shrinking, arid zones spreading, at a terrifying rate. And according to a number of recent studies, catastrophe — a rise in temperature so large as to be almost unthinkable — can no longer be considered a mere possibility. It is, instead, the most likely outcome if we continue along our present course. Thus researchers at M.I.T., who were previously predicting a temperature rise of a little more than 4 degrees by the end of this century, are now predicting a ...
'Green News Report' - June 30, 2009
The BRAD BLOG —
... Betraying the Planet (Opinion, NY Times) [emphasis added]:
In other words, we’re facing a clear and present danger to our way of life, perhaps even to civilization itself. How can anyone justify failing to act? ...
Krugman's Traitors
Weekly Standard Blog —
... That's at least 41 percent of Americans (and probably more if that 22 percent of undecideds had any idea what cap and trade is) who are engaged in "treason against the planet," per Paul Krugman. And this gets to the crux of why cap and trade may end up being such a tremendous boon to Republicans. Not only do the American people oppose it by a healthy margin, but they are having it foisted on them by elites who smugly deride their opposition as treason to planet earth. If Krugman has a problem with opposition to cap and trade in Congress than he has a problem with ...
Gates of Vienna News Feed 7/1/2009
Gates of Vienna —
... Paul Krugman: Betraying the Planet So the House passed the Waxman-Markey climate-change bill. In political terms, it was a remarkable achievement. But 212 representatives voted no. A handful of these no votes came from representatives who considered the bill too weak, but most rejected the bill because they rejected the whole notion that we have to do something about greenhouse gases. And as I watched the deniers make their arguments, I couldn’t help thinking that I was watching a form of ...
Another Edition of Krugman is Probably Right But He Still Frustrates Me
Balloon Juice —
... The problem is that while Krugman is probably right, he was also right last week when he said that climate change is a serious issue and that we need to spend a lot of money to address it. And he was also ...
Rhetorically-Gifted Dems Form Formidable Climate-Change Coalition
The New Editor —
... On June 28th, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman accused House members who voted against the cap-and-trade legislation of "treason against the planet" and "immorality" in not facing the "clear and present danger to our way of life, perhaps even to civilization itself." ...
