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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Monday admitted that Republicans need to do some "soul searching" on climate change and blamed former Vice President Al Gore for making it difficult to make progress on the issue.
Graham, who is weighing a bid for the White House in 2016, said that he believed that climate change was real and that human activity was contributing to it. But he added that he wasn't quite sure what the GOP's environmental platform was and said that he would like to see some debate on the issue within the party.
"Before we can be bipartisan we gotta figure out where we are as a party. What is the environmental platform of the Republican party?," Graham asked a silent crowd at an event at the Council on Foreign Relations. "I don't know either.
"I'd like to come up with one, I'd like to have a debate within the party. Can you say that climate change is a scientifically sound phenomenon, but can you reject the idea you have to destroy the economy to solve the problem is sort of where I'll be taking this debate."
Graham blamed Gore, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2007 for his efforts to combat climate change, for blocking progress on the issue.
"The problem is Al Gore has turned this thing into a religion," he said. "You know, climate change is not a religious problem for me, it is an economic, it is an environmental problem."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/23/lindsey-graham-climate-change_n_6926376.html
Johonny
(20,865 posts)the right will not say "Oh, my God I am wrong." They will say "look at those Democrats. If only they didn't do <blank> and politicize this issue we'd have done something." This bullshit works time and time again on their voters. Just look at health care. They'd have a plan if only Obama didn't have one. Obama politicized health care so now you can't have any.
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Gidney N Cloyd
(19,844 posts)Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)When making abortion their religion. Damn that Al Gore for telling the world that the planet is melting. He jinxed it all to hell. Otherwise, the GOP would have been right on top of this subject. I do declare!
Turbineguy
(37,359 posts)It's their religion.
Brother Buzz
(36,449 posts)Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,103 posts)I saw this movie in grade school. Concerns about global warming are not new.