Pax on both houses: 'A Conservative Vision On Climate Change,' National Review

Monday, July 7, 2014

'A Conservative Vision On Climate Change,' National Review

Good luck fixing stupid.

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Videotape of Jindal Denouncing The Party of Stupid
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/01/bobby-jindal-asks-party-of-stupid-to.html

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"Is Bobby Jindal As Stupid As His Party?"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/01/is-jindal-still-as-stupid-as-his-party.html

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Alan: I would welcome the restoration of old guard conservatism - or any incarnation of conservatism worthy of the name. Obama, for example, is my favorite conservative president - a true Rockefeller Republican, meaning "a conservative with a conscience." But anyone who denies the preponderance of scientific evidence - or asserts that Obama is a Kenyan born, Muslim socialist -- is not a conservative but a threat to survival.

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A conservative vision on climate change. "While many on the environmental left tend to overstate their case, there’s little doubt that the climate is changing and that human activity plays a major role in this shift. In fact, not even those conservatives whom the left unfairly tars as 'deniers' dispute that....Negative consequences likely will outweigh positive ones by a large margin. However, many current government programs are downright counterproductive in dealing with climate change. It’s time to respond. Conservatives should address climate change. And they can do it without giving up a single conservative principle." Eli Lehrer in National Review.

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The Hard Central Fact Of Contemporary Conservatism

The hard, central "fact" of contemporary "conservatism" is its insistence on a socio-economic threshold above which people deserve government assistance, and below which people deserve to die.

The sooner the better.

Unless conservatives are showing n'er-do-wells The Door of Doom, they just don't "feel right."

To allay this chthonic anxiety, they resort to Human Sacrifice, hoping that spilled blood will placate "the angry gods," including the one they've made of themselves. http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/09/harvard-study-45000-americans-die.html

Having poked their eyes out, they fail to see that self-generated wrath creates "the gods" who hold them thrall

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-hard-central-fact-of-contemporary.html

Almost "to a man," contemporary "conservatives" have apotheosized themselves and now -- sitting on God's usurped throne -- are rabid to pass final judgment.

Self-proclaimed Christians, eager to thrust "the undeserving" through The Gates of Hell, are the very people most likely to cross its threshold.

Remarkably, none of them are tempted to believe this.