The New Republic

They're _Republican_ donors,not _Bush_ donors. Bush isn't running again. McCain is being annointed as the mainstream GOP candidate. That's how Republicans like to do things, as opposed to the Democrat's familiar circular firing squad. They're going to run McCain, and we're probably going to lose. We'll lose if we run Hillary and we'll REALLY lose if we run Obama. And McCain will have coat-tails. He's genuinely popular with independents.

- joatsimeon

December 19, 2006 at 4:47pm

A mailing reached me signed by John McCain and it covered a second note from the Environmental Defense Action Fund. Suddenly the Arizona senator is overflowing -- like oceans filled with melted polar ice? -- with eagerness to act, and act NOW to slow global warming. Further in, I discover that he has teamed with old Democrat Joe Lieberman to offer a Senate bill that he wants everyone to endorse. The McCain-Lieberman Climate Stewardship and Innovation Act first appeared for Senate consideration in 2003, he discloses. Among reasons cited by the president of EDAF for supporting that bill, with its surefire title, are: - the EDAF motto, "finding the ways that work" - its success at "harnessing market forces to achieve the greatest pollution reductions per dollar." A benefit oddly not cited by the incumbent president, whose devotion to deciding environmental issues based on dollars is unquestioned. - what is more, EDAF touts the McCain-Lieberman proposal for its "market-based approach that favors the least cost ways to cut global warming pollution." My gosh, why didn't a Democrat think of something so readily palatable to American profiteers? With John McCain now a prominent, bipartisan environmentalist, what can Al Gore hope to achieve by running again for the White House? Perhaps he could inject a touch of reality into the dialogue, to begin with.

- Lespin

December 20, 2006 at 2:47am