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Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
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George H.W. Bush on Climate change:
Also Bush:

"We know that the future of the Earth must not be compromised. We bear a sacred trust in our tenancy here and a covenant with those most precious to us—our children and theirs."
President Bush, like #RhodeIsland’s John Chafee, understood the #Republican Party’s legacy of conservation as a core conservative value.
He signed into law the 1990 #CleanAirAct amendments, which significantly improved air quality and reduced acid rain, the environmental scourge of its day. news.bloombergenvironment.com/environment-an…
Today’s environmental scourge is climate change, but sadly, the rise of polluter funding now dominating the #Republican Party has virtually erased environmental bipartisanship.
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This is such bull***t.

First it was a hoax.

Then the science was uncertain.

Then we were “alarmists.”

Then any fix was too expensive.

Now it will be fixed with “innovation.”

thehill.com/policy/energy-…
As the truth emerges, they just fall back to a more credible trench to defend the same industry and its same smelly lies and big fat subsidy.

Give me a break.

Want “innovation”?

Put a #priceoncarbon, so you can reward investors in #carbon reduction;

Strip this crooked industry of its $700 billon/yr subsidy (just in US, per @IMFNews);
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Thank you to @MeetThePress for doing a Sunday show on climate change — at last.

Usually these Sunday shows are televised gossip columns, and climate change and other key issues are never discussed.
Good for you, @chucktodd.

At this stage, #climate denial is fraud, and it has been for a long time — particularly as practiced by the fossil fuel industry and its armada of phony front groups. thehill.com/homenews/sunda…
Precisely... axios.com/climate-change…
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I must respectfully disagree with my friend @SenJohnBarrasso ’s Op-Ed on the @nytimes.

I will explain why in this thread⬇️ nytimes.com/2018/12/18/opi…
1️⃣ The referendum result in Washington State looked like more relentless campaigning by the fossil fuel industry against #climate action;

without that industry onslaught, the #carbontax referendum there would probably have passed.

nytimes.com/2018/12/30/opi…
2️⃣ A #carbontax is not “expensive,” as in our proposals all the money goes back to the public.

Taxing #carbon moves energy markets toward cheaper renewables.
On balance, people save money.

Don’t forget that the savings from avoiding #climate catastrophes are immense.
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George H.W. Bush — in many senses Trump’s opposite — shared his penchant for using the American flag as a political weapon. Over the past three decades, nearly all GOP leaders were happy to do the same — except for Mitch McConnell. Let’s review. 1/
Running for president in 1988 against Massachusetts Governor Mike Dukakis, Bush’s team discovered that in 1977 Dukakis had vetoed a bill that would require teachers to lead kids in pledging allegiance to the flag each day or pay a fine. 2/
Concerned about the bill’s constitutionality, Dukakis had sought an advisory opinion from Massachusetts’ top court, which concluded that the bill would infringe on teachers’ First Amendment rights. Relying on the opinion, Dukakis vetoed the bill. 3/
masscases.com/cases/sjc/372/…
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George H.W. Bush was the last Republican President the United States of America will ever have.

Keep reading to see what I mean.
In 1989, I was a 10-year old girl in the audience at George H.W. Bush's inauguration ceremonies.

I've never aligned with the modern Republican party, but George H.W. Bush's message in this speech was one of the most formative messages in my childhood.
c-span.org/video/?5855-1/…
For first time in my life, as one of those points of light, George Bush made me understand that *even across party lines,* our enduring goal as Americans should be that we aim to be part of something more...

something beyond our ego, something greater than ourselves.
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Here is a list of just a few of the crimes of George H. W. Bush:

in 1976, Bush’s CIA leaked a false report, which wrongly cleared Chile’s military dictatorship of involvement in a car bombing in Washington, which killed a Chilean dissident & an American.
consortiumnews.com/2016/09/21/geo…
In an act of pure aggression, George H. W. Bush instituted harsh sanctions on Panama in 1989 causing children to starve, then attempted a coup & finally invaded, dropping 400 bombs in 1 hour, leveling poor neighborhoods & killing 3,000 people.
During the invasion of Panama, US troops systematically torched homes, ran over civilians with tanks, executed civilians in the street & paid others to fill mass graves. Spanish photographer Juantxu Rodríguez of El País was shot and killed by an American soldier.
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George H.W. Bush was the president of my high school years, the time when my personal politics first came into focus. I have his campaigning and policies to thank for some of that. I grasp the need for some to mourn, but I am not here for the hagiography. rol.st/2RqXeU4
Like most every newspaper writer assigned to encapsulate a dead president’s life, @ktumulty was given an impossible assignment with George H.W. Bush. She is quite thorough here, but keep in mind that when you finish it, you aren’t done reading about him. wapo.st/2BJXiJc
Bush 41 once refused to cooperate with a Special Counsel. He unapologetically used the racist Willie Horton ad to help him win the presidency. His DEA staged a drug buy near the White House to help him escalate the War on Drugs. @mehdirhasan, with context. interc.pt/2Eaj77h
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George H.W. Bush, 41st president of the United States, dead at 94 fxn.ws/2FSBLC6 #FoxNews
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2) #WarrenBuffet was holding his annual Classic Charity event at #Offutt Air Force Base in Bellevue, #Nebraska, near #Omaha, on 9/11/2001.
3) Admiral Richard Mies was Commander in Chief of the US Strategic Command at #Offutt AFB at the time.
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