Green Options » rush limbaugh http://greenoptions.com/tag/rush-limbaugh Posts tagged 'rush limbaugh' Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:49:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Three Ways Obama Wins Republicans on Climate Change http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/07/23/three-ways-obama-wins-republicans-on-climate-change/ http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/07/23/three-ways-obama-wins-republicans-on-climate-change/#comments Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:49:54 +0000 Joe Walsh http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/07/23/three-ways-obama-wins-republicans-on-climate-change/ Obama\'s \Energy didn’t get a sniff in last night’s Obama press conference. That wasn’t really a surprise given the way that health care has elbowed its way into the political spotlight. You can count climate change among the “priorities” now in the shadows. Health care is all touch-and-feel…it plays with everyone.

Climate change? Not so much. If Jon Stewart is snoozing, we know that the rest of America - a goodly percentage of which is far across the spectrum from Stewart and outwardly hostile to climate change arguments - is tuned all the way out. That is partly because climate change, energy and the environment still are considered Birkenstock and granola issues. The Obama operatives that are still engaged on climate change have finally started to tweak the message in a way that might help sell a bill even to science skeptics and the generally apathetic.

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]]> http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/07/23/three-ways-obama-wins-republicans-on-climate-change/feed/ CARB States to Dictate Tailpipe GHG Emissions for Nation…(It’s a Good Thing) http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/04/03/carb-states-to-dictate-tailpipe-ghg-emissions-for-nationits-a-good-thing/ http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/04/03/carb-states-to-dictate-tailpipe-ghg-emissions-for-nationits-a-good-thing/#comments Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:50:01 +0000 Scott Cooney http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/04/03/carb-states-to-dictate-tailpipe-ghg-emissions-for-nationits-a-good-thing/ California has been able to set its own emission standards for years.  One might wonder why we are so special?  The rule harkens back to the days of LA smog being a daily headline across the nation, when air quality was so poor in some parts of California that drastic measures were needed here well before anywhere else in the nation.

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]]> http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/04/03/carb-states-to-dictate-tailpipe-ghg-emissions-for-nationits-a-good-thing/feed/ RNC Chairman Steele: “We are cooling. We are not warming.” http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/03/22/rnc-chairman-steele-we-are-cooling-we-are-not-warming/ http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/03/22/rnc-chairman-steele-we-are-cooling-we-are-not-warming/#comments Sun, 22 Mar 2009 20:51:31 +0000 Timothy B. Hurst http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/03/22/rnc-chairman-steele-we-are-cooling-we-are-not-warming/

When Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele guest-hosted William Bennett’s nationally syndicated conservative talk radio show a few weeks back—in part, to diffuse the mounting tension between the Republican Party chief Steele and the de facto Republican Party chief, Rush Limbaugh—he gave a skewed interpretation of natural history and aligned himself with Limbaugh’s position on global warming in one fell swoop:

“We are cooling. We are not warming. The warming you see out there, the supposed warming, and I am using my finger quotation marks here, is part of the cooling process. Greenland, which is now covered in ice, it was once called Greenland for a reason, right? Iceland, which is now green. Oh I love this. Like we know what this planet is all about. How long have we been here? How long? No very long.”

But Steele didn’t stop there. He exhorted listeners to take sides in a debate that is “leading to the ultimate political Armageddon between conservatism and liberalism.” Telling one caller:

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]]> http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/03/22/rnc-chairman-steele-we-are-cooling-we-are-not-warming/feed/ MJG #55: Limbaugh, O’Reilly, Hannity and Beck Environmental Superheroes http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/03/17/mjg-55-limbaugh-oreilly-hannity-and-beck-environmental-superheroes/ http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/03/17/mjg-55-limbaugh-oreilly-hannity-and-beck-environmental-superheroes/#comments Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:13:29 +0000 Joe Mohr http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/03/17/mjg-55-limbaugh-oreilly-hannity-and-beck-environmental-superheroes/ When we last checked in our heroes from the Trust Us League were creating electricity from self-generated methane to power the red-states.

Well, these ‘green machines’ are at it again. This time doing what they can to help Mother Nature fight climate change…

MJG #52: Limbaugh, O’Reilly, Hannity, and Beck: Environmental Superheroes

]]> http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/03/17/mjg-55-limbaugh-oreilly-hannity-and-beck-environmental-superheroes/feed/ Are GOP Leaders with Rush Limbaugh on Global Warming? http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/03/11/are-gop-leaders-with-rush-limbaugh-on-global-warming/ http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/03/11/are-gop-leaders-with-rush-limbaugh-on-global-warming/#comments Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:16:23 +0000 Timothy B. Hurst http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/03/11/are-gop-leaders-with-rush-limbaugh-on-global-warming/ The Republican Party is in a bit of a rough patch.

The League of Conservation Voters yesterday launched a petition to tell Republican congressional leaders Rep. John Boehner (KY) and Sen. Mitch McConnel (KY) that they have a choice: Either follow the leadership of Republican governors like Charlie Crist of Florida and Arnold Schwarzenegger of California in building a clean energy economy, ending our attachment on foreign oil, and addressing climate change, or; “Follow the leadership of Rush Limbaugh by proposing no new ideas, providing tax breaks to oil companies, and ignoring global warming.” Watch the LCV’s 54-second snark attack:

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]]> http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/03/11/are-gop-leaders-with-rush-limbaugh-on-global-warming/feed/ President Obama: The Economy versus Climate Change http://inspiredeconomist.com/2009/03/03/the-economy-versus-climate-change/ http://inspiredeconomist.com/2009/03/03/the-economy-versus-climate-change/#comments Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:43:34 +0000 Reenita Malhotra http://inspiredeconomist.com/2009/03/03/the-economy-versus-climate-change/

While President Obama makes strides towards dealing with the issue of climate change, many prefer that he focus on fixing the recession first. Republicans like Rush Limbaugh have been quite vocal about it but other political figures like Tony Blair say that climate change must not fall victim to the recession.

Can President Obama realistically fix both the recession and climate change?

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]]> http://inspiredeconomist.com/2009/03/03/the-economy-versus-climate-change/feed/ MJG #52: Limbaugh, O’Reilly, Hannity, and Beck: Environmental Superheroes http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/02/24/mean-joe-green-52-the-trust-us-league-limbaugh-oreilly-hannity-and-beck-environmental-superheroes/ http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/02/24/mean-joe-green-52-the-trust-us-league-limbaugh-oreilly-hannity-and-beck-environmental-superheroes/#comments Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:13:37 +0000 Joe Mohr http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/02/24/mean-joe-green-52-the-trust-us-league-limbaugh-oreilly-hannity-and-beck-environmental-superheroes/ Long thought of as loud-mouth talking-heads that serve only to divide our nation with their far-right wing positions, it turns out Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, and Glenn Beck are secretly saving the world one small ecological-footprint at a time.

Here is the first of a series of installments shining a light on what these environmental superheroes are doing to help heal Mother Earth. I only hope the actions of the “Trust-Us League” inspire the masses!

Under the angry, doughy, white exterior lie the ‘green’ innards of men with an undying love for the earth and all of its creatures.

Limbaugh, Hannity, O\'Reilly, and Beck--environmental superheroes

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]]> http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/02/24/mean-joe-green-52-the-trust-us-league-limbaugh-oreilly-hannity-and-beck-environmental-superheroes/feed/ Going Green? Rush Limbaugh Hopes You Fail http://ecochildsplay.com/2009/02/06/going-green-rush-limbaugh-hopes-you-fail/ http://ecochildsplay.com/2009/02/06/going-green-rush-limbaugh-hopes-you-fail/#comments Fri, 06 Feb 2009 21:58:42 +0000 Tina Casey http://ecochildsplay.com/2009/02/06/going-green-rush-limbaugh-hopes-you-fail/ Why is Rush Limbaugh — who is neither a plumber nor an economist — front and center in the opposition to Obama’s stimulus package?  I’m not knocking Limbaugh.  He’s a great entertainer and all that.  But if my toilet was clogged, Rush Limbaugh is not the first person I’d think of calling.  Ditto that for figuring out how to fix an economic crisis of epic proportions.

The answer to the mystery is simple.  The squeaky wheel gets the grease.  And brother, can Rush Limbaugh squeak!

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]]> http://ecochildsplay.com/2009/02/06/going-green-rush-limbaugh-hopes-you-fail/feed/ Bush Administration Proposes ‘Fire Sale’ of Rocky Mountains for Oil Shale Development http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/07/23/bush-administration-proposes-fire-sale-of-rocky-mountains-for-oil-shale-development/ http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/07/23/bush-administration-proposes-fire-sale-of-rocky-mountains-for-oil-shale-development/#comments Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:33:46 +0000 Timothy B. Hurst http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/07/23/bush-administration-proposes-fire-sale-of-rocky-mountains-for-oil-shale-development/ colorado oil shaleOn Tuesday, the Bush administration moved to accelerate oil-shale development across the Rocky Mountain West. Along with calls to lift the moratorium on offshore drilling, and open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling, Tuesday’s release of proposed rules for shale exploration (pdf) by the Bureau of Land Management was merely another shot across the bow in the political blame game over $4-per-gallon gas.

The draft rules recommend reduced royalty rates for the extraction of oil from shale on 2 million acres of public property in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming. While the government currently charges 12.5% to 18.8% for conventional oil drilling, oil shale development would be set at around 5%.

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]]> http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/07/23/bush-administration-proposes-fire-sale-of-rocky-mountains-for-oil-shale-development/feed/ You’re Either with Us, or You’re with the CFLs http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/04/24/youre-either-with-us-or-youre-with-the-cfls/ http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/04/24/youre-either-with-us-or-youre-with-the-cfls/#comments Fri, 25 Apr 2008 02:32:16 +0000 Jeff McIntire-Strasburg http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/04/24/youre-either-with-us-or-youre-with-the-cfls/ cfl1.jpgSo, what’s the bigger danger to the American public: Al-Qaeda, or compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs)?

If you follow the conservative punditry, online or off, it’s a tough call. Today’s (April 24) “Mallard Fillmore” comic strip is just the latest example of conservatives taking aim at these energy-saving bulbs, focusing primarily on the fact that CFLs contain mercury.

So, for Mallard Fillmore author Bruce Tinsley, Thomas Sowell, Rush Limbaugh (whose content is not publicly available) and the crowd at WorldNetDaily, let’s review the facts:

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