Okay, the Strib ran a Bachmann editorial savaging the Democrats on the issue of the American Climate Security Act. It's an attempt to actually curb emission of greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change--and Bachmann takes that "big energy" lobbying money, so naturally doesn't like.
But there's another dimension to the editorial, as pointed out by Jeff Shaw of the City Pages:
Michele Bachmann calls John McCain a tax-and-spend liberal
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Michele Bachmann's op-ed in today's Strib takes a bold stance on climate change. She's for it.
Bachmann slings rhetorical arrows at the market-based cap-and-trade system of reducing greenhouse gas emissions...
... (Bachmann makes) a boldly worded, if factually challenged, argument. The thing is ... cap and trade is also John McCain's stated climate change policy.
...the timing of Bachmann's zig and McCain's zag couldn't have been worse. This is an opportunity for some enterprising journalist to ask the congresswoman: did you intend to so fiercely oppose your candidate's policy?
Chances are, this means no kissy-face between Bachmann and McCain.
Well, no shit, Sherlock. To be fair, Shaw probably doesn't make a point of following Michele Bachmann around the news (like we do here.) And reading this, it seems likely that Shaw already knows that Bachmann simply doesn't accept the reality of global warming. She's told GOP crowds that it's a hoax, though she won't say exactly that in a Strib editorial (it would make her look nuts--again.)
And we should thank Shaw for pointing out the wider significance of the latest Bachmann editorial--it does indeed seem to be another example Bachmann taking a shot at McCain. Which means that she doesn't expect McCain to win. Because if she expected McCain to win, she would be supporting him--greenhouse gases or not.
Now me, and millions of other people--we think it's far from over. I think there's still a strong possibility that John McCain can beat Barack Obama. And if that happens, Bachmann will have already positioned herself as a McCain critic.
Either that, or she'll do what she's done in the past: having flopped, she'll flip. That's okay, if you're a Republican.
Here's the link to Shaw's piece. |
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