My occasional series on the conservative movement stagnation continues with Grover Norquist, the president of Americans for Government Elimination Tax Reform.
On Monday, the New York Times ran a long story, "Among Republicans, a Debate Over the Party's Road Map Back to Power," about the response of leading right-wing thinkers to the question "how can conservatives chart a path back to power after this month's Republican defeats?"
Norquist offered a strong endorsement for continuing the GOP's ostrich-like [dinosaur-like?] ignorance on climate change:
... he suggested that some calls to update conservatism -- by taking global warming more seriously, for instance -- were essentially disguised calls to move the party to the left.
"They will be cheerfully ignored," Mr. Norquist said.
Denial is bliss.
Note: Although this is Part 10, this is the first post actually labeled "Notes from the conservative stagnation." Sadly, I suspect this may end up being the longest series I ever run.
This post was created for ClimateProgress.org, a project of the Center for American Progress Action Fund.
What to make of the new climate poll
Skeptics claim global warming is fake after top scientists’ emails hacked at CRU
Comments
View as Threaded
JMG Posted 2:51 pm
21 Nov 2008
The 5% Project
Let's live on the planet as if we intend to stay.
Permalink
caniscandida Posted 6:41 pm
23 Nov 2008
Anyway, in this season of giving it to turkeys in the neck, it is certainly a form of adding insult to injury, to liken ostriches and other dinosaurs to Republicans.
Remember that couplet from David Byrne's classic "City of Dreams," used in "True Stories"?:
<<
There where you are standing
Dinosaurs did their dance ...
>>
And, remember that assertion made by Dogbert, iirc, "You ain't seen ugly, till you seen dinosaurs dancing"?
Well, far uglier is the way Grover Norquist tries to hide his dread behind a mask of ridicule.
Chickens deserve our true friendship! So do fish! So do other sentient beings! Let us learn to be kind.
Permalink