It is not Congress that is out of step with the American public or even global opinion, but President Obama and the global elites who are leading the charge on climate change.
What Obama Has Wrong on Climate Change
By Heritage Foundation Brett Schaefer, Nicolas Loris ——Bio and Archives--July 7, 2014
President Barack Obama again sought to make the case to the American people for “dealing with the rapidly growing threat of climate change” last month, in a speech to the League of Conservation Voters. Right up front he said that his speech would not have “a lot of spin, just the facts.” When a politician says that, you know to expect the opposite.
Obama assured the audience that members of Congress “accept that man-made climate change is real” but are afraid to “say so out loud” out of fear that they “will be run out of town by a bunch of fringe elements.” Thus, in a few words, Obama accused Congress of being cowards, liars, and ignorant of the fact that “seven in ten Americans say global warming is a serious problem [and] say the federal government should limit pollution from our power plants.”
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