a lying liar: Palin's own 'Climate-gate'

[spanone]

By Eugene Robinson

Sarah Palin is such a cold-eyed skeptic about the Copenhagen summit on climate change that it's no surprise she would call on President Obama not to attend. After all, Obama might join other leaders in acknowledging that warming is a "global challenge." He might entertain "opportunities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions." He might even explore ways to "participate in carbon-trading markets."

Oh, wait. Those quotes aren't from some smug Euro-socialist manifesto. They're from an administrative order Palin signed in September 2007, as governor of Alaska, establishing a "sub-Cabinet" of top state officials to develop a strategy for dealing with climate change.

Back then, Palin was the governor of a state where "coastal erosion, thawing permafrost, retreating sea ice, record forest fires, and other changes are affecting, and will continue to affect, the lifestyles and livelihoods of Alaskans," as she wrote. Faced with that reality, she sensibly formed the high-level working group to chart a course of action.

"Climate change is not just an environmental issue," wrote Palin. "It is also a social, cultural, and economic issue important to all Alaskans."

Palin mentioned having created the climate change unit in an op-ed she wrote last week for The Post. What she didn't acknowledge was the contrast between what she says about climate change now and what she said -- and did -- about it as governor of our most at-risk state. When she was in office, Palin treated the issue as serious, complex and worthy of urgent attention. Now that she's the iconic leader of a populist movement that reacts with anger at the slightest whiff of pointy-headed, "one world" intellectualism, she writes as if the idea of seeking ways to mitigate climate change is a crock.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/14/AR2009121402712_pf.html

[goldcanyonaz]

1. Who?

I find her irrelevant.

I don't know anyone who thinks of her as anything less than a joke these days.

[spanone]

2. sarah palin...she ran for vice president in 2008....she plans to run again.

[goldcanyonaz]

5. Oh, the quitter...

Of all the people I know who once adored her think of her as a quitter now and would never vote for her.

She's become a joke to them.

Yes, her book is a best seller but so is Glenn Becks'.

[SpiralHawk]

3. Palin is a typical republion hypocrite - a Latter Day Pharisee

So much BS hypocrisy from the republicons.

Don't they ever look in the mirror?

No wonder no one trust them anymore...

[Raschel]

8. Pharisee - great description.

[SpiralHawk]

10. The woes of the Pharisees (according to Wikipedia)

"Hypocrisy: They preached God but converted people to dead religion, thus making those converts twice as much 'sons of hell' as they themselves were. (Mat. 23:15)

Republicons & Pharisees = Same

[tanyev]

4. Please, Eugene. She didn't write either document.

Somebody else writes them and she just signs her name and looks for the most flattering head shot to accompany it.

[blm]

6. Exactly right!

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[Raschel]

9. A woman who will never appear on an interview. Only facebook and print.

[malaise]

7. Well Lieberman supported adding people 55+

to Medicare before he condemned it.

[SpiralHawk]

11. Flip-floppin Pharisee

fer sure

[dysfunctional press]

12. i don't know if i'd classify alska as our 'most at risk state' due to global warming...

florida, for instance will ultimately see a LOT more destruction, dollar-wise, when the ocean levels rise a couple meters.

[Blue_In_AK]

14. Dollar-wise maybe

but Alaska has the potential to cause some pretty severe issues for the rest of the world. If that giant pool of methane that's trapped in the permafrost is released into the atmosphere, we're all going to become Venusians.

[Blue_In_AK]

13. One of those Alaskans we now find under the bus

probably wrote that for her back then. As I've said here many times, she presented a completely different persona to us here in the state during her partial term as governor than she has presented to the nation at large this past year. She used us to boost her perceived popularity. She never meant any of it.