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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  1. [...] 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 [...]

  2. As a conservative independent my opinion is that any one following Rush Limbaugh is in a perfect position to carry out his/her own colonoscopy!

    Until the Republican party discovers a new generation without Limbaugh & Bunning they can forget power.

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