And in an unbelievable gaffe, he’s told a whole group of people exactly where they can go:
It is probably the most ugly statement I’ve ever seen from a politician regarding a group of people with ideas that disagree with the politician’s own view. If it were a race or class issue, he’d be vilified. He apparently has lost touch with what it means to be an American.
From The Hill’s Blog Briefing Room:
“An iceberg four times the size of Manhattan has broken off Greenland, creating plenty of room for global warming deniers to start their own country,” Markey said in a statement.
And I thought we were past things like this.
AP, Boston Globe, and WBZ-TV confirm this story. Here’s the story on the calving I broke before any MSM where I said “watch the media” I should have said “watch the politicians”.
Markey, who chairs the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, co-authored the House version of the climate change bill that’s currently stalled in the Senate.
h/t to Luboš Motl
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I think we, as Americans, with rights to free speech, should all remind Congressman Markey of what that actually means, especially those in Massachusetts who voted this man into office. His email contact form is here.
Below is the contact info from his web page:
Rep. Markey’s Massachusetts and Washington, D.C. Offices:
Rep. Markey encourages residents of Massachusetts’ Seventh Congressional District to contact him via e-mail, by phone, or through a visit to one of his three offices.
His Medford and Framingham District offices can assist individuals on a more personal basis with questions related to federal agencies such as Social Security, IRS, or the Veterans Administration. In addition, they can help with grant applications, service academy nominations, flag requests, scheduling requests for the district and visits to Washington, D.C.
His Washington, D.C. office handles questions related to legislation, agency oversight and general federal policy.
When leaving a message, include your full name, address, city/town, zip code, phone number, and e-mail address. Please understand that Ed receives several hundred letters and e-mails every day.
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It is our responsibility to vote. If you enjoy this kind of rhetoric vote him back in. If you do not like this kind of rhetoric vote him and his kind out. Do not forget to vote.
In think Mr. Markey should take a two week vacation in Vostok, Antarctica, where right now it is…
-100 °F
Clear
Good news, though. By Friday, it ‘ll warm up to -51 F during the daytime!
Due to congressman Markey the Black Hawk Down tragedy, the hurricane Katarina, and the Darfur conflict (an area that btw will have more precipitation from AGW) was all caused by AGW…
http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=32291
Repent (i.e. pay higher taxes, and get your personal freedom abolished) now!
GM says:
August 8, 2010 at 6:21 pm
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So can someone explain to me what mechanism is currently present in our society that will make sure that action is taken on time in such a situation?”
Currently? Brute force. Over the long haul? Darwinism.
Please, please don’t send me to Markey’s Island.
I’ll be good, anywhere but Markey’s Island.
Oh the humanity!
Fascism usually comes from the Left.
It is probably the most ugly statement I’ve ever seen from a politician regarding a group of people with ideas that disagree with the politician’s own view.
That’s funny, I see worse almost every day.
If it were a race or class issue, he’d be vilified.
No, he wouldn’t. He’s a liberal Democrat. American politics, Rule 3: liberals can say and do anything they want, any time they want, and never pay any political or legal price for it.
Quick question – have you ever seen climatologists talk about “the other side” as “rotten capitalists”, right wing wackos, etc.? I haven’t. They talk about the science and never about politics. While plenty of “arguments” from “the other side” are purely political.
Now that is funny, I would say that your statement is absolutely refuted by the facts on the ground. The alarmist side is vastly more political that those of us who don’t believe the science is as solid as they think. For that we get branded with names like “denier” etc. Its shameful. You post is just too naive for me to take seriously.
I am sure we “deniers” could do better on that piece of ice than the U. S. Congress does in the country it destroys.
The house of representitives passed the cap and tax bill and I let my rep know it was wrong. He answered my e-mail trying to defend his vote. I will respond by voting against him this fall and hope it doesn’t get passed by the lame ducks.
It was tried by the first Democrat-it was called “Indian Territory”-Oklahoma.
My Granma would not take a $20 in change..
Cong. Markey: He has a long public track record in congress going back to the 70’s. Even then he was an extreme oddball regarding energy issues and his ideas never made sense or were impossible to implement. He’s always despised the oil and natural gas industries; but the level of vitriol and strange public positions he took early on in congressional testimony made him an impractical laughing stock to both government regulators and congress. He rarely contributed to positive legislation regarding the o&g industries. His odd-ball so called public interest record speaks for itself. These guys never change.
Americans who trust their government are living in a dream world.
The worst part of your comment is the fact that Marlarky is still a Congressman, 26 YEARS LATER!!!
Hello? … Massachusetts … what the hell is wrong with you people?
My representative too, I regret to say. Apologies to the rational people in this country for inflicting this self-aggrandizing fool upon you.
He will have opposition this year, with two Republicans competing in the primary, Tom Tierney and Gerry Dembrowski.
Tierney is a liberal who will be indistinguishable from Malarkey in most things; he’s probably brighter (being an actuary) but is currently campaigning by declaring how much he likes and agrees with Ed Markey. Dembrowski I think is a chiropractor who is much more conservative, and thus is likely to take a more careful look at the claims of the Alarmists, and is not likely to vote for Crap and Tax.
So if you’re in the 7th Congressional District of Massachusetts, I recommend voting for Dembrowski in the primary and in November.
/Mr Lynn
Ah, thanks for clearing that up for me. I feel much better now. Because this kind of rhetoric has happened before makes it perfectly acceptable now. Whew … it is all clear to me now. You know, murders have happened before too, lots of them, I suppose those are ok now too then huh? Bank robberies were almost common places some decades ago (not too uncommon now), but it’s all ok now, since they have happened before I am sure the judge will see it my way … “your honor, this kind of thing has been common place in the past, therefor, there is nothing wrong with it”
sheesh .. get a logical clue, would you?
Wow, talk about taking a throw-away bit of ribbing utterly out of context and making into a crime against humanity! Why so touchy? Finally realizing you are wrong?
You can not support someone who is a chiropractor and claim that you are on the side of science and reason. You simply can’t. Being a chiropractor should automatically disqualify anyone for any position of authority, power and/or public service, because chiropractic is on the same level of scientific legitimacy as astrology and Christianity. I can see absolutely no way in which you can be supporting and understanding science and reason and vote for such a person. But if you are politically motivated and you don’t care at all about science, then it is very much understandable…
squid2112 says:
“Hello? … Massachusetts … what the hell is wrong with you people?”
I live in the People’s Socialist Soviet of Mexifornia, so I feel the need to respond. [BTW, I never vote for anyone to the left of Attila the Hun, at least regarding fiscal matters. ☺]
The problem is the politicians and special interests have learned to game the system. Like this:
When a pol gets elected, he doesn’t speak for the constituents any more. He immediately goes to [and is approached by] intermediaries of special interests who can deliver voting blocks: unions, eco-alarmists, tenured faculty, mainstream media interests, etc.
The leadership of these special interests and the pols have an implicit agreement: votes for cash. But not just any cash. The politicians trade the taxpaying public’s money for the votes necessary to remain a perpetual incumbent.
The majority of the taxpaying public is not part of these special interest groups, but their money is extorted to keep the incumbents in office and the special interests paid off with their loot.
This doesn’t just happen in Massachusetts or California. The same shenanigans go on in every democracy — all of which have been similarly rigged.
So have a little sympathy for those of us trapped into being extorted by these organized thieves. Folks like us didn’t vote for a single one of them. But we pay the freight, in return for …absolutely nothing, except more ravenous shakedowns by these scoundrels.
In my younger days, the older generation was fond of saying “America, love it or leave it”.
Congressman Markey is old enough to remember those words, being born in 1946.
They didn’t say “Nixon’s America, love it or leave it”.
Why would they now say “Congress Markeys America, love it or leave it”?
Nope, sorry, there are no guarantees in life. That is the way the universe works. As for your examples, they are rubbish. There is no AGW, and there is no “peak oil”. Even if I were to suppose they existed, there isn’t anything you could do about either. It is a rough and cruel universe out there, and you will perish at some point, like it or not.
“Deniersberg”
I’m all for moving there.I think it would be a great place to live.
Smokey,
My question to all the people of this country, we have a mechanism in place to guard against this, why are we not using it? (votes). Come on, we know the problems here. The vast majority of people in this country know and understand the problems. We absolutely can, and at this point in time, we must root this evil out of our system. It has been done before, and we must do it again, this time with even greater vigor. There is a simple choice here. Do you want liberty, or do you not? Those are your only choices. It is time that the people of this country (including myself, and I have), get the hell off of their lazy fricken asses and fight for the very freedom and liberty that has made this country the greatest civilization on Earth. Think about it. Where did the car come from? the plane? Typewriters, Computers, phonographs, iPhones, toaster ovens, televisions, telephones, and on and on and on. We not only invented and developed all of those things, in the past, we actually produced all of those things for the rest of the world. Without our freedom’s, liberties and free market, none of these things would have ever come about.
Is not your very way of life worth fighting for? And for the rest of you people from other parts of the world, you had better pray to what ever God you pray to, that the American people get off their asses and save this country, for your very livelihoods depend upon it as well. America always has been, and continues to be, the very engine that drives this entire world, however, this engine is in disrepair and needs to be fixed now!
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squid2112,
We’re on the same page.