GQP Reps Will Journey To Glascow; They Will Say How Much They Care About Climate In Another Country

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While Republicans from both chambers have attended previous U.N. climate conferences, this is the first time GOP lawmakers are organizing a delegation among themselves in order to have flexibility in promoting their own agenda.

Two outside conservative groups, Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions and ClearPath, have created a 501c3, called the Conservative Climate Foundation, to fund the trip and help organize the itinerary — an arrangement necessitated by House rules. Members attending the trip and the groups supporting them claim their intent is to be constructive and not to derail the U.S. and other countries’ efforts to strengthen Paris Agreement emissions targets at the conference.

“We want to show the world Republicans and conservatives do care and we care deeply [about climate change],” said Rep. John Curtis of Utah, who is planning to attend the trip with Rep. Garret Graves of Louisiana. “We also want to show we have good ideas. We want a seat at that climate table. That’s been the mistake with Republicans not talking about this... our ideas are not being considered.”

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What’s on the itinerary: Heather Reams, president of CRES, and Rich Powell, executive director of ClearPath, say the foundation they created, funded by their groups, planned the trip to COP26 as an “educational” opportunity to get Republicans better acquainted with the U.N. climate negotiations process. Republican lawmakers plan to engage with delegations from other countries and meet with clean energy business leaders on the sidelines of the conference and visit renewable projects like offshore wind farms.

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https://news.yahoo.com/daily-energy-house-republicans-plan-173500056.html

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1. "...our ideas are not being considered."

The only ideas the Republican Party has are 1) tax cuts for the rich, & 2) deregulation for the corporations. Everything else is just red meat for the base.

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2. I sat in on one of Curtis' webinars about a month ago . . ..

It was the same old shit.

Two-cent talking points about "American ingenuity" and "innovation" and "technology".

And of course, lots and lots of getting rid of those pesky regulations.

Nothing that even veered in the general direction of specifics, except for tree-planting as a panacea for all our climate problems.

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3. It's the same with everything for them.

Their health care plan is two weeks out. Their climate change plan is to plant trees. Immigration? A wall. Or a fence. When they had the house & the senate in 2017, what did they accomplish? Any of the above? No. But they got their tax cuts passed. And cleverly made sure that the working class cuts expire after Trump's term. I'm embarrassed for the people I know who still support this party, that they're such gullible fools.