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I was listening to NPR this morning, and something popped out as interesting on a story about “How the Environment is playing in this year’s election cycle”. First off, the story had no meat to it: the conclusion drawn was, pretty close to nil.
But at one point, the story wandered to how individual Republican candidates use the Environment. The two cases offered were —
Lincoln Chafee and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Who are two very unusual Republicans. Chafee is the least conservative and therefor more liberal Republican in the US Senate, and the ad clip they had clipped him as “the only Republican to vote against authorizing war in Iraq, and the only Republican” to do such and such for the environment. The only reason he’s in trouble in his Senate race is he is, in the end, a Republican and thus obligated to vote for Mitch McConnell to head the Senate, thus dictating where the Senate is going for the next two years. Schwarzenegger has faded in and out with the political winds and ended up embracing environmental measures, and is a Celebrity Candidate.
Those were the two examples they had, and quite frankly, probably the only two examples in all of the United States. It was a bit jarring to hear what amounted to all of the examples referenced as “for example”.
Next, I jump to a story on “This American Life”. My gawd, I hate the Car Guys. That is all I have to say about that.