From ThinkProgress’s Ali Frick.
Today, the right wing –
enthusiastically joined by Sen. John
McCain (R-AZ) and
Gov. Sarah
Palin
(R-AK) –
attacked
Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) for advocating in a January
interview a cap and trade
plan that would reward new coal plants built with carbon capture
technology. McCain said he wanted to control emissions, but insisted,
“I’m not going to let our coal industry go
bankrupt.” Palin
claimed Obama has been “talking about bankrupting the coal industry,”
and pledged, “John McCain and I, we will not let that
happen
to the coal industry.”
Now former governor Mitt Romney is using McCain’s attacks against Obama to attack McCain himself. On Glenn Beck’s radio show today, he denounced McCain’s cap and trade program, saying it would “kill jobs” in the U.S. and that he would “endeavor to convince” McCain to change his plans:
BECK: How would you address the cap and trade on the day when everyone’s paying attention to coal?
ROMNEY: Well as you know, there were a number of places in the primary campaign where I disagreed with John McCain, and his cap and trade proposal was one of them. … If you want to negotiate with someone and you feel it’s important to bring down global CO2 emissions then China has to be part of the picture. And if we go out there and put a burden on our own industry and they don’t put a burden on theirs, why you’ll just kill jobs here.
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