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7/13/12, "George Shultz Endorses Carbon Tax – You Were Surprised?" GlobalWarming.org, Marlo Lewis
"But there has always been a wing
of the GOP — the
“establishment,” “Country Club,” or “Rockefeller”
Republicans
— who care more about controlling the party
than about
advancing liberty
or even about winning elections.
AEI’s Ken Green (a colleague of Hassett’s) hits the nail on the head. In a story on Shultz’s endorsement of carbon taxes,
Green told Climatewire: (subscrip):
“There seems to be an eruption of conservatives — very moderate-seeming conservatives, non-tea party, old country club-style conservatives — who are suddenly enamored of carbon tax,” said Kenneth Green, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.
“I think this is mostly vanity and egotism
on the part of these people who are coming forward, to try and reassert the
Republican establishment over the tea party revolution,”
he added. “I wouldn’t be surprised if we have more of these guys weigh in.”"
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