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Reporting from the dark heart of New Haven, Connecticut, Katherine Mangu-Ward watches Arnold Schwarzenegger lead a charge for states' rights. Well... states' rights as they pertain to global warming.

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Guy Montag | April 22, 2008, 7:03am | #

Awsome! A RINO from Austria is celebrating Lennin's birthday with more Socialism! Color me amazed.

Guy Montag | April 22, 2008, 7:04am | #

Ooops, that is today. Seems the Governator was doing the warmup ceremonies.

Jaap Weel | April 22, 2008, 8:11am | #

Typo: "cap and trade", not "cap in trade."

Nice article otherwise.

J | April 22, 2008, 8:53am | #

Arnold is not a girlie man.

Episiarch | April 22, 2008, 8:57am | #

Once the reaction starts, it'll spread to all the turbinium in the planet. Earth will go into global meltdown. That's why the aliens never turned it on.

Pain | April 22, 2008, 9:20am | #

I don't think I have ever seen someone sell out their professed beliefs quicker than Arnold. It's crazy.

classwarrior | April 22, 2008, 9:38am | #

The problem is that pollution doesn't respect state boundaries. Any effort to deal with an environmental issue that imposes costs will just encourage movement to states with lax regulations. The environment is one area where the federal government should take the lead if you're serious about dealing with it.

the innominate one | April 22, 2008, 10:15am | #

Efforts by the California Department of Fish and Game ("my own agency, that I'm supposed to be the head of and the boss of!") to protect "this little creature" have thwarted plans to build planet-saving solar arrays. "If we can't put a solar power plant in the Mojave Desert," Schwarzenegger thundered, "I don't know where the hell we can put it!"

So Arnold, like Bush, thinks that he is a monarch of his government. CA Dept. of Fish and Game presumably is enforcing CA law, whether one agrees with that law or not, they can't properly ignore it, nor can Arnold.

vault_dog4 | April 22, 2008, 11:25am | #

Typo - There is no Article 10 in the Constitution. She meant Article I, Section 10.

In case anyone cares....

J sub D | April 22, 2008, 11:32am | #

Hey, if we don't have to worry about our fellow mammals, the squirrels, let's get back to damming rivers for hydro power. Fuck a bunch of salmon, we've got a planet to save.

♫Onward Eco-warriors,
Marching off to war.♫

shrike | April 22, 2008, 5:01pm | #

When California wanted their own (stricter) food labeling law the GOP shot it down.

"States rights" = another meaningless term.

Button Gwinnett | April 22, 2008, 5:46pm | #

J sub D: Hey, if we don't have to worry about our fellow mammals, the squirrels, let's get back to damming rivers for hydro power. Fuck a bunch of salmon, we've got a planet to save.

♫Onward Eco-warriors,
Marching off to war.♫

Hm. It sounds like a tradeoff, doesn't it? Welcome to the real world. Flora and fauna cover practically the entire earth. It's just that deserts have much less, and so would seem to be a suitable place to put solar panels/nuclear testing sites/lepers.

Lyman Hall | April 22, 2008, 5:56pm | #

shrike
When California wanted their own (stricter) food labeling law the GOP shot it down.

"States rights" = another meaningless term.

Bzzzt. Just because the state can do something doesn't mean that the state should do it. The whole point of "States rights" (really, states' powers) is flexibility. Your inability to understand the concept does not make it invalid.

J sub D | April 22, 2008, 9:12pm | #

Hm. It sounds like a tradeoff, doesn't it? Welcome to the real world. Flora and fauna cover practically the entire earth. It's just that deserts have much less, and so would seem to be a suitable place to put solar panels/nuclear testing sites/lepers.

It always is. Think about this one
Geothermal---->Yellowstone.