Admitted socialist and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders compares climate skeptics to Nazi deniers

al-goreMost Democrats in the House and Senate (and White House for that matter) are socialists, they are just afraid to actually admit it. Not the nub job from Vermont Bernie Sanders though. Being from a state that makes California or Massachusetts look like conservative states, Sanders can say things like this and get away with it. The latest example of this nut job’s nutty comments today is comparing climate change skeptics to those who disregarded the Nazi threat to America in the 1930s, adding a strident rhetorical shot to the already volatile debate over climate change, according to Politico. Surely Al Gore would agree with this. And I’m sure other socialists who refuse to call themselves socialists would agree too. People of Vermont should be really proud of Sanders (and of course Leahy).

“It reminds me in some ways of the debate taking place in this country and around the world in the late 1930s,” said Sanders, perhaps the most liberal member of the Senate, during a Senate hearing Tuesday. “During that period of Nazism and fascism’s growth-a real danger to the United States and democratic countries around the world- there were people in this country and in the British parliament who said ‘don’t worry! Hitler’s not real! It’ll disappear!”

Sanders’ reference to the Nazi threat is sure to enrage Republicans who are already skeptical of the science behind climate change. But Sanders wasn’t the only one throwing bombs at a hearing that was ostensibly about the EPA’s fiscal 2011 budget. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), who has called global warming a “hoax,” is asking for an investigation into the science used in the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the governing body on climate science.

Earlier in the hearing, Inhofe had chided Sanders: “I know the senator from Vermont wants so badly to believe that the science on climate change is settled but it’s not.”

The heated exchanges came as EPA administrator Lisa Jackson sparred with lawmakers over her agency’s decision to regulate greenhouse gases, something that Senate Republicans — and some Democrats — have opposed.

“How can you justify doing something administratively that was overwhelmingly rejected by the United States Senate and say defiantly ‘we don’t care what you say, Congress, we’re going to go ahead and do it under the clean air act,” Inhofe asked.

Jackson said her agency was in its right to regulate carbon.

“The supreme court said the EPA must make the determination whether or not greenhouse gases are harmful to the public welfare. Rather than ignore that obligation I chose as a public administrator to make the order,” Jackson replied.

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February 23, 2010 · Filed Under Global warming


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