Republican administration is concerned about jobs?

The Bush administration strongly opposes mandatory caps on carbon dioxide, warning they could eliminate 600,000 jobs, boost prices of electricity and natural gas by 50 percent, and add $100 billion to the federal deficit by 2025.

McCain said the evidence of rising Earth temperatures is irrefutable, displaying NASA photographs shot from outer space that show a melting Arctic ice cap.

"You can believe me or you can believe your lying eyes," McCain said. "These are facts."

Republican Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma, who led opposition to the plan, pointed to "flawed science" of global warming studies and called its existence inconclusive. Inhofe warned carbon caps could force U.S. jobs to be moved to less developed nations that have fewer restrictions on energy development.

"This would be the biggest jobs bill for Mexico, India, and other developing countries that we could pass," he said.

President George W. Bush in 2001 withdrew the nation from participating in the global Kyoto Protocol to cut carbon dioxide emissions to 5.2 percent below 1990 levels by 2008-12. In its place, Bush has proposed a voluntary industry plan to reduce greenhouse gas intensity — or emissions per unit of U.S. GDP — by 18 percent by 2012. article

Voluntary. Right. Because before we had any toxic cleanup or emissions regulations, which were obviously unnecessary in the first place, companies voluntarily restricted their polluting practices.

If this is the plan, then it really is going to come down to consumer boycotts. Of course, when we're all out of jobs, we'll naturally be boycotting, because we won't be able to afford to buy anything. But maybe the people overseas who have the jobs can take up our slack.

Rethug claims to be against this measure on the grounds that we'd lose jobs to overseas is...I don't even have a word for what it is. I'm not even going to link you to an article that outlines how their policies are losing Americans tens of thousands of jobs - I've just talked about it only yesterday, in fact. You see those articles every day, along with others about corporations closing down here and hiring out overseas.

Geez. These people have no scruples. Zilch. You can believe them or you can believe your lying eyes.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.