"In reality, Republicans have long been at war with clean energy. They have ridiculed investments in solar and wind power, bashed energy-efficiency standards, attacked state moves to promote renewable energy and championed laws that would enshrine taxpayer subsidies for fossil fuels while stripping them from wind and solar."

"The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power."

"In the world of energy politics, the sudden vanishing of the word 'coal' is a remarkable and unprecedented event."

""If you are interested enough in the climate crisis to read this post, you probably know that 2 degrees Centigrade of warming (or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) is the widely acknowledged threshold for ""dangerous"" climate change.""

"The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country."

"But the point you need to know is that no president at war cut taxes $1.5 trillion, like Bush did."

"Since There are so many questions about what the president was doing over 30 years ago, what is it that he did after his honorable discharge from the National Guard? Did he make speeches alongside Jane Fonda denouncing America's racist war in Vietnam?"

"One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous."