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Tea Party's plan to cut carbon output

Mon, 01/08/2011 - 08:21 — dan

The Tea-Party tail has done some pretty impressive dog-wagging. Question: what does this do to claims that the whole movement's just corporate astroturf? I'm pretty sure no-one in U.S.business wanted to risk default, and it's still possible the AAA rating will get downgraded by one or two agencies. (Interesting little tidbit here on whether institutions requiring AAA holdings would have to drop U.S. assets.)

But maybe... it's all just a cunning plan. Given that recession equals a drop in carbon output, perhaps they're actually eco-warriers in disguise. Admittedly, a damn good disguise, but it would explain a lot.