McCain’s erratic environmentalism

More McCain environmentalism — well, environmental schizophrenia maybe a better description of his record. Matthew Yglesias points to a piece by Brad Plumer in The New Republic that outlines his erratic approach.

One of the things that strikes me about this is that McCain seems to wing things — a tendency that is not confined to his environmental record, but to most of his domestic agenda. As Yglesias writes:

The overall picture of the domestic McCain continues to be of a kind of ignorant conservatism punctuated by bursts of thoughtless stabs at reform.

In a word: erratic. Not exactly a trait you want in someone occupying the Oval Office.

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Author: hankkalet

Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.

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