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</div><div style=""><div class="title-section" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; justify-content: flex-start; align-items: flex-start; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="title-lines" style="box-sizing: inherit; overflow: hidden;"><a href="https://gimletmedia.com/shows/howtosaveaplanet/gmhwdon/making-republicans-environmentalists" data-pjax-state="" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><p class="episode-date has-text-nowrap" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0.05em; text-transform: uppercase; line-height: 1.5em; white-space: nowrap !important; text-overflow: ellipsis !important; overflow: hidden !important;"><a href="https://gimletmedia.com/shows/howtosaveaplanet/gmhwdon/making-republicans-environmentalists" data-pjax-state="" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"></a><a href="https://gimletmedia.com/shows/howtosaveaplanet/gmhwdon/making-republicans-environmentalists" data-pjax-state="" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://gimletmedia.com/shows/howtosaveaplanet/gmhwdon/making-republicans-environmentalists" data-pjax-state="" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://gimletmedia.com/shows/howtosaveaplanet/gmhwdon/making-republicans-environmentalists" data-pjax-state="" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://gimletmedia.com/shows/howtosaveaplanet/gmhwdon/making-republicans-environmentalists" data-pjax-state="" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">OCTOBER 1, 2020</a>Making Republicans Environmentalists Again<p class="show-title has-text-nowrap" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0.15em 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0.05em; text-transform: uppercase; line-height: 1.5em; white-space: nowrap !important; text-overflow: ellipsis !important; overflow: hidden !important;"> HOW TO SAVE A PLANET</div></div><a href="https://gimletmedia.com/shows/howtosaveaplanet/gmhwdon/making-republicans-environmentalists" data-pjax-state="" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">The Republican Party has been almost uniformly opposed to climate action for years – nobody more so than President Donald Trump. But it wasn’t always like this. On today’s episode, we look back at how conservatives came to see the denial of climate science as a kind of badge of honor – and we talk to two conservative activists who are trying to change that.</a> rachael waldholtz (sp) 3 forks: #1 1980 RR ~ epa/ regs  #2 1988 hansen 1989 GCC, 1992 Rio supposed to do binding targets bush "pariah" 1998 smoking gun memo
read the full memo we mentioned in the episode - the <a href="http://www.climatefiles.com/trade-group/american-petroleum-institute/1998-global-climate-science-communications-team-action-plan/" data-pjax-state="" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">Global Climate Science Communications Action Plan</a> (get ready to be mad)#3 afp bus tour gas, heat house tired of al gore hypocrisy, "cap and Tax" --> policy fight to threat to your way of life;  kochs take advantage of crisis --> culture war /part of identity 2008 high tide of gov't distrust, so small am't of money (goes over sea wall and flooded agw action machinery metaphor Inglis;  [RepublicEN inglis talk to crazy uncle]am conservation coalition  ACC10 yo gop activist noted at cpacs nothing on envir except to trash/denial;  testimony w/ greta so press but he called out both side i call BS dems have not tried to work w/ gop [b/c preserve as an issue to beat up?] benjy backer</div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">820</div><div style="">=go Joe<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/jeff-flake-former-gop-congress-biden" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Fox News reports</a> that the list of former GOP lawmakers is headlined by Jeff Flake, the former Arizona senator who frequently clashed with the president before retiring in 2018.The other Republicans endorsing Biden are former Sens. John Warner of Virginia, Gordon Humphrey of New Hampshire, and former Reps. Steve Bartlett of Texas, Bill Clinger of Pennsylvania, Tom Coleman of Missouri, Charlie Dent of Pennsylvania, Charles Djou of Hawaii, Mickey Edwards of Oklahoma, Wayne Gilchrest of Maryland, Jim Greenwood of Pennsylvania, Bob Inglis of South Carolina, Jim Kolbe of Arizona, Steve Kuykendall of California, Ray LaHood of Illinois, Jim Leach of Iowa, Connie Morella of Maryland, Mike Parker of Mississippi, Jack Quinn of New York, Claudine Schneider of Rhode Island, Chris Shays of Connecticut, Peter Smith of Vermont, Alan Steelman of Texas, Bill Whitehurst of Virginia, Dick Zimmer of New Jersey, and Jim Walsh of New York.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ccl i was sure he'd 180 2/17</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style=""><div class="body-text clearfix" itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 30px; clear: none !important;">Many conservative economists and legislators say the same principles will work to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Here are five of those conservatives and the arguments they make in favor of legislation that will price carbon.#1: Art Laffer<a href="http://www.laffercenter.com/the-laffer-center-2/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s; background: transparent; outline: 0px !important;">Laffer</a> was a member of President Reagan’s Economic Policy Advisory Board from 1981–1989 and is currently advising President Trump on <a href="http://www.npr.org/2016/12/23/506686965/trump-tax-proposals-are-terrific-adviser-arthur-laffer-says" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s; background: transparent; outline: 0px !important;">tax policy</a>.“If you’re going to handle global warming, you can do it in such a way that actually does not hurt the economy,” he says in “<a href="https://vimeo.com/44472885" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s; background: transparent; outline: 0px !important;">Change What We Tax</a>,” a video posted by <a href="http://www.republicen.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s; background: transparent; outline: 0px !important;">RepublicEn</a>. “A carbon tax would be less damaging dollar for dollar than a progressive income tax.”#2: George P. Shultz<a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/shultz-george-pratt" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s; background: transparent; outline: 0px !important;">Shultz</a> served as Secretary of State under President Reagan from 1982–1989.“Let’s level the playing field for competing sources of energy so that costs imposed on the community are borne by the sources of energy that create them, most particularly carbon dioxide,” Shultz says in <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-reagan-model-on-climate-change/2015/03/13/4f4182e2-c6a8-11e4-b2a1-bed1aaea2816_story.html?hpid=z2&utm_term=.eb706cfefa07" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s; background: transparent; outline: 0px !important;">his 2015 opinion piece</a> for the Washington Post. “A carbon tax, starting small and escalating to a significant level on a legislated schedule, would do the trick. I would make it revenue-neutral, returning all net funds generated to the taxpayers so that no fiscal drag results and the revenue would not be available for politicians to spend on pet projects.”#3: Jerry Taylor<a href="https://niskanencenter.org/blog/staff/jerry-taylor/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s; background: transparent; outline: 0px !important;">Taylor</a> is the president and founder of the Niskanen Center, a libertarian think tank.In “<a href="http://niskanencenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/The-Conservative-Case-for-a-Carbon-Tax1.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s; background: transparent; outline: 0px !important;">The Conservative Case for a Carbon Tax</a>,” Taylor says, “A carbon tax quantifies in dollar terms the risk associated with emitting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, although how well those risks are reflected in the tax depends upon policy design and the assumptions behind that design. Climate risks, after all, are associated with costs, and those costs are not accounted for in the price for fossil fuels at present. Prices for fossil fuels (the main source of man’s greenhouse gas emissions) do not reflect the total costs associated with consumption. Consumers consequently buy more fossil fuels (and generate more greenhouse gases) than would be the case if the information embodied in fossil fuel prices were accurate. The most direct way to better inform 
#4: N. Gregory Mankiw market decisions is to correct inaccurate price signals with a tax.”<a href="http://scholar.harvard.edu/mankiw/biocv" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s; background: transparent; outline: 0px !important;">Mankiw</a> served as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President George W. Bush from 2003–2005 and in 2006 became an economic adviser to Mitt Romney.In the New York Times article “<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/business/four-keys-to-a-better-tax-system-economic-view.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s; background: transparent; outline: 0px !important;">A Better Tax System (Assembly Instructions Included)</a>,” Mankiw doesn’t directly address pricing carbon, but he illustrates the economic argument for that type of policy by discussing the gasoline tax.“A good rule of thumb is that when you tax something, you get less of it,” he explains. “That means that taxes on hard work, saving and entrepreneurial risk-taking impede these fundamental drivers of economic growth. The alternative is to tax those things we would like to get less of. Consider the <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/g/gasoline_tax_us/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s; background: transparent; outline: 0px !important;">tax on gasoline</a>. Driving your car is associated with various adverse side effects, which economists call externalities. These include traffic congestion, accidents, local pollution and global climate change. If the tax on gasoline were higher, people would alter their behavior to drive less. They would be more likely to take public transportation, use car pools or live closer to work. The incentives they face when deciding how much to drive would more closely match the true social costs and benefits.”#5: Bob Inglis<span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; outline: 0px !important;"><a href="http://www.republicen.org/about_us/staff" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; outline: 0px !important;">Inglis</a> represented South Carolina in Congress from 1993–1998 and again from 2004–2010. He is the executive director of RepublicEn, educating fellow Americans about free-enterprise solutions to climate change.“What if we were to reduce taxes on income and shift the tax onto pollution?” Inglis asks in the “<a href="https://vimeo.com/44472885" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; outline: 0px !important;">Change What We Tax</a>” video quoted above. “What if we did that by eliminating all subsidies for all fuels, and attaching all costs to all fuels, following the free enterprise principle of accountability? Then we’d see the free enterprise system delivering the fuels of the future.”In a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/opinion/28inglis.html" target="blank" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s; outline: 0px !important;">joint opinion piece with Laffer</a>, Inglis writes, “We need to impose a tax on the thing we want less of (carbon dioxide) and reduce taxes on the things we want more of (income and jobs). A carbon tax would attach the national security and environmental costs to carbon-based fuels like oil, causing the market to recognize the price of these negative externalities. [B]oth Democrats and Republicans could support a carbon tax offset by a payroll or income tax cut.”#6, 7, 8…These conservatives are not alone. <a href="http://www.igmchicago.org/surveys/carbon-taxes-ii" target="blank" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s; outline: 0px !important;">Many economists support</a> using carbon fees to move us, and the world, on to clean, renewable, non-polluting energy sources. Many conservative organizations also support pricing carbon, such as the <a href="http://www.rstreet.org/op-ed/why-conservatives-should-support-carbon-taxation/" target="blank" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s; outline: 0px !important;">R Street Institute</a> and the <a href="https://www.aei.org/publication/a-carbon-tax-can-be-designed-to-be-pro-poor/" target="blank" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s; outline: 0px !important;">American Enterprise Institute</a>.[HMMN]Citizens’ Climate Lobby is nonpartisan, but we’re interested in getting both conservatives and progressives on board with this sensible, effective solution. CCL calls for a revenue-neutral <a href="https://citizensclimatelobby.org/basics-carbon-fee-dividend/" target="blank" style="background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s; outline: 0px !important;">Carbon Fee and Dividend</a> in which the net revenues collected go right back to American households as a monthly dividend check or automatic deposit in our bank accounts. This does not grow the government. As George Shultz says, “It’s not a tax if the government doesn’t keep the money.” To see which conservative thought leaders, national security leaders and others support climate action or have endorsed carbon fee and dividend, log in or sign up for CCL Community and <a href="https://community.citizensclimatelobby.org/national-leaders-supporting-climate-action/" target="blank" style="background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s; outline: 0px !important;">check out the full list</a>.We’ve had enough smoke and mirrors with people saying we can’t have a good economy, create jobs, and reduce our emissions. <a href="https://citizensclimatelobby.org/remi-report/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s; background: transparent; outline: 0px !important;">We can</a>, we <a href="http://climate.nasa.gov/effects/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s; background: transparent; outline: 0px !important;">must</a>, and with your help, we can work with our representatives in Congress to reach a <a href="https://citizensclimatelobby.org/climate-solutions-caucus/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s; background: transparent; outline: 0px !important;">bipartisan </a>agreement to enact the Carbon Fee and Dividend.Since the carbon fee increases steadily, the dividend also increases, which benefits Americans in several ways:<ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; list-style-position: inside; list-style-image: initial; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 6px;">A family of four would receive $288 per month, or $3,456 per year, after 10 years, and $396 per month after 20 years.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 6px;">Products made with clean energy become relatively less expensive, and consumers have more money to spend.</li></ul>The Carbon Fee and Dividend can usher in true energy freedom, job growth, and lower emissions. And what could we do with our dividend checks? Insulate your home, or take that vacation you’ve been putting off. Buy energy efficient appliances, or go out for a nice dinner. Maybe treat yourself to a bright red electric car!We can reduce emissions while growing jobs and supporting the economy as a whole. As Bob Inglis <a href="https://vimeo.com/179080306" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s; background: transparent; outline: 0px !important;">reminds us</a>, “It’s an incredible opportunity.” Let’s seize it.<div class="essb_break_scroll" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="tags-link-wrap clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 0px 20px; clear: none !important;"><div class="tags-wrap" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left;">Tags:<a href="https://citizensclimatelobby.org/tag/art-laffer/" rel="tag" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s; background: transparent; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(0, 152, 218); border-top-color: rgb(0, 152, 218); border-right-color: rgb(0, 152, 218); border-left-color: rgb(0, 152, 218); outline: 0px !important;">Art Laffer</a>, <a href="https://citizensclimatelobby.org/tag/bob-inglis/" rel="tag" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s; background: transparent; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(0, 152, 218); border-top-color: rgb(0, 152, 218); border-right-color: rgb(0, 152, 218); border-left-color: rgb(0, 152, 218); outline: 0px !important;">Bob Inglis</a>, <a href="https://citizensclimatelobby.org/tag/carbon-fee-and-dividend/" rel="tag" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s; background: transparent; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(0, 152, 218); border-top-color: rgb(0, 152, 218); border-right-color: rgb(0, 152, 218); border-left-color: rgb(0, 152, 218); outline: 0px !important;">carbon fee and dividend</a>, <a href="https://citizensclimatelobby.org/tag/carbon-pricing/" rel="tag" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s; background: transparent; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(0, 152, 218); border-top-color: rgb(0, 152, 218); border-right-color: rgb(0, 152, 218); border-left-color: rgb(0, 152, 218); outline: 0px !important;">Carbon pricing</a>, <a href="https://citizensclimatelobby.org/tag/conservatives/" rel="tag" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s; background: transparent; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(0, 152, 218); border-top-color: rgb(0, 152, 218); border-right-color: rgb(0, 152, 218); border-left-color: rgb(0, 152, 218); outline: 0px !important;">conservatives</a>, <a href="https://citizensclimatelobby.org/tag/george-shultz/" rel="tag" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s; background: transparent; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(0, 152, 218); border-top-color: rgb(0, 152, 218); border-right-color: rgb(0, 152, 218); border-left-color: rgb(0, 152, 218); outline: 0px !important;">George Shultz</a>, <a href="https://citizensclimatelobby.org/tag/gregory-mankiw/" rel="tag" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s; background: transparent; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(0, 152, 218); border-top-color: rgb(0, 152, 218); border-right-color: rgb(0, 152, 218); border-left-color: rgb(0, 152, 218); outline: 0px !important;">Gregory Mankiw</a>, <a href="https://citizensclimatelobby.org/tag/jerry-taylor/" rel="tag" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s; background: transparent; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(0, 152, 218); border-top-color: rgb(0, 152, 218); border-right-color: rgb(0, 152, 218); border-left-color: rgb(0, 152, 218); outline: 0px !important;">jerry taylor</a></div></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div></div></div></div><div><a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19072018/anti-carbon-tax-resolution-house-vote-climate-solutions-caucus-curbelo-scalise-koch-influence-congress" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19072018/anti-carbon-tax-resolution-house-vote-climate-solutions-caucus-curbelo-scalise-koch-influence-congress</a><div class="content" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field-items" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded" style="box-sizing: inherit;"> U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed a resolution denouncing the idea of a U.S. carbon tax as detrimental to the economy, one week before a Republican-sponsored bill to create a carbon fee is set to be introduced.It was a win for a coalition of groups funded by the petrochemical billionaire Koch brothers and other wealthy, right-wing opponents of climate action. And it revealed weak resolve for bucking GOP leadership among most of the 43 Republican members of the <a href="https://citizensclimatelobby.org/climate-solutions-caucus/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">Climate Solutions Caucus</a>.If the bipartisan caucus had held firm, the resolution would have been handily defeated.Instead, only six Republicans—four of them caucus members, including Rep. Carlos Curbelo of Florida, who plans to unveil the carbon fee measure next week—joined most Democrats in opposing the resolution. Seven Democrats voted with the GOP.The 229-180 vote marked a slight erosion in the GOP wall of opposition to climate action. In 2016, an identical measure passed the House <a href="http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2016/roll295.xml" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">237-163</a>with no Republicans opposed. Such resolutions are meant to express the views of the chamber and have no real-world impact, but with a different Congress in place now, carbon tax foes wanted a new vote.  The American Energy Alliance (AEA), the Heartland Institute, and 18 other conservative advocacy groups had urged House Speaker Paul Ryan earlier this month to bring the resolution to the floor.AEA president Thomas Pyle said in an interview with InsideClimate News that the impetus was not the prospect of Curbelo's bill, but an effort to put members on the record before November. The groups put it this way in their <a href="https://www.americanenergyalliance.org/2018/07/09/conservative-coalition-rallies-to-warn-of-disastrous-economic-impact-of-carbon-tax%E2%80%8B/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">letter </a>to Ryan: "As we approach the 2018 midterm election, American voters need to know whether their elected representatives support the implementation of a new tax on the energy they rely on every single day."The House's affirmation of a fossil fuel-friendly agenda comes in a week when President Donald Trump's administration did the same on multiple fronts.The Environmental Protection Agency's new administrator, former coal lobbyist Andrew Wheeler, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/epa-eases-rules-on-how-coal-ash-waste-is-stored-across-the-us/2018/07/17/740e4b9a-89d3-11e8-85ae-511bc1146b0b_story.html?utm_term=.98bcae2c16cc" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">finalized a plan</a> to ease requirements for handling the toxic coal ash from power plants—rules developed by the Obama administration after costly spills in Tennessee and North Carolina. The Treasury Department announced it would <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/17/us/politics/irs-will-no-longer-force-kochs-and-other-groups-to-disclose-donors.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">scrap requirements</a> that certain tax-exempt nonprofits disclose their donors, helping to cloak a key avenue for campaign contributions used by the Koch brothers and other wealthy political benefactors.<h3 style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.333;">2 Views on How Climate Solutions Caucus Voted</h3>The House vote showed the flimsiness of the <a href="https://citizensclimatelobby.org/climate-solutions-caucus/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">Climate Solutions Caucus</a>, the bipartisan coalition that Curbelo and others have sought to build behind the concept of a market-based solution for curbing greenhouse gas emissions.RL Miller, president of the advocacy group Climate Hawks Vote, said the caucus' credibility is in tatters after its GOP members, whom she has frequently criticized for their <a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/27022018/climate-solutions-caucus-congress-gop-voting-record-arctic-drilling-lcv-scores-election-challenge" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent;">weak environmental voting records</a>, failed to hold off a resolution that strikes at the heart of their purported purpose."It would be a joke were the subject not so serious. The caucus has no credibility, and no ability to do anything," Miller said. "The climate is changing far more quickly than Republican attitudes. That's why we do not hold faith in bipartisan solutions."But Steve Valk, spokesman for the Citizens Climate Lobby, a grassroots advocacy group that favors a carbon tax and that helped bring together the caucus, noted the non-binding resolution has no real effect. Valk said he did not expect that its members would go out on a limb against such a measure, especially since it was sponsored by House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.), the No. 3 Republican in the chamber and a potential successor to Ryan, who is retiring."Anybody who votes against this resolution—it's going to be a mark against them in the eyes of the leadership, which decides what assignments you get, whether or not you're on the committee you want, and who's chair," Valk said. "There's a lot of calculations that go into a decision like this. We're willing to look at that and say, yeah, it's not a simple choice for them."In my mind, if you can get a handful of Republicans to vote no on this, that's a victory."<h3 style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.333;">The Conversation Is Shifting: Republicans Consider Carbon Pricing</h3>Other carbon tax advocates expressed glass-half-full optimism, arguing the mere push for a vote by fossil fuel allies betrays their concern about the increasing support for the idea of putting a price on carbon to fight climate change."They feel that the momentum is shifting as the conversation commences, and they are trying to beat down any thoughtful analysis with a tribal drum that they are nervously beating louder," said former Rep. Bob Inglis, a Republican from South Carolina and founder of a conservative carbon tax advocacy group republicEn."If we were able to discuss this, we'd find that this is something that could bring conservatives and progressives together," he said.Conservative advocates for a carbon tax have been trying to make their case in Washington since the start of the Trump administration with little success. Trump's former chief economic advisor, Gary Cohn, reportedly earned the derisive nickname "<a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/carbon-tax-cohn-is-the-nickname-bannon-supporters-reportedly-have-for-key-white-house-official-2017-04-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">Carbon Tax Cohn</a>" in the West Wing for giving a hearing to a revenue-neutral tax <a href="https://www.clcouncil.org/media/TheConservativeCaseforCarbonDividends.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">plan</a> proposed by prominent Republicans, including former Secretary of State James Baker and former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson.But since then, other groups have popped up. The nuclear-heavy energy company Exelon, the American Wind Energy Association and First Solar are funding a coalition called <a href="https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/6/22/17487488/carbon-tax-dividend-trent-lott-john-breaux" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">Americans for Carbon Dividends</a>, which has hired former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, a Mississippi Republican, to lobby on the issue. Twenty-two college Republican groups came together earlier this year to form <a href="https://www.s4cd.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">Students for Carbon Dividends</a>. Its founding president, Alex Posner, an American history major at Yale, says the plan they favor would address international competitiveness and jobs creation and would look nothing like the carbon tax described in the Scalise resolution. "We want to see a plan that's pro-growth and pro-environment while shrinking the size of government," he said.Pyle, of the American Energy Alliance, argues that no matter the design of a carbon tax program, consumers are worse off. "There's revenue generated, and then you haggle over how to spend it," he said. "It's no different than other taxes and fees. If you're giving back some to low-income households, it's a still a redistribution. And since poorer people pay a higher percentage of their incomes on energy, they are worse off."A series of <a href="http://energypolicy.columbia.edu/july-2018-carbon-tax-research-series?utm_source=Center+on+Global+Energy+Policy+Mailing+List&utm_campaign=18c5b8aafb-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_07_17_11_22&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0773077aac-18c5b8aafb-62135029" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">four reports</a> released this week by Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy calls that argument into question, however, and provides ammunition for carbon tax advocates. The reports analyze various carbon tax legislation scenarios and conclude that they would increase government revenue by hundreds of billions of dollars a year and drive down U.S. emissions, far more than current policy, with minimal effects on the U.S. economy, families or businesses, or even on oil and gas production and consumption.<h3 style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.333;">Curbelo: Resolution Presented 'a False Choice'</h3>For now, the House vote preemptively throws cold water on Curbelo's planned introduction next week of legislation that would impose an escalating tax on carbonemissions, while pausing federal regulations on climate change. Although Curbelo would not discuss details of his plan, reports said the revenue generated would be directed into infrastructure and in helping communities adapt to sea level rise and other impacts of climate change.Curbelo did not speak on the House floor during the one-hour debate allotted for the Scalise resolution. But when asked by InsideClimate News to comment, he criticized the measure in an emailed statement."The resolution presents a false choice," Curbelo said. "While I agree a carbon tax on its own would not be the best way forward and could have negative effects on the economy, there are smarter, more innovative solutions that would not only reduce carbon emissions and mitigate for the effects they have on our planet, but also grow the economy and provide opportunities for American workers and businesses at home and abroad."I look forward to engaging with my colleagues on this topic next week, and sharing my own proposal in the near future," he said.Curbelo, who represents the southern tip of Florida, one of the regions of the country most vulnerable to climate change impacts, is seen as one of the most vulnerable House Republicans. Cook Political Report and other political odds-makers call his race a <a href="https://www.cookpolitical.com/ratings/house-race-ratings" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">toss-up</a>.With Democrats <a href="https://www.cookpolitical.com/analysis/house/house-overview/house-ratings-changes-10-districts-move-mostly-democrats-direction" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">expected to gain</a> between 20 and 35 seats in November, and just 23 needed for them to retake the majority, Inglis argues that Scalise wasn't doing his own party any favors by forcing a carbon tax showdown. "Steve, what are you doing, running for minority leader?" asked Inglis. "He's putting people at risk for an idea that is clearly going to become very passé and very retro looking."<h3 style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.333;">The House Debate</h3>During the House debate on the measure, Republicans urged a stand against carbon taxes while taking pains to assert that they were not denying the science of climate change."I'm not a climate denier. I'm not a science denier. I'm a climate thinker," said Rep. Andy Barr (R-Ky.) "And real science isn't just about assessing costs only. It's about looking at benefits as well. ... Coal provides cheap, plentiful, reliable energy over the long term. We should not want the most carbon-free energy, but the best energy."Democrats used up much of their 30 minutes of time attempting to change the subject from the anti-carbon tax measure to spotlight Trump's controversial meeting this week with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-Wash.), managing the resolution for the GOP, repeatedly refused.A handful of Democrats, most of them members of the Climate Solutions Caucus, offered full-throated defense of carbon taxes."For decades, economists from across the ideological spectrum have argued that a carbon price is the most efficient way to discourage the use of fossil fuels and the best way to encourage energy efficiency measures and market decisions on everything from housing to transportation," said Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.). "The science continues to accumulate in prodigious amounts that the pollution is changing our Earth and the cost is staggering into the billions. Carbon pricing is the most market-oriented policy we can take to combat this."Rep. Earl Blumenauer, (D-Ore.) said the resolution "encapsulates what's wrong with the Republican management of this Congress. It is a cartoon that doesn't deal with the underlying issues," he said. "We could have a debate about real legislation that would satisfy their answers and be able to deal with what our responsibilities are to the future. ... Instead, we're dealing with empty gestures."In addition to Curbelo, Republicans voting against the resolution were Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Florida, Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania and Mia Love of Utah—all members of the Climate Solutions Caucus—and Reps. Trey Hollingsworth of Indiana and Francis Rooney of Florida. The Democrats who joined the GOP in voting for the resolution were Reps. 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<a href="https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2017-01-24/doubt-deny-or-defend-republicans-climate-change" /><h2 class="title"><a href="https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2017-01-24/doubt-deny-or-defend-republicans-climate-change"></a><a href="https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2017-01-24/doubt-deny-or-defend-republicans-climate-change" /><a href="https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2017-01-24/doubt-deny-or-defend-republicans-climate-change" /><a href="https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2017-01-24/doubt-deny-or-defend-republicans-climate-change" /><a href="https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2017-01-24/doubt-deny-or-defend-republicans-climate-change" /><a href="https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2017-01-24/doubt-deny-or-defend-republicans-climate-change" /><a href="https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2017-01-24/doubt-deny-or-defend-republicans-climate-change" /><a href="https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2017-01-24/doubt-deny-or-defend-republicans-climate-change" /><a href="https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2017-01-24/doubt-deny-or-defend-republicans-climate-change" /><a href="https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2017-01-24/doubt-deny-or-defend-republicans-climate-change" /><a href="https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2017-01-24/doubt-deny-or-defend-republicans-climate-change" /><a href="https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2017-01-24/doubt-deny-or-defend-republicans-climate-change" /><a href="https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2017-01-24/doubt-deny-or-defend-republicans-climate-change" /><a href="https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2017-01-24/doubt-deny-or-defend-republicans-climate-change" /><a href="https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2017-01-24/doubt-deny-or-defend-republicans-climate-change" /><a href="https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2017-01-24/doubt-deny-or-defend-republicans-climate-change"></a><a href="https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2017-01-24/doubt-deny-or-defend-republicans-climate-change" /><a href="https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2017-01-24/doubt-deny-or-defend-republicans-climate-change" /><a href="https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2017-01-24/doubt-deny-or-defend-republicans-climate-change" /><a href="https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2017-01-24/doubt-deny-or-defend-republicans-climate-change">Doubt, Deny or Defend: Republicans on Climate Change</a></h2>

Date: Tue, January 24, 2017

Time: 6:30 PM

The GOP and the planet's climate

<div style="display: block;" class="event-detail">John Hofmeister, Former President, Shell Oil Company; Chairman, Erin Energy Corp.

Bob Inglis, Executive Director, RepublicEn; Former U.S. Representative (R-SC)

President-elect Donald Trump is giving plum jobs to Republicans who

deny or downplay the risks of climate disruption. That's a big shift

from the time of President George W. Bush, when U.S. Senators John

McCain and Lindsay Graham pursued climate-fixing legislation.

Bob Inglis, former Republican congressman and executive director of

RepublicEn, says Republicans should not doubt or deny the science.

Rather, they should defend it because their party has the best

solutions, ones based on markets and not mandates. He will join John

Hofmeister, former president of Shell Oil Company, to discuss the

tensions and challenges between climate science, America's energy needs

and the Republican party in the coming years. </div>

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<div><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; font-family: " open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Political polarization on climate change has become so stark this election cycle that researchers say the gulf between Republicans and Democrats is wider than they have seen in more than 20 years of polling. The polarization has an equally startling financial corollary: an overwhelming 91 percent of fossil fuel industry campaign donations now flow to Republican candidates and 9 percent to Democrats.<p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; font-family: " open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">...<div class="media media-element-container media-image_full" style="box-sizing: inherit; width: 532.766px; font-family: " open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><figure id="file-267746" class="file file-image file-image-png" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;" /></div><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; font-family: " open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Dunlap also looked at <a href="http://www.gallup.com/topic/category_climate_change.aspx" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">The Gallup Organization</a>'s regular opinion polling on global warming to track the shift in political polarization over time. The gap between Republicans and Democrats on the question of whether changes in the Earth's temperature are due to human activities grew from 17 percentage points in 2001 to 32 points in 2008 to 41 points in polling this year: Eighty-two percent of Democrats believe in human-caused climate change versus 47 percent of Republicans.<p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; font-family: " open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Dunlap said the increasing gap between the parties reflects that climate action opposition has become a "core identity issue" for Republicans, on a par with opposition to abortion or taxes.  Anti-regulatory ideology may have made the party "fertile ground" for hardened opposition to climate action, he said.But Dunlap said the GOP leadership helped encourage the divide, especially since 2008. For example, he said when Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, (R-Ky), <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/05/us/politics/mcconnell-urges-states-to-defy-us-plan-to-cut-greenhouse-gas.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">urged states last year to defy</a> the Obama administration's <a href="https://www.epa.gov/cleanpowerplan/clean-power-plan-existing-power-plants" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Clean Power Plan</a>, it sent a signal that the party was aligned with  opponents of the regulations, including the fossil fuel industry. Dunlap also said it sent an important cue to rank-and-file Republicans to put pressure on Republicans in Congress who might be inclined to favor action. That was the pressure that helped oust Rep. Bob Inglis (R-S.C.) in 2010, when he supported a price on carbon and saw his <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2010/08/bob-inglis-tea-party-casualty" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">donations dry up</a> and was unseated by a Tea Party challenger.<p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; font-family: " open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">"They face both top-down and bottom-up pressure," said Dunlap.<p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; font-family: " open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Dunlap's research shows it will be difficult to reverse the trend. The partisan divide on climate change is just as wide regardless of education level—indicating that efforts to reach doubters through education and better communication of science may be fruitless. Dunlap said he believes only a fundamental shake-up in the GOP is likely to dislodge the deep-seated views. It's just one reason, he says, that this election—and what happens to the Republican party following it—may be crucial for the future of action on climate change.</div><div></div><div>ref</div><div><a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2010/08/bob-inglis-tea-party-casualty">http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2010/08/bob-inglis-tea-party-casualty</a></div><div>$</div><div></div><div>10'15 carl pope:</div><div>...It’s easy to blame the ideology, or the temperament, of the Freedom Caucus, for the melt-down, or even the overall competence of the Republican party, as conservative columnist David Brooks <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/13/opinion/the-republicans-incompetence-caucus.html?r=0" target="blank" style="line-height: 25.2px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s linear; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">has done</a>. “This anti-political political ethos produced elected leaders of jaw-dropping incompetence. Running a government is a craft, like carpentry. But the new Republican officials did not believe in government and so did not respect its traditions, its disciplines and its craftsmanship.”</div>But there are also deep structural sources of the malady. Consider the primary election that gives the Freedom Caucus its leverage over the more mainstream majority of the House Republicans; the defeat of Majority Leader Eric Cantor in 2014. Cantor’s successful Tea Party opponent, Eric Brat, received only 36,000 votes, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2014/06/11/the-remarkably-small-percentage-of-people-it-took-to-oust-eric-cantor/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s linear; background: transparent;">just 8 percent of the registered electorate in Virginia’s 7th district.</a> That’s less than a quarter of the registered Republicans. Indeed, in that fall’s general election, the Democratic candidate for Congress who Brat faced, Jack Trammel, received 91,000 votes, almost three times as many as Brat received in unseating Cantor, even though in the General Election Brat crushed Trammel.So it’s almost certain that if Virginia, like California and Louisiana, let the two biggest vote getters in the primary contest the general even if they are of the same party, that in Round 2 Cantor would have gotten more than enough votes to keep his seat.And Cantor’s defeat is no anomaly. Consider South Carolina’s 4th Congressional District, in which Trey Gowdy, the Chair of the Banghazi Frenzy Committee, defeated four term conservative Republican Bob Inglis. Gowdy charged that Inglis, by conceding the existence of<a href="http://ecowatch.com/climate-change-news/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s linear; background: transparent;">global warming</a>, had forfeited his conservative credentials in spite of a 93.5 percent American Conservative Union rating. Gowdy stomped Inglis in the primary—but again, look at the numbers. Gowdy got only 54,000 votes, a tiny fraction of the registered voters. Once again in the general election the Democratic congressional candidate, in an overwhelmingly Republican district, received more votes than Gowdy in the primary. There are enough other examples that most House Republicans now live in fear of such a primary defeat—which is why mainstream Republicans couldn’t stand up Boehner against the <a href="http://ecowatch.com/?s=tea+party" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s linear; background: transparent;">Tea Party</a>.Applying this 40,000 votes needed to win a contested Republican primary, and considering that the average Congressional district has 330,000 registered voters, a determined and disciplined “faction” (as Madison would have put it) of far fewer than 5 percent of the American public could dominate the nominating process of the Republican party and capture it. (The same math holds true for the Democrats—it’s just harder to imagine such a disciplined faction of Democrats).Effectively, an even tinier group now exercises dominating power of intimidation over the Republican caucus in the House.How did this happen? Low turn-out primaries are nothing new—they are standard fare, and over the decades hundreds of primary victors have been chosen by even smaller segments of the electorate than Brat. It didn’t threaten to shut-down the government. Nor is the presence within one or both parties of small caucuses of members of Congress with view strikingly out of step with the <a href="http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/10/the-freedom-caucus-historic-rebellion-213256?o=1" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s linear; background: transparent;">American majority</a>. During the Civil Rights era, the 1965 Voting Rights Act was opposed by 65 House Democrats, a much larger number than the Freedom Caucus.But three basic changes in American politics, blended with low turn-outs created this toxic brew.First, American political parties were traditionally ideological grab-bags of regional factions. The Democrats lumped Northern urban liberals with rural Southern conservatives, and rural Protestant Conservatives caucused with up-scale suburban moderates among Republicans. After Barry Goldwater’s defeat in 1964 conservatives decided that they needed a “pure” conservative party, one with a clear and conservative ideology. They chose the Republican party. Aided by the civil rights induced migration of southern whites out of the Democratic party, this project proved fabulously successful. With the 2010 defeat of most of the Blue Dog Democrats in the House, and the loss of most of the remaining conservative Democratic Senators in 2014, both parties now stand solidly on either the right or the left.Second, having created European style ideological parties, Congressional Republicans then embraced European style parliamentary politics, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/06/weekinreview/the-nation-with-political-discipline-it-works-like-parliament.html" target="blank" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s linear;">imposing discipline</a> on individual Senators and Congressman with strong sanctions if they voted their districts or their consciences on key legislation. This trend culminated in the 1995 promulgation of the Hastert rule, that the Speaker would schedule only legislation which enjoyed majority support in the Republican caucus, and its corollary, that Republicans would uniformly provide such legislation with enough votes to pass.The Supreme Court provided the third kicker. One of the main barriers to a broadly unpopular ideology successfully plucking off 30-40 Congressional seats was that fringe factions lack an obvious mass funding base. But by repealing all of the legal limits on how much money the super-rich and corporations could pump into campaigns, the Court allowed a single patron to turbocharge policy objective held by a tiny minority of Americans and enable them to black-mail the entire national political system by shutting down Congress.And how does the U.S. political system get out of this hostage taking dynamic? A few years ago many main-stream Republicans <a href="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/15/davids-awesome-tie-story/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s linear; background: transparent;">(David Brooks among them)</a> argued that the nomination of a genuinely extremist Presidential nominee followed by a decisive drubbing in the general election would “break the fever” which had taken hold of the party. But that strategy assumed that business elites and the Republican establishment still held the loyalty of hierarchical Republican voters. <a href="http://ecowatch.com/?s=donald+trump" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s linear; background: transparent;">Donald Trump</a> and Ben Carson’s domination of the Presidential polls seems to have illustrated <a href="http://www.conservativecrusader.com/articles/it-s-time-to-make-the-republican-party-elite-go-away" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s linear; background: transparent;">that this loyalty can no longer be counted on</a>, and that the Tea Party, until it enacts its widely unpopular agenda, may well refuse to bow to the pragmatic counsels of “we need to win the Presidency.”There is another pathway—it’s what Madison would have wanted—and if I had to bet, it’s the likely outcome. Mainstream Republicans will realize that if a relatively small number of them form cross-aisle alliances with the Democrats on those issues on which everyone except the Tea Party agrees (highway funding for example), they can govern, even if minimally because President Obama will eagerly sign such legislation. The business community will have to provide those who cross the aisle with protection in their primaries—which means that only bills with strong conservative and business credentials will be viable. But if Speaker Ryan is forced into such a strategy, and his consent would be essential, <a href="http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/10/the-freedom-caucus-historic-rebellion-213256?o=1" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s linear; background: transparent;">the fury of the hard core of the extreme right</a> will make Catherine de Medici look like a pussycat.So I don’t think it ends well for Speaker Ryan. But perhaps I am misreading the Tea Party. I hope so.<div></div>5/2/15LOE.org republic.en.org  scuba ossie xian coral, son , 09 carbon tax and rebate?egAn exciting piece of news popped yesterday as our friends at R Street, led by president and founder Eli Lehrer, <a href="http://www.rstreet.org/news-release/catrina-rorke-joins-r-street-as-director-of-energy-policy/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">announced the hiring</a> of Catrina Rorke as their new Director of Energy Policy.Formerly with Doug Holtz-Eakin's American Action Forum, Catrina shifts conservative think tanks to work not only on federal energy issues but also state-level policy, including free-market solar and clean energy projects.E&E Daily'sEvan Lehmann <a href="http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060017471" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; line-height: 21.45px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">reported yesterday</a> on my former colleague in Bob's Fourth Congressional District Office and her move to R Street.<blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 21.45px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"I don't think that they would ever buy into a carbon price signal without the EPA still implementing the Clean Power Plan," she told E&E Daily. "And those two things are not possible. You need one or the other. I think the Clean Power Plan is a horrible solution. It's not going to reduce emissions at a rate that's great. It's hard to implement."</blockquote>Catrina added that climate change is an issue that's "made to solve" by conservatives with free-enterprise solutions. ---<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.85em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 21.45px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Climate realists care about getting the facts right.  Climate change presents serious and uncertain risks to society, but with so much noise and nonsense from the fringe left and right on this issue, it’s hard to keep focus on understanding and managing climate risks. republicEN has partnered with climate scientists at Berkeley Earth, who created this Realist’s Guide with the audacious goal of honestly presenting what we know and what we don’t know about climate change..<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.85em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 21.45px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Berkeley Earth is an independent organization of scientists formed in 2010 to conduct studies addressing the major concerns of “climate change skeptics” regarding global warming and the land surface temperature record.  The scientific work at Berkeley Earth is headed by Dr. Richard Muller, who also serves as Professor of Physics at the University of California at Berkeley, Faculty Senior Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, and a General Partner of Global Shale.  Dr. Muller is best known for his work in astrophysics and geophysics, and he also spent over a decade researching paleoclimate. For many years, Dr. Muller was known in the scientific community as a “skeptic” because of his cautious approach to uncertainties in climate data.  Explore <a href="http://berkeleyearth.org/about" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; max-width: 100%;">Berkeley Earth here</a>, and read more about <a href="http://berkeleyearth.org/team/richard-muller" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; max-width: 100%;">Dr. Muller here</a>.debate:

<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.4em 0px; border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em; vertical-align: baseline; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It occurred last June between two groups of conservatives.

<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.4em 0px; border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em; vertical-align: baseline; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">On the do-nothing side were well-known climate-science deniers, <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/02/19/1608431/heartlands-james-taylor-falsely-claims-new-study-rejects-climate-consensus/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: underline;">James Taylor</a> of Heartland and <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2011/02/11/174912/heritage-peri-epa/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: underline;">David Kreutzer</a> of Heritage Foundation. On the other side was R Street senior fellow Andrew Moylan along with former 6-term GOP congressman <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/07/05/2252491/bob-inglis-conservatives-have-a-climate-solution/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: underline;">Bob Inglis</a> (SC). Inglis leads the <a href="http://energyandenterprise.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: underline;">Energy and Enterprise Initiative</a> (E&EI), an organization dedicated to finding a conservative approach to climate change built around a revenue-neutral carbon tax.

At the conclusion of the debate, a straw poll was taken and approximately 80% of the audience indicated they favored taxing carbon emissions in return for a dollar-for-dollar tax swap on something else (FICA taxes, corporate income taxes, etc.).

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<a href="http://video.msnbc.msn.com/all-in-/52769181#52769218">http://video.msnbc.msn.com/all-in-/52769181#52769218</a> hayes doc

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TAL Producer Ben Calhoun tells the story of a former Congressional Representative from South Carolina, <a target="_blank" href="http://energyandenterprise.com/our-leaders/">Bob Inglis</a>. Inglis is a conservative Republican who once doubted climate science. After he looked at the research, he changed his mind, and decided to speak out. In 2010, he was mocked by people in his own party and trounced in by a Tea Party-backed candidate. Since then, Bob has dedicated himself to the issue even more — and he’s now trying to create a conservative coalition for climate change action. (15 minutes)<a href="http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/tag/60">Activism</a> • <a href="http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/tag/79">Environment</a>

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Among Republicans, is there anyone pushing to address climate change?

Outside of Congress, there are a lot of Republicans who are very concerned in the way their party talks about climate change. They’re afraid the Republicans will end up on the wrong side of history, and this view will come back and hurt them badly. So they’re outside the political process having conversations on how to push the issue.

<a href="http://energyandenterprise.com/" target="blank">The Energy and Enterprise Initiative</a> is made up of <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/environment/climate-of-doubt/bob-inglis-climate-change-and-the-republican-party/">Bob Inglis</a> of South Carolina, who lost his job in part for support of climate change and is working with conservative economist Art Laffer, with the support of Romney adviser Greg Mankiw <a href="http://www.nationaljournal.com/energy/republican-thinkers-launch-new-climate-change-initiative-20120710" target="blank">to push for this idea of the carbon tax</a>.

<a href="http://www.nationaljournal.com/energy/conservative-group-plans-to-push-republicans-toward-action-on-climate-cleaner-energy-20120819?mrefid=site_search" target="_blank">There is also the Young Conservatives for Energy Reform</a>, a Christian Coalition linked up with [Young Republicans], that fears that the party is morally on the wrong side of the issue.

So there’s a growing conversation of Republicans who aren’t in public office, who are worried, who want to tell Republicans that if they go back to a moderate place on this issue, we will still support them.

But a much more powerful voice is fossil fuel groups and SuperPACs. They haven’t had nearly as much of a voice as the SuperPACs, like Americans for Prosperity, or the coal groups, like the American Coalition for Clean Coal and Electricity, which are spending very heavily to influence the campaign and make sure Republican candidates don’t move on the issue.

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see hockenberry pbs climate of doubt, not nailed specifcally on GW

<a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/environment/climate-of-doubt/bob-inglis-climate-change-and-the-republican-party/">http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/environment/climate-of-doubt/bob-inglis-climate-change-and-the-republican-party/</a>

<a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/climate-of-doubt/">http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/climate-of-doubt/</a>

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<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc43jYUr4Ek&feature=player_embedded#%21">Frank Ackerman</a>, an economist at the Stockholm Environment Institute at Tufts University, offers up Carbon Pricing 101.</li>

<li>Former U.S. Rep. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXwhI4feIac&feature=player_embedded">Bob Inglis</a> presents a conservative case for carbon taxes, and offers the Republican definition of sustainability.</li>

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<h1 class="headline">Hey, look, a Republican who cares about climate change!</h1>

By <a href="http://grist.org/author/david-roberts/" title="Posts by David Roberts">David Roberts</a><div id="attachment_115906" class="wp-caption alignright" style=" width: 260px;">

Bob Inglis believes climate change is real, and he wants to do something about it.

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At this point, denial is the official Republican Party stance on climate change. Not a single one of their presidential or (to my knowledge) congressional candidates has affirmed the existence, much less the danger, of anthropogenic climate change in the 2012 election cycle.

But Bob Inglis is bucking the trend.

Inglis was drummed out of the U.S. House in 2010 when South Carolina voters gave his Tea Party challenger more than 70 percent of the primary vote. Among Inglis’ sins: daring to be concerned about climate change. And despite the fact that it arguably cost him his seat, he hasn’t given up on climate, or on his party. This week, Inglis is launching an <a href="http://energyandenterprise.com/">Energy & Enterprise Initiative</a> at George Mason University to promote conservative solutions to global warming. I caught up with him by phone recently to find out what those solutions are and who else is on board.

Q. Tell me about the new organization you’re starting.

A. It’s called the Energy & Enterprise Initiative. It’s an effort to advocate for the elimination of all subsidies for all fuels and the attachment of all costs to all fuels. That’s the free-enterprise fix to energy and climate. If you correct the market distortions and make all fuels accountable for all of their costs, that will drive innovation and as a result reduce CO2 emissions.

..<a href="http://grist.org/article/hey-look-a-republican-who-cares-about-climate-change/">.http://grist.org/article/hey-look-a-republican-who-cares-about-climate-change/</a>

<a href="http://motherjones.com/environment/2012/01/mit-climate-scientists-wife-threatened-frenzy-hate">http://motherjones.com/environment/2012/01/mit-climate-scientists-wife-threatened-frenzy-hate</a>

climate hawk

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Inglis">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Inglis</a>

Robert Durden "Bob" Inglis, Sr. (born October 11, 1959) is a former <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">U.S. Representative</a> for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Carolina%27s_4th_congressional_district" title="South Carolina's 4th congressional district">South Carolina's 4th congressional district</a>, serving from 1993 to 1999, and then again from 2005 until 2011. He is a member of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party%28United_States%29" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican Party</a>. The district includes much of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Upstate" title="The Upstate" class="mw-redirect">Upstate</a> region, including <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenville,South_Carolina" title="Greenville, South Carolina">Greenville</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartanburg" title="Spartanburg" class="mw-redirect">Spartanburg</a>.

Inglis was defeated in the Republican primary in June 2010.

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Inglis was born in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savannah,Georgia" title="Savannah, Georgia">Savannah, Georgia</a>, and grew up in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluffton,South_Carolina" title="Bluffton, South Carolina">Bluffton, South Carolina</a> near <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilton_Head_Island" title="Hilton Head Island" class="mw-redirect">Hilton Head Island</a>. He earned his undergraduate degree from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_University" title="Duke University">Duke University</a>. He went on to obtain his Juris Doctor from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Virginia_School_of_Law" title="University of Virginia School of Law">University of Virginia School of Law</a>. Upon his graduation from law school, he worked for a number of years as a lawyer in private practice.

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In the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/111th_Congress" title="111th Congress" class="mw-redirect">111th Congress</a>:

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<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Committee_on_Foreign_Affairs" title="United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs">Committee on Foreign Affairs</a>

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<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Foreign_Affairs_Subcommittee_on_Asia,the_Pacific,and_the_Global_Environment" title="United States House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, and the Global Environment" class="mw-redirect">Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, and the Global Environment</a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Foreign_Affairs_Subcommittee_on_Europe" title="United States House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe" class="mw-redirect">Subcommittee on Europe</a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Foreign_Affairs_Subcommittee_on_the_Middle_East_and_South_Asia" title="United States House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia">Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia</a></li>

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<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Committee_on_Science_and_Technology" title="United States House Committee on Science and Technology" class="mw-redirect">Committee on Science and Technology</a>

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<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Science_Subcommittee_on_Energy_and_Environment" title="United States House Science Subcommittee on Energy and Environment">Subcommittee on Energy and Environment</a> (Ranking Member)</li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Science_Subcommittee_on_Research_and_Science_Education" title="United States House Science Subcommittee on Research and Science Education">Science Subcommittee on Research and Science Education</a></li>

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<h2>[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bob_Inglis&action=edit&section=4&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Political positions">edit</a>] Political positions</h2>

Inglis's 2010 Republican primary opponents asserted that his voting record in his second House spell was more moderate than his first. He was one of 17 House Republicans who voted for a Democratic resolution opposing the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War_troop_surge_of_2007" title="Iraq War troop surge of 2007">Iraq War troop surge of 2007</a>, and has spoken against <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_scepticism" title="Climate change scepticism" class="mw-redirect">climate change scepticism</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offshore_oil_drilling" title="Offshore oil drilling" class="mw-redirect">offshore oil drilling</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrantless_wiretapping" title="Warrantless wiretapping" class="mw-redirect">warrantless surveillance</a> since returning to the House.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Inglis#cite_note-pol090407-0">[1]</a> In response, Inglis has pointed to his 93.5% lifetime rating from the American Conservative Union<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Inglis#cite_note-ts100526-1">[2]</a> and his endorsements from the National Rifle Association and National Right to Life.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Inglis#cite_note-gt100527-2">[3]</a>

On climate change, Inglis said that conservatives should go with the facts, and the science, and accept the National Academy of Science's conclusion that climate change is caused by human activities and poses significant risks, which 95% of climate scientists agree with. Studies conclude that coal power plants are responsible for 23,600 premature deaths in the U.S. per year, and conservatives should hold them accountable, he said, perhaps with a carbon tax on their emissions.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Inglis#cite_note-3">[4]</a>

Inglis is a staunch advocate of a federal prohibition of online <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poker" title="Poker">poker</a>. He also has supported actions to aid people in war-torn Darfur. In 2006, he co-sponsored H.R. 4411, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodlatte" title="Goodlatte" class="mw-redirect">Goodlatte</a>-Leach Internet Gambling Prohibition Act<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Inglis#cite_note-hr4411-4">[5]</a> and H.R. 4777, the Internet Gambling Prohibition Act.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Inglis#cite_note-hr4777-5">[6]</a> On December 27, 2008 Inglis published an op-ed in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a> in support of a revenue neutral <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_tax" title="Carbon tax">carbon tax</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Inglis#cite_note-nyt081227-6">[7]</a>

In October 2007, before the South Carolina <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party%28United_States%29_presidential_primaries,2008" title="Republican Party (United States) presidential primaries, 2008" class="mw-redirect">2008 Republican presidential primary</a>, Inglis told presidential candidate <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitt_Romney" title="Mitt Romney">Mitt Romney</a>, a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon" title="Mormon" class="mw-redirect">Mormon</a>, "[Y]ou cannot equate Mormonism with Christianity; you cannot say, 'I am a Christian just like you.'" Inglis stated "If he [Romney] does that, every Baptist preacher in the South is going to have to go to the pulpit on Sunday and explain the differences.”<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Inglis#cite_note-bn071030-7">[8]</a>

On September 15, 2009, Inglis was one of seven <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party%28United_States%29" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republicans</a> to cross party lines in voting to disapprove fellow South Carolina Republican <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Wilson%28U.S._politician%29" title="Joe Wilson (U.S. politician)">Joe Wilson</a> for a lack of decorum during President Obama's address to a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_session_of_the_United_States_Congress" title="Joint session of the United States Congress">joint session of Congress</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Inglis#cite_note-vote090915-8">[9]</a>

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In 1992, Inglis made his first run for elected office when he won the Republican nomination for the 4th District. In the general election, he defeated three-term incumbent <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party%28United_States%29" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democrat</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_J.Patterson" title="Liz J. Patterson">Liz J. Patterson</a>. Although the 4th had been trending Republican for some time, Patterson had deep family ties in the district (she is the daughter of former Senator <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olin_Johnston" title="Olin Johnston" class="mw-redirect">Olin Johnston</a>), and she had won her first two terms under unfriendly conditions for Democrats.

Proving just how Republican this district had become, Inglis was re-elected in 1994 and 1996 with no substantive opposition, both times winning over 70 percent of the vote.

Inglis vacated the seat in 1998 to run for the Senate against Democratic incumbent <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hollings" title="Ernest Hollings">Ernest Hollings</a>. One of the more heated and covered moments of the race was when Hollings referred to Inglis as a "goddamn skunk."[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] Inglis gave Hollings his second close race in a row, holding the longtime Senator to only 53 percent of the vote. After losing the race, Inglis returned to work as a lawyer, practicing commercial real estate and corporate law. He was succeeded by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_DeMint" title="Jim DeMint">Jim DeMint</a>.

In 2004, DeMint opted to run for Hollings's now open Senate seat instead of seeking re-election to the House. Inglis chose to take his old House seat back. He easily won a three-way Republican primary with 85 percent of the vote, all but assuring his return to Congress. He was re-elected with little difficulty in 2006 and 2008.

<div class="rellink boilerplate seealso">See also: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_South_Carolina,_2010#District_4" title="United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 2010">United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 2010#District 4</a></div>

Inglis faced four challengers in the Republican primary—the real contest in this heavily Republican district. It was the first time he faced substantive primary opposition as an incumbent. The challengers included 7th Circuit (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartanburg" title="Spartanburg" class="mw-redirect">Spartanburg</a>) Solicitor <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trey_Gowdy" title="Trey Gowdy">Trey Gowdy</a>, state Senator <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_L._Thomas" title="David L. Thomas">David Thomas</a>, college professor and former <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historian_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="Historian of the United States House of Representatives">Historian of the U.S. House</a> Christina Jeffrey, and businessman Jim Lee.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Inglis#cite_note-gt100527-2">[3]</a>

Following the June 8, 2010, primary election, Inglis was forced into a June 22 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-round_system" title="Two-round system">run-off election</a> with Trey Gowdy, who had received a significantly larger number of votes.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Inglis#cite_note-Bell-9">[10]</a> Although he had "racked up a reliably conservative record" during his six terms in the house,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Inglis#cite_note-10">[11]</a> Inglis had been criticized by his primary opponents for Congressional votes, including his support for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Economic_Stabilization_Act_of_2008" title="Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008">Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008</a> (which earned him the nickname "Bailout Bob")<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Inglis#cite_note-11">[12]</a> and his opposition to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War_troop_surge_of_2007" title="Iraq War troop surge of 2007">Iraq War troop surge of 2007</a>, and was portrayed as removed from the interests of the district.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Inglis#cite_note-Bell-9">[10]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Inglis#cite_note-tpm100609-12">[13]</a> Inglis had attacked Gowdy's conservativism and questioned his support for creating a costly lake in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_County,_South_Carolina" title="Union County, South Carolina">Union County, South Carolina</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Inglis#cite_note-Bell-9">[10]</a>

In the runoff, Gowdy defeated Inglis in a massive landslide, receiving 71 percent of the vote to Inglis' 29 percent.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Inglis#cite_note-cq100622-13">[14]</a> Following his defeat in the Republican primary, Inglis criticized the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_movement" title="Tea Party movement">Tea Party movement</a>, which had supported his opponents' campaign, as well as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_%28United_States%29" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican Party</a> for courting the movement, stating, "It's a dangerous strategy, to build conservatism on information and policies that are not credible."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Inglis#cite_note-14">[15]</a>

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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Carolina%27s_4th_congressional_district" title="South Carolina's 4th congressional district">South Carolina's 4th congressional district</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections,_1992" title="United States House of Representatives elections, 1992">1992</a>:<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Inglis#cite_note-15">[16]</a>

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<li>Bob Inglis, Republican – 99,879 (50.34%)</li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_J._Patterson" title="Liz J. Patterson">Elizabeth J. Patterson</a>, Democrat – 94,182 (47.47%)</li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Jorgensen" title="Jo Jorgensen">Jo Jorgensen</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_Party_%28United_States%29" title="Libertarian Party (United States)">Libertarian</a> – 4,286 (2.16%)</li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write-in_candidate" title="Write-in candidate">Write-in candidates</a> – 63 (0.03%)</li>

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South Carolina's 4th congressional district, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections,_1994" title="United States House of Representatives elections, 1994">1994</a>:<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Inglis#cite_note-16">[17]</a>

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<li>Bob Inglis, Republican – 109,626 (73.49%)</li>

<li>Jerry L. Fowler, Democrat – 39,396 (26.41%)</li>

<li>Write-in candidates – 154 (0.10%)</li>

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South Carolina's 4th congressional district, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections,_1996" title="United States House of Representatives elections, 1996">1996</a>:<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Inglis#cite_note-17">[18]</a>

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<li>Bob Inglis, Republican – 138,165 (70.93%)</li>

<li>Darrell E. Curry, Democrat – 54,126 (27.79%)</li>

<li>C. Faye Walters, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_Law_Party_%28United_States%29" title="Natural Law Party (United States)">Natural Law</a> – 2,501 (1.28%)</li>

</ul>

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_election_in_South_Carolina,_1998" title="United States Senate election in South Carolina, 1998">United States Senate election in South Carolina, 1998</a> – Republican primary:<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Inglis#cite_note-18">[19]</a>

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<li>Bob Inglis – 115,029 (74.60%)</li>

<li>Stephen Brown – 33,530 (21.75%)</li>

<li>Elton Legrand – 5,634 (3.65%)</li>

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United States Senate election in South Carolina, 1998:<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Inglis#cite_note-19">[20]</a>

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<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_F._Hollings" title="Ernest F. Hollings" class="mw-redirect">Ernest Hollings</a>, Democrat – 563,377 (52.70%)</li>

<li>Bob Inglis, Republican – 488,238 (45.67%)</li>

<li>Richard T. Quillian, Libertarian – 16,991 (1.59%)</li>

<li>Write-in candidates – 457 (0.04%)</li>

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South Carolina's 4th congressional district, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections,_2004" title="United States House of Representatives elections, 2004">2004</a>:<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Inglis#cite_note-20">[21]</a>

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<li>Bob Inglis, Republican – 188,795 (69.77%)</li>

<li>Brandon P. Brown, Democrat – 78,376 (28.96%)</li>

<li>C. Faye Walters, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Party_%28United_States%29" title="Green Party (United States)">Green</a> – 3,273 (1.21%)</li>

<li>Write-in candidates – 150 (0.06%)</li>

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South Carolina's 4th congressional district, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections,_2006" title="United States House of Representatives elections, 2006">2006</a>:<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Inglis#cite_note-21">[22]</a>

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<li>Bob Inglis, Republican – 115,553 (64.22%)</li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William_Griffith_%28US_politician%29&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="William Griffith (US politician) (page does not exist)">William Griff Griffith</a>, Democrat – 57,490 (31.95%)</li>

<li>John Cobin, Libertarian – 4,467 (2.48%)</li>

<li>C. Faye Walters, Green – 2,336 (1.30%)</li>

<li>Write-in candidates – 85 (0.05%)</li>

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South Carolina's 4th congressional district, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections,_2008" title="United States House of Representatives elections, 2008">2008</a> – Republican primary:<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Inglis#cite_note-22">[23]</a>

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<li>Bob Inglis – 37,571 (66.95%)</li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Jeter" title="Charles Jeter">Charles Jeter</a> – 18,545 (33.05%)</li>

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South Carolina's 4th congressional district, 2008:<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Inglis#cite_note-23">[24]</a>

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<li>Bob Inglis, Republican – 184,440 (60.09%)</li>

<li>Paul Corden, Democrat – 113,291 (36.91%)</li>

<li>C. Faye Walters, Green – 7,332 (2.39%)</li>

<li>Write-in candidates – 1,865 (0.61%)</li>

</ul>

South Carolina's 4th congressional district, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections,_2010" title="United States House of Representatives elections, 2010">2010</a> – Republican primary:<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Inglis#cite_note-24">[25]</a>

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<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trey_Gowdy" title="Trey Gowdy">Trey Gowdy</a> – 34,103 (39.22%)</li>

<li>Bob Inglis – 23,877 (27.46%)</li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_L._Thomas" title="David L. Thomas">David Thomas</a> – 11,073 (12.74%)</li>

<li>Christina Jeffrey – 6,041 (6.95%)</li>

</ul>

South Carolina's 4th congressional district, 2010 – Republican primary runoff:<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Inglis#cite_note-25">[26]</a>

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<li>Trey Gowdy – 54,412 (70.66%)</li>

<li>Bob Inglis – 22,590 (29.34%)</li>

</ul>

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When not in Washington, Inglis resides with his wife Mary Anne and their five children on a small farm near <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travelers_Rest,_South_Carolina" title="Travelers Rest, South Carolina">Travelers Rest, South Carolina</a>, north of Greenville. He is a member of Redeemer Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Greenville.

<h2>[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bob_Inglis&action=edit&section=11&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: References">edit</a>] References</h2>

<li id="cite_note-pol090407-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Inglis#cite_ref-pol090407_0-0">^</a> Kraushaar, Josh (7 April 2009). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0409/20974.html">"Inglis faces fight from the right"</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico.com" title="Politico.com" class="mw-redirect">Politico.com</a>. Retrieved 14 April 2009.</li>

<li id="cite_note-ts100526-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Inglis#cite_ref-ts100526_1-0">^</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.thestate.com/2010/05/26/1304449/incumbent-inglis-faces-backlash.html">"Incumbent Inglis faces backlash"</a>. The State. May 26, 2010. Retrieved June 1, 2010.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Incumbent+Inglis+faces+backlash&rft.jtitle=The+State&rft.date=May+26%2C+2010&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thestate.com%2F2010%2F05%2F26%2F1304449%2Fincumbent-inglis-faces-backlash.html&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Bob_Inglis">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot">dead link</a>]</li>

<li id="cite_note-gt100527-2">^ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Inglis#cite_ref-gt100527_2-0">a</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Inglis#cite_ref-gt100527_2-1">b</a> Bell, Rudolph (May 27, 2010). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.greenvilleonline.com/article/20100527/NEWS/305270015/Four-challengers-go-after-Bob-Inglis-in-4th-District-primary">"Four challengers go after Bob Inglis in 4th District primary"</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Greenville_News" title="The Greenville News">The Greenville News</a>. Retrieved June 18, 2010.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Four+challengers+go+after+Bob+Inglis+in+4th+District+primary&rft.jtitle=%5B%5BThe+Greenville+News%5D%5D&rft.aulast=Bell&rft.aufirst=Rudolph&rft.au=Bell%2C%26%2332%3BRudolph&rft.date=May+27%2C+2010&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.greenvilleonline.com%2Farticle%2F20100527%2FNEWS%2F305270015%2FFour-challengers-go-after-Bob-Inglis-in-4th-District-primary&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Bob_Inglis">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot">dead link</a>]</li>

<li id="cite_note-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Inglis#cite_ref-3">^</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-10-02/conservative-means-standing-with-science-on-climate-bob-inglis.html">Conservative Means Standing With Science on Climate, By Bob Inglis, Bloomberg, October 2, 2011.</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-hr4411-4"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Inglis#cite_ref-hr4411_4-0">^</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:h.r.04411:">Thomas (Library of Congress): HR 4411</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-hr4777-5"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Inglis#cite_ref-hr4777_5-0">^</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:h.r.04777:">Thomas (Library of Congress): HR 4777</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-nyt081227-6"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Inglis#cite_ref-nyt081227_6-0">^</a> Inglis, Bob; Arthur B. Laffer (December 27, 2008). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/opinion/28inglis.html?partner=permalink&exprod=permalink">"An Emissions Plan Conservatives Could Warm To"</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a>. Retrieved December 29, 2008.</li>

<li id="cite_note-bn071030-7"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Inglis#cite_ref-bn071030_7-0">^</a> Nichols, Hans; Stern, Christopher (October 30, 2007). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=aU_vOirVlXhY&refer=home">"Romney Shouldn't Equate Mormons, Christians, Evangelicals Say"</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomberg_News" title="Bloomberg News" class="mw-redirect">Bloomberg News</a>. Retrieved January 30, 2008.</li>

<li id="cite_note-vote090915-8"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Inglis#cite_ref-vote090915_8-0">^</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2009/roll699.xml">"Final Vote Results For Roll Call 699 (H RES 744)"</a>. U.S. House of Representatives. September 15, 2009. Retrieved June 18, 2010.</li>

<li id="cite_note-Bell-9">^ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Inglis#cite_ref-Bell_9-0">a</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Inglis#cite_ref-Bell_9-1">b</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Inglis#cite_ref-Bell_9-2">c</a> Bell, Rudolph; Szobody, Ben (June 9, 2010). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.greenvilleonline.com/article/20100609/NEWS/306090059/">"Trey Gowdy led Bob Inglis in 4th District, but not enough to avoid runoff"</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Greenville_News" title="The Greenville News">The Greenville News</a>. Retrieved June 9, 2010.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Trey+Gowdy+led+Bob+Inglis+in+4th+District%2C+but+not+enough+to+avoid+runoff&rft.atitle=&rft.aulast=Bell&rft.aufirst=Rudolph&rft.au=Bell%2C%26%2332%3BRudolph&rft.au=Szobody%2C%26%2332%3BBen&rft.date=June+9%2C+2010&rft.pub=%5B%5BThe+Greenville+News%5D%5D&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.greenvilleonline.com%2Farticle%2F20100609%2FNEWS%2F306090059%2F&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Bob_Inglis">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot">dead link</a>]</li>

<li id="cite_note-10"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Inglis#cite_ref-10">^</a> Kornacki, Steve (2011-01-05) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/01/05/tea_party_gop_targets/index.html">The Republicans who should fear the Tea Party the most</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salon.com" title="Salon.com">Salon.com</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-11"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Inglis#cite_ref-11">^</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Stacy_McCain" title="Robert Stacy McCain">McCain, Robert Stacy</a> (2010-06-23) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://spectator.org/blog/2010/06/23/good-bye-bailout-bob-inglis">Good-Bye, 'Bailout Bob' Inglis</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_American_Spectator" title="The American Spectator">The American Spectator</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-tpm100609-12"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Inglis#cite_ref-tpm100609_12-0">^</a> Beutler, Brian (June 9, 2010). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/06/incumbent-republican-inglis-down-big-heading-into-runoff.php">"Incumbent Republican Inglis Down Big Heading Into Runoff"</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talking_Points_Memo" title="Talking Points Memo">Talking Points Memo</a>. Retrieved June 9, 2010.</li>

<li id="cite_note-cq100622-13"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Inglis#cite_ref-cq100622_13-0">^</a> McArdle, John (June 22, 2010). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=news-000003688244">"Gowdy Crushes Inglis in S.C. Runoff"</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CQ_Politics" title="CQ Politics" class="mw-redirect">CQ Politics</a>.</li>

<li id="cite_note-14"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Inglis#cite_ref-14">^</a> Corn, David (August 3, 2010). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/08/bob-inglis-tea-party-casualty?page=1">"Confessions of a Tea Party Casualty"</a>. Mother Jones. Retrieved August 3, 2010.</li>

<li id="cite_note-15"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Inglis#cite_ref-15">^</a> Anderson, Donald K. (May 31, 1993). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1992/92Stat.htm">"Statistics of the presidential and congressional election of November 3, 1992"</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clerk_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="Clerk of the United States House of Representatives">Clerk of the United States House of Representatives</a>. Retrieved October 31, 2010.</li>

<li id="cite_note-16"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Inglis#cite_ref-16">^</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_H._Carle" title="Robin H. Carle">Carle, Robin H.</a> (May 12, 1995). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1994/94Stat.htm">"Statistics of the congressional election of November 8, 1994"</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clerk_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="Clerk of the United States House of Representatives">Clerk of the United States House of Representatives</a>. Retrieved October 31, 2010.</li>

<li id="cite_note-17"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Inglis#cite_ref-17">^</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_H._Carle" title="Robin H. Carle">Carle, Robin H.</a> (July 23, 1997). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1994/94Stat.htm">"Statistics of the presidential and congressional election of November 5, 1996"</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clerk_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="Clerk of the United States House of Representatives">Clerk of the United States House of Representatives</a>. Retrieved October 31, 2010.</li>

<li id="cite_note-18"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Inglis#cite_ref-18">^</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.scvotes.org/statistics/election_returns_from_primaries_and_general_elections_statewide">"June 9, 1998 state wide Republican primary official results"</a>. South Carolina State Election Commission. Retrieved October 31, 2010.</li>

<li id="cite_note-19"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Inglis#cite_ref-19">^</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Trandahl" title="Jeff Trandahl">Trandahl, Jeff</a> (January 3, 1999). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1998/98Stat.htm">"Statistics of the congressional election of November 3, 1998"</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clerk_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="Clerk of the United States House of Representatives">Clerk of the United States House of Representatives</a>. Retrieved October 31, 2010.</li>

<li id="cite_note-20"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Inglis#cite_ref-20">^</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Trandahl" title="Jeff Trandahl">Trandahl, Jeff</a> (June 7, 2005). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/2004/2004Stat.htm">"Statistics of the presidential and congressional election of November 2, 2004"</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clerk_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="Clerk of the United States House of Representatives">Clerk of the United States House of Representatives</a>. Retrieved October 31, 2010.</li>

<li id="cite_note-21"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Inglis#cite_ref-21">^</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorraine_C._Miller" title="Lorraine C. Miller" class="mw-redirect">Miller, Lorraine C.</a> (September 21, 2007). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/2006/2006Stat.htm">"Statistics of the congressional election of November 7, 2006"</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clerk_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="Clerk of the United States House of Representatives">Clerk of the United States House of Representatives</a>. Retrieved October 31, 2010.</li>

<li id="cite_note-22"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Inglis#cite_ref-22">^</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.enr-scvotes.org/SC/4186/7382/en/summary.html">"2008 Republican and Democratic Primary"</a>. South Carolina State Election Commission. Retrieved October 31, 2010.</li>

<li id="cite_note-23"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Inglis#cite_ref-23">^</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorraine_C._Miller" title="Lorraine C. Miller" class="mw-redirect">Miller, Lorraine C.</a> (July 10, 2009). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/2008/2008Stat.html">"Statistics of the presidential and congressional elections of November 4, 2008"</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clerk_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="Clerk of the United States House of Representatives">Clerk of the United States House of Representatives</a>. Retrieved October 31, 2010.</li>

<li id="cite_note-24"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Inglis#cite_ref-24">^</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.enr-scvotes.org/SC/16117/28318/en/summary.html">"2010 Republican and Democratic Primary"</a>. South Carolina State Election Commission. Retrieved October 31, 2010.</li>

<li id="cite_note-25"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Inglis#cite_ref-25">^</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.enr-scvotes.org/SC/16213/29430/en/summary.html">"Runoff – 2010 Republican and Democratic Primary"</a>. South Carolina State Election Commission. Retrieved October 31, 2010.</li>

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<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.whorunsgov.com/Profiles/Bob_Inglis">Biography</a> at WhoRunsGov.com at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Post" title="The Washington Post">The Washington Post</a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=i000023">Biography</a> at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biographical_Directory_of_the_United_States_Congress" title="Biographical Directory of the United States Congress">Biographical Directory of the United States Congress</a></li>

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