PrintDecember 10, 2006
Olympia Snowe, Stealth Culture Warrior
Less than two weeks before her almost certain reelection to a third term, Olympia Snowe issued a fatwa against Exxon-Mobil and climate change policy skeptics who have had the audacity to openly question her advocacy of Kyoto derived mandatory greenhouse gas emissions controls. Senator Snowe urged Exxon-Mobil to stop resisting her efforts to pass symbolic, expensive and futile GHG regulatory legislation, and most especially to gag two vocal critics: the Competitive Enterprise Institute (headed by economic freedom advocate and 1996 GOP Vice Presidential nominee Jack Kemp) and techcentralstation, a web site devoted to markets, technology and entrepreneurial optimism, as opposed to the Senator's apparent agenda for bureaucracy and precautionary principle pessimism.Senator Snowe has cultivated an image as a non-ideological moderate who works with the other side of the aisle to get things done. This last barrage against free speech and intellectual pluralism shows that she is in fact a...(Read Full Article)
