{"id":5897,"date":"2011-12-07T00:13:47","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T04:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=5897"},"modified":"2011-12-07T00:13:47","modified_gmt":"2011-12-07T04:13:47","slug":"huntsman-climate-change-flip-flop-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2011\/12\/07\/huntsman-climate-change-flip-flop-limerick\/","title":{"rendered":"Huntsman Changes His Climate Change Tune (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once upon a time, way back in August 2011, Jon Huntsman was a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/political-animal\/2011_12\/what_a_primary_can_do_to_a_can033936.php\">voice of sanity on climate change.<\/a>  He even tweeted, <a href=\"http:\/\/2012.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2011\/12\/jon-huntsman-flip-flops-on-climate-change.php\">\u201cTo be clear, I believe in evolution and trust scientists on global warming. Call me crazy.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But I suppose desperate poll numbers make for pathetic pandering.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a move that\u2019s sure to endear him to the conservatives who are starting to warm up to the former Utah governor, Huntsman said Tuesday under questioning from TPM that he now believes there\u2019s \u201cmore debate yet to play out\u201d before we can be sure climate change is really happening.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Huntsman Changes His Climate Change Tune (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Huntsman&#8217;s climate-change views once were sane.<br \/>\nBut no more &#8212; he&#8217;s tossed truth down the drain.<br \/>\nNow he wants &#8220;more debate.&#8221;<br \/>\nYes he&#8217;s flip-flopped to rate.<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s debased &#8212; deep in Romney terrain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once upon a time, way back in August 2011, Jon Huntsman was a voice of sanity on climate change. He even tweeted, \u201cTo be clear, I believe in evolution and trust scientists on global warming. Call me crazy.\u201d But I suppose desperate poll numbers make for pathetic pandering. In a move that\u2019s sure to endear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[72,21,20,1607,126,6,7,3,9],"tags":[192,2906,194,2780,2900,1250,1259,702,1719],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5897"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5897"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5909,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5897\/revisions\/5909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}