March 5, 2010 10:17AM # Do You or Do You Not Hate America? By [Sallie James](https://www.cato.org/people/sallie-james) --- SHARE Sen. John Kerry (D, MA) made an, er, *interesting* rhetorical case yesterday (as reported on E2 Wire, *The Hill*’s Energy and Environment blog) that borrows heavily from the Bush playbook: [your patriotism hinges on voting for his favored policy — in this case, a climate change bill](http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/677-e2-wire/85057-kerry-on-climate-lawmakers-must-choose-whether-they-are-going-to-vote-for-america-or-against-it). Not that the bill is really about climate change, of course. It’s about a list of goodies completely unrelated to the changing political winds: > What we are talking about is a jobs bill. It is not a climate bill. It is a jobs bill, and it is a clean air bill. It is a national security, energy independence bill,” he told reporters in the Capitol… > > > “And **people are going to have to decide whether they are going to vote for America or against it**,” he concluded. ##### Related Tags [Energy and Environment](https://www.cato.org/research/energy-environment), [Government and Politics](https://www.cato.org/government-politics) [![Creative Commons License](/build/cato_2020/images/creative-commons.svg)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).