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The Spectacle Blog
Sometimes fate smiles on those of us toiling in the global warming fields. Like now, that chairman Henry Waxman of the powerful Energy and Commerce Committee is calling for a full investigation of forged letters to freshman Rep. Tom Periello asking him to oppose the Waxman-Markey carbon cap-and-trade energy rationing scheme.
What a great hook -- the education of young Rep. Periello! -- to remind everyone that this particular Virginia Gentleman needs all the mail he can get, forged or otherwise, as this sage of my own congressional district actually told a local radio interviewer here in Charlottesville that the U.S. is losing jobs to India and China precisely because they've already enacted such measures!
True story. I heard it live with my two ears.
The public are generally very forgiving, if less so at the moment. But some ignorance is beyond shrugging it off with a simple a wink and a nod, and some voters don't think they should be the ones represented by those who apparently are the least able or willing to handle the issues independently, resisting the say-anything, talking points-obsessed attitude, to be satisfied then with a raging ignorance of facts. That is, the least likely to stand up for them against a Speaker highly unrepresentative of the young fellow's district, let alone the president.
Let's call this a teaching moment.
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Elaine K.| 7.31.09 @ 11:43PM
This calls for another beer.
Elaine K.| 7.31.09 @ 11:43PM
This calls for another beer.
Ben Ayers| 8.1.09 @ 11:34AM
Look, the coal industry bought and paid for forged letters claiming to represent the very poor people they are contaminating with mercury. The poor are at greatest risks during violent storms. Look who was left on the rooftopds during Hurricane Katrina. It's time to create clean energy and millions of new jobs and end our dependence on dirty coal and midlle east oil.
Stan Redmond| 8.1.09 @ 11:52AM
Ben, your heart is in the right place but there is no sense to your argument. Sure we're all compassionate about the poor, but the greatest way to lift them out of poverty, or at least keep them comfortable, is cheap energy. The poor in this country are richer then most well off people in places like the Phillipines, India, and Sri Lanka. Katrina had nothing to do with coal powerplants or poverty. It had to do with people so broken down and dependent on government they are absolutely helpless without big brother telling them what to do, when to do it, and doing it for them. It also doesn't help that a city is below sea level right next to the sea. What the stupid cap and tax energy starvation bill will do is force incredibly expensive and unreliable electricity. This does not help the poor no matter how many subsidies they are given. All of us productive people who will pay for these pipe-dream windmills and solar panels will simply make more money and pass on the costs to 'the poor' or stop hiring 'the poor' and send jobs where this nonsense isn't swallowed.
And if you want to get in to conspiracies of corporate buying and paying look in to GE and how much they stand to make with this "green" push. If Obama was serious about clean energy we would have new hydroelectric dams and nuclear power plants being built all over the country. But no, that's politically unfashionable power. We are being force fed windmills and solar panels that produce power 20% of the time. Cloudy day? No wind? How many millions of jobs will not be needed when shops can only keep their lights on half the day and their electricity bills are 10 times higher than current rates? The poor and minorities, as usual with all liberal fantasies, will be hardest hit.
Nobama| 8.1.09 @ 1:49PM
Poor minorities are already the hardest hit in Obama's Depression. Urban black men have the highest unemployment rate in the country. What a shame.
Obama doesn't give a d@mn about them, either: He only cares about power.