Environment Massachusetts lights into the Senator for voting for the infamous Murkowski amendment, which would have stripped the EPA of the power to regulate CO2 — without any other legislation to enforce it at all.
He has a chance to make amends by voting for a clean energy bill that includes a strong cap on carbon emissions. His numbers are (617) 565-3170, or (202) 224-4543.
Or do I repeat myself?
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watch a barrage of democratic political ads and drink every time they use the phrase "lock-step".
If the shoe fits ...
Drink it!
Or something.
Put me in the Dmitry Orlov Club
When a populace can be manipulated into thinking a global taxation scheme based upon the business models of Enron's Ken Lay can solve our enviornmental problems then all of us are as useless as the Kardashian brats. Maybe it is a Strategic Communications Laboratories generation or the cancer of compromised big institutions which should be too big and should fail. Is it them, or us who have to die.
Enron Enron Enron Enron Enron Enron Enron Enron Enron Enron
So what if you don't like cap and trade what is your preferred remedy to cut greenhouse gas emissions so that we can all avert climate catastrophe?
Pick one
Engineered global depression Starting WWIII by attacking Iran Corexit contaminated food supply
Please Come Clean
If you are a climate denier why not just come right out and say so?
A wooden stake driven through
the black heart of every utterance of carbon scamming Bernie Madoff pedophile sociopathic green Nazi stormtrooper types. Have I made my contempt crystal clear?
Not going to happen
Opposition to cap-and-trade was one of Brown's major campaign issues.
Of course the ad doesn't even mention global warming. Unless you read the fine print and look up the amendment, the ad leads you to believe Brown's vote was related to the BP oil spill. It's so shamefully deceitful, Brown gets the moral high ground by default.
WTF?
To harness 1 kWh of power in oil, you release 1.9 lbs of CO_2. If the EPA can regulate CO_2, they can influence who/what/when/where/why/how much oil is burned.
Surely you see how that influences CO_2 emissions and how that influences Big Oil, dontcha?
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But most people watching this ad without the benefit of Bluemassgroup commentary will reasonably assume the vote had something to do with oil spills.
It's definitely truthy
I mean, there is a link between the EPA's ability to regulate CO_2 and oil spills. If oil was priced correctly, there'd be far less drilling for it... and therefore, a smaller chance of spill.
But yes, the vote had nothing to do with the BP Horizon spill given that the spill has already happened.
True.
And as we all know, politicians never change their minds.
Not in this case
The ad doesn't touch global warming with a ten foot poll. I don't think there's much incentive for Brown to flip on this when his opponents are afraid to even mention their issue.
Relevant to another thread....
I'd like to check the party registration of Mr. Miller of Roslindale.
I'd like to see if the lady who talks about how 'we' sent Brown to DC actiually voted in the special election.
IF the SoS put these records on-line, I could see! THIS is something that the KTN decision could help with!
Just call the Boston City Clerk
and ask... you've got a first and last name, a gender, an approximate age, and a region of the city. There's likely only one of 'im. Now, not finding him doesn't prove he didn't do it, but finding him would... also prove nothing.
Scott Brown is a Senator for MA. We -- as citizens of MA -- sent him. It doesn't matter if Mr. Miller voted for him or at all, worked for or against him or stayed home. If Mr. Miller is a citizen of MA, then Mr. Miller sent Senator Brown to Washington.
Even if you don't buy that argument, if he voted you've learned nothing (even Ds voted for Brown). If he didn't vote, do you know if he worked for Brown but then didn't vote? You could track him down and ask him, but short of that you won't have learned much.
Stomv - If it were on line....
....I could ascertain that they are all Registered Democrats who failed to vote in the election. That would allow people to make up their own minds about their sincerity - and I have my own ways of finding out if they worked for his campaign.
BUT - since I am not eager to travel 80 miles in order to be abused by the Boston voting officials, we'll all just never know.
Wow
You've really drunk the kool-aid if you think nobody could ever change their mind about Scott Brown.
Your telephone doesn't work?
The People's Senator
I would personally be grateful if the people's Senator would reply to a single email that I have sent to him. Apparently being at the center of a personality cult means never having to reply to someone who is not part of the personality cult.
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