Cap and Tax, Rockefeller Sells Out Own State

From the Energy Front 091509

Hey folks,

There is SO MUCH I want to talk about today. But it IS Tuesday, so let's go to the Energy Front. This one is a shout out to our friends in West Virginia. Your Senator is selling you out.

That's right folks, Sen. Jay Rockefeller, the same guy that wants to create a new Law giving Obama the power to take over the Internet, says he will not just say no to Cap and Tax on the Coal Industry.

According to the NYT - Rockefeller Finds It's Better to Negotiate on Climate Bill Than Sit on Sidelines By DARREN SAMUELSOHN of ClimateWirePublished: September 14, 2009 The Article is like three or four pages long. Click the link to read the whole thing.

As one of the nation's largest producers of coal, West Virginia has more to lose than many other states when it comes to the debate over comprehensive global warming and energy legislation.

And that is why across the state, the loudest voices now being heard are against taking the kinds of aggressive actions envisioned by President Obama and Democratic congressional leaders.

Yet, Sen. Jay Rockefeller is happy to be at the bargaining table, trying to negotiate the best outcome possible for an industry that has been his home state's lifeblood for more than 150 years.

"I cannot strategically negotiate and fight for West Virginia's future if I just say no outright," he said last week.

Folks, he does not want to find. He is in Obama's Crew. He apparently worships the guy. He has no desire to say no to Obama's agenda. Even though we ALL know what Obama REALLY wants to do.

In Rockefeller's eyes, coal is in trouble thanks to the increasing uncertainty surrounding a future full of climate-tinged regulation, the result of mounting scientific evidence surrounding global warming and the 2007 Supreme Court ruling that paves the way for new federal rules to clamp down on carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions.

It's all a SCAM. Proven WRONG. So he is right about this. The Coal Industry IS in trouble, because of OBAMA, yet he will not fight him.

"I think doing nothing at all on legislation causes three horrible things to happen, all of which mean the end of the coal industry. And people don't think of that because they hear 'cap and trade' and they say they don't like it," he said.

WE DO NOT LIKE IT BECAUSE WE KNOW THE TRUTH. Remember THIS?


Then he said this. This is nothing but pure and unadulterated BS.

"How many don't understand it is another question," Rockefeller added. "But if you don't do it at all, you just do nothing, and just say no, natural gas probably is firing all present coal power plants within three or four years. Secondly, Wall Street, there being no legislation, therefore no predictability, lends no money to people trying to build power plants. And it just cedes completely to the EPA newly empowered by the Supreme Court under very strict terms to just tear at carbon related things. All of that is talking about the end of coal and that is not where I want to be at all for West Virginia."

CAP AND TAX will KILL it. Doing NOTHING has work for 150 years. There already IS laws in place to regulate pollution. We need not BANKRUPT the Industry, which is what Obama just said is the GOAL of Cap and Tax.

Democratic leaders are relying on voices like Rockefeller's as they try to advance a cap-and-trade bill this fall that can win over 60 votes with compromises across both regional and party lines. The 72 year old holds the chairmanship of the Commerce Committee and the No. 2 spot on the Finance Committee. Going forward, many think he can bring some of the same coal-state bona fides that Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Va.) added this summer as the House wrote its climate bill.

"He has a lot of credentials within the moderate wing of the Senate Democrats," said Timothy Profeta, a former aide to Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) who is now head of Duke University's Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions. "He can be influential among his peers."

He is no Moderate. He is an Obama Lackey. Plain and simple. He even said that the only way to get people to go along with the BS that IS GW, Cap and Tax included, is to LIE to the people and convince them this is an immediate danger. OK. He did not say those exact words. But that IS what he meant.

At a hearing in late July, Rockefeller said the key to moving climate legislation is bringing a clear message to the public about the serious threat posed by global warming. "Unless the information reaches people who are confronting climate change on the front lines, it's for naught," Rockefeller said at the time. "It is time to take science out of the labs and into our communities."

The senator had little patience for anyone skeptical that climate change is happening and human activities are the main driver. "Climate change is happening," Rockefeller said. "Scientists agree. The people that say it's not happening -- well, have a nice day"

I will have a nice day Senator. I will have a nice day today, tomorrow, and in the future. Scientists do NOT agree, and there is NOT REAL Science to back up Global Warming. We are not even warming. There is NO CONSENSUS Whatsoever. It is all a SCAM. And YOU Senator, are selling out your State for the whims of your Majestic Leader. {In your eyes} You are selling out your State based on a SCAM. But like Obama and most of the new Liberals, Progressives, Socialists, whatever, you do NOT care about the People. You are locked in until 2014. So who cares? right?

"I think he wants to give the appearance he's working for West Virginia when the fact of the matter is there's no middle ground on this bill," added Troy Berman, director of the West Virginia Republican Party. "He can dress it up, but it'd still be what it is, which is an energy tax hike."

Along with SO MUCH MORE.

Berman said Rockefeller may be following the playbook of Reps. Alan Mollohan and Nick Rahall, the state's two House Democratic congressional members who voted against the climate bill after weeks of wavering in their position.

"They waited and waited and waited until they saw their votes weren't needed," Berman said. "That's not serving your constituents in West Virginia. That's serving your constituents in the speaker's office. And West Virginians deserve better."

Yes they do. But this is who Rockefeller is. Either he is too stupid to understand that Global Warming is BS, or he KNOWS it is and is just laying down for Obama. I'm not really sure which is worse.

The coal industry provides West Virginia with about 40,000 direct jobs in mining, mine contractors, mine supplies and coal preparation plants, according to the state's Office of Miners' Health, Safety and Training. West Virginia also touts about 4 percent of all U.S. coal reserves and 15 percent of the country's coal production.

So it is no surprise that energy issues are front and center in the state's political debate alongside the other top topic of the moment in Washington.

"It's without question as high on West Virginians' radars as health care," said Berman, who recently ran political campaigns in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland, New York and Texas. "You can say that in one or two other states. But you can't say that about the country as a whole."

Now Rockefeller did say this.

"I want to be very clear -- I do not support any bill right now," he said. " In fact, I have not yet seen a bill I would vote for."

You probably would not read it if you DID have it. Just like the Obama Bailout Bill that none of you read. You just Vote whatever your Leadership tells you.

Do NOT Believe this.

But it is still unclear exactly what Rockefeller's bottom line is. "If the final Senate bill does not protect West Virginia and the future of coal, I will not be voting for the bill," he said.

He will Vote however they tell him to. He does not care about West Virgina. He does not care about the Coal industry. Even Senator Byrd said he is FLAT out AGAINST Cap and Tax. Yet, Rockefeller is "on the fence?"

To all my friends in West Virginia, you are in the Same boat as most of the rest of us. They will NOT debate Drilling here in Florida, as Gas Prices climb again. They will not kill Obamacare. They will NOT stand up to Obama on ANYTHING. This new Liberal Democrat Leadership could not care less about YOU, the People. All they care about is Power, Control, and Money. YOU are just a problem to over come to get there. We need to show them, we are not a problem. We are the WALL! We are the one's that will STOP them from this Quest of Tyranny. We are THE PEOPLE, of whom the Government BY the PEOPLE, should be FOR.
Peter

Sources:
NYT -Rockefeller Finds It's Better to Negotiate on Climate Bill Than Sit on Sidelines
OPNTalk - Government To Take Control Of the Internet?