Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 06/12/2010 6:38:19 AM PDT by maggief
“These guys have bet the farm on this administration,” said Ted Nordhaus, chairman of an environmental think tank, the Breakthrough Institute. “There has been a real hesitancy to criticize this administration out of a sense that they’re kind of the only game in town…..These guys are so beholden to this administration to move their agenda that I think they’re unwilling to criticize them.”
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Several analysts said the low profile of the large environmental groups since the disaster is due in large part to uncertainty about the impact of the spill on the strategy for passing pending climate legislation. Environmental groups are leery of alienating Obama as he weighs how hard to push a sweeping cap-and-trade energy bill to rein in carbon emissions blamed for global warming.
Obama implicitly blessed a drilling-for-climate-votes swap back in March when he announced plans to open additional areas in the Gulf, along the Atlantic coast, and in Alaska for offshore drilling leases. Most environmental groups publicly opposed that move, but some accepted the White House’s analysis that allowing more drilling was the best way to win the Republican support needed to pass a climate change bill this year.
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Asked if Sierra Club has any concerns about the administration’s response to the spill, Willett said, “Overall, we’re satisfied with the cleanup and recovery effort.”
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Some say that even though environmental groups aren’t dominating the debate, their issues certainly are—and are driving huge swings in public opinion against drilling and in favor of action on climate issues.
“In some ways the media coverage is doing a lot of the work for the environmental groups,” Nisbet said. “They have a perfect narrative going right now….The lower profile is working for them.”
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“Asked if Sierra Club has any concerns about the administration’s response to the spill, Willett said, “Overall, we’re satisfied with the cleanup and recovery effort.”
Of course these dimwits are providing cover for the “one.”
Not unlike the feminists groups that can be counted on to excoriate Republicans for the smallest of things, but are willing to give Dems a pass for egregious behaviors.
The American people are not giving Obama any passes any more. He’s a Liberal liability. Even RATs aren’t defending their Messiah any more. TOAST!
Can you imagine the outcry from the Sierra Club if Bush had refused cleanup assistance from 17 counties!
PING!
Sierra Club just another con game.
“Can you imagine the outcry from the Sierra Club if Bush had refused cleanup assistance from 17 counties!”
They’d be hanging and burning Bush in effigy, AFTER storming the White House with torches, pitchforks, tar, feathers, and a long rail.
But, Obama? He’s their messiah, sent from on high, so he can do no wrong.
Move along. Nothing to see here. Back to your lives, citizens.
Can you imagine the outcry from the Sierra Club if Bush had refused cleanup assistance from 17 counties!
Yes, I can! I have been witnessing Bush bashing from the left and right for 9 plus years. You have plenty of these people right here on FR.
I heard the sun rose in the east this morning. No surprises here.
“are willing to give Dems a pass for egregious behaviors.”
You mean like the rapes and other abuses of women perpetrated by the likes of WJC? These are just hearsay I’m sure! /s
its not about advancing environmental cause, but advancing big government
This just proves once again, that the environmentalists’ true concerns are not about wildlife and our environment..it is about passing marxist bills and destroying capitalism. We should get someone to make a YOUTUBE video of this clip and start posting it on the Eco snots websites!
The video is here:
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/294000-1
The comment about the workers tossing pelican eggs and stomping all over the nesting areas starts at minute 40:41. Billy Nungesser’s entire testimony is worth listening to. I can’t believe our media ‘watchdogs’ didn’t pick up on this little tidbit yesterday, but I guess it figures. They have to protect Zero at all costs.
http://apolloalliance.org/about/board/
Board
Apollo Board of Directors
Chairman
Phil Angelides, President, Riverview Capital Investments
Members
Robert Borosage, President, Institute for America’s Future
Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, Chief Executive Officer, Green For All
Leo Gerard, International President, United Steelworkers Union
Gerald Hudson, International Executive Vice President, Service Employees International Union
Mindy Lubber, President, CERES
Nancy McFadden, Senior Vice President of Public Affairs for PG&E Corporation
Terence M. O’Sullivan, General President, Laborers’ International Union of North America
Ellen Pao, Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers
Michael Peck, Principal, MAPA Incorporated
John Podesta, President and CEO of the Center for American Progress
Carl Pope, Executive Director, Sierra Club
Dan W. Reicher, Director of Climate Change and Energy Initiatives, Google
Jerome Ringo, Senior Executive for Global Strategies, Green Port
Joel Rogers, Director, Center on Wisconsin Strategy
“Sierra Club just another con game.”
And this is really sad, since I knew the Sierra Club when.
My old scoutmaster in the mid-60s was an avid Sierra Clubber back then. At that time, they promoted getting people INTO the wild to enjoy it, rather than as setting it aside for the chosen elite. Under his direction, we took many hikes into the back country of the high Sierra, and learned many things.
Walk softly, leave no trace, how to clean and prepare trout, frogs, snakes. How to forage for wild greens. What to avoid in flora and fauna. Forest management. Building signal towers. The list was endless.
And, yes. He was very proud of his huge 4 wheel drive Dodge Power Wagon, and how it got him deep into the wood.
Every time I see a Sierra Club sticker on a Prius (next to the Obama ‘08 one), I think of Tom Pillsbury and how far we’ve fallen...
“No surprises here.”
... except that Politico is reporting.
Environmentalists - a bunch of clowns and liars who control the Congress.
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