Posted on 05/29/2023 6:14:45 PM PDT by CFW
Progressive Democrats pushing their green energy agenda during the debt ceiling negotiations are claiming at least some partial victories in the tentative deal struck this weekend between President Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
Hundreds of billions of dollars in clean energy spending they included in their 2022 Inflation Reduction Act will remain in the agreement, according to several news reports Sunday, though neither side has officially announced specifics.
In other potential wins for green energy Democrats, McCarthy, a California Republican and the lead congressional negotiator in the debt ceiling talks, reportedly promised Biden he would pursue ways to speed up energy projects.
He also pledged to Biden he would continue working with the White House and Democrats, saying “because we need energy – all forms of energy, especially for our grid."
(Excerpt) Read more at justthenews.com ...
Not a dimes difference...
“McCarthy did not provide details about the agreement, but people familiar with the provisions, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the language includes review timelines and a lead agency charged with shepherding a project’s environmental review.”
That paragraph is from the E&E report that is linked in the article. That’s not clear if this “lead agency” will be a newly created agency (that’s just what we need), of if a current federal agency will be in charge of “shepherding a project’s environmental review”.
The more I read of this “deal” the more ticked off I become. The GOP received almost nothing.
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Biden would’ve abandoned Tons - just for the ability to move the Debt Ceiling out past his only remaining Election.
Instead, they co-opted McCarthy and McCarthy embraced the role of pleasing Joe, who had left early for the Beach.
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Yes
They knew what Biden really wanted, but they didn’t use it to get what Conservatives wanted.
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🤬🤬🤬 Trump’s guy shived us.
DeSantis ripped the deal to shreds.
the whole climate scam is bipartisan worldwide, as you would expect when $150 trillion-plus is involved:
30 May: UK Daily Mail: With the Just Stop Oil havoc, now we can see where (Labour Party leader Keir) Starmer’s loyalties REALLY lie
By LEO MCKINSTRY
The description is equally appropriate for the current Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, whose awkward speaking style is matched by his apparent desperation to show solidarity with every fashionable cause.
The trait has been highlighted this week by revelations that since 2014 Starmer’s party received donations worth no less than £1.5million from the environmental entrepreneur Dale Vince.
Vince also happens to be a major backer of the green protest group Just Stop Oil, a bunch of self-indulgent attention-seekers who have become increasingly notorious for disruptive antics that have inflicted misery on the ordinary law-abiding members of the public and real damage on our economy.
In recent days, its members have caused mayhem at the Chelsea Flower Show, the Premiership rugby final at Twickenham and the World Snooker Championship in Sheffield, as well as bringing traffic to halt in the heart of London with their sit-down or slow-walk protests...
What makes this saga more troubling is that on Sunday it was reported that a future Labour government will ban any new drilling for oil and gas in the North Sea, exactly the self-destructive approach demanded by Just Stop Oil.
Given the erratic unreliability of renewables, Britain’s market will be dependent on oil and gas for decades to come, which makes his surrender to the hardline environmental lobby still more disastrous...
Even one of his allies said at the weekend that this stance on North Sea development is ‘crackers, reckless, vote-losing stuff’.
But his folly is compounded by hypocrisy where Just Stop Oil is concerned. Starmer once told LBC radio: ‘I am not a fan of that organisation. I think their actions are wrong.’ If he really felt like that, why has he allowed his party to be financially linked to the group?
In his opportunism, the Labour leader is fast becoming the Groucho Marx of British politics. ‘Here are my principles and if you don’t like them, I have others,’ said the great American comedian...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-12137431/LEO-McKINSTRY-Just-Stop-Oil-havoc-Starmers-loyalties-REALLY-lie.html
FR had another DM thread on this climate mob:
FR: 29 May: DM: Oscar-winning Hollywood director who helps bankroll Just Stop Oil is accused of hypocrisy after it emerges he has an eight-bedroom holiday home 5,000 miles away in Ireland he jets off to ‘when the going gets tough’
Oscar winner Adam McKay, whose films include the Big Short and Don’t Look Up, is one of a group of multi-millionaires behind the Climate Emergency Fund.
The Beverly Hills-based fund raises cash from its mega rich supporters and distributes it to ‘disruptive’ activists, including handing almost £1million to help Just Stop Oil wreak havoc in the UK.
Mr McKay is a director of the fund and has donated over £3.2million to it to support ‘recruitment and training’ for groups including the British activists.
In a webinar last year he pledged to help Just Stop Oil in any way possible and was even prepared to be arrested for their cause...
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4156711/posts
“DeSantis ripped the deal to shreds.”
Everyone should be ripping it to shreds, including the Freedom Caucus members. The democrats will be needed to bass the bill and I suspect they will be happy to sign on to it once it is explained that they get so many of the things they have been wanting anyway. Increase in debt limit, their 87,000 IRS agents, etc.
“McCarthy... promised Biden he would pursue ways to speed up energy projects.”
Translation: FedGov lining the pockets of solar and wind developers to crap up rural areas with wind and solar farms, making our grid unreliable (among other ills).
Democrat McCarthy is officially dead to me.
Trump: He will be the best Speaker ever.
McCarthy gave the Rats another $4,000,000,000,000 of debt to be paid for the next generations. He is a bankrupting undertaker of the former United States. An accomplice.
He made a mistake. No one is perfect. President Trump is far better than any of the other candidates, or the current poseur that stole the office from Trump.
A too typical Trump choice but Trump supporters here on FR don't want to face reality.
BTW, has Trump endorsed the deal yet? DeSantis has objected so I'm sure he will just to be opposite and not be accused of following DeSantis lead.
DeSantis is tearing the deal to shreds.
Good for DeSantis.
There is no "Man-made Global Warming" or Climate Change.
"Green Energy" is a fraud as it is neither "Green" or a sustainable energy source.
If the perpetrators believed their own propaganda they'd support nuclear power and insist China and India Stop building Coal fired power plants at the rate of 3/month between the two of them.
>> If the perpetrators believed their own propaganda they’d support nuclear power and insist China and India Stop building Coal fired power plants
...and they’d conduct all their IPCC & WEF meetings by Zoom.
It’s just a globalist power grab.
“McCarthy... promised Biden he would pursue ways to speed up energy projects.”
Apparently, McCarthy did not talk to Manchin about how well Biden keeps his promises. Even if they are written on paper. Heck, even if they are made into law!
Sounds like McCarthy’s GOP KY cowboys bit the dust.
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