Posted on 04/20/2015 4:33:31 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) on Monday described an editorial in the Lexington Herald-Leader equating those opposed to climate protections to slaveholders as a “depressing new low.”
In an editorial last week, the Lexington Herald-Leader wrote that McConnell and others opposed to stricter environmental rules “will be regarded one day in the same way we think of 19th-century apologists for human slavery.”
“How could economic interests bind them to the immortality of their position?” the paper asked then. The editorial said McConnell should listen to public opinion and drop his opposition to President Obama's greenhouse gas reduction plans.
“The Earth cannot spur us to action by firing the first shot like the rebels at Fort Sumter. But the frequency and intensity of extreme weather — and the suffering it inflicts — have put us on notice,” the editorial said. “Political donors might reward elected leaders, but future generations will never forgive those whose vision ends with the next election.”
In a Monday op-ed in the paper, McConnell said the editorial was resorting to “tone-deaf attacks” and “ratcheting up the rhetoric because the law and facts are so clearly against them.”
“Drawing a moral equivalence between America's original sin of slavery and the fight for Kentucky coal reveals a profound lack of moral seriousness — not to mention a troubling indifference to an industry that keeps this commonwealth and this country running,” he wrote.
McConnell is a leading critic of the Obama administration's plan to limit greenhouse gas emissions from power plants and its efforts to reach an international accord on climate change.
He's no stranger to making news on the Herald-Leader's op-ed page. In March, McConnell wrote an open letter in the paper encouraging states to opt out of writing their own emission reduction strategies under Obama's Clean Power Plan. At the time he called it “probably illegal” and “unfair” because it could lead to higher energy costs and fewer jobs in coal industries like Kentucky's.
“The EPA's new climate rule is a disaster, and I won't stand idly by while the administration tries to ram it past my constituents in an illegal or unconstitutional manner. Nor will I stand idly by without defending Kentuckians from lost jobs and higher energy bills,” he wrote Monday.
“No one can predict the verdicts of history, but here's one thing you can be sure of: I will continue to wage this battle against the EPA on behalf of my constituents, and it's a fight I intend to win.”
Comparing Team Leader Mitch to Yurtle is spot on.
Please. Jump parties Bi... err Mitch.
What deference (spelling intended) does it make, you POS McDorkell?
When push comes to shove, you will assume the position and get Dorkbama’d like you always do.
Oh well you had no choice.
You were born that way.
Oops. Thought he said it
Just when we were tired of his flaccid responses, he gets even more flaccid and emasculated. One can appreciate an open enemy more than a transparently-false friend.
The Ditch Turtle is all about enslaving Conservatives....
I can actually remember when talking about the weather was considered polite conversation. You don’t have to be a weatherman to gauge how far the culture has fallen.
The wind is blowing the culture away, no matter the wind’s direction...
So that is what his driving these loons. Their hatred for CO2, is actually their hatred for us.
Ironic, considering that CAGW policy is really passive aggressive genocide for the third world....
He could have said that the Lexington Herald-Leader newspaper “will be regarded one day in the same way we think of 19th-century newspaper apologists for human slavery.”
“It may also be regarded one day in the same way we think of 20th-century newspaper apologists for Jim Crow laws and their 1960s disdain for the Civil Rights movement, the latter of which the Lexington Herald-Leader apologized for in 2004.”
“So all three things considered, in the future it is far more likely that the Lexington Herald-Leader will need to apologize for supporting an agenda that, like those before it, sought to hurt and dehumanize people.”
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