Posted on 03/12/2023 12:12:52 PM PDT by RandFan
The self-proclaimed “greenest member” of Congress is a Republican from rural Kentucky. He lives in an off-the-grid home he built himself, using timbers cut and rock quarried from his family cattle farm. He pipes in water from a nearby pond, and powers the home with solar panels and a battery from a wrecked Tesla that he salvaged and retrofitted.
But while he lives on, and even makes part of his living from, the land, very few people would call him an environmentalist. The car he drives back and forth from Washington has a license plate advertising his support for coal. He likes to lean on his experience as a robotics engineer to argue against precipitously switching over to renewable energy, claiming that rapid changes could crash America’s power grids. And he once mocked John Kerry, who has a degree in political science, in a congressional hearing on climate threats: “I think it’s somewhat appropriate that someone with a pseudoscience degree,” he said, “is here pushing pseudoscience.”
Mr. Kerry stumbled, visibly surprised and angry. “Are you serious? I mean, this is really seriously happening here?”
It was hard to say. From the outside, Thomas Massie can look like yet another congressional gadfly courting controversy by, for instance, introducing a one-sentence bill that would abolish the Department of Education, or posing for a Christmas photo with his wife and children, each of them holding a weapon, from an M60 to an Uzi, or speaking at the 60th anniversary celebration of the far-right John Birch Society.
But Mr. Massie is not just another loony G.O.P. backbencher. Outside the public eye, he has been quietly advancing what for a Republican politician is an unusual set of stances: evincing deep opposition to the national security state, resistance to the influence wielded by corporations....
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It’s funny he made a fortune and ran for office. He didn’t need to.
Got a bit lucky in his primary with the vote split.
He’s now a great public servant I guess.
A rare breed.
And yes Trump came after him in order to force him out through a primary but failed.
That doesn’t happen a lot he could have easily lost his seat...
I love this guy. He got that idea from my families Christmas photos. Oh and John Kerry is a Buffoon without his minstrel James Taylor by his side.
As as I said those on the banglist will know more about him as he’s a massive 2A advocate. It’s one of his top issues and he chairs the 2A caucus in the House.
Take it from me, McConnell is the least popular politician in Kentucky today. He will retire rather than run again. Against Massie, with Rand Paul in his corner, McConnell has no chance. This is from a guy who voted for the son of a bitch five times.
Ditch Mitch.
It certainly won’t happen if we don’t try.
Bttt.
5.56mm
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