Posted on 06/27/2004 4:57:19 AM PDT by GailA
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/blog-cb.php
Byrd-Brain: John Kerry will soon be put on the spot over coal, which he has long opposed, hurting his election prospects in several coal-producing states. Senators John McCain (R-Ariz) and Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) are threatening to resurrect their anti-coal global warming bill in the next few weeks. Despite being soundly defeated last year, McCain, as he did with campaign finance reform, has vowed to take repeated votes on the bill until he wins.
Most stunning for energy observers is that Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W. Va.), who voted against McCain-Lieberman last year, is now contemplating supporting it. The reason? Byrd despises President Bush, and hopes that passing the bill, which Bush opposes, will embarrass the White House. But the bill spells disaster for West Virginia, destroying 50,000 coal jobs and eliminating coal as a fuel source (West Virginia gets 99% of its electricity from coal). Said one coal industry lobbyist: "Robert Byrd has lost his mind, period. When has a senator ever considered voting for a bill he knew would single-handedly destroy his state?" - Posted 8:44 AM
McCain is a looser, however, Clinton started this when he declared a low sulfur coal mountain a monument in Utah from Arizona. The beneficiary was a country that is thick as thieves in the terrorist movement, Indonesia.
Clintons stated foreign policy "EQUALIZE ALL NATIONS".
Byrd's view of Virgina includes lots of fat Federal jobs, carried off from Washington.
Said one coal industry lobbyist: "Robert Byrd has lost his mind, period. When has a senator ever considered voting for a bill he knew would single-handedly destroy his state?"
Where's this guy been? Do-Do byrd is a whole years worth of inane chatter with every sentance he speaks.
Ketchup.Kerry voted for the Byrd-Hagel Resoluton in 1997.
When he knows his golden parachute is perfectly packed.
I'm bored of these clown's machinations.
W Virginia just might deserve this bill for keeping the byrd brain in power for so long.
The US has plenty of coal so these clowns want to outlaw it so we can remain dependent on Saudi oil. Yeah that makes sense.Why not develop ways to clean up its use. No that doesnt make sense does it?
>>>McCain, as he did with campaign finance reform, has vowed to take repeated votes on the bill until he wins. <<
Yeah :the Campaign Finance Reform has been such a success.The Dems found ways around it even before it was passed, and what they couldnt get around they did anyway.Violations of the law dont mean anything to dems. They own the Judges.
West Virginia is very VERY much in play for Dubya. The worst thing Byrd could do is vote for this pig.
Bush could veto it, come to WV again and tell the audience he did it to save coal jobs and the state would go for him in larger margins than four years ago.
You are not going to believe this. Senator Byrd wants to make West Virginia a Republican state perminantly.
And, don't forget that BillyJeff has ties to one of the most influential and fabulously wealthy Indonesians of all, Mochtar Riady, that go back almost 30 years. Mochtar didn't locate a branch of Lippo Bank in a backwater like Little Rock, Arkansas for nothing.
If anything carries WV for Bush this time it will be patriotism. West Virginians have always had the highest per capita rate of military service. Iraq has a lot of West Virginians pumped for Bush.
Coal is a looser for Kerry. While he talks about funding research for burning coal cleaner (already happening) he's ignoring that to be competitive coal in WV must be extracted by mountain top removal which is environmentally insane. Kerry pisses off the environmentalists by trying to further the extraction of coal.
"And, don't forget that BillyJeff has ties to one of the most influential and fabulously wealthy Indonesians of all, Mochtar Riady, that go back almost 30 years. Mochtar didn't locate a branch of Lippo Bank in a backwater like Little Rock, Arkansas for nothing."
Exactly, looks like the plan is still on, with or without ENRON, Kyoto Treaty, bit by bit state by state.
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