Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 07/10/2009 6:47:38 PM PDT by reaganaut1
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While most environmental groups formally supported the House [climate] bill, the road to passage proved unsettling for the movement. Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace and Public Citizen opposed the bill; members of some other groups privately berated their leaders for going along with it. And some, like Ms. Miller, have shifted to open protest.
Few politicians make the transition from campaign trail to White House without sacrificing a few starry-eyed supporters along the way, of course.
And Mr. Obama’s early record on environmental issues suggests that he is more aggressive than any of his predecessors in supporting causes like combating global warming and shifting to renewable energy sources.
In an interview last month, Mr. Obama defended the House bill as “a good start.”
Referring to European leaders and others who said the bill was not strong enough, Mr. Obama said, “We don’t want to make the best the enemy of the good.”
He went on: “By putting a framework in place that is realistic, that is commonsensical, that protects consumers from huge spikes in electricity costs while setting real, meaningful targets — what we are doing is changing the political conversation and the incentive structures for businesses in this country.”
Still, the compromises that were made to win House approval by a 219-to-212 vote have left the president’s “green” base in some disarray.
For some environmental groups and individuals, the bill’s perceived shortcomings — like generous pollution allowances to coal utilities and the usurping of the federal Environmental Protection Agency’s regulatory authority over carbon emissions — were more than mere setbacks.
“This bill was worse than what we were expecting, even knowing we wouldn’t get the best bill,” said Nick Berning, a spokesman for the group Friends of the Earth.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
The “greenies” are about to learn that their “college diplomas” aren’t worth a damn outside of their own “environmental movement.”
They are upset that it may take a couple of extra years to destroy the US economy & standard of living.
Their goal was Cuban living standards and industrial production levels within the first year.
Hey! there is something I agree with in this article!
The left is cracking up.
What these people really want is what many Germans in the 1920's called "a substitute emperor"...
Why doesn’t Obama state plain truth, *and* win friends among clear-thinkers, by pointing out the militant anti-scientific, anti-intellectual character of the environmentalist movement?
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