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Manchin: Obama declared ‘war on coal’
The Hill ^ | June 25, 2013 | Justin Sink

Posted on 06/25/2013 1:51:55 PM PDT by jazusamo

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) blasted President Obama's proposals to address climate change, saying new regulations on power plants would unfairly burden the coal industry.

“The regulations the President wants to force on coal are not feasible. And if it’s not feasible, it’s not reasonable,” Manchin said in a statement.

“It’s clear now that the President has declared a war on coal,” he added. “It’s simply unacceptable that one of the key elements of his climate change proposal places regulations on coal that are completely impossible to meet with existing technology."

The Democratic senator’s comments highlight the tough — and bipartisan — resistance facing the White House's new energy proposals.

Manchin’s comments echoed remarks made by a member of a White House panel of outside science advisers, who told The New York Times on Monday that the president should use Tuesday’s climate speech to launch a “war on coal.”

“Politically, the White House is hesitant to say they’re having a war on coal. On the other hand, a war on coal is exactly what’s needed,” Harvard geochemist Daniel P. Schrag told the Times.

Republicans have also seized on the remark, saying the president's energy plan — unveiled Tuesday at Georgetown University — would cause energy bills to spike and increase unemployment among the middle class.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: West Virginia
KEYWORDS: 3rdworldenergy; bhofascism; coal; criminalpresident; democrats; energy; fascism; govtabuse; manchin; marxism; obama; obamabuttkisser; obamaclimateapeech; obamaclimatespeech; tyranny; waroncoal
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To: Servant of the Cross

I’ll take Both for $20, Alex.


21 posted on 06/25/2013 2:00:42 PM PDT by Arm_Bears (Refuse; Resist; Rebel; Revolt!)
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To: jazusamo

Manchin is a vile hypocrite. He has been an Obama enabler ever since he entered the Senate. People of West Virginia send left wing idiots to the Senate.


22 posted on 06/25/2013 2:01:43 PM PDT by allendale
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To: MrB

“Whachu talkin’ about, Willis?”


23 posted on 06/25/2013 2:01:47 PM PDT by newfreep (Breitbart sent me...)
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To: jazusamo

And yet, as soon as any Obama’s coal-killing proposals are in front of the Senate, Manchin will vote for them like a good little soul-less Democrat shill.


24 posted on 06/25/2013 2:03:26 PM PDT by Thane_Banquo ( Walker 2016)
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To: smoothsailing
If he caves I hope those West Virginians tar and feather him before they run him out, I'd bet there's a lot of them that’d do it.
25 posted on 06/25/2013 2:05:53 PM PDT by jazusamo ("Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent." -- Adam Smith)
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To: jazusamo

The coal miners unions must have been small and not very rich, thus expendable to the regime.


26 posted on 06/25/2013 2:07:03 PM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed &water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: jazusamo

hey Joe,
Obammy is your boy.
You’ve been far up his rear on nearly EVERY issue pal.
Like kissing cousins.
Still blowing smoke up west Virginians ole wazoos huh Joe?


27 posted on 06/25/2013 2:07:06 PM PDT by Joe Boucher ((FUBO))
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To: jazusamo

Coal mining and production states that went for Obama are proof that the fumes are affecting brain cells


28 posted on 06/25/2013 2:07:53 PM PDT by pallis
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To: jazusamo

The power company should turn off their electricity and the fuel company should refuse to sell them that nasty carbon fuel for their generators.


29 posted on 06/25/2013 2:09:26 PM PDT by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
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To: MrB
for you crackers. As for Eric’s and my people, their electrical bills will be subsidized out of you crackers’ pockets.

Hey, that's rac ....... oh wait. that's not racist, it's true!

30 posted on 06/25/2013 2:14:15 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: jazusamo

31 posted on 06/25/2013 2:15:36 PM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ("Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
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To: Bryanw92
If he plainly stated that “effective immediately, I am going to start feeding people into wood chippers”, all they’d hear is “I’m going to save trees.”

hahahahaha I needed a laugh this afternoon. Thanks! :-)

"It’s clear now that the President has declared a war on coal,” he added.

It boggles the mind that this fact is just now dawning on this useless idiot from West Virginia. Only the best and brightest can deliberate in the U.S. Senate, obviously.

32 posted on 06/25/2013 2:16:54 PM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." -- M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: jazusamo

This President surely does keep his campaign promises.


33 posted on 06/25/2013 2:18:23 PM PDT by lurk
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To: jazusamo

It’s an act. All dems are lefties. Hope all you WV voters who voted for this phony are satisfied.


34 posted on 06/25/2013 2:18:40 PM PDT by saneright
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To: jazusamo

Dear Joe: You put the “duh” in dumb@ss.


35 posted on 06/25/2013 2:22:32 PM PDT by manic4organic (It was nice knowing you, America.)
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To: jazusamo

Go vote for another amnesty you moron.


36 posted on 06/25/2013 2:22:41 PM PDT by lone star annie
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To: jazusamo

It isn’t just the coal industry that will be affected. It’s anyone who uses electricity. Businesses with processes heavily-dependent on cheap electricity will fold up or move away.


37 posted on 06/25/2013 2:23:06 PM PDT by BfloGuy (The Eurozone policy might best be described as "Laurel and Hardy Carry a Piano Upstairs.")
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To: EQAndyBuzz
Joe, show some spine and become a Republican. You can still stay liberal, just vote with the conservatives.

+1

Integrity would actually demand that Manchin do exactly that. Of course Joe Manchin and integrity is an oxymoron.
38 posted on 06/25/2013 2:24:56 PM PDT by tanknetter
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To: jazusamo
Manchin protested by Tea Party as not pro-coal enough

On October 24, 2010, Gov. Joe Manchin went to a "Friends of Coal" rally in Logan, WV, where he was greeted by protesters from the local tea party -- the West Virginia Coalfield Tea Party Patriots. They said opponent John Raese, a business mogul and three-time failed candidate in statewide races, was the real friend of coal and waved signs with slogans such as "Obama says vote Democrat," "Obama, One Big Ass Mistake America," and "Kill Liberalism." Shaun Adkins, a lumber yard manager and founder of the local tea party chapter, said Manchin could not be trusted to support the coal industry in Washington.[59]

The protests came despite the fact that Manchin has sued the U.S. EPA over new regulations on mountaintop removal coal mining, and his campaign is running an advertisement opposing the cap-and-trade bill the House passed last year, the Waxman-Markey Climate Bill. Manchin has the endorsement of the West Virginia Coal Association and the United Mine Workers of America in the race to complete the term of the late Sen. Robert Byrd (D). But Raese has been campaigning saying the governor will be a "rubber stamp" for the Obama administration's attempts to regulate the industry's mining and carbon dioxide emissions.[59]

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/West_Virginia_and_coal

39 posted on 06/25/2013 2:25:24 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: jazusamo

For West Virginians, is Manchin considered quick?


40 posted on 06/25/2013 2:26:25 PM PDT by Mashood
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