Romney’s Troubling Appointments (Mitt's environmental policy team now works for Obama)

RedState ^ | October 7, 2011 | Posted by streiff

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Mitt Romney’s supporters have been dogging Governor Perry on him acting as Texas campaign manager for Al Gore’s abortive 1988 presidential run as one of the Seven Dwarfs. The critique runs, dishonestly I might add, that Al Gore was an environmental kook then, ergo Perry is an environmental kook. Because something.

This is just balderdash. In 1988, Al Gore was a moderate-conservative senator from Tennessee who was a very attractive candidate. His descent into self parody started much later.

I rarely resort to publishing oppo material circulated by campaigns but I am making an exception today. File this particular story under “sauce for the gander.”

If personnel equal policy we have a hint from Mitt Romney’s appointments while governor of Massachusetts what his administration will look like. Van Jones may not be recalled but it may not make much difference.

In 2003, Romney chose a hard core environmental activist to be Secretary of Commonwealth Development. In this position he was charged with developing a scheme to restrict “greenhouse gas” emissions. According to the :

"Just days after his 2002 election, Mr. Romney hired Douglas Foy, one of the state’s most prominent environmental activists, and put him in charge of supervising four state agencies. … With Mr. Foy by his side, Mr. Romney joined activists outside an aging, coal-fired plant in 2003 to show his commitment to the emissions caps. “I will not create jobs or hold jobs that kill people, and that plant, that plant kills people,” he said."

But when it became obvious that he would not win reelection as governor, Romney set his sights on the GOP presidential nomination. In remaking himself he repudiated his own secretary carrying out his own plan.

Significantly, two of Romney’s appointments have how found a home in the Obama White House.

Gina McCarthy, the chief EPA clean air regulator, also worked as an environmental regulator for then-Governor Romney. Her role now is as point guard (nyuk) in the Obama Administrations fight to make coal fired electric generating plants extinct.

"EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson has taken most of the fire from Republicans as her agency rolls out a slew of controversial new climate and clean air rules. But McCarthy, the EPA assistant administrator of the Office of Air and Radiation, has taken on much of the heavy lifting of writing, structuring, and implementing the rules.

“Lisa’s the coach and Gina’s the quarterback” in the work of rolling out new clean air regulations, said Daniel Weiss, an energy and climate policy expert at the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank with close ties to the Obama administration. “She’s running the plays, improvising on the line.”

Another Romney environmental adviser in the effort to regulate “greenhouse gases” is now Obama’s Director of Science and Technology Policy, John Holdren. Dr. Holdren has some exotic views:

"President Obama’s “science czar,” John Holdren, once floated the idea of forced abortions, “compulsory sterilization,” and the creation of a “Planetary Regime” that would oversee human population levels and control all natural resources as a means of protecting the planet — controversial ideas his critics say should have been brought up in his Senate confirmation hearings.

[...]

"Those plans include forcing single women to abort their babies or put them up for adoption; implanting sterilizing capsules in people when they reach puberty; and spiking water reserves and staple foods with a chemical that would make people sterile.

"To help achieve those goals, they formulate a “world government scheme” they call the Planetary Regime, which would administer the world’s resources and human growth, and they discuss the development of an “armed international organization, a global analogue of a police force” to which nations would surrender part of their sovereignty."

Holdren has gone to some lengths to repudiate those views but one has to question “confirmation conversions.”

So Rick Perry supported Al Gore for president in 1988. Romney’s environmental policy team now works for Obama. Sauce for the goose. Sauce for the gander.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Yeah, Ann Coulter is a Christie-Romney gal.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

CALIFORNIA: …..“Texas Gov. Rick Perry has become a folk hero for people like Stewart as he's marketed his state as a low-cost and business-friendly alternative to California, which is fertile job-hunting ground for Perry.

Texas has added 929,000 jobs since 2001, while California has lost approximately 635,000 manufacturing jobs in that same time, Stewart said.

"They're doing something right down there," Stewart said of what he dubs the "Texas miracle." "Gov. Perry will go anywhere, any time, to try to recruit companies into Texas."

Perry has taken the state's regulatory process and managed it himself, Stewart said………

[CA Economic Development Corporation President Mark] Lascelles emphasized that it does no good to belabor California's regulatory environment.

"Unfortunately, we can't avoid it. We have to deal with it," he said. Speaker focuses on job creation

[Cincinatus' Wife]

MONTANA: Legal gamesmanship threatens our energy future “Texas Gov. Rick Perry is able to boast about job growth under his watch, noting that over 265,000 jobs, or nearly 37 percent of the jobs created nationwide since the summer of 2009, have been created in the Lone Star state.

He credits this growth to a few simple conditions: low taxes, a regulatory climate that is fair and predictable, and a legal system that limits frivolous lawsuits. According to the Wall Street Journal, nearly one-fourth of the 70 companies that left California this year relocated to Texas.

...Make no mistake, if Montana opposition groups continue to force developers to spend as much on attorneys as they do on engineers, they’ll invest elsewhere, and Montana will be left clawing to develop the jobs and tax revenue for schools, roads, water, sewer, and other basic services we continually struggle to provide.

Recent headlines highlight two major resource development projects slogging through endless legal and regulatory challenges. Investment flees this kind of uncertainty, so Montanans interested in the future economic stability of this state should be wary of the signals we send…” --- [relates short history of 2 outrageous examples] --

“The common experience for Tongue River Railroad and Tonbridge Power is this: Even if you play by the rules, even if you follow the letter of the law, even if you engage with the public during a planning process, even if you get formal approval from the regulatory authorities, you are certain to face organized opposition whose sole intent is to frustrate project development to the point of financial starvation….”

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Perry environmental stance would transform EPA ....>>>>>Perry "approaches the issues from a very libertarian bent," said Jim DiPeso , policy director of Republicans for Environmental Protection. "The EPA would be in for some significant budget reduction. There would be no new intiatives, no regulatory programs that would be initated. There'd be litigation from environmental groups that believe he's not enforcing the Clean Air Act and Water Act as robustly as the law provides."

"Any regulatory programs would be really throttled back," he said. "He has shown no interest in climate policy at all. He doesn't accept the science."

With the governor's blessing, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is challenging at least six EPA greenhouse gas-related regulations. The state's underlying argument: The fundamental finding that greenhouse gases are a public health threat is scientifically flawed.

The federal government is pushing "hastily enacted, cascading regulations" on states and businesses, Abbott argued in a June brief filed on behalf of nine states in federal court.

Perry's approach to energy, DiPeso said, "would be to produce more," rather than discourage the development of energy projects, such as coal plants, that emit greenhouse gases associated with global warming.

"In terms of energy, (Perry) would pursue what many Republicans call the 'all of the above' strategy, with more energy development offshore and onshore," DiPeso said. <<<<<

[Diogenesis]

Perry had such an opportunity last night on this.

BUT he was unprepared. Not presidential.

[mkjessup]

I see each of you as short-sighted fools who take a perfect opportunity to discuss and destroy Romney and you hijack it with your Perry nonsense.

Say WHAT?

Perry is destroying himself. Romney loves it when you focus all your attention on Perry.

My focus is NOT all on Perry, and I believe you are engaging in fanciful notions regarding everyone else's focus.

Here is a VERY damning article about Romney and all you people can do is attack Perry?

My opposition to Romney is well known, I wouldn't vote for him even if it meant I got a free pair of MMU (Magic Mormon Underwear).

I am starting to think you are all running interference for Romney every time a thread starts about him.

Hey, don't get insulting here. You want some evidence of my dyed in the wool opposition to Mitt-Witt? Here ya go:

Carmen Miranda, eat your heart out.

[mkjessup]

Superb graphics FRiend, I may steal a few of those, lol

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[Dudoight]

Yes...one set of my Texas ancestors came here from Tennessee. They didn’t fight in the Alamo....but we are proud Texans!

[Dudoight]

The problem is we are going to get Mitt the $hitt as that is the ‘establishment’s choice. It is nothing but a racket. Is there any way we can stop this?

[denydenydeny]

The critique runs, dishonestly I might add, that Al Gore was an environmental kook then, ergo Perry is an environmental kook. Because something.

Which Mitt's useful idiots dutifully posted here.

[CajunConservative]

Good work here!

[Cincinatus' Wife]

The mod pulled the other thread this morning. (not the first time this stuff has happened).

[CajunConservative]

I saw that. Maybe too many toes were stepped on regarding the um, John Tanton network stuff. ;)

[Cincinatus' Wife]

You notice I avoided that here.

Thanks for the support.

[CynicalBear]

>>In 1988, Al Gore was a moderate-conservative senator from Tennessee who was a very attractive candidate.<<

I remember 1988 very well and if that’s the attitude of Perry supporters I’m doubling down on my opposition to him.

[CynicalBear]

>>I am starting to think you are all running interference for Romney everytime a thread starts about him.<<

Or Romney is so far out of contention as far as we here on FR are concerned trashing him further is a waste of bandwidth. Romney can’t get above 25% at any time nationwide.

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[Admin Moderator]

The mod pulled the other thread this morning. (not the first time this stuff has happened).

It was pulled because, yet again, you couldn't keep your excerpts short. Had nothing to do with the content of the original post.

[StAnDeliver]

"I see each of you as short-sighted fools who take a perfect opportunity to discuss and destroy Romney and you hijack it with your Perry nonsense."