Leave ‘em both to twist in the wind
By Howie Carr | Sunday, June 24, 2012 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
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The Cape Wind battle really boils down to this: on one side, some well-heeled NIMBYs worried about the views from their seafront mansions. On the other side, greedy green con men who don’t care how high electric rates go as long as they can make a bundle that they’ll then whack up with local Democrat hacks.
Isn’t there some way they could both lose?
I used to think Cape Wind was a great idea. That was when Ted Kennedy was alive and railing about how he might spill his Chivas if he had to keep maneuvering the Mya around all those noisy seagull-murdering wind turbines.
Anything Ted Kennedy was against, I was for.
There is one way Cape Wind could regain the public-relations high ground. But they have yet to prove that the windmills would be visible from the back porch of U.S. Sen. John Kerry’s second wife’s first husband’s trust fund’s $9.2-million cottage on Brant Point on Nantucket.
So you have to go with the NIMBYs. Not only are all the carbon-credits bunco artists touting Cape Wind, more importantly electric rates are going to go through the roof.
You know the green grifters have no argument when they start raising the “no blood for oil” cry on the blogs. Excuse me, if Obama’s make-sure-your-tires-are-properly-inflated administration would simply allow more energy production here in the U.S., that wouldn’t be a problem very long, would it?
That breathtaking view from Christy Mihos’ Great Island manse wouldn’t be on the line.
It’s not just about money, although with Deval it always is. The eco-freaks need to put something, anything, in the Win column. In retrospect, Curt Schilling [stats]’s biggest mistake was changing the name of his company to 38 Studios from Green Monster Games. Get it – GREEN.
Forget his stumping for Bush in 2004, if Schilling had still been running a “green” company, Joe Biden himself would have hand-delivered Curt a check for $500 million in walking-around money.
A half-billion is nothing for a green company. Look at Solyndra.
Which brings us to U.S. Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.), whose committee busted that Obama scam. Now he’s jumping into the Cape Wind scandal. The White House immediately accused him of “wasting” a million bucks on an earlier probe — a million bucks, are they kidding?
Ironic, isn’t it? Once again, an out-of-state Republican has to ride to the rescue of law-abiding Massachusetts taxpayers. Just like in the Whitey Bulger case. For decades, none of the local U.S. House Democrats cared much about the Southie murder spree — after all, Whitey’s brother the Senate president long had a veto over congressional redistricting. Go along to get along.
Finally a GOP solon from a “jerkwater state” (Billy Bulger’s description of Indiana) started issuing subpoenas. Suddenly the local hacks were “shocked, shocked!” at the crime wave and the cover-up.
Now it’s happening again. Different mob, different committee, same scenario. Round up the usual suspects.
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