The unions put Obama in office.
So they can look for the union label on their electric bills, their healthcare tax bills and their unemployment checks.
Posted on 09/16/2013 11:52:39 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
This week will bring a major gut check for President Barack Obama’s climate agenda — specifically, his appetite to take on coal.
The Environmental Protection Agency is due to release a White House-vetted proposal by Friday that would impose the first-ever limits on greenhouse gases produced by future power plants. It would especially squeeze plants that burn coal, the nation’s cheapest, most abundant and dirtiest fuel source.
The rule coming this week wouldn’t apply to existing power plants — EPA will tackle those in a second rule due to be proposed next June and finished a year later. But EPA’s proposal is the first major step toward fulfilling Obama’s call this summer for his agencies to tackle climate change without waiting for help from a gridlocked Congress.
Coal supporters call it the latest salvo in the president’s war on affordable energy.
Expect to hear a lot about the rule during the next year, especially as Republicans use it as a weapon against coal-state Democrats like Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe, West Virginia Rep. Nick Rahall and Kentucky Senate challenger Alison Lundergan Grimes. Meanwhile, environmental groups are expected to mount a major effort to champion the rule, offering both public and legal support while praising Obama for taking on the fight.
Point of fact: the VA gubernatorial race will culminate in a month and a half, not next year.
I really hope Cucinelli is geared up and ready to pounce on this immediately.
They are cult members.
I think that the cognitive dissonance is near complete. They’re seeing the languid employment figures, the loss of personal wealth, and the huge spike in healthcare-related expenses (just to name a few) and blaming pubbies instead of themselves.
Øbongo has raised scapegoating to an art form and the Øbamaphone crowd is lapping it up.
Tthat isn't going to happen, and you know it. they'll blame the Tea-party, lack of Latino voters, failure to "out-reach", etc. You know that as well as I do. In fact the RINOs would rather be permanently relegated to the status of a 2nd tier political party, rather than take responsibility and turn things around.
We are going to have a cold winter. Not very cold, but brutally cold. All of the indicators are there. You can count on it.
Can’t wait to hear people scream when they get their electric bills. I’m guessing mine for both January and February will be north of $500.
And we might have some brownouts, too.
The unions put Obama in office.
So they can look for the union label on their electric bills, their healthcare tax bills and their unemployment checks.
I thought we found out that Global Warming was called off this weekend? Was he out golfing and missed the news?
.... I used to call Obama lazy. I take it back, he is the single most destructive tornado of evil I have ever seen.
In Virginia, $500 is about average for peopler with an electric heat pump that switches to resistive heat when it gets cold.
Jim, Coal Miners in West Virgina did NOT vote for Obozo!!!
They may be staunch Democrats but they sure as hell are not stupid.
Following his reelection I thought Obama was a clueless leftist with a chip on his shoulder something like Jimmy Carter. But I’m being proven wrong every time you add to that list.
“Obama and his EPA are shutting down coal power plants because of a hoax called global warming.
There are hardly any hurricanes, record ice growth in the North and Obama is destroying the economy because of the hoax called global warming”
Oh geez! Is THAT what is going on? Well in that case, what is it going to take for some patriots to say “FUBO! This is the land of the free and home of the brave!!! We’re gonna build this pipeline and build this power plant!”
Jim, this POS has so many iron in the fire it’s impossible to keep up to date on what is what. Our son is ADHD and if this POS isn’t then he’s missing one hell of an opportunity.
May he be as successful as he was with Assad.
trying to stir up a race war AND running guns to drug gangs in Mexico AND trying to destroy small businesses with Obamacare burdens AND trying to change the workweek into a 30-hour standard AND alienating all of our allies like Israel and Great Britain AND destroying the National Aeronautic and Space Administration AND driving up ammunition costs by buying up all the surplus ammunition AND trying to stir up a race war
I would like the railroads to reinstitute steam engines burning coal.
Tat should be above his tailbone.
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