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Oct 10, 2011 - AD: Romney's Remedy
Posted on 10/14/2011 12:36:44 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
In excerpts of his speech released by his campaign, Perry will say his plan can largely be carried out through a series of executive orders without requiring congressional approval.
"The plan I present this morning -- energizing American jobs and security -- will kick-start economic growth and 1.2 million American jobs," Perry will say.
Perry would open up for exploration and production Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, which has long been an environmental battleground between Democrats and Republicans.
He would allow more offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and areas of the Atlantic while protecting the ecologically fragile Florida Everglades, aides said.
And he would back the Keystone XL pipeline to bring crude from Canada's tar sands to the U.S. Gulf Coast. The pipeline is caught up in U.S. red tape and opposed by many on various environmental grounds.
"My plan will break the grip of dependence we have today on foreign oil from hostile nations like Venezuela and unstable nations in the Middle East to grow jobs and our economy at home," Perry will say.
Perry would seek to rein in both the Environmental Protection Agency and activists who try to slow down energy projects through lawsuits.
Perry will zero in on Obama, who is struggling to reduce the stubbornly high U.S. unemployment rate of 9.1 percent amid weak growth.
"The choice in this election is between two very different visions for our country. When it comes to energy, the president would kill domestic jobs through aggressive regulations while I would unleash 1.2 million American jobs through safe and aggressive energy exploration at home," Perry will say.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
Drill baby! Drill!
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...according to his standards, Romney himself used to be a “radical” environmentalist who supported clean energy policy and opposed a pollution-backed economy. Back in 2005, Romney told the Boston Globe he was “convinced” that cap and trade was “good business.” It was his administration, in fact, that helped guide the development of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a cap and trade system in the Northeastern U.S. that has raised $860 million for energy efficiency and renewable energy programs. In 2003, Romney fought to protect public health by supporting environmental controls on a Massachusetts coal plant that was responsible for dozens of premature deaths and 14,400 asthma attacks each year, according the Harvard School of Public Health. Announcing new regulations on the coal pollution, Romney said that he would “not create jobs or hold jobs that kill people”:
I will not create jobs or hold jobs that kill people. And that plant kills people and PG&E has been given a notice to have it cleaned up by 2004 and they have thumbed their nose at the people of Massachusetts and Salem Harbor by not cleaning it up on time. So we’re saying, clean it up on time, do the job in the community, invest in cleaning technology.
One has to wonder where the old Romney went. According to Seth Kaplan of the Boston-based Conservation Law Foundation, the old Romney disappeared while he was still governor of Massachusetts, posturing for the presidential election in 2007.
“You could see the flip starting to happen then – whether it was directly related to his running for president, you can’t say for sure. But they happened at the exact same time,”... Source
Romney’s Troubling Appointments (Mitt's environmental policy team now works for Obama) ......."Significantly, two of Romney’s appointments have how found a home in the Obama White House.....Gina McCarthy, the chief EPA clean air regulator,.......Another Romney environmental adviser in the effort to regulate “greenhouse gases” is now Obama’s Director of Science and Technology Policy, John Holdren."........
Romney’s Advisers Met With Obama to Help Craft ‘Obamacare’ “Three of Mitt Romney’s advisers went to the White House at least a dozen times in 2009 to consult on the former Massachusetts governor’s health care plan that President Obama used as a model for his initiative -- now a federal law that all the Republican presidential candidates want to repeal."....
......"It's a "pattern time and time again," said senior campaign strategist David Axelrod. "It’s consistent with a guy who ran for the governorship and the Senate in Massachusetts as a pro-choice moderate who supported civil unions and environmental protections to the guy you see today hard after the Tea Party vote who has thrown all his positions over.” If "you are willing to change positions on fundamental issues of principle, how can we know what you would do as president?" asked Axelrod.
The Democratic National Committee has already established a YouTube channel called "Which Mitt" which highlights his Mitt-flops."..................Source
WOW! Where the hell was this Perry during the debates?
I don’t believe any of the GOP contenders would disagree with this, except Romney might be a bit weak-kneed. Cain wouldn’t disagree, for sure.
If this Perry was there, the rest of the table would have probably shouted “me too.” It would have been a big agreefest.
Perry: If you’re too big to fail, you’re too big.....responsible spending- including Europe — America isn’t here to bail out people who make bad economic decisions, .... be it Wall Street, General Motors or the country of Greece......
Hasn't Sarah Palin been saying this for FOUR YEARS NOW?
AND to go religious now because a bunch of professional Bible thumpers have joined his political campaign makes Perry even less palatable. I can read the Bible and in the whole of the Bible God says He is most displeased with the sheep traffickers.... ah preacher/priest class.
AND I know saying anything negative about saint Perry, will brand me as a loony Paul or Romney bot. But of course these two professional politicians are NOT even on my consideration radar.
Further replacing BamBamKennedy with a professional politician without a veto proof Congress is NOT going to change squat. Most especially if the ‘logic’ or ‘excuse’ given for signing legislation is because of a ‘veto’ proof legislature. AND I am NOT saying that keeping old Pharaoh in office is acceptable, what I am saying is that Perry's record is NOT leadership. He can execute any order he wishes but unless he has a willing Congress they will outlaw any order he issues. OR some dirtworshiping group will get a judge to ‘stay’ his executed order.
Perry did well in the interview. He reminds me of Palin.
Sept 12, 2011: Luminant sues EPA, says it will shut two coal units, cut 500 jobs …”At the Big Brown power plant in Freestone County, Units 1 and 2 will switch over to Powder River Basin coal and the nearby lignite mines will close.
The moves will lead to about 500 job cuts, the company said.
“While Luminant is making preparations to meet the rule’s compliance deadline, this morning it also filed a legal challenge in an effort to protect facilities and employees, and to minimize the harm this rule will cause to electric reliability in Texas,” the company said in a statement.
The company is asking an appeals court for a stay implementing the Cross-State rule, saying it is illegal because the EPA didn’t include Texas in the draft rules released in 2010. The final rules released in June 2011 included a heavy emissions reduction burden for Texas...
“As expected, the only results of this rule will be putting Texans out of work and creating hardships for them and their families, while putting the reliability of Texas’ grid in jeopardy,” Gov. Rick Perry said in a statement...“These rules, imposed on Texas without adequate notice and without adequate scientific justification, will kill jobs, put the brakes on economic growth, increase energy costs and impair our energy security—all with little or no positive environmental effects,” the TCEQ said in a statement.
Environmental groups hailed Luminant’s decision, however. …..” [end excerpt]
Sept 12, 2011From Treehugger - A Discovery Company “………..For a flavor of what's to come we have only to look to Texas Governor Rick Perry, who seems to channel the vibe pretty well and gets only the rare local challenge….. Instead of dealing with the realities of climate change--regardless of whether you or they think it is caused by human activities--Texas politicians will keep playing the lynch mob role toward EPA, at least until the next Presidential election is over. It works as a political strategy - for now…..
Perry’s speech on Texas wind power.
http://wayback.archive-it.org/414/20100820064912/http://governor.state.tx.us/news/speech/4652/
Texas (every state) has to meet a 10% usage of renewable energy by 2025. Texas’ population is growing so fast that it’s hard to keep up but Texas has to comply with the EPA dictate and WIND in Texas is where to go.
“Perry environmental stance would transform EPA”
The link below describes how needed power lines being built to transport that power to where it needs to be (reason many are inactive). As it is now, here in Texas we’re getting rolling blackouts, power outages and come Jan, we again (and New Mexico) will have some cold days when the power goes again. But no one wants those power lines going close to them.
http://www.texastribune.org/texas-energy/energy/texas-oks-new-wind-power-transmission-lines/
SO, is Rick Perry making the right moves? He is. What would he do if he had his fingers on the EPA? Now, that is a whole ‘nother situation, isn’t it?
Texas, and the country (for now) is caught between cheap power and the EPA. Remember Perry’s big platform items, roll back — REGULATIONS AND LAWSUITS. He’s working the problem.
The MSM despises them both.
Gov. Rick Perry prefers to bypass the mainstream media "....Frankly, Perry didn’t have a lot of use for the media — not after two terms as governor — nor did the media have much use for him, as most major papers endorsed his GOP rival in the gubernatorial primary and Democratic rival in the general election.
He further enraged the media when he spoke at a national editorial writers gathering last fall and wouldn’t take questions, prompting the group’s “stunned” president to send Perry a letter accusing of him of “disingenuousness” and going back on his word.
...Palin likewise engenders anger from some in the press because she sells books and packs halls even while shunning interaction with all but a few conservative outlets. Each seems to thrive on the conflict, and that approach is further evidence that they’re not just philosophical allies, but also temperamentally kindred."...
Will he end the insane practice of farmer subsidies to grow corn juice to fuel modern transportation??? OR federal subsidies for the ‘sugar’ daddies??? See Perry has an ag background and I do NOT anticipate he will be messing with that support group's gravy train.
Talk is cheap, and to give freedom and liberty to job creation is going to be going against the grain of what has become to be president.... paying back all those people who pay your way to reside at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue...
All this cheering about campaign dollars raised only means Perry owes somebody something FIRST before one campaign promise can be fulfilled.
......"“We don’t need to have government picking winners and losers in this business,” Perry said during a news conference in Des Moines. “Let the folks get out there with the regulations off their back. I have a good idea that the farmers in Iowa can compete with anybody in the world.”.......
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