Both Biden and the O were quite open about opposing coal mining and coal power plants.
I thought at the time it was great news, that this would shift the coal states into the Repub column.
Silly me. The coal producing states all voted O.
The Rats kept touting “clean coal technology” and replacing the coal plants now in use.
Wasn’t Biden overheard, in one of his candid gaffes, saying there ISN’T ANY SUCH THING AS CLEAN COAL????
Voters got this one wrong. We have one chance in 2010 to get it back. Or America is toast.
You know what happened: after 28 years of mainly center-right economic policy from 1981-2008, many people just couldn’t believe that any administration would actually try to implement a hard left-wing, anti-business economic policy. They just couldn’t imagine that BHO and his administration would actually try to do all this crazy stuff. A lot of voters must have thought it was just campaign rhetoric to win the far left. No, he actually meant most of that rhetoric, except of course the moderate rhetoric such as, “if you like your current health insurance policy, you can keep it.” The American people are getting buyers’ remorse now, and finding out that this administration and the democrat congress are actually trying to implement most of the crazy policies they said they would implement back during the campaign.