SHE WON'T GO!
Ed Whitfield, the 1st District Republican Congressman who heads up the House Energy committee, made pretty damn clear his priorities over the past two days.
And it’s not about protecting Kentucky or the well-being of his constituents in the 1st District.
Two days ago we highlighted Ed’s mission to build a Koch Brothers-backed pipeline from Canada’s “oil sands” through not-Kentucky and since then, Ed’s continued to make headlines with a candor we could only wish from any elected official.
Like here, where Ed Whitfield told a group of reporters that he has no interest in protecting the economy or growing the environment, but is really just playing a pathetic game of politics. This is why the 1st District is wasting their tax dollars on this guy:
House Republicans will keep U.S. EPA’s new Clean Air Act rules front and center between now and next year’s elections in part to ramp up the pressure on vulnerable Democratic senators from states where environmental regulation is hurting the local economy, a key GOP leader on energy issues said this morn
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“We want to keep passing things on the House side that would reverse things EPA is doing simply because we’d like to see those 22 Democratic senators up for re-election next year vote on some of this,” he said.
So basically Whitfield isn’t seeking legislation that would help anyone or serve the economic interests of America.
It’s just low down dirty politics. So he’ll push crazier and crazier bills through and then call anyone who votes against his crazy bills insane.
It’s not a bad idea. But it is pathetic.
For a party that demands the President show them his before they show him theirs, Ed’s strategy is pretty clearly not a plan.
And the fact that America doesn’t have a plan because of Ed Whitfield is already costing jobs and, frankly, innovation and American ingenuity.
General Electric and the University of Wyoming announced Friday they have suspended plans to build a $100 million joint clean coal research facility near Cheyenne amid uncertainty in the nation’s energy policy, lower natural gas prices and tepid demand for electricity.
Construction of the High Plains Gasification-Advanced Technology Center was expected to begin this year and finish in late 2012. The plant would have been a test site for turning coal into gas, which burns more cleanly than coal.
KentuckyElection.org
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