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The Democrats Don’t See The Light
By Matt Margolis | August 16, 2003
It was only a matter of time. The “Bush Knew” campaign by the Left that surfaced shortly after 9/11 will now take the backseat to the new “Bush Blew It” campaign about 8/14.
Dick Gephardt said,
“The unfortunate events on the East Coast, parts of the Midwest and in Canada yesterday are further evidence that the Bush administration is inexorably tied to Persian Gulf oil and old energy, and is incapable of devising a comprehensive, forward-looking energy strategy.”
Blah, blah, blah… Yawnnn…
The [color=green][b]Irish John Kerry[/b][/color] and the [color=blue][b]Jewish John Kerry[/b][/color] didn’t have a comment, but the [color=yellow][b]French John Kerry[/b][/color] said “If it weren’t for this administration’s obsession with giveaways to their friends in the oil business, Congress likely would have passed an energy bill last year, parts of which were designed to strengthen and modernize the electric grid.”
No incarnation of Kerry is capable of understanding the real reason for the lack of a modern electric grid.
Nancy Pelosi also dribbled a few words, “The West Coast energy crisis was a wake-up call on energy modernization, the blackout is a blaring siren… President Bush should call on Republicans to work with House Democrats to modernize our transition system.”
Of course, it’s the Republicans who need to work the Democrats who are the ones to get things done. It’s always the Democrats who are looking out for us, while the Republicans are just in it for the buck. Please.
Bill Clinton’s former Energy Secretary Bill Richardson, tooting his own horn gave a mordant “I told you so,” in response to the blackouts. “We’ve been warning this for years. Regrettably, nobody listened, the Congress didn’t act,” Richardson said. “The problem is, we’re a superpower with a third world grid that is antiquated.”
Warning about this for years? You mean Bill Clinton warned us for eight years and didn’t do anything? Same grid today as it was during Clinton’s Administration. Gee, this kind of reminds me of the homeless problem that likes to resurface only when a Republican is in the White House.
Richardson went on to blame the Republican controlled congresses for not doing anything… Of course, it always comes down to either the Republican Congress or the Republican President.
However, it was Dick Cheney who remarked in June of 2001 about the need to improve our energy. Cheney, speaking on the results of a report by the National Energy Policy Development Group, noted that “[o]ne of the concerns, obviously, is the aging power grid and the growing problem that we have in getting electricity from the power plant to the light switch. It’s clear that we must upgrade and expand the power grid. If we put more connections in place, we’ll go a long way towards avoiding future blackouts. Another broad aim is to increase energy supplies from diverse sources; from oil and gas, renewables, coal, hydro and nuclear. This is the kind of balanced approach we think is essential if we’re going to meet the country’s energy needs down the road and take care of many of our other concerns, especially with respect to the environment.“
That was then… and here we are now. Cheney continued:
“Indeed, an energy shortage is bad for the environment, as we’ve seen in California, where dirtier plants are now running longer in order to keep the lights on and where competition and efforts to deal with some of the environmental problems have led to a refusal to build plants are now creating demands, for example, for using the water in the dams and reservoirs in the Northwest in a way that may, in fact, damage the salmon population.”
Sounds to me like it’s the left wing wacko-environmentalists who prevent the building of new plants, keep our infrastructure from being updated. I wonder which Senators and Congressman they have in their pockets… hmmm.
That’s the real issue here. We need more plants. Liberals can have wet dreams about conservation all they want, but we live an a electricity dependant society. There’s demand that has to be met. Non-polluting sources of energy can be built, but too many liberals have the NIMBY attitude, which keeps us relying on our current sources of energy more and more and never expanding or upgrading to meet the demand.
This is why California had their problems. Why can’t liberals and the nimrods in the EPA stop pretending that we don’t live in a society that enjoys air conditioning, refrigeration of food, hot showers, television, appliances, light, computers, etc. etc. etc.
Here we have a problem with and outdated energy system, which remained outdated during the eight years of President Clinton (don’t forget) and the Democrats are crying foul like Bush personally pulled the switch on our energy. Ultimately, who is really to blame? It’s the Democrats who prevent more plants from being built, the Democrats who laugh at George W. Bush anytime he talks about energy and the environment, the Democrats who have no other campaign strategy besides “Blame Bush.”
This will all come back to hurt the Democrats. They look pettier every time they open their mouths. The “Blame Bush” strategy may arouse their liberal base, but they can’t win in 2004 that way. The power will come back on in the Northeast, but the Democrats will never see the light, they’ll never see a Democrat President in 2004.
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August 16th, 2003 at 11:20 pm
I finally got power back Fri. AM, then we had a “rolling blackout” for oh, 7-8 hours yesterday. I still have a boil alert on my water.
I blame the Dems.
BTW:
Which is he this week?
August 17th, 2003 at 1:48 am
I don’t know actually.
Apparently he was Biker John Kerry sometime last week. Maybe he’s going to be Blue Collar John Kerry this coming week?
July 12th, 2004 at 12:29 pm
You may have already been contacted…but I was wondering if you could add the following information to your website…and possibly send it to your list of Democrats 4 Bush. Timing is of the essence as the producer wants to air the show at the end of July.
“We are producing a television program on the topic of democrats who will be voting for Pres. Bush in November. If you are interested (or know anyone who is) in speaking to us on camera and are located in Mass., Ohio, Florida or Penn. feel free to email me. Please include a brief comment on why…ie: freedom rights, gun rights, etc. Also, please include your occupation and the best time and way to contact you.
Thank you,
MJ Johnson
Producer
demtorepublican@yahoo.com”
Thank you,
Kevin