George Allen officially launches his ‘industry-backed anti-regulatory group.’
By on Jun 2nd, 2009 at 4:34 pm
George Allen officially launches his ‘industry-backed anti-regulatory group.’
Earlier today, former Republican senator George Allen officially launched his latest venture, “an industry-backed anti-regulatory group” called American Energy Freedom Center. In a webcast today, Allen claimed that he wants to “tell people the truthful story about America’s energy potential that has never been told before.” Allen’s new organization is a partner group to the Institute for Energy Research, which is partially funded by Exxon Mobil and run by Robert Bradley Jr., who worked at Enron. In 2003, Bradley wrote the book “Climate Alarmism Reconsidered,” which argued that “that climate alarmism and its corollary, policy activism, are unwarranted and counterproductive” in the face of global climate change.
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Well, if he’s funded by Exxon he must Americans best interest at heart. /snark
June 2nd, 2009 at 4:36 pmshorter George “macaca” Allen: Drill here! Drill now!”
June 2nd, 2009 at 4:37 pmExxon and Enron meet George Allen.
June 2nd, 2009 at 4:38 pmThat tells me all I want to know.
Great timing Macaca. After the past eight years I am sure nobody has anything good to say about governmental oversight. Not to mention, everyone certainly believes the oil companies have our best interest at heart.
June 2nd, 2009 at 4:38 pmGeorge Allen officially launches his ‘industry-backed anti-regulatory group.’
– - I’ve seen Al Gore, I’ve voted for Al Gore, and believe me Sen. Allen, you’re no Al Gore.
June 2nd, 2009 at 4:38 pmGeorge Allen officially launches his ‘industry-backed anti-regulatory group.’
The Macaca Foundation ?
June 2nd, 2009 at 4:38 pmWe need all elected officials to sign non-compete clauses with a min 5 year window to keep them from personally benefiting from the tenure at the taxpayer/voter’s expense after they’ve been kicked to the curb.
The jump into the lobbying arena and using connections on Capital Hill is an egregious slap in the face to free market principals, and therefore, the United States as a whole.
In short, I call BULLSHIT.
June 2nd, 2009 at 4:43 pmAn “an industry-backed anti-regulatory group?” We already had one of those. It was called the Bush Administration.
June 2nd, 2009 at 4:44 pmGeorge Allen officially launches his ‘industry-backed anti-regulatory group.’
I think it’s time to regulate these ‘industry-backed anti-regulatory groups’.
June 2nd, 2009 at 4:44 pmFortunately, I’m sure that the mainstream media will immediately comment on the ties that this organization has with the energy industry, and how Mr. Allen regularly sucked at the teat of big energy while he was an elected official…
but I’m not holding my breath
June 2nd, 2009 at 4:48 pmAmerican Energy Freedom… more from bizarro world.
Anyone in their right mind would not want to continue dependence on non-renewable energy sources which will only become more costly as the resource is depleted.
June 2nd, 2009 at 4:48 pmGeorge Allen officially launches his ‘industry-backed anti-regulatory group.’
Yeah……..It’s called “The Republican Party”……
June 2nd, 2009 at 4:48 pmI would never listen to a man who perpetually looks as if he has a booger hanging from his nostrils and dried bits of food at the corners of his mouth…Allen proves that once a racist moron always a racist moron…
June 2nd, 2009 at 4:51 pmThat’s about the only thing you’ve been right about…Please, do not reply…this does not mean I want to talk to you…
June 2nd, 2009 at 4:52 pmGod! George Macaca Allen and Ricky Man on Dog Santorum on the same page. What in the world is happening? I thought this form of demon had been put to sleep forever. All the troglodytes are coming out to try to get their kickbacks from all the corporations they greased while in the Bush Crime Family.
June 2nd, 2009 at 4:52 pmProud…..stupid and of course wrong but so?
June 2nd, 2009 at 4:53 pmI just love the Orwellian way righties use the word freedom in their titles.
June 2nd, 2009 at 4:54 pmIf the GOP doesn’t fight for uber-wealthy, industry-rigging corporatists, then who will?
PLEASE AMERICA, SAVE THE WEALTHY!
June 2nd, 2009 at 4:56 pmWhen Merdad gets here just ignore em. It rips em apart inside…
Hey Proud how’s that Magic Eightball working? Any chance you could post a copy of the Master Plan? Oh and how’d you get ahold of tha anyway?
June 2nd, 2009 at 4:56 pmProud Says:
Proud you freaking moron if the philosophy of the wingnuts had not failed and if you had not signed out health insurance over to the HMOs (speaking of a beauracy between you and your doctor), if Raygunomics had not allowed the theives to rob Wall Street, none of the nationalization (which started before Obama was elected with TARP) would be necessary. Now go read a book and try to do without the blowhards on FAUX and Rush for a week.
June 2nd, 2009 at 4:57 pmProud Says:
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he can then nationalize the energy industry.
June 2nd, 2009 at 4:50 pm
And that would be “bad” because it’s wrong for the oil companies to cease making record-setting profits , drilling on US soil ?
June 2nd, 2009 at 4:57 pmThe only thing today’s GNOP is in favor of regulating is the freedom of US citizens to vote.
What’s so amazing is that these idiots keep finding groups willing to fund them on their next venture.
PEACE
June 2nd, 2009 at 4:58 pmHeh heh. Yet another neocon money pit doomed to failure. Let’s hope they drag it’s death out as long as possible.
June 2nd, 2009 at 4:59 pmFred says:
Aboud Proud(to be ignorant)
June 2nd, 2009 at 5:00 pmWhat else can be said?
Stupid is as stupid does.
I give up!!!!! After 8 years of no regulation and $4.50 gas….At what point do you think they come up with this??
AT WHAT POINT WILL CORPS AND CERTAIN POLITICIANS REALIZE WE ARE NOT DUMB FUC*S!!! WHEN WILL THEY REALIZE THIS????? TELL ME PLEASE ?????
Godddd dammmme when did the fu**en idiots take over the ideas department at WALMART?????
June 2nd, 2009 at 5:02 pmProudMoron you stupid piece of filth. You are ignorant. You dont know what you are talking about. You just spew what you have been programmed with. Isnt it depressing being as stupid and pathetic as you are? You have no hope of ever improving. You will spend your life stupid and pathetic a liar and a fool pitied by everyone who knows you and respected by no one. You sad pathetic little troll. Your life is a misery
June 2nd, 2009 at 5:03 pmProudMoron the only REAL solution is for you to STFU
June 2nd, 2009 at 5:04 pmHey, Glenn Beck is attacking Center for American Progress if anybody is interested.
I really hate that guy.
June 2nd, 2009 at 5:11 pmIs it the racist mating season? Jeebus, they’re EVERYWHERE!
June 2nd, 2009 at 5:11 pmZooey, great argument for making condoms more available!
PEACE
June 2nd, 2009 at 5:14 pmHey, Glenn Beck is attacking Center for American Progress if anybody is interested.
A big, fat “SO FCUKING WHAT”?
A d o u c h e b a g learned to speak, and that’s news????
June 2nd, 2009 at 5:16 pmMom, excellent idea — as usual. :D
June 2nd, 2009 at 5:17 pmThat should make all of you happy.
Anything to make you cry, we’ll do it wussy.
June 2nd, 2009 at 5:17 pmSee I’d still rather reply to Proud than Merdad. Granted I don’t agree with him but he at least makes coherent statements and replies in a coherent manner. Please ignore Merdad when he gets to this thread. Ignoring is actually quite funny :)
June 2nd, 2009 at 5:20 pmHe is a republican. He has his own interests in mind, not yours. not anyone elses.
June 2nd, 2009 at 5:21 pmAh, I see George the Bigot finally found someone to give him some money.
His bank account was getting a might thin after losing the election.
June 2nd, 2009 at 5:22 pm“…he wants to “tell people the truthful story about America’s energy potential that has never been told before.” ”
So he admits that they have been telling us lies up to now.
June 2nd, 2009 at 5:24 pmIgnore it…
June 2nd, 2009 at 5:27 pmflag it and move on.
June 2nd, 2009 at 5:35 pmproud would rather have someone who represents the ceo make your health decisions than someone who works for you. typical republicant
Keep in mind folks that if proud’s hero, gwb had had his way, social security would have been given to those idiots who run wall street…
June 2nd, 2009 at 5:37 pmLove the pictiure of Allen. I think we just found the missing link.
June 2nd, 2009 at 5:37 pmIgnore it…
already flagged :)
June 2nd, 2009 at 5:38 pmProud would rather have free market speculators running the energy field than people who care about everyday americans;
June 2nd, 2009 at 5:39 pmhttp://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/68552.html
Why don’t we just deregulate everything? Why is it only big business that gets a free pass?
Speed limits impede our progress from point A to point B. Get rid of them! How about marijuana? Deregulate now! Why make doctors pay malpractice insurance? Well, that’s an easy one. The insurance companies have a gold mine with doctors. Why don’t our wonderful politicians make it so doctors still have to pay for malpractice insurance but, the insurance companies never have to pay any out becuase why not deregulate malpractice? Lets deregulate schools. Everyone passes!
Why don’t we just save a step and print up a few extra billion dollars and give it to the corporations and super-rich. We’ve never really had a problem doing this before. Aren’t these people entitled to be filthy rich. Maybe this time they’ll choke on all the extra money they so desperately need to survive. It’s the only reason they live.
June 2nd, 2009 at 5:44 pmangels81 Says:
Love the pictiure of Allen. I think we just found the missing link.
June 2nd, 2009 at 5:37 pm
I think he’s celebrating a big stinky fart. ;)
June 2nd, 2009 at 5:48 pmHe is a big stinky fart!
June 2nd, 2009 at 5:50 pmI thought I smelled something… ;)
June 2nd, 2009 at 5:53 pmPro Industry, Anti-Regulation.
Just look at what the Soviets did to their satellite countries and the polluted mess they left behind.
June 2nd, 2009 at 6:03 pmFor that matter, just look at the good-ole American sites that got CERCLA (superfund) started.
Can you say Love Canal ?
June 2nd, 2009 at 6:05 pmAllen and company figure it is only rape if the victim complains.
What they don’t know is that once the Earth gets to the point of complaining saying I’m sorry just ain’t gonna cut it. And there isn’t a bank account big enough to buy the Earth off.
June 2nd, 2009 at 6:21 pmI would never support an industry that would have George Allen as a spokesman…
Felix wants to punish the little people who had the temerity to find him a disgrace and an embarrassment.
June 2nd, 2009 at 6:40 pm56. Merdad Says: Ok- I am back
Ohhh, I’m just in time, you chicken-hearted little sh¡t…
June 2nd, 2009 at 6:41 pmMacaca!
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Proud Says:
Only solution is for Obama to continue the master plan of nationalizing every industry.
Then that was an awful neat trick of him getting Dubya to completely trash the economy by last September. How’d he do that? You know, I think you wingnuts give Obama way more credit then we do.
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kasinca Says:
God! George Macaca Allen and Ricky Man on Dog Santorum on the same page. What in the world is happening? I thought this form of demon had been put to sleep forever.
They’re like zombies. Every time we beat them at the ballot box, either corporate-funded advocacy groups or the FAUX News pundit circuit zap them back to life.
June 2nd, 2009 at 6:48 pmThough Richard backpedaled on a couple of these charges, presumably to take pressure off of Allen’s aspirations, the overall pugnaciousness of Felix is a well known trait.
He’s unhinged, unscrupulous and greedy; a perfect fit for an oil company spokesman.
June 2nd, 2009 at 6:52 pmOhhh, I’m just in time, you chicken-hearted little sh¡t…
resist the urge to respond! :)
June 2nd, 2009 at 6:52 pm61. resist the urge to respond! :)
Resist the urge to step on a cockroach? But the crunch underfoot of their ignorance is so satisfying…..’specially the ones who talk tough.
merdad is a republican eunuch that retreats faster’n Hannity from a water fountain…
June 2nd, 2009 at 7:02 pmI know hanshiro, I agree but I really think he’s just faking the posts for attention.
June 2nd, 2009 at 7:52 pmkdgamergirl Says:
I know hanshiro, I agree but I really think he’s just faking the posts for attention.
Just flag and move on. It’s one point if a troll addresses the topic; it’s borderline if they address any topic. But when they’re just pounding their head on the keyboard, there’s no reason whatsoever to respond at all. Just flag and move on.
June 2nd, 2009 at 8:28 pmJust flag and move on. It’s one point if a troll addresses the topic; it’s borderline if they address any topic. But when they’re just pounding their head on the keyboard, there’s no reason whatsoever to respond at all. Just flag and move on.
Agreed and I think we’re doing a great job. Looks like he had to change his moniker to get attention since we started ignoring him :)
June 2nd, 2009 at 8:44 pmYa know, Proud, I am not so sure nationalization is the correct term seeing as wall street and the FIRE sector pretty much own the government thru lobbying and campaign donations….
June 2nd, 2009 at 9:17 pmLet’s make sure we track every penny this group gives to candidates for federal office. In fact, groups like this are precisely the reason we should ban corporations from giving donations to political candidates. Candidates for Representative or Senator should only be allowed to accept campaign contributions from individuals in their own districts or states, respectively.
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June 3rd, 2009 at 10:30 amGeorge your audience will be the same 19% that believed Bush did a good job but the rest of us will be able to see through your lies.
June 3rd, 2009 at 11:57 amMaybe someone can start at least a petition to Exxon for giving this racist a good position. Something.
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:51 pmYou mean there’s still some regulations left to deregulate? Exxon and the rest just don’t want to spend the money to fix anything so it doesn’t pollute. That’s what this is all about. And our publicly-elected officials, filled with honor and dignity and loads of personal-integrity help them along.
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