GOP Congressmen Smear Green Collar Workers, Claim Their Jobs Are ‘Paper Mâché,’ ‘Subprime,’ ‘Gangrene’
GOP Congressmen Smear Green Collar Workers, Claim Their Jobs Are ‘Paper Mâché,’ ‘Subprime,’ ‘Gangrene’
Yesterday, House Republicans took to the floor for an hour-long series of speeches dedicated to attacking Waxman-Markey clean energy economy legislation. But in addition to doing the usual — misrepresenting an MIT study to claim the legislation would result in a tax and flaunting their skepticism of global climate change — the members of Congress decided to fire a volley of smears at workers doing green jobs as well. ThinkProgress has compiled a video of some of the attacks:
REP. JOHN FLEMING (R-LA): What we really get is a pass-through of taxpayer dollars that go into what I would call artificial – or I call them paper mâché jobs, so-called green jobs.
REP. TODD AKIN (R-MO): The green jobs that are being talked about, we’re going to create all these green jobs. In Spain, they call them subprime jobs.
REP. G.T. THOMPSON (R-PA): This is all in the name of green, greening America, specifically solar and hydro. But I have to – in terms of the economy, the other green that comes to mind is gangrene.
Watch it:
Similarly, Rep. Rob Bishop (R-UT) has mocked the very existence of green jobs, calling the clean energy industry “as real as the Jolly Green Giant.”
Despite the attacks from right-wing congressmen, green jobs legislation can simultaneously help solve the climate change crisis while spurring an economic boom that will generate millions of both high tech and manufacturing jobs. Akin and others point to a debunked ExxonMobil-funded study on the effect of cap and trade on the Spanish economy to call green jobs “subprime.” But a report by the Center for American Progress shows investment in green jobs produces four times as many jobs as an equivalent investment in the oil industry.
The Environmental Defense Fund website notes there are at least four clean energy companies in Thompson’s district and six in Akin’s district. Maybe these right-wing congressmen should consider they are not only preventing millions of future green jobs by opposing Waxman-Markey, but by sliming green jobs they are mocking their own constituents.
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Wow, so now they are smearing American workers. Pretty soon they will run out of people to smear and they will run out of members of their party.
June 3rd, 2009 at 4:48 pmPublicans prefer brown or lily white jobs.
June 3rd, 2009 at 4:49 pmREP. JOHN FLEMING (R-LA): What we really get is a pass-through of taxpayer dollars that go into what I would call artificial – or I call them paper mâché jobs, so-called green jobs.
Fleming- his reasoning is totally artificial. Papier mâché has more intelligence than him, apparently.
REP. TODD AKIN (R-MO): The green jobs that are being talked about, we’re going to create all these green jobs. In Spain, they call them subprime jobs.
In Spain, they’d call Todd Akin an ill-informed buffoon.
REP. G.T. THOMPSON (R-PA): This is all in the name of green, greening America, specifically solar and hydro. But I have to – in terms of the economy, the other green that comes to mind is gangrene.
Thompson should know about gangrene– apparently his brain is rotting.
June 3rd, 2009 at 4:49 pmWhat other ethnic/economic/social group is going to get kicked under the Publican/Neocon bus?
Got atomic size tent?
June 3rd, 2009 at 4:49 pmGOP Congressmen Smear Green Collar Workers, Claim Their Jobs Are ‘Paper Mâché,’ ‘Subprime,’ ‘Gangrene’
– - I’d expect nothing less from a political party that’s the very embodiment of toxicity.
June 3rd, 2009 at 4:49 pmpimped out Says:
When a Conservative says it, it’s a “smear.” When a far left loon says it, it’s gospel……
Sorry but it’s not so. If a Democratic congressperson said the same thing I would accuse them of smearing American workers.
Unlike the right, the left calls it like they see it, as evidenced by the many complaints about President Obama on this site.
June 3rd, 2009 at 4:50 pmPoor goppers… backed in a corner with no where to go except for their usual smears, lies and name calling.
Don’t they know this only further diminishes them?
June 3rd, 2009 at 4:51 pmProject much? Green jobs are the best chance we have to revive the manufacturing sector conservatives eroded in favor of paper-pushing service sector jobs that have downgraded the U.S. standing and increased our dependency.
June 3rd, 2009 at 4:51 pmpimped out Says:
they will run out of members of their party.
Rinse, repeat.
FACT:
The number of people who identify themselves as Republican:
18%…. http://www.ap-gfkpoll.com/pdf/AP-GfK_Poll_Topline_April_2009.pdf
21%…. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/polls/postpoll_042609.html
Both polls show that the Republicans have lost 4% of their members in the last couple of months.
June 3rd, 2009 at 4:52 pmNero’s fiddling seems noble in comparison.
June 3rd, 2009 at 4:55 pmDo they have any arguments to make, or do they just taunt whatever they don’t like and call it names? Seriously, we could the same results as this just by sending some fifth-graders off the schoolyard to Congress.
June 3rd, 2009 at 4:55 pmspring heeled jack Says:
Nero’s fiddling seems noble in comparison.
At least it was pleasant to listen to… this is like nails on a chalkboard.
June 3rd, 2009 at 4:55 pmpimped out Says:
When a Conservative says it, it’s a “smear.” When a far left loon says it, it’s gospel……
You wouldn’t know a far left loon if it tie-dyed you and called you granola. PETA, EarthFirst! and the ALF are complete wackjobs, and most of the lefties here find them amusing at best, outright dangerous at worst.
June 3rd, 2009 at 4:57 pmThe years under the previous administration exemplified the Republican subversion of Capitalism – an economy built on nothing but passing possession around. Build nothing, create nothing and invest nothing, just line pockets with OPM (other peoples’ money). Sigh… I could go on describing the abject self-serving nature of the economy Bush et. al. buried alive.
June 3rd, 2009 at 4:57 pmI could use one of those gangrenous, paper maiche, subprime jobs right about now…
June 3rd, 2009 at 4:58 pmDid these charades take place before C-SPAN? Watching this handful of “honorable gentlemen” mugging for the camera in an otherwise deserted hall is pretty nauseating.
June 3rd, 2009 at 4:58 pmWTF is wrong with these people? It’s like they’re in panic mode because none of their usual tricks are working, so they’re just lashing out at anyone who comes within arm’s length.
June 3rd, 2009 at 4:58 pmYou know what would be great? For “green” companies to visit the communities in these idiot’s districts, meet the people and tell them that they were considering opening a plant there until they heard the rants of their congress critters.
That’s one way to get these buffoons out of office! Of course, the “green” industry is not as mean as I’m feeling right now.
PEACE
June 3rd, 2009 at 5:01 pmLet ‘em rant. The Republican Party will remain a shrinking basket case as long as its few remaining elected officials insist on behaving like first graders at recess.
June 3rd, 2009 at 5:05 pmWe all know why this is happening.
The fact that these jobs have been created demonstrates that the Obama bailout may (and I emphasize the ‘may’) be working, and it scares the bejeesus out of the right wing, so they immediately attack both the jobs themselves and the workers for taking those jobs (rather than sitting around and collecting welfare and/or unemployment so they can be focus of a different right wing argument).
The fact that they can link that with climate change is just a bonus for these short sighted egotists.
June 3rd, 2009 at 5:08 pmREP. TODD AKIN (R-MO): The green jobs that are being talked about, we’re going to create all these green jobs. In Spain, they call them subprime jobs.
SPAIN?!! Isn’t this the same country that’s attempting to prosecute members of the bush/cheney administration for war crimes? I’m happy to hear that an elected republican is so willing give Spain a legitimate voice in Congress. Viva La Justicia!
June 3rd, 2009 at 5:11 pmspencers mom Says:
You know what would be great? For “green” companies to visit the communities in these idiot’s districts, meet the people and tell them that they were considering opening a plant there until they heard the rants of their congress critters.
That’s probably exactly what’s going to happen next. As the green industry gets rolling and it comes down to how many local jobs can be sited where, these R’s are going to find their previously “safe seats” getting increasingly wobbly…
June 3rd, 2009 at 5:11 pmOh, spencers mom, you’re good. I like that idea.
June 3rd, 2009 at 5:12 pmI hope that when these losers get into their geriatric age, their grandkids ship them off to a neglect ridden, bedbug ridden hellhole in the middle of the hottest desert on the planet. There they can live out their remaining days in deserved misery.
June 3rd, 2009 at 5:19 pmI swear, when you read comments by this idiot, & all the other Repubs who have spouted right-wing talking points lately, you understand why Bush, Cheney, Rice, & all their ignorant base get their “news” from Fox. Fox cares nothing about facts or research, and Fox provides Repubs with dishonest comments that they parrot over & over & over. Almost anyone can put together a YouTube clip highlighting the latest Repub talking point, broadcast on Fox, then repeated ad nauseum– and verbatim!!– by Repub governors, senators, pundits, & individuals. It’s all right-wing dishonest propaganda & smears. Exactly what feeds their own. If anyone is anti-American (dishonest, hateful, racist, anti-Constitution, divisive, exclusive, elitist) it is the Republican party & its ill-informed sheep followers.
June 3rd, 2009 at 5:19 pma bit OT, but…
their hero gets a statue…
and we get the dregs… and worse…
Reagan Did It
By PAUL KRUGMAN
“This bill is the most important legislation for financial institutions in the last 50 years. It provides a long-term solution for troubled thrift institutions. … All in all, I think we hit the jackpot.” So declared Ronald Reagan in 1982, as he signed the Garn-St. Germain Depository Institutions Act.
He was, as it happened, wrong about solving the problems of the thrifts. On the contrary, the bill turned the modest-sized troubles of savings-and-loan institutions into an utter catastrophe. But he was right about the legislation’s significance. And as for that jackpot — well, it finally came more than 25 years later, in the form of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
For the more one looks into the origins of the current disaster, the clearer it becomes that the key wrong turn — the turn that made crisis inevitable — took place in the early 1980s, during the Reagan years.
[...]
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/01/opinion/01krugman.html?_r=1&em
June 3rd, 2009 at 5:20 pmRUCeriousMaggot! Says:
I hope that when these losers get into their geriatric age, their grandkids ship them off to a neglect ridden, bedbug ridden hellhole in the middle of the hottest desert on the planet. There they can live out their remaining days in deserved misery.
Libertarian paradise!
June 3rd, 2009 at 5:20 pmAnd does the number of people in the gallery indicate the importance of the speech ?
I never could understand talking to an empty hall, even if it does get your speech put into the record.
June 3rd, 2009 at 5:21 pmFrom the looks of the picture, it seems they were talking to themselves/each other. Gangrene, really??????
June 3rd, 2009 at 5:23 pmLet’s all chip in and buy the remaining R’s in Congress some spiffy yellow baseball caps with big, red, “L”’s right on the front.
June 3rd, 2009 at 5:26 pmHere they go again… Republicans wanting to deny Americans of good paying jobs.
June 3rd, 2009 at 5:28 pmRepublicans cheerfully break the law. They continue to help BushCo and Cheney illegal torture programs and illegal domestic wiretapping programs, and that’s just for starters.
Why are republicans still allowed anywhere near Washington? Is it because the nation is in shock? Will america get it together or will it devolve into just another corrupt theocracy?
June 3rd, 2009 at 5:29 pmThen they should pay their taxes with paper mâché money!! Idiot!!
June 3rd, 2009 at 5:30 pmWhat, they didn’t bag Al Gore as well ?
They really are slipping.
June 3rd, 2009 at 5:34 pm…and bloviating to a nearly empty chamber, at that. How appropriate for the new GOP.
June 3rd, 2009 at 5:35 pmWhy do Republicans hate American workers?
June 3rd, 2009 at 5:35 pmI pretty sure it’s bribery, extortion and blackmail that pays their way into DC.
June 3rd, 2009 at 5:36 pmRobert Kennedy Jr. is an investor in BrightStar, an energy company which is building a solar plant in California. He said it will produce as much energy as the largest coal fired plant in the country and the cost to build it is less than a coal buring plant.
June 3rd, 2009 at 5:39 pmWhat’s the problem? Is it that the green energy companies aren’t bribing the Republicans?
June 3rd, 2009 at 5:41 pmNo. It’s about removing the OIL-based slime and scum from our country and pocketbooks.
“OK. No green jobs in PA!! Outlaw these “gangrene” jobs NOW!!” /snark
June 3rd, 2009 at 5:44 pmshoeless Says:
Why do Republicans hate American workers?
They’ve always been anti-labor. Period. Anti-labor = anti-worker. Fact.
.
shoeless Says:
What’s the problem? Is it that the green energy companies aren’t bribing the Republicans?
It looks like they’re pretty much daring green companies to fund their opponents…
June 3rd, 2009 at 5:48 pmshoeless, I ask myself the same thing everyday. It seems as if Rethuglicans don’t want American workers to have anything. There was a time when people could earn a decent living wage and take care of their families. The jobs that were lost need to be replaced and I feel that the best solution is green jobs.
June 3rd, 2009 at 5:53 pmDear REP. G.T. THOMPSON (R-PA):
You will now be known as G(angrene) T. Thompson from PA when I refer to you.
Can I just call you Gangrene? or Rep. Gangrene?
June 3rd, 2009 at 5:53 pmSo under what part of the Republican’s “rebranding” and demonstration of the “big tent” inclusiveness does this tactic fit under?
[Insert sound of cricket chirping here.]
I thought so.
June 3rd, 2009 at 5:57 pmNot happy until they have raped every last resource from this planet and leave their kids and grandkids with a wasted world full of pollution, water wars, starvation and ultimately extinction. Soylent green anyone??
June 3rd, 2009 at 6:02 pmBut a report by the Center for American Progress shows investment in green jobs produces four times as many jobs as an equivalent investment in the oil industry.
And in urban areas, former gang members are learning the trade, and moving on from their illegal and violent pasts.
June 3rd, 2009 at 6:15 pmIt’s interesting how teabaggers were hollering about Obama mortgaging their grandkid’s future. These GOPers don’t realize that ignoring climate change and going against clean energy legislation is going to mortgage everyone’s future.
June 3rd, 2009 at 6:16 pmAhhhhhh, the air is so fresh on the threads trolls don’t understand…
June 3rd, 2009 at 6:32 pmIs Bilbo Hussein Baggins
another impersonator for the bilo we know? In post #100 here
#100
Bilbo Hussein Baggins Says:
Had Enough Says:
I give up. Progressives are ruthless and without mercy. One day the tables will turn and don’t complain when they do.
I vote for Obama so the Left would be happy and yet you are all still miserable.
Good bye!
——————————
Don’t let the door hit you on the way out. BTW, do any of you really believe this moron actually voted for Obama? I sure don’t.
June 3rd, 2009 at 4:42
The bilo I know would have seen through the troll hi jacking my name as most did.
June 3rd, 2009 at 6:48 pmREP. TODD AKIN (R-MO): The green jobs that are being talked about, we’re going to create all these green jobs. In Spain, they call them subprime jobs.
Subprime jobs? Never heard that term used for green technologies.
In Spain we understand these as green jobs:
US transport boss: Spain’s trains are US’ models
High technology trains that can emulate jet speeds and at a cost signifiantly lower, polluting far less, with a higher transport capacity.
I don’t understand how creating high technology, and well payed jobs is “subprime”.
June 3rd, 2009 at 7:00 pmDid these charades take place before C-SPAN? Watching this handful of “honorable gentlemen” mugging for the camera in an otherwise deserted hall is pretty nauseating.
June 3rd, 2009 at 7:25 pm
It just goes to show you how far behind the GOP really is when it comes to science, their dim-wits. It’s just pathetic that the GOP want’s to keep making Americans unhealthy at the expense of a dollar.
June 4th, 2009 at 1:20 amZooey Says:
Ahhhhhh, the air is so fresh on the threads trolls don’t understand…
They don’t understand the threads they post in either, unfortunately.
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