Joe Barton: Democratic clean energy bill is ‘C.R.A.P.’
Joe Barton: Democratic clean energy bill is ‘C.R.A.P.’
Yesterday, House Republicans unveiled their alternative to the Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security Act (H.R. 2454), energy reform legislation that sets standards for renewable energy and global warming pollution. After Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) introduced the Republican “nuclear option,” they returned to attacking the Democratic plan as a “national energy tax.” Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX), a prominent global warming denier and top recipient of dirty energy contributions, used potty humor in his attack:
They like to call it ACES but I call it C.R.A.P. — continue ruining America’s prosperity.
In fact, it is the lack of clean energy and global warming policies that has given this country record gas prices and devastating climate disasters. A clean energy economy can restore America’s prosperity. A new study from the Pew Charitable Trusts finds that “the number of jobs in America’s emerging clean energy economy grew nearly two and a half times faster than overall jobs between 1998 and 2007.”
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You know the GOPers stayed up all night to come up with that one. Haw haw!
June 12th, 2009 at 11:13 am…
with “smokey” joe barton on their side
how can they lose?
:|
June 12th, 2009 at 11:14 amHow dignified!
When the repugs reduce themselves to having loudmouthed bloviators speak for them and their party, they also coarsen themselves.
June 12th, 2009 at 11:17 amThis does absolutely nothing to move any process forward, but provides fodder for the Fox viewers (read: uninformed).
Joe Barton is crap. I hope voters get rid of him and more Republican scumbags in 2010.
June 12th, 2009 at 11:17 amThe nerve of Barton to call the clean energy bill C.R.A.P. when all the GOP has produced is BULLCRAP and bogus budgets!
I guess the GOPers want to keep us up to our eyeballs in coal ash!
June 12th, 2009 at 11:18 amgum and Marie efficiently dispatched the dignity of Smoky Joe’s retort, so i’d like to examine the underlying premise of it, such as it is:
“continue ruining America’s prosperity?”
Would that be continuing the process that the Republican Congress and the Republican president began over the past eight years?
Yeah, I think it would be.
June 12th, 2009 at 11:18 amMarie,
June 12th, 2009 at 11:19 amI don’t even take these GOPers serious anymore. They are just annoying. Thankfully they have no power and can’t do anything.
I truly *loathe* Republicans. Truly.
June 12th, 2009 at 11:22 amThis is almost as stupid as that other idiot who used the Pac-man logo in his argument. What’s next? Stick figures?
June 12th, 2009 at 11:22 amJoe Barton: Democratic clean energy bill is ‘C.R.A.P.’
– - No, no Smokey Joe. CRAP stands for Cellular Recognition and Authentication Protocol. You GOP’ers come under the acronym of STUPID – Standard Terminology for Unique Putz IDentification
June 12th, 2009 at 11:23 amI think it’s absurd for Smokey Joe to say that the clean energy bill is continuing to ruin American’s prosperity when they vote NO on every piece of legislature that will improve the lives of Americans and create jobs!
June 12th, 2009 at 11:24 amWhere’s Micheal Steele with his hats when you need him?
June 12th, 2009 at 11:26 amThey really don’t get it, do they. There will be no “American prosperity” when we have polluted our environment to the extent that we can’t grow crops and we are having to fight other nations for water.
It’s times like these when I thank god the American public woke up and saw the Republics for who they really are and gave us President Obama. There are some areas where I am disappointed in Obama, but where it’s really important (health care & the environment), his heart and his intellect is in the right place.
June 12th, 2009 at 11:29 amBarton has forgotten that his constitutional duties are to represent the people instead of the corporate interests.
June 12th, 2009 at 11:30 amIt seems that the Republicans believe that the only route to prosperity is through continued befowling of the planet. Any constraint on their ability to pollute is seen as an unacceptable limiting of their freedom or an attack on their livelihood. They hate anything established to ‘promote the general welfare’.
June 12th, 2009 at 11:31 amThose Texans are wicked smart.
June 12th, 2009 at 11:31 amHerman Says:
Marie,
I don’t even take these GOPers serious anymore. They are just annoying. Thankfully they have no power and can’t do anything.
If only that were true. They still can threaten a filibuster and Harry Reid will continue to roll over and play dead. The election in 2010 can’t come soon enough.
June 12th, 2009 at 11:31 amI, for one, am getting sick and tired of hearing Republicans complain because legislation would cut into business’s profits. One reason they have those profits is because they put the public’s health second to making larger profits. Republicans oppose anything that costs a business money, based on the false theory that anything that hurts a company’s profits is bad. This is a stupid argument, but it is at the core of what they espouse (and even a few of them, actually believe.)
In the end, the only thing they are supporting is greed. They should just come out and admit it for once. They believe it’s more important for businesses to be greedy than it is for them to make sure the things they produce don’t kill us.
June 12th, 2009 at 11:32 amWhy are we still discussing this? Don’t we have the votes to pass this without them?
I thought there were supposed to be benefits to having huge majorities in both houses?
June 12th, 2009 at 11:32 amDear TP staff: do you notice how many of your postings are simply parroting GOP wingnut talking points?
Sure this stuff – like this present piece – is misinformation, and outrageous, and needs to be confronted.
But there seems to me to be a growing problem with TP and other progressive blogs.
I don’t really care what Rush and Scarborough and all those other idiots say. They’re out of power, and searching for legitimacy – and airtime – by turning up the volume on the flamethrower rhetoric.
By endlessly quoting them, are you really helping?
June 12th, 2009 at 11:32 amSpeaking of CRAP, when’s Joe’s State going to secede?
We could save billions in welfare & subsidies if Tejas would revert back to it’s Mexican origins.
We’d also rid the airwaves of Barton, Cronyn, Perry & other assorted asshats that can’t seem to help America move forward.
June 12th, 2009 at 11:33 amBilbo Hussein Baggins,
June 12th, 2009 at 11:33 amHow many seats you think we can pick up in 2010?
I’m tired of the bickering between the two parties. Those people are redundant.
June 12th, 2009 at 11:33 amlet clean energy begin with me.
I have an electric golf cart and I do most of commuting in it or on my bicycle.
Last year I put over 10,000 miles on it and all I do is plug it in every night.
My pickup truck will eventually be converted to propane when the money becomes available.
I thought C.R.A.P. stood for Conservative Republican Ass Puppets.
This would of course explain why all of Michael Steele’s hats are full of C.R.A.P.
June 12th, 2009 at 11:35 amThe moronic Republic Fascist Party proposal will have America glowing brightly for centuries to come…
….from nuclear waste and melt downs…3 mile island anyone?
Fcuk the Republic Fascist Party
June 12th, 2009 at 11:35 amI’m not sure Smokey Joe ever got that memo. So he couldn’t have forgotten what he never knew.
June 12th, 2009 at 11:36 amSo……When is Texas seceding? Will the last Patriotic American to leave Texas please take The Flag with him/her?
June 12th, 2009 at 11:37 amBTW…..Hey gov. Perry, don’t forget to take Oklahoma with you!
How is ACES “continuing” to ruin anything when it hasn’t been passed? If republicans have all the answers to our energy needs, why didn’t they implement them when they held the majority for a decade?
By the way, for all of the “drill baby drill” fans out there: We export millions of barrels of oil every year. If we drill more, we will simply export more (assuming oil companies are willing to pay for more refineries). And we will still have to import just as much as we do now. If we develop clean energy (wind, solar, etc.) that is not exported. And suddenly we need to import less. But please, don’t listen to this logic. Keep following Sarah Palin right up until 2012.
June 12th, 2009 at 11:37 amI am sorry but I do not see nuclear plants as the answer.
June 12th, 2009 at 11:38 amWhen are the republicans going to open their eyes and understand that Mother Earth has a serious problem and the humans are the reason?
If we drill more, we will simply export more (assuming oil companies are willing to pay for more refineries).
They don’t have to build new refineries. They can just upgrade or open up the ones they closed. We hear the Big Oil supporters say that the problem isn’t one of crude supply, it’s one of refining limits. Then they point out that there hasn’t been one new refinery built in at least twenty years. What they don’t point out is that several perfectly good ones have been shut down in order to artificially limit supply and, thus, jack up the price.
BTW, why is the price of gas still going up?
June 12th, 2009 at 11:41 amalexlerman Says:
Dear TP staff: do you notice how many of your postings are simply parroting GOP wingnut talking points? . . .
By endlessly quoting them, are you really helping?
I think a mix of pointing out to the masses the hate-filled, ridiculous points of anyone who’s using them, coupled with solid doses of legitimate, forward-thinking, wise voices is the only way to ensure we don’t end up with another eight years like the last.
The more that the self-serving, short-sighted views are exposed, the more likely those spouters will lose their influence and — with time — at least some of their former supporters will see the light.
June 12th, 2009 at 11:41 amTHE GOP IS RUINING AMERICA’S PROSPERITY AND JOE IS A FOUL-MOUTHED LIAR:
Study Cites Strong Green Job Growth
A new study says that the number of green jobs in the United States grew 9.1 percent between 1998 and 2007, about two and a half times faster than job growth in the economy as a whole.
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/10/study-cites-strong-green-job-growth/
HELP SAVE AMERICA.
KILL THE GOP.
June 12th, 2009 at 11:42 amMugsy Says
June 12th, 2009 at 11:32 am
I thought there were supposed to be benefits to having huge majorities in both houses?
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Because bipartisanship is completely dead and gone, the only benefit is when the majority is significantly above that which is technically filibuster-proof.
I say “significantly above”, because a majority isn’t REALLY filibuster-proof until the number is high enough to allow for the party members who break ranks.
June 12th, 2009 at 11:44 amThis is all they got? Seriously, this is the best argument they can come up with? “That bill is poo poo!” It’s like dealing with a two year old.
June 12th, 2009 at 11:49 amWow – 34 posts and not a single science denier?
AMAZING!
June 12th, 2009 at 11:49 amThe party of “NO Common Sense Repuklicans” just don’t get it, science and health that is!!
Mike Pence is supplemented by bad nuclear waste Rush and Laura Ingraham.
and
Joe Barton’s money supplements come from Exelon Corporation a polluter with their 19 nuclear reactors and 11 nuclear power plants.
Pence and Barton are HAZMAT’S that is, they want you to keep stuffing their pockets with high gas prices while ruining your health at the same time with high CO2 ‘emissions’ for which Americans can’t afford health insurance when they get sick and can’t breath clean air. The health insures will make billions off the these sick people who don’t have any options but to pay them when they can’t?
Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security Act is good for America!!
The (G)rand (O)ppressive (P)olluters = HAZMAT
June 12th, 2009 at 11:56 amAnd of course they try to blame their failure to build new refineries on “environmental activists”. But not a single proposal for a new refinery has been turned down because of environmental concerns in the last few decades.
Oil companies want to maximize their infrastructure investments by locating their refineries as close as possible to the source of their crude oil. No oil company will want to invest billions of dollars in infrastructure in the US when the long-term forecasts for domestic supply are dwindling.
June 12th, 2009 at 12:08 pmI think that’s their strategy. You know how difficult two-year-olds can be to deal with. Maybe they’re hoping Democrats will turn out to be indulgent parents who give their two-year-old anything just to shut him up.
June 12th, 2009 at 12:10 pmI got your nuclear option if you really want to reduce CO2 production. It’s called the nuclear option, as in nuclear power plants.
The more of those we have, the less we need coal, and the less CO2 is produced.
June 12th, 2009 at 12:12 pmThey like to call it ACES but I call it C.R.A.P. — continue ruining America’s prosperity.
What prosperity are you talking about???? Citizens paying $4.50 a gallon for gas….that prosperity ??? or is it
the billions oil companies will loose over time becuase the nation will adapt to new sources of energy to power america?????
ANYONE IN GOVERNMENT WHO PASSES LAWS THAT BENIFIT ONLY CORPORATIONS SHOULD BE CALLED OUT FOR WHAT THEY ARE…FASCISTS!!!!!!
June 12th, 2009 at 12:13 pmWhen you look at the numbers, there is simply no way to get away from fossil fuels without most of the baseline power coming from nuclear. Solar and wind don’t even come close to meeting the energy needs and wave power is not yet fully developed. For the time being nuclear is pretty much the only way to go.
June 12th, 2009 at 12:17 pmalexlerman Says:
June 12th, 2009 at 11:32 am
Sunlight is the best disinfectant — and a great power source.
June 12th, 2009 at 12:29 pmAstounding..the hillbilly can spell!! Spell this M.O.R.O.N.
June 12th, 2009 at 12:32 pmClean-up
June 12th, 2009 at 12:50 pmRepublican
Air
Pollution
Meanwhile, the rest of the world runs full steam ahead in clean policies.
June 12th, 2009 at 12:54 pmMr. Barton you are a D.U.M.B. F.U.C.K.
June 12th, 2009 at 2:37 pmAren’t they clever.
June 12th, 2009 at 7:21 pmContinue ruining America’s prosperity, Mr. Barton? By this, are you speaking of the top 1% having to get by with just seven gold-plated yachts instead of their normal eight?
June 12th, 2009 at 8:54 pmAnd Obama’s “clean coal” policy…how’s that hoax moving along? Speaking of energy, why isn’t TP covering the Tim deChristopher story more thoroughly?
June 13th, 2009 at 6:09 amkassandrasduplex Says:
And Obama’s “clean coal” policy…how’s that hoax moving along?
I’m glad that you appreciate that “clean coal” does not exist. If they would invest in the technology that had a chance of creating it, then Obama would be for it. Apparently they’d rather throw their money into ad campaigns.
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kassandrasduplex Says:
Speaking of energy, why isn’t TP covering the Tim deChristopher story more thoroughly?
If you want us to discuss your thing, please cite it. You mean this? You’re referring to the 27 year old guy who threw off an oil/gas bidding action on purpose? I don’t see how what he did is bad for the environment.
June 14th, 2009 at 12:52 amen son videolar
June 14th, 2009 at 12:36 pmen son videolar