Boehner Uses Press Conference To Push Heritage Foundation’s Green Job Smears
Boehner Uses Press Conference To Push Heritage Foundation’s Green Job Smears
Responding to the most recent findings by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office indicating that the Waxman-Markey Clean Energy Bill will cost American families only a postage stamp a day, House Minority Leader Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) is changing up his strategy on attacking the bill, with guidance by The Heritage Foundation.
With the CBO and EPA findings backing energy reform opponents into a corner on the household cost argument, Heritage is arming conservatives with a new strategy — smearing Waxman-Markey as a job killer:
An analysis of the Waxman-Markey bill (as reported out of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce) by The Heritage Foundation found that unemployment will increase by nearly 2 million in 2012, the first year of the program, and reach nearly 2.5 million in 2035, the last year of the analysis.
After Heritage’s report was issued on Thursday, GOP Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) held a press conference to push the think tank’s job killer claims:
This bill will also cost 2.3 million to 2.7 million Americans their jobs. That’s because high energy industries, like the steel- making industry, won’t be located in the United States anymore.
Watch Boehner’s briefing here:
With the House debating the American Clean Energy & Security Act today, other opponents of reform can be expected to follow Heritage’s lead. Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) already spoke on the House floor this morning, saying “there’s a lot of debate about what this bill will cost the average American household, from hundreds of dollars to thousands of dollars, but there actually is no debate over the fact that this legislation will cost millions of American jobs.”
A report by the Center for American Progress shows that investing $150 billion in clean energy will create an estimated 1.7 million new jobs — three times more jobs than a similar investment in fossil fuels. In Boehner’s home state alone, 67,356 new jobs would be created by a clean energy economy. This interactive map shows how many green jobs could be created in each state by Waxman-Markey.
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This bill will also cost 2.3 million to 2.7 million Americans their jobs. That’s because high energy industries, like the steel- making industry, won’t be located in the United States anymore.
Hmmm. Steel-making industry has kind of not been located in the United States for a long time, dopey.
June 26th, 2009 at 11:36 amThat’s right everybody who wants clean energy is getting rich on the backs of you reich wing tools. Tough break loser.
June 26th, 2009 at 11:42 amFriggin’ Boner is a truly loathesome TOAD.
June 26th, 2009 at 11:45 amwould a TP staffer please answer this question:
has this information been forwarded to the reps ASAP?!???
June 26th, 2009 at 11:46 amIf a television network, ANY NETWORK, ever steps up to the plate and holds their guests to the truth I will be amazed.
I’m serious. If Nancy Pelosi makes an outrageous comment, call her out on it.
When Boehner makes some of his half truth claims, nail him with the truth. I’m sick and tired of watching these wishy-washy news commentators/anchors let their guests spew crap and they just smile and say “thank you very much Senator/congressman”.
As a young man I kept espn on all the time. Now as an old man I keep the news on…and what I hear isn’t good for my blood pressure.
I used to think MSNBC and CNN would do the job. Boy was I wrong.
I saw Andrea Mitchell interview Pence about cap and trade/energy a short time ago and she let him make the same tired claim about “MILLIONS of jobs going to be lost”…she mumbled something and thanked him for his time.
God, if I wanted to listen to crap I’ll watch Fix News or listen to Limpball.
June 26th, 2009 at 11:46 amGood news fellow travelers:
I am pleased to announce that due to the extreme generosity of Comrade Soros, there will be five figure bonuses included with this months pay.
The money will be deposited into your Cayman accounts July 1st.
Eat your heart out, free market liberal.
/snark off
June 26th, 2009 at 11:48 amYou know what FML reminds me of?
One of those random insult generators. He keeps spewing out the same words – but in a slightly different order.
Hmmm. Perhaps the RNC has succeeded in automating their trolls – that would be a really good cost-cutting measure!!
June 26th, 2009 at 11:51 amI could see that as an argument for tariffs, but not an argument against the energy bill.
June 26th, 2009 at 11:51 amjust wait til they start outsourcing them to India!
June 26th, 2009 at 11:52 amFreeMarketLiberal Says:
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You Jim Jones Soros zombies are just cranking out your left spin articles at full speed…did you get a raise?
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How did that Ronnie Raygun free market deregulation end up last year, Spanky? Remember Paulson with his fly open begging for the bailout. Obama and McSame were still having debates. You troglodytes should join us in the twenty first century since you failed in the twentieth.
June 26th, 2009 at 11:52 amHmmm. Perhaps the RNC has succeeded in automating their trolls – that would be a really good cost-cutting measure!!
The RNC isn’t that tech savvy, they are still trying to figure out how these tubes work.
It is more likely that they outsourced the jobs to Twajikistan.
June 26th, 2009 at 11:55 amJesus is a member of the Boner’s country club.
June 26th, 2009 at 11:56 amno progressive site should ever call these propaganda organizaitons “think tanks”
they are “propaganda institutes”…don’t allow them their branding, it’s false and counter productive
June 26th, 2009 at 11:57 amPerhaps Boner can tell us how creating new green energy jobs is a “job killer”. These people make no sense and the American public know it.
June 26th, 2009 at 12:03 pmThe only strategy the Heritage foundation might get away with is hiding their involvement. As soon as their name pops up, everybody’s like “oh, that bullshit factory, well never mind.” Boehner should have known better than to mention them aloud.
June 26th, 2009 at 12:03 pmperris Says: no progressive site should ever call these propaganda organizaitons “think tanks”
I prefer ‘Stink Tanks’
The energy Boner has wasted in tanning beds could power our great Country for a decade.
June 26th, 2009 at 12:03 pmFact: We are all free to choose our actions, or inactions. We are not free to choose the consequences of those actions or inactions.
Fact: The consequences of this cap and trade bill will have adverse effect on everybody in the US except those like Al Gore, and will do nothing for the environment.
Fact: There is no consensus on man made global warming http://www.petitionproject.org/index.php
June 26th, 2009 at 12:03 pmouttolunch has a problem distinguishing Fact from Right Wing Corporate Propaganda
June 26th, 2009 at 12:06 pmThe Boner is a buzz killer and a job killer. Look at what repiggie rule has done to Ohio.
June 26th, 2009 at 12:07 pmOk by the 20th post 7 out of 19 posts are either by the resident troll or about the resident troll. Not good folks. This thread is already devolving into another troll fest.
June 26th, 2009 at 12:08 pmBilbo@25, You got that right. I just stepped in and was floored by the bad vibes.
June 26th, 2009 at 12:09 pmand +1 for yours
o sh!t, plus another for mine!
o noes!
June 26th, 2009 at 12:09 pmWait, does talking about someone talking about everyone talking about a troll count?
How many times removed do we have to be.
But seriously, how many different ways are there to point out that Boner is an idiot?
June 26th, 2009 at 12:11 pmRantingTommy, your inability to discern fact from fantasy is why you are a 40 year old loser musician. Sad.
June 26th, 2009 at 12:14 pmAmerica is collateral damage in the Right Wing War on Liberals
June 26th, 2009 at 12:14 pmCaptain obvious needs to visit Boehner.
June 26th, 2009 at 12:16 pmThe steel industry left the U.S. years ago.
Steel exports are down 57% from last year.
China is a main exporter of steel in todays econmy.
American steel companies recycle existing steel (which is good) but we do not manufacter steel as we used back when we were a major exporter of steel goods.
outtolunch thinks I’m a loser
that’s cute
sort of like a Detroit Lions cheerleader calling a Pittsburgh Steeler linebacker “weak”
June 26th, 2009 at 12:16 pmArn Gunnutes Says:
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Boner is a PUNK. Just like that COXUCKER punk TRAITOR Bush.
Another one to face the Judgement of the Almighty God, in whose NAME they have been LYING and TORTURING and MURDERING.
Burn, PUNKS, burn…
June 26th, 2009 at 11:44 am
DITTO THAT – “NEW WORLD ORDER FASCIST TRAITORS!
June 26th, 2009 at 12:16 pmBut “Green Energy” won’t let us blow up our remaining mountain tops to get coal.
Not to mention, that after we’ve desecrated our mountains, we can promote tourism to see the scalped mountains. While on the other hand, no one would ever come to see a natural area.
June 26th, 2009 at 12:18 pmheritage/schmeritage
June 26th, 2009 at 12:18 pm*
ok… i’ll ask again… this time a little louder:
would a TP staffer please answer this question:
has this information been forwarded to the reps ASAP?!???
thanks.
June 26th, 2009 at 12:21 pmThe Boner will see to it that any jobs created in Ohio by this initiative will be immediately outsourced to the Far East. The Boner is only concerned about the tasks given him by his corporate overlords and his buddy Rupert Murdoch.
By the way, his skin is looking more and more liked cured tobacco.
June 26th, 2009 at 12:21 pmBeing able to breath the air and having our kids not get athsma or losing jobs in a coal mine……hmmmmmm. I can see why the GOP is so passionate about obstructing this. They are doing it for the kids.
morons!
June 26th, 2009 at 12:23 pmDoes CAP give money to any news shows like Heritage and AEI?
June 26th, 2009 at 12:24 pmnofreelunch Says:
Fact: There is no consensus on man made global warming
June 26th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
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There’s no consensus on the Holocaust, either. What’s your point?
June 26th, 2009 at 12:30 pmIt’s pretty clear that the vast majority of the Republican Party doesn’t really care about what kind of country/planet they want to leave to their children and grand children. Pretty despicable.
June 26th, 2009 at 12:34 pmYES, there is scientific consensus about global warming.
June 26th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
How many of you have seen the documentary “Manufactured Landscapes?”
It is a study of the effect of humankind on the actual physical geography of certain regions. It’s primary focus is on the rapid pace of industrialization and building of new cities in China.
June 26th, 2009 at 12:46 pmI am really tired of hearing conservatives talk about how this or that is going to cost too much, and burden future generations with our debt.
Yet Republicans rail against cap and trade because it will increase our taxes.
I assume everyone agrees that something needs to be done about global warming gases like CO2, so doesn’t that mean that at some point, Americans are going to have to pay for the transition to clean energy?
If we do not pay for it now, aren’t we pushing that cost onto future generations.
This whole thing reeks of contradiction.
Said much better here.
http://progressnotcongress.org/?p=440
June 26th, 2009 at 12:48 pmI am requesting anyone who reads a pertinent comment from FleaMarketLiberal to inform me in a post on the particular thread on which she makes such a post . If she does make a post worth worth reading, in any regular’s opinion, I’ll consider removing her from my “Ignore list”.
June 26th, 2009 at 12:54 pmI think the R’s are truly committed to turning America into a 3rd world country – because that’s what they’ve been doing for the last 40 years.
June 26th, 2009 at 12:58 pmEh, same old, same old.
Unions will cost jobs. Health and safety regulations will cost jobs. Environment protection will cost jobs. Stopping forrest clear cutting will cost jobs. Unpaid maternity/paternity will cost jobs. Food safety inspection will cost jobs. Same old broken record.
The Europeans and Japanese are already ahead on green energy.
June 26th, 2009 at 1:04 pmIf they can do it, why can’t we ?
the republicans are working the wingers into a frenzy of phoning and emailing on cap and trade. here’s a link detailing some of it and also pirating their contact info for reps:
http://blahgblog.wordpress.com/2009/06/26/direct-action-by-the-left-and-right-online/
June 26th, 2009 at 2:19 pmWell, I’m new to these “forums” so I’m sure there is a great deal of history here….
>>FreeMarketLiberal Says:
>>But Al Gore is GOD to these people…they also worship the likes of Micheal Moore and Rosie O’Donnell..”
I’m a liberal on most issues, and I know a lot of liberals.
None of us “worship” Gore, Moore or O’Donnell.
I have high respect for Gore and all that he has accomplished in his many years in government service and since then.
Moore? Ah, he stirs up the water some. O’Donnell? I don’t have a clue about her… her tone of voice and attitude send my fingers to the remote a heck of a lot faster than I can type.
Mr. Free Market Liberal: One thing I’ve noticed in many political discussions is that some folks are more caught up in pyschological projection than they are in actual discourse.
One example of psychological projection: people who lie a lot (and I am NOT suggesting you do … I’ve only read the one message from you) almost always think that everyone else lies a lot- they project their own thoughts and attitudes and habitual actions onto others.
From my vantage point, it seems that there are a lot of people who “worship” Limbaugh and some of the public figure citizens of Limbaughstan. (I submit the loud, insistent noises that arise whenever a Republican suggests Limbaugh might have erred on some issue as evidence of the fervor of the Limbaugh fans.)
May I suggest that, given the relative lack of interest in Moore and O’Donnell and the like among liberals, that perhaps you too hold the Limbaughistas in such high regard as to approach worship, and that your view of liberals and our attitudes towards some media figures is really more a matter of projection?
Of course, this is just an educated guess. Maybe I’m wrong. And maybe your mileage may vary.
Stranger things have happened….
If you like to discuss real issues and not imaginary fixations, feel free to stop in: http://rjw-progressive.blogspot.com
June 26th, 2009 at 2:50 pmThis prick along with his fellow pricks helped facillitate the loss of millions of jobs by providing tax breaks for business to leave the country. It should be perfectly clear by now they don’t give a damn about ordinary Americans.
June 27th, 2009 at 1:46 pmThe GOP think that we are not destroying our Earth, we have been destroying our Earth for a very long time. Bush wanted to drill on National Parks for gas and oil. Sarah Palin wants to drill on an animal reserves ANWAR. Come on this is raping our lands… Hell the GOP wants us to be a laughing stock in the world…Can’t we have the beauty of our parks and reserves for the world to see.
This is the party of no, no to the President, this is childish and immature.
June 28th, 2009 at 8:28 am