[This post was reprinted from Thinkprogress.]
Yesterday on Fox Business, anchor David Asman hosted a round table dedicated to smearing the Waxman-Markey clean energy economy legislation. The discussion, including Fox Business’ Cody Willard and the Heritage Foundation’s David Kreutzer, lacked a single proponent of the bill. Concluding the segment, Asman asked Rep. Rob Bishop (R-UT) “” an opponent not just of clean energy legislation, but of green jobs in general “” if the bill would pass the House. He responded with a morbid comparison:
ASMAN: Congressman Bishop is there any chance at all that this thing won’t pass tomorrow?
BISHOP: Well there’s hope, we’ll see if “” I mean you guys covered a national tragedy today, let’s hope we don’t give you a tragedy tomorrow as well.
Watch it:
Earlier during the programming (the segment aired at 7:30 eastern time), the death of Michael Jackson was announced.
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The Shills of the buggy whip industry went down fighting to. Coal and Oil have alot more money and alot more influence as we can visibly see here….poor guys.
Actually the one industry to compare to the energy companies of today would be the ninteenth century whaling industry. There’s gotta be something about some 19th century sage saying if we switch to that new rock oil we’re going to freeze in the dark.
I’d assumed Republicans would be country music fans. Bishop is maybe worried about who will take care of Bubbles?
MJ was killed early by stress from lies (probably they’re lies). AGW will kill us early via delays caused by lies. In Bishops’s analogy, it is really the GOP that killed Michael. Grunge fan myself.
Hmzzzz, that has the potential of being actually true :-), sorry Michael!
Greetings, Ed