Fracking Karl Rove to Pa.: "Climate is gone"
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Fracking Karl Rove to Pa.: "Climate is gone"
You know where Karl Rove spent the day after the all-important mid-term election? Here in the state of Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh to be exact -- gnawing on steak and potatoes and running a political victory lap with the fracking polluters who can now befowl our state's water supply with impugnity for the next couple of years, aided in no small part by the $38 million in mostly secret donations from large corporations that was donated to Rove's American Crossroads outfit that ran attack ads smearing congressional candidates who support sensible environmental laws. In celebrating Tueaday's GOP win with the Marcellus Shale frackers, Rove showed himself a man who not only knows where his cow flesh is seared but where his bread is buttered.
Here's what Rove told them:
Great choice of words -- "climate is gone." Especially since 2010 is currently tied for the warmest year on record -- nothing to see here. Ironically, the attack ads that Rove funded before America voted made no mention of issues like global warming or hydraulic fracking, as they were too busy telling whoppers about incumbent Democrats gutting Medicare. It is only now, after the votes are counted, that Rove can safely boast what this election was really about. By the way, do you know what else contributes to global warming? Steak and potatoes. Not that fracking Karl Rove would care.
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"So, the Party of Nothing will make noise over the next 2 years, accomplish nothing, the deficit will soar since they have no ideas and will not work to make Amercia stronger"....Les, any chance you will ever view the the parties without slanting everything left?? In 2007 & 2008 when the economy slid into the cr@pper economically the House and Senate were controlled by Democrats yet come 2100 & 2012 if a Republican controlled House with a Democratic President and Senate can't save the economy it is ALL the Republicans fault. And you continue to come dangerously close to gleefully rooting for failure simply to advance your political party.— bird11
Greg S, you're making too much sense by talking about facts and science. That's not what Will traffics in.— pj katauskas
"Les, any chance you will ever view the the parties without slanting everything left??" No, not until the Republicans put their big boy pants on and actually try to govern in good faith for ALL Americans. And believe me, with this crop of Reps, it aint gonna happen.
"if a Republican controlled House with a Democratic President and Senate can't save the economy it is ALL the Republicans fault." Yes, because our recovery will be put on hold for the next 2 years. Remember, we have 8 years of cleaning we have to do. Perhaps if the Republicans will now finally pass the jobs bill President Obama proposed....heck I dont care if they call it the Mitch McConnell/NewtGingrigh/Sarah Palin Bill To Create Jobs... I just wish they would get off the sidelines and govern!
"And you continue to come dangerously close to gleefully rooting for failure simply to advance your political party." Not hardly. My glee is only in pointing out that we will have the grown ups back in power in the house in 8 years. I wish the Repubs would come to the table in good faith but we all saw they had no interest in anything other than short term political gain.— Les Ismore- TYPO "My glee is only in pointing out that we will have the grown ups back in power in the house in 8 years." Should read 2 years!— Les Ismore
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- "Yes, because our recovery will be put on hold for the next 2 years." Its already been on hold for 2 years, despite the "governing" of the "big boy" party. "Perhaps if the Republicans will now finally pass the jobs bill President Obama proposed." He passed the stimulus without them, how'd that work out again?— RG
- Les, you mean the Rs need to govern "in good faith for ALL Americans" like BO, Pelosi and Reid did over the last two years? Give me a break. They were the ultimate in political arrogance and as a result they and the Ds got their +sses handed to them on Tuesday. Nothing like it since 1938. They should be proud of that.— pj katauskas
- Well, stocks are jumping today. Its not due to the election, but rather to QE2. Beware another asset bubble.— RG
- "Remember, we have 8 years of cleaning we have to do." ...Les, can you tell me specifically what they 8 years are??? I assume you mean 2001-2008 but I'm not sure since obviously the people with the big boy pants were running the country in 07-08 when the Democrats controlled the House & Senate. George W. Bush never had the number of Republicans in the House and Senate that Obama had in the 111th Congress - why couldn't the Democrats be the "party of no" and stop all the evil Bush plans? Only two plausible answers I have is that they either 1) agreed with Bush or 2) lack the b@lls to do what they thought was right for the country.......which one of those answers makes you want to have them running things???— bird11
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- Karl Rove is a genius at controlling the narrative.
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”- VOLTAIRE
"We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."
— Abraham Lincoln
Wrong narrative.
— LastRights - Les, you will also need to explain the period of 1995 thru 2000 - remember the Clinton days you love so much. How is it possible that Clinton was able to do such an incredible job during that period with a House and Senate that didn't even have big boy pants to wear??
I guess Republicans just loved Clinton so much because at least he was white.— bird11 - Les, you will also need to explain the period of 1995 thru 2000 - remember the Clinton days you love so much. How is it possible that Clinton was able to do such an incredible job during that period with a House and Senate that didn't even have big boy pants to wear??
I guess Republicans just loved Clinton so much because at least he was white.— bird11
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