Comments on: Senate GOP Pushing Energy Bill Socialism?

By: palm plants

palm plants — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 04:59:52 +0000

Thanks for all the great information.

By: Susan Kraemer

Susan Kraemer — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:06:18 +0000

My response is that the entire mainstream media ignores the elephant in the room as it were. The result is that many people are ignorant of the reasons that we don’t and can’t pass legislation to move us to clean energy. They assume if they are Republicans and they support clean energy that their Republican Senator does too. It is that ignorance that I try to end. There’s plenty of environmental writers who won’t mention it, assuming that “Common sense tells us which party supports clean energy more than the other- and we all know which one that is.”

No, people don’t know which one that is. They have other interests, busy lives, they just don’t realize why we are stuck. That ignorance is something we all pay for, with dirty energy policy. I agree that we need more than 60 votes to pass legislation. We need to elect 60 Senators who support clean energy and a future. Republican voters need to push their senators to start to support clean energy too, or elect Democrats if they want clean energy.

By: Brett

Brett — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:56:22 +0000

Susan,

I notice a lot of partisan commentary in your posts. What otherwise would be a nice, informative article is oft sprinkled with jabs at Republicans and similar conservatives. Common sense tells us which party supports clean energy more than the other- and we all know which one that is. But for any real solution to get passed it will require bi-partisan support. If you turn your articles, and this blog, into a Dem/Left website and anti-GOP- you remove any appearances of an unbiased approach.

I too am frustrated by some GOP antics, but I also realize not everyone shares our views. My comment is to please mitigate the Op-Ed page comments from your otherwise excellent articles. If we choose to bash Republicans here- what makes this website different than a Rush Limbaugh/Palin Op-Ed piece on Energy legislation that we all despise?

By: John B

John B — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 06:06:23 +0000

BOTH parties have moved away from people and their ideology.

The misunderstanding is that the GOP has hardly any principles. They are sold to the highest bidder and their image is closer to selling out to the interest with the most capital to invest in bribing them. Since the supreme court undermined democracy last year there is more money involved than ever before.

I don’t think the DFL is much better; however, their image differs so much from where they are its much more difficult to get away fooling their base – playing weak, powerless, and over compromising can only fool people up to a point…