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National Security Concerns Could Power Energy Bill to Senate Passage
If Congress performs the miraculous feat of passing President Obama's two top priorities by the end of the year, we may have a crew of veterans and military experts to thank. Even as health care battles rage on, they're laying the groundwork for the next Senate struggle -- this one over energy and climate policy.Environmentalists, liberals and clean-energy entrepreneurs already support more investment in conservation and clean renewable energy, and an overall cap on the carbon emissions that contribute to global warming. The new twist this fall is a concerted appeal to independents, moderates and conservatives, inside the Senate and out, on the grounds that global warming and oil dependence are threats to our national security.
In the face of conservative attacks on climate-change legislation as a "job-killing energy tax," this is a welcome and potentially effective experiment in the politics of addition. We are not talking here about indulging tree-huggers or endangered species, or even about protecting the Earth. We are talking about protecting America. The argument is tough and double-barreled: We need to stop pouring money into oil-producing countries that are hostile to our interests, and we need to take global warming seriously as a threat to our national security -- because the military sure does.
PD toolbar!"In terms of a national campaign, this is very new. We are moving from the realm of people writing scholarly reports to entering the broader public arena," says Frankie Sturm of Operation Free, a coalition of four national security and veterans' groups seeking "fast, bold action" on climate change.
The House narrowly passed a sweeping energy bill that makes it more expensive to pollute, but offers substantial transition aid to affected industries. Six Senate panels are considering their own measures and the plan is to merge them into a single bill next month. In the meantime, the national security contingent is ramping up. There's a Capitol Hill forum Tuesday sponsored by the Partnership for a Secure America, the Reserve Officers Association and the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA). Two days later, some 100 veterans will visit Senate offices to discuss the links between climate and security from their personal perspectives. That includes fighting wars in oil-producing countries and wishing the U.S. military in Iraq ran on solar panels instead of oil that must be transported in risky convoys.
Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, the Democrats' 2004 presidential nominee, promised in a primary-season TV ad "to put in place a plan that frees our nation from the grip of Mideast oil in the next 10 years. Because no child growing up in America today should ever have to go to war for oil." He lost and the issue didn't stick. But now the Vietnam veteran and longtime environmentalist is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, with another chance to shape the policy and the debate.
Outside the Senate, one of the highest-profile advocates for the cause is Virginia Republican John Warner, 82, a former Navy secretary, former senator and former chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Working with the Pew Project on National Security, Energy and Climate, he was in St. Louis, Kansas City, Tampa, Fla., and Charleston, S.C., last month. Coming up in the next few weeks are Detroit and Lansing, Mich.; Norfolk, Va.; Indianapolis, Ind.; and Missoula, Mont.
"This is not just a private debate among environmentalists," Warner told me. He said the Pentagon is doing extensive research and will include the impact of global warming in its quadrennial review next spring. As for how to explain the urgency to a voter not concerned about the environment, he offers, "Here's a practical effect: Your sons or daughters or next-door neighbor might be sent out on a military mission" as a result of climate change.
Studies show that drought, famine, floods and other consequences of global warming will be worst in regions that already are relatively unstable politically and/or economically. The potential impact includes toppled governments, terrorist breeding grounds, island nations immersed in rising seas, threats to U.S. military installations in coastal areas, and more military and humanitarian demands on the U.S. military -- in many instances the only institution with the resources to make a difference.
Warner has testified to Congress three times about global warming and national security, and plans to do so a fourth time this fall. On the road, he does radio interviews, meets with editorial boards and appears at forums, typically along with a local expert and a CNA board member such as retired Vice Adm. Dennis McGinn. Those in attendance include students, local business leaders and others who are on the fence about climate change. "We tell them to give it a little more thought from a national security perspective," said Chelsea Maxwell, a climate-change expert who works with Pew and Warner.
That's pretty much the message inside the Senate, where lawmakers are weighing factors such as new government regulation, the potential for higher energy costs and the impact on polluting industries that would have to buy emissions permits under a new cap-and-trade system. Daniel Weiss, director of climate strategy at the liberal Center for American Progress, says some senators deeply concerned about security issues may be receptive despite the cross-pressures -- among them Republicans John McCain of Arizona, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Richard Lugar of Indiana, and Democrats Carl Levin of Michigan and Evan Bayh of Indiana.
A couple of new polls are encouraging to those of us rooting for a new energy policy. In mid-August, 57 percent of respondents in an ABC News-Washington Post poll said they supported the changes in energy policy being developed by Obama and Congress. A poll of 16 swing states last month by a Democratic firm found likely 2010 voters supportive of the House energy bill and more likely to vote for senators who support it.
There are no polls of the national security effect on undecided senators, just Sturm's anecdotal observation that "skepticism starts to melt away" when military folks are the ones doing the talking about global warming. That's a signal to smart environmentalists to pass the baton.
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mrscaptndavid
5:56AM Sep 4th 2009
Where is the story about Van Jones the green energy czar that helped draft this legislation. I watched a clip of him giving a speech. He is a professed communist and in this clip he talks about changing society and our government toward socialism through the environmental movement. Apparently he had much input in this cap and tax bill. How a man like this with his background got into a position of power is beyond me! This cap and tax is not good for this country and will crush what little recovery we have going . It is a bad piece of legislation. I am not a republican but even I can see that something is very wrong when you have people writing legislation we have not voted for with questionable backgrounds! This is an outrage!
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cda17
11:22AM Sep 4th 2009
LIES!! Cap & Trade will cripple the U.S. economy. Does the administration really think that the American public is that stupid? This will increase the cost of EVERY single good and service in our economy. Oil is used in the refining process for virtually EVERYTHING. Coal is used extensively for power production. Utility prices and retail prices will skyrocket.
Furthermore, American investors will simply increase their investment positions in foreign oil and coal companies (i.e. George Soros buying an $811,000,000 equity position in Brazilian state-controlled Petrobras in the second quarter of last year. His hedge fund is essentially off-setting the anticipated political move to crush domestic oil/gas/coal companies). This will drive even more capital outside of the Unites States economy. Demand for oil and coal will continue to rise in the global market as we cut the legs out from under our own economy.
This is simply a ploy to increase consumer and private business prices across the board, thus increasing tax revenues for the Federal Government. The left is absolutely insidious with their political agenda. Quit trying to sell Americans this horsesh*t.
Furthermore, American investors will simply increase their investment positions in foreign oil and coal companies (i.e. George Soros buying an $811,000,000 equity position in Brazilian state-controlled Petrobras in the second quarter of last year. His hedge fund is essentially off-setting the anticipated political move to crush domestic oil/gas/coal companies). This will drive even more capital outside of the Unites States economy. Demand for oil and coal will continue to rise in the global market as we cut the legs out from under our own economy.
This is simply a ploy to increase consumer and private business prices across the board, thus increasing tax revenues for the Federal Government. The left is absolutely insidious with their political agenda. Quit trying to sell Americans this horsesh*t.
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(15) cda17
11:52AM Sep 4th 2009
FYI:
Just a few weeks ago, the U.S. Federal Government loaned $2,000,0000,0000 of American debt to Petrobras for a drilling project off the coast of Brazil. There is a provision to possibly increase this investment. The American tax-payer will not see a single cent of the return on this investment.
George Soros is perhaps the richest and largest campaign supporter for Barack Obama and the left. You put the pieces of the puzzle together. The American public is being hoodwinked by this administration.
Republican, Democrat, or Independent: The current administration is playing you like a fiddle. The corruption and deceit by this administration is astounding. The ultra-rich are now using the United States economy and its tax-paying citizens in a giant shell game and ponzi scheme.
"Green reform," hah...It is always about money and power. "Healthcare reform." Nope, think again.
Just a few weeks ago, the U.S. Federal Government loaned $2,000,0000,0000 of American debt to Petrobras for a drilling project off the coast of Brazil. There is a provision to possibly increase this investment. The American tax-payer will not see a single cent of the return on this investment.
George Soros is perhaps the richest and largest campaign supporter for Barack Obama and the left. You put the pieces of the puzzle together. The American public is being hoodwinked by this administration.
Republican, Democrat, or Independent: The current administration is playing you like a fiddle. The corruption and deceit by this administration is astounding. The ultra-rich are now using the United States economy and its tax-paying citizens in a giant shell game and ponzi scheme.
"Green reform," hah...It is always about money and power. "Healthcare reform." Nope, think again.
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(18) Andrew H. Nelson
4:13PM Sep 4th 2009
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/The-Van-Jones-non-feeding-non-frenzy-57271402.html
The Van Jones (non) feeding frenzy
By: Byron York
Chief Political Correspondent
09/04/09 11:30 AM EDT
From a Nexis search a few moments ago:
Total words about the Van Jones controversy in the New York Times: 0.
Total words about the Van Jones controversy in the Washington Post: 0.
Total words about the Van Jones controversy on NBC Nightly News: 0.
Total words about the Van Jones controversy on ABC World News: 0.
Total words about the Van Jones controversy on CBS Evening News: 0.
If you were to receive all your news from any one of these outlets, or even all of them together, and you heard about some sort of controversy involving President Obama's Special Adviser for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, your response would be, "Huh?" If you heard that that adviser, Van Jones, had apologized for a number of remarks and positions in the recent past, your response would be, "What?" And if you were in the Obama White House monitoring the Jones situation, you would be hoping that the news organizations listed above continue to hold the line -- otherwise, Jones, who is quite well thought of in Obama circles, would be history.
The Van Jones (non) feeding frenzy
By: Byron York
Chief Political Correspondent
09/04/09 11:30 AM EDT
From a Nexis search a few moments ago:
Total words about the Van Jones controversy in the New York Times: 0.
Total words about the Van Jones controversy in the Washington Post: 0.
Total words about the Van Jones controversy on NBC Nightly News: 0.
Total words about the Van Jones controversy on ABC World News: 0.
Total words about the Van Jones controversy on CBS Evening News: 0.
If you were to receive all your news from any one of these outlets, or even all of them together, and you heard about some sort of controversy involving President Obama's Special Adviser for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, your response would be, "Huh?" If you heard that that adviser, Van Jones, had apologized for a number of remarks and positions in the recent past, your response would be, "What?" And if you were in the Obama White House monitoring the Jones situation, you would be hoping that the news organizations listed above continue to hold the line -- otherwise, Jones, who is quite well thought of in Obama circles, would be history.
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(13) WADE....
3:45PM Sep 5th 2009
Green Czar...
Obama’s Advisor ‘Communist’ Van Jones: CALLS Republicans “Assholes”…and
says WHITEY POLLUTES BLACK COMMUNITIES with POISON…
STRAIGHT OUT OF THE PLAY BOOK of uncle Mentor REV. Wright and Obama’s Church of 20yrs….and don’t forget what Uncle Mentor Rev. Wright says, The White Government injected AIDS and DRUGS into the Black Community
VIDEO
http://wadesayswhat.wordpress.com/2009/09/02/obamas-advisor-communist-van-jones-calls-republicans-assholes/#comments
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(5) Truth
5:26PM Sep 5th 2009
Jill, the Soros shill, Lawrence is at it again. EVERY article she writes is PURE propaganda straight from the SHADOW Government of George Soros, uber evil Overlord of the now evil possessed, Democrat Party.
She makes Operation Free sound like it is a grassroots group of Iraq veterans who desperately want to save the country by pushing Cap and Tax through, though she fails to provide a single credible explanation as to how this will result from the passage of the bill.
She fails to explain that Operation Free is yet another cloak for existing Soros propaganda groups. These groups are are radical, hard left, anti-America, revolutionary conspirators:
The Truman National Security Project - a Soros funded, and run group bent on promoting a leftist, anti-American agenda.
The National Security Initiative - funded by the Marxist Ford Foundation
VoteVets.org - another front for anti-American, anti-military leftist/Progressive activity supported by Soros.
VetPAC - indeed, another Soros shadow group, pushing the Soros anti-American agenda.
In classic propaganda speak, Jill makes Operation Free sound as American as apple pie, when in fact it is a coalition of groups carrying out the evil, transnationalist, power grabbing schemes of George Soros, and his protege, Barack Obama.
Cap and Tax, just like Obama's Commie Care, is a bill that would give Obama, and Soros, power over ALL industry, resulting in a Fascist's fantasy world of totalitarian control. Cap and Tax would put every manufacturer in the country under their thumb, and discretion, giving the government an industrial DEATH PANEL that could destroy "uncooperative" businesses through penalties and taxes.
Soros and Obama have rewritten the totalitarian playbook to include Marxist AND Fascist tactics in their quest for total power, and they use shills like Lawrence to get their propaganda out in an ostensibly disguised form.
She makes Operation Free sound like it is a grassroots group of Iraq veterans who desperately want to save the country by pushing Cap and Tax through, though she fails to provide a single credible explanation as to how this will result from the passage of the bill.
She fails to explain that Operation Free is yet another cloak for existing Soros propaganda groups. These groups are are radical, hard left, anti-America, revolutionary conspirators:
The Truman National Security Project - a Soros funded, and run group bent on promoting a leftist, anti-American agenda.
The National Security Initiative - funded by the Marxist Ford Foundation
VoteVets.org - another front for anti-American, anti-military leftist/Progressive activity supported by Soros.
VetPAC - indeed, another Soros shadow group, pushing the Soros anti-American agenda.
In classic propaganda speak, Jill makes Operation Free sound as American as apple pie, when in fact it is a coalition of groups carrying out the evil, transnationalist, power grabbing schemes of George Soros, and his protege, Barack Obama.
Cap and Tax, just like Obama's Commie Care, is a bill that would give Obama, and Soros, power over ALL industry, resulting in a Fascist's fantasy world of totalitarian control. Cap and Tax would put every manufacturer in the country under their thumb, and discretion, giving the government an industrial DEATH PANEL that could destroy "uncooperative" businesses through penalties and taxes.
Soros and Obama have rewritten the totalitarian playbook to include Marxist AND Fascist tactics in their quest for total power, and they use shills like Lawrence to get their propaganda out in an ostensibly disguised form.
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(3) bob
6:47AM Sep 4th 2009
More of this "Gee, if we can only come up with the RIGHT sales pitch" mentality.
Just like with the health care debate, if it's a good idea it will sell itself and it'll get done the usual way - background deal making and tit for tat. If it's not, no amount of trotting out Mr Personality for prime infomercials is going to get it through. At that point, the only card left to play (the one used with the economy) is impending doom/national emergency/crisis response legislation forced through via a Congressional majority. Seeing as how that's not really working with health care, it's probably an extreme long shot with this issue.
Just like with the health care debate, if it's a good idea it will sell itself and it'll get done the usual way - background deal making and tit for tat. If it's not, no amount of trotting out Mr Personality for prime infomercials is going to get it through. At that point, the only card left to play (the one used with the economy) is impending doom/national emergency/crisis response legislation forced through via a Congressional majority. Seeing as how that's not really working with health care, it's probably an extreme long shot with this issue.
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(17) boxerbuddy4
1:52PM Sep 5th 2009
All the things that Obama and company have done or want to do thus far will destroy our economy. As you can see they don't give up easily either. Even with all the Americans going to town hall meetings on their own and voicing their objections, Obama and company are still trying to find a way to pass all these horrible ideas.
Obama's czars are a frightening and radical group that need all our attention with the help of Glen Beck, Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, Sean Hannity etc to expose all of them for what they really are.
We have to stay on them and not let them get away with anything else!!
Obama's czars are a frightening and radical group that need all our attention with the help of Glen Beck, Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, Sean Hannity etc to expose all of them for what they really are.
We have to stay on them and not let them get away with anything else!!
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(1) kathy
7:05AM Sep 4th 2009
So now they are going to use the guise "national security" to try to get their way on Cap & Trade. Pelosi wanted the deal for Health Care Bill and scrap Cap & Trade. Maybe thats the way to go, a trade off. It just frosts my cake that they have claimed all the bad things about Big Oil Corporations and what do they think they are peddling? Big Green Corporations. They are no different, than the Republicans they criticize, the Hypocrisy. Cap and Trade only allows someone to line their pockets, I wonder who that might be? Politicians ya think?
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(20) kathy
4:26AM Sep 6th 2009
You'll have to excuse me while I reply to myself. Cap & Trade I still feel we dont have to go that far with this. But.....I have since found out as of Friday from the Glen Beck show (I know the show everyone loves to hate,LOL) An ex CIA agent was on his show and he was talking about just this, National Security - and how much of a danger it really is that we are dependant on Foreign Oil. If some of you want to see it, it should run again tonite, Sunday nite. Yes, I still believe we are seeing natural climatic trends, as many scientists do too. But President Obama is privy to Intelligence that We Aren't privy to. And he just may know a little more something-something that we dont. I can be wrong, and I stand corrected.
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(1) jhinds6056
7:06AM Sep 4th 2009
This policy will not save one drop of oil or one molecule of Co2. Wait till the American people find out how much it will increase their energy bill. The center right of this country is now energized by cap and tax and will not allow it to succeed.
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(20) Stella
8:00AM Sep 4th 2009
This bill, if passed, will make energy far more expensive, and out of reach for some. It will cause a steep increase in prices for everything that is made using energy--which is everything. THIS WILL SCREW OUR ECONOMY at a time when Obama was elected to FIX OUR ECONOMY. Why don't we hear the truth that, if we go with this plan--foolish as it is--it will have NO EFFECT on this MANUFACTURED GLOBAL WARMING CRISIS, as China, Russia and India will continue to pollute--and prosper. In the meantime, industries will move over there, taking their jobs and wealth with them. This transition to "clean energy" will take decades, and it's not even proven that it will even work. Moreover, WE CAN'T AFFORD IT!
Why can't we have a comprehensive energy plan that will include expanding our DOMESTIC drilling efforts and use more nuclear power? If France can do it, so can we. We could be rid of our dependence on foreign oil much quicker, and save jobs and our economy in the process. DO NO HARM FIRST!
Obama was elected to FIX THE ECONOMY. Why is he implementing all of these policies that kick our economy and job creation down to hell? Listen to Van Jones and hear the REAL reason this "green" nonsense is being pushed so hard. It is an extension of redistribution of wealth in America. ENOUGH ALREADY!
Why can't we have a comprehensive energy plan that will include expanding our DOMESTIC drilling efforts and use more nuclear power? If France can do it, so can we. We could be rid of our dependence on foreign oil much quicker, and save jobs and our economy in the process. DO NO HARM FIRST!
Obama was elected to FIX THE ECONOMY. Why is he implementing all of these policies that kick our economy and job creation down to hell? Listen to Van Jones and hear the REAL reason this "green" nonsense is being pushed so hard. It is an extension of redistribution of wealth in America. ENOUGH ALREADY!
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(18) RIChris
8:24AM Sep 4th 2009
This administration continues to show how incredibly irresponsible it can be. Crippling the US intelligence agencies, ignoring the rising unemployment figures and mandates on businesses that impose hardship in an increasingly unstable economic market, are far worse threats to national security than carbon emissions.
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(16) Debby
8:43AM Sep 4th 2009
Why do u lowlife libs want to put thousands of people out of their jobs?cO2 doesn't cause warming,it doesn't magically produce heat.If the temperature is 98 degrees outside ur house then the co2,the oxygen and nitrogen r all 98 degrees.It cools at nite and the next day "THE SUN" warms it up again.The socialist libs learned in the 60"s that they could control industry thru environmental laws and that's all this bogus farce is about.
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(15) garry402
8:47AM Sep 4th 2009
Just stop breathing. Everytime your exhale you harm the planet.
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(12) Debby
5:37PM Sep 4th 2009
U can still breathe,Garry,you'll just be forced to buy carbon credits from Al Gore and GE for doing it.
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(5) garry402
5:48PM Sep 4th 2009
Thanks Debs, can I borrow a carbon credit?
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(6) OHu812
7:20PM Sep 4th 2009
Be careful, you may inspire a new tax scheme....
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(5) Gini
9:33AM Sep 4th 2009
It is all hogwash. No substance what so ever. And, yes, I'd like to know why nothing is being said about the "green czar". Another monster in the Whitehouse.
This is a diatribe of you know what. Always a phony crisis to get a bad bill passed. Prey on the emotions of Americans to back up the cause. Baloney, we have had enough.
This is a diatribe of you know what. Always a phony crisis to get a bad bill passed. Prey on the emotions of Americans to back up the cause. Baloney, we have had enough.
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(11) John Baldwin
10:14AM Sep 4th 2009
The cap and tax bill is just another intusive manuever by the Obama administration to control every aspect of our lives....With the help of his green jobs adviser and avowed communist Van Jones we simply put are in deep sh*t....Don't vote "stupidly" in 2010!
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