Single Issue Advocacy Groups Are Stupid
Environmental groups are the worst.
Ignorant.
Dumb.
Etc…
They always give Mike Castle high scores based on the few crumb votes that he tosses off each year to keep his “maverick” credentials burnished – and utterly ignore that fact that he worked hard to elect George Bush TWICE and voted with Bush on Iraq 95% of the time.
Even Alan Mueller falls for this transparent bullshit and it drives me nuts.
Alan Muller too? Sh*t he’s my envihero. Hope he reads this and sends a retort.
Keep in mind, Jason, that many Delaware Dems would be worse, because their lords and masters, the unions, place a much higher priority on their bottom line than the environment.
If you don’t believe me, go to an environmental hearing for the Delaware City oil refinery sometime — a parade of union guys can always be found praising the idea of giving the company, whichever one owns it at any given time, whatever it wants. And it was unions that wanted a new coal plant in Indian River Bay instead of the offshore wind farm, because the coal plant would have required more workers to build.
Yesterday Mike Castle told somebody on WGMD talk radio yesterday that he supports “clean coal” technology development. Wants nuclear too. I’ll trust em when they volunteer to store the stuff under their own houses.
McCain came out with some ‘international nuke waste depository dream idea. whaaa?
Castle and McCain have both endorsed Yucca Mountain as the answer but Frieda Berryhill knows better than anyone why this is crap.
The money needed to both construct nuke energy and the subsidies offered make the alternatives the comparative and sensible path to future energy independence.
Not one of Delaware’s federal representatives have split from the GOP corporatists-in-the-pocket meme-Cheney model until some meager attempts in the last month.
The ‘safe/clean coal meme is untested bull at this point no matter what Minner and NRG espouse.
Isn’t it time that special interests took a back seat
to humankind’s interests?
Castle picked a bad day to support clean coal. NYTimes front-paged a longish piece Friday on the poster project for so-called clean coal, and it has hit all sorts of problems. It’s like Bush’s praise of the hydrogen car — sell ’em a sci-fi hi-tech promise for the future so you don’t have to do anything today.
Here’s a link, but I think you have to be a subscriber:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/30/business/30coal.html?em&ex=1212292800&en=425f6009b9e65c19&ei=5087
Hmmmm I found this in a search and see that Jason has said this about me before–mindless stooge of Mike Castle.
I’d like to see an example of this so I can get educated about how stupid I am…. Jason?
“Environmental groups,” like “liberals,” come in all different flavors. For what it’s worth, most of Delaware’s “environmental community” seems to hate Alan Muller a lot more than they hate the big corporate polluters.
It is true, for example, that the Sierra Club issues suck-up endorsements of Castle without any regard for his support for Bush’s war crimes. To them, I suppose, that’s not an “environmental issue.”
Alan,
I guess I owe you an apology. Somehow I got the idea that you were a Castle guy back when Spivack was running against him and I never got disabused of that erroneous idea.
Sorry.
I’m glad to hear that (unlike the national enviros) you saw through Castle’s BS.
…and you know what. I want to put something more behind that apology than mere words.
Let me think about it.
Well, actually, I was in touch with all the candidates EXCEPT Castle–Spivak, Hartley-Nagle, and Berg. Dennis seemed too angry to campaign effectively, the the other two were pretty good.
Called up Castle’s people once to ask about anti-war demonstrators being arrested in front of his office and how did he feel about that… “We don’t get involved in criminal cases.”
That said, I think the overall record of Delaware Dem pols on the environment (and pretty much everything else) is just as foul as the Reps and sometimes worse. I wouldn’t hesitate to support a Republican if the circumstances seemed to call for it.
Can you tell me why so few Delaware blogs have up a link to the Green Delaware site?