E-mail of the day: Media Matters coordinates with Capitol Hill “allies” on Keystone XL; Plus: 20,000 jobs “is not that many”
A flack for Media Matters for America, the Soros-backed one-trick GOP-bashing pony, sent an e-mail peddling the group’s latest anti-Keystone XL “study” to the Senate Democrats’ communications director at the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Mary Kerr.
For some reason, Senate Republican EPW communications director Matt Dempsey with GOP Sen. James Inhofe’s office also ended up cc’ed on the e-mail.
Ooops.
Their mistake is our gained insight (or rather, confirmation of what we already assumed).
Read on:
From: Emilee Pierce [mailto:epierce@mediamatters.org]
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 09:11 PM
To: Kerr, Mary (EPW); Dempsey, Matt (EPW)
Subject: Heads up – MMFA study on media coverage of KXL out tomorrow
Mary and Matt,
I wanted to flag that MMFA will be putting out a major, quantitative report on media coverage of KXL tomorrow morning.
The study will be similar to our EPA counting study (http://mediamatters.org/research/201106070010) — and will drill home the point the media bought right into Big Oil’s desired frame on KXL, focusing largely on the (inflated) number of jobs that could be created, without paying due attention to the many other important issues at stake. (Ranchers’ land, spills, climate change, etc.)
We are hoping for a big media splash, but – more importantly – we’re hoping that allies will be able to leverage it to gain favorable coverage.
I’ve pasted a very brief summary below – and will be sure to send along the final study as soon as it’s up. If you have any questions, please let me know.
All the best,
Emilee
STUDY: The Press And The Pipeline
A Media Matters analysis shows that as a whole, news coverage of the Keystone XL pipeline between August 1 and December 31 favored pipeline proponents. Although the project would create few long-term employment opportunities, the pipeline was primarily portrayed as a jobs issue. Pro-pipeline voices were quoted more frequently than those opposed, and dubious industry estimates of job creation were uncritically repeated 5 times more often than they were questioned. Meanwhile, concerns about the State Department’s review process and potential environmental consequences were often overlooked, particularly by television outlets.
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Emilee Pierce
External Affairs Director for Climate and Environment
Media Matters for America
Matt Dempsey e-mails: “It’s not often that Senator Inhofe’s office receives emails of a heads up to promote the Media Matters agenda! So I will do my part and share with you tonight to help them get the ‘favorable coverage’ they want from their ‘allies’ on Capitol Hill.”
We know at least one Democrat recycling the Media Matters talking points: Chicago Democratic Rep. Jan Schakowsky (Ill.), who tried arguing today that 20,000 jobs “is not that many.”
Chicago Democratic Rep. Jan Schakowsky (Ill.) drew fire from Sen. Dan Coats (R-Ind.) on Wednesday when she dismissed the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline, suggesting the 20,000 jobs it could create were relatively insignificant in the scheme of the greater economy.
“Twenty thousand jobs is really not that many jobs, and investing in green technologies will produce that and more,” she said on Chicago’s WLS Radio Don Wade and Roma Show on Wednesday morning. “But I’ll tell you what, you know it seems to me that the Republicans would rather have an issue than a pipeline.”
Coats, a vocal proponent of the project, which would transport oil from Alberta, Canada, to America’s Gulf Coast, swiftly responded in a separate interview on the same show later on Wednesday morning, suggesting Schakowsky has spoken insensitively.
“Tell that to the 20,000 people that woke up this morning and didn’t have a job to go to,” said Coats. “ ‘Well, these don’t really matter’ — I mean, this not only is jobs, this is less dependence on Middle East oil.”
“And here we have, you know, the president talking about becoming energy independent, but he turns down the easiest way to do that,” the freshman senator continued.
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Unless you are one of the 20,000 gainfully seeking employment.
Nice message that you sent there Barky to the millions of food stamp using unemployed workers out there.
What a wonderful pResident of all of the people that you are.
Can we get someone to remove the useless trash now residing in our White House? Thank you
It is not usually a good thing when I find something green on my bread or cheese. I am thinking the same is also true of those “green jobs” that are touted so much by this administration.
20000 unemployed means more jobs for cronies.
That’s how Marxists roll.
Ms. Schakowsky, I hope one day we can solar panel your mouth. And if that doesn’t work, plug it with a hunk of black coal.
Imagine that, you’ll be energy independent!
Nice shot!
Apple directly employs 40,000 people in the U.S. But, tens of millions of Americans have jobs thanks to Apple; even more thanks to Microsoft.
It’s not just the 20k jobs the pipeline will directly create; there will not only be peripheral jobs…there will be companies hiring because they have more money because gas costs less. There will be companies hiring because they have more business now that the pipeline is making oil cheaper.
In 2007, gas reached $4/gallon. Combined with a perfect storm of other disasters (some of them related to the cost of gas), it put the delivery company I worked for out of business. Dozens, if not hundreds of people were unemployed in two cities. Now, multiply that among the tens of thousands of cities across the nation.
The push back to this co-ordinated spin should be a tie in to them.
“So you (Mr or Mrs Democrat Liberal of the Day) are a Media Matters troll. Back under the bridge with you.” Flat earther, anti carbon based energy, climate change libs, should be shown little respect.
We should streamline the permitting of nuclear energy plants and reprocessing facilities as well as refineries. If other generation technologies can become viable with only private capital then fine. Offer small tax advantages to such private efforts. No more Solindra type boondoggles.
My company cut way back on many things to avoid layoffs. Once fuel prices fell we maintained our slimmer operating profile. That famine time has ended up strengthened us.
Now our business is booming yet we are reluctant to hire in the uncertain climate. Once the new R President takes the Oath, we can look at the regulatory environment. My company employs around 8 thousand in the U.S. but has plenty of possible expansion plans. No one SAYS that our rate of same is dependent on the election….
Notice how nobody mentions that minimum wage went up to $7.25 an hour in mid-2009?
Nah, that couldn’t have had anything to do with stalled employment…
I bet Chicago Democratic Rep. Jan Schakowsky (Ill.) would say that losing ONE job was too many – if it was her job!!
Since the current regime so manifestly believes in the spoils system, I pray a conservative take over of the executive branch will, at long last, yield some hard core investigations and removals of these leftist organizations that hide behind their tax exempt status. They’ve waged enough war against us all while we have had to subsidize it.
I heard that hag on Don & Roma yesterday, she’s insane. I love that show, every day before work, I hear them bring some common sense into the world.
MM, you should research what they talked about today, the scandals at the chicago morgue. ABC 7 TV I team broke the story, there’s probably video, sickening. More cronies at crook county treating people like so much trash.
The Big Schakowsky: Besides, look how many new firefighting jobs Obowmao has created just to put out Chevy Volt fires!
120 jobs lost at Bain’s AMPAD*: Heartless vultures.
20,000 shovel ready jobs cut off at the pass by Team Obama: “Not that many”.
* Because unions refused to take a pay cut.
“Twenty thousand jobs is really not that many jobs, and investing in green technologies will produce that and more,” she said.
“A shining example of green jobs and President Obamas success in his push to transform America into a third world hell hole, SOLYNDRA!! Not to mention Beacon Power, Evergreen Solar, SpectraWatt, Eastern Energy and Nevada Geothermal Power, a favorite of the Reid
Clan”
20,000 jobs isn’t a lot? I guess us Canadians will just have to take them and build a pipeline to the West coast instead. Good luck on your solar energy program, Barack!
My thoughts exactly. If the pipeline were apporoved to be built today it would not start transporting oil tomorrow, but it would show the world that America is serious about indepenedence from middle east oil. This could cause the price of oil to decline as the speculators would see that America was seriously working towards energy security. If we coupled the pipeline with opening up drilling within our own broders and approving some new refineries as well as some nuclear power plants it would do wonders for the price of oil and gas.
Of course we know that Obama wants the price of gas to continue to go up and electric bills need to skyrocket. He has said so himself.
The I’m sure she’ll have no problem hiring 20,000 people herself. Put up or shut up.
20,000 more unemployed people is exactly what Marxists want. They hate people having jobs.
Unless they’re cronies, then 1 unemployed crony is a huge human tragedy which must be corrected by noon today.
What these libtards say is comical at best but what is so much more important is shining a little light on their corner on setting the narrative.
The narritive of the left is that the environment will be destroyed by the pipeline. And it is working. Libtards are ok with unemployment and a “green” planet.
Thinking Americans, voting Americans are not.
One would assume Dems aren’t that stupid. Conservatives may have moles on the inside of the machine?
That is the lame deflection of Democrats and the Left in general. It would crack me up if if it were not so horrifying in its import. It’s like saying “I’ve got $20,000 in credit card debt and no job so why even try?” This is why we need to run these people out of town for good. They are obstructionist, defeatist and unproductive at best, Communist collaborators at worst.
I have a great idea!! We should find a way to plug the electric cars directly into a windmill, instead of mommy’s garage. Then Obama can shut down ALL the coal plants and get those millions of electric cars on the road! Problem solved. And we would no longer need to pay for electricity.
I think I will patent this idea. I could end up rich!!
You don’t turn on prosperity like a spigot. Liberals always want something for nothing and if it has a cost, the “rich” should pay for it. The “rich” are always defined as those who have more than they “need”. Sound familiar?
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Calvin Coolidge
A bunch of ex-Solyndra employees might disagree.
Nice heads up to the raving leftists on the hill….and to the rest of the leftist media…get your stories right or access will be cut off.
Does Obama even have the authority to reject the Keystone pipeline?
No, because he’s usurping the office of President.
As I write this, there is a hearing going on challenging Obama’s qualification to appear on the GA balot. Watch live coverage here.
BTW: “Big Oil” will sell to whomever wants to buy. If Americans want to see lower energy prices we had better start permitting more refineries with less CAFE standards, ethanol subsidies, and other onerous commerce-stunting regulations. The economy can never recover in the face of crushing regulation and high energy costs. Geothermal/Wind/Tidal Mr. Rogers-type energy aside, until somebody invents cold fusion or something equally revolutionary, fossil fuels and nukes are our future.
The alternative is $6 gasoline and permanent 20% unemployment – the “new normal” that Obama and the Communists want us accustomed to (expressed in BHO’s own words). In this way, gulags, community spies, and brownshirt militias will be an easy transition.
On January 26, 2012 at 05:36 am, regularguy said:
I wish there was a conservative think tank somewhere focused solely on this. I would donate heavily to an organization that actively pursued IRS investigations of those using non-profits as a front.
Warren Buffet will be happy to ship the oil on his trains just like he does all the coal that goes into Texas for power plants. Oops, shutting down coal-fired power plants in Texas. Then Warren will need the oil for to replace the other cargo.
LOL. Perfect! It’s painfully funny that it does not dawn on the average Liberal that that “magic” clean battery power comes from dirty nasty coal. They just can’t connect those dots. Energy and prosperity come at a cost, that they don’t want to acknowledge it is irrelevant. Life has tradeoffs, unless you want to live like Ed Begley. Truth and science march on.
Barack and Co. will never suffer the consequences of their decisions impacting the nation. That’s why we call them Limosine Liberals, they are exempt from their own decrees. That would be Limosine Communists now in this brave new world. Dachas, caviar, martinis, and Wagyu beef. The more things change the more they remain the same.
Were Keystone the least bit smart about this, they would publish, or get elected public officials to publish, in four color graphics the details of the safety measures taken in the pipeline’s construction and operation.
Maybe a two page foldout in USAToday with lots of pictures. Cross sections of the pipe showing how thick it is. Showing if it double lined. Showing how the electronic sensors work and the valves. How many of each and how frequently they are placed on the pipeline.
I will concede that they may have already done it, though if I have not seen it, then many others may not have seen it, too.
Spend a little less lobbying politicians and a bit more lobbying the public.
This is good on the pipeline! bho and team have NO intentions of seeing to it American’s can get and use OUR oil, gas, or coal!
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/rep-barton-us-fought-and-won-ww-ii-less-time-obama-had-evaluate-keystone-pipeline
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There really isn’t any surprise in the fact that every aspect of the assault on this country is planned and coordinated by Obama, his associates, entrenched politicians, enemies of state, and the media. None of the destruction and damage is unintentional nor simply misinformed and well intended. This attack on our economy, military, values, Constitution, and very existence was planned. The conspiracy runs deep.
It’s perfectly understandable why the President is still popular. As someone posted here his speech was on an 8th grade level. Easy for people to get his ideas. Solar Energy and Wind power sound great when it comes from the President of the United States.
Obama was talking down to the TV audience. He’s not talking to people that post here or do research into, let’s say Solyndra.
The repetition of words and easy to understand ideas, “if you like your Doctor you can keep your Doctor”, it doesn’t matter if it’s true or not.
Imagine Newt debating Obama. I believe it would be an easy win for Newt. Remember the audience, Obama could say, the rich need to pay their fair share, that’s all Obama would need to say.
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Lots of great comments above–too many to name the posters. Good understanding of how stupid the Keystone Pipeline decision is. How the 20000 jobs leverage another 100000 jobs due to lower energy costs. Comments on defunding our enemies like Iran and Venezuela and lowering gas and diesel fuel costs to all as supply and demand kick in.
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I used to think it would be really hard to be as smart as the President of the U.S.A. Now I think we are a hell of a lot smarter here than Comrade Obama and His Ilk. Except for their skills in getting rich by throwing taxpayer money down their green “energy” scam toilets as their crony “capitalist” buddies profit and send kickbacks to them.
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You just can’t make this stuff up! With the American Pravda Media sweeping the real corruption and failed decisions results truths under the rug.
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Remedial Economics 101 classes, anyone? This Marxism PHD stuff ain’t working out too well for the taxpayers.
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John Bibb
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Um…isn’t Obama supposed to BE THERE? Yeah, right. I hope they remove his name from the ballot for the next election. That is the very LEAST they should do as a consequence for his ignoring a court order. Of course, the judge would find a horse head in his bed, or worse. But that is the price you pay these days for being honest and brave.
If you promise to donate to the DNC you could probably get a green energy grant.
Except for one thing…Newt continues to bash Romney for his capitalism! Obama will use that. Newt just said that Romney is getting $20 million a year for “doing nothing”. I hate to break it to doofus Newt, but if you make good investments and work hard and save your money and invest more, and are smart with your investment, you too can RETIRE and live off your hard work, investments, and savings.
Glenn Beck just talked about that. Romney is doing what the rest of us RETIREES are doing, just on a different scale. The beauty of the FREE MARKET SYSTEM!
So, Newt continues to dig the hole deeper and if he is our nominee, you can bet your bippee Obama will use that to win the future! (WTF)
By the way, I believe Newt is overplaying his hand. He is giddy with all the attention he is getting and is throwing caution to the wind. His Romney bashing will destroy his chances. Watch for it. Newt is a loose cannon. We may love his spunk, but he would not make a good POTUS.
Rogue Cheddar said,
A First Responder inside -every- Hybrid vehicle!
Yeah whether it’s 20k jobs or 20, it would represent more legitimate employment than Dick O’Drama has generated in the last three years.
Yep, just like Obama will use Romneycare to keep Obamacare off the table if the nominee is Romney.
I understand that the primary process is the time to air the defects of the candidates to get them out of the way, but I really hope the debate tonight does not become another Gingrich/Romney cat fight. The debates are better when they are actually attacking Obama on his record and contrasting what they would do different.
One of the best lines I saw in the debate the other night was when Brian Williams asked Romney how we could win the war in Afghanistan without having talks with the Taliban. Romney said, by winning. Plain simple and the truth. I would hope to hear more things like that from the candidates than to hear the back and forth between Newt and Romney trying to make the other look worse than they are.
Not possible
On January 26th, 2012 at 10:36 am, happyscrapper said:
Yes, and if the judge doesn’t charge hit with contempt of court for not showing up, then what was the point of having the subpoena in the first place?
I am starting to think the only two people who haven’t figured that out yet are Newt and Romney.
They left out tainted unicorn milk.
Schakowsky: “Twenty thousand jobs is really not that many jobs, and investing in green technologies will produce that and more.”
Every time one of these @$$hats says this, every Republican should do the *cough* trick with one small change: instead of saying “bull$hit”, they should say “Solyndra”.
Oddball: “Always with the negative waves Moriatiti always with the Negative waves” .
Sheesh, I’m beginning to think there is a dem mole in each of their campaign organizations spurring these two egos on to destroy the other so whoever of the two is the eventual GOP candidate, he’ll be so damaged that Obama can easily get a re-election victory.
Media Matters states:
These people really believe that the U.S. public is stupid. They pound out the mantra that the job numbers are inflated. How can that be? The Trans Alaskan Pipeline is 800 miles long, took four years of actual construction, and at its peak, employed 28,000 direct workers. The Keystone Pipeline will be 1600 miles long so an estimate of 20,000 workers is somehow inflated? Perhaps their idea of “layin’ pipe” is not the same as those proposing to construct this oil conveyance system.
Cut off government “investments” in green technologies and let’s just see how many jobs green technologies can produce and maintain.
You go, girl. Deflect!
Or a $5 Billion loan to drill for oil in Brazil, and some of the profits will go to the taxpayers who put up the loan. Haha – yes, I’m jesting, part of the profit goes to the DNC. All part of laundering your tax money through Soros to finance the DNC. They should all be in jail.
Yes they do, and probably for about 48% of the public they’d likely be correct.
Thank you public education and its cohorts in government, entertainment and media.
Bingo! This is what leading the country will entail–not just talking endlessly to ourselves and insiders.
Yes, yes, it’s hard, what with the resistance from the establishment media and the entrenched memes in the public mind (such as “green equals good”, “prosperity equals bad”, and so on). It will take sustained work.
But America’s worth it.
Crapgame: A DEAL-deal! Maybe the guy’s a Republican. “Business is business,” right?
To which the response should be the issue is the pipeline Jan.
Who then in turn sell the oil to the Chinese.
What a vast left wing conspiracy?
Who would have thought?
/sarc
Clearly the fact that Spain’s “green energy” program has cost them 2.5 real jobs for every “green job” created means nothing to this ignoramus. I can only assume she didn’t take a lot of post-secondary math or science courses.
Riiiiiiight.
PogoGOP:“We have met the enemy… and he is us”.Jobs and businesses, subsidized by and dependent upon taxpayer money so directed by politicians, cronies beholding to said politicians and party as long as the money flows. Political power and profits at taxpayer expense for those involved. That’s what its all about
Ranchers’ land is temporarily disrupted by the building of the pipeline. Once built, it’s just a cash stream for the rancher. Climate change issue . . .’nuff said. And I can’t remember the last time I heard about a pipeline oil spill that would destroy the environment. I work for a small oil company, and we have small leaks all the time. Few hours of cleanup, repair the pipe and back to normal. Of course those are small lines from the well to the tanks, generally made of pvc. The chances of a big line like this leaking for a period long enough to cause a major spill is slim to none. Too many checks for it to go very long.
And there are already thousands of miles of pipelines running all over the country.
Kind of dilutes the power of the subpoena, doesn’t it? He is setting an example for the rest of the country. The law doesn’t matter for the elite. If you don’t like it, ignore it. This man is sticking the knife into our constitution every single day. By the end of this year, we won’t recognize the country. It is bad now. It will be BAD to the Nth power by December. AND, whether he wins or loses, just wait for all the presidential pardons! Also, the lame duck session will be horrendous! It will be his last chance to push the marxist agenda. If he doesn’t come through, it might be HIS bed the horse head will show up in next!
The ONLY way we will win this election is a Brokered Convention! I am totally serious. By the convention, both Romney and Gingrich will be so trashed and tainted, Obama will beat either one by a landslide. The only way to get ahead of the traitor media and the regressives is to have a “secret candidate” who has been vetted, and who has a string of great ads all ready to invade the airwaves. Then pop him on the brokered convention, have numerous speeches endorsing him, have him give an amazing speech, then have the states, one by one, give him their delegates. Oh, did I say “him”? I meant HER!! Get it?
On January 26, 2012 at 09:49 am, ITookTheRedPill said:
Or, what is the point of having a judiciary when the left just ignores it?
On January 26, 2012 at 10:59 am, happyscrapper said:
A horses head for a horses ass. PETA would be so proud.
The point is the left flaunting the judiciary and for when it rules in the left’s favor. The left hardly ignores the judiciary in those moments.
I hope her comments are played over and over when she campaigns for reelection. How does she manage to take the oath to the Constitution? Commies have no business in the gov.
…who then use it to manufacture mePhones, so people can play Angry Birds to distract themselves from the boredom of occupying public parks to protest big business.
Well, only if the head and ass are attached to a LIVE horse!
Mr. Ed: Thanks Wiiillllbuuurrrr!
The “green energy” and jobs lie has been debunked so many times it has become a parody of itself. Enough already. Every country that has tried it has crapped out. It is a loser except in tiny experimental collectivist hamlets that poured a ton of up front money into it. On paper it is still a loser but the religious devotees refuse to walk away.
By Democrat definition, taxpayer dollars are pre-laundered. And there’s no way they will be prosecuted after they run it through their pig trail accounting system.
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HI HAPPY_SCRAPPER–#66. I must be clairvoyant–I knew as soon as you started your comment just who “him” would be.
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The ‘Cuda looks better all the time. The RINO’s may put in the Mittster or Jebbie Bush at the convention. Instead of the candidate who actually wins the most primary votes. They will never put in Governor Sarah Palin–too conservative.
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At that point– a coordinated national Internet and Talk Radio write in vote for the Mama Grizzly–Leezza Madcowskii style. It worked once already. Like Toby Keith sang, “You never see it coming–It just hits you by surprise!”–like a finely honed Battle Skillet swing. (With apologies to Toby Keith).
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John Bibb
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20,000 JOBS are NOT THAT MANY??
There are 20,000 TEACHERS in the Chicago Public Schools…When they wanted to lay off 5%, or 1000 teachers….their UNION went NUTS.
Jan…you ask Chicago if it wants to fire ALL teachers and see how 20,000 phone calls affects your phone switchboard.
Fire the teachers and send the kids 12 grades of green textbooks instead…see if 20,000 less teachers affects the Chicago economy by very much.
Hers and a hundred or so other Congressional Dimocrats and one loser in the WH. Yep, that should about do it.
This is just one more piece of evidence to add to the stack that just goes to show that liberals want high unemployment and a stagnate economy.
Until they are voted out the economy will not improve and high unemployment will remain.
No open thread? …Romney is kind of killing it, I have to say.
and lowering the cost of energy by increasing production of oil and nuclear would greatly speed that development. but that seems to be rocket science to a democrat.
Stacey, ditto.
Romney turned in very strong performance with few strikes against him. He spoke with poise and eloquence in defense of his positions and advocated some good principles.
Santorum stood out at several points and even landed a decent strike on Mitt regarding the individual mandate. He has become stronger as this process unfolds.
Gingrich did not seem to sparkle or bring the “it” factor that he has sometimes excelled with. He is an idea per minute gem of a guy, with those strengths and requisite weaknesses.
Ron Paul was solid with great lines and humor. He is consistent even when that is unpopular.
Synopsis: Bye Bye, to the Malignant Narcissistic Obama! He comes up a bit short of any of these guys as long as they can speak with determination and passion. Ideas matter and BHO and company has clearly been wrong for the nation for most of his term.
While I appreciate knowing that this kind of subterfuge is taking place, I’m reminded of why, as a military man, I loathe politicians and their minions.
One of the most important things about listening to your adversary’s secret communications is NOT LETTING THEM KNOW that you are listening to their secret communications.
This guy could have become a conduit for all kinds of under the table information, but instead, he ran to the first microphone he could find and killed the goose that could have laid who knows how many more golden eggs.
Morons.
Agreed Redog. Green jobs are temporary illusions, including payoffs to unions and dem donors before tanking the once meteoric company. There are few, if any, green companies actually making a profit for investors.
20,000 is a lot compared to ghostly green jobs in utopian minds.
Oh happy1, a brokered convention!? This race doesn’t have enough chaos for you? That essentially happened here in Colorado during last year’s Governors race. It was a spectacular failure. You don’t like Romney, I get it. But you seem to jump on a new bandwagon every week now. Please think this through. A brokered convention will not get the unity necessary to defeat Obama.