Voinovich skips Gore
Speaking of vice presidents...Ohio Sen. George Voinovich didn't have much interest in the global warming policies being promoted by former Vice President Al Gore, who has been on Cloud 9 ever since his documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth" landed two Academy Awards last month and he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Gore testified before the House and Senate environmental committees on Capitol Hill last Wednesday. Voinovich, a senior Republican member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, skipped the hearing.
Of the 19 members of the committee, only Voinovich and Sen. David Vitter, R-La., were unable to attend the hearing.
"He had a scheduling conflict," Voinovich spokesman Chris Paulitz said. "But if the former vice president would like to learn about harmonizing our economic, environmental and energy needs, then Senator Voinovich is more than happy to speak with him."
Indeed, the Republicans who did attend the hearing, had a few choice words for the former vice president.
Aside from Sen. James Inhofe's tiff with Gore over whether global warming even exists, Sens. Craig Thomas, R-Wyo., and Larry Craig, R-Idaho, did their best to give Gore a reality check.
"I guess I'm saying, how are we going to pay for all these things that you're talking about," Thomas said.
Said Craig: "Your 'Inconvenient Truth' spends a lot of time discussing the problem, but little time detailing solutions my constituents can live with."
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Post a Comment*Al Gore won the popular vote in 2000, and is way more popular now with his dedication to global climate change (whether you want to face it or not, it's real-every PEER REVIEWED SCIENTIFIC STUDY says so). Not only did he win an academy award for An Inconvenient Truth but he is nominated for a Noble Peace prize.
During the 2000 campaign, he broke away from the DLC (Dems who Love Corporations-ie Clinton and the free trade, pro-war corporatists to become a populist. He had the insight to be against the Iraq War from the beginning, and has been very vocal against the Bush Administration's trampling of our constitution.
He is respected among the world's leaders for this intellect and leadership. He has the backing of progressive netroots, who are eagerly awaiting his entry into the race. (He's a rock star among the netroots)
As someone who watched the c-span coverage of his presentation to the senate, I have to say that he commanded respect from both parties, with the noted exceptions of Sen Inhofe and a few others devoted to the fossil fuel energy sector and in total denial.
Again...won the popular vote by millions of votes in 2000, distanced himself from the Clintons and has a huge devoted following of folks willing to work the turf. I expect with fair elections, Mr Gore will be our next President.
Typical wRong wingnut whacko, slinging the elephant dung HTML impersonation !
When the wRong wingnut "Nobels" have no ideas of their own, they just assume the ideas of "Gore" !
Thanks for playing follow the "Global LEADER" !
lol, lol, lol
PATHETIC !
that Gore "is on cloud nine" - or is this just a snarky comment?
As for Voinovich's nonattendance - his other commitment had better have been pretty good. We the taxpayers who pay his salary, and we his constituents, expect him to attend to Senate business, including attending meetings of the committees to which he has been appointed.
Thanks George. Glad to hear you're still keeping your head in the sand, as always. Your opposition to Bolton was the only good this you've ever done.
"Said Craig: "Your 'Inconvenient Truth' spends a lot of time discussing the problem, but little time detailing solutions my constituents can live with.""
But what about the consequences that your constituents literally CAN'T live with?
typical democrat, all talk about the problem but no solutions. Glad to hear that our elected officials are actually working on finding solutions instead of listening to a public servant turned hollywood celebrity who feels he can tell us about "issues facing the common person" in America.
Remember his own personal energy bills...not very "common American like"
WOW the rightwing must really be worried about Al Gore's popularity to keep using the same tired talking points:
-It's nice to see the conservative media taking the message of conservation and energy efficiency seriously. Hopefully they will hold their own leaders and readers to the same high standards.
-The Tennessee Tax Dept. does not consider the "Tennessee Center for Policy Research," which roughly no one had heard of before this, a legitimate group. It's run by a long-time right-wing attack hack, and its only registered address is a P.O. box. Why is everyone in the media taking what it says about Gore's electricity use at face value?
-Gore's electricity company has no record of being contacted about his bills.
-The "average" home electricity use quoted by TCPR is a national average that includes apartments and mobile homes. In Gore's climatic zone, the East South Central (Dept. of Energy PDF), the average is much higher, thanks to hot, humid summers and cold winters. Within that zone, Gore's usage is three (not 20) times average, and his per-square-foot usage is squarely average. (More here.)
-The Gores are not an average family. He's an ex-VP with special security arrangements, and has live-in security staff. He and his wife both work on their many business and charitable undertakings out of their house, so they have space for offices and office staff. All that would be tough to cram in an average size house.
-Gore buys the maximum allowable green electricity from the program offered by his utility.
Most of the electricity in TN comes from hydro and nuclear, and so doesn't generate all that much CO2 anyway.
The larger point, which probably won't work well as a cable-show soundbite but is nonetheless true, is that Gore has done heroic work making global warming a top issue for governments the world over. He has prompted more individual and collective action on this issue than anyone else alive. The changes he has wrought outweigh his personal carbon emissions by many orders of magnitude.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-roberts/talking-points-on-the-gor_b_42335.html
Perhaps those on the Right should think about cleaning up the scandals their own party delivered instead of trashing a man who is doing good in this world. Why not start with Voinovich:
Noe's fortune came in part from charging the Bureau of Worker's Compensation (BWC) $12.6 million in coin-fund related expenses for managing the $50 million investment between 1998 and 2004. Federal and state officials are now investigating these expenses.
A "Ponzi scheme" is what Ohio's Republican Attorney General Jim Petro calls the method by which Noe may have stolen millions of dollars from the state of Ohio's Bureau of Worker's Compensation (BWC).
Petro says that on May 31, 1998, Noe received the first of two $25 million payments approved from then-Governor Voinovich's BWC. Noe promptly laundered $1.375 million into his personal or business account. Rolling in public money, Noe then asked to run a bizarre rare coin investment scheme on behalf of the BWC.
Meanwhile Noe laundered money into Republican Party campaigns. Among others, he and Bernadette made a $4500 contribution to then-Secretary of State Bob Taft's successful campaign for governor, at a time when Brian Hicks was Taft's top aide.
The Toledo Blade reports that Noe later gave Taft another $2500. Still another $2000 went to then-governor Voinovich's successful Senate campaign. And another $500 went to re-elect Petro, then the state auditor.
Mr. Noe's attorney acknowledged on May 26 that as much as $13 million in BWC assets remain missing. Petro says $4 million was illegally taken by Noe for personal use.
Noe's high-flying financial dance is rooted in the gubernatorial corruption of his good friend Voinovich, and a shady aide named Paul Mifsud. Mifsud was Voinovich's Chief of Staff and has become a statewide symbol of official corruption and illegality.
Mifsud's was responsible for much of Tom Noe's rapid rise. According to the conservative Columbus Dispatch, May 8, 2005, Mifsud paved the way for Noe's rare coin gambit.
Mifsud himself spent six months in prison for destroying the government records of a sweetheart construction deal he engineered for his then-fiancée’s house. Mifsud made the mistake of giving the bid to a controversial contractor named T.G. Banks, who allegedly did the job in exchange for state contracts.
Mifsud took both Banks and Noe under his wing. He made Noe Chair of the Lucas County Republican Party in 1992. Noe says the job "kept me alive."
In 1993, Noe testified in his divorce case that Mifsud and Voinovich's cohort Vincent Panichi were now his coin clients. Panichi later figured in a 1996 money laundering scandal involving donations from Banks' underage nieces of $1000 each to the Voinovich campaign.
Panichi also told a grand jury that Voinovich had approved a $60,000 illegal payment from his 1994 gubernatorial campaign fund to his own family's business, headed by his brother Paul Voinovich. The Governor later said Panichi probably told him this, but he hadn't heard it because his hearing aid was turned off or malfunctioning.
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http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0805-22.htm
Uh... we are in a ice age. Some global warming conspiracist seem to leave out this little factoid. I guess those aligators in Greenland were a fluke.
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