Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Lamest Action of the Lame Ducks?

by A Siegel

From today's Senate calendar

At 11:00am, the Senate will resume consideration of the motion to proceed to S.3815, "The Promoting Natural Gas and Electric Vehicles Act of 2010", and immediately proceed to vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to the bill.

Let's consider more appropriate names for S3815:

  • The Dig The Hole Deeper With More Fossil Fuel Subsidies Act
  • The T Boone Pickens Profitability Act
  • The WTF Are You Thinking Act?

The United States Congress is in its last days of Democratic control of the House and a large D majority in the Senate.  After inadequate (Senate) action to address climate change, lack of action to reduce subsidies to the fossil foolish sector, the closing energy action might just be significant additional subsidies for fossil fuels?

Consider me not just dismayed but disgusted.



continued at Daily Kos....