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Grover Norquist, pictured above, recently made the rounds of Capitol Hill on Thursday in a last ditch attempt to keep his coalition from crumbling.
On his wall he has framed pledges signed by Republican office holders, which he jokingly points to as scalps he’s been able to extort from squeamish, weak, timid Republican legislators.
On Thursday, he came calling:
He walked into Tom Coburns office: Tom says, “Fuck you you piece of shit. Get the fuck out of my office”.
Beaten he hits up Pat Toomey: Pat says, “You’re poison. Go join the Democrats… And if anyone asks, I never even knew you…”
Bewildered, the visits John Thune… “Get Out, Grover. You’re tax pledge is killing America, one dollar at a time.”
Now senseless he knocks on Kay Bailey Hutchenson’s door. A staffer meets him and says “leave, or I’m calling security.”
Now fearful, he goes to John Cornyn. “Help me, help me please… I must have got some bad liquor of something… (Grabs hold of John’s lapel) Please help me”. John pushes him away. “Help you? Why I don’t even know you!…”
Like a madman he accosts Kelly Ayotte: “Kelly, Kelly,” he yells. “Tell them you remember me! Tell them we’re pledged together for life.. Tell them, Kelly! Kelly!” She screams at the top of her voice then faints on the capitol’s marble floor.. A crowd gathers, Cornyn yells, “oh you again” and draws back his fist…
Grover runs. Straight to the House and Eric Cantor. “Eric, Eric”, says Grover now down on his knees… “What’s going on!”
Eric says, “why Grover, you got your wish. The American people have spoken, It’s as if you never were born. You don’t exist.”
“I don’t exist”, yells Grover, “Why I have every Republican’s signature upon my wall… “
“Those pledges are all gone, Grover; the American people said they want higher taxes, especially on the wealthy, and especially if all that money was targeted to paying down the deficit and not going to new spending.”
“But that can’t be. They swore they would never raise taxes on the top 1%. the privileged, the wealthy!”
“It’s as if you never were born Grover. When the American people found out that your pledges were not in their favor, but were made favoring billionaires with tax cuts and they were picking up the tab, you simply ceased to exist…”
“Surely Eric Cantor, you believe me… “
“No, but I will say so for now, but only because I receive 4 million dollars year for my service to protect the wealthy. When that drys up, you won’t exist for me either…”
“Ahh”, sighs Grover, “at least for a moment I still have the tea party…. They are so dumb, they will believe anything….. “
Across the Republican Party, the idiocy of Mitt Romney’s pledge not to raise taxes even to the extreme of one part tax/ 9 part cuts, is being harped on in town meeting after town meeting.
Republican Senators are returning to Washington, saying “Grover? Grover? I don’t know any Grover…..”
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June 26, 2012 at 5:09 pm
anonymous
At another Town Meeting
A republican concluded, “It’s a wonderfuel life.” Vote republican.”
Since corporations are “people” according to Romney, running on
the ” Official Policy of Denial,” aka, “Climate Denial,” someone had invited Anthropogenic Climate Change: to “speak” at this meeting and all meetings, whatever meeting that might be, to discuss the way to proceed with the issue of Climate Change as it relates to agriculture, housing, homeland security, immigration, education, energy, or transportation, budgets, investments, or natural resources, shoreline protection, taxes, health care, as well as moral behavior regarding the government itself.
Now, uh, “will the next speaker…Anthropogenic Climate Change, .. approach the microphone please.”
“What next, should oceans, forests, animals, have voices,” someone murmured.
“Climate change.” is old as time on the planet and is on the records of climate study.
However, the relatively new “Anthropogenic Climate Change.” title, is just a flash in time in the history of the world, beginning roughly, since humans realized how to put ancient carbon to use as energy. Living trees are older than that..
The corporate ‘people, with vested monetary interests, will use their money, to make more money, while operating in the world of “Anthropogenic Climate Change – more fossil fuel energy exploration, recovery, usage, it’s costly defense; more fossil fuel run industries and products using cheap fossil fuels, more transportation and it’s infrastructures that are dependent on fossil fuels, more land use, housing, commercialization, requiring use of fossil fuels, it’s dependency; more fertilizers, (momentarily more crops,) more over population, requiring more cheap fossil fuels, etc.
“After which, there will be time, it was announced, “to hear from individuals and corporations who choose not to end life on the planet..”
But the world really wants to hear what Anthropogenic Climate Change has to say about all this even though, she is and will continue expressing herself, regardless of whether or not, any choose to notice, heed her dire warnings, as she moves according to her own chemistry, confronting people near and far, racking up damages, dealing with her own game change of physics, greenhouse gases, atmospheric, ocean, land mass changes, etc.
Unlike the long history of Climate, Anthropogenic Climate has a disturbing spiraling history, of a couple of hundred years. Her short history is revealed through scientific measurements, explorations, discoveries, by learned, legitimate climate professionals, trusted organizations from around the world, conveyed through their studies, by charts, graphs, presentations, accomplishments, etc., to men of lesser (scientific) talents.
Perhaps the public will better understand, when voices, presentations, are made appropriate to attentive non-technical learners – that it is necessary to reduce CO2 now, through conservation, community planning, clean transportation initiatives, new clean power resources, in short, everything involving fossil fuel energy. The problems for the next generations need to be presented, as well, as it involves their lives, communities, states, country, world, that is/will be changing to a point in time when governments, the insurance companies, security forces, health organizations, will say the costs from delays, are mounting to hundreds of billions, trillions, per year; we can’t afford to handle this – we can’t do this anymore; the problem has been left, to grow too large. You’re on your own, kids.
It’s like telling the kids, to stop this:
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2010/03/04/205600/science-nsf-tundra-permafrost-methane-east-siberian-arctic-shelf-venting/?mobile=nc
Anthropogenic Climate is now the entity with billions of people (and all life forms) dependent on her regaining her stability as she is still, continuously confronted with more and more anthropogenic CO2, thus her name. She has an important voice indeed. (If republicans don’t believe that, they shouldn’t re nourish their shores, immunize, close the boarders, build a ‘safe’ room, buy catastrophic insurance, etc.) Anthro’s documented, turbulent short history, is telling of the building of extreme pressures, extreme changes, not only in the earth’s atmosphere, but in her core measurements, temperatures; weather patterns; direction, depths of water currents; winds; her usage of the sun’s energy, water vapor; the condition of the earth’s mountain tops, ocean bottoms; the inventory of her diminishing ‘natural resources; her rising, changing chemical levels, her melting ice, their unthinkable feed back systems, the migration of species and humans, etc.
The public needs to pay real attention, to the out-of-control wild fires, droughts, temperatures, storms, floods, measurements gone wild, that have brought her to separate herself from Climate in general, to come forward, as Anthropogenic Climate Change.
Some people may claim the planet is behaving ‘normally’ within a long history of changes, but these do not explain the time frame of Anthropogenic Climate, fueled by the fossil fuel straight-up rising CO2 levels and matching rising global temperatures, acidifying oceans, failing forests, changing seasons, melting polar regions, escaping methane, migrating species, etc.
http://co2now.org/Current-CO2/CO2-Now/global-temperature-update.html
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http://www.eoearth.org/article/Greenhouse_gas?topic=60586
The crowd whispers. “Can’t wait hear what Anthro has to say.”
Some know Anthropogenic Climate already, but will choose to avoid eye contact, as they choose to make hay in her fields, drill her depths, soil her air, melt her past, sell her as a false bill of goods. What they also deny is, that they, their next generations, will be part of the grim picture she paints.
“America is a leader… of fossil fuel addiction,” someone said.
“You’re a hoax!” another shouts.
A republican spun around saying, folks don’t need clean energy; we’ll sell you all the fossil fuels we can capture, process, ship. It’s good business. “Drilling, stripping, mountain removal, fracking, processing, shipping, pipelines – they mean jobs!” Jobs. I tell you, jobs!
“Oh, Good Lord! Will republicans ever stop with their phony ‘jobs’ bull. We have fossil fuel dependency now – and no jobs.(Same as they have, reduced taxes for the rich – and no jobs.) There are millions of important jobs that need to be done and republicans won’t allow that to happen either.”
“People, people….quiet. Climate Change, kindly step forward.”
The majority of the people were frightened, that Anthropogenic Climate would continue on course, without corporate interests, without enough governmental involvement, without human intervention to stop the assault upon the atmosphere. They felt that the human experiment was destined to end in failure by human hand, perhaps in their lifetimes..
Anthropogenic Climate couldn’t make the meeting; something about being tied up in storms, fires, floods, extinctions, heat waves, migrations, melt downs and other abnormalities, but sent the following Email instead, with the following Attachment that reads:
“The House of Representatives holds the title of the most anti-environment House in congressional history. Led by Republicans, the House has voted against the environment 247 times in the last 18 months, averaging one anti-environmental vote for every day the House has been in session.
The newest report, released by Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Ed Markey (D-MA), finds that many of these votes have directly benefited the oil and gas industry. According to the report:
One out of every five votes has either rolled back protections for public lands, clean air, clean water, or enriched the oil industry.
There were 77 votes undermining Clean Air and public health protections, including new EPA regulation of mercury toxins.
Another 39 votes would weaken public lands protections, 37 votes to block climate change action, and 31 votes against Clean Water Act protection.
The House voted to enrich the oil and gas industry 109 times, a total 44 percent of its anti-environment votes. There were 38 votes to prevent clean energy deployment and 12 votes to expedite review of the Keystone XL pipeline.
Republicans have close ties to the industries seeking to roll back environmental protections. House Republicans have received 8o percent of the oil industry’s campaign contributions over their careers, according to a ThinkProgress analysis of Center for Responsive Politics data. House Republicans have taken $38 million from the industry throughout their careers. By comparison, House Democrats have taken nearly $9 million, meaning Republican members have received more than four times as much of oil’s dollars as Democratic members. Meanwhile, coal contributions to Congress are on track this year to beat a record $8.1 millionspending, and House Republicans have taken 85 percent of the coal industry’s cash.
After slashing key clean energy programs 13 times in recent weeks, the GOP will continue their sterling track record with a series of bills that protect their donors’ interests ahead of public health, public lands, and clean air. According to Markey, these bills count as “one of thelargest fire sales of America’s taxpayer-owned land in history while attacking the bedrock environmental laws that protect our water, our air, and our people.” Climate Progress 6/19/12″
Hello, I’m Climate Change:
YouTube – Videos from this email
June 27, 2012 at 11:36 am
anonymous
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