Pounding The Podium

I initially started this column just to highlight next years race between the former head of Hewlett Packard Carly Fiorina and Barbara (call me Senator) Boxer.  Then I got wrapped up in the latest Barbara catastrophy, the climate change bill and her efforts to ram it through the senate.  If you thought that the health care bill was bad, wait until you get a peek at this 900 page monstrosity. Just the fact that it is being sponsored by Barbara Boxer and John Kerry should scare you to death!

Barbara, is keeping with the Obama administrations policy of doing everything except that which is crucial (like Afganistan, jobs, etc.) as quickly as possible because otherwise we will not have a shiny new Climate change bill to impress all of the world with in Copenhagen this December.   Boxer has already ramrodded this bill through commitee (with NO Republican support) and is determined that it get in front of the Senate as quickly as possible.

Today, Kerry reminded Republicans that 2008 Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain called for strong, mandatory limits on greenhouse gas emissions, and that Senator Graham has joined Democrats in this year’s fight. “We can rediscover bi-partisan progress once again,” he said.

Wow, so Senator Graham and John McCain both like it?  Can we vote for it right now?  Please, that is like Barbara Boxer’s famous you-tube video where she admonishes the leader of the Black Chamber of Commerce that another black man likes the health care bill, so why doesn’t he?  {Note:  If a Republican said something this stupid, he/she would be villified on every leftist media source possible, which is quite a few media sources}

Kerry continued “Chairman Boxer and I are determined to see this Congress pass a strong climate bill for the President to sign,” said Kerry. “This is and has always been a big lift, but heading into Copenhagen, we have momentum on our side.”

Environmentalists are pleased with the bill’s advancement. Frances Beinecke, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, said, “This clears the way for full Senate action on clean energy and climate legislation that will put Americans back to work, reduce our reliance on foreign oil and create a healthier future for our children. Americans are united around these goals. It’s time for the full Senate to act.”

Now one of the other big buttons that the left is going to keep pushing is the “Green Jobs Button”, because most Americans are not really going to give a rat’s ass about impressing people in Copenhagen, but before you jump on the “Green Jobs” bandwagon, look at the bill a little closer.  Two of the organizations that stand to benifit (and actually the only ones that I know of) from the Green Jobs bonanza are Blue Green Alliance a national partnership of labor unions and environmental organizations dedicated to expanding the number and quality of jobs in the green economy. With partners USW, Sierra Club, CWA, NRDC, LIUNA, SEIU, AFT and UWUA, the Blue Green Alliance is uniting eight million people in pursuit of good jobs, a clean environment and a green economy. Yes, you read it right, SEIU.

The other organization is Green for all, the Green for All Academy (according to it’s website) does four primary things:

• identifies, recruits and trains leaders from low-income communities and communities of color across the United States to deliver, in their own voices, key “green jobs” messages about the opportunity of a clean energy economy and the importance of climate protection;
• develops materials, tools and trainings that inspire people to join the movement for an inclusive green economy;
• supports our leaders as they spread this message in their communities by holding regular conference calls, hosting an online community, delivering powerful tools (e.g., reports, videos, curricula) to help them lead their communities, and placing them in leadership positions in local and national conferences and other fora; and
• helps leaders organize members of their communities to influence public opinion and public policy, and support green economy solutions.

Does any of this sound familiar??

Well, where as Blue Green Alliance is associated with SEIU, Green For All is associated with the Apollo Alliance  you know, the ones associated with ACORN?  Our country is being taken over by Community Organizers.

More on this story later, if you want to read more on the subject, check out the websites below:

http://www.seiu.org/mt/mt-search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=1&tag=Blue%20Green%20Alliance&limit=20

http://www.bioneers.org/conference/sessions-events/energy-action-coalition-and-green-for-all-green-collar-jobs-advocacy-and-impleme