President Obama achieved this important goal! Way to go!
The rest of the world is leading the way to a CLEAN ENERGY future while the Regressive Party of Dinosaurs fights to hold America back.
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The rest of the world is leading in the march to CLEAN ENERGY! Why would we believe the Regressive Party of Dinosaurs? Let's stop subsidizing DIRTY ENERGY!
Republicans want you to think Obama's clean-energy initiatives have been a failure, but they're wrong. Here's just one example of their success.
Republicans want you to think Obama's clean-energy initiatives have been a failure, but they're wrong. Here's just one example of their success.
Despite GOP jeers, BrightSource succeeds in solar
Over the last year or so, Republicans have woven a tale of collapse and futility around clean energy. Each setback for the industry, each bankruptcy or refinancing, is met with open glee, plastered all over Fox News for weeks on end. In the first presidential debate, Mitt Romney said to Obama, "you don't just the pick the winners and losers -- you pick the losers."
I can't recall ever seeing a major political party rooting for the failure of a growing American industry like this. Is there any precedent? I guess asymmetrical polarization has brought us to uncharted territory.
It's worth remembering, as Mike Grunwald documents so well in his new book The New New Deal, that Mitt Romney is full of sh*t. Obama's clean-energy programs have been a rousing success, driving a doubling of wind and solar capacity with vanishingly little fraud and fewer failed investments than Congress budgeted for.
It's easy to say that, even to document it, but what clean energy really needs is a money and media infrastructure with as much muscle as the one devoted to destroying it, a network that can circulate success stories and push them into mainstream media with as much frequency and success as the fossil-fuel groups that have Politico by the short hairs.
As an obscure Dirty Blogger, I can't provide that, but I can do my part. So let's take a look at a clean-energy success.
I can't recall ever seeing a major political party rooting for the failure of a growing American industry like this. Is there any precedent? I guess asymmetrical polarization has brought us to uncharted territory.
It's worth remembering, as Mike Grunwald documents so well in his new book The New New Deal, that Mitt Romney is full of sh*t. Obama's clean-energy programs have been a rousing success, driving a doubling of wind and solar capacity with vanishingly little fraud and fewer failed investments than Congress budgeted for.
It's easy to say that, even to document it, but what clean energy really needs is a money and media infrastructure with as much muscle as the one devoted to destroying it, a network that can circulate success stories and push them into mainstream media with as much frequency and success as the fossil-fuel groups that have Politico by the short hairs.
As an obscure Dirty Blogger, I can't provide that, but I can do my part. So let's take a look at a clean-energy success.
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