President Obama is wise to Republican tactics which
was why he preemptively destroyed their lies and misinformation about
his clean energy plan during his speech.
During his speech announcing his clean power plant plan, President Obama said:
There will be critics of what we’re trying to do. There will be cynics who say it can not be done. Long before the details of this clean energy plan were even decided, the special interests and their allies in Congress were already mobilizing to oppose it with everything they got.
There will be critics of what we’re trying to do. There will be cynics who say it can not be done. Long before the details of this clean energy plan were even decided, the special interests and their allies in Congress were already mobilizing to oppose it with everything they got.
They will claim that this plan will cost you money.
Even though this plan the analysis shows long-term will save the average
American eighty-five dollars a month on their energy bills.
They’ll claim that we need to slash our investments
in clean energy. It’s a waste of money. Even though, they are happy to
spend billions of dollars a year in subsidizing oil companies.
They’ll claim this plan will kill jobs. Even though
our transition to a cleaner energy economy has the solar industry to
just name one example creating jobs ten times faster than the rest of
the economy.
They’ll claim this plan is a war on coal to scare up
votes. Even as they ignore my plan to actually invest in revitalizing
coal country and supporting healthcare and retirement for coal miners
and their families and retraining those workers for better-paying jobs
and healthier jobs.
Communities across America have been losing coal
jobs for decades. I want to work with Congress to help them, not to use
them as a political football.
Partisan press releases aren’t going to help those families.
Even more cynical, we’ve got critics of this plan
who actually claiming that this will harm minority and low-income
communities. Even though climate change hurts those Americans the most,
who are the most vulnerable.
Today an African-American child is more than twice
as likely to be hospitalized from asthma. A Latino child is forty
percent more likely to die from asthma.
So if you care about low-income minority
communities start protecting the air that they breathe and stop trying
to rob them of their healthcare.
President Obama isn’t waiting for Republicans and
their Koch masters to get their attack machine into high gear. The
criticisms that are certain to come to the surface have been floating
around wingnut media for months. The Koch brothers have been using
their vast organizational network to spread misinformation, and wingnut blogs and websites have quickly jumped on board.
The reality is that Republicans are opposed to clean
air and human beings having a healthy environment to live in. Obama was
correct. There is no “war on coal.” Coal jobs have been declining for
decades due in large part to the rise of the natural gas industry.
The tactics that Republicans and their allies are
utilizing should seem familiar because this is the same strategy that
they have used in their attempts to destroy Obamacare. Republicans want
to scare people away from a plan that will help them through a barrage
of lies and misinformation.
President
Obama is ready to beat them at their own game by derailing the
misinformation express before it has a chance to get rolling.
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