Koch Brother's Worst Nightmare: The Green Tea Party

[greenman3610]

http://climatecrocks.com/2013/08/12/the-koch-brothers-worst-nightmare-a-green-tea-coalition/

Above, Chris Hayes interviews a pro-solar Tea Party activist. The solar energy initiative they are talking about (this was broadcast last month) was successful.

“We believe this giant utility monopoly deserves some competition, and consumers deserve a choice. It’s just that simple.”
Holy crap. A conservative that really believes in conservatism. That could blow the whole scam…

Truthout:

“The Tea Party has formed an unholy alliance with the left,” Debbie Dooley recalls a panicked member of Georgia’s big energy lobby lamenting.

Dooley, a co-founder of the Atlanta Tea Party Patriots, doesn’t deny the charges. In fact, she is set this Tuesday to celebrate the official launch of the Green Tea Coalition – the same “unholy alliance” of right and left grassroots that has big oil interests reeling.

“It’s an unholy alliance because they see it as a threat to them,” Dooley said, speaking ahead of the launch. “In the past, the elites on both the right and the left got away with it. On the right, they’d say, ‘This person’s on the left. Stay away from them,’ On the left, they’d say, ‘They’re radical, they’re the Tea Party. Stay away from them.’

“But we got through all that bull, got to know each other, and started working together,” she said.

[Wednesdays]

1. Or, "How many voters on the left can we peel off with this charade?"

Koch Brothers, indeed.

[Pharaoh]

2. Woo hoo!

There is hope! There are actual people in the tea party who think about stuff..........

[napoleon_in_rags]

3. Yeah, I could see it. Tea Party folks do think about dependency and control.

They worry about it with the government, but the critical minds will see it in all things, and consider the benefits of self sustaining energy they can control, that doesn't depend on a global order and foreign energy imports. That means standing against the forces that suppress community energy independence, and embracing things like solar. (in areas with a lot of sun)

[another_liberal]

4. It was bound to happen.

Most Americans will not continue to work against their own best interests indefinitely, no matter how much Right Wing propaganda they are fed.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

5. I feel about this

the same way about the ACA. When people discover the service and value, word will spread quickly throughout all the states.

http://www.ajc.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/georgia-utility-regulators-back-unprecedented-sola/nYnBk/

[lumberjack_jeff]

6. It has to be hard to maintain a populist party which works against the population. n/t

[limpyhobbler]

7. Didn't see that one coming.

Thanks greenman3610

[summer-hazz]

8. Good information

to have... Thanks for posting.

[KansDem]

9. Sorry, KochBros, you're going to have to start working for living...

...like the rest of us.

And, you're going to have to start paying your taxes...

...like the rest of us.

[drynberg]

10. SO, DEBBIE, YOU SAY YOU CARE ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT AND THEN WITHIN A MINUTE...

You say that Tea Party Members are for COAL & NUCLEAR (remember Fukishami, 2011?) I'm sorry but that's not matching up statements at all...what I mean is this is not credible...for a second I thought progressives had an environmental ally with the Tea Party. Oh well, it's only the Environment, not like it was important like the Dow-Jones. (Sarcasm)