Obama Calls Out 'Climate Change Deniers In Congress'

[kpete]

Source: Talking Points Memo

At a fundraiser in San Francisco Wednesday evening, President Obama took direct, and unusually blunt, aim at a faction in the U.S. Congress that played a major role in upending his plan to pass sweeping clean energy and climate change legislation.

"There are climate change deniers in Congress and when the economy gets tough, sometimes environmental issues drop from people's radar screens," Obama told about 200 guests at the Pacific Heights residence of internet billionaire Marc Benioff, according to an official transcript. "But I don't think there's any doubt that unless we are able to move forward in a serious way on clean energy that we're putting our children and our grandchildren at risk. So that's not yet done."



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[Deep13]

1. Go get um, Mr. President.

He's on a roll.

[bahrbearian]

2. So is Nuclear energy clean?

[Lorien]

3. Funny, climate change has been a non-issue for Obama since the election

no serious action has been taken to curb greenhouse gasses in the US, and where are those huge green energy projects he once promised? (Oh yeah, maybe he was talking about "clean coal").

[Kolesar]

7. EPA passed auto fuel efficiency standards

Congress passed cap and trade but it got filibustered.

What do you expect? A fking miracle?

[SpiralHawk]

4. Why do republicons hate our children and grandchildren?

What is with the republicons and their hate-and-destroy thingy, anyway?

Don't Republicons have any freaking ideas whatsoever for positive solutions? Apparently not.

[pangaia]

5. Wimp

What a wimpy statement. When is Obama going to actually SAY SOMETHING with real balls!!!
Roosevelt did it.. ooppss. forgot Obama is a ---who knows what...

[colsohlibgal]

6. Where Has This Obama Been?

This is retro Obama, he went away once he took office, will he vanish again once safely re-elected? So color me cautiously hopeful but extremely skeptical.

[Kolesar]

8. Where have you been?

You are ignorant on the issue. I doubt that you do any activism.

[Shadowflash]

9. He's great

at speechafyin' but I'll wait to see how all these pretty speeches translate to actions.