Arianna appeared on MSNBC's "Countdown" Friday night to discuss the abandoning of a comprehensive climate and energy bill by Senate Democrats.
Guest host Lawrence O'Donnell said he's seen similar moves in the Senate, and challenged Arianna to explain, "What's wrong with giving up when you don't have the votes."
"But Lawrence, you know perfectly well, as a student of history, you never have the votes for anything major," Arianna replied. "That's what Lyndon Johnson told Martin Luther King in March 1965 when they met about the Voting Rights Act, and Martin Luther King went out and the Selma March happened, and suddenly a few months later when had the votes."
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Reminds me of Bush/Cheney/Rove's "Healthy Forests Act" which involved allowing cutting down all the trees in many old growth forests, sometimes against federal law, across the America EXCEPT around the edges of the forests where the roads were so that, when people drive by, it looks like a thick forest. At one point, one of those losers is said to have wisecracked that it was called the healthy forests act because if you cut them all down, there won't be any forest fires--so they're protecting trees from fire by destroying the forest.
I am sold on getting of the oil addiction, I am sold on clean energy, I am sold on treating our planet right, but I AM NOT for another PONZI SCHEME called the carbon exchange, we already have WALL street thanks just the same. Let's find a way to do it that doesn't hit the homeowner or the renter, which the exchange does do. I'm all for making any one who owns stock in an oil or dirty energy company pay a " sin" tax on their holdings, say 25% of the stock value, how about this?
I'm sure nobody who's a regular Joe, who is sick and tired of the oil addiction, and is doing what they can to do their part would want to or should be required to carry the burden for anyone else, don't you agree? That would be so unfair, to treat responsiablely living, green minded folks this way, am I not right?
Thanks Barron, I am not a climatologist, and real don't understand the nuts and bolts of it so I appreciate yours and nrafters comments. I just droped 50k into debt bringing my place up to top of the line ecologically efficient, 98% eff heater, no ac, appliances and remodel, did 75% of the work myself, so if some Jack wagon knocks on my door trying to make me pay more, I'm likely to cold cork them, know what I mean? But if it means I run an electric car, fine I'm converting my truck to electric any way, but I'm not going to pay the other guys bill so he can get where I am, it's his sh/ t he can pay just like I have, other than that I'll do my part, already have, and am continuing too.
I'm still set on taxing the crud out of those who encourage oil/ coal by buying there stock, they've stuck it to us and now it's their turn. After all we talk a good game about going after the " fat cat", it's put up or shut up time as far as I'm concerned!
Oh, saw on the London news wire, the Brits are thinking about turning there health care back over to the medical professionals to run, it's still gvt. Paid but not run by gvt if it passes, go figure?
Heck, a 100 x 100 mile solar panel farm in the middle of some Arizona and New Mexico desert would give USA all the energy it needs.
And I bet alternative energy is already cheaper. Take away all the tax payer handouts oil companies get and you'll see the true price of oil. Tell Pentagon to stop paying for protecting oil shipping lines. Tell oil companies to pay us back for the Gulf War (which was about protecting oil supply from Kuwait). And tell big oil to pay some taxes. Do that and all of a sudden you will see what the price of dirty fuel really is.
You post is so intuitive, albeit if you want to see GasLand you just have to look behind me. Poor Fred--Don't you just wet yourself every time hear the word 'exemption'? Let us know where your jugs will be and we'll fill them daily.
May God Bless