Quote:House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is renewing President Barack Obama's so-called “war on coal” by backing a radical initiative to shut down more than a third of U.S. coal plants by 2020 -- a line of attack that spectacularly backfired for Hillary Clinton in 2016.

“Under President Obama, we went on to pass the Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security Act in the House. But we were stopped in the Senate by the coal industry,” Pelosi said in remarks Thursday to the Global Climate Action Summit in California, according to a video obtained by the NTK Network -- an outlet backed by the right-wing America Rising PAC.

“For this and other reasons, I’m so grateful to [Former New York City Mayor] Michael Bloomberg’s ‘Beyond Coal’ initiative working with the Sierra Club. It is so essential.”

The "Beyond Coal" website describes coal as “an outdated, backward, and dirty 19th-century technology.”

“The Beyond Coal campaign’s main objective is to replace dirty coal with clean energy by mobilizing grassroots activists in local communities to advocate for the retirement of old and outdated coal plants and to prevent new coal plants from being built,” the website says.

It advocates retiring a third of the nation’s coal plants by 2020, replacing most retired coal plants with “clean energy solutions such as wind, solar, and geothermal” and “keeping coal in the ground in places like Appalachia and Wyoming’s Powder River Basin.”

It’s the latest in a series of such statements for Pelosi, who hailed her own efforts to kill off coal initiatives last month.

“We had to fight some Democrats. Senator Byrd had a coal powered plant fueling the Capitol, you know I was speaker and that’s gonna go,” she said. With all due respect to West Virginia, we’re not gonna have a coal power plant floating around.”

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With all due respect to West Virginia? With all due respect to her, which is none, she probably can't find West Virginia on a map.

The Democrats war on Appalachia.

West Virginia was one of the most reliably Democratic states in the nation just 20 years ago.

Reagan in 84, Nixon in 72 and Eisenhower in 56 in their historical landslides were the only Republicans to win in West Virginia until W. in 2000 since the Great Depression. Goldwater only got 32%. Bill Clinton won by 13 and 15 points in 92 and 96.

Democratic vote %
2016 26.5
2012 35.6
2008 42.6
2004 43.2
2000 45.6
1996 51.5

Not to side with that b!tch in any way. But we really do need to move on from coal.

(09-14-2018 03:45 PM)hawghiggs Wrote:  Not to side with that b!tch in any way. But we really do need to move on from coal.

Why?

(09-14-2018 03:26 PM)banker Wrote:  With all due respect to West Virginia? With all due respect to her, which is none, she probably can't find West Virginia on a map.

And this folks is why we are a representative republic with an electoral college system

(09-14-2018 03:45 PM)hawghiggs Wrote:  Not to side with that b!tch in any way. But we really do need to move on from coal.

Fine. do it tomorrow.

To what?

You know those Democrats and their war on horse buggy whips. Don’t they care about horse buggy whip makers?

(09-14-2018 04:04 PM)JMUDunk Wrote:  

(09-14-2018 03:45 PM)hawghiggs Wrote:  Not to side with that b!tch in any way. But we really do need to move on from coal.

Fine. do it tomorrow.

To what?

Export all the coal you can to China. Let the Chinese Fup their lungs

(09-14-2018 04:25 PM)WoodlandsOwl Wrote:  

(09-14-2018 04:04 PM)JMUDunk Wrote:  

(09-14-2018 03:45 PM)hawghiggs Wrote:  Not to side with that b!tch in any way. But we really do need to move on from coal.

Fine. do it tomorrow.

To what?

Export all the coal you can to China. Let the Chinese Fup their lungs

What about states like Washington that are blocking the export of coal to meet their beliefs? http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/09/11/was...minal.html

If Manchin wants to keep his job, he better vote for Kavanaugh.

(09-14-2018 04:25 PM)WoodlandsOwl Wrote:  

(09-14-2018 04:04 PM)JMUDunk Wrote:  

(09-14-2018 03:45 PM)hawghiggs Wrote:  Not to side with that b!tch in any way. But we really do need to move on from coal.

Fine. do it tomorrow.

To what?

Export all the coal you can to China. Let the Chinese Fup their lungs

No they are refusing to allow them to export it. See article on Washington stopping a proposed coal export facility.

I imagine all that stuff in California's technology is pretty toxic if it gets in a landfill. Maybe we should shut down Silicon Valley.

Smartest poster on here. Let’s shut down Silicon Valley and bring back Coal! MAGA

(09-14-2018 07:54 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(09-14-2018 04:25 PM)WoodlandsOwl Wrote:  

(09-14-2018 04:04 PM)JMUDunk Wrote:  

(09-14-2018 03:45 PM)hawghiggs Wrote:  Not to side with that b!tch in any way. But we really do need to move on from coal.

Fine. do it tomorrow.

To what?

Export all the coal you can to China. Let the Chinese Fup their lungs

No they are refusing to allow them to export it. See article on Washington stopping a proposed coal export facility.

Railcar to the Port of Houston and onto a ship though the Canal.

(09-14-2018 09:04 PM)Machiavelli Wrote:  Smartest poster on here. Let’s shut down Silicon Valley and bring back Coal! MAGA

Satire seems lost on the left. Must be a genetic thing. Lose the humor gene and become a progressive.

Satire seems to be lost on the right.........


I satired your satire....

Take that.....

Guys my son’s football team played a team two divisions up tonight and the lost by 60. I need to start drinking. Feel bad for my boy. He got the **** kicked out of him. His teammates were quitting left and right but he stayed out there. It was brutal. Damn it I’m pissed.

(09-14-2018 09:24 PM)Machiavelli Wrote:  Guys my son’s football team played a team two divisions up tonight and the lost by 60. I need to start drinking. Feel bad for my boy. He got the **** kicked out of him. His teammates were quitting left and right but he stayed out there. It was brutal. Damn it I’m pissed.

I hope your son clotheslined the opposing teams running back. If they want to run up the score make someone pay.