Liberal MoveOn.org Fumes: Members Wonder ‘How They Can Ever Work For’ Obama’s Re-Election
- Posted on September 2, 2011 at 3:32pm by
Madeleine Morgenstern
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Liberal advocacy group MoveOn.org is furious with Friday’s announcement that President Barack Obama backed down on air regulations, overruling the Environmental Protection Association, and is wondering how its members will be able to work for his re-election.
Republicans had criticized the proposed EPA plan to tighten smog rules, saying it would be an obstacle to business growth. The administration’s announcement came several hours after a new report revealed no net jobs were created in August.
In a statement, MoveOn.org Executive Director Justin Ruben said the president “caved to big polluters” and his decision is one “we’d expect from George W. Bush”:
According to the EPA, the clean air standards the President blocked would have saved up to 12,000 children, elderly folks, and others each year. That means thousands are likely to die because the President caved to big polluters. Many MoveOn members are wondering how they can ever work for President Obama’s re-election, or make the case for him to their neighbors, when he does something like this, after extending the Bush tax cuts for the rich, and giving in to Tea Party demands on the debt deal. This is a decision we’d expect from George W. Bush, not from a Democratic President elected to protect the environment and the health of our children.
MoveOn.org, you’ll recall, was behind the “General Petraeus — General Betray Us” ad campaign, among other exploits, and recently teamed up with Van Jones to start the “Rebuild the American Dream” movement.
The smog announcement was the White House’s second major blow to environmental activists in just one week. Last Friday, the administration removed a major roadblock for the proposed 1,700-mile Keystone XL pipeline from Canada to the U.S.
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Comments (194)
therapist
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 3:52pmPay no attention to the man behind the curtain. Hillery is coming to sicken all of us with her face in ads for her campaign. It is not about keeping Barry in office, it’s about destroying the capitalist system and the western way of life.
Report Post »MODEL82A1
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 3:58pmThere is exactly ZERO chance of Obama being challenged (by anyone) in a Primary.
Report Post »MODEL82A1
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 4:00pmHey MATT, Pay for advertising, like every other honest businessman. If you’re honest, that is.
Report Post »PATTY HENRY
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 4:03pmWhere do these LIBERAL socialist Marxists get their numbers? 12,000 Men/Women/Children/Elderly(wonder what they are?) killed by the air polution?
The problem I’ve found with so many Liberals is their mis use of facts. They hear a tiny bit of one report and being hysterical, as most of them are, they fly off the handle. They want a trouble-free existence, no opportunity to build character, to learn to stand on their own… and IF they don’t have facts to back up their points…they make them up.
Where would 12,000 people die from air pollution caused by this? I saw an interview a couple of weeks ago in which some rep of the EPA was asked this type of question and it was clear that she was lying thru her teeth. The greatest disservice to our Country has been these childish liberals making up their insane facts and then BELIEVING them!
Report Post »turkey13
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 4:05pmHillery has to much baggage! Are you forgetting – Whitewater – Vince —killed himself – Travelgate- Masterbate and some that I can’t remember there names.
Report Post »NeoFan
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 4:13pmThese ******** actually think that if we shutdown all power plants, farms, factories, businesses, and anything that uses fuel that somehow the rest of the world will follow suit and end life for their citizens as well. These people are mentally ill. There is no logic or truth in anything that they are saying.
Report Post »fatjack
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 4:16pmPATTY HENRY
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 4:03pm
Where do these LIBERAL socialist Marxists get their numbers? 12,000 Men/Women/Children/Elderly(wonder what they are?) killed by the air polution?
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Off the tip of their lying tongues.
Viet Vet
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 4:36pmThey get their “facts” from junk scientists, hollyweird “experts” and leftist goofballs like AlGork.
Ronald Reagan had it right: “Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn’t true.”
Report Post »Viet Vet
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 4:36pmAll this is anyway is a campaign move.
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 4:37pmThere are no “Big polluters” anymore. We have chased most of our industries away. Even though they had not really been polluting that much for a long time now.
The country is going broke, no one can find a job, but take a deep breath, that’s the smell of what used to be the greatest country on earth, decaying.
Inhale deeply and enjoy, but don’t exhale, unless you can blow it down a hole and freeze it.
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 5:19pmCapitalism provides for individuals the satisfaction of their wants according to the extent of their contribution to the satisfaction of the wants of others.
Functions are not whole people; ie “worker”, “capitalist”, “landowner”, and “producer” are single facets of a whole person. Every person is also a consumer, and because production is subordinated to consumption, how a person fares as a consumer is of primary importance to the producer. The consumer rewards the producer according to the producer’s contribution to consumer satisfaction. Capitalism therefore encourages individuals to, in their own interest, constantly adjust their choices of roles and actions so as to constantly increase their contribution to the satisfaction of human wants.
The relative importance of some consumers’ wants are greater than that of others in this process. The relative importance of any given consumer’s wants is a function of how much he contributed to satisfying the wants of other consumers in his role as a producer. Under Capitalism human choices, through their interplay, coordinate each other so as to provide for human welfare as beautifully as possible.
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 5:19pmEvery State intervention into the market nexus – every tax, regulation, redistribution or expansion of bureaucracy – only slackens the ties linking contribution and income, thereby hampering the instrumentality of the market by making producers less responsive to consumers, thus leading to reduced consumer satisfaction. Because everyone is a consumer first, and a producer second, reduced consumer satisfaction means reduced public welfare.
Report Post »chfields62
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 5:20pmThey say they can’t support him, but when push comes to shove they’ll fold and fall in line like the good little lemmings that they are…..
Report Post »OneTermPresident
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 5:37pmMODEL82A1… Really? Jimmy Carters one term presidency is akin to Obama’s and he was challenged by John Kerry in 1980 the year Reagan won
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 5:38pmGreat posts JAYCEN
The 2nd one, especially belongs in the archives.
With your permission, I would like to quote you on that one from time to time.
Report Post »PoliticalJunkieToo
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 5:43pmI bet she took that Secretary of State job to gain foreign affair experience.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 5:51pmThe people that died from air pollution here in the states were problem not healthy from smoking 75 years of their life!!
Report Post »INOGAWD
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 6:02pmHillary is the only chance the Libos have..Bama is going
Report Post »down in flames..Adios Amigo, Luv Louis Gooterez..Ha,Ha,Ha !!
sbish
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 6:21pmI am always amused when I hear how there is a huge divide in the GOP when 2/3 of Democrats want to turn the US into a socialist utopia and the other 1/3 want to turn it into communist dictatorship where 50 people in DC decide what kind of materials every available product is made of and how many calories your children should consume on a daily basis.
Report Post »kindling
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 6:29pmWhat a shift. I, for the first time, am in agreement with a decision Obama has made,(though I am wondering if it has something nasty attached) and I see I am right because MOVEON is upset. Like everything else if it makes them mad I must look into it to see if I should celebrate. If they are happy I must prepare to loose something.
Report Post »ALL4FREEDOM
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 9:04pmLet’s try to get Donald Trump to run as a Democrat and force Obummer to run a primary campaign. What a show that would be! I’d want to be at the debate to sell popcorn. Better, I’d want to be there to hear Trump yell, “You’re fired!” when he won.
Report Post »BrianBDB
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 9:42pmI’m with MODEL82A1
Report Post »thefnshow
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 9:59pmall it’s going to take is for someone to jump in first…i’m thinking kucinich (?)…he doesn’t have a job anymore thanks to the census so why not…once someone else is in ,then hillary will jump in
Report Post »Tim Law
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 11:12pmThe EPA is the worst of the Eco-terrorist we have in this nation. They have driven more jobs out of our country than all the rest of them together. Their lie‘s and smoke screens have ruined more live’s then you can count. That bloated Gov. giant needs to be cut down to size and ran by elected people so we can fire them if they don’t base all regulations on facts.
Report Post »Jackers
Posted on September 3, 2011 at 8:51amWatermelon Marxists = Green on the outside and red on the inside… Looks like their Progressive “agenda” is starting to crumble…
Report Post »Secret Squirrel
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 9:55am.
Report Post »Maybe it’s time they “Move-on”
I.Gaspar
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 3:51pmlet them set up shop in venezuela
Report Post »INOGAWD
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 6:18pmAll the pollution is coming from the CBC and OBMSNBC….
Report Post »ie:Waters and crew….MSN’s Pig Ed, O’donel and Tingels..
Remove this swill, and we could save thousands…….
blue_sky
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 6:38pmWho are PIX II station? Are they Spanish?
I am surprised they deliver some awesome staff debunking that Ron Paul “cannot win” hoax.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAPL-nSazqM
Report Post »SHOESHINEBOY
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 3:51pmHey..Move On…Putin, Castro, Chavez, and Xi Jinping of China say it is time for you Comrade’s to come home…since those places are the government you so love, and they so protect the enviorment, and children as you so worship……
Report Post »MODEL82A1
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 3:50pmLuckily for Us, the next election won’t be decided by the “guesses” of imbeciles.
Report Post »Knot28
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 3:47pmIt is still Bushs’ fault??? Good for Obama in this case! I would like to see the study that came up with 12,000 deaths. Usually there is a link to legit studies (or a footnote if they don’t have computers).
Report Post »Jenny Lind
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 4:35pmThey somehow think we are getting out of this world alive.
Report Post »RabidPatriot
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 3:47pmAmerica will not elect anyone farther to the left of Obama. Most people didn’t know how far left he was when they voted for him. Who else is MoveOn.org going to support? It truly is an empty threat.
Report Post »Vechorik
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 3:51pmMoveOn.org will do just as Republicans do — VOTE FOR THE PUPPET THE PARTY NOMINATES and hope for the best.
Report Post »MODEL82A1
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 4:04pmGee, VECH, if only the nomination process was done by the voting public…….
Report Post »nptden
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 3:47pmIt’s all posturing. We already know they have Hillary in the wings for the next election. The Commie Crats working for Obama have already put the control govt by regulation in the works. Time to throw all these liberals out of govt. Time to end all social programs and freebies. No to illegals. No to the Dept of Education. Time to eliminate these Depts of Govt that are killing us. Had if Maxine wants, she can bring her knife to a gunfight.
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 3:46pmThey will still vote for the dictator. This is all another CON. Does ANYONE think these regulations will NOT become LAW if BO, by chance, wins again? He has initiated so many rules and regs that are already killing jobs, what’s ONE token pass? This and a HE** of a lot more. Imagine the DAMAGE BO could do if he didn’t have to worry about campaigning for a future term? Just do anything he wants and who cares? Lord help us if we do not STOP him and the SPUSA!!
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 3:50pmexactly
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paulusmaximus
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 3:46pmThey will be there with bells on their toes. This is just as much smoke as the Idea that there won’t be a back door action that is worse that the present regulations. Watch the other hand!!
Report Post »drphil69
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 3:45pmFunny, he’s trying to save his Presidency, and ******* off his base!
Prediction: Dems stay home in droves November 2012!
Report Post »AMERICA4EVER
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 3:45pmI love anything that upsets these tree huggers.
Report Post »OllieK
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 3:44pmLooks like MoveOn is moving on. Don’t you love the way these libs get all worked up over ridiculous, over-the-top regulations just because they are anti-capitalist? To borrow a phrase from Maxine Waters, the MoveOn folks can go straight to hell.
Report Post »thegreatcarnac
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 3:44pmTo MOVEON…obama is not communist enough. Eff them and Eff him.
Report Post »Servant Of YHVH
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 3:48pmI agree!
Of course moveon’s decision is one “we’d expect from anti-American Communist traitors”.
Report Post »Viet Vet
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 4:42pm@Servant Of YHVH
Regarding Moveon.ugh….it’s worse than that, you can’t be sane and think like this. There is a short-circuit in the brain that causes liberalism.
Report Post »UlyssesP
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 3:43pmDon‘t let anyone say Obama didn’t do anything right, “Obama backed down on air regulations, overruling the Environmental Protection Association, ….extending the Bush tax cuts for the rich, and giving in to Tea Party demands on the debt deal” Soon I might even add the pipeline to that list just to be magnanimous.
Report Post »Next time someone tells me I have nothing good to say about the man, I can list these.
Bin Ladin doesn’t count. He watched that on TV.
Viet Vet
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 4:48pmYou have to laugh, Obummer wanted to extend the Bush tax cuts not because not doing so would hurt rich people, but that it would hurt middle class people. Of course the drive-by-media had his back on this admission.
Report Post »yenko13
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 3:43pmIt shall be done
Report Post »rienheart
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 3:42pmSmoke and mirrors. It will be passed when and if Obama is reelected. If there is an election.
Report Post »lastgoodnametaken
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 3:41pmWhoa. Alienating Moveon.org as well? Almost makes one feel sorry for the Teleprompter in Chief. I said ALMOST!
Report Post »Profx72
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 3:40pmOh, No! However will Obama survive without MoveOn.org? Oh, wait….he still has SEIU….Single Issue Liberals like that are just “Useful Idiots.” They’ll fold and join back in tomorrow. After all, what is their alternative?
Report Post »http://www.maverickvoice.com
GO
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 3:39pmPoor Michael Moore. He may have to take bath now and look clean for George Soros or he will lose his funding!
Report Post »MiCurmudgeon
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 3:39pmA very, very ,very small step in the right direction.
Report Post »UlyssesP
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 3:39pmHey now, some good news for a change!
Report Post »ProbIemSoIver
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 3:46pmAnother victory, for the American Tea Party Patriots vs. the Socialist / Globalist Elite.
Report Post »Banana Republic Capitalist
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 4:37pmTotally right — this is great news. All of these progressive groups (MoveOn, MediaMatters, etc.) along with their mainstream cohorts (MSNBC, CNN) won‘t make it past the ’12 elections because of implosions like this one.
Report Post »AlansTigg
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 3:38pmthe clean air standards the President blocked would have saved up to 12,000 children, elderly folks, and others each year.
I”d like to have their math checked please
Report Post »MiCurmudgeon
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 3:40pmVooDoo Math. Or maybe DooDoo Math.
Report Post »Vechorik
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 3:48pmMoveOn.org concerned about 12,000 lives saved from pollution? What about abortion? Oh — I forgot. Abortion is okay for the new world order.
Report Post »Bottom line is — it’s NOT ABOUT LIVES — it’s about cap and trade and the green agenda of one world government.
13th Imam
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 3:48pm12,000 jobs would have been lost causing 45,000 children, to have a parent that lost a job. They would then go on unemployment and apply for food stamps.
Report Post »8jrts
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 3:55pmI’m sure they pulled that number out of their rear ends…just like jobs “saved” by stimulus…can’t prove any of it.
Report Post »Vechorik
Posted on September 3, 2011 at 8:32amSpeaking of jobs saved by the stimulus — did you see Freedom Watch on Fox last night? Seems only about 1/2 the jobs created are real. The other 1/2 were people WHO LEFT A JOB to take a stimulus job and really shouldn’t be counted.
Report Post »JRook
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 3:38pmNo surprise. If the President and Congress actually showed leadership and took the necessary actions to provide true liberty and opportunity for all citizens the Zealots on both sides would be upset.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 3:54pmFor TWO yes 2 solid years the DEMOCRATS showed their leadership qualities. They used shovel ready jobs to shovel billions in cash into Dickie Trumpka’s back pocket, Dickie can then switch the money to his other pocket and fund the “Screw America 4 More Years” bus tour.
Report Post »Liberty and opportunity are only for the True Socialist
JRook
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 4:07pmAlways wondered who was in the angry mob Palin, Bachmann, Coulter, etc. were making money off of…….
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 4:20pmPelousy, Hillary, and the DEMOCRAT darling Helen Thomas
Vini, vidi, vomui
Report Post »MODEL82A1
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 3:38pmCry me a river, you ignorant traitors!
Report Post »elosogrande
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 3:37pmHow can they work for Obama’s re-election? What a stupid question.
They can’t if they are truly patriotic Americans.
They can, if they’re free-loading, something for nothing Socialists and/or Communists who hate this country.
All right then – next question.
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