Dick Blumenthal: A ‘Green Warrior’ Endangering Your Prosperity
Richard “Dick” Blumenthal is a clear and present danger to America.
Who is Dick Blumenthal? He is the Connecticut attorney general running to fill the seat of the retired Democrat Chris Dodd, who held the seat for three decades. Should he win on November 2, Americans will be at greater risk of higher energy costs and more energy dependence on dangerous foreign sources.
Blumenthal is an ardent believer that our way of life and the way we grow prosperity will destroy the climate of the future. His words and actions prove he is devoted to changing the way we make energy in the United States to save us from ourselves. He believes burning fossil fuels produces carbon dioxide “pollution.” According to Dick, continuing to use coal, oil, natural gas, and others will ramp up catastrophic global warming. He proved the depth of his devotion when he personally represented Connecticut and sued American Electric Power. The following is from his press release:
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal today praised a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit reinstating Connecticut vs. AEP, a lawsuit filed by him and other state attorneys general seeking to compel the nation’s biggest greenhouse gas polluters to reduce harmful emissions.
Blumenthal personally argued the case. Blumenthal said, “This ruling restoring our legal action breathes new life into our fight against greenhouse gas polluters and changes the legal landscape to impose responsibility where it belongs. Our legal fight is against power companies that emit a huge share of our nation’s CO2 contamination, but it will set a precedent for all who threaten our planet with such pernicious pollution. This ruling vindicates our tenacious and tireless battle on behalf of a powerful coalition of states and environmental advocates — a battle that will now have its day in court.
“Our battle is not against the EPA or the federal government — which we have won already — but rather against the polluters themselves under federal nuisance law. Our goal is not money damages, but a change in company practices to stem the pollution and safeguard our environment and economy. This lawsuit is comparable to our fight against Big Tobacco, without the money. In the end, this legal crusade can help save lives and our planet from global warming.”
As you can see, Dick was the lead attorney for this landmark case. He argued that carbon dioxide polluters represent a “public nuisance,” the nuisance being global warming. Therefore the polluters must be stopped. What this lawsuit translates to is this: Anyone, including the vast number of environmental groups, would be able to sue any entity that produces greenhouse gases. That includes all companies that generate electric power by using fossil fuels. The cost of defending themselves would be potentially catastrophic. And this is the goal: to shut them down, permanently.
Too bad Richard “Dick” Blumenthal isn’t running for Senate in West Virginia. I’m sure the people there would be much more “receptive” to his strange ideas about global warming. I’m sure this article will convince more people they should be voting for Linda McMahon on Tuesday. If you live in Connecticut, please do NOT vote for this empty suit of a politician.
Nice piece, Art. Miss seeing you on the screen here in CT. Blumenthal is a jerk for sure. He takes full advantage of the class warfare garbage in bragging about how he destroyed CT’s business climate. The idiot of this state don’t seem to understand that businesses are needed if we are to have jobs.
And if we can regard CO2 as a pollutant, it does make the case for 1. taxing individuals for their emissions, personal or otherwise, and/or 2. intentionally reducing the human population.
Big Government spend & tax lovers are definitely infatuated with Big Green, especially the global warming fear-mongering, which is the gateway to command and control utopia.
The Big Government types in California have embraced this (http://www.c3headlines.com/2010/10/california-dreamin-destroyed-by-big-government-politicians-and-bureaucrats.html) and destroyed the state doing so. Blumenthal is of the same ilk, and he will rain destruction down on the U.S. despite the clear scientific evidence that global warming is not even close to being the threat as portrayed by MSM.
Thanks for the warning. However, if you live in an energy-producing state like Texas, you know the EPA beat this guy to the ‘punch’. Their guns are positioned along our border, with the threat to shut down refineries, electric plants, etc, because they have deemed CO2 a pollutant, starting in January. Since Texas produces 20% of the nations energy, everyone will be affected….Especially since many companies are saying they now plan to shut their US refineries and move them to other shores (where the governments aren’t corrupted by enviro nuts). The EPA is shuttering coal-fired power plants that power much of the east, and not permitting new ones. According to the ex-CEO of Shell John Hofmeister, in his book, “Why We Hate the Oil Companies”, we are now at the tipping point of losing power, because of the long lead time to build new plants. He says within 10 years massive black-outs will be occuring in the east and north-east, along with long lines at gas stations.
It seems to me that voting for anti-CO2 politicians is voting for a return to coal-oil lamps, cast-iron washpots, and horse/bicycle transportation. There are a few old-timers who remember the pre-electricity days, but even they had autos.
Note that, despite growing majorities of Americans recognizing global warming/climate change as a complete hoax, the politicos continue to speak of it as though the science is proven and indisputable. Too many friends to reward with government riches; The Cause must not be abandoned.
It’s hard to argue with those who pretend the argument is over and They won. Especially when They control the purse AND have the ability to legislate, unencumbered by Constitutional considerations.
Anytime I see any company offer “green” products, I discount that company and move on to any company that does NOT offer “green” products.
We recently hosted a couple visiting from Beijing, China. They marveled at the air they could breathe and the blue sky they could see. Neither mentioned CO2. Our air is so clean that its very clean-ness is sometimes cited as a cause of global warming. But the environmentalist wackos cannot bring themselves to get a real job, so they invented CO2-as-a-pollutant, so that their “work” (as well as their frivolous lawsuits) is assured for the foreseeable future.
All we need in Congress is one more environmentalist wacko. Electing Blumenthal seems as logical as California’s re-electing Jerry Brown. Californians may be fools (the sane ones having long ago fled) but let’s hope the citizens of Connecticut are not.
The CT Senate candidate is a menace to your wallet.
I consider Blumenthal a menace to my sanity, given his oft repeated claim to have served in/returned from Vietnam, when he never set foot in the place.
Add that to his rambling, incoherent response on “job creation” during a debate with Linda McMahon, and it should be enough for any Connecticut voter reject this guy.
The CT Senate candidate is a menace to your wallet.
I consider Blumenthal a menace to my sanity, given his oft repeated claim to have served in/returned from Vietnam when he never set foot in the place.
Add that to his rambling, incoherent response on “job creation” during a debate with Linda McMahon, and it should be enough for any Connecticut voter to reject this guy out of hand.
Any position Blumenthal takes on “the environment” should be considered in the same light, brain fog extraordinaire.
Screw the Republicans in Connecticut, most of whom are Rinos, and screw the Tea Partiers in Connecticut, too.
They could have supported and elected former Colonel Robert Simmons, a true war hero and multi-talented, accomplished professional with an impressive history, who would have decimated that prissy fraud, Blumenthal.
But oh no, instead, those jackasses in Connecticut chose McMahon as their candidate, apparently for no other reason than because Tea Partiers favored the fact that she was a woman, a requirement at the top of their list of criteria to be a Sarah Palin Tea Party candidate …, you know, like Christine O’Donnell in Delaware, but not quite as ditzy as that putz is.
In view of his history and his credentials, I continue to be incredulous that Robert Simmons is not the Republican Party’s candidate in Connecticut. The stupidity of Republicans and Tea Partiers in Connecticut is stunning.
We conservatives in CT are as appalled as all Republicans at the travesty of far-left, lying, opportunistic Blumen-turd going to the U.S. Senate. McMahon was our overwhelming choice. For all his personal virtues, Simmons is a Rino, and who needs a me-too candidate? We’re tired of Rinos. Yes, the union dupes here deserve what they sent Dickie to Washington to do, but he isn’t going to call any shots. Now at least this vicious Commie is no longer state attorney general. As for No. 8′s insults, screw you, too. We’ll keep fighting, but I’m thinking of emigrating.
Simmons is a Rhino, huh? For one thing, you’re uninformed and that is not true.
But let’s suppose that it is true. For another thing, it would be a helluvalot better for conservative Republicans in Congress to get support from a Rhino much of the time than to put a liberal Democrat into office who will never vote with Republicans.
Bsides, most of the so-called Republians in Connecticut are wishy-washy, spineless Rhinos themselves, who will only support other useless Rhino wimps like Christopher Shays and themselves.
Hell, for all of her flaws, even Linda McMahon has a bigger pair of balls than any of the prissy so-called “men” in Connecticut do. Those prissy, sleazy and and effeminate wussies, Blumenthal and Shays, are typical of the so-called “men” that one finds all over the state of Connecticut. Robert Simmons is a real man. That’s why the sissies in Connecticut rejected him, and that’s why McMahon lost, also. It’s called penis envy.
BTW, I’m very familiar with Connecticut. Its residents are only slightly less shallow, slightly less dense, slightly less clueless, slightly less informed on the issues and slightly less ditzy than the residents of Vermont are.