"Environmentalists face tough task in climate debate; Despite oil spill, record warming, message is lost" by David A. Fahrenthold, Washington Post | September 5, 2010
WASHINGTON — A year ago, these groups seemed to be at the peak of their influence, needing only the Senate’s approval for a landmark climate-change bill. But they lost that fight, done in by the sluggish economy and opposition from business and fossil-fuel interests.
Now the groups are wondering how they can keep this loss from becoming a rout as their opponents press their advantage and try to undo the Obama administration’s climate efforts. At two events last month in Wisconsin, environmental groups seemed to be trying two strategies: defiance and pleading for sympathy.
Wow, what a dilemma.
Neither one drew enough people to fill a high school gym....
For the green movement, this year’s defeat was more than a loss; it was a reckoning, a signal that it had overestimated its influence.
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Even in the hottest year on record, even with a historic oil spill polluting the Gulf of Mexico, even with a Democratic Congress and a friendly White House, it couldn’t win the fight it had picked....
The MSM does NOT HELP with that HOTTEST YEAR on RECORD LIE!
They THINK WE HAVE FORGOTTEN the BRUTALLY-COLD RECORD WINTER and they NEVER SAY a WORD about the Southern Hemisphere's record cold this year!
Looking back, some environmentalists say their problem was timing; once the economy perks up, their logic goes, prospects will improve.
Yeah, the WEATHER did NOT COOPERATE!
And look at them TIE in the ECONOMY!
Others blame implacable Republican opposition (though a number of conservative and coal-state Democrats also balked), or a president who they say didn’t push hard enough and focused first on issues such as health care and financial regulation.
Yeah, I personally get sick of the BLAME REPUBLICANS for EVERYTHING when DEMOCRATS have held the POWER!
The White House blames them back, for not winning any Senate Republicans over to support the climate bill.
Ha-ha-ha-ha!
Eat yourselves!
But some activists from smaller groups say the problem is within environmentalism itself.
And its lying.
To them, the Senate defeat showed that green groups don’t have enough of Washington’s two currencies of power: money and angry voters. To them, it’s significant that no senator seems in danger of being voted out of office this November for denying the environmentalists the climate bill they wanted.
That's because the American people recognize them for the frauds they are!
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