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UCmeNdc

(9,600 posts)
Fri Mar 20, 2015, 10:05 AM Mar 2015

The War Has Started.........

Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky has begun an aggressive campaign to block President Obama’s climate change agenda in statehouses and courtrooms across the country, arenas far beyond Mr. McConnell’s official reach and authority.

The campaign of Mr. McConnell, the Senate majority leader, is aimed at stopping a set of Environmental Protection Agency regulations requiring states to reduce carbon pollution from coal-fired power plants, the nation’s largest source of greenhouse gas emissions.

Once enacted, the rules could shutter hundreds of coal-fired plants in what Mr. Obama has promoted as a transformation of the nation’s energy economy away from fossil fuels and toward sources like wind and solar power. Mr. McConnell, whose home state is one of the nation’s largest coal producers, has vowed to fight the rules.


The war against the Democratic Party has began............


http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/20/us/politics/mitch-mcconnell-urges-states-to-help-thwart-obamas-war-on-coal.html

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The War Has Started......... (Original Post) UCmeNdc Mar 2015 OP
We Will Kick The Republicans Asses & Elect A Democrat To The White House in 2016! Corey_Baker08 Mar 2015 #1
That could very well be. HappyMe Mar 2015 #2
Where've you been? Wounded Bear Mar 2015 #3
"Has begun"? Where have you been? Hekate Mar 2015 #4

Corey_Baker08

(2,157 posts)
1. We Will Kick The Republicans Asses & Elect A Democrat To The White House in 2016!
Fri Mar 20, 2015, 12:42 PM
Mar 2015

In the words of John Kerry, 'Bring It On'

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