No Coal (Or Jobs) for You

2 November 2008 @ 13:08 | Posted in » Politics

Bill Kristol commented on this morning’s Fox News Sunday that it would be ironic if McCain won the election because he took Pennsylvania due to Obama’s derisive remarks.

Kristol was speaking about the comments Obama made in San Francisco during the primaries.

“Our challenge is to get people persuaded that we can make progress when there’s not evidence of that in their daily lives,” he said. “You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are going to regenerate and they have not.

“And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”

Today, what’s getting attention is the following. I do not know from whence this came, but it is alarming no matter when it was said. The gist, Obama will levy such expenses on greenhouse gas production that coal plants will go bankrupt.