Sunday, November 16, 2014

Take this, Mother Earth

It only took 10 days after his re-election for Congressman Peter Roskam (IL-6) to poke a stick in Mother Earth's eye. Actually, the stick was a 1,700 mile, 34 inch wide pipeline, and the eye was Mother's fragile substructure containing one of America's most valuable aquifers. The deed was done November 14 when Roskam joined every one of the other 220 voting House Republicans to approve HR 5682, authorizing... the Keystone XL pipeline. If passed it will carry the dirtiest fossil fuel extant across America from Canada to the Gulf Coast. Most Democrats, 161 of 192 (84%) voted responsibly to decline sanctifying further destruction of our one and only home. 
  
You'll never hear Roskam deny global warming; he's too slick for that. But he'll vote with the Drill, Baby Drill crowd every time because fossil fuel development, with its ultimate earthly destruction, is a core Republican principle.

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