Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Mashable’s description of Senator Sheldon’s climate speeches to empty rooms, where even Democrats can’t be bothered to turn up. Senator Whitehouse blames dark money.
Meet the U.S. senator obsessed with climate change
Every week the Senate has been in session since April 2012, one lonely Democratic senator from Rhode Island, Sheldon Whitehouse, has taken to the Senate floor to speak about global warming. On March 13, Senator Whitehouse gave his 200th “It’s Time to Wake Up” speech on climate change.
The speech was atypical for Whitehouse, who has grown accustomed to the unsettling feeling of standing virtually alone on the Senate floor while speaking about a topic that he believes is of the utmost importance.
“It’s a very hollow feeling. If you believe that this is a matter of such consequence and that it’s going to hit your home state so hard that you are going to put in this kind of an effort, then to have it be in an empty chamber, it’s a little disconcerting,” he said in an interview, regarding most of his climate speeches.
This time, though, to mark the anniversary, 19 of his Democratic colleagues joined him to discuss the issue.
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Whitehouse says he’s learned a lot about the science preparing for these speeches, and also has come to investigate why the politics of this issue are so intractable. This has turned his gaze squarely on the Supreme Court’s 2010 decision in Citizens United v. FEC, which allowed for unlimited corporate money and so-called “dark money” to flow into politics.
“Climate failure and dark money are two sides of the same coin,” Whitehouse said. Dark money is flowing to groups that promote the view that climate change is not real, and also punish Republicans that contemplate acting to reduce the severity of the problem.
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He said he has “very intentionally wanted to be the witness on the ground” to tell future generations exactly why Congress has not acted. In his view, it’s not because of partisanship or the failure of the Democratic system, but rather special interest money flowing unfettered into campaigns, squelching any potential bipartsian compromises on climate legislation.
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Read more: https://mashable.com/2018/03/17/sheldon-whitehouse-200-climate-change-speeches/
Its nice that Senator Whitehouse’s colleagues turned out for his 200th anniversary. But endless speeches to empty rooms highlights the scale of Whitehouse’s lost opportunity.
Imagine the good Senator Whitehouse could have done, focussing his obsessive nature on addressing a real issue. He could have been a great reformer, someone who made a real difference to the lives or ordinary Americans. Instead he will be remembered by history the way we remember other half forgotten political failures, as an irrelevant footnote, a blowhard who exemplified the incomprehensible historical delusions of great grandpa’s time.
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Senator Whitehouse is a sad and delusional clown.
When (not if) the CAGW sc@m is officially disconfirmed, political hacks like Whitehouse, the DNC, Obama, Algore, et al, will try to deny any culpability in the biggest and most expensive sc@m in human history, which has: cost millions of lives, $trillions of wasted taxpayer money, severely lowered living standards, severely inhibited economic and technological advancement and generally made people’s lives miserable for no reason whatsoever.
CAGW has always been a political phenomenon, and never a physical one. Period!
The scientists and politicians that perpetuated and enabled this CAGW sc@m to flourish must be held accountable for all the harm they’ve committed— “All that is required for evil to flourish is for good men to say nothing.”
Humanity must not give these evil CAGW advocates a pass. They must be prosecuted for their: lies, data manipulation, obfuscation, corruption of justice, intensional bogus science, bogus pal-reviewed papers, destruction of evidence, malfeasance of public funds, purgery, slander, etc.,
If these CAGW scoundrels get away with their crimes, similar sc@ms are soon to follow.
“If we fail to learn the lessons of history, we are doomed to repeat them.”
And there are all those windmills that will need to be decommissioned and safely removed. I grew up in So. Calif. and as a boy the oil fields in the Huntington Beach/Long Beach area were quite an eyesore. They also had an aroma that was very distinctive. The same visual picture can now be found in the foothills surrounding L. A., the most egregious being the winds farms NW of Palmdale. Hundreds of windmills of all sizes and vintages cover the slopes. It looks like photos of early oil field developments. They may not smell, but like many of the “green” alternatives, they play havoc with birds.
As for retribution, I think Karma is about all we can hope for. Just getting these fools out of town and off to their retirement villas will suffice. Left to their own devices,, and lacking the discipline of their PR staff, I rather doubt they’d survive the temptations of gluttony inflamed by idleness.
Dark money will go the same way as dark matter: into the dustbin of failed ideas.
Anyone ever notice that when attacked the simpletons return to putting the adjective “dark” in front of whatever noun they feel will make it more sinister and increase their own credibility (in their own minds that is).
Dark = Opposite of light which of course equals good.
Back to the article: Who keeps sending this moron to Congress anyway? Seriously. I’m not going to look up the man’s record, but is he on some committee that is essential for the people of Rhode Island? Is his voting record on matters that concern the people of his state such that they overlook his 200 attempts on a ridiculous issue? In other words, is he really a boob that is lucky to get votes or is there something more going on behind closed doors as it were?
If nothing else is going on….you gotta wonder why he is even there……
Morons who like his ability to send other people’s money [their] way.
Which to them, is by far the most important job of a Senator or Representative.
” He made claims that solar PV and “renewables” would lower the cost of electricity in his state and would free the US of foreign oil.” Since oil (foreign or domestic) is virtually never used to generate electricity, someone ask this ignorant dope how renewable electricity would have any conceivable effect on oil. Notice how they always choose oil, or big oil as the evil. Apparently incest is big in Rhode Island, and this dope is related to the majority of R.I. voters, who also apparently share his
mental deficiencies. I wonder how they find their way to the polling booths? Rhode Island doesnt deserve to be a state, or have any Senators. Give it back to Massachusettes
And since when have people opposed having things that are cheaper?
If he can show a single bill that is cheaper because of renewables, I would be very, very surprised.
Arthur,
Badmouth Sheldon all you want (he is an idiot), but your attacks on Rhode Island aren’t quite fair. The State gained it’s charter from the King of England in 1663 to fend off the land grabbing of Massachusetts and Connecticut. It’s not possible to “give it back” unless you mean to the indigenous people’s descendants, but in that case there’s a lot of America to “give back.” As for the way RIers vote, you have to understand that the Democrat Party has controlled the State since 1937 when it took over from a corrupt Republican Party. It won the loyalty of lower economic and immigrant groups by securing their jobs and ending abuses by the factory owners. The loyalty has persisted through multiple generations even though the Party is as corrupt and self-serving as the one it replaced. RIers aren’t stupid as you suggest; they’re practical, settling for small potatoes when there’s little other choice. Part of that is a benighted provincialism, part is going along to get along. A few right-thinking people oppose the regime, but they have long odds against their success.
Gary
Find yourself a copy of Bernard Cornwell’s “The Fort” to see an early tribute to Massachusetts
(and a bit of the war of independence that you might not have met before)
Are politicians getting dumber? And is that even possible? I guess I feel sorry for the guy, unless it’s an act & he actually has a clever plan to extract loot from taxpayers and/or Soros/greenie-people. I mean, Algore did it.
I could interpret ate that in a way that was clear to my eyes realize real lies and real eyes realize real lies so that’s what I’m gunna say for now 👎
If I spent time worry about something like this then wake me up please
I do love the idea that bad people will use their money to stop action.
Do these bad people have a different Earth to live on when the Apocalypse comes? Or are they so bad that they want the Apocalypse?
This isn’t the same as smoking, where you could make money lying and not be affected by the lies: if the Alarmists are right, it will be and for everyone, rich as well. So where is the incentive to fund “lies”?
They know they are right, that’s settled.
Jonathan Harris made these accurate predictions concerning the “Whitehouse era” in Progressivism.
The senator’s belief about dark money makes it sound like every member of the House and Senate is a mindless automaton that will function in a certain way when money is inserted. Does he really believe his elected colleagues are so empty and so easily manipulated? Who is paying him to make all of his speeches?
To a leftist, dark money is any money that they don’t control.
It’s where they hide it once it is procured. 😉
Now that the Democrat senators have their “dark money” they don’t have to turn up to work and listen to Sheldon prattle on.
Now now Eric, my Greatgrandparents’ generation were hardworking nationbuilders. Whitehouse would get a dropkick from them. They had real scientists then too. Think Maxwell through Rutherford….
Scientist declares Sen. Whitehouse is ‘a complete moron, scientifically’
A prominent scientist is pushing back on Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (RI) for his lecture on the Senate floor that anyone skeptical of man-made global warming is guilty of “grave sin” and “listening to evil voices.” See: Sen. Whitehouse: ‘Climate deniers’ guilty of ‘grave sin’ & ‘LISTENING TO EVIL VOICES’ – Instead ‘listen to the oceans’
“I am really getting sick and tired of this blowhard Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) lecturing us for being sinners,” Dr. Thomas P. Sheahen, an MIT educated physicist and author of the book “An Introduction to High-Temperature Superconductivity,” told Climate Depot. Sheahen is the writer of the popular newspaper column “Ask the Everyday Scientist.” Sheahen is featured in the new book,
‘The Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change’ by Marc Morano.
“Senator Whitehouse is a complete moron, scientifically. He doesn’t know any real science at all. He believes in the mythology initiated a generation ago by Al Gore, where CO2 emitted by mankind is entirely to blame,” Sheahen explained.
Sheahen continued: “Here’s the reality: There is no such thing as a ‘climate denier.’ That category doesn’t exist. There are certain facts that we all agree on: a) the climate is always changing; b) the globe is warming; c) there is a finite human contribution (e.g., the urban heat island effect). Where disagreement begins is on the role of CO2 in heating the planet. There is great scientific controversy about that point, because of factors such as how molecules absorb and re-radiate photons at various altitudes in the atmosphere, because of flow via convection of warm air from the surface to the upper atmosphere; and more. It’s a really complicated field of science.”
Sheahen added: “Sheldon Whitehouse has no intention whatsoever to engage in any scientific debate at all. Instead, he quotes the entirely false and manufactured statistic that “97% of scientists agree…” and goes from there to further faulty steps:
1) he asserts that he knows the truth perfectly;
2) he asserts that anybody who disagrees with him is a sinner.
I say it’s high time that our religious leaders stepped forth and shouted “Stop!” to Senator Whitehouse and similar bloviators.”
Sheahen concluded: “No way is Whitehouse capable of defining some action as a ‘sin.’ His scientific acumen is so weak that he cannot even defend the position he holds but instead resorts to the ‘argument from authority’ to brush off any scientific disagreement.”
Lonely or loony? The former is not unusual for politicos marking time. The latter is an accessory to policy fraud.
Whitehouse is ULTRA liberal nut job…and the clear thinking people in Rhode Island all know he is an arrogant jackass suffering from global warming derangement syndrome and Bush derangement syndrome! He gets elected in Rhode Island because he has a “D” next to his name on the ballot. Hopefully this November Rhode Islanders will wake up and smell the coffee and kick his ass out of the Senate and end our national embarassment!