One reason the debt fight is getting awkward for Republicans

[In It to Win It]

POLITICO

Earlier this year, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene heralded the expansion of a South Korean solar panel production company in her district — a $2.5 billion cash infusion.

“QCells, the solar company ... I think they’re fantastic,” she said. “I support all kinds of energy.”

It was made possible by the tax incentives included in President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, which the Georgia Republican, along with all of her GOP colleagues, opposed.

Greene is far from alone among Republicans cheering clean energy investments created by Democratic policies they all snubbed. And that’s creating some awkward dynamics for GOP lawmakers who are seeking to wipe out Biden’s clean-energy spending plans as part of any deal to avert a U.S. debt default.

The White House, and supporters of Biden’s clean energy programs, are eagerly seizing on the contradiction.

“The Biden Clean Energy Plan has helped create more than 140,000 clean energy jobs across the U.S. — the majority of which are in Republican-held districts,” said Lori Lodes, executive director of the group Climate Power, citing its own estimates of the law’s economic impact.

[Carlitos Brigante]

1. It's not awkward when you have no real principles or beliefs, other than the superiority of

white people. It's not awkward to them. Because they understand they can make a claim at 9 in the morning. Then say or do the opposite by noon. They can get away with it, because we live in the US of Amnesia.

[617Blue]

2. Exactly. No accountability for the incoherence of their ideology. nt

[KPN]

3. Ain't that the truth! nt

[KY_EnviroGuy]

4. Dear Mitch....

Dear Senator McConnell:

Does your Party propose the rescinding of all Federal taxpayer dollar investments in clean energy under the Inflation Reduction Act in order to meet Republican budget objectives?

Rep. M. T. Green and planet Earth want to know.

Sincerely,
KY_EnviroGuy

[Buns_of_Fire]

5. "Q" Cells. Figures. nt

[C Moon]

8. LOL!!

[Alexander Of Assyria]

6. Corporate media doesn't seize on the hypocrisy and corruption out in the open, it's puzzling.

[gratuitous]

9. Isn't that odd?

I mean, the popular media seem to relish pointing out the hypocrisy of politicians, but here's a glaring example and not a peep out of those stalwart bulldogs of the Fourth Estate.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

10. There is only one explanation for the resignation from protecting democracy...

The corporate heads know what’s better for America than American voters!

[Lonestarblue]

7. The starting point for negotiations with Republicans over the debt ceiling should be their 2017 tax

cut for the wealthy that blew up the deficit. They’re such ridiculous poseurs.