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Related: About this forumOh lord!-Schumer, deferring to Cuomo, says most Dems like fracking
Scott Waldman
ALBANYSen. Charles Schumer said he would support fracking in New York if Gov. Andrew Cuomo decides it can be done carefully, during a Monday appearance on MSNBC's Morning Joe.
Overall, the Democrats throughout the country have supported fracking, he said. The president has, most of us have, and its worked quite well.
http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/albany/2014/05/8544811/schumer-deferring-cuomo-says-most-dems-fracking
ForgoTheConsequence
(4,846 posts)Obama likes it too.
Seems the Dems that matter on this site love fracking.
Obama Pushes Natural-Gas Fracking to Create 600,000 U.S. Jobs
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-25/obama-backs-fracking-to-create-600-000-jobs-vows-safe-drilling.html
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)This sucks.
ForgoTheConsequence
(4,846 posts)Just like free trade and the death penalty.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)While the gov and legislature have the power to lift the moratorium on fracking, the local municipalities can say no to it locally in this state.
fredamae
(4,458 posts)are Worse than the Tea Party and he also believed in and voted For the Repeal of Glass-Steagall.
He might not be the Best spokesperson for Fracking, imo.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)Real charming guy, that Schumer. Basically a Republican from the 80's.
fredamae
(4,458 posts)Let us stop at saying his supportive positions Are essentially in lock-step with Republicans. His Long record of "service" supports that.
Lets get moving on Term Limits--we need Different Politicians All around--and 72% of the electorate agree.
While MSM continue to hound on PBO's falling approval numbers-and yes, they're correct-at 41% his numbers are falling but as usual MSM's wagging tongues are missing the Big point - Congress is at 6%.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)Certainly a good case can be made for them, but the unfortunate reality seems to be that term limits keep politicians in "campaign mode" 24/7, and actually magnify the impact of special interests - after all if a politician is only going to be office for X amount of years no matter what, will he be more loyal to his bank account or the people he's supposed to represent?
Mandatory public funding and restriction of private / corporate donations to $1,000 would do much more to clear up the issues we face than simply throwing on term limits.
fredamae
(4,458 posts)Because it takes a long time (in most cases)for corp lobbyists to develop a good working relationship with our congresscritters---with term limits it would allow corps shopping for company legislators less time to develop a relationship with any particular rep because it would be a constant congressional turnover.
Lobbyists would be challenged to try and keep up, frankly.
And the corporate interests would be Less likely to spend large on candidates--knowing the Most they could have is maybe two terms...lowers the value for ALL members of congress.
At this point-what do you suggest because we Know the system we have is failing Us more and more and more with Every election.
Look at the 1999 Roll Call for the Repeal of Glass-Steagall in 1999.
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=106&session=1&vote=00354#position
Way too many congress members are Still in office and went on to vote For the Current Conservative Majority SCOTUS, Iraq War, Patriot Act, Bank Bailouts, Cuts to Vital Services like UI, SNAP, Cancer Treatment, Education, Unions, Demise of USPS (2006), Zero Relief for Anyone BUT Banks/Wall Street after the 2008 Crash and So Much More! Just in the last 5 years the magnificent Recovery "they" tell Us We're enjoying? The reality is 95% of those Profits went Straight UP to the millionaires club with 350,000,000 of us sharing the 5% leftover pittance.
The time has come to Stop Pointing Fingers and set New Rules, imo.
riqster
(13,986 posts)What a steaming load of bollocks.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)I and my dem club are working against fracking. So that is about 150 folk against it!
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)AnneD
(15,774 posts)their corporate overlords and do not deserve a D after their names.