President Obama attacks GOP over clean energy

[cal04]

Source: NBC News and news services

Republicans dispute criticism, say Dems are 'maxing out the national credit card'

President Barack Obama hailed a revolutionary type of solar power plant being built in the Mojave Desert, saying it would help stake "our claim to continued leadership in the new global economy."

In his weekly radio address Saturday, Obama said the facility — which should provide power for 140,000 homes and be the biggest of its type in the world — had been made possible by government incentives for clean energy, which he claimed the Republicans had pledged to abolish.

"That's what's at stake in this debate," the president said.

"We can go back to the failed energy policies that profited the oil companies but weakened our country," he added. "We can go back to the days when promising industries got set up overseas. Or we can go after new jobs in growing industries. And we can spur innovation and help make our economy more competitive."

Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39471893/ns/politics-decision_2010/

[LawnKorn]

1. Republicans would rather keep inefficient light bulbs than solve the problem

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=115x259844#260008

[madrchsod]

4. actually i`d like to see them made here but---

they`d be to expensive to manufacture here in america.

[LawnKorn]

2. K&R

[madrchsod]

3. talk is cheap.....

he still has`t done jack shit about the problem-china`s currency and trade restrictions.

wake me up when those two things change in our favor....

[nyy1998]

6. He's tried several times to get China to change.

You think it's easy to get the World's second largest economy to change their practices.

[DCKit]

5. It's a National Security issue and should be touted as such. n/t

[Botany]

7. It was in 1980 when Reagan and the Republicans took the solar panels ...

.... off the White House where would we be if we had stuck to green energy now?

[Jefferson23]

8. GREAT to hear, attack them, that is what you need to keep doing Obama. n/t

[msongs]

9. I have solar on my roof and the big O doesnt. he could get his free, I had to pay for mine

put solar on the white house, some solar outfit would do it for free for the publicity

[gulfbreeze]

10. Carter had one put on the whitehouse

and Reagan took it down.

[Uncle Joe]

11. Kicked and recommended although I believe it would be good for the federal government

to set an example by converting major government buildings to solar or some other form of renewable energy.

As to the Republican contention, when Obama came to power, the national credit card was already maxed out, there was no food in the fridge, the electricity had been disconnected, foreclosure notices had been nailed to the front door and the car had been repossessed.

The Republicans have absolutely zero credibility in chastising anyone re: fiscal responsibility.

Thanks for the thread, cal.