MoveOn Won’t Part III

There was more coverage of the Move On protest yesterday from Politico;

Thomas Cannady, 53, a graduate student who lives in Hyattsville, Md., said he was on a MoveOn training call at around noon when someone broke in to say that the trainees were, to borrow a phrase from Bill O’Reilly, going to do it live. He spent the next few hours calling about 50 other MoveOn activists and then made his way to the Capitol.

He said that the European tourists, here enjoying the cheap dollar, were especially receptive to his call. “A lot of the Europeans are very much for it. ‘You should see how expensive it is in our country,’” he said they told him. The Old Worlders, he said, insisted that drilling alone was no solution to the high prices and that conservation and renewable energy investments were crucial.

Yuh, if a couple of European tourists say we shouldn’t drill, that’s who we need to listen to instead of policy makers and economists. Jeez, a 53 year-old grad student, for pete’s sake.

And I identified the little old bag who claimed the “fat cats have been sitting on” an alternative energy source;

Andrea Walker, holding a sign that read “For Sale: Sold to Big Oil Companies,” is a 64 year old grandmother of four. She said she also spent her day on the phone before heading down and called the House GOP protest “a gimmick.”

Walker, a retired auditor, said the response had been “fairly positive…Obviously, we need gas for our cars right now, but we need a plan for conservation and alternative energy,” she said. “If we can get on the moon, we can have renewable energy.”

Back out again on Tuesday, Walker shook her head at the “Drill!” chant. “They really mean, ‘Lease, lease, lease,’” she said.

I wonder why she didn’t repeat that nonsense about fat cats to Politico.

Americans for Prosperity was at the Move On Protest yesterday, too and put together this excellent video.

I finally got my video to process in YouTube – it’s an edited version of the other four raw clips I put in the original post

 

Category: Economy, Politics, Protests/Rallies, Society