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Still,
[CFLs] were slow to catch on, prompting industry, environmentalists and
lawmakers to team up and give consumers a push. Mr. Upton joined Rep.
Jane Harman, California Democrat, to co-sponsor legislation to phase
out incandescent bulbs beginning in 2012. Upton
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I've often thought that a book which identified and profiled the
legislator who "flipped the switch" on, say the top 100 worst
pieces of legislation during the twentieth century, would be a
best seller. Like who introduced the Social Security act? Who was
the bonehead who suggested that DDT should be banned? Whose
brilliant idea was it to criminalize our flush toilets? What
idiot sponsored the bill that outlawed the incandescent light
bulb? What nitwit ... wait! That last was Rep, Fred Upton (R MI). YOU
BASTID!
I propose that Mr. Upton is a good Tea Party target in 2012. Not
because he fails some ideological purity test of my concoction; because
he's clearly an unprincipled opportunist (can you say Charlie
Crist?).
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Three
years after he led the charge to require consumers to ditch their
comfortable old incandescent lights in favor of those twisty CFL bulbs,
Rep. Fred Upton now wants to be the man to help undo that law as the
next chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
That about-face is not unique among lawmakers looking to atone for
stances they've taken over the past decade as they seek to gain top
posts in a decidedly more conservative Republican Congress, but his
reversal underscores how intent the GOP is on proving it has broken
with past practices. |
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As bad as they
are, the Pelosis, Waxmans, and Boxers are principled when it come to
politics. Those principles happen to be the same held by Lenin,
Stalin, and Hitler, but they are unwavering and unapologetic about
that. Weasels like Fred Upton make me sick.
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