About
Learn More about our progressive online community for the Granite State.

Create an account today (it's free and easy) and get started!
Menu

Make a New Account

Username:

Password:



Forget your username or password?


Search




Advanced Search


The Masthead
Managing Editors

Contributing Writers
elwood
Jennifer Daler
Mike Hoefer
susanthe

ActBlue Hampshire

The Roll, Etc.
Prog Blogs, Orgs & Alumni
Betsy Devine
Blue News Tribune (MA)
Democracy for NH
Mike Caulfield
Granite State Progress
Susan the Bruce

Politicos & Punditry
Dorgan
DiStaso
Landrigan
Lawson
Pindell
Primary Monitor
Scala
Spiliotes
Welch

Campaigns, Et Alia.
Paul Hodes for Senate
ActBlue Hampshire
NHDP
DCCC
DSCC
DNC

National
billmon
Bob Geiger
Congress Matters
DailyKos
Digby
Hold Fast
Eschaton
FiveThirtyEight
MyDD
The Next Hurrah
Open Left
Senate Guru
Swing State Project
Talking Points Memo

50 State Blog Network
Alabama
Arizona
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Missouri
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin

RSS Feed

Blue Hampshire RSS


Charlie Bass Op-Ed in Boston Globe

by: Ed Tracey

Tue Jun 23, 2009 at 07:37:01 AM EDT


(Did the BassMaster just take a shot at Jennifer Horn?  And how sad he has to go all the way back to TR, someone who lived in an earlier age of corrupt Republicans, to find someone worthy. - promoted by Dean Barker)

The Bassmaster is back - well, at least in this Boston Globe Op-Ed piece .... and dang if he isn't fretting over the future of the GOP:

Why has the Republican Party let the Democrats cast us as the party of big oil, gas, and coal? Wasn't it a Republican president who broke up the huge oil trusts in America? Wasn't it a Republican president who first called for energy independence through the development of alternative energy resources?

Simple, Charlie: tell all yer extractive-industry elected officials to take a hike, right? Oh ... you meant a better public relations message, I see ....

No party should allow the extreme views of political talk-show commentators, who are paid to be outrageous, to become the primary architects of its public image.

Well, what's stopping you?

Read the whole thing; it's a well-crafted woe-is-me message repeating talking points and saying "we must support policies that" - when they have long supported the policies before, to no avail.

Ed Tracey :: Charlie Bass Op-Ed in Boston Globe
Tags: , , (All Tags)
Print Friendly View Send As Email
Hey Charlie -- You're No Teddy Roosevelt! (4.00 / 3)
Why has the Republican Party let the Democrats cast us as the party of big oil, gas, and coal? Wasn't it a Republican president who broke up the huge oil trusts in America? Wasn't it a Republican president who first called for energy independence through the development of alternative energy resources?

Wasn't it a New Hampshire Republican Congressman who referred to the Sierra Club as "an extremist organization" on WMUR in October 2002?  And who voted to gut EPA enforcement funding?  And who voted to raise allowable arsenic limits in water?  

I could go on and on. . . . Charlie, have some cheese with that whine.


Wasn't it a bunch of GOP Congressman that spent.. (4.00 / 4)
... last summer chanting "Drill here, drill now" in the empty halls of Congress?  And didn't their VP candidate sex it up a bit with "Drill, baby, drill"? Maybe that's why voters connect the GOP with oil companies.

I am also pretty sure it was the chairman of the GOP party in NH that was the keynote speaker at the  anti-Climate Change conference a few months ago. And the last president refused to sign the Kyoto Treaty and chose an oil exec to be his VP. So maybe that's also part of the reason why voters connect the GOP with Big Oil.

Charlie ought to realize that recalling the GOP's Teddy Roosevelt roots is not going to be very effective. There aren't many voters who remember what the party stood for in 1908, and those that do know the GOP is a pretty different party than it was in TR's day, and in the end he broke with the party.


[ Parent ]
Why? (4.00 / 1)
Because that Republican president was in office a hundred years ago!

[ Parent ]
Not your great great grandfather's Republican Party. (4.00 / 1)


New Hampshire's stimulus: a train to Boston.
Visit NHBTI.org to learn about the NH Capitol Corridor project.


[ Parent ]
No Lincoln? (4.00 / 1)
Maybe he figured it was implied.

What have you done for me lately, Charlie?


Here's why, Charlie: (4.00 / 4)
That was THEN.

This is NOW.


Charlie Chameleon (4.00 / 3)
As long as I've known Charlie Bass, and that's a long time,
he's been just smart enough to know which way the wind is blowing.
When being seen as moderate served him, that's what he was.
Then when being a neo-con was all the vogue, well, there was Charlie again!
Now as the future for the current GOP looks like it is past,
why there's Charlie with a yet another new color.
Good old Charlie!

No'm Sayn?

He may ride forever (4.00 / 5)
Charlie boarded the Republican right wing train when he signed the Contract for America, enthusiastically supporting Newt Gingrich. He can't get off it now - no, he'll never return, he'll neve return, and his fate is too well known. He will ride forever, with  John Sununu, he's the man who'll never return.    

"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."  Franklin D. Roosevelt    

[ Parent ]
More on Charlie Bass's Environmental Record (4.00 / 4)
Why has the Republican Party let the Democrats cast us as the party of big oil, gas, and coal? Wasn't it a Republican president who broke up the huge oil trusts in America? Wasn't it a Republican president who first called for energy independence through the development of alternative energy resources?

I'm sorry, but I can't resist, in addition to referring to the Sierra Club as "extremist", voting to gut EPA enforcement, and backing efforts to raise allowable arsenic limits in water, here are some other highlights from Charlie's years in the in the House:

* Bass voted for a moratorium on adding additional threatened or endangered species to the protected list.   (H.R. 1977, CQ#5, January 4, 1996)

* Bass voted to gut wetland protections, supporting a measure that would have resulted in additional development in these environmentally sensitive areas.  (H.R. 2605, CQ#341, 7/27/99)

* Bass was named to Clean Water Action's "Filthy Fifty" list for his efforts to weaken the Clean Water Act.  (Clean Water Action press release, 10/17/96)

* Bass sought to eliminate the Department of Energy.  Said Charlie:  "It's time to pull the plug on DOE.  The gas lines are gone.  So is the need for the Department of Energy." (Bass press release, 6/8/95)

And as for the "huge oil trusts" that Charlie slammed in the Globe. . . from 1994-2002, only one other Member of Congress from New England receive more campaign contributions from oil companies than Charlie Bass.  And he sure did there bidding!



Oops (4.00 / 1)
Messed up my money line:  

And he sure did their bidding!

My apologies.


[ Parent ]
I agree with Charlie Bass (4.00 / 1)
In that New Yorkers are good at picking Presidents.

New Hampshire's stimulus: a train to Boston.
Visit NHBTI.org to learn about the NH Capitol Corridor project.


Powered by: SoapBlox