Pallone (D-NJ) Blames Inertia On Sea Level Issues On House Tea Party - Won't Even Discuss It

[hatrack]

New Jersey voters may want the government to do more to plan for rising sea levels and climate change, but the issue is dead in the water in Congress, according to U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone (D-6th).

Speaking at a conference organized by the nonprofit Clean Ocean Action, Pallone told the audience that Tea Party members in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives refuse to discuss the matter.

“Congress is doing nothing,” the Democrat said. “They can’t bring this up -- if they do, they just get slapped down. We have to get this issue away from the ideology of the Tea Party and the right wing.”

Clean Ocean Action used the event -- which marked more than a year of post-Sandy cleanup by almost 14,000 volunteers across the state -- to release a survey showing that 96 percent of respondents believe climate change is at least a contributor to sea-level rise.

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http://www.njspotlight.com/stories/13/12/08/pallone-says-congress-doing-nothing-about-sea-level-rise-blames-tea-party/

[TreasonousBastard]

1. Aside from teabaggers being the dumbest...

mfers on the planet, this is a coastal issue and most of them are too far inland to notice. Or care.

Should it be simply a coastal issue when most of Florida and the best parts of Louisiana will be underwater along with Boston and NYC? Are Biloxi and Houston not part of the nation?

Of course this is a serious problem, but teabaggery denies that anything bad could possibly happen in the future.

If 96% of respondants (whatever that means) believe climate change is a problem, why are we letting the useless piece-of-shit teabaggers have the microphone. Blaming the press, the right wing, republicans, or anyone else just gives us an unearned pass for not speaking out enough and getting the message out.

[pscot]

2. If you represent Kalispel

or El Reno, OK, it's probably pretty easy to believe it won't affect you.