11.24.10
Cult of EMP Crazy Given Bum’s Rush — Again
Whenever the Cult of Electromagnetic Pulse Crazy sees its plans go down in flames, you never hear much in the mainstream.
The only stuff you do see is when it’s busy astro-turfing the issue. Which can be seen in all the opinion pieces on the country being thrown back into the Dark Ages, appearing like mushrooms on the manure pile after a wet spell, in the same media.
So you had to search for this one.
Lisa Murkowski, the GOP senator from Alaska, slew the Cult beast, for the time being, in mid-October.
Well done!
Here (Page down a bit to see the repost):
In a surprising election-year gambit, Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski has gutted legislation with strong bipartisan support that would protect the U.S. power grid from solar flares and Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) weapons, to benefit a “clean??? energy bill backed by Senate Democrats.
The original bill, known as the GRID Act, authorized the federal government to take emergency measures to protect some 300 giant power transformers around the country. It passed the House of Representatives by a unanimous voice vote in August, an unusual show of bipartisan support in this Congress.
But when it went to the Senate, the bill was gutted of the measures to protect the power grid from EMP attack by Murkowski and committee chairman Jeff Bingamon, D-N.M., while other portions of the bill were added to her own energy bill, S. 1462, the American Clean Energy Act of 2009.
“Sen. Murkowski stripped H.R. 5026 of the main elements designed to protect our infrastructure and did not add them to her bill,??? said Andrea Lafferty, executive director of the Traditional Values Coalition.
An aide to Murkowski said that Murkowski voted for stripping out the EMP provisions of the bill on practical, not political, grounds.
“The bill was going nowhere. The administration opposed it, and favored a government-wide effort, not a piecemeal approach.??? He added that blaming Murkowski, the ranking Republican on the Energy Committee, for altering legislation being managed by the majority Democrats was “an election-year gambit by far right wing groups. Murkowski did not place a hold on the House bill.???
Murkowski recently declared victory over the Tea Party kook, Joe Miller, in a write-in campaign after the latter unseated her in a primary.
Dick Destiny » Cult of EMP Crazy — The Congressional Nuisance said,
December 2, 2010 at 9:30 am
[…] Bartlett has never been successful. Most recently, Alaska GOP Senator Lisa Murkowski wiped out pet legislation from him aimed at promoting hardening of the nation’s infrastructure against EMP attack. This blog mentioned it last week here. […]