04.05.11

Nugent signs on to Bachmann’s light bulb jihad

Posted in Extremism, Ted Nugent at 8:44 am by George Smith

There can be no doubt Ted Nugent is a talking parrot for the stars of the Tea Party.

If Glenn Beck goes on about Frances Fox Piven one day, Uncle Ted will write a column nonsensically insisting he has been attacked by the old lady professor.

If Frank Gaffney delivers a report on the alleged creeping menace of sharia-law overtaking the nation’s judicial system, Uncle Ted will tell his readers at the Washington Times that sharia needs outlawing.

Michele Bachmann, Tea Party leader and star of my “Act Naturally” video, had what was called the “Light Bulb Freedom of Choice Act.” It went nowhere.

It was for the prevention of the creeping menace of fluorescent light bulbs, mandated for phase-in by Congress and “signed into law by President Bush” back in 2007.

More recently, the Minneapolis Star Tribune wrote:

Rep. Michele Bachmann has not forgotten about light bulbs.

The Minnesota Republican is reintroducing her “Light Bulb Freedom of Choice Act,” which aims to repeal the 2007 mandate that would phase out traditional incandescent light bulbs in favor of compact fluorescent bulbs by Jan. 1, 2012.

To ‘energize’ the Tea Party base, Bachmann makes it a constitutional and hazardous materials issue. It’s un-constitutional to mandate energy savings, which is what Bush’s signing did. And the light bulbs are unsafe because she alleges they contain too much mercury.

Back in 2008, the conversation went like this in the Star Tribune:

“It’s almost as if you have to call the haz-mat team out to your home,” Bachmann said.

Environmentalists argue that most of the steps are the same as cleanup from any broken glass accident, except for the special disposal requirements.

Industry experts say the amount of mercury in new compact fluorescent lights — about 5 milligrams, on average — is small but significant enough to warrant common-sense safety precautions and consumer recycling efforts to keep it out of landfills.

“There are minuscule amounts of mercury, but it’s a hazardous waste, and we want to take it seriously,” said Kim Sherman, product portfolio manager at Xcel Energy.

MPCA spokesman Sam Brungardt said the use of compact fluorescent lights, which use one-fourth the energy of regular bulbs, should certainly be encouraged. If new legislation is needed, he said, it should be to encourage consumers to recycle. “You have to make it easy to do this,” he said.

“This is an issue of science over fads and fashions,” said Bachmann, who believes global warming is a hoax, to the newspaper.

“Carbon dioxide, Mister Speaker, is a natural byproduct of nature,” she said, among other things in 2009. “Carbon dioxide is natural. It occurs in Earth.” The rest is here.

Nugent is a global warming denier. And he has a deep hatred of the Department of Energy.

So in today’s column for the Washington Times, he advocates for more nuclear power while dragging along Bachmann’s light bulb thing:

Amazingly, a component of this administration’s energy policy is to ban Thomas Edison’s light bulb and force Americans to use “environmentally friendly??? compact fluorescent light bulbs by 2014, all of which are made by communist China and pose serious health and environmental threats due to their mercury content.

Actually, it was George W. Bush who signed the bill. And, yes, fluorescent light bulbs are offshored — by corporate legal tax cheat General Electric, naturally.

Nugent has long been for more oil drilling. While the massive spill was going on last year, Nugent was one of the cheerleaders for BP.

And in his column he presses for more domestic drilling because:

Once again, the Middle East is sending America a message and the message is that that region is unpredictable and downright goofy.

When people in Egypt threw out Hosni Mubarak they were being “downright goofy.” When the people in Yemen react badly to being shot by the guy we’re propping up, that’s “downright goofy.” All those people throughout those nations, now trying to overthrow their dictators, are sure doing “downright goofy” things.

Nugent’s column at the WaTimes is here.

Downright goofy! Oot-greet!

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