The television ad equates Blunt's vote against the Clean Energy Act with supporting terrorism. The VoteVets' ad is narrated by James Sander, an Iraq war veteran from Columbia, Mo and shows a picture of Congressman Blunt superimposed over footage from the attack of the U.S.S. Cole in 2000.
You may recall VoteVets for their 2006 disinformation campaign about Congressional Republicans voting against body armor for our troops in Iraq. It wasn't true.
Fact Check dot Org debunked their disinformation and VoteVets has never retracted their spurious, hyper-partisan claims.
Their recent ad seeks to champion green technology as a way to "cut our dependence on foreign oil." But many economists & pundits predict the Clean Energy Act - otherwise known as "Cap n Tax" - would cause energy prices to soar and further cripple our nation's economy.
"VoteVets.org is an independent group with a supporter base of 100,000 veterans, their families and general supporters, said Jon Soltz, chairman of VoteVets.org and an Iraq war veteran. The group contends cap and trade legislation would lower America's dependency on foreign oil by investing billions in more "clean energy" sources, such as wind power, Soltz said.
"Our contention is until we undercut the value of oil on the market, our enemies are using oil profits to fight us," Soltz said.
Soltz said Blunt is doing the bidding of oil companies that want to remain the dominant supplier of American energy.
"Big Oil verses the troops, he chose Big Oil," Soltz said of Blunt.
VoteVets.org is spending $600,000 to air the 30-second ad across Missouri."
Too bad the wind doesn't blow all the time, except on television. Similar T.V. ads - as part of a nationwide $2 million ad campaign, equate support for "Big Oil" with support for terrorism - are also running in Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, South Dakota, Indiana and Wyoming targeting Republican senators who oppose the "Cap n Tax" legislation. Even Evan Bayh (D) was a target until he announced no plans to run again.
"As expected, the TV ad infuriated Blunt's campaign and the GOP, who accused VoteVets.org of working on Carnahan's behalf.
"The horrendous thing about this is to suggest that because you vote against a tax on the American people's electricity and energy needs that in some way you're supporting terrorism," said Lloyd Smith, executive director of the Missouri Republican Party."
Secretary of State Robin Carnahan, Blunt's likely Democratic opponent in the Senate race, called the ad "crazy and wrong." Thank you, Robin.
But what's really "crazy and wrong" is the blind faith in this unreliable, inefficient green technology that cannot yet replace the fuel for our homes, transportation and industries. Or is the "green revolution" supposed to transport us back to the dark ages?
How about proposing something a little more practical? Like drilling more domestic wells and building more domestic refineries, instead of the democrats simply being the "party of no."
Seems to me that would “cut our dependence on foreign oil.”
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