Changing the climate on Capitol Hill - The Boston Globe
Tue, 11/17/2009 - 2:13pm — Mike
The very forces who scream that the Environmental Protection Agency should not regulate the activities of big business are the same ones still successfully applying a chokehold on Congress and the ability of Obama to be effective on the global stage. In a twisted version of “Think Globally, Act Locally,’’ Big Oil, Big Coal, and the biggest representative of American industries, the US Chamber of Commerce, continue to buy paralysis.
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What impotence: the best Jackson can do is wag his figure at Obama to wave his magic wand and change "business as usual" in Congress. It's a call for twice-removed action. If Jackson had any measure of the enormity of this issue he would be using his platform for more productive ends.