The
Danville Register & Bee nails it on Tom Perriello's courageous vote the other day for clean energy, green jobs, an end to our Saudi oil addiction, and a livable planet. Here's an excerpt:
But anyone who thinks Perriello — a man who has worked in this community’s soup kitchens — would blindly support a bill that would add hundreds or even thousands of dollars to our energy bills just doesn’t know our congressman. No member of Congress would vote to do that.
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The National Republican Congressional Committee, which apparently believes Perriello can be defeated in 2010, won’t mention those local projects — or all the research and development around the country that’s quickly turning alternative energy into the stuff of mainstream energy. The group smells political blood, and it is willing to scare people with high cost estimates and talk of a “national energy tax.”
But there is no national energy tax — just a lot of wildly fluctuating cost estimates that don’t take into account all the new ideas, technologies and products that can be used to solve our energy problems.
It took a lot of political courage — and guts — for Perriello to support a bill that’s so widely misunderstood. Maybe voting to give money to NASA in 1962 cost some congressmen their jobs, too.
How smart was that?
Answer? Very, very smart. Thank you, Tom Perriello; this truly was "the right vote, for right now!"
