Much like everything with Claire McCaskill lately, when it comes to energy policy she just can’t seem to find her rhythm.
Her early support for cap-and-trade and subsequent abandonment of declaring a position on it now, as well as waffling on the EPA, have groups on both sides of the aisle taking aim and landing blows. On the Left:
The League of Women Voters ran television ads earlier this month blasting McCaskill for her Senate floor vote to delay EPA's climate change rules for two years. "Shouldn't Claire McCaskill protect the people and not the polluters?" a narrator in the ad said while a girl struggles to breath while wearing a gas mask.
And from the Right:
Pressure also has come from the other side of the debate. The National Manufacturing Association bought commercials urging McCaskill to support a freeze on EPA's global warming policies.
So what does Claire do? Claire turns her ire toward the oil companies, as she has been want to do lately, to distract attention from her own waffling positions on energy policy. And not to outdo herself, she landed this gem:
"All the measures that are reasonable are being taken, short of the government saying we're not going to have a free market anymore and we're going to set the price," she told KMZU radio.
Wait, what?
It takes genuine flexibility to be pro-environmentalist, anti-EPA, pro-drilling, and anti-oil at the same moment in time.
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