As keynote speaker at a natural gas conference in Pittsburgh last week, Karl Rove told the audience that the newly elected Republican House of Representatives would “sure as heck” not pass climate change legislation.
Rove believes that the departure of the Democratic Congress will restore a “period of sensible regulation” to government under which drillers and their supporters need not worry about limits on controversial hydraulic fracture. He noted that the President—whom he refers to a “this man” —missed his opportunity to “usher in a new era” and that his two choices now are to attack his new Congress like Truman or adopt a conciliatory tone like Clinton.
His audience of 2,000 “good, decent people” was also assured that Republicans will expand their control with forthcoming congressional redistricting which is good gas drillers looking to cash in on non-existent regulations and tax-less drilling, but bad for the state budget and the watershed of millions of people.
With reporting from Andrew Maykuth of the Philadelphia Inquirer.
