democrats. they use that in 100 races across the country in congress. and with that money, they held rallies, they did phone banks, they canvas door to door pretending to be grassroots when in fact all they cared was not just about the congressman but specifically about the house energy and commerce committee. and what did they do there? they spent $279,500 and they gave it to 22 of 31 republicans on the committee. they also gave 32,000 to five democrats. now, why did the americans for prosperity care about the new republicans on the house panel? i ll get to that in a second. look at what they did with the freshman. five of the six freshman benefited in 2010. they are on their side. 9 of the 12 signed on to the pledge on greenhouse gases that they wanted americans for prosperity to take. what was that pledge? here it is. they said the pledge on
he s known quantity to them and connected to their industries and hired a former koch lawyer as his chief of staff. that s funny. again, a wonderful coincidence where they invest in his business and he makes money and then when he s in congress he hires their guy as chief of staff. probably just a coincidence. let s go to fred who is on the committee. he was skeptical in regards to the right wing talking point on global warming. tell us a little bit about that. where was his original position and where is he now? well, his original position and his original statements indicate that he at the very least considered global warming a serious problem that needed to be taken seriously. he as part of an effort to win the chairmanship once republicans had won in november, won control of the house, he had to make sort of a campaign for the chairmanship and there was some opposition from other conservative groups and he made
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the world and that s a barrier we re trying to remove. so painful he s making every republican talking point there talking about so-called free trade and high corporate tax rates when they have a million loopholes and they didn t pay that money any way. talking about burdensome regulation. the president as usual of course presented both sides. that s what he does. now, here he talks about the merits of regulation. i also have to point out the perils of too much regulation are also matched by the dangers of too little. we saw that in the financial crisis. where the absence of sound rules of the road, that wasn t good for business. even if you weren t in the financial sector it wasn t good for business. that s true. that sounds so much more reasonable. you are getting both sides. the problem is in effect you do not get both sides. if you just had it the
greenhouse gases is ask politicians to denounce a democratic led effort to compel oil refineries to clean up emissions of greenhouse gases through a so-called cap and trade system. now, do you get what s happening here? they are in the oil business and they are saying, hey, we don t want oil refineries to get cleaned up. if you clean up oil refineries and have less pollution and less global warming, it costs the koch brothers a tremendous amount of money. they invest a little bit of money to buy these politicians and they specifically target commerce and energy economy and those are all my boys and what s the first thing they want to do? republicans of course want to limit the epa from controlling global warming. say, hey, back off the oil refineries. those guys paid our bills. that s how our politicians get bought and in this case by the koch brothers. with me now is kathleen hennessy