Corporate Shills

Roy Blunt, who declared during his U.S. Senate campaign that "there isn’t any real science to say we are altering the climate path of the earth,” has cosponsored legislation to completely eliminate the Environment Protection Agency.

In unrelated news, Roy Blunt does whatever polluting corporations ask him to do.

Responding to Roy Blunt's recent grandstanding about wall street firms receiving early H1N1 vaccine shipments, the Post-Dispatch today welcomes Blunt's newfound interest in the special treatment received by the folks on Wall Street.

Whatever the reason, we welcome Mr. Blunt to the populist outrage front. Mr. Blunt was in Congress throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s when, during both Republican and Democratic administrations, the banks got everything they asked for, subsequently wrecking the economy. Mr. Blunt has been a reliable pro-banking industry vote, from repealing the Glass-Steagall Act in 1999 to refusing to allow bankruptcy judges to modify mortgages in 2009.

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Since the Internet contains "articles and statements" that wonder if climate change is real, we don't need to bother with climate change legislation.

It's also "easy to find" articles and statements debating the existence of elf people, but that's neither here nor there.

For more on the "debate" regarding climate change, check out this good rundown from the Columbia Journalism Review and this summary of the Center for American Progress.