Aaron Schock a ‘fringe’ candidate?

June 26, 2009
By Billy Dennis

An Illinois blogger has harsh words for Congressman Aaron Schock:

Although Schock appeals to some as the kind of reasonable Republican his district historically elects, like Ray LaHood and Bob Michael, on energy issues he’s gravitating toward the Shimkus fringe of his party. I’ve read that Schock will likely oppose the ACES global warming bill.

Even worse, he’s co-sponsoring the “American Energy Act” which comes from the Republican energy group co-chaired by John Shimkus. The bill is full of measures to weaken environmental regulations and increase corporate welfare for polluting industries.

Schock echoes Shimkus by bragging that the bill threatens ANWR. His press release admits he supports “lifting restrictions on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), the Outer Continental Shelf, and oil shale in the Mountain West.”

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6 Responses to “ Aaron Schock a ‘fringe’ candidate? ”

  1. David P. Jordan on June 27, 2009 at 1:14 am

    I’ve read that Schock will likely oppose the ACES global warming bill

    he supports “lifting restrictions on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), the Outer Continental Shelf, and oil shale in the Mountain West

    His Rock Island Trail stance is obnoxious but the above items confirm why I haven’t regretted voting for him last November.

  2. Will on June 27, 2009 at 12:48 pm

    Thanks for the link.
    It says a lot that Shimkus endorsed Schock early in the GOP primary when LaHood did not. I’m still waiting to see if Schock stands for environmental protection in other areas. So far, he has the veneer of a moderate with a record of supporting the talk radio fringe.

  3. Punditry on June 27, 2009 at 1:01 pm

    He is spending a few years shoring up the wing nut tax temper tantrum base of the party so he can make it through a primary when he runs for the senate or God forbid, POTUS.

  4. Mahkno on June 27, 2009 at 9:46 pm

    Fringe? He looks pretty mainstream among Republicans. Of course what is left of the GOP is increasingly looking ‘fringe’.

  5. Chase Ingersoll on June 28, 2009 at 5:14 pm

    Before reporting on this bill, please review the history of Cap n Trade and how it was cooked up by…..Enron’s CEO Economic Professor Ken Lay and Al Gore with Goldman Sachs waiting in the wings to finance the IPO of a new CO2 “market”.

    It was really quite a simple scheme: use the scare of global warming to get legislation passed that would create another market like the NYSE that the big insiders could play their pump and dump game. Crash the NYSE and mom and pop will thing….but my money will be safe in Carbon Credits because as the population of the world rises there will be increased output of carbon.

    That is why you have major corporations funding the environmental non-profits and the university profs like Kenny Lay who pump out the junk science.

  6. Mahkno on June 28, 2009 at 5:50 pm

    Chase, you do know where already exists a Cap n Trade program with regards to Sulphur Dioxide? SO2 was put under Cap n Trade during the Papa Bush administration. It exceeded expected targets in all important categories. Can’t say the economic world has fallen because of it.

    Will it work for CO2? I don’t know but this idea is hardly new and hardly the stuff of conspiracy theory.