"Koch brothers spent their money well and their presence can be felt"
"Voters didn't ask for this pro-polluter agenda, but the Koch brothers spent their money well and their presence can be felt.
At the end of 2011, only twenty of the sixty-five Republican members of Congress who responded to a survey were willing to say that they believed climate change was causing the planet to warm. Tim Phillips gladly took credit for the dramatic spike in expressed skepticism. "if you look at where the situation was three years ago and where it is today, there's been a dramatic turnaround," he told the National Journal. "Most of these candidates have figured out that the science has become political," he said. "We've made great headway. What it means for candidates on the Republican side is, if you ... buy into green energy or you play footsie on the issue, you do so at your political peril. The vast majority of people who are involved in the [Republican] nominating process - the conventions and the primaries - are suspect of the science. And that's our influence. Groups like American for Prosperity have done it." [page 278]
"Voters didn't ask for this pro-polluter agenda, but the Koch brothers spent their money well and their presence can be felt.
At the end of 2011, only twenty of the sixty-five Republican members of Congress who responded to a survey were willing to say that they believed climate change was causing the planet to warm. Tim Phillips gladly took credit for the dramatic spike in expressed skepticism. "if you look at where the situation was three years ago and where it is today, there's been a dramatic turnaround," he told the National Journal. "Most of these candidates have figured out that the science has become political," he said. "We've made great headway. What it means for candidates on the Republican side is, if you ... buy into green energy or you play footsie on the issue, you do so at your political peril. The vast majority of people who are involved in the [Republican] nominating process - the conventions and the primaries - are suspect of the science. And that's our influence. Groups like American for Prosperity have done it." [page 278]
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