Anyone else seen the political ad with the retired Governors Bill Owens and Roy Romer walking and talking about how fracking is safe? With Hick also supporting the oil and gas industry, is this issue dividing the Democrat party?
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
Now, one wonders how those who have heralded the Boulder County Clerk's decision to ignore the State Constitution with regards to the homosexual marriage ban will react if and when one of the owners/operators of a well in the Longmont area decides that they too are able to completely ignore a law that is being challenged through normal judicial channels . . .
Is it as simple as following the money? Politicians of every stripe always find ways to justify accepting money regardless of the source. The oil and gas industry obviously has money and can make more if they have popular political support.
I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.
"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him; better take a closer look at the American Indian." - Henry Ford
Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges; When the Republic is at its most corrupt the laws are most numerous. - Publius Cornelius Tacitus
