Testing Tester
On August 9, 2022, Montana Senator Jon Tester dispatched an email amorously engaging in the Inflation Reduction Act. In the one paragraph on climate change, the largest expenditure on the bill, he proclaimed the following:
“The Inflation Reduction Act unleashes American energy. By investing in both renewable and traditional energy production, we're securing Montana's energy future, protecting our planet, creating jobs at home, and diminishing our reliance on adversaries like Russia and China.”
First, the subject Act in no manner invests in ‘traditional’ energies unless Tester’s party has generated a new definition for that adjective. This could very well be since the party cannot define the word ‘woman’ and, miss-define the meaning of ‘recession’. As well, in the case of government, ‘investing’ is merely a euphemism for ‘spending’.
Of course, there is no requirement for “diminishing our reliance on adversaries like Russia and China”. The United States has more gas and oil than those two countries combined. Tester makes a declaration of “creating jobs at home” when the reverse is assuredly to happen. Drilling will cease, and manufacturing will become outlandishly expensive; this, while minerals resource extraction will become extinct and Montana’s economic backbone of farming and ranching, without fertilizers, will be significantly and effectively weakened.
The American elimination of fossil fuels will assuredly make adversaries like Russia and China stronger both economically and militarily.
Most of the climate change spending will be handing out checks to wind and solar companies without any regard to the diabolical histories of Solyndra in California or the Tonopah Solar Energy Plant in Nevada, both projects where the taxpayers lost billions. Tax credits for electric cars will be issued, but it’s only the climate-illiterate wealthy that can afford them. The climate campaign constantly foils and stymies the voices of the poor, the weak, and the elderly.
Tester’s claims of “protecting the planet” are simply words of pretension, arrogance, and neglect. Tester has fully joined the progressive wing of his party. At least, in the beginning, he only emailed on subjects like Montana’s public lands, farming, ranching, and loudly blowing his trumpet at war memorials and veteran’s celebrations, but now he clearly affirms his leftism.
In his first campaign for office, Tester contended he would only run for a single term, his initial victory eased by the corrupt Abramoff scandal of his challenger, but I suppose Washington’s political glitz and glamour have sufficiently influenced him to prepare for a fourth campaign. He has already been seated in Congress for 16 years, very much assisted by the large voting bloc that migrated to Montana from California. These are the people that leave their state because of adverse politics, only to carry the same political baggage to their very next stop.