You know you're fucking up when your lapdog environmental group is turning against you. [View all]

[MadHound]

"Next month, the Sierra Club will officially participate in an act of peaceful civil resistance. We'll be following in the hallowed footsteps of Thoreau, who first articulated the principles of civil disobedience 44 years before John Muir founded the Sierra Club."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-brune/from-walden-to-the-white_b_2529534.html

Disappointed and disillusioned by the lack of meaningful progress in stopping global climate change, even Sierra Club has finally recognized that playing political games as usual is going to accomplish nothing. With the effects of global climate change taking a greater and greater toll upon people and the planet, they recognize the time to act, decisively and forcefully, is now.

The question is, with political gridlock even more entrenched with Reid's latest cave, is real change even possible. Though Obama has always talked a good environmental game, his actual actions have been minimal. In fact right now, it is looking increasingly likely that his administration will go ahead and green light the Keystone XL pipeline, effectively consigning the Plains states to becoming an environmental nightmare waiting to happen, and the rest of us to at least another generation of being hooked to oil, only this time especially polluting oil.

I welcome the Sierra Club to the fight, and am happy that their eyes are finally open. With this break, the Democrats need to wake up to the fact that they are making a serious mistake, softpedaling environmental reform, and it could cost them a lot. The Sierra Club provided a lot of cover for them over the past years and decades, and with that now gone they stand as the naked hypocrites that they are when it comes to the environment. Maybe this will shock them into taking action, let's hope so.