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Global warming skeptic flattens Big Green’s arrogant Oberstar

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div styletextalign leftemThey say pride goeth before the fall and thats exactly what has happened to many pretentious Democrats this past election season. They now know what its like to be without job. And, those who continue to push global warming which has been proven to be based on false data find themselves in that manymillion strong unemployment line. They felt above the everyday, average American who not only feels global warming is becoming a joke, but that the support of it costs millions of jobs. In this article below, youll see one fine example of one congressional hopeful who did all the right things by supporting his districts energybased constituency.emdivdivBy Ron Arnold, Executive VP of Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise reprinted from the Washington ExaminerPolitical novice Chip Cravaack came out of nowhere and beat one of the most powerful Democrats in the congressional Big Green machine Minnesotas longestserving, 18term Rep. Jim Oberstar, chairman of an important committee and an influential global warming believer.Cravaack, 50, won the states vast 8th Congressional District the first Republican to serve there since 1947by a slim 4,400 votes. It was the year of the Tea Party, Cravaack saw a chink in Oberstars armor, and the newcomers everyvotecounts campaign worked the districts 17 counties hard, trumping Oberstars 100 percent rating by the League of Conservation Voters.A Naval Academy graduate with a masters degree in education, decorated naval and retired airline pilot, Cravaack sincerely thought he could beat Oberstar, but nobody else did except his wife, Traci. She said she would take care of things at homethey have two sonsso he hit the road. He lives in Lindstrom, in the districts Republicanleaning south, not far from Minneapolis, but the Democrat vote was concentrated nearly 200 miles north in the Iron Range. Many union miners and steelworkers there felt they couldnt trust Oberstar because his defiant 2009 vote for the capandtrade bill was a vote to kill the mining industry.That vote hurt Oberstar more than his vote for Obamacare, something Cravaack didnt see at first he decided to run because Oberstar snubbed a meeting about health care with local voters. But in September, when Cravaack went to the Minorca Mining facility in a fight for endorsement, he lost to Oberstar by a shockingly close 2825, and a TV poll showed the incumbent ahead by only one point, 4746.Cravaack courted the Iron Range, promoting new mines like the multimineral PolyMet mine and others to supplement the huge iron industry. Don Parmeter a native of northern Minnesota, 35year veteran of environmental politics, and cochairman of the National Water amp Conservation Alliancesaid the entire district was worried about a different Oberstar monstrosity the Clean Water Restoration Act. Oberstar wrote and introduced it as chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.Unbelievably, it removed the word navigable from waters of the United States and substituted a list of more than 15 kinds of wet places including sandflats and all watersheds, ending with the horrifying clause are subject to the legislative power of Congress. Parmeter said, Federal control over all watersheds means every square inch of America. It wasnt even about water it was a total land grab. And the media began to report it. It never passed.Then, during a rowdy, emotional, packedauditorium debate in Duluth two weeks before Election Day, Oberstar made a fatal error. Cravaack had just said, We must get rid of regulations. I trust you with your money. He trusts the government with your money, pointing at Oberstar.Then Oberstar warned that global warming was destroying everything and we must pass capand trade regulations, to loud jeers and booing. Oberstar looked out at his audience and arrogantly said, Global warming is real. You must be members of the Flat Earth Society. Insulting the constituency is what killed his vote, said Parmeter. The Duluth NewsTribune quickly endorsed Cravaack.When I interviewed Cravaak, I asked what his first priority was. He said, Im going to do everything I can to get those new mines permitted, operating, and creating jobs. This is a tremendous opportunity for economic recovery.Perhaps as a Christmas present to residents in Minnesotas 8th Congressional District, the Republican leadership appointed Cravaack to the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.emWashington Examiner contributor Ron Arnold is executive vice president of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise.emdiv