He’s Been Called an ‘Old Bull,’ but Never A ‘Dingellsaurus’

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http://public.cq.com/docs/cqt/news110-000002540861.html

He’s Been Called an ‘Old Bull,’ but Never A ‘Dingellsaurus’
By Rebecca Adams, CQ Staff

That’s how MoveOn.org is describing House Energy and Commerce Chairman John D. Dingell in radio spots beginning Wednesday that target his go-slow approach to global-warming initiatives.

The ads coincide with a markup in Dingell’s committee of a bill the group says doesn’t do enough to stall climate change.

MoveOn members, dressed in dinosaur costumes, plan to deliver dinosaur balloons and toys to the offices of the Michigan Democrat, currently the nation’s longest-serving congressman.

Since a “Dingellsaurus” is not defined in Webster’s dictionary, a father in the ad helpfully explains to his son that the creature is “someone who’s been in Congress so long, he forgets about the people who sent him there.”

The ad, slated to run in Michigan, accuses Dingell of “standing in the way of the first energy bill ever that would really combat global warming.” The Dingellsaurus is a very “dangerous” dinosaur, the dad warns, “because if the Dingellsaurus gets his way, we all could be extinct.”

Committee spokeswoman Jodi Seth questioned the group’s command of the facts, saying Dingell is fully committed to moving a separate climate-change package in the fall. She also asserted that the energy-efficiency requirements in the bill the committee marks up Wednesday would eliminate 8 billion tons of carbon dioxide by 2030.

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1. Better that than be called a "Dingellberry" n/t

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2. He's been my rep for as long as I've lived here

And what MoveOn is missing is that he is trying to not deliver any death-blows to a very, very weak and fragile economy in Michigan--which, by the way, is what he's elected to do, look after us. So for some outside PAC to come in and tell US he's "forgotten about us" is fucking ridiculous. He has the weight of an entire dying region on his shoulders and is doing his best for both Michigan and the environment. It's unfair to paint him as some enemy of the anti-global warming movement when he's dealing with the economic effects of the same executive jerks who made the environmental effects as well.