John Kerry

popular issue.

Years ago, I looked at the polling on the tradeoff between doing things for the environment versus favoring doing what could be done to pump up the economy. Ignoring that one thing I liked best of Kerry's 2004 (and to this day) positions is that there does not have to be a tradeoff and in fact, it was possible that doing what was needed could actually HELP the economy, many many people see this as a tradeoff - which is why it was polled. What was obvious in the polling was that as the economy worsened, the willingness to put any resources to helping the environment became very low.

It is idiotic when the weather in the last two years has been volatile and unlike what used to be the norm, that more Congressmen and Senators do NOT consider the long term good - but fear of not being re elected as the motivator for many to not want to do anything. I had been surprised how many Democrats, including many DU favorites, fought Kerry in 2009/2010 on a bill to deal with it.