"Necklacing", Hillary Style

Get a load of who wants to generate towering clouds of acrid black smoke to char and choke the clean, fresh New York air?

New York Senator Hillary Clinton is backing a plan to burn old tires to supply energy to an upstate New York paper mill that will produce clouds of acrid black smoke - a proposal that has nearby residents in a panic over potential health risks.

In an April 13 letter to the New York Department of Environmental Conservation, Clinton urged that the agency approve a two-week test burn at International Paper's Ticonderoga, N.Y., mill – adjacent to environmentally pristine Lake Champlain. [my emphasis]

Oh, my God, this is just too rich. The queen of "Republicans want to kill people with dirty water and dirty air" proposes befouling a slice of sacred "Mother Earth." That's a level of cheek to make one's back teeth hurt.

Here's a sample:

"I know that some are concerned about the potential air quality impact of burning tires at the mill," she wrote, before explaining that she agreed with IP's claims that pollution from the tire smoke won't be too harmful.

The top Democrat said the health risks were worth taking for the good of the local economy.

"I am strongly committed to working to ensure that IP's Ticonderoga mill continues to thrive and provide hundreds of good-paying jobs in Ticonderoga and the surrounding communities for generations," she explained. [my emphases]

Can you imagine any Republican suggesting such a thing? S/he would (politically speaking) be dragged away in chains by the greeniacs, his/her dismembered corpse to one day be found in an abandoned mine shaft in the middle of nowhere. It would never, ever happen.

But Hillary will get away with it. Why? Because this is part of her "Look at me, I'm a conservative!" gimmick. This is what she thinks Republicans are for, and whatever she thinks Republicans are for is what she's going to ape (at least periodically) for the next three and a half years.

Just look how her fellow Donks are losing themselves in their bit parts:

Clinton's support for the tire burn has prompted heated protest from Vermont Governor James Douglas, whose constituents live downwind of the Ticonderoga plant.

"Governor Douglas believes we need people in the United States Senate who understand how important it is to protect and improve our environment," his press secretary blasted, in quotes picked up by the Barre Montpelier Times Argus.

Apparently Governor Douglas had the discretion to refrain from saying, "We need someone in the White House who understands etc., etc., etc." That's what he really meant, and in so doing he's helping ensure that he gets his wish.

And doesn't end up dismembered at the bottom of a mine shaft in the middle of nowhere.