Democrats are caving

Dear MoveOn member,

This is it. Congress is about to begin voting on the biggest clean energy jobs plan America has ever seen—but last week we learned that a few conservative Democrats on the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee are conspiring to weaken it.

Their leader is threatening to block the bill from even reaching the House floor unless it's changed to make the coal industry happy—and delay America's switch to a clean energy economy.1 Millions of new, high-paying jobs are at stake.

We've only got one shot at at this thing. If the bill gets watered down now, it'll be really hard to strengthen it later. So we've put together an ad to run in key Democrats' home districts, showing how clean energy can rebuild the American economy one community at a time.

The first votes are expected this week so we need to raise $192,000 to get the ad on the air today and keep it up throughout the voting. Can you chip in $25 to help out? Click here:

This clean energy jobs bill would aggressively scale up American wind and solar production and save us all money by investing in energy-efficiency programs. It's a bold start at moving America to a clean energy economy, and it was written by two of the great progressive champions in Congress, Henry Waxman of California and Ed Markey of Massachusetts.

MoveOn's got a critical role to play in supporting and strengthening the bill—and making sure that conservative Democrats don't side with Big Oil and Coal to kill the bill or weaken it beyond recognition.

Already, MoveOn members are organizing media events in representatives' home districts where business leaders will speak about the opportunities of a clean energy economy.

To turn up the heat, our new ad shows how we could create clean energy jobs across America to pull us out of this economic crisis and make America a clean-technology leader for the 21st century. We're running it in the districts of three swing Democrats in Virginia, Tennessee, and Texas.

With the first votes expected this week, there's no time to waste. Help us get started right away with a contribution of $25. Please click here:

Thanks for all you do.

–Adam, Anna, Matt, Laura and the rest of the team


My MoveOn Response To Tell MoveOn to Move On

They're caving in because they know the bill is bullshit. No other way to put it. Why do we need government to pay for "clean energy technology?" A government panel from Obama's auto industry group just said that electric cars aren't viable.

These are YOUR buddies that YOU'RE trying to promote saying that there is no future for electric cars unless the government supplements them so people can afford them.

What?

I have a better idea: STOP TAXING THE HELL OUT OF EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE and maybe we can do all of this green energy stuff on our own.