In his speech to the National Wildlife Federation?s annual meeting, [New Mexico Governor Bill] Richardson claimed: ?There?s an energy bill before Congress. It is a bad bill. It is a bill that says America is going to get out of its energy dependence by drilling, drilling and drilling, production, production, production. It is short on conservation. It is short on energy efficiency. It is short in new technologies for solar, wind and biomass. And it is a bill that on its face should be defeated.?

?There is no energy bill, so Governor Richardson or anyone else critical of ?the bill? doesn?t know what they are talking about. I truly believe the governor would be better served by being constructive instead of mouthing off in speeches about things he couldn?t possibly know about. Maybe the governor intended for his speech to be an April Fools prank, but I?m not laughing,? Domenici said.

I stopped caring what Saint Pete says when he abruptly dropped his lifelong fiscal conservatism. This quote makes him sound like a cranky old man. And, since we have seen his bill before, unless there has been a sudden change, we know who is pulling the April Fool’s joke. Fraud and fakery from the GOP. mjh

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