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Dim bulb Republicans blame Democrats for their dim bulb policy

Bachman, who else, is making hay over the light bulb efficiency standards and she is for the first time embracing freedom of choice, for light bulbs.  She blames Obama for taking away the light.  But it wasn't his idea (picture a light bulb over his head in keeping with the theme)

But despite the outcry, the new standards were not Obama's fault -- or even his idea. Yes, he voted for them as part of the broad reform bill in 2007. Yes, his administration is implementing consumer efficiency standards already written into law. And yes, he has actively promoted lightbulb restrictions. "I know light bulbs might not seem sexy," Obama said at a 2009 press conference with Energy Secretary Steven Chu, "but this simple action holds enormous promise because 7 percent of all energy consumed in America is used to light our homes and our businesses."

But the standards were initially proposed by a Republican, Fred Upton of Michigan, the current chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. President Bush signed the new lightbulb standards into law in 2007 along with the rest of the bill, and they generated little partisan controversy at the time. For Republicans, the main legislative sticking points were over auto fuel-efficiency standards, mandatory renewable/petroleum blending at refineries, and then-House-Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-Calif.) failed attempt to include a requirement that more of the nation's electricity come from renewable sources. When the Senate passed the bill, The Washington Post's writeup mentioned nothing about lightbulbs.


I am sure most of the Republicans in Washington know this, but I give Bachman full benefit of the doubt in her sincerity, because I believe her to be that stupid.  But the majority of them aren't as much stupid, as dishonest and love to paint the picture of Obama taking away the freedom to use the bulbs that the Founding Fathers used.

And Tea Partiers fall for it because they aren't that bright.-george