Energy is the next big confrontation - and the wingnuts are gearing up - this from Think Progress and Climate Progress
Coal lobby hires top GOP voter-fraud company to run massive "grassroots" efforts to undermine climate and clean energy action
This may be a diary already, in which case, I'll take this down, but if not, it seems to me that the Progressive wing has been taken completely off guard by the ferocity and blind idiocy of the wingnut/Teabagger/guano-loco-armed-and-ready wing of the right, which is quite happy to shoot itself in the foot in order to see Obama fail as President. If they're so short sighted as to undermine a decent, thoughtful healthcare system - when everyone, but everyone, short of the truly fruit-loop christian scientists - uses health care at some point or other and would benefit from a system that worked...
then it doesn't take much of a stretch of the imagination to consider quite how rabid they might become over something as contentious as global warming and energy. You and I might know that global heating (James Lovelock's term) is running out of control - and if you don't, take a look at Climate Progress to see the current data... but the wingnuts are plugged into Denial mindsets and are feeding off hate.
So when they start rampaging through the town halls on this too, it wouldn't hurt to be ready - and to know who's funding them and why: -
The coal industry lobbying outfit the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE) is pressing forward with an aggressive astroturfing campaign going after U.S. senators — despite the recent revelation that it was responsible for forged "grassroots" letters to lawmakers, attacking the American Clean Energy and Security Act:
ThinkProgress has discovered that ACCCE has subcontracted its astroturf operations to the Lincoln Strategy Group, a GOP-tied firm notorious for voter fraud. The LinkedIn profile for Lincoln Strategies staffer Courtney Forrester reveals that her employer is engaged in a massive effort to recruit supporters on behalf of the coal industry. Steve Gates, communications director for ACCCE, told ThinkProgress that Lincoln Strategy Group ran their grassroots campaign last year as well.