March 14, 2012 05:49 PM UTC

Congresscritter Tipton Geographically Confuddled

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• by: taterheaptom

( – promoted by Colorado Pols)

“Let’s develop the Keystone pipeline and let’s get the 3rd Congressional District and western Colorado back-to-work.”  Rep. Scott Tipton on his jobs plan

People with dirt under their fingernails need jobs too.  But not farmers.  Coal dust, radioactive frack sand.  Organic soil?  Not so much.  

And on the circus that done rolled through town…

“I won’t take a position in the Republican race because we have our own race to run, but I will be supporting the Republican candidate.”

I can’t blame him there, I guess, all his peeps got Rick fever, but Scott doesn’t want to upset nobody now–least of all his always-losing presumptive nominee.  But apart from the ‘get done by whatever way Big Oil wants, when it wants and how it wants is what is best for my constituents’ schtik now so familiar coming from the congresscritter’s mouth in jumbled half-remembered K-Street talking points.  There’s this conduits jobs things.  

So we got ditches up here. Conduits. And–funny thing–a bunch of the ditch companies are none too psyched about the BLM plans to turn the area into a gaspatch, but that is a different matter.  

Now micro-hydro is something even a dirty-finger-nailed hippie can appreciate, as I know a few. But to package it as a ‘jobs’ bill?  Really?  I would ask to see the math, but that sounds pretty difficult for the freshman who has difficulties keeping his own accounts straight.  And he’s got a race to run, after all.