{"id":10267,"date":"2013-04-12T03:59:58","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T10:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=10267"},"modified":"2013-04-12T03:59:58","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T10:59:58","slug":"barrassos-oath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/12\/barrassos-oath\/","title":{"rendered":"Barrasso’s Oath"},"content":{"rendered":"

Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) is a medical doctor.  As such, he has to have had considerable exposure to the scientific method.  In addition, he gas to have taken the Hippocratic Oath, promising to do no harm.  Sadly, he seems quite content to ignore both.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"12BarassoOath\"Today, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held its confirmation hearing for Gina McCarthy, who was nominated by President Obama to be our next Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator. During the hearing, one of her chief inquisitors was Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), who is one of three doctors in the United States Senate and a long-time opponent of public health safeguards from dirty air, water and climate pollution<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Barrasso used this opportunity to indicate that he only applies the physician\u2019s Hippocratic Oath<\/a> to \u201ckeep them from harm and injustice\u201d when the harm would occur to the profits of big oil and coal companies. Furthermore, he frequently denies the ever-strengthening scientific understanding that human activity is responsible for climate change<\/strong>. It\u2019s like a physician denying that smoking causes cancer.<\/p>\n

Barrasso began his opening statement today by falsely accusing the Obama administration and the EPA of \u201cmaking it impossible for our coal miners to feed their families\u2026. These people are heroes and they deserve better than what they are getting from the EPA.\u201d The facts say otherwise \u2014 the average number of coal-mining jobs under the Obama administration has been over 15 percent higher<\/a> than under George W. Bush. Moreover, McCarthy has received a lot of support<\/a> from industry officials including American Electric Power, a company that relies heavily on coal…<\/p>\n

…So why is Senator Barrasso is protecting polluter interests over public health<\/strong>? Maybe it has something to do with the $526,866<\/a> in campaign donations from oil or gas. Or maybe the $122,831<\/a> from the coal industry? Whatever the reason, the doctor is a longtime practitioner of political malpractice. [emphasis added]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Think Progress<\/a>><\/p>\n

The spelling in my graphic is NOT a typo.  I\u2019ve shared the beginning and the end of the article.  Click through to read the details on how Barrasso has abandoned his medical training, his oath, and his constituents to support the destruction of our planet for polluter profit.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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