Jennifer Granholm

Lyin’ Ryan

Jennifer Granholm writes for POLITICO, August 30, 2012

On Aug. 16, campaigning as the VP pick of the party that would have let GM be liquidated, Ryan told a crowd, “one of the reasons that plant got shut down was $4 gasoline. You see, this costs jobs. The president’s terrible energy policies are costing us jobs.” That was a lie. Ryan knows this. Obama’s energy policies had nothing to do with the price of gas in 2008.

It’s the Medicare and the skinny dippers, stupid!

Jennifer Granholm writes for POLITICO, August 21, 2012

We’ve all seen the empirical evidence from the Bush years to demonstrate that trickle down doesn’t work; it only shoves money to the wealthy who make decisions about investments and job creation on a global basis…. At some point, they need to present a plan and some credible evidence that it will help the American economy—and the Republicans simply can’t do that, because no such evidence exists.

Now it’s Barack Obama vs. GOP Congress

Jennifer Granholm writes for POLITICO, August 14, 2012

Ryan was, of course, one of the leaders behind Congress’s refusal to compromise with President Barack Obama and the Democrats. He voted against Simpson-Bowles. He publicly trashed the product of the Gang of Six. His House Republican Caucus led us close to the brink of default.

For real jobs plan, empower govs

Jennifer Granholm writes for POLITICO, August 8, 2012

Governors are hungry for both dollars and jobs, and states alone don’t have the resources to compete against China. But if the federal government could catalyze action, sparking private sector partnerships and state-level policy changes — be they tax incentives, land assembly, streamlined permitting processes, renewable-energy standards, access to capital, access to talent and training — then this bottom-up Clean Energy Jobs Race to the Top would create millions of permanent, well-paying advanced manufacturing jobs in America in the next four years.

Congress: Jump off that cliff!

Jennifer Granholm writes for POLITICO, July 31, 2012

The Congress is staring over a fiscal cliff. One that we’re warned will pull down our nation on Dec. 31 if there’s no agreement to extend the Bush tax cuts or avert automatic spending cuts that Congress agreed to in the debt ceiling debate in the summer of 2011 — cuts weirdly named, like the title monster in a B horror film, “The Sequester.”

GOP helping China win gold

Jennifer Granholm writes for POLITICO, July 24, 2012

A member of the Chinese delegation approached me and asked, “So, when do you think the U.S. will adopt national energy policy?” I rolled my eyes and shrugged my shoulders. “With the tea party and Republicans in Congress,” I sighed, “it won’t happen anytime soon.” The official smiled with delight. “Take your time,” he said.

Why all govs will opt into ‘Obamacare’

Jennifer Granholm writes for POLITICO, July 11, 2012

Turning down the Medicaid expansion would mean rejecting $76.3 billion in federal help for 2014-2019. But Texans will still be paying billions in federal taxes to pay for the rest of the country’s Medicaid costs — payroll deductions don’t go away if a state opts out of ‘Obamacare.’

Mitt’s telling the truth. Seriously

Jennifer Granholm writes for POLITICO, June 26, 2012

He’s going to cut millions of jobs across America, destroy the rights of workers to organize, privatize Medicare and public schools, roll back environmental protections, abandon clean-energy efforts, give corporations and the wealthy more tax cuts, appoint Supreme Court justices who will overturn Roe v. Wade and veto rational immigration reform. Believe him when he says these things.

The Millennial factor

Jennifer Granholm writes for POLITICO, June 6, 2012

So here’s my plea to Millennials: If you have any generational defiance in you, if you feel outraged by cynical attempts to limit your most fundamental rights, if your inner rebel is twitching, than cast your vote. Do it despite the obstacles the Republican legislators are erecting. Or maybe because of them.