This week the President admitted what D.C. insiders have been saying for months about the Democratic plan to control greenhouse gas emissions. ACES, The American Clean Energy and Security Bill passed by the House last fall, which is intended to control emissions by a cap-and-trade mechanism, is politically dead. At a town hall meeting inContinue reading “Obama admits cap and trade is dead”
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Having fun with fundamentalism
On an Economist site, the blogger known as DIA bemoans what happens to an Alabama politician who dares question the possibility that every single word in the Bible might not be true. DIA wrote: "EVERY politician says something he has to walk back once in a while. In the case of Bradley Byrne, a RepublicanContinue reading “Having fun with fundamentalism”
Cap and Trade: FactCheck calls GOP liars
The ACES/Waxman-Markey bill to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, currently going nowhere in the Senate, has been victimized by a number of outrageous misrepresentations and figures. Even if you don't think the bill is the best answer to the challenge of global warming, as many do not, that doesn't justify flat-out lying. Here are the facts,Continue reading “Cap and Trade: FactCheck calls GOP liars”
Palin vs. Gore on Climategate
Super-blogger Andrew Sullivan has an intriguing feature on his site called The Odd Lies of Sarah Palin in which he catalogues the way the most popular so-called "conservative" in the country today lies seemingly reflexively, even about topics which are not the least bit controversial. (For instance, whether or not she consulted her daughters aboutContinue reading “Palin vs. Gore on Climategate”
Palin: “A String of Cliches” or “A Figure of Historic Consequence?”
The Economist on Sarah Palin's book: On policy, Mrs Palin’s book is negligible. Her call for “commonsense conservatism” is a string of clichés. She favours free markets and a robust defence, but other than that she offers few specifics about how she would grapple with the big problems America actually faces. She sometimes says thingsContinue reading “Palin: “A String of Cliches” or “A Figure of Historic Consequence?””
Sarah Palin: A Job in Heels with Cross-Eyes
If you find the Palin phenomenon fascinating, if alarmingly irrational, you will want to read the astounding rant on the subject from Matt Taibii, not published by Rolling Stone, but available via True/Slant. Here's a selection: Palin’s paranoid ramblings and self-pitying tantrums on the way out of office not only didn’t injure her chances forContinue reading “Sarah Palin: A Job in Heels with Cross-Eyes”
The Loneliness of the Last Flat-Earther
Funny story from Dana Milbank's Washington Post sketchbook on Sen. Inhofe, whose rants against global warming now seem so utterly dated and Bushian: "It must be very lonely being the last flat-earther. Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, committed climate-change denier, found himself in just such a position Tuesday morning as the Senate environment committee, onContinue reading “The Loneliness of the Last Flat-Earther”
The Worst Sexual Double Standard in Politics Today
Meghan McCain speaks out against the Puritanism of the GOP today, in a post for The Daily Beast called The GOP Is Clueless About Sex: Perhaps the worst sexual double standard in politics right now is that too many subconsciously believe Republican women are void of sexual desire altogether. Good point, Meghan. One wonders: HowContinue reading “The Worst Sexual Double Standard in Politics Today”
A Conservative Voice of Reason on Climate Change
Lindsay Graham, the senior senator from South Carolina, co-authored an op-ed over the weekend published in the New York Times, in which he called for the passage of climate change legislation. Graham of course is a Republican, but he defied "the Party of No" cliche, arguing sensibly that (according to the Huffington Post): I thinkContinue reading “A Conservative Voice of Reason on Climate Change”
China vs. the USA: Blaming the Other for Climate Change
This blog person hasn't spent much time on the climate legislation currently stalled in the Senate, not believing — sadly — it has much if any chance of passage. This position was bolstered by a blunt commentary from the NYTimes funniest columnist Gail Collins, who ranted to David Brooks: An energy bill is much harderContinue reading “China vs. the USA: Blaming the Other for Climate Change”
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