The headline of a Roll Call article describes the climate change legislation being introduced today by Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and John Kerry (D-Mass.) as “Radioactive.” Many in the nation’s capitol agree. At the American Petroleum Institute, President Jack Gerard offered some choice words for the measure serving as the Senate counterpart to the House’s [...]
Boxer-Kerry Climate Change Bill Faces Opposition (Update)
September 30th, 2009 · 3 Comments
Tags: · american petroleum institute, api, Barbara Boxer, Boxer, cap and trade, carbon emissions, clean air act, Climate Change, climate change bill, climate change legislation, energy rationing, energy security, EPA, expansion of government mandates, higher electricity prices, higher food prices, higher gas prices, Inhofe, Jack Gerard, Jim Inhofe, job losses, John Kerry, Kerry, markey, roll call, waxman, waxman-markey, waxman-markey climate change bill
Sen. John Kerry’s Been Moonlighting as Ad Man
September 10th, 2009 · 2 Comments
Just a few days ago, the Guardian newspaper reported that the conservation charity WWF and an ad agency admitted that a press campaign comparing the loss of life in the New York 9/11 attacks and the Asian tsunami “should never have been made” (see ad campaign image at right). Today, a Washington Independent report highlighted [...]
Tags: · 9-11, 9-11 commission, 9-11 commission report, advertising, advertising agency, asian tsunami, Climate Change, climate change legislation, failure of imagination, george washington university, Guardian, imagination gap, John Kerry, Kerry, Sen. John Kerry, September 11, tsunami, washington independent, wwf
Inhofe Strikes Blows at Global Warming Hearing
August 6th, 2009 · 2 Comments
Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) struck some early blows against global warming during his opening statement made this morning at the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing on global warming. That statement, aimed primarily at Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), chairman of the committee, appears below: “Madame Chairman, thank you for holding this hearing today. This [...]
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Senator John Kerry Wants U.S. to Get ‘L.O.S.T.’
May 8th, 2009 · 6 Comments
It appears Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) wants the United States to get “L.O.S.T.” Today, he’s pushing for quick passage of the controversial United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea Treaty. According to a report published yesterday in The New York Times, Senator Kerry — who, by the way, served in Vietnam — [...]
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Poll: 73 Percent of Americans Think Members of Congress Should Return Contributions from AIG
March 25th, 2009 · No Comments
As President Barack Obama and Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) continue to point fingers over which one of them is to blame for the stimulus bill’s “Dodd Amendment,” which specifically excludes bonuses from caps on executive pay, one thing is clear: both Obama and Dodd profited from AIG campaign “bonuses” and an overwhelming majority of Americans [...]
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‘Burning Down the House’ Explains Economic Crisis
September 27th, 2008 · 5 Comments
Burning Down The House: What Caused Our Economic Crisis is, perhaps, the best video yet to explain the current economic crisis and offers details about the political players involved, including presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama and several of the folks most responsible for the crisis. UPDATE 9/29/08: It appears the video that is [...]
Tags: · Affordable Mortgages, African-American applicants, bad government regulation, Bank Collapse, Barack Obama, Barney Frank, bear stearns, bundling, burning down the house, burning down the house video, calvin robertson, Campaign Contributions, carter administration, citibank, clinton administration omb director, Community Reinvestment Act of 1995, countrywide mortgage, cra, Democrats, deregulation, Education, failed economic policies, fannie mae, fannie mae ceo, Foreclosures, franklin raines, free markets, Gas Prices, Goldman Sachs, government mandate, government-sponsored enterprise, great depression, home ownership, Home Ownership Rates, Home Prices, house of cards, Housing Bubble, Housing Enterprise Regulatory Act of 2005, investment banker, jim johnson, John Kerry, John McCain, lehman brothers, main street banks, McCain, Melvin Watt, miner barnhill and galland, minority neighborhoods, Nancy Pelosi, Obama, obama's political philosophy, opensecrets.org, Pelosi, poor people, predatory lenders, responsibility, self-interested lawyers, social engineering, Sub-Prime Loans, Time Bomb, Variable-Rate Mortgages, Wall Street
Groups Want Secret Debate Contract Made Public
September 18th, 2008 · No Comments
Ten self-described pro-democracy groups are calling on the Commission on Presidential Debates to make public the secret debate contract negotiated by the Barack Obama and John McCain campaigns. The list of groups involved includes: Open Debates, Common Cause, Fair Vote, Judicial Watch, Democracy Matters, Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting, Rock the Debates, Personal Democracy Forum, [...]
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