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GOP and cap and dividend policy
Would the GOP support a cap-and-dividend energy policy? Jon Isham, energy and climate change expert and Professor of International Environmental Economics at Middlebury College in VT, hopes the Obama administration will: http://blog.islandpress.org/246/jon-isham-what-comes-after-yes-we-can
Posted to Politics by IslandPress on November 18, 2008
Create a Climate Change Czar
Grist says Obama should consider creating a ''climate change czar,'' and thinks Terry Tamminen, former Secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency and Lives Per Gallon: The True Cost of Our Oil Addiction author would fit the bill. More details at: www.islandpress.org
Posted to Politics by IslandPress on November 6, 2008
Worst Candidate ALWAYS Wins U.S. Elections
Looking back on United States Presidential Election History, I have concluded that the WORST Candidate ALWAYS Wins the Election for the U.S. Presidency. I could cite all the examples, such as Wendel Wilkie, Adlai Stevenson, Richard Nixon, Michael Dukakis, Al Gore and George H. Walker Bush (Senior) along with George W. Bush (Junior); but you get ...
Posted to Trailhead by MichaelBernard2 on September 25, 2008
Obama - "Change You Can Count On"-(flip flop) - part 1
''Change You Can Count on'' What??? CHANGE #1: Despite Pledging To Withdraw American Troops From Iraq Immediately, Barack Obama Now Says He Would ''Refine'' His Policy After Listening To The Commanders On The Ground In July 2008, Barack Obama Said He Will Continue To ''Refine'' His Iraq Policy. Obama: ''I've always said that the pace of ...
Posted to Politics by MiamiVice on August 11, 2008
Robert the Bruce of the Crusade issue
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Posted to XX Factor by Independence on August 11, 2008
Obama needs to reframe his Energy Plan
This energy debate is getting ridiculous. John McCain is going nuts with that ''inflate your tires'' thing and it seems like it might be working. Obama is kinda struggling to define his energy plan on McCain's terms. He needs to stop doing that. McCain is kinda starting to own this debate by making it about ''increasing America's oil ...
Posted to Trailhead by Carnivorous Santa on August 8, 2008
Obama "Talk the Talk...but can he Walk the Walk" Part 2
Obama “Talk the Talk… but can he Walk the Walk” Part 2 In 1999, Barack Obama was faced with a difficult vote in the Illinois legislature — to support a bill that would let some juveniles be tried as adults, a position that risked drawing fire from African-Americans, or to oppose it, possibly undermining his image as a tough-on-crime moderate. ...
Posted to XX Factor by MiamiVice on August 8, 2008
Re: Obama, Oil, Drilling, Devaluation
What free lunch?? GOP Policies failures due to those Socialist democrats in Congress like Pelosi... Congress has its own ban on offshore energy exploration, and the Democrats who run Congress have shown no sign that they are willing to follow Bush's example. They have preferred to make excuses--about why the price of oil is rising, who is to ...
Posted to XX Factor by MiamiVice on August 5, 2008