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Posted at June 30, 2008 at 1:24 pm
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The White House is trying to block the release of an EPA report that has been mandated by the Supreme Court. It makes me wonder what part of Supreme do they not understand?
The Wall Street Journal is reporting the White House continues to fight tooth and nail to prevent the Environmental Protection Agency’s from publishing a report of greenhouse gases mandated by the Supreme Court. Their motive? According to the Journal, to prevent even the possibility of the EPA establishing and enforcing any kind of restriction on greenhouse gas emissions (Subscription only):
The draft document, which has been viewed by The Wall Street Journal, outlines how the government, under the Clean Air Act, could regulate greenhouse-gas emissions … The OMB instead wants the document to show that the Clean Air Act is flawed and that greenhouse-gas regulations should be developed under new legislation, several people close to the matter said.
The EPA document gained national attention last week when it was revealed that WH personnel refused to open the email containing it. It reportedly lays out a road map for how the EPA could regulate dangerous greenhouse gases as a pollutant under the Clean Air Act. Why might the Bush Administration be reluctant to hear about greenhouse gas regulations? Well, like any good rapacious neocon with their microbrains buried in the sand, they despise the Clean Air Act. Their concern, at least according to this Journal article, is that by allowing this to go forward, it might threaten Bush’s legacy as a … well I guess as a full blown, toxic, industrial sociopathic tycoon hell bent on unleashing climate destruction on a global scale.
The Daily Show gives some background information on this…
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Posted at June 30, 2008 at 11:40 am
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Posted at June 30, 2008 at 6:16 am
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Posted at June 29, 2008 at 5:18 pm
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This post from Matthew Yglesias is hilarious…
John McCain doesn’t know how to use a computer. John McCain doesn’t know when he last pumped gas or what it cost. John McCain owns seven homes and forgot to pay taxes on one of them for the past four years. But at least he’s not an elitist like Barack Obama. He earned his money the old-fashioned way — marrying an heiress.
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Posted at June 29, 2008 at 2:30 pm
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$0.02 a gallon
From Andrew Sullivan…
The economic advantage of drilling in ANWR:
The median case suggests the effect on gasoline prices in 2025 will be a mere $0.02 a gallon. The immediate effect will be zero as we’ll have to wait a decade to see any oil from ANWR. If this is Bush’s and McCain’s answer to today’s high gasoline prices, it is no answer at all.
Add that to the $0.08 a gallon we would save by increasing offshore drilling and the Republican plan to lower gas prices would save a whopping $0.10 a gallon.
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Posted at June 29, 2008 at 1:08 pm
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John McCain named his Iowa State Director last week and one of the leading journalists in the state, O Kay Henderson, had to use Google to find out information about him.
This release today from the McCain camp’s Dave Roederer, the chairman of McCain’s Iowa campaign through the Caucuses:
Dear Fellow Iowan,
It has been, and will continue to be, an honor to serve as Chairman of Senator McCain’s Iowa campaign. Iowa is going to be a key battleground state and I look forward to helping Senator McCain bring his message of government reform, lower taxes, and American security to all Iowans. Our organization in this state continues to grow and I am pleased to announce that Charlie Liebschutz has joined the team as the campaign’s Iowa State Director. Charlie and I will be working closely to expand our grassroots effort, which will be so critical in helping all Iowans to understand the substantive differences that exist between John McCain and Barack Obama.
If you have not already become involved in our grassroots organization, I ask you to sign-up to help organize your county or precinct. In the coming weeks and months, staff and volunteers will be canvassing the state to bring Senator McCain’s message directly to the people of Iowa. I hope you will join this effort.
Guessing, based on the results of a Google search, that Liebschutz is a 2006 graduate of Colgate and has been on the road with the McCain campaign for months. No biographical information in the email Roederer sent to supporters, just what you read above.
Compare this to Obama’s Iowa State Director, Jackie Norris, who has a long list of Iowa ties.
Norris, a long time Democratic operative, served as political director on Vice President Al Gore’s 1999-2000 Iowa caucus campaign and as finance director of Tom Vilsack’s 1998 campaign for Governor. Norris worked in Washington D.C. for seven years on Capitol Hill, in the White House as a scheduler for Vice President Gore, and at the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Norris teaches high school American Government and History and is married to John Norris, Chair of the Iowa Utilities Board.
I say advantage Obama.
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