Of huge assistance to the administration's efforts to lower carbon emissions are the committee Republicans who deny climate change, and the lobbies behind them, including agriculture and the fossil fuel fossils:
House Panel Votes to Strip E.P.A. of Power to Regulate Greenhouse Gases
By JOHN M. BRODER
The sharply partisan vote, by a subcommittee, chips away at a central pillar of the Obama administration's evolving climate and energy strategy.
Obama approves Pentagon abuse of Manning:
Amnesty calls for protests over Bradley Manning's treatment
By Glenn GreenwaldIn case anyone is wondering what Amnesty is: it's the world's premiere human rights organization which Democrats once held up as authoritative on issues on detainee abuse circa 2001- January 20, 2009 -- remember that?
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UPDATE V: At a Press Conference just now, ABC News' Jake Tapper asked President Obama about Crowley's comments and Obama replied:"With respect to Private Manning, I have actually asked the Pentagon whether or not the procedures that have been taken in terms of his confinement are appropriate and are meeting our basic standards. They assure me that they are. I can't go into details about some of their concerns, but some of this has to do with Private Manning's safety as well."
Oh, that's very reassuring -- and such a very thorough and diligent effort by the President to ensure that detainees under his command aren't being abused. He asked the Pentagon and they said everything was great -- what more is there to know?...
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/03/10/amnesty/ind...
Of huge assistance to the administration's efforts to lower carbon emissions are the committee Republicans who deny climate change, and the lobbies behind them, including agriculture and the fossil fuel fossils
These are easy pickings anyway for the Republicans. The media has moved on from sugar coating the Gulf Oil Spill and dead kamikaze birds, so environment is entirely absent from the dim consciousness . The class war is recieving its application now however. The White House knows it's all about jobs out there, notwithstanding the fact that there's little they can do about the situation because they're quite out of control. But everybody knows that when you mention the word environment down there its easily depicted as unfriendly to jobs. The environment is wide open as a result because there's little pushback.
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He's done plenty.
Continued rendition of alleged terrorists to countries where they could be tortured.
Opposed marriage equality by appealing challenges to DOMA, the so-called "Defence of Marriage Act".
Blocked the release of photos documenting the torture and abuse of detainees by the US military.
Continued the practice of indefinite detention for alleged terrorists.
Refused to sign a treaty banning the use of land mines.
Extended the Patriot Act without making any reforms.
Pushed for mandatory DNA testing of those arrested for crimes, regardless of whether they have been convicted.
Just click on the smart ass Oblama replies and find many, many more. Oh yeah.
Of huge assistance to the administration's efforts to lower carbon emissions are the committee Republicans who deny climate change, and the lobbies behind them, including agriculture and the fossil fuel fossilsThese are easy pickings anyway for the Republicans. The media has moved on from sugar coating the Gulf Oil Spill and dead kamikaze birds, so environment is entirely absent from the dim consciousness . The class war is recieving its application now however. The White House knows it's all about jobs out there, notwithstanding the fact that there's little they can do about the situation because they're quite out of control. But everybody knows that when you mention the word environment down there its easily depicted as unfriendly to jobs. The environment is wide open as a result because there's little pushback.
In the "old days," the electorate were capable of keeping more than one issue in their mind at election time. Is it the neo-conservative atmosphere of hatred that reduces it to one idea/one person campaigning ? Does it come from the neo-conservative hatred of "liberalism" expressed by the late Irving Kristol in a 1993 essay, "My Cold War" : "So far from having ended, my cold war has increased in intensity as sector after sector of American life has been ruthlessly corrupted by the liberal ethos ...(with) political and social collectivism on the one hand, and moral anarchy on the other...We have, I do believe, reached a critical turning point in the history of the American democracy. Now that the other 'Cold War' is over, the real cold war has begun."
That's the attitude of the Republicans, stateside, and what Stephen Harper and the Calgary School have brought to political life here.
Kristol experinced politics of the left, beginning in the 1940s: "So left-wing politics has within it the seeds of its own frustration. And this frustration always takes the form of denouncing the party leadership for lacking sufficient devotion to the party's ideals and sufficient determination to realize them." And while the right unravels the progressive structures built over the post-war period -their troops motivated by hatred - the left whines in frustration. Seems to me there's no time like the present to come to some understanding of the enemy's motivation for its complete lack of respect for convention and Parliamentary rules...hatred for us.
a bit of realism before this thread is closed for length:
Obama will be re-elected in 2012.
When did "realism" become a relative term? 
Here's how the Democrats should play the political game.
The NYTimes Gail Collins on
Eye of the Newt
By GAIL COLLINS
Thanks to Newt Gingrich, we have learned of the link between patriotism and adultery.
The Obama Disaster, At Home and Abroad
The Obama disaster has forced those of us on the Black Left to organize around solid principles and to look at the political actors in our own communities with a much colder and unforgiving eye. So we now have the Black Is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations, that brooks no compromise with Obamite imperialism and servitude to Wall Street. We have allied ourselves with others on the Left, who are holding a major anti-war mobilization in New York City on April 9, and in San Francisco on April 10. Last week, the first Black-led anti-Obama demonstration in Harlem took place, outside a gentrified restaurant where Obama was hosting a $30,000 a plate dinner.Nellie Bailey, of Harlem Fightback Against Wars at Home and Abroad, challenged hundreds of protesters to "seize the moral high ground that has slipped away under the false illusion that Barack Obama represents the interests of working class people, much less working class Black people."
Professor of Africana Studies, Bill Sales, asked, "How can Obama represent us, when he compromises with people who are trying to beat our brains out." Obama, said Sales, "is a moderate Republicrat corporate lawyer. Don't drink the Kool-Aid."
Charles Barron, a New York City Councilman, said the "last straw" for him was when Obama called up the president of South Africa demanding that former Haitian President Aristide be prevented from returning to his homeland. In a debate three years ago, Councilman Barron told me that he supported Obama, despite misgivings, because he wanted "to give a brother a shot." Well, Obama has proven he ain't no brother. He has shot his wad, and Black America will be a healthier place when he is gone.
Heh. I misspelled the captcha on purpose and it allowed me to post the above.
Closed for length.
