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Strength of Global Warming Legislation in Doubt
The Wall Street Journal's Washington Wire blog reports that Speaker Nancy Pelosi is lowering expectations regarding planned global warming legislation: Speaker Pelosi prompted concerns this week when an aide said a climate-change and energy-independence bill might not...
Bush Delcares: No Health Care For All On My Watch
In 2003, President Bush signed a law creating a Citizens' Health Care Working Group to offer health care reform solutions. This week, he dismissed their work. The working group was a bipartisan effort, originating from GOP Sen. Orrin Hatch and Dem Sen. Ron Wyden. The...
Now The Global Warming Debate Is Really Over
The conservative global warming denial community may still be kicking, but it is getting smaller. Last year, conservative evangelical Pat Robertson dropped out. This week, Fox News anchor Shepard Smith joins him: Global warming. We know the cause. It's all the cars...
Mistakes Were Made ... In Defending My Glorious Purge
At today's Mexico press conference, President Bush further carried Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' messages from yesterday, in blunt fashion: [Gonzales was] right. Mistakes were made. And I'm, frankly, not happy about it, because there is a lot of confusion over...
White House Runs Scandal Script
Recognizing that its political purge of eight U.S. attorneys was about to reach critical mass—particularly because of the appearance that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales lied to Congress about it—the White House is now running its script to beat back the...
Bush Threatens Veto of 9/11 Bill to Stop Unions
Yesterday, the Senate passed a bill implementing many homeland security recommendations from the 9/11 Commission. But President Bush is threatening to veto it because -- horrors -- it allows Transportation Security Administration workers to join unions, like most of...
White House Runs Scandal Script
Recognizing that its political purge of eight U.S. Attorneys was about to reach critical mass -- particularly because of the appearance that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales lied to Congress about it -- the White House is now running its script to beat back the media...
NYT Attempted Hit on Gore Fails
The "liberal" New York Times (with the help of the Drudge Report) carried conservative water today, paradoxically attacking Al Gore for global warming "hype." In fact, it's NYT reporter William Broad that's trafficking in hype. Real Climate, the preeminent climate...
Kiley Ousted From Walter Reed
Amry Surgeon General Kevin Kiley, the guy recently bumped up to head Walter Reed even though he was directly implicated in the scandal, was belatedly forced to resign today. On one hand, good. On the other, doesn't do much lasting good if the names change and the...
Big Pharma's Lying Ads
Last week, the pharmaceutical lobby launched a second round of TV ads in its campaign to block the House bill empowering Medicare to negotiate for lower drug prices. The ad begins: Newspapers across America are speaking out against changes to Medicare Wow. Sounds like...
