by Robert Borosage | Aug 5, 2008 | Blog
Take gas prices, the most pressing issue on the minds of Americans. Offer a blatant ploy that in fact won't help — but will profit Big Oil. Pocket over a million in contributions from oil executives and use the money to put up an ad promising to take on Big Oil. Call...
by Bill Scher | Aug 5, 2008 | Blog
Yesterday in my post on inflating tires versus coastal drilling, I noted that: "Conservatives -- lovers of childish mockery over substantive ideas -- later today are apparently planning to distribute tire gauges at an Obama energy event." Over at The Huffington Post,...
by Bill Scher | Aug 4, 2008 | Blog
Sen. John McCain says he is (now) for coastal drilling. Today, he said Congress should abort its August recess and convene a special session to vote on drilling. "Congress should come back in session, and I'm willing to come off the campaign trail," said McCain to...
by Terrance Heath | Aug 4, 2008 | Blog
It was another 0-for-3 weekend for the watchdog, though Speaker Pelosi successfully resisted a grilling on drilling. It was Nancy Pelosi who shone brightest this Sunday on ABC's This Week, as she held the line against the push to "drill, drill, drill," and met George...
by Bill Scher | Aug 4, 2008 | Blog
The latest conservative lie -- regarding Sen. Barack Obama and fuel efficiency -- actually has a great amount of truth to it. On Thursday, conservative radio host Sean Hannity claimed Obama said, "All you need to do is inflate your tires. That's all you need to do. If...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Aug 4, 2008 | Blog
Sam Zell, an idiosyncratic real estate magnate, is making quite a name for himself these days as the man who is gutting the newspaper chain that owns the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times. But he is about to become notorious as a tax evader — a legal tax evader,...
