Obama Without a Transcript

clipped from betsyspage.blogspot.com ABC interviewed Obama for Nightline and asked him, if he’d known then what he knows now about the success of the surge would he have supported the surge last year. See if his answer is at all coherent. “These kinds of hypotheticals are very difficult,” he said. “Hindsight is 20/20. But I [...]

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More on Al Gore’s Self-Serving Plan

clipped from www.realclearpolitics.com To get an idea of how ridiculous, consider this data from the Energy Information Administration. In 2006 (the last year for which complete data is available), 49 percent of our electricity was generated by coal-fired plants; 20 percent from natural gas, and 1.5 percent from oil. That is, more than 70 percent [...]

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L.A. Mayor Villaraigosa’s Trash Tax Fiasco

clipped from www.sacbee.com Two years ago, newly elected Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa vowed to put 1,000 more cops on the city’s dangerous streets and proposed to raise trash collection fees to provide the money. “Every new dollar residents pay for trash pickup,” the mayor promised in a city news release, “will be used to [...]

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Democrats Lying about Unused Oil Leases

clipped from www.businessandmedia.org Oil Expert: Dem House Leader Misleads CNBC on Oil Lease Drilling ���� “Well, there’s nothing wrong with drilling,” Hoyer said. “But the fact of the matter is we have 80 percent of the leases that are currently authorized that are not being drilled upon – 80 percent on gas, 82 percent on [...]

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Democrats want to Raise Gas Tax?

clipped from www.foxnews.com The political vision of a summer gas tax holiday died a quick death in Congress, losing to a view that federal excise taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel — far from dropping — will have to go up if they go anywhere. Now, lawmakers quietly are talking about raising fuel taxes by [...]

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Al Gore Knows Hypocrisy

clipped from www.americansforprosperity.org We’re back from Al Gore’s big global warming speech, and boy did we have a great time!�We had a dedicated band of taxpayer advocates out in force, pointing out the high economic cost of global warming alarmism – starting with $8 a gallon gasoline. Of course, we saw plenty of hypocrisy — [...]

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Al Gore’s Energy Speech ‘Ridiculous’

From Sen. George Voinovich (R-Ohio): clipped from briefingroom.thehill.com Voinovich had an initial one-word response — “ridiculous” — to Gore’s speech at Washington’s Constitution Hall, in which the Democrat called for the United States to end its dependence on carbon-based fuels and begin using renewable energy to produce electricity within the next 10 years. Voinovich elaborated [...]

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The Debate is (Starting) Over

clipped from www.dailytech.com The American Physical Society, an organization representing nearly 50,000 physicists, has reversed its stance on climate change and is now proclaiming that many of its members disbelieve in human-induced global warming.� The APS is also sponsoring public debate on the validity of global warming science.� The leadership of the society had previously [...]

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Democrats Energy Policy and Today’s Economy

clipped from www.ibdeditorials.com ‘Energy has enormous implications for our economy, our environment and our national security,” President Bush said in proposing the plan. “We cannot let another year go by without addressing these issues together in a comprehensive and balanced package.” That was in June 2001 — more than seven years ago. New drilling for [...]

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Limousine Environmentalists

Typical. clipped from orangepunch.freedomblogging.com The hifalutin’ types who want you to sacrifice to fight global warming aren’t about to hoof it, let alone ride a bike, to next year’s UN conference on the subject in Denmark. Nope, Demark’s foreign ministry is seeking sponsors to pay for the confab, including the costs of transportation for the [...]

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