GOP’s Blocking of Climate Bill Pathetic
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on July 22nd, 2010 4:31 am by HL
GOP’s Blocking of Climate Bill Pathetic
Thomas Friedman, New York Times
The hour is late, but there is still a sliver of time to pass a serious energy bill out of this Congress. To do so, though, would require President Obama to rustle up votes with a passion that he has failed to exhibit up to now, and, more importantly, it would require at least seven Republican senators to put the national interest above party and politics. Yes, I know that is all unlikely. You can laugh now. But just remember this: If we don't get a serious energy bill out of this Congress, and Republicans retake the House and Senate, we may not have another shot until the next…
The Afghanistan Reckoning
Brian Montopoli, CBS News
For those of us lucky enough not to be closely connected to the battle for Afghanistan – not to be fighting, to be waiting for a husband or wife to come back, to be wondering why it's been so long since we're heard from a son or daughter – the war can be easy to ignore.It's been nearly nine years, after all. Nine years in which what was seen as a righteous response to the Sept. 11 attacks slowly morphed into just another fact of life, a distant and murky conflict fading into the background, displaced by everyday problems and new distractions.
House Panel Cuts Part of Obama’s NASA Plan
More Spending Needed to Stop Downturn
Robert Frank, The Daily Beast
The deficit hawks are killing us. No, wait! I'm a deficit hawk. So let me rephrase that: Some of the deficit hawks are killing us. Like other deficit hawks, I believe we need to start paying down the mountain of debt the federal government has been running up. But not now, not as we continue to struggle to emerge from the deepest downturn since the Great Depression. Cutting spending now is the very last thing we should do.The only reason we’re in a downturn is the total spending is not nearly enough to put everyone to work. The $787 billion economic stimulus bill passed in…