ThinkFast PM: June 26, 2006
ThinkFast PM: June 26, 2006
“Is CO2 ‘life‘ or a ‘pollutant‘?“: American Progress Director of Environmental Policy Ana Unruh Cohen describes “in a nutshell” what the Supreme Court will decide when it takes up Massachusetts v. EPA.
At a Democratic Policy Committee hearing this afternoon, former Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research Carl Ford said lawmakers share some responsibility for intelligence failures, telling lawmakers “not to accept the crap we give you.â€
The Senate Commerce Committee will take up the telecom legislation again tomorrow, and Net Neutrality needs your support. McJoan has details..
Administration plan for withdrawal sound familiar? Needlenose points to similar promises in 2005 and 2004.
The big news from today’s Supreme Court ruling: Unlike Justices Scalia and Thomas, Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito actually “believe that a great many of the country’s campaign contribution laws are constitutional. This is a very big deal and good news for those of us who support such limits.”
And finally: The Washington Times’s new intern blog: “better than watching ‘Mr. Smith Goes to Washington’ before going to Washington.”
What did we miss on the blogs? Let us know in the comments section.
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Salt is also needed to live, however too much salt and you die.
June 26th, 2006 at 7:05 pmBush administration plans to draw down US forces in Iraq as Iraqi units become operationally capable is the same statement used by Nixon about Vietnam. And just like Vietnam, the cost in blood and money will not be worth it. Thanks for nothing.
June 26th, 2006 at 7:16 pmI had heard that the Washington Times might be getting a blog site, it reminds me of defense companies trying to “go commercial”.
June 26th, 2006 at 7:17 pm#1 same with water
June 26th, 2006 at 7:17 pmwhat the Supreme Court will decide when it takes up Massachusetts v. EPA.
any bets how this will go?
June 26th, 2006 at 7:20 pmWho wants to be my pal ?
June 26th, 2006 at 7:26 pmThere will be no draw down in Iraq. Bush is following the Carter doctrine to dominate middle east oil supplies.
June 26th, 2006 at 7:28 pmNixons War on Drugs started officially in 1971, 35 years ago. Billions of dollars have been wasted. In 2003 the US spent 19 billion on the War on Drugs. That is about 6000 dollars a minute.
The War on Terror started in 2001. Lots more money is being spent here, most of it mis-directed, given to large corporations, graft and downright theft. Recall the 9 Billion missing from Iraq early on? There is already more waste and mismanagement in this War on Terror than there has been in the War on Drugs.
The War on Terror turned into Bushcos private crusade to spread democracy throughout the Middle East. A wrongheaded move if there ever was one.
I think it is time to sit back and take an assessment. Get rid of the neo-cons who want war constantly to benefit the large corporations. Withdraw from Iraq and formulate plans to keep amurka safe, noone else, just amurka.
Bush is a failure and is the most incompetent person in high office. He plays politics with everything, to include peoples lives. He is a worthless coke sniffing alcoholic desperately in need of a 12 step program to help him see the light. He belongs in a halfway house designed for broken down executives.
June 26th, 2006 at 7:36 pmN2O2 is laughing gas, too bad the atmosphere isn’t flooded with it.
Draw down the troops in Iraq? Preposterous! There needs to be an increase in troop strength in Iraq. The insurgents need more targets, not fewer of them. Bush and Cheney should call for more troop deployment and another two hundred billion dollars to fund the occupation. Congress needs to comply and vote to continue the war for another five years.
If you’re going to go soviet, might as well be all the way.
More war is best for the economy. Now, get on out there and produce more dead bodies. No sense in counting them, what does that matter.
War is insane. It’s no use wanting peace, death pays big bucks.
June 26th, 2006 at 7:53 pmwhat the Supreme Court will decide when it takes up Massachusetts v. EPA.
any bets how this will go?
Comment by katy — June 26, 2006 @ 7:20 pm
Let’s see, are they activists?, Or just a rethug majority. Oh I got it! EPA-EPA- screw the owls, rivers, clean air, reality, drill..drill… consume..consume. Then we all move in with Norway Bob (aka, sexion). That was fun.
June 26th, 2006 at 8:00 pmWar is insane. It’s no use wanting peace, death pays big bucks.
Comment by Ron — June 26, 2006 @ 7:53 pm
Ron, I like that -could be a great song. War, what is it good for? absolutlely NOTHING.
June 26th, 2006 at 8:03 pmJust plain mad,
I didn’t understand your comment above, then halfway through typing realized the sarcasm!
Good One! Very funny!
June 26th, 2006 at 8:17 pmRon, I like that -could be a great song. War, what is it good for? absolutlely NOTHING.
Comment by Joefriday
Say it Again………..
June 26th, 2006 at 8:19 pm31, exactly 32 years after President Richard Nixon signed the Clean Air Act into law, the Bush administration announces significant rollbacks to New Source …
http://www.environmentaldefense.org/documents/2695_cleanairact.htm
So a Democrat [Nelson] sponsored it, A Republican [Nixon] signed it into law, another Republican[ Bush Sr.] Vice President George H. W. Bush) proposes phase-out of leaded gas. When EPA Administrator Ann Gorsuch admits to refiner EPA would not enforce lead limits,bad publicity prompts a reversal and a unplanned speedup of the leaded gasoline phase-out.
Interesting =)
After ten years on the job, the head of EPA’s Office of Regulatory Enforcement, Eric Schaeffer, resigns, claiming that the Bush [2002] administration is on a course to change environmental policies that have been touted for having eliminated millions of tons of air pollution. Schaeffer also claimed the Bush adminstration’s changes would benefit power companies, charging that Energy Department officials treat the energy industry as their “client.â€
Well Well. I see Dick and George are only looking out for their ‘CLIENTS’..thats just great. Clients not people…Clients.
June 26th, 2006 at 8:24 pmCBS4 in Florida is reporting that talk radio host Rush Limbaugh was detained at Palm Beach International Airport today for possession of illegal prescription drugs, including Viagra. He was returning from the Dominican Republic at the time. He entered into a plea deal in Florida in April over the prescription drug Oxycontin and alleged “doctor shopping”. Whether Oxycontin is among the drugs Limbaugh was detained for today is unknown at this time.
June 26th, 2006 at 8:38 pmThe Senate Commerce Committee will take up the telecom legislation again tomorrow, and Net Neutrality needs your support. McJoan has details..
This issue is EXTREMELY important. Click on the link, and do the stuff.
June 26th, 2006 at 9:25 pmPost 15 if the Senate screws over the Internet for Big Business, then even the cyber geeks will go ballistic!
June 26th, 2006 at 9:59 pmI have been to the Dominican Republic once > went their with the Peace Corps, for a week, on my way to Costa Rica for training! Very nasty place with lots of severe poverty > female and male prostitutes everywhere > so I wonder why Rush was there with viagra? ( Very obvious for sex!)
June 26th, 2006 at 10:07 pmVery nasty place with lots of severe poverty > female and male prostitutes everywhere
June 26th, 2006 at 10:31 pmComment by Jay Randal
Welcome to the 3rd world, buddy. Central America is one the poorest places in the world and the most inequal. Wanna know which country has messed with these poor people since the beginning of XX? I think you got it.
The Washington Times’s new intern blog: “better than watching ‘Mr. Smith Goes to Washington’ before going to Washington.â€
What a load of treacly dreck. Please, please plagiarize someone, Ms. Palank, so there’s some writing there that’s not downright horrid, and we don’t have to buy new keyboards to replace the ones we barfed all over….
Cheers,
June 26th, 2006 at 10:36 pmPost 18 Juan > DR has been controlled by the US for a long time > I worked in next door nation of Haiti, after I got out of the Peace Corps, years ago! Whenever our government wanted Haitian leaders removed or overthrown, then the DR helped with guns and training of CIA rebels to do the deed!
June 26th, 2006 at 10:58 pmCarl Ford’s comments have me totally ‘clusterf*cked’. He shows up at a Democratic hearing, saying “You” should not accept the ‘crap’ we give you. Followed by a shared responsibility for ‘intellegence failures’, failures resulting from listening to the ‘crap’ they were given. I’m sorry, but this makes no sense to me. “We lied our asses off, but it’s your fault too, because you believed us.” What in the HELL is he talking about? The responsibility is all yours, pal. Nice try though. America thanks you.
June 26th, 2006 at 11:57 pmIn the world, who find himself the empror, however there he is a begger somewhere. so let us find the real empror.
June 27th, 2006 at 3:48 amon another note: was there nothing to Greg Pallast’s story about the 2004 election fraud involving black military voters from Florida? i wrote TP about it, but never saw anything … if true, this needs more exposure:
Read about it here
hear the radio interview here: http://gregpalast.com/armedmadhouse/palastDN6-14-06.mp3
June 27th, 2006 at 6:18 amthe life or pollutant debate is moronic. there are so many things that are either essential for life, or helpful, in small quantities, that are harmful, or lethal, in larger quantities, that the entire premise is absurd.
re the bush administration environmental record, and the strange economic “view” of the climate change issue.
ditto the view of the far right wing view of the constitution, and the issues, clear cut and straight forward, that are not being properly discussed in the media (the same right wing skewed that the media, until it all says what it wants it to say like the fox channel that poses as news, that still gets lambasted by the far right — all part of the problem that is not being properly addressed
June 27th, 2006 at 7:06 amYou can’t make good law or good science from lies. What the congress needs to do is collect all these liars and throw them in jail! They were testifying under oath weren’t they? Then Congress needs to start holding hearings under oath to see if there was a conspiracy to decieve congress and throw the other criminals in jail too!!. There is a reason why lying to congress is criminal.
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June 27th, 2006 at 8:00 am“Is CO2 ‘life‘ or a ‘pollutant‘?“
Well, now we know what happened to all the cigarette marketers…they went on to sell global warming.
Next up: Asbestos is warmth, and as comforting as cotton candy.
June 27th, 2006 at 9:36 amWhenever our government wanted Haitian leaders removed or overthrown, then the DR helped with guns and training of CIA rebels to do the deed!
June 27th, 2006 at 11:14 amComment by Jay Randal
I dont know why I am not shocked. Why were you there, in the first place? You sound really objective and intelligent.
CO2 is a pollutant? Wow, I guess I better stop breathing. Next up: oxygen, water, and methane. Did you just fart?? $100 fine!
June 27th, 2006 at 2:35 pmPost 31 Juan >( If you see this post?) I worked at an orphanage and farm in Haiti for about 6 months in the early 1980s > “Baby Doc” Duvalier was the dictator at that time and later was removed in the late 1980s! I later helped President Aristide after he was overthrown by a CIA instigated military coup in 1991! This is a long story, but ask me more about it sometime on another thread!
June 28th, 2006 at 2:34 amtest
June 28th, 2006 at 3:06 amtest
Comment by Gregor Samsa — June 28, 2006 @ 3:06 am
Why testing? Having posting issues? Me occasionally – something won’t post, and if I try to resend it it says “Looks like you’ve already said that.” Even though it didn’t take it.
Have been wondering if you bailed. Wouldn’t blame you. Trolls are nastier than ever. Desperation no doubt.
June 28th, 2006 at 9:23 pm