Today’s core GOP (accurately called the Grand Obstructionist Party) can be easily summarized as: Pale Male Stale, and Addicted to the Tall Tale. The first three are quite well understood and are a key part of the chattering class analysis about the reasons for Republican Party failures yesterday and their inevitable failures in elections to […]
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Today’s GOP: Pale, Male, Stale, and addicted to the Tall Tale
November 7th, 2012 · 1 Comment
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OFA asked for feedback … In three words: End Climate Silence!
October 22nd, 2012 · 1 Comment
Obama for America (OFA), the Obama-Biden reelection effort, asked for feedback in an email likely sent to millions. I expect that many provided substantive feedback. Below the fold is mine.
Tags: 2012 Presidential Election · barack obama · Global Warming · Obama Administration · politics · President Barack Obama
President Obama speaks re climate, crowd cheers, ‘The Village’ notices
September 7th, 2012 · 4 Comments
Last night, in his speech at Charlotte, the President spoke directly to climate issues. With a direct slap at Mitt Romney’s sad climate joking to anti-science cheering, the President said: And yes, my plan will continue to reduce the carbon pollution that is heating our planet – because climate change is not a hoax. More […]
Tags: 2012 Presidential Election · climate change · environmental · Global Warming · Obama Administration · political symbols · politics · President Barack Obama
“Responsibility. Patriotic Pride. Accountability.” Pillars for effective climate change political communication.
September 6th, 2012 · 4 Comments
Climate Solutions for a Stronger America is a communications “guide for engaging and winning on climate change & clean energy” intended for politicians and others regularly engaged on debate. This guide, driven by the work of Betsy Taylor, lays out an effective communications path for politicians who want — amid all the other issues of […]
Tags: climate change · Energy · environmental · Global Warming · political symbols · politics
Another Romney Olympic Moment: Climate Zombie Dream Team
August 11th, 2012 · Comments Off on Another Romney Olympic Moment: Climate Zombie Dream Team
Mitt Romney made waves when he crossed the pond to the United Kingdom prior to the Olympics. It is hard to imagine that a prominent American would embarrass the United States with our key ally as it entered to a prominent world event with so many casual insults and errors. One could say that Romney […]
Tags: climate zombies · politics · republican party
Pres. Obama: “those who have looked at the science of climate change are scared”
July 20th, 2012 · 1 Comment
Increasingly, it seems, we need to look to ‘a-traditional media outlets’ like John Stewart and Stephen Colbert for (the most) truthful discussion about the nation’s challenges and opportunities. Rolling Stone, when it comes to catastrophic climate chaos, ranks among the nation’s best media outlets. As, for example, in the recent Bill McKibben powerful piece “Global […]
Tags: 2012 Presidential Election · climate change · political symbols · politics
Keystone XL: Why not?
February 14th, 2012 · 11 Comments
Environmental organizations are showing a too rare unity in their opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline. In the U.S. Congress, the Republicans are fighting hard to get around reasonable review processes for safety, environmental impact, and understanding of the national interest to support a pipeline to move highly-polluting Canadian tar sands to Gulf Coast refineries […]
Tags: 2008 presidential campaign · Energy · oil · peak oil · politics · pollution
Steve King revels in wasting taxpayers’ money
February 13th, 2012 · Comments Off on Steve King revels in wasting taxpayers’ money
At the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Representative Steve King (R-IA-5) made it very clear not just that he purposefully wastes taxpayers’ money but that he takes joy in doing so. King referred to the House office building janitors during Pelosi’s time as speaker as her “Stasi troops” — referring to oppressive secret police in […]
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An election about science
January 13th, 2012 · 10 Comments
When it comes to the November 2012elections, few people identify science as the core issue. Economic concerns (JOBS! JOBS! JOBS!), fossil-foolish fueled anger at government, passions over the role of government, the Occupy Movement (what is happening to the 99% while the 1% profit?), and otherwise are among the many “core” issues. A hidden element […]
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@JonCarson44 responded to my tweets
January 12th, 2012 · Comments Off on @JonCarson44 responded to my tweets
I received a couple notes from Twitter. The official White House blogger, Jon Carson, is now following me and responded to one of my messages. JonCarson44 @A_Siegel thanks for helping me hear from folks about SOTU, getting lots of people talking about clean energy jobs Jan 09, 8:50 AM via web In reply to… A_Siegel […]
Tags: 2012 Presidential Election · climate change · climate delayers · climate zombies · environmental · Global Warming · global warming deniers · media · Obama Administration · political symbols · politics · President Barack Obama · republican party · science