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Yesterday, a lone Republican, Representative Ahn Cao, voted for the (very weak) House health care reform bill. I read the versions of the House [health reform] bill. I listened to the countless stories of Orleans and Jefferson Parish citizens whose health care costs are exploding – if they are able to obtain health care at […]

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Today, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd spoke at the Lowy Institute. Entitled Check Against Delivery, this is one of the strongest statements seen from a Head of Government of a ‘developed’ nation on climate change and, more specifically, contains very strong denunciation of those deniers and delayers and self-proclaimed “skeptics” who are obstructing movement to […]

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The Republican Party of Virginia (RPV) is determined to prove to any and all its anti-science, anti-knowledge credentials. Here is the RPV candidate for Attorney General parroting global warming denier lines, showing his tendency to allow his ideological preferences and biases to triumph over science and the work of 1000s of scientists. Should it surprise […]

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The Republican Party of Virginia (RPV) (or, perhaps, simply staff) has embraced anti-science syndrome with a fervor that should astound anyone with the slightest regard for the scientific method and for the scientific community (communities). .  Here is an excerpt from an RPV-email attacking Democratic Party candidate for Attorney General Steve Shannon: In Shannon’s only […]

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Spreading across the United States is a screaming mass threatening the very underpinnings of American democracy.  As put elsewhere, In a democracy, power comes from the ability to persuade. You win because people like your ideas. The Republicans are admitting they can’t win a fair fight. They are cowards. While the attention is focused on […]

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The Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy & Security (ACES) Act has moved from draft to a 900+ page submitted bill. To be clear, the ACES is far from a perfect bill, having been weakened from what was originally introduced. Sadly, the Committee Republicans evidently are not interested in a serious “No Regrets” strategy, with introduction of […]

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Energy Dumb Dana Rohrbacher showed his face on the House floor with a studied effort at willful ignorance a year ago several weeks before Senate Republicans stooped to the lowest forms of obstructionism to avoid having to have a substantive and meaningful debate about Global Warming legislation. Rohrbacher’s speech is worth a few minutes of […]

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“We’re excluding the young, minorities, environmentalists, pro-choice — the list goes on,” says Olympia Snowe of Maine, one of two moderate Republicans left in the Senate after Specter’s switch. “Ideological purity is not the ticket to the promised land.” From Time magazine’s look at the Republicans in Distress, questioning: Is the Party Over?

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The Minority Staff of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce has distributed a “dear colleague” letter from anti-science syndrome suffering Joe Barton arguing, based on this MasterResource analysis, that the Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security (ACES) Act would only reduced Global Warming by .09 degree Fahrenheit by 2050. Let us assume, graciously, that […]

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This was Bill Maher’s question last Friday. And, this is both a serious and a sad question.

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