Not one Democrat on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee voted against Idaho Gov. Dirk Kempthorne as next Secretary of the Interior, though Louisiana Democrat Mary Landrieu voted “present” for fiscal reasons, wanting a cut of federal offshore revenues. (She’s not known as a strong environmentalist.)
Reason No. 1,044 to continue to look toward voting Green again.
May 07, 2006
Chickenshit Democratic leadership strikes again. — no impeachment; no investigation on Iraq or NSA
Democratic Congressional leadership has already pledged “just investigations, not impeachment” if they gain a majority after the November elections.
Meanwhile, although she did temper her categorical denial of impeachment proceedings arising, she specifically did NOT include Iraq or the NSA warrantless wiretapping among investigative hotpoints.
I’ll remember that, too, in both November 2006 and November 2008.
"I said we'd be having hearings on the war, we'd have hearings. But I don't see us going to a place of impeachment," (House Minority Leader Nancy) Pelosi said in an interview on NBC's Meet the Press.
Michigan Rep. John Conyers the senior Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, has called for the creation of committee to recommend grounds for possible impeachment of Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney.
But Pelosi said such a decision rests with her and the Democratic caucus.
“John Conyers is an enthusiastic advocate. I am the leader. Our caucus will decide where we go,” she said.
Meanwhile, although she did temper her categorical denial of impeachment proceedings arising, she specifically did NOT include Iraq or the NSA warrantless wiretapping among investigative hotpoints.
While she declined to rule out impeachment, Pelosi focused on investigations of the White House's energy task force and the prescription drug bill.
I’ll remember that, too, in both November 2006 and November 2008.
Calling all stellar wingnuts — that’s just a cloud up there
An in-depth study by Britain’s Ministry of Defence says there is no information UFOs are anything other than natural phenomena.
Of course, the True Believer will certainly have non-real (Please, don’t trot out the phrase “alternative reality”) answers to this.
What could some of those be?
1. The aliens implanted engrams in the heads of Ministry of Defence members. As Jon Lovitz would have said years ago on “Saturday Night Live”: “Yeah, that’s it, it was the Ennngrraamms.”
2. Alien superpowers use cloaking devices to shield themselves from those in power while continuing to reveal themselves to John and Jane Doe.
3. The act of scientific measurement, as with the paranormal, homeopathy, etc., destroys or alters what is being measured so proper information cannot be obtained.
“No evidence exists to suggest that the phenomena seen are hostile or under any type of control, other than that of natural physical forces,” the report said, according to extracts quoted by the BBC.
“Evidence suggests that meteors and their well-known effects, and possibly some other less-known effects, are responsible for some unidentified aerial phenomena.
“Considerable evidence exists to support the thesis that the events are almost certainly attributable to physical, electrical and magnetic phenomena in the atmosphere, mesosphere and ionosphere,” it said.
Of course, the True Believer will certainly have non-real (Please, don’t trot out the phrase “alternative reality”) answers to this.
What could some of those be?
1. The aliens implanted engrams in the heads of Ministry of Defence members. As Jon Lovitz would have said years ago on “Saturday Night Live”: “Yeah, that’s it, it was the Ennngrraamms.”
2. Alien superpowers use cloaking devices to shield themselves from those in power while continuing to reveal themselves to John and Jane Doe.
3. The act of scientific measurement, as with the paranormal, homeopathy, etc., destroys or alters what is being measured so proper information cannot be obtained.
May 06, 2006
Environmentally sensitive Suburban drivers? Yeah, sure
That’s what Dallas-area GOP Congressman Kenny Marchant says about his constituents.
What next from Kenny Boy?
“My clients run the water on their lawns 10 hours a day, but they’re environmentally sensitive! or “My clients run the AC with their doors and windows open, but they’re environmentally sensitive!
Of course, Marchant’s stock answer to the problem is:
In other words, Kenny Boy is saying: I want to destroy nature, but I’m environmentally sensitive!
Meanwhile, meet Mr. Clueless/Denial about Peak Oil, Congressman Smokey Joe Barton.
Roughly does NOT equal precisely, and if you don’t have a clue that the supply and demand are so nearly balanced as to put prices on a knife’s edge, you are an idiot par excellence.
“People are angry,” he said. “They just can't get their brains around $3-plus. ... Colleyville, Coppell – my constituents are very green. They're all environmentally sensitive, although they all drive SUVs.”
What next from Kenny Boy?
“My clients run the water on their lawns 10 hours a day, but they’re environmentally sensitive! or “My clients run the AC with their doors and windows open, but they’re environmentally sensitive!
Of course, Marchant’s stock answer to the problem is:
“We should drill in Alaska. We should look at every opportunity to explore and add to the supply.”
In other words, Kenny Boy is saying: I want to destroy nature, but I’m environmentally sensitive!
Meanwhile, meet Mr. Clueless/Denial about Peak Oil, Congressman Smokey Joe Barton.
The Texan with the biggest role in energy policy is House Energy Chairman Joe Barton, R-Ennis. He said he’s puzzled and dismayed by the price spike, given that supply and demand are roughly where they were a year ago.
Roughly does NOT equal precisely, and if you don’t have a clue that the supply and demand are so nearly balanced as to put prices on a knife’s edge, you are an idiot par excellence.
May 05, 2006
BushCo finally owns up to reality of global warming, well, sort of
The Gray Lady reports:
Of course, BushCo immediately played that down.
Knowing BushCo and the No. 2 OilSlimeBlack Eminence, those remaining studies will be done oh, about 2020 if this administration can help it.
A scientific study commissioned by the Bush administration concluded yesterday that the lower atmosphere was indeed growing warmer and that there was ‘clear evidence of human influences on the climate system.’
Of course, BushCo immediately played that down.
White House officials noted that this was just the first of 21 assessments planned by the federal Climate Change Science Program, which was created by the administration in 2002 to address what it called unresolved questions.
Knowing BushCo and the No. 2 OilSlimeBlack Eminence, those remaining studies will be done oh, about 2020 if this administration can help it.
May 03, 2006
Would a Democratic president really be that much better for unions?
I agree with Kevin Drum that card checks for unionization drives beat National Labor Relations Board elections, but the NLRB’s decline into the National Management Relations Board hasn’t been an all-Republican affair.
Let’s remember that, although the “rightening” of the NLRB began already back with Reagan, this was another thing that techie wonk Clinton continued on his own eight-year watch.
While Gore, or Kerry, might have given lip service to unionism, how friendly to modern unionization efforts are most Democrats today, anyway, unless a revitalized Farm Workers gives them the chance to score points with Hispanics?
For that matter, I’d wager that a fair chunk of traditional heavy-industries union members are selfish enough they might not look totally favorably on the SEIU/HERE breakaway group's efforts to unionize retail worers.
I’m sorry, but unionization is an area where I’m the most cynical about most modern Democrats. Besides Bill Clinton, one only need look at a Dick Gephardt to see why.
Let’s remember that, although the “rightening” of the NLRB began already back with Reagan, this was another thing that techie wonk Clinton continued on his own eight-year watch.
While Gore, or Kerry, might have given lip service to unionism, how friendly to modern unionization efforts are most Democrats today, anyway, unless a revitalized Farm Workers gives them the chance to score points with Hispanics?
For that matter, I’d wager that a fair chunk of traditional heavy-industries union members are selfish enough they might not look totally favorably on the SEIU/HERE breakaway group's efforts to unionize retail worers.
I’m sorry, but unionization is an area where I’m the most cynical about most modern Democrats. Besides Bill Clinton, one only need look at a Dick Gephardt to see why.
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