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7/13/2010 Obama faces growing credibility crisis
Robert Gibbs, Barack Obama’s chief spokesman, got into hot water this week for daring to speak the truth – that the Democrats could lose control of the House of Representatives in November. But it could be even worse than that. Contrary to pretty much every projection until now, Democratic control of the Senate is also starting to coming into question. While Mr Obama’s approval ratings have continued to fall, and now hover at dangerously close to 40 per cent according an ABC-Washington Post poll published on Tuesday, the fate of his former colleagues in the Senate looks even worse.

“The bottom line here is that Americans don’t believe in President Obama’s leadership,” says Rob Shapiro, another former Clinton official and a supporter of Mr Obama. “He has to find some way between now and November of demonstrating that he is a leader who can command confidence and, short of a 9/11 event or an Oklahoma City bombing, I can’t think of how he could do that.” In private, informal advisors to Mr Obama are almost as negative. According to one, the US public’s loss of confidence in Mr Obama’s leadership is a factor above and beyond their dissatisfaction over the state of the real economy, which continues to slow as last year’s $787bn stimulus starts to run dry. The adviser, who asked to remain anonymous, said the public did not know what Mr Obama really believed. Examples include his lukewarm support last year for a public option in the healthcare bill and his equally lukewarm support today for a Senate bill that would extend unemployment insurance and aid state governments to keep teachers in their jobs. (Financial Times)
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posted: 7/23/10                   0       12
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5/27/2010 President Obama under fire for BP spill response
President Barack Obama is on the defensive over his presidential multitasking, for refusing to scrub his schedule of events that seem peripheral — even trivial — compared with the unfolding catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico. As oozing oil fouls Louisiana’s marshes, Obama has committed to maintaining the semblance of a regular schedule, adhering to his walk-and-chew-gum style of crisis management even as criticism of his administration mounts. (Politico)
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posted: 9/23/10                   0       2
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2/9/2010 Climate-change legislation buried under record snowfall in capital
The documents, which were hacked from a university computer server, prompted accusations that researchers may have edited the presentation of data to overstate the threat of warming. (The Hill)
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posted: 2/18/10                   0       11
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10/1/2009 Senate climate bill drops 'cap and trade' term -- REPUBLICANS LABEL IT A 'MASSIVE ENERGY TAX'
Senate Democrats tried out a new catch phrase Wednesday to sell their global warming bill: pollution reduction and investment, or PRI. But it's just another name for cap and trade, a term derided by Republican critics as "cap and tax" because it will increase energy prices and which Democratic polls have shown faring poorly with voters.

The idea to remake cap and trade into pollution reduction and investment came from Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., author of the bill unveiled Wednesday. He came up with it about a month ago to refocus attention on what the bill would do, not how it goes about doing it. "Cap and trade doesn't mean anything to people, " Kerry said in an interview, insisting that "this is an actual description of what's happening here." At a news conference on the bill, cap and trade, the legislation's centerpiece, got nary a mention. Instead, the buzz words were "national security," "economic growth" and "jobs from clean energy development." Kerry and Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., the other key sponsor, entitled it The Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act. "We are here and we introduced this legislation because of one word -- security," said Kerry. "It is time to reinvent the way Americans use energy." The words "cap and trade," "global warming" and "climate" also didn't appear in a White House statement responding to the bill's introduction. (Trib.com)
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posted: 7/22/10                   0       4
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7/20/2009 Chemicals That Eased One Woe Worsen Another
This is not the funny kind of irony: Scientists say the chemicals that helped solve the last global environmental crisis -- the hole in the ozone layer -- are making the current one worse (Washington Post)
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posted: 7/28/09                   0       8
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7/2/2009 Senate May Pass U.S. Climate Bill, Reject Treaty, Kerry Says
The U.S. Senate may pass legislation to slow climate change and then fail to approve a global treaty that commits nations to do so, Senator John Kerry said (Bloomberg)
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posted: 7/2/09                   0       12
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7/1/2009 Cap and Trade and the Illusion of the New Green Economy
I don’t think Al Gore in his wildest dreams could have imagined how successful the “climate crisis” movement would become (Dr Roy Spencer)
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posted: 7/3/09                   0       12
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6/17/2009 Clean Water Restoration Act Gains Detractors
the government would essentially be able to regulate everything from standing water in floodplains to creeks that run behind business and residences (Environmental Leader)
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posted: 6/29/09                   1       13
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3/20/2009 Kerry, Boxer: U.S. ‘Needs’ Cap-and-Trade on Carbon Emissions Even if Energy Costs Rise
“It’s a win-win in so many different ways, we can’t afford not to do it,” Kerry said (CNS News)
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posted: 5/19/09                   5       23
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3/9/2009 Who Pays for Cap and Trade? Hint: They were promised a tax cut during the Obama campaign
Cap and trade, in other words, is a scheme to redistribute income and wealth -- but in a very curious way. It takes from the working class and gives to the affluent (Wall Street Journal)
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posted: 6/29/09                   2       13
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2/25/2009 Princeton Physicist Tells Congress Earth in 'CO2 Famine' -- Increase 'Will Be Good for Mankind'
Dr. Will Happer, once fired by Al Gore, challenges former vice president's much-published claim that warming debate over

“Many people don’t realize that over geological time, we’re really in a CO2 famine now. Almost never has CO2 levels been as low as it has been in the Holocene [geologic epoch] – 280 [parts per million (ppm)] – that’s unheard of,” Happer said. “Most of the time, it’s at least 1,000 [ppm] and it’s been quite higher than that.” Happer said that when CO2 levels were higher – much higher than they are now, the laws of nature still managed to function as we understand them today.

“Like the Temperance Movement a hundred years ago, the climate catastrophe movement has enlisted the mass media, leadership of scientific societies, trustees of charitable foundations, many other influential people to their cause,” Happer said. “Even elementary school teachers and writers of children’s books terrify our children with the idea of impending climate doom. Children should not be force-fed propaganda masquerading as science.” (Business and Media Institute)
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posted: 5/4/09                   2       12
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1/14/2009 Unemployment Rate Actually Near 14%
David Shuster talks to Dan Gross about what the real unemployment numbers are (MSNBC)
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3/10/2008 Carbon Output Must Near Zero To Avert Danger, New Studies Say
The task of cutting greenhouse gas emissions enough to avert a dangerous rise in global temperatures may be far more difficult than previous research suggested, say scientists who have just published studies indicating that it would require the world to cease carbon emissions altogether within a matter of decades (Washington Post)
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posted: 6/26/09                   2       15
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2/27/2007 The Truth About Coal
Dressed in top hats, carrying bags of coal and calling themselves ''Billionaires for Coal,'' the group was protesting what it felt was the hypocrisy of a giant investment bank that proclaims a devout commitment to ''environmental excellence'' even as it provides financing for dirty power plants

There are at least two points to be made here. One, obviously, is there is a difference between talk and reality. Much of corporate America now appears to be out in front of the Bush administration in facing up to global warming. Some big players like Pacific Gas and Electric and DuPont seem seriously committed to mandatory controls on carbon dioxide emissions -- in sharp contrast to the administration's voluntary approach. Others, notably big investment banks, are still doing what comes naturally: seizing opportunities, whether or not those opportunities fit their green posturing. TXU can fairly claim that its plants, outfitted with the latest technology, will emit fewer pollutants that cause smog and acid rain than the clunkers that have been around for 50 years. But these plants will still be using the same basic technology -- burning coal, with no ability to capture and dispose of immense amounts of carbon dioxide. That's distressing from a global warming perspective. It is also distressing because cleaner, if costlier, technologies are available that could capture greenhouse gases before they enter the atmosphere (that is, if TXU or the private equity group that is negotiating to buy the utility were willing to make the investment). Which leads to the second point: There is a need to put a price on carbon to force companies to abandon older, dirtier technologies for newer, cleaner ones. Right now, everyone is using the atmosphere like a municipal dump, depositing carbon dioxide free. Start charging for the privilege and people will find smarter ways to do business. A carbon tax is one approach. Another is to impose a steadily decreasing cap on emissions and let individual companies figure out ways to stay below the cap. (New York Times)
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posted: 5/4/09                   3       13
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10/27/2004 The Hidden Soros Agenda: Drugs, Money, the Media, and Political Power
His complex web of financial interests, companies and foundations makes Halliburton look like a Mom & Pop operation. (Accuracy In Media)
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posted: 6/15/09                   5       20
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