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Climate Change Bill Headed For Defeat?

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Energy, Environment, Legislation, Lieberman

As is the case with many pieces of legislation…it doesn’t seem to have enough institutional support.
From Fortune:
The U.S. Climate Action Partnership formed last year won’t take a position on the bill, although nine of its members - including General Electric, Alcoa and four utility companies - signed a letter to senators backing the legislation.
The letter, [...]

May 31st, 2008 | Permalink| 2 Comments »

The Difference Between Diplomacy And Appeasement

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Bush, Democrats, Lieberman, Media, Partisan Hacks, Republicans, Terrorism, The War On Terrorism, The World

Bush apparently doesn’t know.
Neither does Lieberman.
And tonight Chris Matthews ran into one of these well studied right-wing radio hosts and asked him if he knew the difference.
Watch the results…

Moving on…

May 15th, 2008 | Permalink| 4 Comments »

Lieberman Backs Bush’s “Appeasement” Statements

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Bush, Iran, Iraq, Lieberman, McCain, Republicans, Terrorism, The War On Terrorism, The World, War

Here’s the transcript from MSNBC via ThinkProgress:
“President Bush got it exactly right today when he warned about the threat of Iran and its terrorist proxies like Hamas and Hezbollah. It is imperative that we reject the flawed and naïve thinking that denies or dismisses the words of extremists and terrorists when they shout “Death to [...]

May 15th, 2008 | Permalink| 8 Comments »

When Will Lieberman Apologize To Lamont?

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Connecticut, Democrats, History, Independents, Internet, Lieberman, Technology

Back in Fall 2006, Joe’s website went down and his campaign blamed the rival Ned Lamont’s campaign…mostly because the netroots were backing Lamont and it was an easy accusation to make against bloggers.
Well, it turns out that not only did Lamont not have anything to do with it, but Lieberman’s people knew the real cause [...]

April 10th, 2008 | Permalink| 3 Comments »