A new ABC/Washington Post poll echoes the results of the CBS poll earlier this week – Americans are waking up on offshore drilling: Just a quarter of Americans back expanding offshore drilling in the wake of the BP oil spill, and most fault federal regulators for the environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, according […]
This is a huge victory for the environment: Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) will become the next chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee after House Democrats voted to replace current Chairman John Dingell (D-Mich.). Waxman won 137-122 in the secret ballot vote. The dramatic intra-party showdown for the coveted position signals a leftward turn […]
Please let it be. That would make our life so much easier and much more fun: A majority of likely voters in a new Washington Post-ABC News national poll now have unfavorable views of the Alaska governor, most still doubt her presidential qualifications and there is an even split on whether she “gets it,” a […]
The McCain campaign doesn’t like being called what they are – liars: Sen. John McCain’s top campaign aides convened a conference call today to complain of being called “liars.” They pressed the media to scrutinize specific elements of Sen. Barack Obama’s record. But the call was so rife with simple, often inexplicable misstatements of fact […]
Not my words, but the words of Bloomberg news: McCain More Hawkish Than Bush on Russia, China, Iraq And that thought should send cold shivers down your spine. Hell you should wake up in a cold sweat, screaming in the middle of the night. Just check this out: John McCain is at least as determined […]
Paul Hackett was on the Colbert Report last night to talk about such things as Iraq and why he dropped out of the Senate race this year. Check it out. I got to say Paul brings up a great point and is a point that is echoed in Crashing the Gate – that the party […]
Three years after Bush declared “Mission Accomplished” in Iraq, the American people have a different perception: Three years after President Bush declared major combat over in Iraq, Americans have strong doubts that the United States will fulfill the promise of his “Mission Accomplished” backdrop, a poll released Monday found. The CNN poll, conducted April 21-23 […]
Well I guess we are proving more and more that we are in a holy war. At least that is the perception given by Republican Representative Thomas G Tancredo of Colorado. In an interview on a Florida radio station, the Congressman said that if we experience a multi city attack then we could respond by […]