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President Obama reaffirmed his commitment to a clean energy future for America last night in his State of the Union address. The Republican responses, on the other hand, underscored just how stuck in the past the leaders of the GOP remain. From Indiana Governor Mitch Daniel’s official response (full text here) to the statements of [...]
Governor Mitch Daniels of Indiana is a rising star in the Republican Party (some even wish he was running for President right now), which is why he was chosen to respond to President Obama’s State of the Union (full text and video at this link) . But if anyone was expecting anything other than the standard [...]
By many standards, Barack Obama has been the greenest President in our lifetime. Sure, he still has lots to do, and in his State of the Union address (full text and video at this link) he talked about that tonight. He said he won’t back down from sensible environmental regulation; he’s committed do moving forward [...]
Watch the video of President Obama’s 2012 State of the Union address (followed by the full text) Also, check out our analysis: State of the Environmental Union, 2012, and the GOP response here. Send a message to President Obama that you support him in taking stronger stances on the environment – either a basic message on [...]
Last week, the narrative (at least in GOP establishment circles) was that Mitt Romney was inevitable. Then came the South Carolina primary, where Newt Gingrich handed Mitt a double-digit shellacking. Then the GOP narrative focused on the fact that Romney still led nationally and in Florida, the next primary up. Maybe Newt’s SC win was [...]
The Democratic Party is circulating talking points in advance of President Obama’s State of the Union speech tonight (at 9 pm EST, 6 pm PST). UPDATE: We’ve got the full text and video of the State of the Union here. Also, check out our analysis: State of the Environmental Union, 2012 Send a message to President [...]
If President Obama approves the Keystone XL pipeline to transport dirty tarsands oil from Canada, it sure looks like one of the beneficiaries would be his sworn enemies, the Koch brothers. But their GOP friends in Congress – the multi-billionaire brothers are key funders of conservative causes, including last year’s GOP takeover of the House [...]
On last week’s PODCAST, Duncan and I yakked about an important concept introduced by Nicole Foss at THE AUTOMATIC EARTH blog site. This concept was “the trust horizon,” which outlines how legitimacy is lost in the political hierarchy. That is, people stop trusting larger institutions like the federal or state government and end up vesting their [...]
Who would have thought it? Just a week ago, Mitt Romney was up by double digits, and Newt Gingrich was just in it for revenge. But based on exit polling, all the major networks are calling the South Carolina primary for Gingrich. It’s an embarrassing and humiliating loss for Romney, who may yet go on to win [...]
I just finished watching the GOP primary debate in South Carolina. It was a pretty entertaining two hours which kicked off with Newt Gingrich admonishing CNN for daring ask a personal question (um, didn’t he try to impeach a President over something personal?) and ended with all candidates agreeing that any of them would be [...]
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