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3/21 Once again Dems are pussies. Gore first got the Senate to waive the 48
hour rule (receiving written copy of testimony 48 hrs before hearing)
for a 24 hour rule. Then he failed to submit his testimony until this
morning, a few hours before the hearing. Oh, and then the Dems got it
hours before the Repubs.
http://csua.org/u/ia3 (cnsnews.com)
\_ At a time when the President is vowing to fight congressional
subpoenas up to the ussc, it's funny that you hold this up as
"news".
\_ Wow, if only I had a forum for my slanted view of the world; wait,
that's what the Internet is for! And if I call it News, it must be
so!
\_ So are you saying that Gore *did* submit his testimony before
this morning? -op
\_ I'm saying that a gossipy slagfest is not a news source.
\_ So is senate.gov good enough for you? http://csua.org/u/ia4
\_ What you mean is, is Senator Inhofe's blog good enough for
me? And even more to the point, is a staffer on Inhofe's
blog good enough for me? And the answer is, not without
further corroboration. But WAIT! It gets better: Marc
Morano, the source in question, was "previously known as
Rush Limbaugh's 'Man in Washington,' as reporter and
producer for the Rush Limbaugh Television Show."
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Marc_Morano
Please, if you're going to post stooges, at least include
Larry, Moe, and Curly.
\_ I'm fascinated by the refusal to accept reporting of fact
simpy because of the name Limbaugh. I can understand your
not accepting his analysis perhaps, but the basic facts?
-emarkp
\_ Much like we trusted the Bush Administration's report
on the "fact" that Saddam had WMD? I can't fault this
guy for not accepting some politico's "facts". --PeterM
\_ Wow, this is such a red herring.
\_ You do know the difference between an intelligence
report and reporting a fact that has occurred in
front of witnesses and will be a part of the senate
record, right? -emarkp
\_ There's reporting of fact and there's stirring shit
up. If the source is a known shit-stirrer, anything
the source reports is automatically suspect, esp. if
it is, on its face, true, because there's plenty of
reason to believe that it's only being reported to
stir up more shit. If I report that the sky is
blue, that's true; if I report that the sky is blue
despite claims that Global Warming is going to
result in smog smog smog, that is also true, but
it's presented in a way that makes GW seem like a
myth. Your professional shit-stirrers, like Mark
Morano, do this for a living, and sifting nuggets of
truth from the shit that they're stirring up is
about as reqarding as actually sifting through
feces for gold.
\_ http://csua.org/u/ia6
LA Times quotes Joe Barton as saying the they
didn't receive his written testimony more than 2
hours before the hearing. Is that a lefty source
enough for you? -emarkp
\_ "lefty enough" is the level of immaturity that
I expect from shit-stirrers, emarkp, not you.
\_ When a dog craps on the floor, you rub his
nose in it. Same for these nutjobs. -emarkp
\_ The only nutjobs I see here are the ones
that think a slagfest from a propaganda
hack constitutes a real news source.
\_ Oh, so a senator's office stating
what's happening in the Senate TODAY
is a nutjob? Go back to your hole
anonymous nutjob. -emarkp
\_ If you're trying to defend someone
from being called a nutjob, Inhofe
is just about the most difficult
defendant.
\_ So you don't like his politics
so he's a nutjob and what his
boy reported on his Senate
blog is suspect? Tin foil and
blinders. Better than plastic.
I'm going to be rich.
\_ Read who posted the account. It's
Mark Morano, a hack. That Inhofe
is letting him use his blog is
simply shameful. --erikred
\- how could you be unaware
inhofe is shameless.
\_ The irony of my shame in
needing to be reminded of
this is not lost on me,
Partha. --erikred
\_ LA Times leans right, now, when it used to
be a neutral reporter of facts, which is
why I cancelled my subscription last year.
\_ Haha. I don't know about now, but 8 years
ago the LA Times could out do the Cron on
lefty bias. I assume what you mean is,
"The LA times used to agree with me."
\_ Perhaps this is a confusion of Pro-
Israel (as LAT seems to be) with either
the right or the left.
\_ Unless reported by dailykos, http://moveon.org, or some other
neutral and unbiased site, it doesn't count. Having to
respond to factual statements is annoying. It is much
easier to just say 'neener! it never happened because
your source is biased! nyah!'
\_ Desperate attempt to change the subject. Won't work, America
has woken up to Roveian tactics and is mostly immune right now. |
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| csua.org/u/ia3 -> www.cnsnews.com/ViewFlash.asp?Page=/ThisHour/Archive/NTH20070321c.html com) - Former Vice President Al Gore apparently will brook no skepticism. Given the opportunity to testify about global warming before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Wednesday, Gore decided to arrive late, so he wouldn't have to suffer through the Republican opening statement. He was seen waiting in a hall outside the committee room, Fox News reported. Republicans agreed to waive their opening remarks in exchange for extra time to question Gore. Republicans also objected to the fact that they received Gore's written testimony at 7 am Wednesday morning -- hours after Democrats received it. "How are we supposed to prepare questions for our esteemed witness when we're basically given the testimony two hours before he shows up?" Republicans complained that Gore was getting special treatment. The hearing entitled "Perspectives on Climate Change" will also feature Gore critic, Dr. Bjorn Lomborg, adjunct professor at the Copenhagen Consensus Center in Denmark and author of the controversial book "The Skeptical Environmentalist." Later in the day, the former vice president will testify again, this time before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. com) - A Democratic lawmaker has introduced a bill that would ban the sale of traditional incandescent light bulbs -- which are less energy-efficient, prompting claims that they contribute to "global warming" -- one day after a colleague told a press conference that legislating a ban would be a "last choice." com) - Environmental groups demonstrated in front of the US Capitol Tuesday, demanding that Congress take action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2050. Sponsored by the Alaska Wilderness League, Natural Resources Defense Council, The Audubon Society, EarthJustice, and the Sierra Club, the event dubbed "Climate Crisis Action Day" drew the support of many members of Congress. "For far too long the scientific evidence for global warming has been swept under the rug by an administration that is far more interested in the profit margins of oil companies than the scientific research offered by climate change experts, and that has got to change," said Sen. com) - A Republican lawmaker is blasting House Democrats for trying to load an Iraq war funding bill with billions of dollars in pork-barrel spending so they'll get enough votes to pass it. "This bill is intended to meet the urgent needs of our troops serving in harm's way. Instead, the Democrats are using it to pander to their left-wing base," Rep. In addition to funding the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the legislation sets a date for the US to start withdrawing its troops from Iraq (no war funding as of September 2008, the bill says). And in another anti-war provision, the bill would require the president to certify that all troops to be deployed to Iraq be fully trained and equipped. Even some Democrats are reluctant to tie the hands of the commander in chief, however. com) - Former President Bill Clinton once again joined his wife at a Washington, DC, fund-raiser Tuesday night, calling it "cool" that he had the chance to introduce Hillary. Clinton told the crowd that as president, she couldn't name Bill as her secretary of state - but, she joked that she could "make him ambassador to the world, because we have a lot of work to do to get our country back in the standing it should be." The Washington Times noted that one anti-war demonstrator disrupted Mrs Clinton's remarks. com) - A Texas Senate panel has passed a bill that would give concealed handgun carriers the right to lock their weapons in their cars at work -- in parking lots owned by their employers, the Houston Chronicle reported. The bill is controversial: Businesses say it violates their private property rights, but supporters say that must be balanced against an employee's right to self-defense. Workers would be required to notify their employer that they carry guns in their cars. com) - "The Second Amendment," Charlton Heston used to say, "is America's first freedom." It's a message that narcissistic journalists need to hear again, writes columnist Michelle Malkin. com) - President Bush plans to nominate US Attorney Michael J Sullivan of Massachusetts to be director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, creating an opening in the federal prosecutor ranks as the furor swirls on Capitol Hill, the Boston Globe reported. Sullivan currently serves as acting director of the ATF. His nomination is expected to be announced on Wednesday. com) - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says the Bush administration is not entitled to the benefit of the doubt: "If Karl Rove plans to tell the truth, he has nothing to fear from being under oath like any other witness," the Democrat said in a news release on Tuesday. Democrats are demanding that Rove and other top administration officials testify under oath about the firings of eight US attorneys. They have rejected President Bush's offer to have Rove and others speak privately with lawmakers -- not under oath -- about the firings. Reid's news release included a very long "fact sheet" on the firings of the eight US attorneys and the Bush administration's alleged improper handling of the situation. The talking points indicate the kind of questions Rove and the others would face if they were to be hauled before Democrat-led committees. com) - President Bush on Tuesday said he did not want to let his aides testify under oath about the firings of eight federal prosecutors. USA Today described Bush as "defiant" and "combative" in announcing the decision. A more conservative newspaper (the Washington Times) omitted the adjectives and said Bush had "warned" congressional Democrats that he would "oppose any attempt" to subpoena White House officials. Even the Washington Post described President Bush as seeking to "defuse"" the controversy over the firings. The New York Times said President Bush and Congress had "clashed" and "appeared headed toward a constitutional showdown." Later in the article, the New York Times also described Bush as "responding defiantly." com) - The Democratic National Committee says it's clear that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales "must go," but "he is just the tip of the iceberg, as other senior Bush aides, including Karl Rove, have also been implicated." The DNC describes the firings of eight US prosecutors, not as a crime, but as a politically motivated "scandal." The DNC finds it outrageous that Alberto Gonzales discussed the firing of US attorneys while he was still serving as White House counsel. And the DNC points to another email indicating that Karl Rove also was "involved in discussions about firing the prosecutors as early as Jan. " Some conservatives have said all along that the Democrats won't stop when they've forced Gonzales' resignation, because they're really out to dismantle and destroy the Bush administration, any way they can. com) - President Bush said Tuesday he will allow Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, presidential adviser Karl Rove, and other "key staff" to discuss the dismissal of eight US attorneys with members of Congress -- but not under oath. Bush also warned against a "partisan fishing expedition" from Democrats looking to score "political points." The White House is giving the Senate access to "an unprecedented variety of information about the process used" to decide which US attorneys to replace, the president said during a press conference. com) - The Senate on Tuesday voted 94-2 to pass a bill designed to "preserve the independence" of US attorneys by barring the attorney general from appointing US attorneys to serve for indefinite periods without Senate confirmation. The bill stipulates that if the president has not sent a nominee to the Senate for confirmation within 120 days, the district court in the relevant district will have the authority to appoint an interim US attorney. It thereby restores a regulation that was in place until 2006, when a provision inserted into the re-authorized USA Patriot Act allowed the Justice Department to appoint federal prosecutors indefinitely, without Senate confirmation. com) - How many bills hav... |
| csua.org/u/ia4 -> epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressRoom.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=71e7e4c1-802a-23ad-4c16-02e25ed1bfd3 Print this page Al Gore Continues to Demand Special Treatment March 20, 2007 Update: At 9:29AM ET Wednesday -- after the issue was raised by Fox News Channel -- former Vice President Gore's testimony was received by the Senate Environment & Public Works Committee. Gore's testimony was given to Committee members just one minute before his scheduled House appearance and mere hours before his scheduled Senate appearance. Gore first demanded to be granted an unprecedented 30 minute opening statement to the Senate EPW Committee for Wednesday's (March 21) global warming hearing scheduled for 2:30 pm ET. But then Gore demanded a waiver of the EPW committee's 48 hour rule that requires all witnesses before EPW to submit their testimony in advance. The GOP minority on the EPW committee then agreed to waive the 48 hour rule in favor of allowing Gore to submit his testimony 24 hours before the hearing. But in a breaking news development on Capitol Hill -- the former Vice President has violated the new 24 hour deadline extension by failing to submit his testimony - even with the new time extension granted to Gore. As of 8pm ET Tuesday evening, the testimony still has not been received by EPW, a clear violation of committee rules. The word on Capitol Hill says not to expect Gore's testimony to the Senate EPW committee until Wednesday (March 21) -- the day of the hearing. It appears that Gore does not believe the same rules apply to him that apply to every other Senate EPW witness. The question looms on Capitol Hill: Is Gore delaying the submission of his testimony until the very last moment because he fears it will give members of the EPW committee time to scrutinize it for accuracy? |
| www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Marc_Morano Rush Limbaugh, was also among the first reporters to write about the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth campaign scrutinizing Kerry's Vietnam War record. And earlier this year, Morano penned an article questioning the Purple Heart medals of Rep. edit Second Generation Climate Change Science Assassin Marc Morano was hired in Spring, 2007 as the Director of Communications to US Senator James Inhofe (R-OK. Senator Inhofe is the Chair of the Senate Committee for the Environment and Public Works, and has compared Tom Brokaws climate change documentary to the "Big Lie," a Third Reich propaganda technique. com correspondent, Morano has traveled to such destinations as South America and Africa. Marc was also a reporter and producer for the Rush Limbaugh Television Show from 1992 to 1996, his biographical note states. org Antispam note: To avoid attracting spam email robots, email addresses on the SourceWatch are written with AT in place of the usual symbol, and we have removed "mail to" links. Replace AT with the correct symbol to get a valid address. Lobby your government for more effective antispam regulations. |
| csua.org/u/ia6 -> www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gore22mar22,1,5302998.story Large Text Size Large Text Size Change text size Gore testifies on global warming before House panel By Richard Simon and Joel Havemann, Times Staff Writers 12:57 PM PDT, March 21, 2007 WASHINGTON -- Al Gore left Washington six years ago as the recently unseated vice president, having come within a few hundred votes in Florida of being elected president. He returned today as the subject of an Oscar-winning film about global warming. His reception befitted a celebrity more than a politician. The House hearing room where he testified was so crammed with members of the two committees holding a joint hearing that some of them had to sit in seats ordinarily reserved for the public. swf&clipId=1313755&autoStart=false&mute=false That left few seats for the public, and a sign on the hearing-room door read, "Line starts around the corner." But not all arms were open to the former vice president. Joe Barton (R-Texas) needled him for not providing his written testimony sooner, as Barton said Gore, a House member before moving on to the Senate and the vice presidency, should have known. "How are we supposed to prepare questions for our esteemed witness when we're given the testimony two hours before he shows up?" And another Texas Republican, Ralph Hall, raised a spirited defense of the energy industry, warning that tough new regulation to limit emissions of greenhouse gases would hurt the economy and leave the US vulnerable to foreign suppliers. Democratic committee member Bart Gordon, who now holds Gore's Tennessee House seat, recalled an old song, "I was a country boy when country was cool," a reference to Gore's efforts years ago to call attention to global warming. Gore himself admitted to strong emotions as he sat in the witness seat before a committee--Science and Technology--on which he served as a House member. Speaking at length on subjects ranging from the polar ice caps to light bulbs, Gore delivered an impassioned appeal for congressional action. "This is the most dangerous crisis we've ever faced,'' he said gravely. With the zeal of a crusader, Gore, subject of the global-warming documentary "An Inconvenient Truth," launched into a comprehensive warning of what would happen to the planet if its population took a business-as-usual approach to emitting carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Gore said he had come to testify about "what I believe is a planetary emergency--a crisis that threatens the survival of our civilization and the habitability of the Earth." Striking a more optimistic note, he said, "There is a sense of hope in this country that the United States Congress will rise to the occasion to present meaningful solutions to this crisis." The former vice president and Democratic presidential nominee, who is being urged by many Democrats to run for president again next year, called for an immediate freeze on carbon emissions with a 90% reduction by 2050. Among his most controversial ways of getting from here to there were a pollution tax and a congressional moratorium on coal-fired power plants unless they included anti-pollution technology. After a lunch break Gore headed over to deliver a similar presentation before Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. Meanwhile, a skeptic on the issue delivered some cautions to the Senate panel. Gore's claims about the dangers of global warming are "wildly exaggerated," said Danish scientist Bjorn Lomborg, director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, who challenged Congress to opt for "smart solutions." Complimenting Gore for focusing public attention on global warming, which he called real and man-made, Lomborg said in prepared testimony, "He has got carried away and come to show only worst-case scenarios" that are "unlikely to form the basis for a sound policy judgment." Specifically, said Lomborg, Gore's prediction that sea levels could rise 20 feet if Greenland and half of Antarctica melted is "simply positing a hypothetical and then in full graphic and gory detail showing us what, hypothetically, would happen." |
| cnsnews.com -> www.cnsnews.com com) - In Iraq, an "ordinary looking" artillery shell blew up by the side of a road on Saturday -- dispersing a small amount of the deadly nerve gas sarin, US officials said on Monday. com) - Left-wing filmmaker Michael Moore is increasingly being vilified on Internet sites that accuse him of using "doublespeak and falsehood" to make anti-American documentaries. And while Moore has gotten rich satirizing big business, the gun industry and now the Bush administration's war on terrorism in documentaries, he is about to see the same effort directed at him. com) - Mary Frances Berry, chairwoman of the US Commission on Civil Rights, thwarted a planned discussion of the Senate's "Memogate" affair on Monday when she adjourned the panel's monthly meeting after four Republican members didn't arrive on time. com) - While it is the Republicans in Congress who are pushing the federal marriage amendment to limit marriage to one man and one woman, it is worth looking at the governors of the individual states where the idea of homosexual marriage is advancing most aggressively. com) - Leaders of the Cherokee Nation, which has sovereign status, said they will not allow same-sex "marriages," after a lesbian couple tried to get a marriage license through the tribe. com) - President George W Bush's job approval rating has dropped to a record low, the latest Zogby poll says. But the poll does not ask about same-sex marriage, and some press reports indicate that particular issue may be a bigger factor in Bush's re-election prospects than many people realize. com) - Rhode Island and Connecticut are expected to announce Monday whether same-sex marriages conducted in Massachusetts should be recognized in their states, the Boston Globe reported. com) - While same-sex marriage activists are cheering the arrival of same-sex marriage in Massachusetts - many couples lined up at midnight -- a pro-family group is calling this "Destruction of Marriage Day." com) - Israel must sever the terrorists' lifeline and "reshape" the southern Gaza Strip border area before it can implement a unilateral disengagement plan, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's spokesman said on Monday. com) - Amid new signs of warmer relations between the US and Russia, armed forces from the two countries are to hold joint military training exercises in and near Moscow this week. com) - Readers were offended by the Council on American-Islamic Relations' call for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to resign amid the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal. They say where was CAIR's outrage when Americans were murdered and mutilated in Iraq. |
| moveon.org -> www.moveon.org/front/ The Movie the White House Doesn't Want You to See On Memorial Day weekend, Hollywood is releasing a summer blockbuster movie that's making the Bush administration very nervous. Because it's a disaster movie about a potential climate crisis. While "The Day After Tomorrow" is more science fiction than science fact, everyone will be talking about it -- and asking "Could it really happen?" This is an unprecedented opportunity to talk to millions of Americans about the real dangers of global warming and expose President Bush's foot-dragging on the issue. Responding to Torture Reports and photographs of Iraqi prisoners being tortured and abused by US and British troops have shocked the world. We've got to support an immediate, independent, impartial and public investigation into all allegations of torture. To be credible, the investigation should be done by an international body, including representatives of Arab nations. We've got to get to the bottom of this, and we've got to do it now. Censure Bush for Misleading Us In an attempt to evade responsibility for the misleading statements that pushed the nation into war, Bush has announced plans to form an independent inquiry to look into what went wrong. An inquiry would serve the Bush administration well: it would envelop the issue in a fog of uncertainty, deflect blame onto the intelligence services, and delay any political damage until 2005, after the upcoming election. Despite repeated warnings from the CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency, President Bush and his administration hyped and distorted the threat that Iraq posed. And now that reality is setting in, the President wants to pin the blame on someone else. Congress has the power to censure the President -- to formally reprimand him for betraying the nation's trust. MoveOn's 50 Ways to Love Your Country How to Find Your Political Voice and Become a Catalyst for Change Written by MoveOn members across the country, from Hawaii to Maine, from political figures to teachers, this collection of essays shares compelling personal stories and action items with resources for taking inspiration a step further. Simple ideas are illuminated, such as "His Last Vote," about a dying man's wish to cast a ballot, as are more dynamic actions, such as "Start a Petition," which chronicles a couple's quest to protect wolves from trappers in Alaska. MoveOn's 50 Ways to Love Your Country answers the question that more and more citizens are asking: "What can I do?" Protect our Kids from Mercury Pollution Under energy industry pressure, President Bushs EPA plans to defer controls on mercury emissions by power plants for at least a decade. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that 49 million women of childbearing age in the US -- that's 8 percent -- have unsafe levels of mercury in their blood. The people hit hardest will be new-born infants -- every year over 630,000 infants are born with levels of mercury in their blood so high they can cause brain damage. We have just a few weeks to get public comments to the EPA on this plan to defer mercury controls. It's time to tell the EPA and the White House that our kids come first. Al Gore Speaks on Global Warming and the Environment Beacon Theater, New York January 15, 2004, Noon In this, his third major speech sponsored by MoveOn, Mr Gore issued an indictment of the Bush administration's inaction on global warming, linking the issue to national security. He showed that global warming is not a future threat -- it is happening now. And yet, the President is choosing to help his coal- and oil-company supporters rather than advance modern technologies that can affordably solve this critical problem. Support Kerry's call to fire Rumsfeld May 7, 2004 In the wake of revelations of torture and abuse of Iraqi prisoners, John Kerry has launched an important petition calling for President Bush to fire Donald Rumsfeld. Getting rid of Secretary Rumsfeld would be a huge step forward for all of us who oppose the Bush war policy, and Kerry needs to hear our support. Help win the election this Saturday May 3, 2004 This Saturday, we're joining other grassroots groups in the largest day of voter mobilization in American history. MoveOn members will gather at parties across the country to make over 100,000 phone calls in one afternoon to swing state voters. In an election that could be won or lost with a handful of votes, we'll work to turn out every last progressive voter and send George Bush packing. |