BLANK & BLANK PROPOSE CAP & TRADE

BLANK and BLANK will establish a market-based system to curb greenhouse gas emissions, mobilize innovative technologies, and strengthen the economy. They will work with our international partners to secure our energy future, create opportunities for American industry, and leave a better future for our children.
They have proposed a cap-and-trade system that would reduce greenhouse gas emissions while encouraging the development of low-cost compliance options. A climate cap-and-trade mechanism would set a limit on greenhouse gas emissions and allow entities to buy and sell rights to emit, similar to the successful acid rain trading program of the early 1990s. The key feature of this mechanism is that it allows the market to decide and encourage the lowest-cost compliance options.
A cap-and-trade system harnesses human ingenuity in the pursuit of alternatives to carbon-based fuels. Market participants are allotted total permits equal to the cap on greenhouse gas emissions. If they can invent, improve, or acquire a way to reduce their emissions, they can sell their extra permits for cash. The profit motive will coordinate the efforts of venture capitalists, corporate planners, entrepreneurs, and environmentalists around the common goal of reducing emissions.
To support the cap-and-trade system, the BLANK and BLANK Administration will promote the innovation, development, and deployment of advanced technologies. They will reform federal government research funding and infrastructure to support the cap-and-trade emissions reduction goals and emphasize the commercialization of low-carbon technologies.
BLANK and BLANK believe that an effective and sustainable climate policy must also support rapid economic growth. They will use a portion of auction proceeds to reduce the impact on low-income American families. The BLANK-BLANK plan will accomplish this in part by incorporating measures to mitigate any economic cost of meeting emission targets.

Who are BLANK and BLANK you ask ?
McCain-Palin 2008 in an ad promoting their CAP & TRADE PROGRAM

That's the truth, look it up:
http://www.tdbimg.com/files/2009/07/17/-environment-mccain_12271399362.pdf
ED

HEALTH-CARE REFORM 2009

The following is a couple of excerpts from an article written by Dana Milbank of the Washington Post on Tuesday July 21, 2009
( Regarding a speech given by RNC Chairman Michael Steele at the National Press Club )

Led by Steele, the Republicans are making no secret of their aims: kill health reform this

year, leaving the millions of uninsured to wait for another day and another proposal. And one way to do that is to make it appear that the Democrats are heedlessly hurrying. "The

president is rushing this experiment through Congress so fast, so soon," Steele reasoned,
revisiting his "too much, too fast, too soon" formulation four times in his speech.

On its face, the accusation that the Democrats are moving too quickly seems difficult to
maintain. For 16 years they've been laboring to expand health insurance, and proposals have
been grinding their way through five congressional committees. Then there's the small detail
that Obama and the Democrats made health-care reform a central component of last year's
election, which they won resoundingly.

The chairman referred carefully to his text as he delivered his broadsides: "big government
wish list . . . urge to splurge . . . shove this bill through . . . Obama-Pelosi-Reid-Waxman
cabal . . . reckless . . . unprecedented intrusion." After more than 20 minutes of this,
Steele devoted a few minutes to a Republican alternative: online posting of prices and
outcomes for tests and procedures; a single, simplified billing form; paperless health-care
systems; preventive care; portability of health coverage between jobs. He neglected to
mention the awkward detail that all of these are included, in some form, in the Democrats'
health-care legislation -- which he labeled socialist.

Read the whole article here:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/20/AR2009072002484.html?hpid%3D

Look it up,
Ed

SANFORD DISAPPEARS AGAIN

South Carolina Governor Sanford disappeared again yesterday. This time his aides say that his wife is with him. They refused to say where the Governor is. They might be on the Appalachian Trail, but I think they went to Argentina.

Truth is stranger than fiction,
ED

PALIN CONFUSES YOU

Gov. Sarah Palin
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Washington Post article

"We have an important choice to make. Do we want to control our energy supply and its environmental impact? Or, do we want to outsource it to China, Russia and Saudi Arabia? Make no mistake: President Obama's plan will result in the latter." Sarah Palin

How exactly does President Obama outsource "our energy supply and its environmental impact."

Palin confuses you !
Ed Nice

Read her entire message here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/13/AR2009071302852.html

BLOVIATORS - MEDIA & POLITICIAN

To bloviate means "to speak pompously and excessively" or "to expound ridiculously". A colloquial verb coined in the United States, it is commonly used with contempt to describe the behavior of politicians, academics, pundits or media "experts," sometimes called bloviators, who hold forth on subjects in an arrogant, tiresome way.

The top MEDIA BLOVIATORS are ( in alphabetical order) :
GLENN BECK, ANN COULTER, SEAN HANNITY, former Gov. BILL HUCKABEE, RUSH LIMBAUGH, MICHELLE MALKIN, BILL O'REILLY and former BUSH sidekick KARL ROVE. All but one of them is a listed contributor to FOX NEWS NETWORK. Surprise, surprise ! There are of course a number of bloviators at other networks, but they have not reached the level of entertainment as those listed.
The top POLITICAL BLOVIATORS are ( in alphabetical order ) :
REPUBLICANS :
Rep. JOHN BOEHNER, Rep. ERIC CANTOR, former V.P. DICK CHENEY, former Gov. BILL HUCKABEE and former BUSH sidekick KARL ROVE.
DEMOCRATS :
There are of course many Democrat bloviators, ( Barney Frank & Chris Dodd for example ), but they have yet to reach the level of in-your-face bloviation as the listed Republicans. Boehner and Cheney in particular have raised bloviation to an art form.

Thats the truth, look it up.
ED

KARL ROVE AND DOMESTIC POLICY MANIPULATION

"Rove always believed that with the right mix of legislation and presidential leadership, constituencies could be moved from the Democratic to the Republican column, much like pieces on a chessboard. Atlantic reporter Josh Green identifies five policy initiatives that Rove thought would create a Republican majority and that he and George W. Bush decided to pursue: establishing educational standards, pursuing faith-based initiatives, reforming immigration laws, creating health savings accounts and privatizing Social Security. Thus would the Republicans destroy teachers unions, mobilize the moralists and win over Hispanics. Thus would they break the link between the American people and government programs and create a world in which Americans' well-being and security depended almost entirely on the markets."

Washington Post
Harold Meyerson
Wednesday, August 15, 2007

KARL ROVE on "CZARS"

One of the latest buzzwords out of the conservative side is "CZAR". It is amazing to me that they want to make an issue of this since it was George W. Bush and Karl Rove that made the use of Czars a science. The following statement is a concise, well documented snippet from Kyle Schmidt.
Ed

"It is surprising that Rove finds the appointment of czars to be “a giant expansion of presidential power” because he actually served as the “domestic policy czar” in the Bush White House. In fact, President Bush himself appointed numerous czars in order to deal with various public crises and controversies, including a “cybersecurity czar,” “regulatory czar,” “AIDS czar,” “bird-flu czar” and “Katrina czar.” Moreover, Rove’s criticism of Obama is ironic, given his role in an administration that was marked by the expansion of executive power."

Jul. 10, 2009
ThinkProgress.org
– Kyle Schmidt

LIES & LIARS

1. House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-West Chester, Ohio said this past weekend on Fox News that the promised stimulus money for road projects has been too slow to materialize. He said no projects are under way in his home state.

But the GAO reported that of $935.7 million in highway infrastructure funding that is supposed to go to Ohio, $384 million has been set aside for various projects and, as of June 25, the state had awarded contracts for 52 projects, totaling $92.1 million.

Johnathon Riskind, The Columbus Dispatch

2. Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska quit her job on July 3rd . Three days later she said "I am not a quitter."

In a speech July 3rd. announcing her resignation, Sarah Palin said she had "spent too much time defending" against legal and media attacks. On July 4th., she threatened to file a defamation lawsuit against Shannyn Moore, an Alaskan blogger.

3. Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina told his staff that he would be somewhere on the Appalachian Trail. He then flew to Argentina to see his mistress.

4. Sen. John Ensign of Nevada said today that his parents had given his former mistress and her husband and two of their children a GIFT of $96,000 "out of concern for the well being of longtime family friends during a difficult time."

5. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that the CIA had lied to her about the use of torture. The Republicans called her a liar. Now the CIA comes forward and says they may have not told the truth on occasion. House Minority Leader John Boehner then says Pelosi needs to prove that she is not a liar.

All politicians are skilled at warping the truth.
More snippets as they become available.
Ed