GOP, Big Oil and Climate Change
The Lieberman-Warner bill failed because what is missing is political will in Congress to stand up to the powerful energy companies and their well-paid lobbyists.
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HRC Has Some Bad Political Advice For Gay People
Howie Klein | Posted 04.28.2008 | Politics
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North Carolina,
Jim Neal,
Tom Allen,
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I was very proud in 1997 when Human Rights Campaign gave me a leadership equality award. After I learned more about them, I smashed my award and removed them from my will.
Bailing Wall Street Friends, Letting Citizens Freeze in Maine, Minnesota, and North Dakota
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 03.20.2008 | Business
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Unlike Wall Street, the plight of heating oil users is not a self inflicted disaster, but the culmination of this government's energy policies, which have been an unmitigated disaster.
A Warning to Our Superdelegates
Paul Jenkins | Posted 03.12.2008 | Politics
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Corruption,
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House of Representatives,
Ben Cardin,
Martin O'Malley,
Emanuel Cleaver II,
Tammy Baldwin,
Maria Cantwell,
John Lewis,
Barney Frank,
Oregon,
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Missouri,
Gregory Meeks,
Eliot Spitzer,
Niki Tsongas,
Lois Capps,
Pete Stark,
New Mexico,
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Nancy Pelosi,
John Edwards,
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Corrine Brown,
Loretta Sanchez,
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Tom Udall,
Sheldon Whitehouse,
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Wisconsin,
Jerry Nadler,
Iowa,
Georgia,
Diane Watson,
Louise Slaughter,
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It is increasingly unseemly for superdelegates to stand by as the Clinton campaign resorts to techniques that would have made Jesse Helms blush 20 years ago.
Clinton's General Election Disaster in the Making
Paul Jenkins | Posted 03.09.2008 | Politics
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Of the many strange spins the Clinton campaign has sold the media, few are as troubling as the idea that she is the stronger general election candidate.
Michigan And Florida Need A Mulligan
Chris Weigant | Posted 02.11.2008 | Politics
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Mulligan -- (noun) A golf shot not tallied against the score, granted in informal play after a poor shot especially from the tee. This is ...
Democratic Caucuses In Maine
Huffington Post | Posted 02.10.2008 | Politics
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Mark Halperin reports that with 11% of the precincts reporting, Obama has a slight lead over Clinton, 50% to 48%. An early report from Maine has cauc...
Friday Talking Points [18]
Chris Weigant | Posted 02.08.2008 | Politics
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I'm going to start off with a quick piece of advice for both Democratic campaigns (or perhaps for Howard Dean) -- spend the next few weeks taping ever...
The Ten Best Public Policies of 2007
Andrea Batista Schlesinger | Posted 12.27.2007 | Politics
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From DMI's Year In Review 2007 1. Arbitrary Dispute Resolution The Seventh Amendment hasn't been repealed. So how did Americans lose the right to tr...
George W. Bush as Marie Antoinette: "Let Them Go Ice Fishing in Maine" (Part Two)
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 12.19.2007 | Business
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That the government would not use the Strategic Petroleum Reserve as a symbolic gesture to counter OPEC's and the oil industry's rapaciousness borders on the incredulous, or perhaps more accurately, the malign.
Those Damnable High Oil Prices: Blame it on the Energy Hogs Up in Maine!
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 11.13.2007 | Business
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A recent Times propaganda piece could have been written by the PR departments of the best and brightest of the oil companies, the American Petroleum Institute, or OPEC flaks.
On Providing Birth Control for Middle Schoolers
Abigail Jones and Marissa Miley | Posted 10.19.2007 | Politics
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Congratulations, Portland, Maine. You've admitted what so many deny: teens are sexually active, and we need to help them stay safe and make smart choices.
Sex, Condoms in Schools
Malcolm Friedberg | Posted 10.18.2007 | Politics
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Isn't handing out condoms encouraging 11-year-old kids to have sex?
Counting Senate Votes On Iraq... 56... 57... 60... 67....
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.19.2007 | Politics
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When you parse it all out, it comes down to 50-50 on the subject of Iraq, but there are four names being floated as candidates for GOP aisle-crossing.
What Democrats Need To Say Before Bush's Speech
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.12.2007 | Politics
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Democrats in Congress have to quickly decide what to do about this state of affairs. If they aren't careful, Republicans could wind up owning the "withdrawal" as a political issue.
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