By Mark | August 16, 2011
It pains me admit it, but sometimes the readers of this site do a better job of expressing what I’d like to say that I do. In those instances, I feel obligated to share what they’ve written here, on the front page. At other times, I just post their ramblings up here because I’d rather […]
Posted in energy, Politics, Rants | Also tagged budget cuts, budget deficit, Bush tax cuts, debt ceiling, Deficit Reduction Super Committee, eduction reform, Glen S, green jobs, infrastructure, job creation, Medicaid, Medicare, social security |
I don’t usually like it when adults hire adorable little kids to deliver their political messages, but, judging from my response to this short video just put out by Van Jones and the folks at Rebuild the Dream, I guess I’m alright with it when said kids are articulately and enthusiastically parroting ideas that I […]
Posted in Politics | Also tagged American dream, Bush tax cuts, clean energy, Contract for the American Dream, England, green jobs, health care reform, London, minimum wage, populism, public education, public option, Rebuild the Dream, riots, single-payer system, social security, Van Jones |
Here, because it’s easier to cut and paste than write something myself, is a clip from Jason Linkins: …I am really not entirely sure what the point to this Oval Office address was! Were you looking for something that resembled a fully-realized action plan, describing a detailed approach to containment and clean up? Or perhaps […]
Joe Scarborough, this morning on MSNBC, challenged Barack Obama to be aggressive on alternative energy in his address to the nation tomorrow night. Like me, Scarborough wants Obama to channel the spirit of John F. Kennedy, who in 1961 announced that we’d put a man on the moon by the end of the decade, and […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Politics | Also tagged BP, Cheney's secretive energy task force, Dick Cheney, health care reform, Joe Scarborough, John F. Kennedy, John Heilemann, Morning Joe, Obama, oil, oil spill, single-payer system, the moon |