Sure, it’s easy to get blue about our blue-state friend when he flips to become the deciding vote on gigantic financial regulation reform with more unintended consequences than, well, the last giant piece of legislation with a bunch of blanks to be filled in at a later date by regulators.
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"Obama struggling to show he's in control," reads the headline on the Washington Post's story on Barack Obama's Thursday press conference, where most of the questions were about the Gulf oil spill.
"Defensive, un-authoritative and equivocal," wrote Congressional Quarterly's Craig Crawford of Obama's performance. "He came across as a beleaguered bureaucrat in damage control."
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I expect President Obama will frame this one, too, as a battle against the special interests, but maybe this time, the press won’t be fooled as badly. Politico reports:
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Climate scientist Chip Knappenberger takes as his baseline the IPCC’s assumptions about temperature change due to Global Warming under a “Business As Usual” (BAU) scenario. For the sake of argument, he gives these numbers the benefit of the doubt, despite many questions about their accuracy.
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Interior Secretary Ken Salazar appointed 12 new members to the National Park System Advisory Board, describing them as “highly accomplished men and women whose creativity and wisdom will help us prepare for the challenges of the National Parks Service’s second hundred years.”
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Iranian-born Hassan Nemazee - one of Barack Obama’s top campaign contribution “bundlers” and a major Democratic Party donor - has pleaded guilty to four counts of bank and wire fraud.
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When a mainstream publication reports on “strange bedfellows” supporting a government regulation, you can be sure that the tryst in question is between some sort of liberal “public interest” group and a company standing to get rich off the proposed regulation — probably at the expense of consumers, taxpayers and small businesses.
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As Sen. Max Baucus tries to squeeze a health care bill out of the Senate Finance Committee, and as Sens. Barbara Boxer and John Kerry let slip another deadline in their attempt to fashion a bill to reduce carbon dioxide, some Democrats wonder whether their congressional leaders and the president who has deferred to them have sought only limited changes rather than more fundamental reform on both health insurance and carbon emissions.
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