This is truly spectacular: within 24 hours, The Real McCain 2 has skyrocketed to over half a million views! It’s the #1 most viewed video on YouTube right now, and it’s getting loads of love on Digg as well. These numbers put us right up there with many cable news shows, as you can see [...]
Archive for July 11th, 2008
11 Jul
EPA Won’t Act on Emissions This Year
Instead of New Rules, More Comment Sought By Juliet Eilperin and R. Jeffrey Smith Washington Post Staff Writers Friday, July 11, 2008; Page A01 The Bush administration has decided not to take any new steps to regulate greenhouse gas emissions before the president leaves office, despite pressure from the Supreme Court and broad accord among [...]
11 Jul
Capitalism’s Reality Check
By E. J. Dionne Jr. Friday, July 11, 2008; Page A17 The Washington Post The biggest political story of 2008 is getting little coverage. It involves the collapse of assumptions that have dominated our economic debate for three decades. Since the Reagan years, free-market cliches have passed for sophisticated economic analysis. But in the current [...]
11 Jul
Hurting, Not Whining
americanprogressaction.org ECONOMY Yesterday, in an interview with the Washington Times, former Sen. Phil Gramm, the so-called “econ brain” of presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), remarked that the United States has “sort of become a nation of whiners.” “Thank God the economy is not as bad as you read in the newspaper every day.” [...]
11 Jul
Conyers Floats Inherent Contempt for Rove and Pelosi Shifts on Kucinich Impeachment Resolution
Capitol Hill is buzzing today with major developments regarding our campaign for impeachment hearings for President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. Just today, in what could be described as a perfect impeachment storm: • Karl Rove once again thumbed his nose at Congress and the American people by brazenly ignoring a lawful congressional subpoena [...]
