By Robert L. Borosage, Huffington Post. Posted July 25, 2008. McCain’s health plan will only work for the young, healthy and lucky. This could be the the issue that costs him the election. Now we’re in the presidential campaign’s silly season. The primaries are over; the conventions are yet to come. Americans are tuning out [...]
Archive for July 25th, 2008
25 Jul
Kucinich Testifies on Abuses of Executive Power
Submitted by davidswanson on Fri, 2008-07-25 18:13 WASHINGTON, D.C. (July 25, 2008 ) — Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) testified about President Bush’s culpability for leading the country to war today at a House Judiciary Committee hearing entitled “Executive Power and its Constitutional Limitations.” The full text of the statement follows: Our country has been at [...]
25 Jul
(McCain) — Saying One Thing, Doing Another
Center for American Progress ECONOMY Saying One Thing, Doing Another On Wednesday, the Tax Policy Center released a report finding large disparities between Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) public economic proposals and his advisers’ private assurances. After comparing McCain’s public economic policies with the “measured options outlined by his campaign,” the center concluded that McCain’s public [...]
25 Jul
Eight Reasons to Release Oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
Center for American Progress Energy & Environment A technician inspects a gauge on a meter station at the Strategic Petroleum Reserve’s Bryan Mound site near Freeport, TX. Selling a half million barrels of oil per day from the reserve would increase supply and reduce prices. SOURCE: AP/Energy Department By Daniel J. Weiss | July 14, [...]
25 Jul
What History Tells Us About the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
Center for American Progress Energy & Environment July 23, 2008 As the president and many conservative congressional leaders rally around drilling in the protected Outer Continental Shelf—a “solution” that would have no effect on oil production until 2030—Americans are waiting for a solution that will help them make ends meet now. That solution is selling [...]
25 Jul
Congress Must Prosecute Impeachment
America Must Hear The Truth, And Congress Must Prosecute Impeachment At long last, the outcry from the American people for Constitutional justice has compelled the House Judiciary Committee to convene its first hearing, this Friday, July 25th. But will they be real hearings, where members of Congress actually honor their duty to protect and defend [...]
25 Jul
Obama trumpets message of unity in Europe
Barack Obama was greeted by up to 200,000 yesterday at the Victory Column in Berlin. “I know my country has not perfected itself,” he said in his speech. (jae c. hong/Associated Press) By Sasha Issenberg Globe Staff / July 25, 2008 BERLIN – Less than a mile from a point where the Berlin Wall [...]
