Regardless of what happens on Tuesday, Obama’s big eff you if he’s ousted won’t be limited to prying off the “Rs” on the White House keyboards President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency has devoted an unprecedented number of bureaucrats to finalizing new anti-coal regulations that are set to be released at the end of November, according to a source inside the EPA. More than 50 EPA staff are now crashing to
November 4, 2012
November 4, 2012
Robert Redford very pleased with President Obama
Who, he notes, has done an historic job combating the country’s biggest threat: carbon pollution. Yes, carbon pollution. Which weighs far more heavily on the minds of those Americans who actually matter than, say, a lack of jobs, or the enormous debt, or the impending implosion of the welfare state. And on that issue, the seminal issue of carbon’s relentless attack on our ecosystem, Barack Obama has been a fierce
November 4, 2012
Change and Counter-Change [McGehee]
Back in 2008, then-PW contributor Karl wrote a series of posts about a pattern he had discerned in American elections since the end of the Second World War: that every 16 years — starting in 1960 — there has been a “change” election where the Democrat presidential ticket has benefited from an exploitable public fatigue with recent Republican governance. In 1960 the outgoing incumbent president, Dwight Eisenhower, was 70 years
November 4, 2012
Electrical union to NYC residents: We don’t give a s**t that you’re sitting in the dark … [Darleen Click]
… we have no intention of letting non-union volunteers help you In a two-page Oct. 29 contract, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) local 1049 demanded union dues, pay hikes and benefit contributions from Florida electric utilities before its workers would be permitted to help reconnect power to Long Island communities. The demand came as Hurricane Sandy was bearing down on the Northeastern United States, stranding tens of millions
November 4, 2012
Yes, but is it enough to overcome latent GOP racism and allow me to vote against Obama?
Ann Althouse points to Axelrod’s loathsome behavior on Fox News Sunday, laughing when Chris Wallace brings up the topic of Libya: Now, I’m not one to typically see my OUTRAGE meter pegged. Even here, I don’t think Axelrod was laughing at the Libyan debacle and subsequent risible cover-up attempt. Instead, he was laughing because he knew Wallace would raise the question, and he was trying to intimate that the very