Congress' new chance for clean energy - CNN.com

Congress' new chance for clean energy - CNN.com:

"The United States can and must also act on the international stage to limit the consequences of climate change and enhance our national security. Congress can show a commitment to the U.S. goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, take concrete steps to reverse widespread deforestation that contributes 18 percent of these emissions globally, and provide short-term financing to allow the poorest countries in the world to adapt to the impacts of climate change.

This is not a partisan agenda. The midterm elections reaffirmed that the clean energy agenda is a positive political agenda. In California, voters overwhelmingly supported the nation's only cap-and-trade policy even in the face of a well-financed attack led by a coalition of out-of-state fossil fuel industries. In defeating Proposition 23, California voters across the political spectrum forcefully chose new technologies and new jobs over a retreat to last century's polluted air and fossil fuel dependence -- showing broad bipartisan support for the most comprehensive emissions reduction measures the country has ever seen."

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"This is not a partisan agenda." 

Believe the writer of this article is wrong with this statement. 

California is....well....California.  Impossible for even full bloodied Republicans to come out of the State of California just as conservative as when they first entered. 

It's like some of my habits being considered becoming flamboyant by relatives,  while most urban gays consider me still a stupid redneck;  despite the fact I know a hell lot more about sushi than most queens.  Just because we have gay in common doesn't mean we are capable of  interbreeding if locked in a room together only because nothing else bettter to do.  Just ain't gonna happen.  Entirely different species ...... technically.

Same goes for Californian Republicans.   

Like swimming in the ocean.  If you find yourself being sucked out to sea by a rip current,  the key is don't panic.  You just swim parallel to the beach to get out of it's tow;  then the swim back to shore is much, much, easier.  Still end up a little further from shore but it beats the heck out of putting more lives at risk (liberals most likely) trying to keep one stupid conservative from another state visiting (betcha one who tips poorly and cheats IRS of taxes every chance they get) from drowning. 

Limiting lifeguards to teaching people how to swim instead of saving them from drowning.......betcha that would ...... over time...... give Democrats a  voting advantage. 

At least offset the loss of A.C.O.R.N.

Can't picture Pro-Lifers wanting to be lifeguards either, except, maybe, at  Country Clubs.  But with all them mothers around with nothing better to do but get a tan ...... bit redundant.   

JULIA SUGARBAKER the LIBERAL

GOP knows Obama's not a Muslim, but what's a little misunderstanding?

"Everyone is entitled to their own opinion," the late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan famously said, "but not their own facts." But the rise of partisan media means that Americans are self-segregating themselves into separate political realities where we can't even agree on basic facts like the president's religion and birthplace.

While no responsible Republican would ever explicitly encourage these beliefs, there are plenty who delight in these poll findings because it presumably points to partisan gain. Truth is not as important as the pursuit of power in professional partisans' eyes, and dividing to conquer is a time-honored trick.

Each president since at least Nixon has faced a concerted effort to de-legitimize the duly elected president of the opposing party from day one. But with Barack Obama, the fact that he is the first African-American president with a middle name Hussein has led to a new level of ugliness and suspicion. Attacks that demonize the president are poisoning the civic well from which we all drink.

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The truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

- Jim Bishop -

Look if you like, but you will have to leap.

- Unknown -

Obama’s ‘Otherness’

Political Times - G.O.P. Is Using Obama’s ‘Otherness’ as Campaign Tactic - NYTimes.com: "If Ronald Reagan was the party’s Great Communicator, then Republicans seem to be hoping that Mr. Obama is its Great Galvanizer. The assault on Mr. Obama’s cultural affinity, the clear implication that he is neither suitably Christian nor American in his values, adds a sinister subtext to the argument against his economic agenda. It suggests that Mr. Obama is oddly indifferent to the effects of his policies on ordinary Americans because, at the end of the day, he doesn’t share their experience."

Mr. Obama’s alleged sympathy for so-called Muslim extremists who would desecrate the World Trade Center site, his socialist African ancestry and his early years in Indonesia — all of this creates a shadowy archetype that every conservative enclave, fiscal, foreign policy and religious, can find a reason to fear.

MONEY, GENDER GAP, & PARTISAN POLITICS

"Democrats appear to be making steady gains among women and now get a majority of their vote, but the gender gap persists and more than six in ten men say they plan to vote Republican this year,' says Holland."

CNN Poll: Was Bush better president than Obama? – CNN Political Ticker - CNN.com Blogs:

I'm surprised that Democrats are still making steady gains with women.  Would have thought backsliding as women cross over into the coporate world once only men.

Maybe I'm just being impatient....
hardly believe the human race not as much a lost cause as thought?