VP Joe Biden (at Buzzfeed) and former VP Al Gore (at Price of Oil) have both recently opposed KXL, TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline. Biden’s comment was to a Sierra Club member on a ropeline in South Carolina. His office quickly said his position really hasn’t changed, and he awaits the results of the State Department [...]
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Sandra Day O’Connor Admits Court Wrong on Bush v. Gore
“Maybe the court should have said, ‘We’re not going to take it, goodbye.” – Sandra Day O’Connor THE LEGACY of George W. Bush extends to Justice Rehnquist’s willingness to play politics with the Supreme Court, which Sandra Day O’Connor joined when she decided to be the fifth vote in Bush v. Gore. The vote Sandra [...]
Justice Scalia Versus Ted Olson
“When did it become unconstitutional to exclude homosexual couples from marriage?” Scalia asked Olson. “When did it become unconstitutional to prohibit interracial marriages?” Olson retorted. – Same-sex marriage can’t be stopped by the courts, by Dana Milbank IT WOULD take going through Justice Antonin Scalia’s history of homophobic bigotry to appreciate the gravity of the [...]
Joe Lieberman’s Political Obituary: American Enterprise Institute
Former Sen. Joe Lieberman is joining the conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute, the organization announced Monday. [Politico] THE MAN who once stood next to Al Gore as the Democratic vice presidential nominee is going where right-wingers go to spend out the rest of their years in irrelevancy. It’s fitting and earned.
News Desk: Al Jazeera Buys Al Gore’s Current TV
AL GORE has finally succeeded with Current TV by selling it, for a rumored very healthy profit. Al Jazeera on Wednesday announced a deal to take over Current TV, the low-rated cable channel that was founded by Al Gore, a former vice president, and his business partners seven years ago. Al Jazeera plans to shut [...]
Election Day Horoscope: Gore-Bush 2000 Redux?
The last time Mercury was Retrograde Station Direct on an election day was in year 2000, when we experienced the chaos surrounding the Gore and Bush election, when the Supreme Court stepped in to take control. – How Mercury retrograde could affect Barack Obama and Mitt Romney on Election Day [New York Daily News] MERCURY [...]
A Word from Al Gore
THERE IS resentment whenever a person calls something before others and is proven right. Nobody has taken more incoming than Al Gore, but he’s been right about climate change from the start. The images of Sandy’s flooding brought back memories of a similar–albeit smaller scale– event in Nashville just two years ago. There, unprecedented rainfall [...]
Revenge 2000: Electoral College Gives Obama Advantage
MITT ROMNEY has taken the lead in national polls, giving more lift to the theory President Obama could win an Electoral College victory, all that matters in getting the keys to the Oval Office, while Romney could win the popular vote. Bill it as potential revenge for 2000, when George W. Bush not only won [...]
Lena Dunham Ad Upsets Mourdock Supporters [Video]
IT’S ALREADY known around here that I’m a huge fan of the brilliant Lena Dunham and an avid viewer of HBO’s GIRLS. So, I’m sure you’re not shocked that I love this Obama ad. Young women vote in much smaller numbers. If that wasn’t true, Al Gore would have become president. All these years later, [...]
News Desk: What Climate Deniers are Costing Us All
THE ENTIRE debate on climate change has been dumbed down by the right. Whether it’s Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity or the conservative press, science has been rejected for ideology. Oxygen is one of the key ingredients for body growth. Ample theoretical and empirical evidence suggests that the capacity for growth is limited by oxygen in [...]
Top Story: Al Gore, Time to End the Electoral College
“I’ve seen how these states are written off and ignored, and people are effectively disenfranchised in the presidential race. And I really do now think it is time to change that.” – Former Vice President Al Gore AMEN. …and hallelujah. If you don’t live in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North [...]
Al Gore to Anchor Convention Coverage for Current TV
AL GORE will not be going to Charlotte, or Tampa for that matter, but he will be covering both conventions from New York, along with Jennifer Granholm, Eliot Spitzer, as well as Cenk Uygur, and Gavin Newsom. Vice President Al Gore will be leading Current TV’s coverage of the Republican and Democratic National Conventions. Coverage [...]
Chris Licht, Al Gore’s on Line One
Al Gore’s Current TV has bigger problems to deal with than a potential lawsuit from fired news anchor Keith Olbermann – namely not getting kicked off Time Warner Cable for low ratings. – Exclusive: Low ratings could end cable deal for Gore’s Current TV, by Peter Lauria IT‘s been a very bad week for Al [...]
Keith to Dave: ‘I screwed up’
“Do they know what they’re doing over there?” – Dave Letterman The biggest casualty last night was Current TV. Olbermann said he had no idea if “Countdown” had ever aired, because he couldn’t find Current on his dial. Dave acted positively stumped on where to find it and this routine went on throughout the interview. [...]
Pres. Obama Takes on Supreme Court Hubris
Power is a beautiful thing if you learn how to wield it. The Fox headline: Obama warns ‘unelected’ Supreme Court against striking down health law. Obama knows his health care bill is the signature first term accomplishment of his Administration and the Democratic Party. A historic piece of legislation he is not going to [...]
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