Waxman And The Dems Start Investigations

    The Democrats have begun their investigative hearing since taking the store over from the children in Congress. Their sights have been pointed at the 'spin' that the White house has been churning out about global warming.

    Advocacy groups have been saying that Federal scientist have been pressured by the White house to downplay global warming.

Rep. Henry Waxman ( voting record), D-Calif. said, "It appears there may have been an orchestrated campaign to mislead the public about climate change."

At the House hearing, two private advocacy groups produced a survey of 279 government climate scientists showing that many of them say they have been subjected to political pressure aimed at downplaying the climate threat. Their complaints ranged from a challenge to using the phrase "global warming" to raising uncertainty on issues on which most scientists basically agree, to keeping scientists from talking to the media.

The survey and separate interviews with scientists "has brought to light numerous ways in which U.S. federal climate science has been filtered, suppressed and manipulated in the last five years," Francesca Grifo, a senior scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists, told the committee.   Yahoo News

     It is about time that some of the investigations have begun, but, could the committees have not found a more important subject to start with? Oh well, I guess that starting at the bottom is as good a start as any. Maybe this will work it's way up to the top of the chain.      

         

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Feingold, Obama, and Senate Republicans

   From Daily Kos: < Original Article

by kos

Tue Jan 30, 2007

Feingold is moving aggressively to cut off funding for the Iraq War forcing Bush to withdraw the troops, and he's doing so amidst Republican claims that only the president can decide on troop deployment.

Of course, Republicans were making exactly the opposite arguments during the Clinton presidency, as Glenn Greenwald digs up.

Sen. John McCain - October 19,1993

There is no reason for the United States of America to remain in Somalia. The American people want them home, I believe the majority of Congress wants them home, and to set an artificial date of March 31 or even February 1, in my view, is not acceptable. The criteria should be to bring them home as rapidly and safely as possible, an evolution which I think could be completed in a matter of weeks.

Our continued military presence in Somalia allows another situation to arise which could then lead to the wounding, killing or capture of American fighting men and women. We should do all in our power to avoid that.

I listened carefully to the President's remarks at a news conference that he held earlier today. I heard nothing in his discussion of the issue that would persuade me that further U.S. military involvement in the area is necessary. In fact, his remarks have persuaded me more profoundly that we should leave and leave soon.

Dates certain, Mr. President, are not the criteria here. What is the criteria and what should be the criteria is our immediate, orderly withdrawal from Somalia. And if we do not do that and other Americans die, other Americans are wounded, other Americans are captured because we stay too long--longer than necessary--then I would say that the responsibilities for that lie with the Congress of the United States who did not exercise their authority under the Constitution of the United States and mandate that they be brought home quickly and safely as possible [...]

I, along with many others, will have an amendment that says exactly that. It does not give any date certain. It does not say anything about any other missions that the United States may need or feels it needs to carry out. It will say that we should get out as rapidly and orderly as possible.                       More HERE

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    Once again we have the Republicans doing an about face as the circumstances fit their agenda. Of course, they have to work towards the goals provided by the anti-Christ up in the White house even if they have to backtrack on past views and statements.

    As if you haven't noticed, anything goes as far as this group of idiots are concerned.

                            IMPEACH! INDICT! IMPRISON!

 

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