Democrats Reluctantly Embrace Offshore Drilling
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats say the political climate is forcing their hand.For decades, opposition to new offshore oil drilling has been a core principle of Congressional Democrats, ranking in the party pantheon somewhere just below protecting Social Security and increasing the minimum wage.
But a concerted Republican assault over domestic oil production and the threat of political backlash from financially pressed motorists have Democrats poised to embrace a fundamental shift in energy policy.
Even more surprising, the turnabout is led by the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, who has a history of fighting oil drilling going back to the early days of her career in California.
Under a measure being assembled for a vote in the House next week, oil rigs could go up 50 miles from the shores of states that welcome drilling and 100 miles off any section of the United States coast — a stark reversal on an issue that has been a Democratic environmental touchstone since the 1980s.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/12/us/12cong.html?hp Wrong on the wars, wrong on the Surge, Wrong on Oil, Wrong on raising taxes now, wrong on Bail outs, Wrong on the economy, always blaming some else for Their Governmental majorities failures, making big promises, in 2006, never keeping them, Just Plain wrong about most things, 2 years is enough of Pelsoi and Reid's DO NOTHING failed majority and leaderhip.
DO YOU WANT TWO MORE YEARS OF JUST PLAIN WRONG AND FAILED MAJORITY IDEALS, AND DO NOTHING LEADERSHIP!! HOW MANY TIMES DO OBAMA, PELOSI, AND REID HAVE TO BE WRONG, BEFORE WE ALL GET IT, THEY ARE JUST LOSSER, BIG TIME!!CNN Comes Up Short On Reporting Palin Bikini Photo Fraud and Other Rumors, a willing partner in fraud or to incompetent to be a reporter, you decide:
The below is the doctored photograph put Sarah Palin's head on the body of a 23-year-old woman photographed outside Athens, Ga.
The original Photo:
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“(John) McCain has been really good about painting (Barack) Obama as this lightweight … They don’t want that to come back on Sarah Palin, and people say, yes, she looks good in a bikini clutching an AK-47, but is she equipped to run the country?”
CNN’s Lola Ogunnaike said in response to a question on the network’s “Reliable Sources” show, which aired Sunday.
"150 Most Influential Blacks in America."Ogunnaike’s remarks, which came in response to a question by host Howard Kurtz about whether Palin’s status as a political celebrity might undercut Republican efforts to portray the vice presidential nominee as a serious, reform-minded governor, were posted on CNN’s Web site and have since been reported and discussed on numerous other independent sites.
CNN correspondents and analysts have also recently misrepresented Palin’s stance on incorporating creationism into Alaska’s school curriculum and falsely reported that she cut funds for people with special needs in the state budget.
Regarding the doctored “bikini” photo, neither Kurtz, a “Washington Post” columnist, nor anyone else on the “Sources” discussion panel ever corrected Ogunnaike by pointing out that the picture was a fake.
Speaking about Ogunnaike and the doctored photo, Kurtz told FOXNews.com on Wednesday that he figured everyone knew the photo was a fake.
“I thought that Lola was joking around since the bikini was so obviously fake,” Kurtz said. “I thought she was making a lighthearted reference to it.
“Lola is a very sharp
former New York Times reporter so I seriously doubt that she bought into the notion that the governor of Alaska had in fact posed in a bathing suit carrying an assault rifle,” he added.
“Lola’s comments were made in the context of the tabloid rumors that have emerged since Sarah Palin’s nomination to the ticket,” a CNN spokeswoman said. “She regrets that she didn’t make it more clear that the photo was not only a rumor but a hoax.”
The infamous fake bikini shot first appeared during the early days of the Republican convention. But it was widely debunked within 24 hours, with bloggers and others quickly exposing the fraud by finding the original shot, reportedly taken in 2004 in Athens, Ga., by an amateur photographer of his then-girlfriend.
FOXNews.com was among the news outlets to report the fake.
During the show, Ogunnaike went on to compliment Us Weekly’s coverage of Palin, which has been widely attacked as unfair by critics and reportedly thousands of Us Weekly readers.
“I have to say,” Ogunnaike said, “I read the ‘Us Weekly’ story, and they were actually pretty good. They actually did some pretty good journalism there. … And this is a bigger story here. … They can’t afford to ignore this story because this story drives magazine sales. And that’s the bottom line, that’s what they care about. So if you throw Palin on the cover and you have the words ‘Baby Scandal,’ they know that’s going to sell magazines.”
Ogunnaike’s remarks are among several apparent misstatements made recently by CNN reporters.
On Monday night, senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin said Palin wants “to have creationism taught in public schools.” But numerous stories –- including CNN’s own reporting from last week — have noted that Palin has made no effort to try and include creationism in the state school curriculum.
“I don’t think there should be a prohibition against debate if it comes up in class,” Palin has said. “It doesn’t have to be part of the curriculum.”
The morning after Toobin’s remarks on creationism, CNN correspondent Jessica Yellin reported that Palin vetoed funds not only for so-called “earmarks,” but “even for people with disabilities.” This was an apparent reference to a charge discussed during a Sept. 4 interview, in which CNN’s Soledad O’Brien pressed a McCain spokeswoman on another accusation brought by Palin critics.
O’Brien twice referred to the charge that while governor, Palin cut the state’s special needs budget by 62 percent.
“Those advocates have said, as a woman who is now a mother of a special-needs child, she’s not fighting — she’s cut the budget by 62 percent since she came into office, and doesn’t that show a contradiction?” O’Brien asked McCain spokeswoman Nicolle Wallace, according to transcript available on CNN’s Web site.
But Factcheck.org, a non-partisan group affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania, is among those that have reported that Palin “did not cut funding for special needs education in Alaska by 62 percent.”
In fact, the group said in a posting published on Newsweek’s Web site, “She didn’t cut it at all. She tripled per-pupil funding over just three years.”
CNN THE MOST TRUSTED OBAMA NEWS ON TV. Joe Biden, have mouth will stick foot in it upon request or not." Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be vice president of the United States of America,” Biden told the crowd. “Let’s get that straight. She’s a truly close personal friend; she is qualified to be president of the United States of America. She’s easily qualified to be vice president of the United States of America and, quite frankly, it might have been a better pick than me, but she is first-rate.”"Of course the Obama spin will be as usual he, like
OLD MAN 36 years in Congress, Biden did not mean it, exactly in that way, like Obama and Lipstick on a pig, it just
"THEM doing the same old thing, the same old way, to people who do not look like them." Sorry JOE, I am sure. like Obama, THE THEM he now regular refers to, made those words, which have no meaning, come out of your and his mouth, while you both were trying to say something that has meaning.
Yeah for sure it was that a great
white right wing conspiracy making you guys say these things, I am sure..
BUT JOE SAY IT IS NOT SO, Obama surely did not make a wrong choice in you, when he had a better one in Hillary, AND, as you said, Hillary would make THE BETTER PRESIDENT TOO, say it an't so Joe 
http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/200...for-vp-kind-of/Obama
You can put lipstick on a pig," he said to an outbreak of laughter, shouts and raucous applause from an audience in Virginia.
"It's still a pig. You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change. It's still going to stink after eight years."Today:
Tennessee Rep. Steve Cohen:
“If you want change, you want the Democratic Party,” Cohen said. “Barack Obama was a community organizer like Jesus, who our minister prayed about. Pontius Pilate was a governor.”The South Carolina Democratic Chairwoman, Carol Fowler, offered the kind of shot at Sarah Palin that the Republicans have been complaining about, but which Democrats have largely avoided, in an interview with Politico today.
Fowler said McCain had chosen a running mate
" whose primary qualification seems to be that she hasn’t had an abortion.” Oddly This lady is married to the same Fowler who made the Flippant comments ignoring Gustavos coming potential disaster, instead gleeing over its providence in disrupt the RNC convention, by saying,
“well this just proves God is on our side." Mr. I fight for my country, in Movies and at Obama fund raisers, Matt Damon
why aren’t the Bush twins, females, in Iraq fighting for our country, said today, “a Sarah Palin presidency would be like
"a really bad Disney movie." I'll do much more good if, when I open my mouth, I have something worth saying."P.S. Matt, you know a lot about being in bad movies I am sure and I know you need a script to mind mill your intelligence, but Sarah Palin, my faux hero, is running for VICE PRESIDENT. Get a better script Matt or call Move On first before you utter your ignorances. Obviously Good smart Matt is not the kind of guy who actually does not listens to what comes out of his mouth, hey?
Rosie “buck” O’Donnell wrote this intelligent retort.
“sarah p - elisabeth h identical cousins
women who hunt in high heels gives one pause." Don’t worry Rosie “Buck” Moose hunting in NYC is unlawful, so far. But, I would be worried if it changes, if I were you.
O No, I did not mean it that way, or No I never understood that that way, but the Doomorcats did. Hey Obama.[/i]
Lies, Damned Lies And Sarah PalinThe most important thing about a good attack is not the attack itself. It's baiting your opponent to respond the way you want him to respond, because only the things that come out of his mouth will ultimately stick.
Obama seems to be falling into the trap of response-centrism. If only they could respond the right way, they figure, all will be well. But it won't be. Because the game they are playing is reactive. Instead of changing the subject off Palin by launching some explosive new attack on McCain, all they do is respond, respond, respond. And the story, day after day, is Democratic Presidential nominee responds to Republican Vice Presidential nominee. The optics of that stink for them.
Comparing Sarah Palin to… Osama Bin Laden?Juan Cole; Radical Islam's Progressive Patron SaintWhy I call them DOOMocrats That is all!!
