Bird’s-Eye View

Barack Obama’s wrapping up the world tour. Astounding crowd in Germany and the speech was on target, but now, get home and start battling John McCain on your weakest front: energy policy. Unfortunately, no matter how false or misleading they get, the Republicans appear to have the American public convinced in an over-simplistic formula: More domestic drilling […]

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CNN.com has an articledetailing both sides of the argument about whether America should drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR):
No one really knows how much oil the coastal plain might contain - no one has ever actually drilled there.
But based on the region’s geological features, and its proximity to the oil rich […]

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… never hurt anyone, right?
Factcheck.org has taken John McCain’s campaign and the Republican National Committee to task twice today for false claims made against Democrat Barack Obama. Here’s the first one:
A new ad from the Republican National Committee claims Barack Obama proposes “no new solutions” for the energy and climate crises. In fact, the Illinois senator […]

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John McCain has certainly scored a victory in the early primary season. This from the Associated Press:
The poll released Tuesday by the Pew Research Center shows nearly half of those surveyed — or 47 percent — now rate energy exploration, drilling and building new power plants as the top priority, compared with 35 percent who […]

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Breathe a sigh of relief. Call off the search dogs. The kids can come out the play, again.
Late last night, Gov. Ed Rendell announced an agreement between his office and the Legislature over a budget that was more than $500 million less than what Rendell wanted. Here’s some details from his press release:
The Governor said […]

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June may be the cruelest month, not April, because all those voter polls really don’t tell us much about what’s going to happen in November. We’re four months out from the election, and anything - a foreign attack, a major scandal, Swift Boating - can change the playing field and equalize any advantage one candidate […]

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Watching the evening news gave me a sense of how American auto makers just don’t get it. Dodge is offering a new program where you get a special card and receive $2.99-a-gallon unleaded gasoline or diesel for up to 12,000 miles or three years. The program is called “Refuel America,” but if they want to […]

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Senate Republicans in Harrisburg today announced they would not convene a “lame duck” session after the Nov. 4 election. While GOP leaders are hailing this decision as another step in government reform, it ups by one month the deadline for a profound amount of legislation - mainly Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell’s proposals for health care […]

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PHILADELPHIA - The Nest has picked up operations and landed here in raucous Philadelphia, where tonight’s Barack Obama/Hillary Clinton debate has not only attracted zealous, sign-toting supporters, abortion protesters, a anti-Chinese rally, the best journalists in the country, but Obama Girl, too. Who says this isn’t a party?
Clinton and Obama will meet for this debate, […]

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While Hillary and Barack duke it out on the left, John McCain is angling for the middle-of-the-road voters, which constitutes a majority of people in this country. That’s why I think you are seeing one-fifth to one-fourth of Obama or Clinton supporters pledging to vote for McCain if their preferred Democrat isn’t on top of […]

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