Today, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) made a major speech on global warming at the North American headquarters of the Danish wind-power company Vestas, despite having prevented the passage of critical renewable energy tax credits for the wind industry in December and February. …
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McCain Wants It Both Ways On Global Warming, Ends Up Attacking His Own Plan
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Stephanopoulos Stumps Fiorina On Corporate Tax Loopholes
http://thinkprogress.org/wonkroom/2008/05/12/fiorina-stumped/On This Week yesterday, McCain economic adviser Carly Fiorina restated her support of tax loopholes for big business. Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett Packard, has been a long-time defender of a gap in the U.S. tax code that enables American corporations to keep foreign profits overseas and abstain from paying domestic taxes. …
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In The War Of Ideas, Bush and McCain Wield A Wet Noodle
http://thinkprogress.org/wonkroom/2008/05/12/bush-mccain-wet-noodle/Filed Under: National Security By M. Duss at 2:58 pm In The War Of Ideas, Bush and McCain Wield A Wet Noodle In yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, Commentary’s Gabriel Schoenfeld warned of a “growing pro-Obama/anti-McCain axis,”* an Ecumenical Legion of Doom that, in Schoenfeld’s telling, …
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McCain Portrays Himself as Environmental Champion, but Record Undercuts Credibility
http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2008/05/8217_mc...We've already used McCain's record to throw some cold water on his big climate change speech in Oregon. Visit the Wonk Room to see why the location, the North American headquarters of the Danish wind-turbine company Vestas, is so hypocritical. The short version: Republicans in Congress, McCain included, have slashed the United States budget for wind energy since Carter was
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TreeHugger
http://treehugger.comshipping out rice to Bangladesh to "meet contractual obligations" ie, get foreign exchange? Or is it climate instability that comes from global warming? One can't say that, or you will get your tapes edited by Fox News as they did to Al Gore, one cannot directly blame this on climate change. Or maybe you can, as Richard Littlemore did brilliantly at Desmogblog. He writes: There is no proof whatever that the devastating strength of cyclone Nargis is related to climate change. There is no
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A Hundred 9/11s? Really?
http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2008/05/a_hundre...Think Progress
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Wonk Room: McCain ‘Bold’ Solutions
http://mccombover.wordpress.com/2008/05/12/wonk-room-mccain-...McCain ‘Bold’ Solutions
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Wonk Room: National Review Offers Weak Defense Of McCain Health Care Plan
http://mccombover.wordpress.com/2008/05/12/wonk-room-nationa...National Review Offers Weak Defense Of McCain Health Care Plan
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Wonk Room: McCain Seemingly Agrees With Glenn Beck That Solutions To Climate Change Can Be Delayed
http://mccombover.wordpress.com/2008/05/12/wonk-room-mccain-...McCain Seemingly Agrees With Glenn Beck That Solutions To Climate Change Can Be Delayed
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Wonk Room: McCain’s ‘Main’ Health Care Concern Is Clearly Not ‘Cost’
http://mccombover.wordpress.com/2008/05/12/wonk-room-mccain%...McCain’s ‘Main’ Health Care Concern Is Clearly Not ‘Cost’
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Wonk Room: McCain’s Slippery Notions Of Judicial Activism
http://mccombover.wordpress.com/2008/05/12/wonk-room-mccain%...McCain’s Slippery Notions Of Judicial Activism
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It's Climate That Changes, But Weather That Kills You
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/05/climate-changes-weat...shipping out rice to Bangladesh to "meet contractual obligations" ie, get foreign exchange? Or is it climate instability that comes from global warming? One can't say that, or you will get your tapes edited by Fox News
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Blix - US Could Work Harder On Iran Negotiations
http://www.newshoggers.com/blog/2008/05/blix---us-could.htmlin a move which will infuriate American neocons, says that global warming is far more of a threat to global stability than nuclear proliferation is nowadays.) Definitely worth a watch. But as I watched Blix's interview, I was reminded of something Matt Duss at The Wonk Room wrote today. Why do neocons love that word, “axis” so much? Partly because the World War II allusion allows them to indulge their Churchill fetish. But mostly because it enables them to create the impression of an enemy “alliance” where there
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