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By David Edwards
Sunday, March 18, 2012 10:52 EDT
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Sunday said that there was “no question” President Barack Obama had a plan to raise gas prices when he took office.
“When he ran for office, he said he wanted to see gas prices go up,” the candidate told Fox News host Bret Baier. “He said that energy prices would skyrocket under his views. And he selected three people to help him implement that program: the Secretary of Energy, the Secretary of the Interior, and the EPA administrator.”
The former Massachusetts governor added that Obama needed to fire the “gas-hike trio” because he had “suffered an election-year conversion.”
“Time for them to go probably hand in their resignations if he is really serious about that, and start drilling for energy here, whether that’s our oil, our natural gas, take advantage of our coal resources for power generation,” he said.
“These gasoline prices are hurting American families. And that pain and the result of the president’s policies to turn down the Keystone pipeline from Canada, and at the same time, put $500 million into Solyndra. These policies are not working. His policies are hurting the American people. And they want to have someone who will finally take advantage of our energy resources and I will.”
During a speech at Prince George’s Community College in Largo, Maryland last week, the president said that the U.S. should pursue an “all-of-the-above strategy” for developing new energy sources, including renewable energies like solar, wind and biofuels.
“Here’s the sad thing,” Obama explained to the friendly crowd. “Lately we’ve heard a lot of professional politicians — a lot of the folks who are running for a certain office, who shall go unnamed — they’ve been talking down new sources of energy. They dismiss wind power. They dismiss solar power. They make jokes about biofuels. They were against raising fuel standards. I guess they like gas guzzlers. They think that’s good for our future.”
“We’ve heard this kind of thinking before,” he added. “If some of these folks were around when Columbus set sail — they must have been founding members of the Flat-Earth Society. They would not have believed that the world was round.”
At a recent event in northeastern Ohio, Romney dismissed renewable energy, declaring that “you can’t drive a car with a windmill on it.”
Obama’s campaign has accused Romney of raising taxes on gasoline by 2.5 cents per gallon while serving as governor of Massachusetts.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/?p=393810
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"I find it odd how gas prices here in Colorado have gone up 70 cents over the last two months with all the talk of war with Iran, even more odd how Mitt seems to be reaching out to the Women who may have changed their minds about voting republican???"By David Edwards
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Monsanto has closed its facility in Davis after 150 occupiers from throughout the state blocked the entrances to Monsanto’s Davis facility on 1910 5th Street.
The occupiers reported they have “shut down” the corporate giant, which produces genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and is notorious for its inordinate influence over the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under the Obama administration. Police are now on the scene.
You can see the protest live at sacmedia.tv.
The protest is part of a “Global Days of Action to Shut Down Monsanto” in dozens of U.S. cities and several countries. Occupy groups from Sacramento, Davis, Woodland and even Los Angeles are expected to participate, as well as labor, environmental, veterans and social justice groups.
“We are calling for a ‘global class-action’ against Monsanto,” said Steven Payan, one of the Davis protest organizers. “We are joining the world in solidarity to demand a ban on all GMO foods and hold Monsanto accountable for its actions throughout history from Agent Orange to Deforestation to current and past deaths to preying on small farmers through a broken court system and also through International Free Trade Agreements.”
Payan said Monsanto has been linked to massive pollution, including the poisoning of drinking water, genetically modified crops and seeds, chopping down rain forests and other types of social justice and environmental destruction.
Several countries, including Brazil, India, Haiti, Peru, France and others in Europe, have enacted recent bans or restrictions on Monsanto and its GMO foods. People worldwide are demanding restitution for hundreds of thousands of deaths, birth defects, suicides and ailments linked to Monsanto. 300,000 organic farmers recently sued Monsanto, according to Payan.
Among the endorsers of the Monsanto protest are The Anti-Monsanto Project, Occupy Woodland & Occupy UC Davis (Occupy Yolo County), Occupy Sacramento, Occupy Yuba-Sutter, Occupy Redding, Occupy Chico, Peace & Freedom Party, PSL Sacramento, Native People Association, Sierra Club, Rebuild the Dream, Labor Council for Latin American Advancement AFLCIO, MEChA de Woodland Community College, SEIU-Justice for Janitors, Revolutionary Hip-Hop Report, SoL Communications, Battle Creek Alliance, Sierraforest.org, Geo-Engineering Watch, Northbay Uprising, West Sacramento LULAC, SmallWorldRadio.net, United Native Americans and more.
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Also today, Occupy Monsanto’s agents of change with the Genetic Crimes Unit (GCU), a group designed to protect America from genetically modified foods, will wear bio-hazmat suits when they visit Congress. The group will gather at Capitol South Metro station in Washington D.C. at noon to highlight how chemical company Monsanto is contaminating our political process.
The GCU opposes Monsanto’s bid to increase spraying of food with toxic weed killers like 2,4 D (the main ingredient in Agent Orange), genetic contamination of the organic food supply, and other risks associated with genetically modified food (GMOs).
The GCU will arrive at the metro station wearing bio-hazmat suits to assess whether Members of Congress and their staff have been victims of genetic crimes. The GCU will hold a banner that reads, “Congress is Genetically Modified,” as they circulate on Capitol Hill sidewalks.
This day of action is part of a larger international call to ‘Occupy Monsanto’ taking place all over the globe including Spain, Africa, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and at least 28 cities throughout the US.
More at the link
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A "fiery speech illustrating the truth on yet another Republican initiative to limit people's right to vote," re SB 386, from the Wisconsin Assembly floor:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101716733
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By Eric W. Dolan
Wednesday, March 14, 2012 16:36 EDT
Conservative author Ann Coulter on Monday night lamented that “charlatans” like Sarah Palin managed to remain prominent voices within the conservative movement, according to The Shark Tank.
At a Lincoln Day Dinner event in Florida, she was asked about the possibility of a brokered Republican convention.
“One of the ones promoting that is Sarah Palin, who has suggested herself as the choice,” Coulter replied. “I think as long as it’s between us girls, I’ve been observing something about her. I don’t think it’s likely to happen. I don’t know what these people are cheering for.”
Palin told CNN she was open to running for president if Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney can’t obtain enough delegates to get the nomination.
Many had believed that Palin’s “One Nation” bus tour was a precursor to a her White House bid. But Palin never made it to her scheduled stops in the key primary states of Iowa and New Hampshire, returning to her home in Alaska half-way through the high-profile tour. In October 2011, Palin announced she would not run for president.
“And just a more corporate problem is I think our party and particularly our movement, the conservative movement, does have more of a problem with con men and charlatans than the Democratic Party,” Coulter continued. “I mean, the incentives seem to be set up to allow people, as long as you have a band of a few million fanatical followers, you can make money. The Democrats have managed to figure out how not to do that.”
“Dennis Kucinich, he’s a nut, he has fanatical followers, [but] he doesn’t gets a show on MSNBC. He doesn’t get any kind of gig on MSNBC. He’s road kill. Howard Dean doesn’t get a show. Howard Dean was fairly respectable for a Democrat. No, you embarrass us and drag this thing out, and you are finished in the Democratic Party.”
She noted that Republicans had been asked to sign a number of controversial pledges, such as Grover Norquist’s anti-tax pledge and The Family Leader’s marriage pledge. But the only pledge, Coulter joked, that she would support was one that said: “If I lose the nomination, I pledge I will not take a gig with Fox News or write a book.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/14/ann-coulter-gop-has-a-problem-with-charlatans-like-sarah-palin/
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By Eric W. Dolan
Tuesday, March 13, 2012 19:43 EDT
CNN commentator Jack Cafferty railed against the United States’ ongoing involvement in Afghanistan following the alleged murder of 16 Afghan civilians by a rogue U.S. soldier.
“How much is enough?” he said Tuesday. “The United States has been in Afghanistan for more than ten years. And President Obama insists we will remain in Afghanistan until the end of 2014. Why? What will be accomplished by staying in that godforsaken hellhole for another 20 months that hasn’t been accomplished in 10 and a half years?”
He noted that recent events, including the burning of Qurans and desecration of Taliban corpses, had inflamed hatred against Americans in Afghanistan.
“Yet the Obama White House is out with a statement insisting that none of this will deter us from our mission, which is what exactly?” Cafferty continued. “I have no idea what the hell we’re doing there anymore. Isn’t Osama bin Laden dead?”
He cynically predicted Obama would only hasten withdrawal from Afghanistan if he thought staying there would imperil his re-election campaign.
“Why don’t the American people have anything to say about what we’re doing?” Cafferty added. “We have no voice in any of this stuff any more. They go into Iraq, they go into Afghanistan, they might go into Iran. We got nothing. We’re just kept in the dark and the government does whatever the hell it feels like doing, or preferably what it is being told to do by the people who pay the politicians’ bills. Remember that warning from Dwight Eisenhower about the military-industrial complex? It’s got this country by the throat.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/13/jack-cafferty-military-industrial-complex-has-this-country-by-the-throat/
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By David Edwards
Monday, March 12, 2012 11:00 EDT
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has a response to rival Newt Gingrich’s claim that he’s a weak frontrunner: I know I am but what are you?
On Sunday, Gingrich told Fox News host Chris Wallace that the former Massachusetts governor had one of the most anemic campaigns in the last 100 years.
“The fact is that Romney is probably the weakest Republican frontrunner since Leonard Wood in 1920, and Wood ultimately lost on the 10th ballot,” the former House Speaker asserted.
Gingrich was referring Gen. Leonard Wood, who was considered the Republican frontrunner in 1920 but eventually lost the nomination to Warren G. Harding at the convention.
“It’s funny to listen to these guys,” Romney told Fox News host Gretchen Carlson on Monday. “They are saying what they wish to be the case but what happens not to be the case.”
“If I’m a weak frontrunner then what does that make Newt Gingrich because I’m well ahead of him?” he added.
Carlson noted that Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum has also charged that Romney “can’t close the deal.”
“Oh, we’re closing the deal, state by state, delegate by delegate,” Romney insisted. “I’ve got by far the most votes among Republicans so far.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/12/romney-if-im-a-weak-frontrunner-then-what-does-that-make-newt-gingrich/
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"HaHaa!!! Sucker Punches from both Sides, how Cool is That???" =)By David Edwards
Monday, March 12, 2012 11:00 EDT
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Because Texas has a record of voter suppression based on race, the State is actually required under the Civil Rights Voting Act to notify Federal authorities in advance before changing their voter ID laws, which they did not do in their latest attempt to prevent valid minorities and the elderly from voting Democrat...
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"Buy them books and send them to school, even give them Food Stamps and they still cannot appreciate what they are given.... Sheeesh!!!"
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By David Edwards
Sunday, March 11, 2012 11:50 EDT
Former Republican presidential nominee John McCain is still adamant that no one was more qualified than Sarah Palin to be vice president in 2008.
Fox News host Chris Wallace on Sunday asked the Arizona senator to respond to HBO’s movie “Game Change,” which implies that he only selected Palin because she was a woman.
“I thought she was the best qualified person,” McCain insisted. “I thought she had the ability to excite our party, and the kind of person that I wanted to see succeed in the political arena. She was a very effective and successful governor [of Alaska]. Again, I look forward and not back.”
“What I don’t understand, even in the tough world of politics, why there continues to be such assaults on a good and decent person, Sarah Palin, a fine family person, a person whose nomination energized our campaign,” he said. “We were in the lead and they continue to attack and disparage her character and her person.”
But it was the way he was portrayed by actor Ed Harris that seemed to most get under McCain’s skin.
“I’m portrayed as using an exceeding amount of coarse language,” the failed nominee explained. “I don’t use course language very often. I have a larger vocabulary than that.”
“I was going to say that in the movie — which I watched part of — you swear like a sailor,” Wallace noted. “But I guess that would be unfair to sailors.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/11/mccain-palin-was-best-qualified-for-vice-president/
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"I can actually see the hair on the back of his neck standing straight up, having to say all that he does not actually believe, Poor Fella!!!!"By David Edwards
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By David Edwards
Friday, March 9, 2012 13:02 EST
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum on Friday blasted rivals former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich for their past support of legislation to combat global warming, saying that politicians shouldn’t change “when the climate changes.”
“When the climate changed about man-made global warming in this country and everybody rushed to say we need to do something now about this huge problem, I didn’t change,” the former Pennsylvania proudly declared at an event at the USS Alabama Battleship Park. “This climate science of man-made global warming is not climate science, it was political science.”
“I didn’t sit on a couch with anybody,” Santorum added, referring to an ad Gingrich had made with then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) calling for mandatory carbon caps.
“I didn’t go out and crow as Gov. Romney did when he was governor of Massachusetts about imposing the first CO2 cap, the first CO2 cap in the country,” Santorum continued. “Both of them say, ‘Yeah, we have to do something about man-made global warming.’”
“We don’t need somebody who changes when the climate changes,” the candidate remarked. “We need somebody who looks at science with a clear head and a level eye.”
In their quest to woo GOP voters, both Gingrich and Romney have tempered their support for climate change legislation in the past year.
Late last year, Gingrich admitted that appearing in the ad with Pelosi was “the dumbest single thing I’ve done in the last few years.”
In October, Romney told voters in Pittsburgh that “the idea of spending trillions and trillions of dollars to try to reduce CO2 emissions is not the right course for us.”
Santorum, however, has said he never believed the global warming “hoax.”
“I’ve never supported even the hoax of global warming,” he insisted last month, adding that Gingrich and Romney “bought into the science of man-made global warming, and they bought into the remedy, both of which are bogus.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/09/santorum-global-warming-is-political-science/
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By Eric W. Dolan
Thursday, March 8, 2012 19:15 EST
Sen. Mark Udall (D-CO) on Thursday voiced his support for legislation that would prohibit individuals detained in the United States from being indefinitely detained or transferred to a foreign country.
“Our Constitution is in many ways the most powerful weapon we have against those who mean us harm,” he said.
Due Process Guarantee Act of 2011 was proposed in response to controversial sections of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 regarding the detention of terrorism suspects.
“While this administration has said it won’t hold American citizens or lawful permanent residents in military custody, that is the interpretation of only one president,” said Udall, who sits the Senate Armed Services and Intelligence committees
“That policy won’t tie the hands of future administrations,” he noted. “The indefinite detention provisions threaten to undo much of the progress the FBI and law enforcement have made to stop terrorists plotting in the United States and overseas, and it seems to make it more difficult to collaboratively gather intelligence on domestic terror cells at all. The last thing we should be doing is preventing local, state and federal authorities from investigating and acting on threats to our safety.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/08/sen-udall-calls-for-repeal-of-indefinite-detention-provisions/
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"Hooray for my Senator!!! I wonder what his take is on a Fellow democrat, ie BO, signing it into Law???"By Eric W. Dolan
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By Agence France-Presse
Wednesday, March 7, 2012 23:29 EST
WASHINGTON — Senior Republican Senator John McCain, who has endorsed Mitt Romney to challenge President Barack Obama, on Wednesday admitted he was worried about his party’s chances of retaking the White House.
After Romney claimed six out of 10 contests on “Super Tuesday,” including the key battleground of Ohio, McCain told CBS News that the bruising battle for the Republican nomination was hurting the party in the long run.
“The longer this goes on, the worse our chances are,” McCain said, according to a transcript of the interview for the “Face to Face” program released by CBS.
“Every day between now and November that is devoted to winning the primary is lost on winning the general election. And that, I have to tell you, it makes me very worried about our chances to win in November.”
Since the Republican presidential nominating contests began in January, various candidates have risen as the best conservative alternative to the frontrunner Romney, only to quickly fade away.
Romney meanwhile has still failed to energize the divided party’s conservative base — something which McCain said he could not understand.
The Arizona senator accused both former House speaker Newt Gingrich and former senator Rick Santorum of “corruption.”
“It’s curious to me that ‘conservatives’ are supporting Santorum or Gingrich, who were earmarkers and pork-barrelers (during their terms in Congress), which is corruption,” McCain said.
But McCain, who has long publicly battled earmarks, said it was not up to him to call for Gingrich or Santorum to quit the race.
Instead, he urged Romney to “to focus a little bit more… on what he’s going to do on the economy and jobs.”
“You know that every single day of a campaign is a day you can’t do over,” said McCain, noting that a candidate’s unfavorable ratings rise the longer a tough race drags on.
In 2008, McCain scored the Republican presidential nomination after Romney dropped out of the race, but lost the general election to Obama.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/07/mccain-worried-about-republican-chances-to-beat-obama/
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By Megan Carpentier
Tuesday, March 6, 2012 21:58 EST
Former Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) got caught by CNN’s “caucus cam” in Wasilla — and the whole CNN team to the opportunity to quiz her about the the GOP primary, her potential candidacy and, of course, her opinion on the Sandra Fluke affair. Unsurprisingly, Palin used the opportunity to call the liberal media hypocrites. “I think the definition of hypocrisy is for Rush Limbaugh to have been called out, force to apologize and retract what it is that he said in exercising his first amendment rights,” she said, “and never is the same applied to the leftist radicals who say such horrible things about the handicapped, about women, the defenseless.”
Palin was not ready to tell the cameras her choice for the GOP nomination, telling CNN, “I want to see the process continue, more debate about who it is that can bust through the Orwellian Obama rhetoric and pandering that we see in the incumbent, who can bust through that with facts, with history, with logic, with common sense in order for American voters to understand we have a choice,” indicating that she likely didn’t cast a ballot for former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-AK).
When asked, as she inevitably is, about her potential candidacy in 2016, she said, “Anything in this life, in this world is possible. Anything is possible for an American,” and declined to say that she wasn’t interested. “I would seriously consider whatever I can do to help our country,” she added.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/06/palin-criticizing-rush-over-his-fluke-comments-is-the-definition-of-hypocrisy/
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By Eric W. Dolan
Tuesday, March 6, 2012 18:28 EST
President Barack Obama on Tuesday criticized the Republican presidential candidates who have openly advocated military action against Iran if they refused to dismantle their nuclear program.
He said there was still time to work on resolving the issue diplomatically, and that the new stricter sanctions placed on the country would force them back to the negotiating table.
“What’s said on the campaign trail, you know, those folks don’t have a lot of responsibilities,” Obama said. “They’re not commander in chief. And when I see the casualness with which some of these folks talk about war, I’m reminded of the costs involved in war. I’m reminded of the decision that I have to make, in terms of sending our young men and women into battle, and the impacts that has on their lives, the impact it has on our national security, the impact it has on our economy.”
Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney have all repeatedly criticized Obama for allegedly being too soft on Iran.
“This is not a game,” Obama continued. “And there’s nothing casual about it. And, you know, when I see some of these folks who had a lot of bluster and a lot of big talk, but when you actually ask them, specifically, what they would do, it turns out they repeat the things that we’ve been doing over the last three years. It indicates to me that that’s more about politics than actually trying to solve a difficult problem.”
Gingrich has said that as president he would bomb Iran if they refused to halt their nuclear program. Likewise, Santorum has said the U.S. should destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities, while Romney has said the U.S. “cannot afford to wait much longer” for diplomacy to work.
“Now, the one thing that we have not done, is we haven’t launched a war,” he said. “If some of these folks think that it’s time to launch a war, they should say so. And they should explain to the American people exactly why they would do that and what the consequences would be. Everything else is just talk.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/06/obama-slams-casual-gop-talk-of-war-with-iran/
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"Right On BO, I Totally Agree!!!" =)By Eric W. Dolan
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