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Daily Archives: December 17th, 2007

Another environmental threat we can ignore

Monday, December 17, 2007

The U.S. just blocked progress on global warming for another two years. Now there’s yet another major threat Bush gets to ignore, and if he can, make even worse: Seven hundred miles west of Seattle in the Pacific at Ocean Station Papa, a first-of-its-kind buoy is anchored to monitor a looming environmental catastrophe. Forget about […]

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An excellent suggestion

Monday, December 17, 2007

A commenter on my recent Lieberman post says: Shouldn’t the veto-proof majority in the CT legislature pass a law for direct election of Senators who resign, instead of Lieberman giving the GOP an appointment by Gov Rell between now and 2009? An excellent suggestion. One would think that by now even Jim Amann, who actually […]

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Chris Dodd-patriot

Monday, December 17, 2007

This being a Connecticut blog, and Chris Dodd being the Democratic Senator from Connecticut, it is mandatory that I salute him for his attempt to stop the FISA bill that Harry Reid brought to the floor of the Senate. The Senate invoked cloture, and the filibuster is over. What a leader Harry is. He has […]

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