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The argument is almost convincing: (click on this link if you want to see a bigger screen version) [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiQJ9Xp0xxU[/youtube] But given the up front and personal view we've all gotten…

The Week That Was

The fantastic kavips surveys the interesting headlines of the day and wonders if we are as cocky as we were last week after Obama clinched the Democratic nomination. If I am to believe the evidence of my newsreader, Delaware Liberal doesn’t rate too highly on the cockiness meter, but I have no doubt that we provided a bit of a performance.

I’ll tell you, though, that the thing on kavips’ list that may be the biggest tell of what is to come is that even the comedian Rush Limbaugh is still calling out John McCain. On his manliness, no less. This from a guy who keeps getting caught with viagra not prescribed for him at airports. If McCain still doesn’t have the shill of all RNC shills actually, you know, shilling for him — there’s clearly a whole bunch of GOPers who are gonna be demonstrating alot of independence this election season. We should be on the lookout for the websites they create!

In the meantime, if I could add to kavips’ list:

Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish — Doing Better on Climate Change

The Boxer-Lieberman-Warner (S 2191) cap-and-trade bill died a death Friday when it couldn’t get past a Republican filibuster.The bill would have created a carbon cap and trade emissions market that would have required power plants, refineries and factories to pay for the privileges of polluting the environment and contributing to global warming. This bill aims to cap and reduce emissions roughly 19 percent below today’s levels by 2020 and 70 percent by 2050.

But this bill has many fatal flaws including:

  • Pollution reduction goals that don’t go far enough. The current best science (as detailed in the IPCC) would require a reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by covered sectors by 85 percent by 2050. (This reduction is to keep temperatures from rising another 3.5 degrees) The Senate legislation does not achieve all the reductions that will likely be needed, and certainly as fast as climate change science is evolving, it seems reasonable to expect the ability to accommodate quicker or greater reductions in the future.

5th Annual Summer Bash June Jam for Jack

You heard about this legendary party and fund raiser for Jack Markell, and you can check out (and contribute to) the legend yourself this weekend, on 7 June.

It all starts at 12:30 (rain or shine) and seems to go until the music stops — there is plenty of food and drink, which means all you need to do is to show up and bring a check made out to MARKELL for DELAWARE (because this is a fundraiser!).

The website is where you RSVP and get more info (like details of the incredible menu and directions to the place).  (Copy of the showing more detail after the jump)

Biden for Secretary of State?

Last week, when I wrote about Biden’s excellent op-ed in the WSJ, I hadn’t seen this Newsweek article all but declaring the cabinet post deal done.

“(Biden)…is emerging as a major consigliere to Barack Obama—perhaps with his eye on State once again. Among the top items on Biden’s agenda: making sure that Obama has better luck in November than Kerry did. That means, first, relentlessly attacking and counterattacking the Republicans on the campaign trail, especially on national-security issues. And, second, relentlessly defining John McCain as “joined at the hip” to Bush, as Biden put it in a speech in Washington on Tuesday.”

Republican Problem-Solving Handbook

(Image courtesy of Crooks and Liars) So who needs Political Consultants? The funny blog, The Aristocrats, has provided the exhaustive list of strategies republicans use to respond to issues, crises…

Libertarians Storming the GOP Gates

Today, suddenly, the traditional media is beginning to be all a-flutter about Bob Barr announcing his run for the Libertarian Party nomination and barely concealing their anticipation over Ron Paul supporters monkey-wrenching the Republican Convention.

Why a-flutter? Well, here’s Newt:

“Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich told The Times today that ‘Bob Barr will make it marginally easier for Barack Obama to become president. That outcome threatens every libertarian value Barr professes to champion.’ ”

Even Newt Says Republicans Are Toast

And I think he may mean burnt — read this carefully:

The Anti-Obama, Anti-Wright, and Anti-Clinton GOP Model Has Been Tested — And It Failed The Republican brand has been so badly damaged that if Republicans try to run an anti-Obama, anti- Reverend Wright, or (if Senator Clinton wins), anti-Clinton campaign, they are simply going to fail. This model has already been tested with disastrous results. In 2006, there were six incumbent Republican Senators who had plenty of money, the advantage of incumbency, and traditionally successful consultants. But the voters in all six states had adopted a simple position: “Not you.” No matter what the GOP Senators attacked their opponents with, the voters shrugged off the attacks and returned to, “Not you.” The danger for House and Senate Republicans in 2008 is that the voters will say, “Not the Republicans.”