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Monday, August 7, 2006
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Andrew Sullivan: "Another summer as hot as this one and Al Gore will become the next president of the United States. Yes, of course, one broiled July and sautéed August do not a global warming make. But it does concentrate the mind wonderfully on the claims that a hotter climate is already here, that it is closely related to fast-rising carbon dioxide levels and that this should not be a political but an empirical question."
"2008 pres"
6:28:19 PM 
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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Sen. Tom Carper, and Gov. Tom Vilsack (via DLC.org): "For 230 years, Americans have been united by a simple, common dream that tomorrow will be better than today. The promise of American life, handed on through a dozen generations, rests on this basic bargain: All of us should have the opportunity to live up to our God-given potential, and the responsibility to make the most of it.
"In the 20th century, that basic bargain built the greatest middle class the world has ever known. The expansion of opportunity in return for hard work and sacrifice made us the richest, safest, strongest nation on earth, and enabled us to defeat fascism and communism. We ended the last century with America's economic might at its zenith, with Americans at their most optimistic, and with nearly all who endeavored to make the most of their opportunities and talents getting ahead in life.
"Over the last five years we've taken a different direction -- one that offered the greatest help to those with the most wealth, under the mistaken belief that when the wealthy do even better, the middle class will eventually get their share. But this economic philosophy has shortchanged America and failed the middle class, too. For the first time ever, we've had four straight years of rising productivity and falling incomes. Americans are earning less, while the costs of a middle-class life have soared: In the past five years, college costs are up 50 percent, health care 73 percent, and gasoline more than 100 percent."
"2008 pres"
6:24:09 PM
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Denver Business Journal: "The nation's two visions of the West -- a place of scenic vistas, hunting, hiking and recreation as well as the location of large, relatively untapped natural gas reservoirs -- are colliding, oil and gas operators said Monday. 'Federal land management is imposing requirements that limit access to the reserves in the Rocky Mountain West,' said Duane Zavadil, government affairs specialist with Denver-based Bill Barrett Corp. Zavadil said a study of limits on where, when and how to drill and operate wells on federal lands in Utah indicated that the rules effectively cut natural gas production by 80 percent per acre compared to wells on private lands in the state. Zavadil spoke at the Monday session of the annual Colorado Oil & Gas Association conference. About 2,000 people are expected to attend the three-day conference and investment forum, which is held in conjunction with the Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists and the Denver Geophysical Society."
"2008 pres"
6:15:46 PM
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Don Surber: "John Hawkins of Right Wing News asked bloggers on the right who we like. The results were appalling. William F. Buckley Jr. did not make the list. 51 bloggers. 31 people named. The Father of American Conservatism not listed. For shame. He topped my list. Heck you can disagree with my list. But no Buckley? That's like a day without sunshine, to borrow from Anita Bryant."
"2008 pres"
6:10:44 PM
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The Hotline: "A majority of the base -- 56 percent -- reported 'extremely strong feelings' about the Democrats' position on the war on terror and many did so independently of their support for President Bush. That suggests that Republicans could write a two-part message to their base, one that kicks the Democrats and the other that affirms the Republican dominance on the issue.
"On taxes, about 70 percent of the base reports to be extremely motivated by the GOP's effort to make permanent the Bush tax cuts and the alleged Democratic effort to gut them."
Thanks to Political Wire for the link.
"2008 pres"
5:44:54 PM
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Time Magazine: "The least known but one of the most eagerly courted, screening committees for the next G.O.P. presidential nominee met recently in Colorado Springs, Colo., amid the panoramic opulence of the Broadmoor Hotel and Resort. The four-day meeting of affluent Evangelicals was billed as a 'summer family retreat,' and the kids rode ponies and played water sports while their folks chewed over immigration and gay marriage. The political group, called Legacy, aims for mystique: it has received no media attention and is unknown even on the Web. Yet all the marquee '08 Republican candidates have spoken to Legacy or met with its founders, having come to regard the group as a prime audience in these early days of raising money and trying to conjure momentum. 'If you're running for President,' said a close associate of President George W. Bush's, 'it is the place to go.' One of the group's first projects: supplying cash and ground troops to help South Dakota's John Thune beat Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle in 2004. Thune, a presidential prospect, electrified the Broadmoor audience, which also heard from Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma and Senators Kay Bailey Hutchison and John Cornyn of Texas.
"Legacy was started by two Dallas businessmen: Ray Washburne, a real estate and Tex-Mex-restaurant baron, and George Seay III, founder of the Seay Stewardship & Investment Co. and grandson of former Texas Governor Bill Clements. Its members are mostly young--in their 30s and 40s--and wealthy, through entrepreneurship, inheritance or both. They are Christians concerned with social justice, in the mold of Rick Warren of Purpose Driven Life fame, and practice their faith without, as a Broadmoor attendee put it, 'quoting Leviticus'--a reference to the harder-edged rhetoric at other gatherings of social conservatives."
"2008 pres"
7:21:32 AM
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