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Tag: John McCain
McCain admits Bush Administration violated law
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said on “Face the Nation” Sunday that — like most Republicans and even some Democrats, including some in the president’s...
U.S. Chamber of Commerce to stop global warming by frivolously suing...
U.S. Senator John McCain, R-Ariz., one-time nominal GOP leader and no tree-hugger by anyone's measure, came to Colorado this week and proclaimed that he...
Panelists at McCain-Udall hearing detail state’s grim climate future
ESTES PARK — At a public hearing held Monday by the U.S. Senate's Energy and Natural Resources subcommittee on National Parks in this gateway town to Rocky Mountain National Park, panelists offered details on the profound changes the park and the state will experience in coming years as a result of global warming.
Udall reasserts controversial pro-nuclear position
At an "open hearing" held at Rocky Mountain National Park today, Colorado U.S. Sen. Mark Udall repeated his support of a national energy plan...
McCain, Udall to hold climate-change hearing in Estes Park Monday
Democratic Sen. Mark Udall of Colorado and Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona continue their odd-bed-fellows magical mystery tour over the August congressional break...
Obama, McCain, Salazar put spotlight on Grand Canyon uranium-mining claims
What better way to take your mind off the huge hole the American economy is stuck in these days than to visit the biggest...
ACLU appeals ruling on Bush staffers who ejected three for anti-war...
The American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado filed an appeal Tuesday in the case of three Denver-area residents who were ejected from a town hall meeting in 2005 by Bush White House staffers and Republican volunteers upset about a "No More Blood For Oil" bumpersticker on their car.
A district court judge ruled in November that "the President has a right to exclude from his official, public appearances, all individuals who disagree with his policies," dismissing a lawsuit the ACLU filed on behalf of Leslie Weise and Alex Young, two of The Denver Three.
The Twitter fallacy that’s good for democracy
Today the Denver Post gifts us with a gee-whiz article about a gee-whiz phenomenon: Politicians are using Twitter!
Yes, they are. And they have been for half a year. Even that public relations ticking time bomb state Sen. Dave Schultheis is tweeting!
McCain/GOP do-nothing policy prescriptions as pure politics
On Sunday, would-be-president John McCain weighed in with a predictable do-nothing solution to the ongoing global financial catastrophe, telling Fox News the U.S. government should "make the hard decision" and let the banks simply fail.
It's another policy embrace of "Fail" as a philosophy from the at-sea Republican party.
McCain discovers the economy, vows to stop talking, circulate petition
This e-mail to supporters just in from Sen. John McCain, who appears to have hit the books since his historic drubbing at the polls. Just a year ago, the Arizona Republican admitted to the Wall Street Journal he "doesn't really understand economics," so was deferring to his former Senate colleague, Phil "Nation of Whiners" Gramm, as his expert on the topic. That's right, Phil "Mental Recession" Gramm, who would likely be treasury secretary if McCain had won the election.