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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (74499)	5/11/2010 11:09:52 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Sorry, that was quite a while back. I googled but could not find it.

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (74499)	5/12/2010 3:12:42 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 149317

The left will not stand for much more of this Chinu. When guys like Ron Wyden of Oregon protest, we liberals pay attention. One simply cannot ignore honest people like Wyden, Elizabeth Warren and Stiglitz, Shiller and Krugman. This is what you get with moderates too often. Even if it means political suicide the left and the kids will abandon Obama if he keeps this up. We did it with Humphrey. Read this paragraph: 'Love-fests during confirmation hearings should immediately raise suspicions. Salazar fulfilled all of Obama’s expectations as the hearings proceeded, winning over even the most obstinate Republican critics of the new administration. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) neatly summarized the event as, "a full-fledged bouquet-tossing festival" (Denver Post, 1/15/2009). Even Jim DeMint, the politically paranoid Republican Senator from South Carolina, took time off from his campaign to “save freedom” from Obama’s “socialist agenda” to praise Salazar. At first, DeMint was convinced that Salazar was the front man for Obama’s grand scheme to “…cut off America's energy supply,” but he left the hearing convinced that “we're pretty much on the same page" (LA Times, 1/16/2009). Big-ticket environmental groups, such as the League of Conservation Voters and the Sierra Club, also joined the festivities, giving Salazar a score of 100% for his record as a Senator. And this one: Salazar had a long record of clashes with environmental activists while serving as the Attorney General for the State of Colorado in the 1990s. One case with particularly ominous tones, given the current BP-oil spill cleanup, involved Salazar botching the Summitville Mine Superfund cleanup. The then Attorney General claimed that the Canadian-based Summitville Consolidated Mining Corp. would be made to pay for all of the environmental damage caused by their gold mining operation. In the end, Salazar’s inept negotiations and unwillingness to legally prosecute the company meant that millions of dollars in public funds were expended during the cleanup (Counterpunch, 12/18/2008). Salazar allowed Summitville to cut and run.