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To: i-node who wrote (765990)	1/26/2014 5:57:57 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576422

Excuse me if I bruised your feelings. But none of those things were solely for the reduction of CO2 emissions. Granted, some of them had that as a factor, but it wasn't high on the list. All of those things, even Solyndra, would have been done even if CO2 emissions were not a concern. Which is why I described your argument as handwaving. Because it is. You have moaned about the regulatory burden without mentioning anything in particular. Probably because you would be hard-pressed to find any. True, there are things like tax credits for electric vehicles. But even then, it is as much about reducing our dependence on oil than it is for reduced CO2 emissions, Reducing our need for oil has a lot of benefits, not the least of which is to decouple the global economy from unstable and/or fairly unsavory regimes. It would be nice to not have transportation costs spike every time there is something that happens in the Middle East, for example. But as to actual regulations, there just isn't much. Nothing that amounts to billions of dollars annually, not even close. EPA has a page where they brag about what they have done with respect to greenhouse gases. epa.gov Ever there, which you would expect to be puffed up, there just isn't much there that isn't a study. Bottom line, you didn't make your case.

To: i-node who wrote (765990)

1/26/2014 8:48:06 PM

From: FJB

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Face the Nation’ Edits Out Senator Cruz Condemning Obama’s ‘Abuse of Power' Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) appeared on CBS Face the Nation on Sunday morning and was met with a barrage of questions from host Bob Schieffer about his involvement in the government shutdown. Apart from being the victim of Schieffer’s accusations that the Tea Party senator was to blame for the shutdown, it also appears that Mr. Cruz was the victim of editing by CBS. Based on video from Senator Cruz’s YouTube page and what aired on today’s Face the Nation broadcast, the senator’s comments surrounding President Obama’s “abuse of power” were edited from the program. Instead what aired was a segment that ignored many of the senator’s complaints directed at President Obama. [See the aired and unaired videos below.] However, as Senator Cruz’s YouTube channel showed, the Texas senator had extensive commentary on President Obama that mysteriously did not make it to air, just two days before the president’s State of the Union address: SCHIEFFER: “Will you run for President?” CRUZ: “My focus is on the abuse of power of this President. Let’s take something like the IRS scandal-“ SCHIEFFER: “Do I take that as a yes or a no?” CRUZ: “What you can take is that my focus is standing and fighting right now in the Senate to bring back jobs and economic growth. Let me tell you something that is deeply concerning—the abuse of power from this Administration. We’ve seen multiple filmmakers prosecuted and the government’s gone after them. Whether it’s the poor fellow that did the film that the President blamed Benghazi and the terrorist attacks on, turns out that wasn’t the reason for the attack but the Administration went and put that poor fellow in jail on unrelated charges. Just this week it was broken that Dinesh D’Souza, who did a very big movie criticizing the president, is now being prosecuted by this Administration.” SCHIEFFER: “Senator-“ CRUZ: “Can you image the reaction if the Bush Administration had went, gone and prosecuted Michael Moore and Alec Baldwin and Sean Penn?” SCHIEFFER: Senator-- CRUZ: It should trouble everyone the government uses government power and the IRS in particular to target their enemies and you are talking a new minutes to Chuck Schumer—“ SCHIEFFER: “We are going to leave this for another day, senator. Thank you for joining us and we’ll talk to you again.” Now it is certainly plausible that CBS edited out the ending of the Cruz interview for time, however given that Cruz’s comments were extremely critical of the president and came just two days before an embattled President Obama gives his State of the Union speech, the timing of such editing is highly inappropriate and unusual. CBS should explain why it felt it appropriate to edit out a high profile senator accusing the President of the United States of targeting his politcal enemies. These are strong accusations leveled at the president, and CBS’s viewers deserve to hear them, yet strangely they were not. Read more: newsbusters.org