Archive - Sep 1, 2009

We're on the last week of recess before Senators come back to Washington, D.C. and take up climate and clean energy legislation again. Here's a revised timeline for action in the Senate.

Also cross-posted at Huffington Post. -- Luis

"Americans are against climate and health care legislation." These are overwhelming themes of the summer, according to certain segments of the mainstream media. Over and over, we hear that the only groups and organizations mobilized and motivated this summer are a motley assortment of "Tea Party" protesters, "Birthers", far-out conspiracy theorists, and well-paid lobbyists skilled (or unskilled) at manufacturing Brooks Brothers riots and sending fraudulent letters to members of Congress. Yesterday we saw the latest version of the story, in a very one-sided Washington Post piece that put an Astroturf-generated oil industry "event" on the same level as the thousands of grassroots events throughout the country in favor of clean energy legislation.