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Govt Shutdown: GOP backs down from its war on the EPA? – Red, Green, and Blue

Saturday, April 9th, 2011

A fourteen-trillion deficitIs nothing at to sneer,but in these times of hope and changeWe think we’ve been austere.Another one-point-five-trillionAnd then we’ll start to pare:We want to keep our budget cutsAll legal, safe and rare.

We know the voters turned us outThe last election day,And gave the House to radicals,Hell-bent on foul play.but voters took a different tackAnd did the Senate spare,so we just treat RepublicansAs legal, safe and rare.

Though consequences are to flowBeyond the ballot box,In truth we don’t much give a damnFor populi’s clear vox.so let those new House membersPass all the bills they dare;Their chances in the Upper HouseAre legal, safe and rare.

And if the House’s budget cutsAre aimed at NPR,We’ll brand the cuts extremist hate;We’ll paint the cuts bizarre.And if planned Parenthood should fallInto the budget snare,Abortion’s kept, we’ll say, by usAs legal, safe and rare.

Here’s hoping never comes the dayThe public starts to seek,The truth behind our fresh facadeAnd media technique.for if they do we run the riskThey may become aware:Few words can mask the truth as wellAs legal, safe and rare.

Govt Shutdown: GOP backs down from its war on the EPA? – Red, Green, and Blue

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McCain Camp Lies About Nevada Nuclear Waste Dump

Sunday, March 28th, 2010

Posted by Jed Lewison on Mon Aug 11, 2008 at 1:44 PM Pacific

On Saturday, the Obama campaign released a new ad criticizing John McCain’s support for turning southern Nevada’s Yucca Mountain into the nation’s nuclear waste dump.

This is a huge issue here in Nevada, and McCain is on the wrong side. His support for Yucca will almost certainly cost him the state in November.

So how is McCain responding to the new ad? Simple — he’s doing the only thing Bush Republicans know how to do: he’s lying about Barack Obama’s record.

Through the GOP, the McCain campaign is now claiming– entirely falsely — that Barack Obama actually supports dumping nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain. Their evidence? Twovotes from 2005 which funded energy and water programs throughout thenation.

But even though these votes approved some funding for programs at YuccaMountain, they were not votes in favor of the project.

Indeed, bothNevada senators — each of whom strongly oppose Yucca — voted for thelegislation (roll calls #172 and #321 in 2005).

Ironically, McCain voted against one of the bills and for the other. So by his own logic, I guess that means John McCain was against dumping waste in Nevada before he was for it.

Update - Here’s the Obama ad criticizing McCain for supporting the nation’s nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain:

YouTube link

And here’s local coverage of McCain’s June 25 visit to Nevada during which he was dogged by the Yucca issue:

YouTube link

On Saturday, the Obama campaign released a new ad criticizing John McCain’s support for turning southern Nevada’s Yucca Mountain into the nation’s nuclear waste dump.

This is a huge issue here in Nevada, and McCain is on the wrong side. His support for Yucca will almost certainly cost him the state in November.

So how is McCain responding to the new ad? Simple — he’s doing the only thing Bush Republicans know how to do: he’s lying about Barack Obama’s record.

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McCain Camp Lies About Nevada Nuclear Waste Dump

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What now, GOP? Now that HCR is one step closer? And aren’t you really just talking to yourselves?

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010

I have been listening to and watching outright GOP lies all day on the live C-Span HCR House debate feed, (shakes head in incredulity, and shakes head some more) their spin and downright lies are about to be exposed big time. (These blatant untruths are all recorded. C-Span ROCKS?)