US Politics Mega-thread - Page 2029

On June 10 2015 06:31 Ghostcom wrote:
Uhh, they had Wall Street so you don't have to imagine... I get that you want to shit on US cops, but a least be a little honest whilst doing so.

On June 10 2015 06:41 lastpuritan wrote:


During OWS, protesters did not hijack a bulldozer and chase police cars, or throw huge rocks and molotov cocktails.

On June 10 2015 06:57 lastpuritan wrote:
Seems very peaceful to me. :D I mean, what would happen if a group of protesters throw molotovs at their car when cops were in it?

On June 10 2015 09:44 GreenHorizons wrote:
1.....2.... Bernie's Coming for you....

Watch your heels Hillary!

On June 10 2015 09:49 cLutZ wrote:


OMG, thank you GH for re-introducing me to my favorite comedian...

Frank Luntz!

The Obama administration is planning a series of actions this summer to rein in greenhouse-gas emissions from wide swaths of the economy, including trucks, airplanes and power plants, kicking into high gear an ambitious climate agenda that the president sees as key to his legacy.

The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to announce as soon as Wednesday plans to regulate carbon emissions from airlines, and soon after that, draft rules to cut carbon emissions from big trucks, according to people familiar with the proposals. In the coming weeks, the EPA is also expected to unveil rules aimed at reducing emissions of methane—a potent greenhouse gas—from oil and natural-gas operations.

And in August, the agency will complete a suite of three regulations lowering carbon from the nation’s power plants—the centerpiece of President Barack Obama’s climate-change agenda.

The proposals represent the biggest climate push by the administration since 2009, when the House passed a national cap-and-trade system proposed by the White House aimed at reducing carbon emissions.

Anticipating the rules, some of which have been telegraphed in advance, opponents of Mr. Obama’s regulatory efforts are moving to block them. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.), is urging governors across the country to defy the EPA by not submitting plans to comply with its rule cutting power-plant emissions.

Nearly all Republicans and some Democrats representing states dependent on fossil fuels say the Obama administration is going beyond the boundary of the law and usurping the role of Congress by imposing regulations that amount to a national energy tax driven by ideological considerations.

Nearly all Republicans and some Democrats representing states dependent on fossil fuels say the Obama administration is going beyond the boundary of the law and usurping the role of Congress by imposing regulations that amount to a national energy tax driven by ideological considerations.

“The Administration seems determined to double down on the type of deeply regressive regulatory policy we’ve already seen it try to impose on lower-and-middle-class families in every state,” Mr. McConnell said in a statement. “These Obama administration regulations share several things in common with the upcoming directives: they seem motivated more by ideology than science, and they’re likely to negatively affect the economy and hurt both the cost and reliability of energy for hard-working American families and small-business owners.”

On June 11 2015 02:54 Danglars wrote:
Here we go again.

On June 11 2015 03:49 kwizach wrote:

The quote "they seem motivated more by ideology than science", coming from Mitch McConnell, is just too funny. Talk about being a massive hypocrite.