Rhea Suh writes—Our Climate Progress Will Not Be Stayed:
The U.S. Supreme Court temporarily blocked President Obama's plan to fight global climate change by cleaning up our dirty power plants, pending the outcome of a court challenge led by the coal industry and some of the nation's biggest industrial polluters.
Tuesday's 5-4 decision puts a temporary pause on the single most important action we can take to protect future generations from the growing dangers of climate change. But it won't delay by one moment the peril and harm of climate chaos across our country and around the world, nor will it reverse the global shift away from the dirty fossil fuels that are driving this epic crisis and toward cleaner, smarter ways to power our future. [...]
Unfortunately, the court can't overrule climate change, and its misguided decision won't protect our kids from this widening scourge; it will only slow the certainty and predictability we need to help clean up our dirty power plants. That's what the Clean Power Plan provides -- and that's what the public wants. [...]
It's unfortunate, but not unexpected, to see big coal companies join hands with big polluters to try to derail the progress future generations are counting on to protect them from the grave and gathering dangers of climate change. That progress, though, won't be deterred.
Our children's future will have its day in court. Our laws will be upheld. And this country will finish what our leaders have begun. We will cut our carbon pollution today, so our children don't inherit more climate chaos tomorrow.
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At Daily Kos on this date in 2006—Laura Bush: Hillary's Criticism is Out of Bounds:
Mrs. Bush, forgive me if I think Mrs. Clinton faced a bit more personal humiliation and vitriol from the "compassionate conservative" side of the aisle during President Clinton's term of office than your husband faces today (and with a lot more grace and class than he does, I might add). Her intimate life was combed over with glee by opponents during and after the Lewinsky scandal; she was—and remains to this day—the target of some of the most misogynistic, woman-loathing rhetoric on the American scene.
Many wives in Mrs. Clinton's circumstances would have dumped their philandering spouses and slunk off to a corner of Montana to float the rest of their lives away in a lake of chardonnay. Instead, she ran for political office and won. She's not a member of some mythical Former First Ladies Club in which you, Mrs. Bush, can call in chits, nor did she ever position herself to be.
She's a working opposition senator, and calling your husband's administration on its lies, deceptions and ineptitude is her job as part of those quaint checks and balances.
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On today’s Kagro in the Morning show, Greg Dworkin continues to sort out what NH means & rounds up best guesses about what’s next. The elusive pipe dream of “regular order.” Gunnies want protection from bad guys & juries, too. CIA quietly reverses denials of torture report allegations.
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