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As critical agencies within the federal government shut down at midnight Friday, there is no clear sign that a compromise solution that would end the shutdown is anywhere in sight.
Donald Trump maintains he will continue to refuse to sign a stopgap funding measure without $5 billion in funding for his proposed U.S.-Mexico border wall, which was his #1 campaign promise to his supporters.
During the broadcast of his radio show on Monday, conservative windbag Rush Limbaugh decided to weigh in some more on the Hobby Lobby decision. In Rush's mind, this is all about sex, sex, sex.
Cumulus Media CEO blames Rush for the stunning loss in revenue which is impacting other talk shows, 'The facts are indisputable regarding the impact certain things have had on ad dollars.'
On his radio show today Michael Savage went one step further than the rest of the Right on the subject of the Gulf oil spill. Instead of simply defending BP, he blamed the victims of the spill. Savage said, "They haven't worked most of their lives down there...It's a welfare state. They think they're entitled to a government check after Katrina."
In an interview on Fox News, noted scholar and college dropout, Rush Limbaugh claimed that President Obama did not do his own work in law school, while hinting at race, "I think this is the first time in his life that there's not a professor around to turn his C into an A or to write the law review article for him he can't write."
On his Fox News program tonight, Glenn Beck gave another fractured history lesson as he compared climate change deniers to Galileo. Beck said, "The climate cult is just as much of a state sponsored religion now as the actual state sponsored religion was back in the Dark Ages."
Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) took to the Senate floor today to make a statement that even by his lofty standards was out there. Inhofe claimed that using oil and gasoline doesn't create pollution. The senator said, "Their argument there is "Well, we don't want to use oil and gas because we think it pollutes" --- which it doesn't." I guess Exxon bought his common sense along with his vote.
Part of the launch for Palin 2012 is letting Sarah take stands and become a national Republican voice on current issues. Today in her Washington Post op-ed she came out against President Obama's cap and trade program, but it was just last October at the vice presidential debate when Sarah Palin claimed to be for cap and trade.
On The Neal Boortz Show today host Neal Boortz said that global warming is a scam meant to destroy capitalism carried out by socialists and communists. Boortz also blamed the public schools, and claimed that the earth is really getting cooler as carbon dioxide emissions increase. This is the kind of nonsense that makes it clear why Republicans won't be winning an election for a long time.
Bad things always seem to happen when Glenn Beck and history collide. The latest example occurred today on FNC's Fox and Friends, where Glenn Beck claimed that the United States bought Alaska in 1950s so that we could drill for oil. Beck apparently got Alaska's date of purchase and the year that it became a state confused.
By a narrow vote of 219-212, the House of Representatives has passed the American Clean Energy and Security Act. The most important part of the bill establishes a cap and trade system to combat climate change. The bill will next be debated and voted on in the Senate.
A dispute has erupted between Burger King and one of its franchisees over global warming. The franchisee, Mirabile Investment Corporation had placed the placed the political statement global warming is baloney on a dozen of their signs across Tennessee. Corporate BK ordered the statement taken down, and the franchisee has refused.
In a speech yesterday at the Heartland Institute, Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) laid out the GOP strategy for dealing with the potential EPA regulation of greenhouse gasses. Inhofe said that Republicans plan to stall until they get a new president, which means that Republicans might be willing to stall for the next seven and a half years.
Yesterday Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) argued on the House floor yesterday that legislation to limit CO2 emissions would cause the seasons to stop changing. Aiken confused climate and weather, and he argued that seasonal change from winter to spring was, "good climate change." He also asked why the government would want to run the weather.
On his radio show today, Rush Limbaugh continued his purge of impure Republicans by targeting Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for supporting President Obama's emissions proposal. Limbaugh accused Arnold of hurting the Republican Party by sucking up to Obama.
Rep. Joe Barton defended his anti-global warming position on C-SPAN today by arguing that CO2, carbon dioxide should not be regulated because it is not a pollutant. He said that since CO2 is in Coca-Cola it is safe for people and should not be regulated.
Sarah Palin became the only governor in the United States to reject energy conservation funds from the stimulus bill. Palin has long claimed that the bill forces states to change their energy laws, but this is not true. The bill only requires that states pledge that new buildings meet energy standards by 2017.
Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann was on the Northern Alliance Radio Network, where she warned that President Obama's cap and trade system to lower greenhouse gas emissions will turn Americans into slaves to the government. She said that cap and trade will give the government control over all of the activities of our daily lives.
Laura Ingraham was guest hosting The O'Reilly Factor last night, and she went on the attack against Al Gore. She claimed that Gore's climate change position has been very profitable for him. To make her point, Ingraham used doctored video of Gore's recent congressional testimony that omitted Gore saying that he donates all of his profits back to the cause.
While testifying before the House Energy and Commerce Committee today, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich added a new to term the clean coal debate. At one point, he referred to the need for Congress to fund green coal, but there is no such thing as green coal. Coal can be cleaner, but it can't be greener.