White House

More Proof That US Selling Out To Tar Sand Oil Interests

October 4, 2011 by The Political E...

Another document dump - - the second in the last few weeks - - shows cozy relationship among the players, including American regulators now reviewing whether a major new pipeline from Canada to Texas should be approved.

With most of the oil ticketed for export via Houston, and not for domestic usage.

Not a good development for the White House and the public interest.

More From The Right's Fact-Free Zone

September 28, 2011 by The Political E...

The other day our local right-wing talkers were in a lather about the White House's censorship of a Ford Motor Company TV spot - - that didn't happen - - but it sure did make for exciting conservative chatter.

Sykes and Wagner had it threatening Ford's very existence.

Now we're getting to the bottom of MuffinGate.

Call it Birther Lite, except it has a cumulative effect on voters now conditioned by the right's media machine to think the worst of Obama.

So Do We Promote Him To Senator? The Internet Remembers Tommy Thompson's Failed Anthax Crisis Management

September 26, 2011 by The Political E...

As former Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson gets set to take a crack at one last big public sector job - - US Senator - - it's worth remembering then-US Health and Human Secretary Thompson's performance under pressure when the country faced an anthrax attack.

Some people may have forgotten the events, and others may have missed it.

The story was reprinted from Newsday:

In Washington, Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson
officially had announced the ailing [Bob] Stevens' anthrax case to a nation whose
nerves were still very much on edge from the Sept. 11 attacks. He said of
Stevens' infection that it "appears that this is just an isolated case" and
"there's no evidence of terrorism..."

Stevens' Oct. 5 death brought grim urgency to a CDC investigation that
spanned four states through which he had recently traveled. And it brought the
world's media, numerous state and federal agencies and the White House into the
picture.

Thompson once again faced the media, saying the anthrax case was probably

An Open Letter to National Conservative Groups from Wisconsin’s Liberal Bloggers

September 8, 2011 by Uppity Wisconsin

To: Chris Chocola, Club for Growth
The Honorable Jim DeMint, junior Senator from the Great State of South Carolina

It is with great disappointment that we have learned of the efforts of some conservatives on the national level to try to dictate to Wisconsin conservatives their choice for the United States Senate seat being vacated by Democratic Senator Herb Kohl. This is a tremendous opportunity for Wisconsinites to elect a second conservative senator worthy of being able to self-fund a campaign (at least until the unseemly outside contributions can be tallied and repaid) and one that Wisconsin conservatives will take very, very, very, very seriously. This is not only a choice of ideology and of who looks best in a tri-corn hat while eating a cream puff, but one of character, charisma and compassion, and it is our responsibility to bring Mark Neumann’s lack of those attributes to your attention.