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Larry Hernandez

Fri Jul 17 2009, 03:50PM

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If we needed vivid proof that the Daily Bulletin's Editorial Board needs one of us as a new member, as Terry urged at our last member's meeting, take a look at today's Opinion page and at the Point of View by Ruby Simpson of Upland, a current member of that board. Here is the link: http://www.dailybulletin.com/opinions/ci_12854857

Wow! She still denies that Global Climate Change (GCC) is actually occurring. Like George Will and now Sarah Palin, Ms. Simpson trots out the canard that scientific consensus has not been reached on the matter. The fact is that it has.

What we see nowadays is overwhelming agreement on the existence of GCC on the side of the science community, and a few DEAD ENDERS (to use Rumsfeld's term accurately for once), mostly in the pay on the polluters, on the other side of the argument. While I happen to share some of her concerns about the current legislation, she comes at them from a posture of total denial and I come from worries that the bill doesn't go far enough.

If this is typical of endemic bat-brained craziness within the Bull's Editorial Board, we will never get a fair break in those pages for any progressive cause.

I would apply, but I am on a fixed dialysis schedule that eats up my Tuesday mornings and half of the afternoon, and leaves me not all that sharp in the evening.

So the call needs to go to someone else. Please take it up.
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On another subject:

Today, it was reported that the Senate dropped the Card Check provisions from the Employee's Free Choice Act. This was done to ensure a filibuster-proof vote. Here is a link to the story: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/17/card-check-cut-from-emplo_n_237398.html

Again, if we needed any further proof that Majority Leader Reid has got to go, this is it! What will it take for Reid to call the GOP bluff and challenge them to an all out filibuster? A dramatic string of all-nighters is just what we need to raise the media profile of this issue and educate the public. I say bring it on!

We still win in the long run if a successful filibuster does us the service of revealing Reid to the nation as an incompetent majority leader. How about Sen Boxer as his successor?

Until we do blow up the myth of the 60 vote majority, power in the Senate has devolved to the smallest minority of all, the five to seven votes DINO Democrats hold. I am awaiting news on where Sen. Feinstein stood on this capitulation.

This bodes bad for what we can expect on health care and energy reform.


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