Politics: Gabrielle Giffords Is a Green Patriot

Gabrielle Giffords a tireless advocate for solar energy
I don’t tend to think you can draw any broader conclusions from the acts of one demented, violent individual — as I’ve said before. Giffords is, however, beloved of the Solar Energy community, who sent out a note about her Sunday, and that deserves a post.  Perhaps the best thing is to reprint what the inside-the-beltway center-right mavens at Politico wrote about her today.  Let’s start with their Morning Energy update: Gabrielle Giffords - “Gabby is not only

Shameless: Politico.com insinuates the right wanted Giffords dead over green stance
As I noted yesterday in response to the attempted Assassination of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ8), the Mainstream Media has been nothing short of shameless in its attempts to try and insinuate - or outright declare - that it was “the right” who targeted her for Murder. Josh Trevino wrote yesterday numerous times on Twitter about how Politico had joined in on the “Right Wing vitriol” bandwagon. Today, they continue to add to it with their latest extremely irr...

Manchin says he would not air ad in wake of shooting
The senator who defended airing a Controversial ad involving a gun said on Monday that he probably would not have released the ad in the aftermath of the Arizona shooting. When then-Gov. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) was campaigning in October for the U.S. Senate last year he aired a 30-second ad in which he shot a copy of the Obama Administration's Healthcare Reform Legislation. A day after the Arizona shooting that claimed the lives of six and Rep. Giffords barely survived, A day after the Arizona ...

Giffords environmental advocacy
By now you know the basic story: Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head on Saturday while appearing at a "Congress on Your Corner" event in Tucson. The shooting killed six, among them a federal judge and a nine-year-old girl. Giffords herself seems to be responding to stimuli despite being gravely injured. The suspect, Jared Lee Loughner, is in custody, and while we don't know anything definitive about his motives, many Democrats are pointing out that Giffords -- a Blue Dog in a re...

Top Inhofe climate staffer joins natural gas trade group
Sen. James Inhofe’s (R-Okla.) top Staffer on air and Climate Change issues is leaving the senator’s office to join a powerful Natural Gas industry trade group. Tom Hassenboehler has been named vice president of policy and legislative affairs at America’s Natural Gas Alliance (ANGA), an industry trade group that represents 34 of the country’s Natural Gas exploration and production companies. ANGA was formed in 2009 to help coordinate the industry’s lobbying efforts. Hassenboe

Manchin Would Not Have Run Ad
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) told the West Virginia Gazette that in the wake of the Arizona shootings he probably would not have aired his advertisement last year in which he shot a stack of cap-and-trade Legislation. Said Manchin: "I can't say that we would, I really can't. Because it's a much more sensitive thing we're dealing with right now." ...

James M. Gentile: The Leadership of Gabrielle Giffords
For many of us in Tucson, Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was a cherished friend long before Saturday's stunning Assassination attempt made her a household name. Our prayers go out to her and to all of the shooting's survivors - for their speedy and full recoveries - and to the loved ones of those who perished. Words simply cannot express the sadness of such a devastating loss. The media coverage of the shootings has rightly highlighted "Gabby" Giffords' extraordinary personal traits: her co...

News Bites: Alaska oil pipeline operator seeks to end shutdown, farm lobby takes on EPA, utility merger could hurt big coal, and
There’s a plan for restoring the flow of oil through Alaska’s massive Pipeline. “The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System operator is installing a bypass to restore the line that carries 15 percent of U.S. crude output after a leak forced its closure three days earlier,” Bloomberg reports. The American Farm Bureau Federation is at odds with EPA over Water Pollution policy. “A major farmers group filed a federal Lawsuit Monday to block the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's most a

California utility adds to its renewable portfolio
Southern California Edison continues to add to its renewable-energy portfolio, announcing Monday that it signed contracts for more than 800 megawatts of electricity generated from solar photovoltaic plants being built in three California counties. The utility is now the nation’s largest provider of renewable power, deriving about 19% of its  supply from renewable sources, according to Mike Marelli, the company's director of Renewable Energy contracts. Marelli sa...

Obama's jolt to the economy: 'Tripling' your electric bill ...
The Obama Administration is changing the way Wind Energy projects in the American Midwest are financed by "spreading the costs" to consumers and businesses in other states, possibly doubling or perhaps tripling energy bills in the region in the coming years, experts are telling WND. Obama's team at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which regulates much of the coal, gas, hydroelectric and oil industries, late last month approved a scheme long sought by Environmentalists that links windmi...

What good does this do Brian Terry and Gabrielle Giffords?
Brian Terry was the Border Patrol agent who was killed by Mexican bandits a few weeks ago on the Arizona-Mexico border. Gabrielle Giffords is the congresswoman who was seriously shot Saturday in Tucson by a gunman. Not much was made of Brian Terry’s Murder. There was a Funeral. Janet Napolitano came to the funeral and chided Terry’s family for complaining that their son was not kept safe enough and that was the end of it. When it surfaced that the reason Terry was killed was that Nap...

Mary Ellen Harte and John Harte: Addressing Climate Change: Push the Big Push!
What if there was an affordable plan to improve America's health, wealth, and National Security? Not only America's, but the world's. A dream, you say? You bet -- an attainable one. The United Nations Division of Sustainable Development developed one in 2009, nicknamed the Big Push. It's a global and American Dream worth fighting for, not just despite but because of the increasing numbers of new Republicans in Congress determined to do little about Energy Independence or Climate Change, beyond...

Before Yemen, Clinton lauds green UAE
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- The Clean Energy partnership between Abu Dhabi and the U.S. Department of Energy is one of the most important for a green future, said Hillary Clinton. Clinton, the U.S. Secretary of State, before making an unannounced visit Tuesday to Yemen, met with Sultan Al Jaber, the Emirati Special Envoy for Climate Change, and Adnan Amin, the interim director for Abu Dhabi's International Renewable Energy Agency. "The partnership that we have established b...

Arizona Shootings: When Speculation Is Acceptable
Not a Veteran. NOT a Veteran. *NOT* a Veteran. How many times must we go through this? I had no clue what he was talking about since, like the rest of male Americana save Demophilius, I was watching football. So, I went to my designated homepage, Drudgereport, to see what was up. Sure enough, right there in one of the links at top was the words I feared: “Military Veteran.” Ah $#!^, I thought. The link took me to a Washington Post article that indeed stated that Law Enforcement offic...

Biden: Afghan successes notable, fragile
Published: Jan. 11, 2011 at 9:38 AM Coalition Forces have disrupted the Taliban momentum in Afghanistan, but that could be reversed, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said in Kabul Tuesday. UPI/Roger L. Wollenberg Afghan Taliban starting to reintegrate? KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- Coalition Forces have disrupted the Taliban momentum in Afghanistan, but that could be reversed, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said in Kabul Tuesday. "We have largely arrested the Taliban momentum here in some ver...

Jared Loughners Above Top Secret Posts
Are detailed here at the Volokh Conspiracy: That Erad3 and Loughner are one and the same is indicated by his cross-posting of some of the same material on both YouTube and ATS. In searching through Loughner’s posts as Erad3, several stand out. On July 7, 2010, Loughner posted his assertion that the war(s) in Iraq and Afghanistan “is a war crime from the Geneva Convention articles of 1949”:There was help with cleaning the Uranium from the Iran and Iraq War in the 1980’s? Article 33 of t

Culver defends his legacy in final Condition of the State
Gov. Chet Culver used his final Condition of the State address Tuesday to celebrate what he considers the biggest accomplishments of his four years in office, especially those Iowa Republicans have promised to undue. The Iowa Power Fund, universal preschool and the work of the Iowa Department of Economic Development got prominent play in the Speech to a joint session of the legislature, and each has been targeted for elimination by Republican lawmakers and Gov-elect Terry Branstad. He also defen...

The gun consensus
Molly Ball and Shira Toeplitz write: A Bipartisan truce is in effect on Gun Control issues in Washington — a truce on the National Rifle Association’s terms. The NRA’s recognition of this is evident in the group’s response to the Arizona tragedy. It hasn’t bothered to mount a major Lobbying push to make sure lawmakers have their guns-don’t-kill-people talki...

Iraq sees oil production on the rise
BAGHDAD, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- With Foreign Oil companies getting to work in Iraq, Baghdad said it could be producing 3 million barrels of Oil per day by the end of the year. Abdul Mahdy al-Ameedi, a top federal contract official in Iraq, told The Wall Street Journal that work at many of the Oil Fields in the south of the country was cause for optimism. "We are hoping to reach a total of 3 million barrels a day by the end of 2011," he was quoted as saying. Baghdad handed out a series of technical ser...

Military blocked from importing Chinese solar panels
Image via Wikipedia NY Times: The Military appropriations law signed by President Obama on Friday contains a little-noticed “Buy American” provision for the Defense Department purchases of Solar Panels — a provision that is likely to dismay Chinese officials as President Hu Jintao prepares to visit the United States next week. Although there are many big issues to discuss, including concerns about North Korea, trade and economic matters are certain to be high on the agenda. ...

Right was unhappy with Giffords-Petraeus exchange
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords drew the wrath of Conservatives last June after questioning a top U.S. official over how green the country’s Military operations are in Afghanistan, with clips of the exchange prompting some of the heated Rhetoric that local police officials say is to blame for the lone gunman who shot her and 18 others in Tucson Saturday. Glenn Beck, conservative columnists and one of Giffords’ Republican primary opponents piled on after the Arizona Democrat asked Gen. Davi...

New Mexico's New Governor
It may be unclear whether she plans to do it with a pistol or legal sleight of hand, or both, but she has clearly decided to Purge New Mexico of as many environmental regulations as possible & to eliminate the Richardson administration's efforts to promote Renewable Energy companies in New Mexico. She has picked paleoconservative, virulent Climate Change denier, Harrison "Jack" Schmitt, aged 75, to be one of her main kickers. In 2011, based on his "vast" experience exploring The Moon in 19...

In They Are Who We Thought They Were News..
I had put this in the replies in yesterday’s Afternoon Open Thread, but I thought about it, and decided to FP it. In an apparent effort to distance themselves from the Mass Shootings in Arizona over the weekend, the Tea Party Express sent out an email to supporters proclaiming that they “won’t be silenced” — and asking for contributions. Earlier today, TPE leader Sal Russo went on Fox News and lamented how “revolting and disgusting the left is for trying to as...

Will the Arizona tragedy end Palin's presidential hopes? (The Week)
New York – As the Assassination attempt on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords brings new scrutiny to Sarah Palin's gun-themed Rhetoric, pundits debate the political fallout The shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is being called a "turning point" and a "defining moment" for Sarah Palin, whose use of gun imagery (a 2010 campaign "map" targeting Giffords district with a crosshairs symbol and a call to "reload") has been linked, unfairly or not, to the Arizona tragedy. As soon as the media made the co...

Listen Up Lefties: Jon Stewart Doesnt Play Blame Game
Jon Stewart addressed the tragic events that occurred in Arizona this weekend by asking “How do you make sense of these types of senseless situations?” Giving up on any real attempt at satirical humor, Stewart instead taking a meaningful, measured and earnest approach to the current political finger pointing over the incident, which he called “as predictable as it is dispiriting.” While Stewart didn’t blame toxic discourse, he did seek a distinction “between r...