Daily Briefing - 11/15/06

Senator Boxer is coming out with guns blazin', with talk of extensive hearing on global warming. All of this is making Republicans nervous about such 'radical' intensions, but it must ease the worry UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has after decrying the 'frightening lack of leadership' on global warming (an obvious poke at the U.S. and Australia).

In other news, Sen. Reid has tentatively announced committee assignments, while a man we all know by now will be spending the next 6 years behind bars. Fox News is out searching for happy terrorists, while Grist is reporting on items that would make fish and those of us who ride public transport happy. All that and more... in the briefing.

Enjoy!

MW

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Daily Briefing – 11/15/06
719 days until the NEXT election… and global warming is an integral part of our nation’s agenda!

Key Issues in the News
Global Warming
- Extensive hearings on global warming, so says Senator Boxer
o Muzzling the gas guzzlers
o Republicans fear a “radical” agenda
- A “frightening lack of leadership”
o Also from Forbes
- White House sued over global warming
- Oklahoma’s drought may be exacerbated
- Edmonton Sun: Global warming hot air?
- Calgary Sun: Oil sands a global warming threat
- Coverage of global warming
- Virtualization solves global warming…?
- Making the government own up to its contribution
- Borat would be proud… Kazakhstan is ranked one spot above the U.S.
- Robert Redford hosts US Mayors at the Sundance Summit
- How to talk to a skeptic: “There is no consensus”
- I would have voted for “macaca,” but carbon neutral works
Washington/Legislation/Politics/People/etc.
- Courtney OFFICIALLY beats Rep. Simmons in CT-02 race
- Jim Webb, populist
- Lobbyists are trying to switch sides
- So, were any of those polls useful?
- Welcome back, Trent
Other News from the Media
- Thomas Friedman: China isn’t very clean
- Fit that man for stripes
- Eco-Friendly travel tips
- Dept. of Energy vows to turn up appliance efficiency
- Sunpower, the highest efficiency solar cells on the market
…and the Blogosphere
- Supposedly (according to MYDD) Jack Murtha has the votes
o Also at MYDD, Sen. Reid enticed Schumer to keep him as head of DSCC
- The Fix on Hillary ‘08
- Fair and balanced my @%$
- From Grist:
o An ultra-light, cost-efficient public transportation system?
o Clamping down on sea-bass smugglers
- Tom DeLay shares his thoughts from jail… err, I mean RedState
- TomPaine: Energy for change
- The Caucus: New leaders all around and the freshman orientation
- The Hotline: Immigration lessons from the midterm and why John McCain will save the GOP
Miscellaneous… or just plain weird
- I’ve been overlooked once again.
- A Desperate Housewives video game. People really need more to do.
- Just a guess, but I don’t this is a great use of land
- Umm, 1% of the WHOLE internet is a lot
- OJ Simpson will tell Fox how he would have murdered his wife and Ron Goldman… had he done it… which he didn’t… so he says
Quotes O’ the Day
“Be on the lookout for any statements from the Iraqi insurgents, who must be thrilled at the prospect of a Dem controlled Congress" – Fox News internal memo