Daily Briefing - 2/12/07

Let's just say that this briefing involves dinosaur flatulence...

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Daily Briefing – 2/12/07
630 days until the NEXT election… and global warming is an integral part of our nation’s agenda!

Key Issues in the News
Global Warming
- An Administration about-face
o Changing their tune?
- Stop arguing and start planning
- The debate continues
- Addressing global warming will require a change on all fronts
- Is the policy climate changing?
- Cosmic Rays could be a cause, so says a Danish researcher
- More certainty
- Follow the money?
- AEI’s retort
Washington/Legislation/Politics/People/etc.
- Senator Johnson recovering
- The House anti-surge resolution
Potential ‘08ers…
- Obama (it’s official), Clinton (Hollywood’s not sold), Obama again (Australian PM isn’t a fan), Giuliani (praises Bush), McCain (tapping the cash he once sought to limit), Edwards (is this the real one?), Romney (the flip-side of Kerry?)
- Some pundits think it’s a sure thing
Other News from the Media
- Japanese whaling ship vs. protest boat
- EPA toughens benzene emissions standards
- Green weddings?
…and the Blogosphere
- The Fix’s Governor Line
- Happy Birthday, Charles Darwin
- Instapundit: Pelosi is keeping nuclear energy on the table
- MYDD: How Clinton could defuse her weakness on Iraq
- Grist:
o With Kirsten Berry, President of BirdPAC
o Musicians and artists Stepping It Up
Miscellaneous… or just plain weird
- Harvard names first female president
- 11 feet of snow in NY?!?!
- Bear visits New Jersey
- Rep. Rohrabacher: Global warming may have been caused by dinosaur flatulence
Quotes O’ the Day
I have two daughters that are tree huggers and two granddaughters that are worse tree huggers and they're all over their grandfather all the time.” ~Sen. John Warner R-VA, on his increased interest in global warming
“We don’t know what those other cycles were caused by in the past. Could be dinosaur flatulence, you know, or who knows?” ~Rep. Dana Rohrabacher R-CA, on the cause of previous warming cycles