Daily Briefing - 2/23/07

If you only read one article from today's briefing make it Governor Sanford's article on why conservatives should care about climate change.

MW

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Daily Briefing – 2/23/07
619 days until the NEXT election… and global warming is an integral part of our nation’s agenda!

Key Issues in the News
Global Warming
- Governor Mark Sanford (R-SC): Why the Right Needs to Get Invested in the Search for Climate Change Solutions
o VP Cheney disagrees, and still isn’t sold “on the science”
- Paul Krugman lauds California
- NC seeks to lead global warming fight
- UN backed panel warns emissions must be reversed in 13 years
- CA democrats add to debate with a new legislative package
- Online interest heats up
- Salon: Global Warning by Bill McKibben
- The Hindu: Fight brews over how to address climate change
Washington/Legislation/Politics/People/etc.
- Schwarzenegger defends Hillary and mulls a Senate run
- Democratic strategy for Iraq calls for March ’08 pullout
- Lieberman leaves opens the possibility of switching parties
Potential ‘08ers…
- Vilsack (The first one bites the dust!), Giuliani (first big fundraiser), Clinton (muddying up Obama), McCain (oh that pesky day job), Giuliani again (making it easy for himself), Obama (IL statehouse yields clues), Richardson (running on that resume), Romney (marriages needed for school fixes), Gingrich (is waiting for “Draft Newt”), Huckabee (don’t forget me), Dodd (is he white enough?????), Brownback (a Wilberforce Republican?), Edwards (missing his mojo?), Thompson (FRED Thompson)
- The Presidential Candidates on Iraq
Other News from the Media
- Where Bush would steer energy R&D
- A 32 year high for American in extreme poverty
…and the Blogosphere
- The Fix’s Friday Line: The Presidential Field
- RCP: Personal savings rate is a misleading indicator of the economy
- TomPaine: Let’s make a gas-saving deal
- ThinkProgress: Right-wing blogs attack McCain over stance on global warming
- Grist:
o Elements of an effective response
o The Roots and composting
o Green computer?
Miscellaneous… or just plain weird
- Women may have invented weapons
- Giant weights to be dropped into Indonesian mud volcano
- Swarms of massive hornets tear across Europe
- Gasp!
Quotes O’ the Day
“Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end.” ~ Jerry Seinfeld