Steve Jobs introduced the Macintosh computer 25 years ago today at this Apple shareholders meeting on January 24, 1984.
** OBAMA TO DIRECT E.P.A. RECONSIDERATION OF CALIFORNIA’S GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS LAW. On Monday, President Barack Obama will order the US Environmental Protection to reconsider its Bush/Cheney era denial of California’s landmark tailpipe emissions law. The EPA is expected to shortly issue the customary waiver granted California for decades under the Clean Air Act to go beyond federal regulations regarding air pollution.
This move will allow not only California, but 13 other states which subsequently adopted similar laws, to move ahead with the first real moves to combat climate change. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and former Governor-turned-Attorney General Jerry Brown sued the Bush/Cheney Administration for its years of foot-dragging on the law, which was enacted in 2002, and for its 2007 denial of the law.
** OBAMA TODAY - SUNDAY. President Barack Obama is in the White House. He has no scheduled public events today. Vice President Joe Biden appears on the CBS program, Face The Nation. The director of Obama’s National Economic Council, former Treasury Secretary and Harvard president Larry Summers appears on Meet The Press.
Obama and his team are devising stricter regulations for the financial industry in the wake of last fall’s Wall Street meltdown and of major abuses by Wall Street executives of the first part of the federal bailout of the industyr.
Obama is also fielding criticism from congressional Republicans about his economic revival program and contemplating what sort of changes, if any, he might need to make.
Obama is dispatching his longtime confidante, White House senior advisor Valerie Jarrett, as his representative at Davos, the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum this week in Switzerland. Summers and National Security Advisor Jim Jones were planning to go, but Obama is holding Summers back in Washington to work on the economic revival program and General Jones for Obama’s Wednesday trip to the Pentagon to meet with the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
** “MAC IS BACK?” HEY, IT NEVER LEFT. MACINTOSH TURNS 25. Whenever John McCain and his backers would start up one of their chants in the campaign that “Mac is back,” I’d say, what the heck are they talking about? It’s never left.
So here we are, 25 years to the day since Apple launched the Macintosh computer. And the Mac, unlike my old friend John McCain, is going as strong as ever, maybe even stronger. It hasn’t taken over the world, as Steve Jobs hoped. But it’s changed the face of computing in many ways, and is doing a lot better than any other computer in this global recession.
I’m a Mac guy since the ’80s. I run what we laughingly call my operation, a one-person operation, that is, as a Mac shop. Two Apple laptops on a wireless network, with a six-year old iBook as an emergency back-up.
But it’s deeper than that. I was there in Silicon Valley 25 years ago when the Macintosh was launched by Steve Jobs.
I was working with Senator Gary Hart then, and had gotten to know his backer, Apple’s marketing and PR guru Regis McKenna (I later worked with him as assistant to the chairman at his firm). Regis, who came up with the Apple logo, told me that I really didn’t want to miss the 1984 Apple shareholders’ meeting. As usual, he was right. …
President Barack Obama discusses the economic crisis and his recovery program in his weekly video/radio address.
** OBAMA’S WEEKEND ADDRESS. We begin this year and this Administration in the midst of an unprecedented crisis that calls for unprecedented action. Just this week, we saw more people file for unemployment than at any time in the last twenty-six years, and experts agree that if nothing is done, the unemployment rate could reach double digits. Our economy could fall $1 trillion short of its full capacity, which translates into more than $12,000 in lost income for a family of four. And we could lose a generation of potential, as more young Americans are forced to forgo college dreams or the chance to train for the jobs of the future.
In short, if we do not act boldly and swiftly, a bad situation could become dramatically worse.
That is why I have proposed an American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan to immediately jumpstart job creation as well as long-term economic growth. I am pleased to say that both parties in Congress are already hard at work on this plan, and I hope to sign it into law in less than a month.It’s a plan that will save or create three to four million jobs over the next few years, and one that recognizes both the paradox and the promise of this moment – the fact that there are millions of Americans trying to find work even as, all around the country, there’s so much work to be done. That’s why this is not just a short-term program to boost employment. It’s one that will invest in our most important priorities like energy and education; health care and a new infrastructure that are necessary to keep us strong and competitive in the 21st century.
Today I’d like to talk specifically about the progress we expect to make in each of these areas.
To accelerate the creation of a clean energy economy, we will double our capacity to generate alternative sources of energy like wind, solar, and biofuels over the next three years. We’ll begin to build a new electricity grid that lay down more than 3,000 miles of transmission lines to convey this new energy from coast to coast. We’ll save taxpayers $2 billion a year by making 75% of federal buildings more energy efficient, and save the average working family $350 on their energy bills by weatherizing 2.5 million homes.
To lower health care costs, cut medical errors, and improve care, we’ll computerize the nation’s health records in five years, saving billions of dollars in health care costs and countless lives. And we’ll protect health insurance for more than 8 million Americans who are in danger of losing their coverage during this economic downturn.
To ensure our children can compete and succeed in this new economy, we’ll renovate and modernize 10,000 schools, building state-of-the-art classrooms, libraries, and labs to improve learning for over five million students. We’ll invest more in Pell Grants to make college affordable for seven million more students, provide a $2,500 college tax credit to four million students, and triple the number of fellowships in science to help spur the next generation of innovation.
Finally, we will rebuild and retrofit America to meet the demands of the 21st century. That means repairing and modernizing thousands of miles of America’s roadways and providing new mass transit options for millions of Americans. It means protecting America by securing 90 major ports and creating a better communications network for local law enforcement and public safety officials in the event of an emergency. And it means expanding broadband access to millions of Americans, so businesses can compete on a level-playing field, wherever they’re located.
I know that some are skeptical about the size and scale of this recovery plan. I understand that skepticism, which is why this recovery plan must and will include unprecedented measures that will allow the American people to hold my Administration accountable for these results. We won’t just throw money at our problems – we’ll invest in what works. Instead of politicians doling out money behind a veil of secrecy, decisions about where we invest will be made public, and informed by independent experts whenever possible. We will launch an unprecedented effort to root out waste, inefficiency, and unnecessary spending in our government, and every American will be able to see how and where we spend taxpayer dollars by going to a new website called recovery.gov.
No one policy or program will solve the challenges we face right now, nor will this crisis recede in a short period of time. But if we act now and act boldly; if we start rewarding hard work and responsibility once more; if we act as citizens and not partisans and begin again the work of remaking America, then I have faith that we will emerge from this trying time even stronger and more prosperous than we were before. Thanks for listening.
** OBAMA AND HIS COMMANDERS. Now we’re into one of the most fascinating parts of the new Obama Administration, President Barack Obama’s relationship with America’s military commanders. How successful will he be in working with these people, and in carrying out the shift away from the old Bush/Cheney priorities?
Next week, Obama goes to the Pentagon, for a meeting in the highly secure “Tank” with the Joint Chiefs of Staff. While he’s keeping Defense Secretary Bob Gates on, we don’t yet know how many of the individual service chiefs — Navy, Marines, Army, Air Force — Obama intends to retain after their terms end. Nor do we know what his plans are for the current chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Navy Admiral Mike Mullen. Nor do we yet know what he wants to do with the current chiefs of the US Armed Forces’ international commands.
We do know that Obama already met, on Wednesday, with one general whose job looks secure for now, Central Command chief David Petraeus, as well as JCS chief Admiral Mullen, Defense Secretary Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and Obama’s national security advisor, former Marine Corps commandant and NATO commander Jim Jones. …
Petraeus, subject of a memorable MoveOn.org ad as “General Betray-us” (done by a one-time colleague of mine), appears key to all of this. …
A top Republican operator, a John McCain man who admires Petraeus, told me this the week before Obama’s inauguration: “Now America’s smartest general and America’s smartest politician get to work together.”
For all the blood-and-guts hero worship of Petraeus on the far right, he’s actually a very political general. At the dawn of his career, upon his graduation from West Point, he married the daughter of the Military Academy’s commanding general. His approach around the Iraq surge was at least as political as it was military, playing the various Iraqi factions against one another and for the US and even engaging with Iran on its interests in quelling the violence.
Petraeus arrived in Washington on the night of Obama’s inauguration, having just concluded a lengthy tour of the Middle East, Central Asia, and South Asia, during which he consulted with the leaders of the various former Soviet republics and with top Russian figures. … From my Friday column.
“Think different.” The Mac turns 25.
** NEW COLUMN COMING UP … MACINTOSH TURNS 25.
** OBAMA TODAY – SATURDAY. President Barack Obama meets with his economic team in the White House. They are going over his economic recovery program, which is going to have some some changes going through Congress.
Meanwhile, Obama is catching a break on some geopolitical crises. Not that they are necessarily “breaks,” as Obama and his emissaries have been in touch with global players for months, and at least one of the developments is directly tied to his inauguration as president.
Israel has all its troops out of the Gaza Strip. And Russia is restarting natural gas flows to Europe through Ukraine. At a cost down the line to the notion of Ukraine joining NATO. The US has an emerging set of deals to supply the troubled war in Afghanistan outside the usual supply lines through increasingly unstable Pakistan. But more work remains with Moscow to lock all that down further, especially with regard to the transit of weapons.
** FROM THE ARNOLD FILE. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is in Los Angeles today. He has some private talks. His focus, naturally, is on the chronic California budget crisis. Schwarzenegger has no scheduled public events today.
Republican legislators, who have essentially blockaded the budget for months by publicly refusing to consider any tax hikes, seem to be getting closer to going for a budget that includes tax hikes as well as program cuts and a spending cap.
Naturally, much of California’s far right – which is doing a remarkable job of driving the state’s Republican Party deeper into permanent minority status – is going bonkers over this.
** OBAMA: RIDING WITH HISTORY. (NOTE: As Barack Obama was inaugurated as the 44th president of the United States, this column was the featured column on the top of the front page of the Huffington Post.)
As the hours count down to his inauguration, Barack Obama must be hearing the hoofbeats of history. He certainly invokes it. Indeed, he seeks to be one of its great riders.
For all the president-elect’s evocation of Abraham Lincoln — and his own description of Lincoln in “The Audacity of Hope” as both deep-seated idealist and ultra-pragmatist was more revealing of Obama’s political character than anything produced by any media outlet — fate and his own design cast what Obama says as our brand-new president alongside somewhat more contemporary figures.
Obama takes office as the 44th president of the United States at a moment of multi-faceted crisis. But it is not a moment like that of Lincoln’s inauguration. President Bush and his essentially feckless administration leave behind the worst economy since the Great Depression, an environment increasingly out of whack, two troubled, troubling, and mismanaged wars, a black eye around the globe, and a sense of fatigue from years of overwrought hysteria. Lincoln’s challenge was of a very different nature.
So the figures of comparison for Obama, his fellow riders of history if you will, are, notwithstanding his hero Lincoln, different. … From my Monday Huffington Post column.
** ANOTHER DAY: 24 AND THE AGE OF OBAMA. One of the signature TV series of the Bush/Cheney years is back. What relevance, if any, does it have in the new age of Obama? … From my January 13th column.
** CIA: THE PANETTA PICK AND THE FEINSTEIN FACTOR. President-elect Barack Obama named his top intelligence leadership team on Friday. And, as I expected, new Senate Intelligence Committee chair Dianne Feinstein rather quickly backed down from her opposition to Leon Panetta and championing of a CIA insider for the post, of only a few days ago. The whole exercise was very instructive in old and new political dynamics. … From my January 12th column.
** CIA: PARSING THE PANETTA PICK. … From my January 6th column.
** OBAMA: VACATION’S END. … From my January 2nd Huffington Post column.
** 24/7 LIVE TV NEWS FEED FROM RUSSIA TODAY. Russia has re-emerged as one of the world’s great powers. Click here for a live TV news feed on your computer, bringing you English-language, jargon-free, fast-paced coverage of global and Russian news from the new Russia Today channel. You probably already know about CNN International, BBC World, and Al Jazeera. Russia Today, which also features culture, entertainment, and sports, is based in Moscow and is owned and operated by the TV Novosti division of Russia’s state news agency, RIA Novosti.
While it’s quite foolish to expect to see, say, criticism of Vladimir Putin on Russia Today, which I know as a former DemRussia advisor, the channel is very interesting nonetheless. With U.S. cable news chattering away as it does, this sort of respite can be informative. The NWN live link to RT does not constitute an endorsement of the channel’s views. It’s presented as an otherwise unavailable new media window.
** SCHWARZENEGGER’S CALIFORNIA. Here is my series of five columns on the governorship of Arnold Schwarzenegger for the Los Angeles Times in debate with Pulitzer Prize-winning former Times reporter/editor Bill Boyarsky, whose columns are also included.
Among them is what I’m sure is the first piece examining Schwarzenegger’s legacy as governor of California. Since he will actually be governor of California until 2011. No technology known to be disruptive to the space/time continuum was used in its preparation.
** TRACK GLOBAL AND NATIONAL ENERGY PRICES IN NEAR REAL TIME VIA BLOOMBERG ENERGY MARKET WATCH. After crashing over $147 for yet another record on July 11th, crude oil closed on Friday at $46.47 per barrel. Energy markets are closed on the weekend.
This is a significant advance since the inauguration of President Barack Obama, relecting the oil market’s view that the US economy will experience a recovery under the new American administration.
The drop of $105 per barrel since the record high over the summer comes on acknowledgment that the weak US economy will cut future demand and on the easing of previous geopolitical tensions in the Middle East. It is clear that that, contrary to much chatter, neither the US nor Israel is about to launch a strike against Iran. And the Russian war with Georgia, confounding much speculation and reporting to the contrary, actually decreased the geopolitical risk premium in the oil market.
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Another really good speech by Obama.
I love Hitchcock. Great Apple ad.
I got into Macs when I was in college, too.
Another terrific Barack speech.
This has got to be the worst story.
** FROM THE ARNOLD FILE. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is in Los Angeles today. He some has private talks. His focus is on the chronic California budget crisis. Schwarzenegger has no scheduled public events today.
Republican legislators, who have essentially blockaded the budget for months by publicly refusing to consider any tax hikes, seem to be getting closer to going for a budget that includes tax hikes as well as program cuts and a spending cap.
Naturally, much of California’s far right – which is doing a remarkable job of driving the state’s Republican Party deeper into permanent minority status – is going bonkers over this.
It’s not a thrill.
We leave that to the Sacramento Bee …
Yes.
># Capitol Boy Says:
January 24th, 2009 at 11:09 am edit
Another terrific Barack speech.
I was a little past college …
># Capitol Boy Says:
January 24th, 2009 at 10:56 am edit
I got into Macs when I was in college, too.
And yet … illiterate.
Jobs did drop out of Reed.
># Jonas Blane Says:
January 24th, 2009 at 10:51 am edit
I love Hitchcock. Great Apple ad.
Yeah, although I’m becoming somewhat inured.
># Jonas Blane Says:
January 24th, 2009 at 10:49 am edit
Another really good speech by Obama.
Good day. Good stuff. Now time to play catch-up from the past couple days. Enjoy the rest of the day!
lol
Bill Bradley Says:
January 24th, 2009 at 11:24 am
It’s not a thrill.
We leave that to the Sacramento Bee …
OK, so I had trouble ID’ing a few of the celebs in the Mac ad*. The two women were…Margot Fonteyn? (dancing) and…Maria Callas?? Surprisingly, I also don’t recognize that younger fellow on stage at the end. Any help out there?
THE CHILDREN OF GAZA (Did God Cry?)
On the day of their deaths as each child of Gaza was carried to their heavenly father, Did God Cry? Did God look down with tears flowing as he heard their cries of pain as White Phosphorus “Willie Peter” from rounds fired from (155) One-fifty-five millimeter Artillery Pieces manufactured in the (USI/MIC) United States of Israel, Military Industrial Complex, by (IDF) Israeli Defense Forces, rained down on the innocent children, each shell exploding above them releasing (100) One-hundred phosphorus wafers, leaving a tendril trails thru the air covering a (100 / 200 meter dia., 328 / 656 foot dia.) wide area. Did God Cry as each White phosphorus chemical wafer, when exposed to air (oxygen) began to burn with “White House” intensity, that cannot be extinguished until it is separated from exposure from it, as the “Willie Peter” burns everything it touched, as it burned thru the children’s flesh down and thru the bone, taking their lives and how many others were left with painful chemical burns around the injured area if they survived, did God Cry?
Will God on the Day of Judgment gather together the souls of the (400) four-hundred innocent children of Gaza before his seat of power and rise as their advocate to ask Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and The Saudis Royal Family, to you much was given, and from you much was expected, these are the children of Paradise, for theirs is the kingdom of Heaven, no door, no gate, no boarder is closed to them in Paradise, why then did you close yours to them when they needed safety, why now do you seek the gates of Paradise to be open to you?
Will God on the Day of Judgment then call The Israeli Ambassador to the Russian Federation that admitted that Israel used white phosphorous but maintain that it was in accordance with international law, as the use of “Willie Peter” is permitted under International Law as an “obscurant” to cover troop movements and prevent enemies from using certain guided weapon’s.
Will God ask the Ambassador, do these children look like enemy troops to you, did the (UN) United Nations Human Rights Groups not say that the use of the chemical in Gaza with (1.5M) One Point Five Million residents one of the most-densely populated places on the globe, violates the requirement under International Humanitarian Law “To take all feasible precautions to avoid civilian injury and loss of life? Will God ask the Ambassador, Does the achievement of “Deterrence Capacity” mean that “The End’s Justify the Mean’s, that “Might Make Right”, and justifies the slaughter of innocent children?
And what will God’s Judgment be? It had been better that a mill stone had been placed upon each of your necks and that each of you had been cast into the sea, then you had hurt the least of these my children, for theirs is the Kingdom Of Paradise. You now shall each bear their total pain at the moments of their deaths, for each day that you each lived beyond their deaths, so it has been is spoken, so let it be written, and so let it be done!
OBAMA TO PROTECT WAR CRIMINALS! (Change, One Imperial President Criminal for another)
The Obama Administration is going to vote against any (UN) United Nations Security Council Mandate to the (ICC) International Criminal Court in The Hague, on a (2) two legal technicalities The First that the (51st) State, The tip of the Spear Into and Manager State of the Islamic Crescent, Israel never signed the Rome Statue That enshrined the (ICC).
The second, The Islamic Palestine Territory of Gaza is not a state never mind that Israel will not accept the ( 2002) offer by Saudi Arabia and all 22 Arab states and Palestine and 35 Muslim countries is still on the table – and still rejected by Israel – because Israel wants the land more than it wants peace. The offer is total recognition of Israel and an end to all hostilities in return for a total evacuation of the West Bank and Gaza and a just settlement of the Palestinian refugee problem (created by Israel). Like I said – Israel wants to be bigger so it won’t accept the one offer that would end the conflict.
And Obama Change, for the Islamic Crescent is what, more of the same, the Islamic Culture is not a culture, the Islamic Peoples are not a people, and their children are of less value in the context of the world’s society.
Change you can’t believe in!
Wow! I am hardly a computer geek but the Jobs/Mac video is a fabulous piece of documentary film.
Yes, it is.
An amazing moment.
It was like being at the midnight showing of Close Encounters …
My friend, you really have to stretch for this stuff.
Take a break and relax.
>TRIATHLON Says:
January 24th, 2009 at 2:08 pm edit
OBAMA TO PROTECT WAR CRIMINALS! (Change, One Imperial President Criminal for another)
Well, the young guy at the end is Jerry Seinfeld …
># Chris M Says:
January 24th, 2009 at 12:05 pm edit
OK, so I had trouble ID’ing a few of the celebs in the Mac ad*. The two women were…Margot Fonteyn? (dancing) and…Maria Callas?? Surprisingly, I also don’t recognize that younger fellow on stage at the end. Any help out there?
Thanks! Relax on a good weekend.
># Sacramento Solon Says:
January 24th, 2009 at 11:28 am edit
Good day. Good stuff. Now time to play catch-up from the past couple days. Enjoy the rest of the day!
1) OK, now I think I understand…that commercial is not twenty-five years old…right?
2) WTF is Seinfeld doing in there?????!!!!!!
>Bill Bradley Says:
Well, the young guy at the end is Jerry Seinfeld …
Right, that is a spot from early in this decade, with Richard Dreyfuss as the narrator.
Re Seinfeld.
Here’s a little irony.
I was asked to appear in the Windows ads — “I’m a PC!” — that Seinfeld and Bill Gates kicked off late last year with their arguably amusingly goofy stay at a “typical” family home.
I had to tell the agency, well, no, I used to work with Apple, I’m a Mac guy, no can do …
Pardon all this posting. I’m wrapping up a bout with the flu. I’ve done some reading, watched a year’s worth of The Wire…
One of my two brushes with famous comedians came on a rare visit to an LA nightclub in the ’80s. I saw this hilarious, bizarre performance and wondered just who was this guy. The next night at home, I watch Steven Wright make his national TV debut.
Election day 1988 I was working a sound car with overhead megaphone pumping out the GOTV message for the insurance reform campaign I was working on when who should pull up beside us but one Jay Leno. So I let blast with, “We sure could use a good comedian at the election party tonight” but he blew us off and drove away in his red… Pantera? Lambo? GT40? There’s a surprising follow-up to that regarding a bill I was working on last year but I’ll for once show some discretion.
No prob.
If it was Leno, I’m guessing a GT 40.
(7 X 7 X 7….) CIA AGENT MICHAEL SCHEUER
Let’s see it’s almost over the War on Islam? NO! NO! Wrong again, and there is another of the (USI/MIC) United States of Israel, Military Industrial Complex admitting the fact. (CIA) Central Intelligence Agency agent Michael Scheuer, who was the agent in charge of the Osama Bin Laden special operations team in the (1990’s), said, “We can shoot them on the battlefield … or we can treat them as soldiers without uniforms and treat them as prisoners of war and release them when the war is over … so maybe never.”
Now, in case you missed the operative term it was (…. so maybe never), this has only just begun, with each an every day Pox Americana grows weaker and Islam grows stronger, and at a Trillion Dollars the (USI/MIC) is breaking the bank in present dollars, how many more years (7 X 7 X 7….), and the cost will go what down.
This is one of your “The End’s Justify the Mean”, and “Might Makes Right” types, and Mike doesn’t see an end in sight! It ain’t over till the fat lady sings and the date of her birth could be millenniums away.
Chris,
Sorry to read that you’re under the weather. Hope you feel better soon.
“Yes. I actually read From Russia With Love over the holidays. Ian Fleming is quite a good writer. I got all his books a couple of years ago, but didn’t finally get around to reading and re-reading them till this campaign was over.”
Great book. The ending is much like Holmes going over the falls.
And still the best Bond movie in my book — certainly of the Cold War era.
New video today?
Sorry, Triathlon, too far over the top.
Perhaps later.
># Jonas Blane Says:
January 25th, 2009 at 7:53 am edit
New video today?
Yes, quite a different ending to the novel, one of JFK’s favorite novels.
It’s one of my favorite Bond films, though since Goldfinger was the first movie I saw, it has a special place, and was really the first of the big action blockbuster movies.
># Brasky Says:
January 24th, 2009 at 7:20 pm edit
“Yes. I actually read From Russia With Love over the holidays. Ian Fleming is quite a good writer. I got all his books a couple of years ago, but didn’t finally get around to reading and re-reading them till this campaign was over.”
Great book. The ending is much like Holmes going over the falls.
And still the best Bond movie in my book — certainly of the Cold War era.
Indeed.
># Sacramento Solon Says:
January 24th, 2009 at 5:40 pm edit
Chris,
Sorry to read that you’re under the weather. Hope you feel better soon.
The mind reels. lol
Bill Bradley Says:
January 25th, 2009 at 11:25 am
Sorry, Triathlon, too far over the top.
# Bill Bradley Says:
January 25th, 2009 at 11:28 am
Indeed.
># Sacramento Solon Says:
January 24th, 2009 at 5:40 pm edit
Chris,
Sorry to read that you’re under the weather. Hope you feel better soon.
——-
Yes, it’s important to rest and take it easy when one is under the weather.
Great news!
** OBAMA TO DIRECT E.P.A. RECONSIDERATION OF CALIFORNIA’S GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS LAW. On Monday, President Barack Obama will order the US Environmental Protection to reconsider its Bush/Cheney era denial of California’s landmark tailpipe emissions law. The EPA is expected to shortly issue the customary waiver granted California for decades under the Clean Air Act to go beyond federal regulations regarding air pollution.
This move will allow not only California, but 13 other states which subsequently adopted similar laws, to move ahead with the first real moves to combat climate change. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and former Governor-turned-Attorney General Jerry Brown sued the Bush/Cheney Administration for its years of foot-dragging on the law, which was enacted in 2002, and for its 2007 denial of the law.
That’s great. What new video today?
Republican opposition to Obama, the Blago spectacle.
Inevitable.
># Capitol Boy Says:
January 25th, 2009 at 8:22 pm edit
Great news!
** OBAMA TO DIRECT E.P.A. RECONSIDERATION OF CALIFORNIA’S GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS LAW. On Monday, President Barack Obama will order the US Environmental Protection to reconsider its Bush/Cheney era denial of California’s landmark tailpipe emissions law. The EPA is expected to shortly issue the customary waiver granted California for decades under the Clean Air Act to go beyond federal regulations regarding air pollution.
This move will allow not only California, but 13 other states which subsequently adopted similar laws, to move ahead with the first real moves to combat climate change. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and former Governor-turned-Attorney General Jerry Brown sued the Bush/Cheney Administration for its years of foot-dragging on the law, which was enacted in 2002, and for its 2007 denial of the law.