August 9th, 2006
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The left side of the American blogosphere will be cracking open a few bottle of organic champagn and basking in the glory of defeating three term Senator and Vice Presidential candidate Joe Lieberman in tonight’s Connecticut Democratic primary. Ned Lamont, to the manor born, will be sipping something a tad more vintage and being amazed at the power of insurgency.
For koskids and MyDDers and Firedoglake fans this is the first win in what they hope will be a reconfiguration of first the Democratic Party and, with a bit of a push, American post Bush politics. And they may very well be right; but I doubt it.
There is every chance that Lieberman will run as an independent with Republican backing. And if he does there is a very strong chance that he will be elected. After all, a primary is a perfect place for left liberal insurgents simply because it is an all Democratic affair. General elections are a whole other story.
More importantly, Republicans and moderate Democrats are going to be energized by the Lamont win. The history of single issue candidates - and Lamont was a 99% pure anti-war candidate - is pretty much a litany of defeat.
The tealeaves are going to be read regarding the chances of a “progressive” insurgency in the Democratic Presidential season. Something on the lines of “Dean was onto something.” there are few things which will save the Republican Party from the consequences of an increasingly unpopular war; but a George McGovern or Eugene McCarthy style campaign from the Democrats would make Rudy look awfully good in 2008.
Update: Captain Ed sees the tealeaves in much the same way:
As I posted earlier, this is the nightmare scenario for the Democrats. An outright Lieberman victory or a real butt-kicking by Lamont would have settled Connecticut, allowing the party and the media to focus on other, more important races.
captains quarters
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The French U.N. delegation has joined with Arab nations and is now calling for a complete and immediate Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon as a condition of any cease-fire, the sources said.
In addition, the French have reportedly agreed with Arab demands that the Lebanese force be accompanied only by UNIFIL, with no international force to be deployed.
fox news
Wow, I sure am surprised.
And look at what they have caved to: more UNIFIL. That’s the fine group of UN observers whose net contribution since 2000 has been to provide cover for Hezbollah and report clever things like “Yup, there goes another missile.” combine that with no international force and the Israeli have no reason at all to agree. And as the Israelis are beginning to win and as the Americans are not going be terribly hasty trying to force the Israelis to quit, that means this war is going to go on for a while.
All of which means that we are not a step closer to a diplomatic solution.
Way to go France.
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Unbelievable. Dead men walking. Seriously.Gateway Pundit catches the New York Times running a Hezbollah Photo fraud production.
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So Reutergate is, pretty much, the biggest media scandal in the last six months or so.
Toronto Star media critic, Antonia Zerbisias, is well aware of it as it has been commented on
here and the Zerb moderates her own comments….
Waiting…
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“One is money, the second is money and the third one is also money. It is all money — money and risk go together in any development. If you take guidelines for green development and attach them to your land, then it encumbers the land. That brings the land price down. If you want to do an energy-efficient building, it costs more, though the architects will tell you it costs less. It always comes down to how much of a premium is the developer willing to put on the table?”
mark holland, the tyee
Mark Holland understands what it actually takes to devise conservation, alternative energy, bright green strategies. It is worth going over to the Tyee and reading right through.
Of course, $75.00 a barrel oil makes a lot of green planning and densification much more attractive. And the prospect of $100.00 a barrel oil is no longer fantastic.
Conservation strategies ranging from higher mileage cars to increased density make a lot more economic sense when oil is expensive. So do bright green technologies. But, most of all, the shift towards a more efficient future has to make sense to the folks who actually have the money:
Holland’s group works its magic by taking the concepts underlying sustainability — think local agriculture and community energy-generation — and finding the business upside hidden within. “We take the stuff that is granola, but real, and we put it in a blue suit,” he says. “We march it into the room with a haircut.”
the tyee
Update:
Fifty-five percent of drivers said they had reduced their driving because of high gas prices, according to a poll released Tuesday by the Pew Research Center. About one in five said they had started carpooling or sharing rides more often, while 12 percent said they had begun using mass transit more often.
examiner.com This is hardly a surprise. As gas prices go up people are going to have huge incentives to reduce the miles they drive. Who knows, some may even walk or bike.
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