{"id":2153,"date":"2010-10-03T23:28:53","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T03:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=2153"},"modified":"2010-10-03T23:31:07","modified_gmt":"2010-10-04T03:31:07","slug":"month-10-day-4-the-president-says-were-still-gonna-do-it-how-i-dunno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/month-10-day-4-the-president-says-were-still-gonna-do-it-how-i-dunno\/","title":{"rendered":"Month 10, Day 4: The President Says We’re Still Gonna Do It. How? I Dunno."},"content":{"rendered":"

I wrote about my experiences in DC in this diary on Daily Kos<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And now…<\/p>\n

The New York Times:<\/p>\n

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama said revamping U.S. energy policy would be a top priority next year and may have to be done “in chunks” rather than through one piece of legislation, according to Rolling Stone magazine.<\/p>\n

In an interview published on Tuesday, Obama lamented that more progress to fight climate change had not been made since he took office, and blamed the economy for that failure.<\/p>\n

“One of my top priorities next year is to have an energy policy that begins to address all facets of our over-reliance on fossil fuels,” Obama told Rolling Stone. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My letter:<\/p>\n

The fact that President Obama’s first two years in office were focused almost entirely on health care and financial reform rather than on climate change is a reflection of the damage that decades of Republican malfeasance and media collusion have done to our country. If we had a responsible “opposition party” instead of the aggregation of nihilists who’ve made progress impossible, the health care debate would have ended by June 2009; financial reform would have passed by September of the same year, and we’d be having a rational discussion about the pros and cons of regulating carbon emissions. If we had a responsible media, our national conversation would be just that \u2014 a conversation. Instead, we’ve heard delusions of “death panels,” blathering about “bailouts,” and a readiness to deny the overwhelming scientific evidence regarding the most serious existential threat humanity has ever faced. President Obama’s task is a formidable one.<\/p>\n

Warren Senders<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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