Climate of change on White House site
References to a cap on carbon emissions and a campaign pledge to spend $150 billion on clean energy technologies disappeared from the White House website in June — even as the Senate was still trying to pass legislation implementing those priorities.
Peter Bray, president of Versionista, a Portland, Ore.-based company that tracks changes to the White House site, said the Obama administration made “whole-cloth” changes to its Energy & Environment issues site on June 10.
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Deleted items include a section titled “Closing the Carbon Loophole and Cracking Down on Polluters” that offered broad-brush goals for “protecting American consumers” and “promoting U.S. competitiveness.”
Also eliminated was President Barack Obama’s oft-repeated campaign call to spend $150 billion over a decade on “energy research and development to transition to a clean energy economy.”
In its place, the new White House site includes a three-minute Earth Day-themed video from Obama and a list of several of his early accomplishments, including $80 billion for renewable energy via the economic stimulus package and new federal climate rules for motor vehicles. It also says Obama is “working with Congress to pass comprehensive energy and climate legislation.”
The website changes came with little fanfare at the same time that environmental groups were pleading with Obama to take a more proactive role to find the votes for a sweeping climate bill. The president’s prime-time address from the Oval Office on June 15 drew criticism from activists when he didn’t mention the words “carbon,” “greenhouse gases,” “global warming” or “cap and trade.”
Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) decided after an additional month of internal debate to drop the carbon cap and instead try for a legislative response to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Plans to move that bill remain uncertain headed into the midterm elections.
Jesse Jenkins, director of energy and climate policy at the Breakthrough Institute, said he first noticed the changes to the White House website on Wednesday and immediately posted a blog entry questioning the administration’s motives.
“One could read the changes at WhiteHouse.gov as a simple reflection of where Obama now is in his presidency, with almost two years under his belt and a list of accomplishments to his name to replace a set of campaign-style promises,” Jenkins wrote. “Equally notable, however, is the list of what has indeed been accomplished, and what, for now, remains an entirely unfulfilled promise.”
A White House aide insisted Thursday that Obama steadily pushed for a climate bill through the summer and dismissed suggestions the web site changes came with any ulterior motive.
“The website changes were the work of a few staff-level people updating information that had fallen badly out of date – prior to the update, for instance, we had a website that failed to mention that the vehicles rule had gone final,” the Obama staffer said. “The idea that we were clever enough to tinker with the website as the contours of legislative debate changed is absurd.”
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$159 billion saved. $1 trillion in taxes averted. Troops come home in victory from Iraq.
Its a good day.
The Whole white house is ABSURD.!
OK, we'll take your word that you are not smart enough to tinker with the website as the contours of debate (getting your head handed to you) changed.
Al Gore is calling for massive protests to pass crap and tax. Although taken down from the website...lame duck session is what they believe they can shove down the taxpayers throats. Do these Dems have no Shame ?
See, they even "Change" the website to SUIT them.
The "Progressives" do it hourly to Wiki.
Busy "cleansing" information.
This site now open for right-wing hach attack. Oh, it's already commenced.
Sure....Let's celebrate the Big Eared Clowns spending of $1.85 billion for 85 jobs.....
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The best thing to happen to this country and the world economy is exposure of man made global warming as the complete sham that it is. The climategate whistleblowers showed that all the so called global warming religions fanatics all tainted their "research" in order to maintain a lie to get never ending grant money. Now the best climate change that is coming is the one that arrives November 2. I can't wait to see the WH website after they get hit with those results.
All libtards know how to do is Tax and Spend to make the people slaves. That’s why 70 congressional dumbcrats caucus with the Socialist Party of America. The 0zer0 libtard agenda has been rejected by repubs, independents, seniors, and conservatives. Everyday the opposition to the 0zer0 regime builds. Real Americans that love their country will oppose the socialist slavery he and libtard dumbcrats are peddling.
0zer0, his regime and all the libtard dumbcrats only care about power. They have declared war on America to maximize that power. They redistribute the wealth of producers to their backers, who are nothing but leaches on the economy and society. Illegal Immigrants, Unions, Banks, Wallstreet, Insurance Companies, Environmental Nazis, Education Idiots, Gays, Hollywood, Lame Stream Media, and Welfare Queens. The dumbcrats are destroying the country piece by piece with their arrogance, hypocrisy, incompetence, and lust for power.
America has seen through their lies. The poor libtard dumbcrats and 0zer0 fail time after time. They can't plug the hole in the border. They didn’t know how to clean up the gulf, or how to fix the economy, jobs, housing, Freddie & Fannie, or the deficit. They gave us death panels, and destroyed healthcare and the energy industry. They bailed out Wallstreet, AIG, banks, teachers, and Government and Communist Motors to keep their lobbyists and unions happy. They can't contain N.Korea or Iran, were wrong about Iraq, and are failing in Afghanistan. Even Gitmo is still open. The war on radical islamic terrorists is now Imam 0zer0’s war against man made human disasters. He fights the war with fatwas giving Miranda rights to foreign terrorists, and spends taxpayer money to build a victory mosque at the 9/11 site, while refusing to let the St. Nicholas Orthodox church that was destroyed on 9/11 be rebuilt.
Everyday the failures of the libtard dumbcrats and the 0zer0 Regime prove Joe Wilson correct when he told 0zer0:"You Lie!"
Their ideas are not working and they are all being held accountable. Like cornered rats, the 0zer0 regime and litard dumbcrats are turning on each other. It's time to take back America from the marxist fascists.
America has rejected the Great Divider, Campaigner-In-Chief, Dear Reader Leader, the mongrel messiah, the closet muslim, marxist fascist narcissist petulant man-child 0zer0. November can't come soon enough so America can undo their mistake in 2006 when they let the dumbcrats run wild. This time they will throw out the libtard dumbcrats in 2010, and complete the purge of the putrid garbage in 2012 when 0zer0 is removed.
Hope & Change is now Hoax & Chains
0bamanomics = Economics + Moronics
0zer0care = Socialized Soylent Green Healthcare
0zer0doctrine = Neville Chamberlain meets Jimma Carter!
0zer0 the Uniter = 0bamamosque
0zer0energy = 0il Tar
Are you old enough to remember when the Democratic Party actually represented the American worker and was concerned about keeping America strong? It's sure moved a long way from those days!
obama staffer, absurd? we americans put nothing past progressives. you are a dangerous lot that we will deal with in november.
maddog, america paying attention. the worst nightmare of a progressive government.
August 20, 2010|7:48 a.m.
Economic recovery remained elusive in California in July as employers cut 9,400 jobs from payrolls, keeping the unemployment rate constant at 12.3%.
The state lost jobs in the manufacturing, leisure, and professional and business services sector, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Friday. Government jobs also shrunk as temporary census positions ended.
His party runs Congress" >
Just a few minor things to catch up on for the weekend now that the Fundraiser-in-Chief has gone on another vacation (Don't worry though. White House chef Sam Kass went along, so the first family need not eat ordinary human food.)
-- The Congressional Budget Office says the 2010 federal deficit will be in excess of $1.3 trillion, as in $1,000,000,000,000+. (BTW, the next level we'll be talking about out of Washington is quadrillion, which has fifteen 0's.)
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HA!
In the words of the great philosopher Shaquille O'Neal: How's my ass taste?
I was visiting in Los Angeles and twice was stuck in traffic when this clown spoke at a $30,000 a plate fund raiser. I was on a bus, which took some two hours to negotiate a route that previously required 30 minutes. This happened coming and going. What luck. And the routes were changed unannounced so that the elderly and infirm were let out considerable distances from their destinations. My lawyer's sister, traveling by privatre auto, was corraled off on a side street for some 45 minutes.
Somehow, this huge traffic jam with rerouted and blocked traffic was not noted by the media as it was apparently, a non-event.
Rather than undergo the expense and inconvenience of catering to the POTUS, possiboly communities can reduce their expense by making a contribution to his camapign chest in lieu of his appearance.
Please Note: This is a non-partisan entry, and if the President should be of some other party in the future, the same opportunity for fund raising should be available to that individual. Please stay away POTUS. Very few of us welcome the disruption of our lives that accompaies your presence. Keep POTUS in the White House. Don't roam the country POTUS. Spare us.
I was visiting in Los Angeles and twice was stuck in traffic when this clown spoke at a $30,000 a plate fund raiser. I was on a bus, which took some two hours to negotiate a route that previously required 30 minutes. This happened coming and going. What luck. And the routes were changed unannounced so that the elderly and infirm were let out considerable distances from their destinations. My lawyer's sister, traveling by privatre auto, was corraled off on a side street for some 45 minutes.
Somehow, this huge traffic jam with rerouted and blocked traffic was not noted by the media as it was apparently, a non-event.
Rather than undergo the expense and inconvenience of catering to the POTUS, possiboly communities can reduce their expense by making a contribution to his camapign chest in lieu of his appearance.
Please Note: This is a non-partisan entry, and if the President should be of some other party in the future, the same opportunity for fund raising should be available to that individual. Please stay away POTUS. Very few of us welcome the disruption of our lives that accompanies your presence. Keep POTUS in the White House. Don't roam the country POTUS. Spare us.
I was visiting in Los Angeles and twice was stuck in traffic when this clown spoke at a $30,000 a plate fund raiser. I was on a bus, which took some two hours to negotiate a route that previously required 30 minutes. This happened coming and going. What luck. And the routes were changed unannounced so that the elderly and infirm were let out considerable distances from their destinations. My lawyer's sister, traveling by privatre auto, was corraled off on a side street for some 45 minutes.
Somehow, this huge traffic jam with rerouted and blocked traffic was not noted by the media as it was apparently, a non-event.
Rather than undergo the expense and inconvenience of catering to the POTUS, possiboly communities can reduce their expense by making a contribution to his camapign chest in lieu of his appearance.
Please Note: This is a non-partisan entry, and if the President should be of some other party in the future, the same opportunity for fund raising should be available to that individual. Please stay away POTUS. Very few of us welcome the disruption of our lives that accompanies your presence. Keep POTUS in the White House. Don't roam the country POTUS. Spare us.
The idea that we were clever enough to tinker with the website as the contours of legislative debate changed is absurd.” Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/s... These people in his administration don't know how to "tinker" with a website? If they can't do that, then why should we trust them to be able to run our country??!?!?
Cap and trade is the ultimate jobs killer although it would create numerous millionaires on the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX). Albert
AGW orthodoxy has passed its apogee. This is another indicator.
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