Published by Firas August 9th, 2008
in Politics and Snippets.
You just noticed?
My Republican opponents, they don’t like to talk about efficiency. You know, the other day I was in a town-hall meeting and I laid out my plans for investing $15 billion a year in energy efficient cars, and a new electricity grid and all this.
Somebody said, ‘Well, what can I do, what can [...]
Published by Firas October 21st, 2006
in Politics.
I really believed more strongly when I left here than when I came that ideas matter, that evidence matters, that thinking and reasoning matter, that ideas have consequences and that in politics that means ideas lead to policies which have positive or negative effects in people’s lives. [...]
If you have a philosophy, it generally pushes [...]
Published by Firas September 1st, 2006
in Politics.
Although the “Crazy Right-Wing Rant” arena is always crowded, frequent entrant Rush Limbaugh wins the Stupidity Overload Award™ for these bizarre non-sequiturs:
LIMBAUGH: And so, now, we find out that there is obesity and all this amongst the poor more than amongst those who are not poor. It’s sort of a textbook case of what happens [...]