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In the mother of all flip-flops, Graham rejects his own climate bill, endorses Lugar's "half-assed energy bill," which means he "just made the problem worse" - Graham flashback: "The idea of not pricing carbon, in my view, means you're not serious about e

This is the time, this is the Congress, and this is the moment.  So if we retreat and try to just go to the energy only approach which will never yield the legislative results that I want on energy independence, then we just made the problem worse (2/3/10)

In one of the fastest wholesale flip-flops in Senate history, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has  rejected his own climate bill and embraced an energy-only bill — just months after  declaring such an approach intellectually dishonest and worse t...

In the mother of all flip-flops, Graham rejects his own climate bill, endorses Lugar's "half-assed energy bill," which means he "just made the problem worse" - Graham flashback: "The idea of not pricing carbon, in my view, means you're not serious about e

This is the time, this is the Congress, and this is the moment.  So if we retreat and try to just go to the energy only approach which will never yield the legislative results that I want on energy independence, then we just made the problem worse (2/3/10)

In one of the fastest wholesale flip-flops in Senate history, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has  rejected his own climate bill and embraced an energy-only bill — just months after  declaring such an approach intellectually dishonest and worse t...

In the mother of all flip-flops, Graham rejects his own climate bill, endorses Lugar's "half-assed energy bill," which means he "just made the problem worse" - Graham flashback: "The idea of not pricing carbon, in my view, means you're not serious about e

This is the time, this is the Congress, and this is the moment.  So if we retreat and try to just go to the energy only approach which will never yield the legislative results that I want on energy independence, then we just made the problem worse (2/3/10)

In one of the fastest wholesale flip-flops in Senate history, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has  rejected his own climate bill and embraced an energy-only bill — just months after  declaring such an approach intellectually dishonest and worse t...

In the mother of all flip-flops, Graham rejects his own climate bill, endorses Lugar's "half-assed energy bill," which means he "just made the problem worse" - Graham flashback: "The idea of not pricing carbon, in my view, means you're not serious about e

This is the time, this is the Congress, and this is the moment.  So if we retreat and try to just go to the energy only approach which will never yield the legislative results that I want on energy independence, then we just made the problem worse (2/3/10)

In one of the fastest wholesale flip-flops in Senate history, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has  rejected his own climate bill and embraced an energy-only bill — just months after  declaring such an approach intellectually dishonest and worse t...

In the mother of all flip-flops, Graham rejects his own climate bill, endorses Lugar's "half-assed energy bill," which means he "just made the problem worse" - Graham flashback: "The idea of not pricing carbon, in my view, means you're not serious about e

This is the time, this is the Congress, and this is the moment.  So if we retreat and try to just go to the energy only approach which will never yield the legislative results that I want on energy independence, then we just made the problem worse (2/3/10)

In one of the fastest wholesale flip-flops in Senate history, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has  rejected his own climate bill and embraced an energy-only bill — just months after  declaring such an approach intellectually dishonest and worse t...

In the mother of all flip-flops, Graham rejects his own climate bill, endorses Lugar's "half-assed energy bill," which means he "just made the problem worse" - Graham flashback: "The idea of not pricing carbon, in my view, means you're not serious about e

This is the time, this is the Congress, and this is the moment.  So if we retreat and try to just go to the energy only approach which will never yield the legislative results that I want on energy independence, then we just made the problem worse (2/3/10)

In one of the fastest wholesale flip-flops in Senate history, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has  rejected his own climate bill and embraced an energy-only bill — just months after  declaring such an approach intellectually dishonest and worse t...

In the mother of all flip-flops, Graham rejects his own climate bill, endorses Lugar's "half-assed energy bill," which means he "just made the problem worse" - Graham flashback: "The idea of not pricing carbon, in my view, means you're not serious about e

This is the time, this is the Congress, and this is the moment.  So if we retreat and try to just go to the energy only approach which will never yield the legislative results that I want on energy independence, then we just made the problem worse (2/3/10)

In one of the fastest wholesale flip-flops in Senate history, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has  rejected his own climate bill and embraced an energy-only bill — just months after  declaring such an approach intellectually dishonest and worse t...

58 percent of federal trial judges in oil-affected states have a stake in oil industry.

The AP reports that well over half of the federal trial judges in states affected by the BP oil disaster have financial ties to that industry:

Thirty-seven of the 64 active or senior judges in key Gulf Coast districts in Louisiana, Texas, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida have links to oil, gas and related energy industries, including some who own stocks or bonds in BP PLC, Halliburton or Transocean — and others who regularly list receiving royalties from oil and gas production wells...

Why we need to raise the oil spillers' liability cap

CAP's Kate Gordon testifies before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on the liability and financial responsibility for oil spills under the OPA:

Mister Chairman, Ranking Member Mica, and members of the committee, thank you for inviting me to testify before you today. The issue of oil industry liability for oil spills is critical in light of the current disaster in the gulf. I am glad to be able to share my and the Center for American Progress Action Fund's fundamental...

FreedomWorks CEO goes to bat for BP, calls catastrophe "a natural disaster"

Ah, the Tea Party 'hearts' BP, as ThinkProgress explains in this repost.

During an interview today with FreedomWorks President Matt Kibbe on ABC's Top Line, host Karen Travers noted that the cover of his upcoming book — Give Us Liberty: A Tea Party Manifesto — says "lower taxes plus less government equals more freedom." Travers then asked, "How does that less government sentiment square with this massive government effort down there in the Gulf to contain the spill?"

In response, Kibbe...