Posts Tagged ‘Joe Lieberman’

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010 at 7:28am

National Energy Tax Bill

Posted by Tom Skypek in American Politics, Current Events, Economy

From Politico:

Senate authors of a controversial climate change bill heralded EPA modeling results unveiled Tuesday as proof that their plan would have a limited pinch on Americans’ pocketbooks.

Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) found many reasons to gloat after getting the 74-page study that showed the overall costs from their legislation’s major global warming provisions would cost an average household between $80 to $150 per year.

“There’ll be some people who will want to demagogue that politically, but that’s less than $1 a day,” Lieberman told reporters. “Is the American household willing to pay less than $1 so we don’t have to buy oil from foreign countries, so we can create millions of new jobs, so we…

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 at 4:35pm

New Vets for Freedom Ad: “I am the Surge”

Vets for Freedom has launched a new television ad which will run beginning tomorrow in “the Denver media market this week, Minneapolis next week, and in Ohio, Michigan, Virginia, and Colorado in the weeks to come,” according to an e-mail sent out today to supporters of the organization.

From Vets for Freedom Chairman Pete Hegseth:

The thirty-second spot features three VFF members–all of which were part of the Surge–who can personally attest to success in Iraq; all three asking Senator Obama–point blank–to support their success, and the success of all troops, by supporting the bi-partisan resolution introduced by Senators Joe Lieberman and Lindsey Graham recognizing the success of the Surge and expressing gratitude to the men and women who made it…

Monday, June 30th, 2008 at 5:06am

Lieberman: Enemies Will Test New President

Posted by Tom Skypek in Terrorism

 

Yesterday on Face the Nation Sen. Joe Lieberman argued that our enemies–namely al Qaeda and Iran–are likely to test the next president early in the administration. He noted that the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center and the attacks of September 11, 2001 occurred in the first years of the Clinton and Bush administrations:

We’re in a war against Islamist extremists who attacked us on 9/11. They’ve been trying to attack us many, many ways since then. We’ve been very fortunate as a result of 9/11 reform legislation, which Senator McCain championed; a lot of good work by people who…

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