Countdown Supplemental for July 11 and 14, 2008
Posted: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 3:51 PM by Countdown
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That Barack Obama New York Times Op-Ed on his Iraq/Afghanistan plan is
here.
Rachel mentioned that Monday was the anniversary of
the Sedition Act, approved July 14, 1798. Now defunct, of course, but still a pretty amazing thing to read.
That video in Monday's Bushed segment (and followed up on Tuesday night) of the lobbyist offering access to White House officials for cash donations to the Bush library (and his own firm) is
from this report in the Times of London. Don't miss the copy of
the company's brochure. The Congressional Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has taken an interest in the piece.
Committee Chairman Henry Waxman's letter to the lobbyist can be read here.
It took some time to dig up the stats about offshore oil production because the Energy Information Administration has a serious quantity of ... well... energy information, but I think
this is the clearest piece from a 2007 report:
The projections in the OCS access case indicate that access to the Pacific, Atlantic, and eastern Gulf regions would not have a significant impact on domestic crude oil and natural gas production or prices before 2030. Leasing would begin no sooner than 2012, and production would not be expected to start before 2017.
Again, those dates were from a 2007 report, so 2012 would be 2013 now.
As funny as the
mash-up with the Miss Teen USA South Carolina video was, the
video of S.C. governor Mark Sanford alone is quite a spectacle.
Here is Rep. Dennis Kucinich's re-introduced article of impeachment
entered into the Congressional record. It's much easier to read
this draft version.
The bunny letter opener clip on Friday was from a May, 2006
YouTube video.
I'd like to link directly to the relevant portion of the EPA's report on the impact of greenhouse gases on the health of humans and how to regulate those emissions through the Clean Air Act - this being the report that Dick Cheney's office is reported to have influenced - but there's just too much to sort through (and the point is not only what's there but what's not there).
You can start here but it looks like the report itself is hundreds of pages long. (Further insights from Countdown viewers are welcome.)
