Posts tagged republicans

When is enough, enough?

Posted 3-29-06
The Washington Post writes that the U.S. Senate has rejected a proposal to establish an independent office to investigate ethics complaints against its members, and then cleared the way to pass a broad-based ethics and lobbying bill this week. Most Republicans and some Democrats were part of the 2 to 1 majority that killed [...]

Pay me now, or pay me later!

Posted 3-27-06
Special reports in the US journal Science are pointing to major acceleration in the loss of mass from the world’s great ice sheets. That means that the sensitivity of these giant storehouses of water to climate warming may be far greater than expected.
After ignoring warnings of global warming for years, Republicans are still dragging [...]