The green energy technology becomes more and more polarized as a political issue in the US. But the US military continues to be one of its most gung-ho advocates. The Army just announced it’s building a 30,000 square foot Army laboratory in Warren, MI, dedicated to cutting edge, alternative energy technology for powering new tanks and other military vehicles.
Inside Wisconsin’s endless election. It just keeps going. The big fight’s coming. And for folks on both sides of the aisle, the fight is taking a toll.
Hilary Rosen releases statement on the recent unpleasantness, after the jump … Read More
Romney surrogate claims Hilary Rosen revealed President Obama’s secret anti-stay at home mother message.
I haven’t wanted to say too much about this Hilary Rosen story because she’s a friend. So I can’t be wholly objective. But I will say that I’ve heard enough smackdowns telling Hilary that raising children is in fact hard work. She’s a mother. I think she knows that.
My take is that the whole thing won’t turn out to be that big a deal. I’m sure Hilary would phrase things differently if she had another bite at the apple. But I think the Romney camp’s response is more a sign of desperation to find some way to peal back terrible numbers with female voters.
That’s all I have to say.
Yesterday was a good example that running for a year against a very weak GOP field has not prepared the Romney campaign to run against President Obama.
Looks like Best Buy may have its own Bobby Petrino problem.
The Obama administration’s program to assist needy homeowners is foundering badly, a new inspector general’s report shows.
Barney Frank on pundits’ love affair with the Ryan budget:
Here’s the deal. They don’t want to consider themselves to be siding with the Democrats. It’s important for their self-image that they be seen as centrist. The problem is the Republican Party has given them fewer and fewer things that they can identify with, because they’ve moved so far to the right. … So they have to find something they can support on the Republican side to maintain this self-image that they’re somehow independent of the parties. And so they pick up the Ryan budget.
More from Sahil Kapur’s interview with Frank here.