Weekly Address: The Experience of Judge Sotomayor

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We have a guest for the next few days -- a former professor of mine now at the University of Wyoming. If the blog seems sparse (like today), that's why...

Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA1) explains clean energy legislation reported out by the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Inslee is the primary sponsor of the New Apollo Energy Act...

Please, Sir, May I Have Another: Just my little piece of the world teams with Media Matters to contrast the the MSM's treatment of Al Gore when he spoke out against the invasion of Iraq with their kid-gloves handling of Dick Cheney, a man who used them repeatedly in the run-up to the war...

Rushbo Stupidism of the Week: Rush has been in a rabid frenzy of the Sotomayor nomination all week, so the swine cast many pearls. After careful consideration, I went with this one, which may have well set a new standard for offensiveness:

If we want to talk about richness of experience, there's a group of people that were here before we got here, gang: the Indians, the Native Americans, the chiefs, the redskins. I don't see any of them being put up on the courts. Talk about a richness of experience -- hell, these clowns beat Custer. They have cred. You don't see them being put up, do you?

Weekly Address: Two Pillars Of A New Foundation

President Obama discusses the importance of clean energy and health care reform to the success of the economy in the 21st Century, giving special attention to the ways that former adversaries are attempting to work together on these issues...

FEMA trailer residents are about to be evicted by the very government that let them down. Where are Senators Vitter and Landrieu and Governor Jindal? They should be screaming bloody murder...

I am very, very, very sorry. Unless of course I'm Dick Cheney, in which case you can f*** yourself...

Chuck Todd writes that it is in fact That Bad for the GOP...

As foreclosures continue to mount, New York's minorities are the most affected. Ironically, part of the problem stems from a traditional and well-founded mistrust of banks, which pushed even affluent African-Americans into the arms of shady real estate brokers and subprime loans. But, in what amounts to a transfer of wealth from blacks to whites, the mortgage biz steered even buyers who qualified for traditional home loans into predatory loans...

The Doomsayer:

Cheney had five deferments himself to get out of going to Vietnam, but he would rather follow a blowhard entertainer who has had three divorces and a drug problem and who also avoided Vietnam, than follow a four-star general who spent his life serving his country...

Stone Soup Musings would just as soon not play poker with President Obama...

Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) supports Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's charge that the CIA did not fully brief her on its use of torture. Just My Little Piece Of The World has that and more here...

What liberal media? Torture memo writer John Yoo has a monthly gig with the Philadelphia Inquirer...

Congressman Jay Inslee (D-WA1), whom I've known for over ten years and who is definitely one of the good guys, called the other day. Energy policy is one of Jay's many areas of expertise -- he's one of the founders of the Apollo Alliance -- and he told me that he's excited and optimistic about the prospects for the current Congress passing major energy legislation that would move the United States toward energy independence and a green economy...

Rushbo Stupidism Of The Week: Another tough call, but I have to go with this Nixonian undertones of this gem:

So maybe none of this is actually torture. And of course by definition, by statute-tory definition in this country, it can only be torture if you intend it to be. In other words, torture cannot happen by accident.

In other words, to paraphrase Richard Nixon, if the president says it's not torture, it's not torture. Thanks to the tireless efforts of the Limbaugh Wire over at Media Matters. These guys deserve hazard pay...

Friday's Choice On Saturday: R&B crooner Brook Benton sings his hit version of Tony Joe White's "Rainy Night In Georgia":

Here's Tony Joe himself singing "Rainy Night":