Archive of the June 2009

• June 30, 2009

  Sign of the Times?

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  Have you seen one of these signs? If not chances are they’ll be popping up on a street near you. These signs advertise the controversial American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and they are paid for with your hard-earned tax dollars!

  It gets even better… they are a required component of any project receiving stimulus funds, and in the town of Derry, New Hampshire it’s been so difficult to find someone to makes the signs that they have to pay inmates at the state’s Department of Corrections to make them… How’s that for a redistribution of income?

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• June 30, 2009

  Tonight's Briefing Material

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  Tonight promises to be a jam-packed edition of "Hannity".  Sean will kickoff the show with the Chairman of the Republican National Committee Michael Steele.  You can bet the Chairman and Sean will cover a number of issues, first and foremost being the Democrats' attempt to ram the cap and trade bill through the Senate.  By the way, if you haven't yet heard, those who aren't supporting the legislation could soon be tried for treason.  Click here to see what I mean.

  Then for more on the enormous costs of the legislation, Sean turns to former White House Press Secretary Dana Perino and Alexis Glick from the Fox Business Network.  Click here to read a frightening analysis from Bloomberg News.

  Also - it's barely been a week since David Letterman-Sarah Palin saga ended, but already another media outlet is slamming the Alaska Governor.  If you haven't yet read Todd S. Purdum's article slated to appear in the August 2009 edition of Vanity Fair magazine, Click here.  And make sure you don't make the mistake of confusing Todd for an actual journalist.  Sound off on this article in the comments section below.

  Sean will have all that plus David Axelrod's return to Liberal Translation, Jamie Foxx's shocking comments about Michael Jackson, and the Great American Panel.  Tune in tonight at 9 PM ET!

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• June 30, 2009

  Playing the Race Card?

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  Tonight, The Great American Panel tackles the question of whether actor and entertainer, Jamie Foxx was playing the race card during the BET awards Sunday when said that Michael Jackson “belongs to us, and we shared him with everybody else."

  Check out the video for yourself

  Our panelist and former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown defend Jamie’s comments … do you?

  You can see Sean, Mayor Brown plus the rest of the panel discuss it tonight at 9pm/ET

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• June 30, 2009

  Things We Didn't Get To...

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  Below you'll find a list of stories we like, but just aren't going to be able to get to in tonight's show:

  1. Oh wow!  Look what else the cap and trade bill will subsidize...

  2. The stimulus is working like a charm!  Jobless rates up in all 372 metro areas.

  3. I guess Al Qaeda didn't like President Sarkozy's attack on the burqa.

  4. Polar bear appearances grow on oil fields!

  5. The always-moderate Paul Krugman: opposing cap and trade is "treason against the planet."

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• June 30, 2009

  Cap-and-Trade Consequences?

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  AP

  Anyone who pays an electric bill would likely feel the impact of climate legislation passed by the House on Friday.

  Utilities will try to raise rates as they invest in cleaner-yet-more-expensive energy sources. Some have already announced plans to do so. Petroleum companies also may try to import more of their refined gas and heating oil from countries with no carbon law, which will raise costs.

  The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office and the Environmental Protection Agency both issued estimates of how the climate bill would affect energy costs. The CBO estimated the cost at $175 a year for the average household. The EPA forecasts $80 to $110 a year.

  The American Petroleum Institute disputed both estimates, saying the bill could cost the average household up to $3,300 by 2020. API has also tried to paint the bill as a job killer that would choke off efforts to pull the economy out of recession, saying, "The legislation offers an unnecessary and false choice of eliminating good jobs in the oil and natural gas industry to create green jobs."

  The National Petrochemical & Refiners Association also says the legislation hurts them two different ways, by capping emissions from refineries as well as emissions from the fuels they produce. But refiners say they are not receiving enough credits. The association says the legislation could cost U.S. refiners as much as $58 billion a year.

  Coal miners also are worried because it might cut into demand for coal, which is loaded with carbon. Mining also uses a lot of energy, so the rise in energy costs would hurt their bottom line. The country gets about half of its electricity from coal.

  How do you feel about the possible consequences of cap-and-trade?

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