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...Say 'Government Shutdown...
...spend $549 to listen to someone yell, "Show us the birth certificate," a year after the issue was settled doesn't say much for this supposed "potent force...
...apparently misread the latest CBS News/New York Times poll, which you say indicates that 1 in 5 Americans identifies with the Tea Party movement. In the initial screening question, 34% of the respondents said they had heard or read "nothing" about the Tea Party movement. Of those who indicated they knew something about it (66%), including those who said "not much" (21%), just 18% considered themselves to be a "supporter of the Tea Party movement." That works out to a little less than 12% of the complete sample...
...November, Doerr made his Roosevelt Room presentation, and before long, the Home Star plan was on the President's desk. Doerr sees Home Star as the next step in creating a new national focus on energy conservation that will generate "thousands" of jobs at the same time, say White House aides. "Never before has anybody pulled together a coalition and said we can take this practice - 100,000 or 200,000 science-based home retrofits - to a whole new level," Doerr told TIME. (See the top 10 news stories...
...Most important, the plan has a presidential seal of approval. "Everybody on the Hill knows that the President is interested in this," explains Steven Nadel, executive director of one of the groups supporting the deal, the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy. Both the White House and Doerr say they see nothing improper about a campaign donor with direct industry interests helping draft policy for the White House. "The industry people are there as representatives of their industry," explains White House economist Austan Goolsbee, who advises the PERAB. "They are supposed to come and say, 'Here are what...