Author: Bill Scher

Since we began our Weekend Watchdog feature eight months ago, we\’ve called on the Sunday shows to ask questions about global warming and clean energy seven times. Not once have the Sunday shows responded to our call. But we won\’t take it personally. Because the Sunday shows pretty much never bring up global warming.

After California\’s insurance regulator charged Blue Shield with illegally dropping health coverage for more than 200 of its customers, Institute for America\’s Future\’s own Diane Archer wrote a letter to the LA Times, published today, explaining how we can prevent anyone from going without health insurance:

On Sunday, ABC\’s This Week failed to hold Alan Greenspan accountable for his role in the mortgage crisis. But today, the New York Times did, picking up where Salon.com left off. And as the NYT report shows — like every other failure of the Bush Era — Greenspan\’s failure was not one of incompetence, but…

The Bush Administration came into office seven years ago talking down the economy — saying we\’re on the \”front edge of a recession\” in hopes of setting a low bar of expectations for themselves to clear. But the bar just kept dropping. Seven years later, when President Bush scheduled a speech designed to talk up…

Every Friday in our Weekend Watchdog feature, we post suggested questions for scheduled Sunday guests. You can add your own questions in the comment thread. We\’ll also include contact information for the shows, so we can let them know what their viewers want asked. And on Sunday at 4 PM ET, tune in to Air…

Quite a week for progress-haters. President Bush vetoes, for the second time, health insurance for millions more kids. The conservative minority in the Senate (and oil-drenched Dem Mary Landrieu) scraped up just enough votes to block investment in renewable energy by ending handouts to Big Oil. (Alleged environmentalist Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., could have cast…

Over at the Huffington Post, market analyst (and 1990s dot-com bubble puffer) Henry Blodget asks the inevitable conservative question about the mortgage meltdown: …in what universe is it fair and right for the government to single-handely change the terms of loans negotiated between two willing parties simply because those loans haven\’t worked out so well…

Every Friday in our Weekend Watchdog feature, we post suggested questions for scheduled Sunday guests. You can add your own questions in the comment thread. We\’ll also include contact information for the shows, so we can let them know what their viewers want asked. And on Sunday at 4 PM ET, tune in to Air…

Not only is the House on the verge of passing a strong energy bill, the Senate\’s environmental committee yesterday cleared the first major attempt to comprehensively address the climate crisis by capping greenhouse gases. But while the Senate bill marks a significant political advancement, we should understand where the bill needs improvement if it is…

It wasn\’t fair of me yesterday to pick on just hedge fund managers for lobbying to protect their discount income tax rate, instead of closing that loophole to pay for preventing an unfair expansion of the Alternative Minimum Tax. Because it\’s not just hedge fund managers, but private equity moguls as well. Who\’s the kind…