Author: Bill Scher

Over the past seven years, crude oil prices have exploded from around $30 a barrel to nearly $100. With prices that high, you don’t need to give an oil company executive much financial incentive to drill for more fossil fuel. Yet clean energy legislation is stalled in Congress because of opposition to curtailing oil and…

Fox News Sunday had a landmark Watchdog day, not only asking this week\’s question about Huckabee\’s past ethical violations, but also asking last month\’s Watchdog question about Huckabee\’s deeply flawed proposal to replace the income tax with a national sales tax. Huckabee\’s answers were laughable, saying that his five state Ethics Commission sanctions simply meant…

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…

I think these two videos speak for themselves. One is from the US Chamber of Commerce (via Open Left), offering its ominous vision for the future if Congress passes legislation to stop global warming. The other is from Environmental Defense, featuring western governors painting a bright vision of a clean energy future, and calling on…

Newsflash: For seven years, George Bush has collected your taxes, and spent your money. He may have collected those taxes in a more unfair manner than in the prior decade. And he may have spent much of that money in ways that weren\’t economically helpful or supported by the public. Nevertheless, the record is clear.…

Apologies for a belated Weekend Watchdog post, as I\’m back from a vacation and long flight delay. But as usual, on Sunday at 4 PM ET, tune in to Air America Radio\’s \”Seder on Sundays\” program, where I\’ll offer the Weekend Watchdog Wrap-Up. For Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (ABC\’s This Week) and Sen. John…

The State Children\’s Health Insurance Program bill is not going away. House leaders announced that they are bringing another SCHIP bill to the floor this week, with minor changes but still expanding the program to cover a total of 10 million kids. The White House responded by whipping out a fresh \”fact\” sheet. The headline?…

Conservative movement favorite Bobby Jindal cruised to victory in Saturday\’s Louisiana gubernatorial election, winning 53% of the vote in a multi-person race, far ahead of the pack and avoiding a runoff election against a single opponent. But Jindal got roughly the same amount of votes as four years ago, when he won only 48% of…

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…

The House has begun to debate the State Children\’s Health Insurance Program expansion, with the vote whether to override Bush\’s veto expected to happen later today. (All the action at C-span.org.) With the help of the Bush Dog campaign, most of the conservative Democrats who had previously voted against the bill have agreed to help…