If his partner were a planetary emergency, he might have married her | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Britain’s new Labor leader, Ed Miliband, explains why he’s never got around to marrying the mother of his child:

The Copenhagen environmental summit got in the way. Then there was the general election, and now the leadership election.

Green activists turning on Obama (OneNewsNow.com)

[Marc Morano] says this swipe at the president puts cold water on his campaign, particularly on the mid-term elections. "It dampens enthusiasm -- it dampens your grassroots activists, it dampens the petitions, [and] it dampens people going out...to vote," he points out. "When you have one side [that's] sort of disheartened and disgruntled, and another side highly motivated, this suppresses the vote; this just gets people less excited from his base."

Environmentalists are upset that Obama's campaign bark was bigger than his presidential bite, says the journalist.

"This is a man who was going to command the seas, [who was going] to be the first president with the rise of seas was going to slow because of his policies; a man who was going to change the atmosphere of our Earth and make it four or five degrees cooler. So this is someone who set the bar pretty high to then essentially walk away and not make the effort to follow through," Morano concludes.

Environmental Protection Agency rules could hit Barack Obama in 2012 - Darren Samuelsohn - POLITICO.com

“Some of the things his administration is proposing are just disastrous in the heartland,” Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) said in an interview. “If he has any hope of winning votes in the center of the country, then he is going to have to reconsider a lot of these things the EPA and some of his agencies are trying to get done.”
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West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin, for example, told POLITICO that the EPA’s climate policies, alongside plans designed to overhaul disposal methods for toxic coal ash waste, have put his state out of play for Obama in 2012.

“Not even close to a chance,” said Manchin, who is running for the Senate in part by railing against the president’s green agenda. “Not even in the ballgame.”