One thing neither study did was analyze the effect of different scenarios on jobs. However, this study suggests that a coordinated green recovery and infrastructure investment program would create several times the number of jobs than would be created by spending the same amount of money in fossil fuel industries. That of course means that the money spent would both enhance revenues by way of taxes, while also have ripples effects through the whole economy.

Anyway, these are just the latest examples of a growing number of studies which indicate that there are ways of making investments in the energy sector which would both enhance the economy, enhance federal revenues, and significantly reduce carbon emissions. So I'd say Obama has a fighting chance at some success. Time will tell, I guess.

Yes, He Can! And he routinely is.

This time, he has company, too, namely, anyone who has blind faith in the following preposterousness, at whom it is obviously being directed:

“a five-part plan to repower America with a commitment to producing 100 percent of our electricity from carbon-free sources within 10 years. It is a plan that would simultaneously move us toward solutions to the climate crisis and the economic crisis — and create millions of new jobs that cannot be outsourced.”

Jesus Michael, you can't be that stupid can you? “Theocratic?” Are you honestly saying that “conservatism” (not conservatives idiots) is about theocratic rule? Or “Burtality?”

Where do you get this crap, Raw Story? And btw, since Adam Smith lived in a time of no regulation at all, what would make him shudder is what Obama and his buds have in store for the free market.

“Imperialism abroad?” ARE YOU KIDDING ME? Which ideology was hellbent on assisting our little yellow brothers in Southeast Asia? Who was it that intervened in more nations than any other president in history? Kennedy and the Bundy/Harriman,McNamara axis made the Neocons look like isolationists. They sicced the CIA on a dozen governments around the world not to mention sending combat troops to Viet Nam and Laos. And let's not forget Clinton and his towering conceits.

You really do revel in your ignorance, don't you? Of course the way you described conservatism bears absolutely no relationship to reality. You were just spouting Greenwaldese and Neiwert-speak. In fact, I would guess you haven't a clue what liberalism is either which makes your obliviousness complete. You have proven that not only don't you have the ability to think independently ( a disease that afflicts both liberals and conservatives) but it is an open question whether you have any rational thoughts at all.

I think you should start writing a cooking column. Or maybe knitting. That's more your speed, I think. Leave political philosophy to people who like, you know, have an inkling of what they're talking about.

Maybe sports…?