Think Progress (1/25/06): On Monday, the Bush administration’s top mine safety official, David Dye, appeared before a Senate subcommittee to explain the administration’s response to the Sago mining disaster. Specifically, senators wanted to know why mine safety has been consistently underfunded under President Bush, and why regulations have been rolled back or weakly enforced. Unfortunately, [...]

Call it “tantrum diplomacy”—the art of just getting up and leaving if things aren’t going our way or if someone says something we disagree with. This is the kind of behavior one expects from a spoiled kid, not the world’s only superpower, yet in the last five years our representatives have gotten quite skilled at [...]

I wrote the following post last year after reading one too many accounts of Bush administration diplomats walking out of U.N. deliberations. But upon further reflection, maybe they just needed a bathroom break just like their boss: Maybe We Would Get More Done if our Diplomats Stopped Walking Out of Meetings (5/12/04): U.S. Delegation walks [...]

U.S. Delegation walks out of U.N. Human Rights Commission. Check. U.S. Delegation walks out of U.N. debate on Iraq war resolution. Check. U.S. Delegation walks out of U.N. World Conference Against Racism Check. But really, what else could be expected from an administration that pulled out of the Kyoto Protocol on Global Warming and the [...]