A couple of minor editing points:

"Investment" is a positive word.  Maybe change to something like "boondoggle" or simply "massive waste of taxpayer money."  Something like that.

Second, there's no need to introduce the acronym for mountaintop removal mining.  Acronyms are the enemy.  Avoid them wherever possible.  Ditto "CTL" in the last sentence of the pitch.

Third, your third paragraph gets a little lost in the weeds of technical alternatives.  Don't introduce too many variant ideas to the reader when you're trying to make a tight pitch.  Why not just leave it at saying that coal-to-liquids technology doubles carbon emissions?  

I am undecided between Edwards and Richardson.  I trust Richardson's foreign-policy instincts much more, but don't like how he cut social programs in New Mexico or his apparent disinterest in reproductive rights.  Conversely, I like Edwards's economic policies very much, but am not sure about his foreign policy vision.  

I also like these two because I think they have by far the best global-warming plans, and that, to me, is the most important issue the country faces.

I highly doubt this would survive in the courts.

Well, Rockefeller acknowledges this.  From the link:

Nevertheless, Rockefeller faces what even his supporters acknowledge are substantial constitutional hurdles, given that subscription television does not use the public airwaves and that defining excessive violence is largely subjective.

This is of course attractive as hell, Democrats trying to pass legislation they know is unconstitutional.  Fucker.

Consider, for example, that only a little over 60% of Bush voters self-identified as pro-choice in both 2000 and 2004.

I assume you mean that 60% of Bush voters identified as pro-life.  Otherwise the paragraph doesn't make sense to me.  Yes?

Maybe he should learn to fly while he's at it.

I really don't think he wants to run, though I wish he would.

Such as?  

That's why I didn't mean to post it.  I apologize.

I wrote as soon as you posted the initial action item.  Now I wish I'd held off so I could answer this hateful crap.  

On a side note, what price exactly did Mel Gibson pay?  

I don't believe due diligence always entails reading every single word your mid-level staffers have written in the past.  Especially not if you're a busy presidential candidate who leaves the hiring of mid-level staffers to higher-level staffers.  You didn't seriously expect him to have read all of the thousands of words both women have written over the past several years, did you?

Come on.  So it's not exactly how you would have handled it.  There is a difference between unacceptable (firing Marcotte and Shakes) and not carrying out what you consider ideal tactics.  Recognize it.

While there is no way I will support Edwards with Amanda and Melissa are fired, I will immediately become a staunch Edwards supporter if they are not fired.

What if they aren't fired and he says nothing?  That is, what if today's state of affairs remains, no attacks on Donahue et al.?

Aw crap.  I didn't mean to actually post that.  

Hey!  A concern troll!  How cute.

Nedra Pickler.  Oy.  

It's gotten to the point where I can get heartburn by reading the name of just about any major political "journalist."  They all pretty much suck.