Posted on 06/01/2007 5:31:01 AM PDT by Mark Felton
George W. Bush on Thursday unveiled a striking about-face on global warming, calling on the world’s leading economies to join the US in agreeing a global target to reduce carbon dioxide emissions before the end of his term in office.
The US president was speaking just ahead of a G8 summit at which climate change was expected to be high on the agenda of European governments. He explained that his apparent conversion – which follows almost seven years of having rejected precisely the road he outlined – was prompted by new scientific findings.
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Is Bush Planning A U-turn On Global Warming?
The response by posters was disbelief
Rovian jujitsu? Get the base so riled up that nothing short of Reagan II will do?
HAs this article post been bumped from visibility on FR?
This is posted at Drudge and will be major news on the radio today and tomorrow.
It is a huge concern! Freepers must know about this. (conservative principles, scientific truth are far more important than a Bush presidency)
bttt
“Bush in U-turn on illegal immigration”
We are all going to fry now because we rejected amnesty.
First it was amnesty and now it is enviro-stupidity. Another betrayal and a complete abandonment of reason. This lame duck is just getting started though. He’s been hamstrung by a Republican-controlled Congress. Now his true colors can be displayed as he works hand in hand with the new Democrat Congress to enact his liberal agenda.
We’ve got to elect a conservative in 08. Enough compassionate conservatism, enough moderation.
He smells pork, and this allows him to open the Federal checkbook again, courtesy of the American taxpayers.
Why shouldn’t he jump on this gravy train? Kerry has. Gore has. Gingrich has. Pelosi has.
You can't develop scientific solutions to political problems. Bush has disappointed me greatly. Now I wonder where the bottom of this slippery slope is.
Look the presidnet is just doing what the American voter wanted. You voted out the people who thought like you did and lost the congress. if this is not what we all wanted we should have told people to go out and vote rep instead of staying home. guys like Hannity and Ingrham did not help when they condemned him all year then said go out and vote republican. They fell into the demo trap and preached how the president was not Ronald Regan. President Ron is gone !This is a new man with new problems. if Bush thinks the American people want him to tackle global warming and he took an about face whose fault is it. Look at the polls and who is speaker of the House.Whose fault is this nobody but the ones who sat home on election day.
He is drinking the Kool Aide.
“You voted out the people who thought like you did and lost the congress.”
not me. I refused to vote Republican for 8 years now since Trent Lott refused to allow Clinton to be punished for impeachment.
There is an uberparty that rules in Wash DC. It is comprised of the senior members of both parties. They have clear plans, with goals and timetables. It is their becoming members of the global uberparty.
Junior members who have not been vetted and have not demonstrated their fidelity to uberparty principles are removed from any possibility of influence in the government.
That is also why I believe assignment to committee chairmanships based on seniority (atually based on uberparty faithfulness) is unconstituional and is clear, decisive, unequal representation under the law.
All senior party members must be booted from office, by vote or by prosecution for criminal violation of their Constitutional duties.
The whole Republican Party needs to get back to LEADING with our traditional, conservative principles. Demonstrating that those ideals work and are better than the failed ideas of the Democrats. For too long the Party has been running away from our own principles as if they're inferior. That has got to stop.
I guess he noticed that our carbon emissions have been going down but theirs have been going up....so why not rub it in? :)
Found this post in another thread:
“There will be quite a few idiotic, knee-jerk posts on this thread by people who don’t grasp what our President is doing, but his call for this Summit is designed to expose the hypocrisy of the Left.
You see, China and India are *exempt* from the Kyoto Protocol...and neither country would sign/abide a carbon-limiting treaty that impacted *them*.
So President Bush is calling this new “Global warming” Summit that will include China and India.
Of course, China and India won’t agree to the carbon limits on them...scuttling the deal and making them the obvious bad guys of the Left (except, the Left loves them).
After this deal is torpedoed by China and India, the Left won’t voice the level of criticisms against those two countries that it has been aiming at American Conservatives.
This will expose the Left’s hypocrisy.
In the meantime, no new global warming deal will be reached internationally because President Bush will have hi-jacked their momentum by holding this Summit.
...it’s classic genius. Political judo. It won’t be grasped by most people (certainly not the loudest posters here on FR), either.
But History will view it foundly, as will a few clever souls here and there.”
Maybe Bush is behaving this way in order to galavnize the base into elected a conservative in ‘08? /s
A light bulb must have gone off in Georges’s head. Hey, I don’t have to ask Americans to vote for me anymore. Finally I’m free to be me.
Never underestimate the ability of people to rationalize.
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