The example that the President cited in your quote above was of our efforts to **reduce** some pollution that actually increased global warming.
A clever person might catch on that GWB slammed the Green movement by citing that example.
Posted on 11/09/2005 2:11:49 PM PST by MAKnight
Good day Mr. President,
With all due respect, sir, what in the name of the Almighty is wrong with you?
And when I ask you this question I do believe I am speaking for the vast majority of those people who walked the precincts, sent down the checks, who cheered loudest when the Ohio results came in last year in November. I am talking about your supporters. Those of us who have and most likely will continue to stick by you until the day you finally return to Crawford three years from now.
We are the ones who have kept your poll numbers up when everyone else expected and hoped for them to go down. We are the ones who have remained your staunchest supporters even as the world mocked and insulted you. More importantly, We are the ones who got you elected, re-elected and provided you with majorities in both Houses of Congress, not just once, but twice.
We are the ones who hope and pray that you succeed.
So, again, with all due respect Mr. President, listen and take heed; we're tired. We're sick and tired.
We're sick and tired of seeing your poll numbers descending into the twenties. We're sick and tired of watching attacks by the other side and their Press allies on your Administration being met with only impotent and cowering silence. We're sick and tired of reading far better arguments on behalf of your own policies from the keyboards of anonymous posters on a myriad of websites than we hear from the mouths of your Administration's spokesmen (and this includes you). We're sick and tired of watching so many good men and women being slandered by the Democrats and their Press allies simply for being your nominees, without your Administration standing up to defend their honor. We're sick and tired of watching your administration compromising on the principles that got you elected, avoiding necessary confrontations, refusing to criticize even the harshest and most mendacious of your opponents, all in order to pander to an audience that hates you beyond the scope of reason.
And at the end of it all, what does your administration have to show for it? A torrent of anger, hate, lies and attacks from the other side and the Press that cannot have been any more than what you would have gotten if you had gone all out for a truly Reaganite Republican agenda and defended yourself and your administration, instead of listening to so-called "moderates/centrist" demands that you triangulate and turn the other cheek. Your continued dedication to cowering from your opponents in order to enamor yourself to the Left (or the so-called "Center") has only yielded continuously declining poll numbers for your administration and disastrous portents for your party's future as the majority party in Congress.
For goodness sake, why is it not yet obvious to you, Mr. President, that this dogged adherence to this "new tone" fantasy is actively harming you and your party? How much longer is your administration planning to continue imitating a punching bag? When, in the name all that is holy, are you going to start fighting back?! You are being overtly accused of deliberately sacrificing the lives of American soldiers in Iraq for personal gain by the Senate Democrat Leader and his Press allies, and yet you remain silent!
Why should I, or anybody else, continue to fight for someone who lacks the fortitude to defend his own honor and principles? Why should I continue to take the time to defend you when you refuse to defend yourself?
Mr. President, once again with all due respect, I implore you, stand up and fight. You were not elected to get along with Democrats or to make them like you. You were not elected to just get "things" done, but to get the "right things" done. You were elected because the American people trusted you more than the other guy to know what those "right things" are. Stand fast and fight back. Not just because you owe it to yourself, but, more importantly, because you owe it to your party, which made you their standard bearer and do not deserve to be dragged down along with you. Because you owe it to us, your supporters. Even more, you owe it to the soldiers fighting in Iraq, because you sent them there and yet they still gave you over 70% of their votes last year. And, finally, you owe it to the country, which looks to you for leadership, which needs to know that you did not send the best of its sons and daughters to die in vain.
Stand up and fight.
That is all.
Sincerely Yours
MartinAKnight
does not equal
"President Bush has fairly consistently said that human activity has a detrimental impact on climate."
My read of President Bush's talk from 2001 is an admission that human activity impacts the environment, and tha he is committed to US reduction in emissions in order to counter that.
Of course, you are free to disagree with that - and if you do, I think you're propagandizing, not illuminating.
The example that the President cited in your quote above was of our efforts to **reduce** some pollution that actually increased global warming.
A clever person might catch on that GWB slammed the Green movement by citing that example.
Although...I wish to hell the REPUBLICAN led Senate and the REPUBLICAN led Congress would get off their asses and do something about the friggin tax code. Until we rid ourselves of that slavery, everything else is moot.
Doesn't alter the larger point Bush was making, which is that human activity, according to him, was contributing to the alleged problem of climate change. How else would a "clever" person interpret this part?:
The policy challenge is to act in a serious and sensible way, given the limits of our knowledge. While scientific uncertainties remain, we can begin now to address the factors that contribute to climate change.There are only two ways to stabilize concentration of greenhouse gases. One is to avoid emitting them in the first place; the other is to try to capture them after they're created. And there are problems with both approaches. We're making great progress through technology, but have not yet developed cost-effective ways to capture carbon emissions at their source; although there is some promising work that is being done.
An honest read of the speech, and perhaps even checking the link to see what else was said, would include a discussion of greenhouse gases, especially CO2, that trap heat, and thus warm the earth; as well as two major pollutants that have an impact on warming: black soot and tropospheric ozone.
And to pull out the fact that increased sulphur emission would cause cooling, or that maybe we shouldn't be reducing sulphur emissions, well, I dunno, maybe we shouldn't be reducing sulphur emissions. Is President Bush advocating increasing sulphur emissions? That sure would reduce the cost of diesel production, as well as coal stack scrubbing.
What's that? Sulphur emissions cause acid rain? Oh bother, I guess that could be a detrimental impact on climate too.
Did you check out The Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate?
You'll see that the President uses words such as "uncertainties" and "limits" to indicate that this is not settled science.
In contrast, you claimed that he was proselytizing the Left's view that human activity **does** cause global warming.
Yes, it can be both. From what I have observed, there is a wide range of views expressed here. Republicans can not be be defined by one definition. The Republican party is made up of individual people, with individual opinions that have varying degrees of "conservativeness" (is that even a word? LOL).
Karen Hughes needs to replace Andy Card as Chief of Staff.
And if you pay closer attention, you'll see that the only "uncertainties" he's talking about are the precise remedies for the alleged problem, not the notion that the problem exists in the first place.
No. He clearly leaves open the possibility that non-human activity could also be a cause.
He does not dispute that we've had a .6 degree warming trend. That it comes from the Sun or cloud cover or Man is unsettled.
That is beside the point that you challenged. Which, to refresh your memory, was "President Bush has fairly consistently said that human activity has a detrimental impact on climate."
Nobody here has said that human activity was the ONLY input. And if President Bush holds that CO2 emission by human activity doesn't have a detrimantal impact, then why was he expressing a commitment to legislating reduction in its emission?
Your graphic is nice, but a complete waste of bandwidth which is an expense for FR( the FR supporters ). Displaying it once in a thread would be nice.
Who appoints the AG.?.. and almost all other federal judges.. Not even a wimper from the White House.. even a sniff.. Bergers crime is huge.. He don't get off that easy bucko.. Bush could raise hell.. The Berger thing is a battle worth winning.. What else is going on?.. obviously Bergers crime is no big deal.. Bush is a freepin COWARD.. hes not just smart hes scart... Scared of being exposed as a damned RINO like his dad and brother.. I could take a beating myself for a MAN I trust and have, but not for a damned coward..
Wow. When you put it in perspective like that, it's impressive.
Bookmark.
I agree with you 100%.
Tons of conseratives agree with you 100%.
Bewildering and outraged are too kind. This is a nightmare. What in God's name is Bush doing to our party and our cause?
Bumpbot
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