Book: Bush favored cap and trade

The Hill, Washington, DC ^ | 2009-09-24 | Eric Zimmermann

[rabscuttle385]

President Bush favored cap and trade, one of this former speechwriters claims in a new book.

In fact, Matt Latimer writes in "Speechless," the President actually ENDORSED the policy in a speech, but no one in the press could figure out what he meant.

Cap-and-trade, which would put a limit on businesses' carbon emissions, barely passed the House this year but has yet to make headway in the Senate. Most Republicans are vocally opposed to it.

[rabscuttle385]

*Ping!*

[RatRipper]

About quite a few issues, Bush was not a good guy. This is one of them, along with immigration policy and the presecription drug debacle.

[svcw]

GWBush endorsed cap and trade in a speech and no one knew? Then how do we know he endorsed it?

[grobdriver]

Dubbya did a lot of right things.
But he was on the wrong (RINO) side of a lot of things, too.

Fortunately the things he was on the right side about were the important things.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Wall Street types get teary-eyed and start salivating whenever they start thinking about a carbon credits derivatives market....so yes, I suppose someone could convince him its a good idea.

[pissant]

He had a funny way of supporting it. He didn’t.

[Cedric]

This is BS.

Most of the garbage you post is.

[Deo volente]

Bush always struck me as more of a globalist and a NWO enthusiast than a true conservative, so this is no surprise.

I'll give him credit for protecting our nation from another large-scale attack and lowering taxes, but not much else.

[Nuc1]

That is one reason why he had dismal approval ratings. As I recall most of us were shell shocked by his actions.

[SmokingJoe]

Matt Latimer strikes again.
Hey isn't this the same guy that claimed that Bush had never heard of Sarah Plain before, only it turns out that Bush had actually met Sarah Palin at Alaska Airport when he was on his way to the Beijing Olympics?
What kind of a weasel is this Matt Latimer anyway?
He sounds like a pretty nasty character, who will do anything for money.
Note to self: Never buy any book for this snake oil salesman.

[woofie]

Ill wait till I hear it from him ....no telling what he said about cap and trade..he might have just looked at the possibility ...There is a long way from saying you like something and actually doing it

This guy might sell his book though

[Cheetahcat]

Why am I not surprised that a Connecticut liberal would favor such a nasty thing cast upon America?

[rabidralph]

Bush ate puppies for breakfast while living in the WH.

[avacado]

Nonsense! He opposed that crap. Kyoto is cap and trade.

[La Enchiladita]

Hear, hear!!

[stockpirate]

He probley does along with McStupid, socialist pair of nit-wits.

[La Enchiladita]

TBP is also a Matt Latimer fan: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2341295/posts

[giotto]

Fortunately the things he was on the right side about were the important things.

Let's see...He was pro-life, so the judges he appointed were pro-life. That's good. He was pro-military. He built up the CIA from its sorry state, he tore down Gorelick's Wall. He kept us safe for 8 years. He was a decent, good man. His wife was a model First Lady.

Those are undeniably good things. I could enumerate his failings, but I'd be ecstatic to have him back again, instead of this Wrecking Ball in Chief.

[pabianice]

Matt Lattimer shocker! "I'm having George Bush's love child!"