George W. Algore (Say's Rush Limbaugh, Political issue for leftists)

rushlimbaugh ^ | 6/3/2002 | Rush Limbaugh

[TLBSHOW]

George W. Algore

Ladies and gentleman, on the front page of Monday's New York Times there's a story that has the Bush administration essentially saying, "Yes, the phenomenon known as global warming exists, and guess who's causing it? You! American humanity with our highly technologically advanced lifestyle - our automobiles, air conditioners and whatever else, we're the ones causing it."

The Times story begins, "In a stark shift for the Bush administration, the United States has sent a climate report to the United Nations detailing specific and far-reaching effects that it says global warming will inflict on the American environment. In the report, the administration for the first time mostly blames human actions for recent global warming. It says the main culprit is the burning of fossil fuels that send heat-trapping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere." George W. Algore, anyone?

So what are we going to do about this? Nothing. According to the administration, it's too late to do anything about it in terms of reversing or changing it. It's here baby, it's a fact of life. Global warming is with us. It's with us as the sun is with us. All we can do is adapt and live with it. If you have a chance, drive your car a little less. Well folks, I’m just not buying it.

When I first became aware of this story Sunday night, I thought about what I would say on Monday's program: "Well folks, guess what? I have been wrong about global warming. The president says it is happening and that human beings are causing it, so I've been wrong." I couldn't say that because I don't think I am wrong. There are too many scientists out there whom I implicitly trust that have proven to me these predictions are basically apocalyptic doom and gloom based on raw emotion. Even the global warming advocates, to this day, will not tell you it is definitively happening.

Global warming has always been a hot topic, no pun intended, which we have discussed extensively over the years here at EIB. If you're a Rush 24/7 subscriber, you have access to a plethora of information on the subject in the EIB Essential Stack of Stuff. Just last Friday, I went through some of the most common enviro-myths that many folks fall for hook, line and sinker. If you're one of those individuals with question marks, especially in light of this New York Times story, check out Friday's Limbaugh Institute: Rush Smashes Environmentalist Myths.

We also learned last week that there may not even be a finite supply of oil. It may be infinite because mother earth is still making the stuff at this very moment. We also talked about this last week during class at the Limbaugh Institute: Maha, Where Does Oil Come From? Folks, it's just going to be a question of when will it become affordable, economic and profitable to get oil in some of these places like underneath the ocean floor. But only when we learn what the limits of our supply are, will these alternative fuels really get going with gusto.

Now folks, I don't want anyone to misunderstand. I'm not etched in stone or opposed to the possibility of global warming. But what I will not admit is that human beings are causing it. We do not have that kind of power, which is what the environmentalist wacko coalition maintains. This is a political, not scientific, issue for them. The leftists who use this issue are using it to advance a political agenda, which is anti-capitalism, anti-Western culture, anti-America, and pro-big government.

To say that we can outdo what the sun does is absolute folly. But there are so many people with apocalyptic outlooks that they want to believe we're capable of this kind of destruction by living our lives in ways that are based on improving the quality of life. And folks, I'm just not going to join that chorus.

Now friends, all of this takes Algore's number one issue away from him. Daschle and Gephardt are probably banging their heads against the wall. Here's another issue they thought they owned that has been taken away. But actually, it may not have been, because the report has also alienated environmentalist wackos, too.

You can hear me read excerpts from the Times piece and explain in further detail in the links below - as well as read the rest of the coverage of this story in articles throughout the website. The administration appears to have abandoned another core conservative principle, leaving us all to grapple with the question, "Why?"

[Williams]

I like Rush on occassion but he is not my god. He is a bag of wind. I would probably let him be my mayor, maybe a governor, but I would damn well never elect him president. Go ahead, desert the president over a global warming report and write in Rush in the next election. Smart move.

[gramho12]

How absurd. The man is defending conservatism, nothing more nothing kless (he did it when Daddy Bush was there too didn't he? Or did you forget? O'reilly hasn't got squat to do with it. Your silly red herrings only make you look foolish.

"Oh, Rush - you're so wonderful. Oh, Rush, you are the greatest. Oh, Rush, where would conservatives be without you."

Yeah, Rush, running all the way to the bank on this one, agitating all the dittoheads. Trying to up his ratings. Same ol', same ol'

[Ol' Sparky]

When Rush is wrong and defended Bush's flip-flops last year, I criticized him. But, no conservative with a mind can defend all the betrayals by Bush. This is the most ridiculous thing I've seen here since idiots came out supporting Richard Riordan.

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

I comprehend that he is playing the game

The United States of America is not a game. Turning your back on the conservative people who helped you get elected is not a game. The defense of the borders and sovereignty of the United States of America is not a game. The explosion of social and welfare federal spending in the past two years, by this government, is not a game. The open support of terrorism by "our friends" the Saudi Arabians is not a game. Our support of "the father of terrorism," Yasser Arafat, is not a game. The massive failure of the intelligence agencies regarding 9/11 is not a game.

There is a current threat to the very survival of America and civilization by fanatic barbarians intent on the wholesale murder of every American and non-Muslim they can.

These are not games. Games are played by children. Responsible adults make tough decisions on the basis of consistent principles.

America is playing for keeps and our leaders must know the difference between mortal enemies and friends. These leaders must also practice the principles they preach and upon which the people relied for their voting choices.

[Texas Yellow Rose]

	"But, no conservative with a mind can defend all the betrayals by Bush."
The year the Republicans swept Congress with the Contact With America, I cut-out the headlines and some photos and created a poster sized display.  Those were happy times.  There was a photo of G. W. among them.  Sometime after he became Governor, I became upset with him over something to do with the TEA.  In a "huff" I stuck a post-it note over his photo which read, "This man is a Democrat in Disguise."  I never removed the note ...  I sent him kindly notes from time to time during the campaign thinking they may be read.  Maybe I was too harsh in using the word "democrat", but he is not what I perceive a conservative to be.  If it is games he's playing, I'm tired of them.  I'm also tired of some people holding George Bush to a different standard than we did Bill Clinton.
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[Mike Darancette]

He's turned his broken glass conservative base into a mess.

What is W's approval rating among Likely Republican Voters?

People on this site think that they are the Alpha and Omega, "Iffn' I Don' like em' then no other right thinkin' person can like em'".

[BobRJones]

It is a shame that some on freerepublic can't seem to think for themselves on any issue involving George W. Bush. They are to busy goose-stepping to any crap cadence he spits out. Rush is right on with his take on this one. Let's call a spade a spade, and a sellout a sellout. Our goal at this site should be to get the Ratz out of office, not blindly support them.

[Howlin]

Bush Extremely Strong With Base

[PhiKapMom]

This whole deal with Rush is getting distasteful IMO. This "loser" will never listen to him again and will stop buying from his advertisers. I don't need Rush to tell me how to think and never did. I used to think he was amuzing but in the last few years even during the election, I found him pompous, arrogant, and boring -- don't care about his golf, who he knows, who calls him, and his stupid cigars!

[PhiKapMom]

Do you realize that if President Bush had Ari out debunking all these crap stories from the liberal press, Ari would get nothing else done?

[altair]

if there is warming and if it is caused by fossil fuels, all the political huffing and puffing in the world won't change that reality.

There is not one shred of scientific evidence to support this. Not one.

[altair]

You left out signing McCain's Incumbent Protection bill.

[altair]

But others appear to be changes in long term conditions, such as Alpine glaciers melting, measurements of average earth temperature,

The Alpine glaciers melting is a cyclic phenomenon. Measurements of the earth temperature haven't been done long enough and consistently enough to show anything.

Excuse_My_Bellicosity posted a great link yesterday. Please read it.

[pgkdan]

I don't like seeing Bush attacked by the press like this and I too believe that there is an orchestrated attempt to make him look bad to depress conservative turnout this fall. BUT...W has brought ALL of this on himself. He has abandonned the conservative wing of the party and has done more to enact the democrat agenda than algore would have done.

Rush is right to call him George W Algore...he asked a caller today what she thought would be significantly different if Gore had won and she couldn't come up with anything. Rush does W a favor by holding his feet to the fire...somebody has got to wake the man up. The Bush cheerleaders don't do him any favors by forgiving his every liberal misstep...they only encourage more of this crap. The bushbots, as some have called them, remind me of clinton's supporters who couldn't even condemn him getting BJ's in the Oval Office because they were so enamored of the man. Take a step back folks, Bush is not the Second Coming, and he's making alot of mistakes and advancing the liberal agenda while abandonning the conservatives who elected him.

[america-rules]

GWB from a speech on June 11, 2001 ... "First, we know the surface temperature of the earth is warming. It has risen by .6 degrees Celsius over the past 100 years. There was a warming trend from the 1890s to the 1940s. Cooling from the 1940s to the 1970s. And then sharply rising temperatures from the 1970s to today. There is a natural greenhouse effect that contributes to warming. Greenhouse gases trap heat, and thus warm the earth because they prevent a significant proportion of infrared radiation from escaping into space. Concentration of greenhouse gases, especially CO2, have increased substantially since the beginning of the industrial revolution. And the National Academy of Sciences indicate that the increase is due in large part to human activity. Yet, the Academy's report tells us that we do not know how much effect natural fluctuations in climate may have had on warming. We do not know how much our climate could, or will change in the future. We do not know how fast change will occur, or even how some of our actions could impact it." The report just put out by the EPA first states that global warming is manmade and then states that we can't really tell if it is manmade or by how much is caused by man.

[Jesse]

And considering that O'Reilly just ripped Rush in his talking points, this is becoming more and more about ratings, not conservative ideas.

And there you have it folks. Bushbots will contort, twist, and rationalize to any extent to cover for their boy....just like Carville and the Clintoon followers used to do. (Still do, actually).

Bush is a sellout, arguably worse than his daddy. I say arguably, because he is less than halfway through his term. Bad now, will get worse.

[St.Chuck]

Now friends, all of this takes Algore's number one issue away from him.....Here is another issue that they thought they owned that has been taken away.

What this actually means is that holding on to power is more important than governing from principle. If the Republican party can appear to be as liberal as the democrats, then our guys can win. But at the cost of conservative values. What good is electing republicans when their agenda is to co-op liberal stances to ensure reelection? The two party system is a fraud.

[Ronin]

I wish bush would just have tabled the report and ordered a new study.. instead of issuing the "clinton holdovers" report, as they build their own job security into the national agenda....

That is exactly what the DemocRATs were hoping and expecting him to do. Do you seriously think they did not have backdoor copies of this thing?

Any attempt to table, cover up, or downgrade this report would have given the RATs a perfect issue to beat the Republicans over the head with.

Intead he shoved the report out into the public limelight -- thus giving the NYT and the DemocRATs two days of soundbites and a fat lot of nothing else.

[Mike Darancette]

GWB from a speech on June 11, 2001...

Don't bother people with the facts ... that speech set out the current knowledge about global warming about as succinctly as can be said.

The difference between Bush and Gore on the issue is that Gore would take the most pessimistic version of this message as proven fact and saddle America with Carbon taxes, push to ratify Kyoto, enact CAFE standards, reduce America's standard of living, enact price controls and give Billions to the third world. Bush's response is to realize that there is nothing that can or should be done other than those things that can be done by a free society working together.

Whether or not there is Global Warming, how long it will last or if anything can be done about it is a matter of science not politics. How we react to such events is a matter of politics.

[Howlin]

He has abandonned the conservative wing of the party and has done more to enact the democrat agenda than algore would have done.

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