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

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?"

Ari has plenty of time, that's his job to debunk stuff. He also could have gotten Christy Todd Whitman to do it, it's her turf. Apparently he found it important enough to debunk it himself. I am sure that if Rush and many others had not screamed bloody murder, he would not have done that.

Some people think that it is good to say nothing bad about GWB. That we should keep our mouths shut about what we disagree with. This is wrong. If we do not scream, we will be ignored.

Frankly, I am still unhappy with this. He has been in office a year and a half. Someone who is against this nonsense should have been writing this - not ex-Clintonites. Somebody should be fired for this and my vote is for Christy Whitman.

It is just going to be very hard for some to admit aloud we and our country have been betrayed. Doing so, means we have to admit we may be powerless.

While I truly respect some people who continue to support Bush, and I can believe they think voting party is the only way to go. There are other posts supporting Bush that are almost hysterical (not funny hysterical) in nature.

Thanks for your post.

Oh, you know. We haven't deported every Mexican we can find, we haven't issued an EO ordering firebombs in abortion clinics, the IRS hasn't been abolished etc. etc.

Haven't slashed and burned everything east of California? Didn't have Bill and Hillary hung on the Mall at high noon?

I kind of figure that people who feel betrayed, pretty much betrayed themselves by convincing themself Bush was going to do what THEY wanted him to.

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