[goldstategop]

The Administration can try to defend its flip flop all it wants. What it has shown its friends and enemies alike however, is that it can't be depended to take a position and stick to it.

[dts32041]

Now if it came out in favor of the use of Nuclear power plants for cutting down green house gases, might actually start to believe the current occupant of the white house.

[pariah]

The Administration ... can't be depended to take a position and stick to it.

I think the Administration is stuck with a report that was in the making long before Bush assumed office. Throwing a sop to the environmentalists, while pulling out of Kyoto and pushing for voluntary efforts is just smart politics.
(Now if you bring up immigration, I just might have to concede your point...)

[rightwing2]

Actually, the funny thing is that the Bush Administration is reverting its original position which the President expressed during the campaign when he belatedly announced in 1999 that for the first time he believed that global warning was a major threat to the US. So at least unlike the Bush breaking of his campaign pledge ("read my lips, no new campaign finance reform") not to sign the Democrat Congressional Majority Insurance Bill which will bring a swift and permanent end to the GOP Congressional majority once it takes effect in the 2004 election cycle, this is actually a case of "promises made, promises kept." I do think however, that Bush will pay a heavy price for betraying the Republican Party and ensuring the electoral defeat of scores of his loyal Republican supporters in Congress when conservatives desert him en masse in the 2004 election in favor of a real conservative.