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The bush mongoloids don't know what they think about anything, just defend the mascott/figurehead at all costs.
Rush has had a temper tantrum, exactly like a three year old who doesn't get his way. His mind numbed robots are doing just the same.
Bush has stood tall on the Second Amendment aplying to individuals, not States. Not even Reagan was prepared to take that stand although he did believe it.
He has gotten us out of the Kyoto Treaty before it could make us part of the third world.
He did not surrender after 9-11 and offer reparations to offended Muslims, which Al Gore would have done.
That is more than most conservative Presidents have accomplished in a 4 year term.
The conservative base will do him just as much good as it did Goldwater. If he is gonna stay in office and acomplish anything, he has to carry the middle of the road 60%.
Is he not doing everything you and I would like? That is because this is real world politics, not a fantasy novel. A president who stands tall on all his conservative positions is gonna get rolled by Congress 100% of the time.
Stick to your active fantasy life and leave real politics to the grownups.
So9
Sheesh, I'm still waiting for the 2800+ lives to be avenged by some serious military response.
You all have a voice because of Rush. Rush reinvigorated Conservatism through talk radio and just because he says something that contradicts what the President is doing, you all spit on him. Just like when another Freeper, says something that goes against the Commander-In-Chief, you all start nashing your teeth with disgust.
Free Republic is supposed to where the free exchange words and ideas can be shared without being spat upon. That is why I go to FreeRepublic everyday. I am proud to call myself a Freeper. I tell everybody about this sight.
No I've never been banned ever, I'm married to someone of a different race than I and I abhor anything remotely connected to Nazi's
Only POS little worm would try to incinuate such without having one single fact. You Bush-brains are all the same, personally attack anyone who dare speak ill of your semi-christ.
Do me a favor. Until you know wtf you're talking about, shut your and know the truth before you run your empty head.
Yeah yeah, the guy's Brilliant.
"After all, a week ago, there were — Yasser Arafat was boarded up in his building in Ramallah, a building full of, evidently, German peace protestors and all kinds of people. They're now out. He's now free to show leadership, to lead the world." —George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., May 2, 2002
"The public education system in America is one of the most important foundations of our democracy. After all, it is where children from all over America learn to be responsible citizens, and learn to have the skills necessary to take advantage of our fantastic opportunistic society." —George W. Bush, May 1, 2002
From the White House Press Briefing by Ari Fleischer - 06/05/02
Q Ari, if I could change subjects for a second. This morning you said that the President quoted a speech, indicating that the President believes that human activity is largely responsible for the increase in greenhouse gases. But I'm wondering if he also agrees with an EPA report which indicated that human activity is likely the cause of global warming?
MR. FLEISCHER: Let me just read from the President's statement of June 11th on global warming, and let me read from the recent report the EPA submitted to the United Nations. And I think you'll hear that on the key issues, they really sound very, very similar. This is the President on June 11th in the Rose Garden, in a speech where he announced his global warming policies.
"Concentration of greenhouse gases, especially C02, 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." That's the President himself speaking.
Here is from the report, page 4, that was just submitted to the United States by the EPA: "Greenhouse gases are accumulating in Earth's atmosphere as the result of human activities, causing global mean surface temperature and subsurface ocean temperature to rise. While the changes observed over the last several decades are due most likely to human activities, we cannot rule out that some significant part is also a reflection of natural variability." And I think what you're hearing is the same thing.
Q I'm glad you make the connection explicitly, since the President addressed greenhouse gases, but not specifically global warming. Does the President agree with the conclusion that human activity is likely the cause of global warming?
MR. FLEISCHER: That's what the President said in his speech in June.
Q That's not exactly what he said. He does agree with it?
MR. FLEISCHER: When the President cites the National Academy of Science as saying that the National Academy of Science indicates that the increase is due in large part to human activity, I don't know how the President could say it more specifically than that.
Q He hasn't changed his mind at all?
MR. FLEISCHER: No. Here's -- the bottom line for the President is, number one, he has made a proposal that he believes is a proposal that not only can reduce the problem of greenhouse gases and global warming, but also protects the American economy, so the American economy can lead the world in technological and scientific advances that also have an effect in reducing pollution.
The President has said, citing the National Academy of Sciences, that the increase is due in large part to human activity. The President has also continued, citing both, now this report the EPA has sent to the United Nations, previous evidence from the National Academy of Sciences, that there's uncertainty -- and the recent report notes that there is considerable uncertainty. That's the state of science, and the President agrees with it. I don't think people dispute that.
Q Its uncertainty, but he can still draw that conclusion, that --
MR. FLEISCHER: He didn't June 11th.
Q He didn't exactly do it, but you're saying it now.
MR. FLEISCHER: Again, when the President cites a report by the National Academy of Sciences that indicates the increase is due in large part to human activity, I think you have two reports that are very similar.
Q Why was he --
Q Why did he call it the bureaucracy yesterday?
MR. FLEISCHER: I think the EPA issued a report that says the same thing. And I think the President was also reflecting about some of the way it was covered, that made it sound as if the report was somehow inconsistent with what he had said previously.
What?
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y friends, the plot thickens. During Wednesday's program, the White House again shifted their position on the EPA global warming report that has been discussed extensively on this program and subsequently throughout the rest of the media. 
Fleischer came to this briefing prepared with a statement outlining how the president's view on the causes of global warming have not changed, so they probably were sitting at the White House a little bit angry at the interpretation of what the president said yesterday when he spoke of, "the bureaucracy." So the White House is making it clear in no uncertain terms that the president believes human activity is largely responsible for global warming, that he totally agrees with the EPA report that went out, and that there's no disagreement. Whatever he said about "the bureaucracy" was misread, mis-analyzed, and misunderstood by the press and others.