LIMBAUGH RIPS BUSH WHITE HOUSE OVER GLOBAL WARMING 'FLIP-FLOP'

Drudge Report ^ | 6/3/02 | Matt Drudge

[hchutch]

Just the headline

[garv]

Does the report tacitly endorse the theory of global warming? From what I read that's what Rush was criticizing.

[sultan88]

Well, I agree a bit with C.T. that Rush needs controversy to keep his ratings up...but, Dubyuh, on the other hand, does seem to be going out of his way to upset me!

[Dales]

Right after you find me the population numbers of the country. You can even limit it to voting age if you want.

[Joe Hadenuf]

I think Bush is appeasing the liberals till the 2002 election; he can't do anything till the obstructionists in the Senate are elected out. Hopefully Republicans will get back the Senate in 2002 and then I foresee Bush pushing his conservative agenda full force.

That's it. It's a secret plan. He's just appeasing everyone until all his guys get reelected.

[hchutch]

Gee, the New York Times had the part about no change in policy. To me, that is the important thing. And the report had so many qualifications in its admission, that I don't see what the fuss is about.

[eraser X]

That was one of the first things I thought last night but knowing our President's track record he will cave and say, "yes, we can't transport nuclear waste safely" to again appease the environmental left.

[Jethro Tull]

#411: "He has taken a step that cannot be retreated from."

Correct you are.

Please, how does one restore sanity to a Bushie when they plunge into denial?

[caddie]

FWIW, I have started to download and read this very tiresome document, appendices forward, and, will comment on the tome when I have finished.

I will say this: Bush should not have this coming out of his White House's EPA, because, in it, he (i.e., his administration) talks out of both ends of his alimentary tract.

It indeed says that there are no changes in Administration policy planned.

But, amazingly, the report has as a 'given' that there IS climactic change due the presence of man, industry, fossil fuel, etc., and that it may cause environmental harm that is potentially serious, in the United States.

If so, W, aren't you as an Administration, supposed to consider some way to improve the situation?

This fuzziness is all it takes for W to have given away the farm to the liberals, and Rush is entirely correct to crack on him for this.

Because it is not at all established that there is any sort of global warming going on at all.

But if it WERE established, (and this is a premise of the document) then W's Administration sure as h&ll ought to have something more in mind than, "No changes in administrative policy are planned."

To even hint that there is going to be some effect on snowmelt water supplies, coastlines, etc., is totally inflammatory to the populace, and so, to the Greens it is the same as to give away the GOP farm.

It is to acknowledge that the sky is falling, when it really is not.

One aside: A table in the back does show small, gradual increases in estimates of CO2 production by fossil fuel burning, and a concomitant loss in "woody biomass stocks" a.k.a., trees.

Nobody has suggested just planting a boatload of trees, except as an aside program for middle school students.

If W had any brains, he would not have let this panic-piece out, and would have just said, "There is no evidence of global warming. There is a little more CO2 production, and a few less trees to soak up the CO2. It would make sense to plant more trees, since there are fewer of them around today than in the time of George Washington.

That's what he should be doing, instead of kissing some Saudi Prince's a$$ at his Texas Double Wide Ranch.

[B Knotts]

BTW, here's the European plan to deal with global warming:

EU quota likely for flatulent cows

[Dales]

lol

Maybe we should invest in a company that can make rather large corks?

[Jethro Tull]

#424:"That's it. It's a secret plan. He's just appeasing everyone until all his guys get reelected."

Joe:

Have the Bushies become conspiratorial?

[jeremiah]

It does not recommend any shift in policy That is not the point, the Democrats, the Socialists will take care of that. Bush has ceded the argument, now how can he argue the side of No Man Caused Global Warming????? Answer, he cannot, now that the argument is settled about the fact of global warming, we can get down to business of fixing it. Thanks GW, we are now marginalized on the Right again.

[B Knotts]

Oops. I messed up that link:

EU quota likely for flatulent cows

[Joe Hadenuf]

LOL! I prefer to call it, "it's a wonderful day in the neighborhood thread". Very zombie like thread. Yikes!

[B Knotts]

All I can tell you is that they'll get my goats when they pry them from my dead, cold hands, or something like that.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Too much. Some of these folks must be running out of fingers to plug the holes in the damn of reality.

Scary stuff.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Correction: Some of these folks must be running out of fingers to plug the holes in the dam of reality. Scary stuff.

[itsahoot]

I thought I got Bush the nomination.

Sure you did. The party hacks annointed GW with more money
than he could spend on his campaign, before he even said he
was running. Wake up, we only get to pick from what they offer.

Personally I would rather see us go back to real conventions,
I attended one of those at the Cow Palace in 1956. Unfortunately
Ronald Reagan, set the precident for the current system when
he went on the convention floor and annointed GW Sr. as his
VP, to end the divisive debate on the floor.

[FreeTheHostages]

You guys ask what, besides the war on terrorism, Bush as done that is conservative?

(1) *Besides*??!! C'mon. Let's be a little grateful. That's a pretty big besides.

(2) I think Drudge and, yes, Rush are playing this wrong. Bush has an entirely conservative response re what to do about global warming. He's just not fighting science on the causes. This is a much *safer* ground for conservatives to stand on. All these posting really overlook lots of language in this EPA report re *Kyoto* is *not* the solution and the relative efficacy of free market solutions to warming.

(3) Yeah, actually, I can name a lot of conservative things he's done. The touchstone issue for conservatives should be things like no discrimination against religion in the schools, abortion, etc. I think the Bush administration has been good on these issues.

(4) Bush has sent his Solicitor General to argue for gun rights in the Supreme Court.

Let's not eat our own.

[OldFriend]

I notice Sean Hannity parrotting everything Rush says. Didn't read the report, just reacting as the media would wish. They say jump and Rush and Sean say 'how high'.....

Best part about it......no one really cares what these so called 'elites' say about anything.

We're out there working, living life, caring for our families and thanking the Lord we have Bush for President.