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

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

[hchutch]

Just the headline

[FreeTheHostages]

No, no, quilla's right. Read this report again. Bush is conceding *nothing* re what to do. There are plenty of conservative responses regarding what to do. Drudge has overplayed this. God bless him but he's overplayed this.

[willa]

"Why fault Bush for signing bills that have overwhelming support from both Republicans and Democrats? Isn't that what's supposed to happen?"

If that is the case we don't need another branch of government involved in the process of passing bills. There is a balance of powers for a reason.

I fault him for signing unconstitutional bills. I thought better of him. I fault him for making u-turns. My only power in the process is my vote. I decide how I vote on what the candidate says prior to the election. That is all I have to go by. I no longer trust this man who asked for my vote.

[OldFriend]

Rush has willingly become one of the media's useful idiots. Trying to play both sides of every issue and losing all credibility. Thankfully, most republicans have learned to distrust the mainstream media and wait for the truth to emerge.

Rush and Sean just jump right on the bandwagon and become hysterical. This must amuse the media no end.

[marajade]

You're assuming that the article and the attraction by independent voters are the same... I'm not. In fact, I'm not sure they have anything in common at all..

[Mudboy Slim]

"I consider you one of the "wise ones,"

LOL...Obviously, you've learned that flattery will get you anywhere you wanna go, however...

"...how about telling me what you think I support that I don't support? :-)"

Do you really think we just weren't spending quite enuff--Federally--on the Education Budget?! Do you really think that Steel and Lumber excise taxes support our defense of FRee Trade?! I'm sure we both agree that the Energy Independence that America needs is furthered by ANWR, but do we agree that Dubyuh's pronouncement regarding drilling in the Gulf appears unnecessarily targeted towards his brother's reelection (which--BTW--I believe Jed's capable of winning without Dubyuh's acquiesence on this issue)?! The Farm Bill...'nuff said?!

There are other issues on which I believe Dubyuh's reacting pragmatically to, but his reaction will only drive a wedge betqween he and his base come November '02 and '04, but the aforementioned gives a hint of that to which I am referring.

FReegards...MUD

[Dane]

Rush and Sean just jump right on the bandwagon and become hysterical. This must amuse the media no end.

I have no doubt that the people in the New York Times press room are having a hoot over this "controversy" created out of thin air.

Thank you rush, hannity, and drudge for giving the NYT a great day.

[Miss Marple]

You are saying that the phrase "global warming" shouldn't be used. I disagree. People are familiar with that concept, and subsituting another phrase would simply open a semantic argument with the left.

As I said, I think it quite possible that the climate is warming, as it has several times over the last MILLIONS of years. How much of this is man-made is debatable. Personally, I think in comparison to volcanoes it is very small.

Using the familiar phrase but putting it in a context of natural cycles and also proposing conservative solutions would be the best plan of attack, in my opinion.

By the way, it would have been nice for Rush to attack the New York Times for selective quoting and icky interpretation in their article. I wonder why he instead went after the President.

Why conservative people allow the New York Times to set the agenda is beond my understanding.

[Dales]

But that is what I think you are doing- substituting a well understood phrase for something not well understood. Most people, I believe, think of global warming not as part of a natural cycle but an ever increasing trend.

[Dane]

Why conservative people allow the New York Times to set the agenda is beond my understanding.

Mine also, but I guess a lot of so called conservatives think that they will gain a "favor" if they are nice to the NYT.

Sheesh talk about acting like a democrat.

[OldFriend]

Seemingly, the liberal audience is the goal of so called right wing talk show hosts. It's my guess that ratings are down and this is an attempt to broaden the audience.

The libs are welcome to this crew......I have no use at all for them.

[maica]

Most people have discounted global warming because the left has used it as a tool to promote radical environmental policies. What if there really IS global warming? Most of the people who don't believe in it have no more scientific proof on their side than the loony envirals do on theirs.

My question in this latest Bash Bush by right wing radio hosts is this - Why has no one questioned the timing of this report? It is apparently an annual document ("the Third Annual" is on the title page) and has been on the EPA website for a week. Are Bush critics implying that instead of travelling to Europe and meeting with Presidents and the Pope he should have been home proofreading!

I think this one sentence that has sent everyone ballistic, could have been dropped in by an enviromole at EPA.

I heard enough of Drudge last night to know that he was salivating on this 'flip-flop' of megaproportions. When I turned on Rush this afternoon to find that he had swallowed the NYT/Drudge bait, I decided that my afternoon schedule would have to change. So I came to FreeRepublic to see if anyone had started a thread about Rush's comments. I couldn't find one, so I ended up taking a nap, instead. :)

By the time I got back to FR, I had to read more than 300 posts. Good discussion as usual, and very interesting and satisfying to find that the Freepers, whose opinions I value, are seeing this the same way I do.

[marajade]

You know you act as if its all Bush's fault... A lot of Republican congressmen and senators voted for CFR too... Are you going to vote them out of office?

[jeremiah]

I agree, he didn't put forth a plan to do anything about "global warming". He has codified the language with which the argument against it will be compared. He has alienated the anti global warmers, and caused them to be marginalized. Unless he comes out and denounces the report directly, he is behind the obvious next step. Sign the Kyoto Treaty, albeit modified slightly.

[OldFriend]

Rush has become the enemy...IMHO. Evidently his masters felt that the audience needed to be broadened, hence the catering to the left. They are welcome to Rush, Sean, and the other useful idiots the media loves to tweak.

It was just last week Rush was lauding the Washington comPost for their story on how the Pentagon was against ever going to war in Iraq. He said he has confidence in the reporter at the comPost. Today, he has confidence in the reporting of the NYSlimes.......shessh.....he is soo transparent!

[liberalism=failure]

If this pattern continues after november I am not voting for Bush

[Dane]

Seemingly, the liberal audience is the goal of so called right wing talk show hosts. It's my guess that ratings are down and this is an attempt to broaden the audience.

Like I stated earlier on this thread, they are following the "New Coca-Cola" formula and probably will meet the same fate, IMHO.

[marajade]

Is that a threat or a promise?

[rdb3]

Gee, the New York Times had the part about no change in policy.

When I read this portion of the article, I stopped reading. If there's no change in policy, what's the use in getting upset? Nothing changed.

[PhiKapMom]

You got the wrong person here. I quit listening to Rush when I got tired of his constant talk about golf and who he knew all the time! That was over a year ago -- long before his latest tirades. I thought he came across as pompous and arrogant over a year ago. If you looked back in the archives you would see I got chastised for saying he was sounding arrogant and pompous at the time.

He lost me as a full-time listener well over a year ago and a part-time listener several months ago. Last couple of times I tuned in, he was berrating callers so I figured I didn't need to listen to that! Seemed everytime I tuned in, he was talking about golf or who he knew or who called him on his cell phone while he was driving his convertible to go play golf or berrating someone for disagreeing. Do I need to listen to that? No I don't!