Posted on 06/03/2002 10:04:46 AM PDT by hchutch
Just the headline
You miss the point of this controversy completely. Bush by admitting to the Enviro-Nazis that the human race is responsible for global warming he has unwittingly given the moral high ground to these nut jobs and put himself in a position where he can be attacked relentlessly for not caring about the environment even though he knows better. In sum, he has handed over his ammunition to a bunch of whacked out anti-capitalist extremists and you can bet that they will use this ammunition to force one costly concession out of Bush after another. Bet on it.
...me neither buddie. You are right on about bush. he has betrayed his base with this, along with several other other "semi-betrayals."
It's a lot like how Clinton dodged by saying he was "not having SEX with that woman." Denying the subtle betrayals daily coming from the "pseudo conservative Bush party" requires that bushbot conservatives twist reality by redefining the narrowist possible terms, the meaning of the word "betray."
Bushbot Conservatives have taken to parsing "betrayal" in very narrow terms, so they won't have to admit our boy sold us out, to some degree on every agreement and decision he has made. There is not one PURE and CLEAR embracement he has made that FULLY repudiates in entirety the liberal "a prioris" we all despise.
WE are way past the point where "consensus building" has become "idealogical compromise."
It calls to question a whole plethora of recent accusations we have been hearing... Did Bush/Ashcroft KNOW that 9-11 was actually going to occur and did NOTHING about it, though they could have?
Six months ago I rejected all this stuff as outright slander... now, I am beginning to wonder. Who stands to gain by compromise and lying about what was known and when?
Just look at the popularity he is enjoying... and the soccermommies who are so hot for him...
It makes me sick to think, but things are really not good are they? These kind of discussions and REALITIES would NOT even exist, if things were right and good in our nation.
The darkest of times may lie ahead. Bush is not, what he appeared to be. It appears once again, that apples do not fall far, from the tree.
Actually I expect that from people who take the NYT as the word of G-d.
Klimbaugh and Klannity have joined the other four KKKKer's, the Klassless Klowns pretending to be conservatives. Now, who/whom is directing the KKKKKKers, the 6 Klass Clowns?
He can protect the country from terrorism. He can protect the U.S. steel industry with tariffs. He can protect the corporate farmers with $billions in additional subsidies. He can protect the government schools and teachers' union with $54 billion in subsidies. He can protect the coast of Florida from oil and his brother's run for re-election. He can protect social security and presciption privileges for the elderly. He can protect the Clinton/Reno crimes of the past. He can protect Jessie Jackson's tax exempt extortion racket. And now he can protect the earth from global warming.
All I want protected are my Constitutional Rights.
Sheesh you all take the NYT as your "Bible" now? Like I stated before it looks like the media has found their "useful idiots" and they are on the rabid right.
Uh it still does matter. JMO, but it seems that you like whoring around with the New York Times.
How could have I forgot that, The propaganda was all over the TV and I heard it first on FOX in 1913, Them lefties have been at it a long time huh :-)
Of course, the Left never feels the same obligation.
Yep! Long time!
Critics Resigning Over Bush's Green Rules Los Angeles Times (requires registration) | 06/03/2002 | Elizabeth Shogren; Posted on 6/3/02 9:43 AM Pacific by RFH
THE NATION A Natural Split With Bush, and Many Quit Environment: Longtime, key officials who favor conservation say they are frustrated by new rules. ELIZABETH SHOGREN 06/03/2002 Los Angeles Times Home Edition Page A-1 Copyright 2002 Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON --
James Furnish is hardly the kind of person you'd expect to quit his government job on principle during the Bush administration. A political conservative and an evangelical Christian, he voted for President Bush and plans to do the same in 2004.
As a deputy chief of the U.S. Forest Service, he was eager to give his new bosses the benefit of his more than 30 years of experience in the agency. He realized his conservationist ethic might not always prevail. But he was ready to say his piece and then accept the new administration's direction.
Instead, Furnish reluctantly left the government in the fall, at a substantial financial sacrifice, because he was frustrated by what he called the Bush team's strident pro-development philosophy and unwillingness to even listen to his perspective.
That makes him one of a number of senior career officials across several environmental agencies who have quit since the Bush administration took over. They include senior lawyers from the Environmental Protection Agency, a state director for the Bureau of Land Management, scientists with years of experience and top bureaucrats in Washington.
And in losing the politcal battle you have gained what?
He could have cancelled the report altogether. period.
...and he should have, IF he cared for his base's point of view on this junk science. But it is clear now, that mr 80 percent approval, does not need his base.
Allowing a faulty report to be officially released is morally wrong. Whether it was supposed to be released on a certain date or not is beside the point. Bush could have said NO REPORT will be released on that date, and left it hanging. That would have been principled... and apparently too principled for Bush. I think he believes the crapola. Hence...
Bush sold us out. Period. End of story.
No use crying or bickering over it either. He is now democrat enough to win from the center left position where he has routinely governed. Better than Gore? no doubt. Vote for him again? Sorry, not this time.
I am going to either stay home, or vote AGAINST every republican I can... if we cannot STOP the leftword lurches by our executive branch, we need to tie him up so they cannot get anything done in the house and senate... EVERY day they get nothing done, is but one more day of freedom for the rest of us.
That IS becoming the conventional wisdom. Bush does not really want the massive tax cuts this nation needs or its workers and businesses deserve. Bush does not want to end the department of education, hhs, or privatize SS... Bush does not want to truly "control our borders" with mexico... He is NOT truly a conservative. Perhaps he is in YOUR book. But then again, if you support where he is at on all these issues, including stem cells and abortion, then perhaps YOU are not as conservative as MOST of his base is to begin with.
The republican revolution for smaller, less intrusive government and greater sovereignty for states and individuals, is now officially dead. The soccer mommies of America love it!!! W can do no wrong!!!
Rush and Drudge were dead on target with this accusation. Shame on our president for selling us out to junk science reports collated by holdover clinton "global warming" epa employees, looking to ensure their job security.
Woe indeed.
Sir, if it was just one thing, or maybe a few, I could see your argument. But Bush has done so much compromise to appease both sides of the aisle on more than just a few issues, I don't see this as compassionate conservatism. I see this as an official that ran on a conservative platform and has no plan on staying even close to it!!
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