[zook]

I'd say that Rush and Drudge both have the intellect of a good 8th grade social studies student; that neither has read the actual report; and that both are making a knee jerk reaction. Maybe human activity *is* contributing to atmospheric warming. Maybe there is some good science on this. Maybe the administration has weighed the evidence and decided that this is a reasonable position to take.

To add one more thing, I'd say that Rush, since his hearing problem, has become extremely one-dimensional in his thinking. His analogies are continually flawed, he can't see the forest for the trees, and he overreacts to everything Bush does that he disagrees with. I tune him in rarely and am disappointed every time I do.

[rintense]

Amen to everything you've said. I almost wonder if Rush and Drudge are in cahoots against Bill O'Reilly...

[borkrules]

...that neither has read the actual report; and that both are making a knee jerk reaction.

Guess what? That's what 90% of the electorate is going to do as well. This is politics, not a debating society, and on those terms, this is a net-loss for Bush and conservatism, no matter how you slice this. Sheeple will read in USA Today or some other 3rd grade level rag that Bush has now signed on the environmentalist crusade against "global warming" or worse, believes it's happening and we caused it, but still won't go anything about it because of his corporate buddies. "Conservatives" who don't spend time reading sites like this will feel he "sold out" and libs will feel energized.

Who cares what the actual report says?

[buffyt]

Rush irritates me as much as Bill O'Reilly, and Neal Boortz do. If you agree with them, fine. If you disagree with them you are BS. They see only their side of any issue. If you disagree with them, they immediately stoop to calling names and saying BS. At least I can honestly say I trust NO MAN. I am but a stranger here, Heaven is MY home!

Have a great Monday, all!
Barbara in Los Angeles

[fightinJAG]

Man, you nailed it down on what is going on with Rush to a "T"! There seems to have been a change in his intellectual capacity since he had his surgery. Hate to think the two events are connected---I wish Rush well in every way. I hope it is, instead, just a dumb streak on Rush's part.

But, golly, you are SO right: Rush's analogies are so flawed, in so many ways, it is just annoying to even hear them posited. And the overreaction to whatever it is today that Rush disagrees with Bush about . . . I don't see any accurate contextual perspective at all.

I was wondering if Rush somehow felt slighted by the administration and, thus, has gotten a case of the whines against them and the Pres. I don't see Rush as being like that, but, then again, he is only human.

You are right on. I tune in occasionally to see if things are changed; within ten minutes the radio is off again.

[Bommer]

I'd say that Rush and Drudge both have the intellect of a good 8th grade social studies student; that neither has read the actual report; and that both are making a knee jerk reaction. Maybe human activity *is* contributing to atmospheric warming

If they have only an 8th grade, you must have dropped out of Kindergarden! Let me spell it out for you. Humans on a year average produce 10 Billion Metric tons of CO2. The earth produces 200 Billion metric tons of CO2 yearly. From where? Sea water evaporating!

Need more for an education?

Mt. Minotubo (sic) and Mt. St. Helen eruptions combined produced more CO2 emissions then all the coal generating power plants have in the last 100 years.

Just 30 years ago the CO2 emissions were ushering the new ice age, now its a global warming. Wake up and educate yourself. Global Warming is the biggest marxist hoax ever pulled on the world next to the Palestinians right to a homeland (PS theres no such thing as a Palestinian just to further educate yourself. They are displaced Eygptians and Jordanians)

[Mo1]

To add one more thing, I'd say that Rush, since his hearing problem, has become extremely one-dimensional in his thinking.

I thought I was the only one that had noticed this .. thanks for posting this

[Jethro Tull]

#18: "Maybe human activity *is* contributing to atmospheric warming. Maybe there is some good science on this. Maybe the administration has weighed the evidence and decided that this is a reasonable position to take."

Holy jumping siht.

The GOP is over.

Way, way over...

[rob777]

"Maybe human activity *is* contributing to atmospheric warming. Maybe there is some good science on this. Maybe the administration has weighed the evidence and decided that this is a reasonable position to take."



Yeh, and maybe the tooth fairy really does exist.

I am the President of a local property rights organization here in Vermont and we have had experts come in and speak to us on the issue several times. This is an issue that I have been following qute closely for some time and there is NO evidence to support this theory. There is, however, plenty of evidence that disputes the claim. The whole global warming theory is not based on actual data, but computers simulated modeling projections. Actual satelite data of global temperatures does not support the projections.

[itsahoot]

I'd say that Rush and Drudge both have the intellect of a good
8th grade social studies student;

Good grief, there must be something in the water. Has this
forum forgotten the Clinton defenders, and how we ridiculed
them, for their mindless support, of their president?

Maybe you should have listened to Rush, I did, and he did not
trash the President. What he did do, is point out the many
flips on major issues.

The retoric on this forum always rationalizes these flips as
some super secret plan that GW just can't tip his hand on.
Or the other major defense, "These decisions are being made
by Clinton holdovers."

We have every right to ask, just who is in charge, and who
is making these decisions?

[jeremiah]

gw AND zook, have weighed the evidence, and decided that AlGore has been right all along. Now I know which side to believe!!!!!

[gabby hayes]

No doubt, Rush's limited intellect will prevent him from appreciating KR's brilliant triangulation coup--naming Larry Tribe to the high bench.

[joyce11111]

Zook, you said what I have thought...I can barely stand to listen to Rush anymore. Seems he thinks he should be Bush's puppeteer, pulling all the strings.

George W Bush is the President of all the people, not just the Rush robots.

And, I fully trust MY President.

[captain11]

His analogies are continually flawed, he can't see the forest for the trees, and he overreacts to everything Bush does that he disagrees with

Limbaugh has lost it. His statement "To say that we can outdo what the sun does is absolute folly," is inanely ignorant, whatever your views on global warming. A fourth grader with a reasonable command of Weekly Reader understands the major premise--that emissions from burning fossil fuels increase levels of greenhouse gases, which traps solar energy and raises temperatures. From the article, you'd guess Rush thinks the proposed mechanism is extra heat from car exhaust.