Posted on 06/03/2002 5:08:19 PM PDT by TLBSHOW
Ladies and gentleman, on the front page of Monday's New York Times there's a story that has the Bush administration essentially saying, "Yes, the phenomenon known as global warming exists, and guess who's causing it? You! American humanity with our highly technologically advanced lifestyle - our automobiles, air conditioners and whatever else, we're the ones causing it."
The Times story begins, "In a stark shift for the Bush administration, the United States has sent a climate report to the United Nations detailing specific and far-reaching effects that it says global warming will inflict on the American environment. In the report, the administration for the first time mostly blames human actions for recent global warming. It says the main culprit is the burning of fossil fuels that send heat-trapping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere." George W. Algore, anyone?
So what are we going to do about this? Nothing. According to the administration, it's too late to do anything about it in terms of reversing or changing it. It's here baby, it's a fact of life. Global warming is with us. It's with us as the sun is with us. All we can do is adapt and live with it. If you have a chance, drive your car a little less. Well folks, Im just not buying it.
When I first became aware of this story Sunday night, I thought about what I would say on Monday's program: "Well folks, guess what? I have been wrong about global warming. The president says it is happening and that human beings are causing it, so I've been wrong." I couldn't say that because I don't think I am wrong. There are too many scientists out there whom I implicitly trust that have proven to me these predictions are basically apocalyptic doom and gloom based on raw emotion. Even the global warming advocates, to this day, will not tell you it is definitively happening.
Global warming has always been a hot topic, no pun intended, which we have discussed extensively over the years here at EIB. If you're a Rush 24/7 subscriber, you have access to a plethora of information on the subject in the EIB Essential Stack of Stuff. Just last Friday, I went through some of the most common enviro-myths that many folks fall for hook, line and sinker. If you're one of those individuals with question marks, especially in light of this New York Times story, check out Friday's Limbaugh Institute: Rush Smashes Environmentalist Myths.
We also learned last week that there may not even be a finite supply of oil. It may be infinite because mother earth is still making the stuff at this very moment. We also talked about this last week during class at the Limbaugh Institute: Maha, Where Does Oil Come From? Folks, it's just going to be a question of when will it become affordable, economic and profitable to get oil in some of these places like underneath the ocean floor. But only when we learn what the limits of our supply are, will these alternative fuels really get going with gusto.
Now folks, I don't want anyone to misunderstand. I'm not etched in stone or opposed to the possibility of global warming. But what I will not admit is that human beings are causing it. We do not have that kind of power, which is what the environmentalist wacko coalition maintains. This is a political, not scientific, issue for them. The leftists who use this issue are using it to advance a political agenda, which is anti-capitalism, anti-Western culture, anti-America, and pro-big government.
To say that we can outdo what the sun does is absolute folly. But there are so many people with apocalyptic outlooks that they want to believe we're capable of this kind of destruction by living our lives in ways that are based on improving the quality of life. And folks, I'm just not going to join that chorus.
Now friends, all of this takes Algore's number one issue away from him. Daschle and Gephardt are probably banging their heads against the wall. Here's another issue they thought they owned that has been taken away. But actually, it may not have been, because the report has also alienated environmentalist wackos, too.
You can hear me read excerpts from the Times piece and explain in further detail in the links below - as well as read the rest of the coverage of this story in articles throughout the website. The administration appears to have abandoned another core conservative principle, leaving us all to grapple with the question, "Why?"
Since the report states that Global Warming is possible it gives the DemocRATS some talking points which the same report then shuts down by saying that no action can or should be taken. CASE CLOSED.
OBTW: Has anyone seen any reports of laudatory noises being made by any environmentalists, Greenies, DemocRATS, or liberal press and media about this report?
The newly deaf hear echoes of past sounds, I am told. So it seems with the Limbaugh Wing of Wishful Thinking, which wants its President to echo its every gilded radio wave.
Hate to inform, but he's not Rush's President: he's our President. Rush's 20 millions elected Bush? Maybe Rush didn't work hard enough last November.
Rush has fallen in love with his ideas. We enjoy his arrogance, but self-love is not for public consumption. His intellectual-high of late is as embarrassing as it is self-defeating. To say that Bush has "highjacked" conservativism is stupid. Show me a single Bush lie from the campaign. Come on, try. You'll have to uhhuh and yeah but alot, but you aint' gonna find any smoke.
What Bush has done is become President. If Rush was fooled, the foolishness is on his part. I see nothing in Bush that has changed. These inane attempts to read between the lines of his policies are just that: listen to what he says.
I'd like to say I'm dissapointed with Limbaugh. I can't. I'm just sad. A closed mind is a sad thing to flaunt. Or maybe Rush is just pissed off that Bush hasn't replaced Powell with Netanyahu.
Your political philosophy is flat, boring and self serving but that doesn't make you dishonest as some are claiming Rush to be.
Keep telling yourself that.
to depress turnout by rightist voters, by inducing apathy through disillusion.
The Dems can't control rightist voters -- only Bush can depress rightist turnout. And he can easily increase rightist votes by loudly proclaiming that global warming is bunk.
Why isn't he?
Me either. I do care about a president I funded and voted for enacting statist measure after statist measure. I care about a president I funded and voted for operating a "justice" department I can't tell from Janet Reno's, taking zero action to bring criminals to justice.
Rush's golf, acquaintances, callers and cigars don't mean diddly, you're right. Perfidy by a guy I helped elected means a whole lot.
Demonization of projected motives, typical liberal tactic.
sounds like another vast right wing conspiracy (TM),
boo scarrrry!
I didn't say we should necessarily attack Saudi Arabia. I said they shouldn't be called a "friend", because they aren't.
Shame on us.
Unless he adapts to the changing situation post 9/11 Rush will become an anachronism and increasingly less significant for all his oratorical skills.
He's becoming boring because he's in danger of becoming irrelevant.
RAINES OF TERROR: Did you get through that New Yorker Ken Fellata piece on the New York Times under Howell Raines? Okay, I did. But I share Tim Noah's skepticism about the caveats in the piece about the Times' doing well under Raines. Pulitzers are establishment prizes given to establishment friends (with occasional credentializing outreach). And as Tim points out, "Chatterbox would argue that a major newspaper that can't sweep the Pulitzers in a year when a gigantic disaster befalls its hometown is a very poor newspaper indeed. The awards are as much for the disaster as they are for the coverage." I'm not just saying this because Mr Raines banished me, but I used to feel I was missing something when my Times didn't get delivered and I read the Washington Post instead. Now I don't. What I got from Auletta's piece was that Raines is a left-liberal populist ideologue, who likes to big foot his reporters and editors. Not that there's anything wrong with it! There are plenty of great editors who have been from a similar mold, and having a crusading, left-liberal paper, with more pop-culture and vivid writing could be a great addition to the reading world. But one thing it isn't: the paper of record. It has excised almost all non-left commentary from its op-ed and editorial columns. It is skewing news coverage in ways that will please Nation-readers like the hysterical Enron coverage, the bogus poll designed to argue that the public blamed Bush for Enron, or the burying of politically incorrect studies about the validity of racial profiling in speeding tickets. And it's increasingly happy assuming its readers agree with it. So it explains less and hectors and preens more. Again, this is fine. But let's acknowledge what it is. Raines is on a crusade for the populist left. And Raines is now the New York Times.
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(Andrew Sullivan in the Daily Dish, June 4, 2002)
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In the future, on this issue, jobs will flow into the country for one of 2 reasons:
A) We have reasonable enviromental controls
B) We have unreasonable environmental controls.
With Bush ACTING on emissions INDEPENDANT from Kyoto, he has positioned the country to react pro-activly as the issue unfolds in the future.
It's gonna shake out like this:
1) If the whole of the planet boycots every American product or service because of our lack of emission standards, Bush can act, INDEPENDANT from Kyoto, and save jobs.
or
2) If the whole of the planet can't afford American products and services because of overly opressive emission standards, Bush can act, INDEPENDANT from Kyoto, and save jobs.
Bush wins, the country wins, jobs win, warming wins. It's a quadrupal win that puts us first.
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