BUSH DISMISSES ADMINISTRATION REPORT ON 'WARMING'

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[CoolGuyVic]

"'I read the report put out by the bureaucracy,' Bush said dismissivly... "

More to come, I'm sure

[Registered]

Are you listening to Rush? Let me ask you what he is asking,"Who is responsible for this report? Bush? Some low level rogue? Christy Todd Whitman?"

[rintense]

Personally, I think Dubya has a laptop with bug connections to all offices, and then keeps a little black book with names... LOL. Ask the 25% of FBI agents who got canned. HAHAHA!

[eleni121]

You gotta love the way Bush plays everyone especially the Left...what a master manipulator...does Macchiavelli proud.

Go Bush!

[VRWC_minion]

This administration doesn't rely on false accusastions to change government jobs like the last one did

You are missing the point. Bush's popularity is so strong all he needs to do is walk by these folks and they will immediately change their minds and agree with conservatives. Otherwise all that clout is worthless. And why doesn't Bush do it ? Because he secretly is a liberal.

[RFH]

The career bureaucrats in the environmental agencies that don't support the president's agenda are being moved out, slowly but surely. See:
Critics Resigning Over Bush's Green Rules
"Longtime, key officials who favor conservation say they are frustrated by new rules (and are leaving in droves)"

[MJY1288]

Wasn't it just yesterday that we told we were spinning, But look who's spinning this now :-)

[B Knotts]

Well, it is (marginally) better in that it sends the message that the President is not embracing the "humans are the problem (at least in part)" message embodied in that report.

It still looks bad, though, in that the left will now be able to mock the administration for the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Actually this would be an excellent time for the admistration to hit a home run. Play up the fact that disloyal career civil servants were pursuing their own agenda directly contrary to the adminstration's position. Highlight the number of holdovers, the difficulting in removing troublemakers, and the high degree of beauracratic insulation from accountability. Talk about a divided gov't.

Then parallel it with the 'what did he know' scenario garbage. Show how renagade bureaucrats can wreck havok within our gov't, offering misleading and damaging leaks, and withholding vital information. Cuts out any potential legs for these witch-hunt Congressional investigations, highlights the real problems of a divided gov't, and gives Bush a stronger platform to start campaigning the public for a housecleaning, both inside the agencies and in November.

[Mo1]

I guess tomorrow we can expect his "I was just trying to get you thinking" speech.

FOFL ... Ya think

[rintense]

I am not listening to Rush. Yesterday was the first time in three months, and that was enough. And for the record, Rush did not attack the report yesterday, he attacked the President. Seems to me that today, based on comments posted, it's Rush who is doing the U turn.

[ScreamingFist]

"He just said he read the report and rejected it; he, unlike many here, didn't reject it before he READ it"

Got it, thanks.

[Redleg Duke]

"Christy Todd Whitman should have put the stake in this one early."

Maybe Christy is being fitted for a stake this afternoon.

[Redleg Duke]

ITALLICS OFF!

[Dane]

Answer this...do you wish Bush came out yesterday BEFORE this whole thing blew up and dismissed the report? Or do you think waiting until he upset a lot of his supporters and got some liberals to go on record as supporting his report was a good thing?

This was a hack job of the NYT in which the frothing mouths decided to whore around with. This was a minor little report blown out of proportion.

But this episode did demonstrate to me the disingenuous of the frothing mouth crowd.

[Registered]

Rush is not doing a U-Turn. He is asking, who is responsible for this report, Bush, a rogue, Whitman....who?

[marajade]

"If Rush could call the WH today, why didn't he call them yesterday, before he went on air??"

I don't know? Maybe he didn't have enough time to do research and just went with what Drudge had? I've got to admit its got to be a first for Rush not to do his homework and just trust Drudge. I mean I think Drudge's middle name is: "sensationalize". I went to Lucianne.com today and you would think of Drudge's relationship with Lucianne that Drudge would have a huge following over there... Let me tell you, there creaming Drudge over there too.

Rush made a mistake. Let's see if he's man enough to admit it.

[concerned about politics]

Kinda how those who claimed to voted for Dubya are doing their best to flog him now. Hummm.... If people can change their minds about the President, why the heck can people change their minds about Rush?

He campaigned as a Christian conservative only 2 years ago. How did all of us know he would lie too, especially after his dad and Clinton? It didn't take long for him to show his true colors. Where is the less spending/smaller government he promised?
RUSH has been steady with his message for years. He's never lied. He's still Rush. He sticks to his core values, whether the BushBots like it or not. That's an honorable trait.

[Bahbah]

"Very well considered comments" she said thoughtfully.

[rintense]

And this is the legacy of the Clinton adminstration. They were SO eager to tell the public what they were doing, and leaks were 'so in a hurry' to reveal the plans, that we have come to expect to know everything before it even happens. Dangerous stuff, IMO.

[Sabertooth]

And I was just starting to enjoy watching all these neocons discussing the real aspects of global warming.

Yeah, that actually was a nice little sidelight to this fiasco.

Not including you in this camp, Howlin, but there's more than one type of egg on more than one group of faces this morning, no?