Posted on 06/04/2002 10:06:01 AM PDT by CoolGuyVic
"'I read the report put out by the bureaucracy,' Bush said dismissivly... "
More to come, I'm sure
Look .. I realize that laws and funding will not stop abortions
Abortions have been going on for many many many years even before Roe v. Wade
But like Grandpa said .. one step at a time .. we cannot solve this problem over night and it will take some time to get people to understand exactly what they are doing
Now I don't mean to bug out but I need to get dinner on the table and help the kiddies to study for finals ..
BBL
Thank you for your kind words Marajade, but don't build up my ego too much, I might start acting like limbaugh or the other reactionary Bush basher know it alls on FR. :^)
I grant that 20 a year is a problem, but it it worth the destruction of 260 million lives when you destroy the economy?
How many REAL LIVES are going to be ruined and REAL HEALTH hazards increased (or worsened/shortened) by the depression that results when the US economy is cut by 20% to meet your artificial atmospheric limts?
I can remember Bush debating Gore, claiming he was for smaller government, and Gore wasn't. LOL. decieving, wasn't it? Ever read the patriot Act? WoW.
Well, to be honest, it did appear that the bushies had done a 180 on the issue.
However, Rush is generally open to making apologies when appropriate.
"The administration blames mostly human actions for recent global warming and says the main culprit is the burning of fossil fuels that send heat-trapping greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere. George W. Algore, anyone?"
If you look up this thread a few hours, you will find some people defending Rush, telling us that HE never said that, that some caller said that.
You? Never...
Rush is the consistent one. Everyone yesterday was saying the NYT mischaracterized the report. But Bush distanced himself from the report. Rush is right, Bush is right and you and your anti-Rush buddies are wrong. Get over it.
You must be pleased as you and Rush are obvously of a mind set and no matter what this President did you would find vocal and vitriolic fault. You are not less rediculous today than you were yesterday.
Because of a years long habit of listening to Rush, although recently I have been very disappointed in his programs, and because I heard Drudge going hysterical Sunday night on his program, yesterday I decided to tune in to Rush to see if he was going to address the issue of this EPA report.
To answer your question, it seems to me that he has been fixated on Bush 'not doing enough, not using the bully pulpit, signing CFR, hugging Ted Kennedy, etc etc. The moment he said George W Gore is the last moment I will listen in the future.
And to answer your question: no, he has not been spending much time at all promoting Republican candidates, or judgeships or criticizing Democrats. Probably 80% Bash Bush and 20% Bash democrats - that is 80:20 of the 25% that is not devoted to golf, Marta conversations or outings with the rich and powerful.
The only example I can think of is the addition of MTBE in California gasoline as a means of controlling carbon monoxide emissions from cars. MTBE is toxic and cancer causing, and leaking underground storage tanks has resulted in a few cases of MTBE getting into groundwater. But there are alternatives to MTBE in terms of gasoline oxygenates. The choice was made by gasoline producers, and it turned out to be a bad choice; it wasn't a case of bad law.
The banning of DDT by the enviro whackos results in the daily deaths of people in Africa and other third world countries the equivalent of several fully loaded 747's going down each day. Malaria will kill you, if you don't kill the mosquitoes.
The addition of MTBE in the gasoline in Kali resulted in a lot of car fires as the MTBE ate away the neophrene gaskets and started car fires while people were in their cars or when they parked their cars in garages below their apartments and condos. In the early days of MTBE in our cars, we had deaths from fires caused by the MYBE eating away the neophrene gas gaskets.
MTBE is a known carcinogen and may be giving cancer to all of us in Kali as it has polluted over 20,000 drinking water sites. MTBE was put in as a clean air mandate. Our pumps say that MTBE is hazardous to the environment.
Last year 3 young fire fighters lost their lives in Washington due to a cluster you know what of enviral laws. First of all envirals prevent any clearing of dead wood, brush and other burnable materials in the forest where they were killed to protect some epa critter. Then, when the fire broke out and pinned them down, the helicopter with a water bucket could not pick up water from the near by stream to protect them. There were so called endangered native trout and steelhead in the stream. Stupid enviral whacko forestry rules killed those 3 young forestry workers last summer.
When loggers, ranchers, farmers and others lose their jobs, lands and work due to Rural cleansing by the enviral whackos, many people commit suicide when their money runs out and they have no alternative. The families in these targeted rural cleansing areas become dysfunctional and dangerous to the members of the family.
Just a few examples of how enviralists can kill you or hurt you. Oh yeah, the last way is the most wicked way. I have yet to meet an enviral elite who doesn't push abortions 24/7. That kills people, the innocent babies. The elite envirals hate all humans except themselves and those who wait on them.
Sure you do. Your little ones are so small that they can't possibly eat more than once a day. ;-)
I agree that we have to move back to sanity and decency incrementally. But so few people understand R -v- W, they think a decision by SCOTUS solves the problem. If laws worked, the would be no more murders at all, not just murders of innocent unborns. We have a long way to go, and I know you won't like this, but I'm not totally convinced that W is the man who can get us there. He has disappointed me too many times. I voted for him. I worked to get him elected. But I held my nose the whole time. Maybe disappointed is too strong a word. I voted for him over Gore because I couldn't stand the thought of "Gore" and "President" being used together, but a year before he even announced any interest in running, I knew he was going to be the next POTUS. I started holding my nose then and while working on the Keyes campaign.
| C|E|I | competitive enterprise institute |
Washington, D.C., June 3, 2002—The Environmental Protection Agency’s latest report on global warming to the United Nations, Climate Action Report 2002, violates an agreement between the White House and the Competitive Enterprise Institute, three members of Congress, and other non-profit advocacy groups, struck in settlement of a lawsuit. The report relies in part on the discredited National Assessment on Climate Change.
As a result of the lawsuit filed in October 2000, the Bush Administration ultimately agreed in September 2001 to withdraw the National Assessment and stated that its unlawfully produced conclusions are “not policy positions or official statements of the U.S. government.” EPA has ignored this agreement in issuing its report to the United Nations.
“Through Freedom of Information Act inquiries, we learned that the National Assessment was hurriedly slapped together in an incomplete and inaccurate form,” said Christopher C. Horner, CEI counsel who filed the lawsuit. “The current Climate Action Report inappropriately cites the disgraced National Assessment, in clear violation of the spirit and letter of our agreement with the White House in return for withdrawing our suit.”
Adds Myron Ebell, director of global warming policy at CEI: “The Administration has recognized that the National Assessment is the worst sort of junk science. For the EPA now to accept the National Assessment’s findings as valid undermines and contradicts President Bush’s global warming policies. The EPA needs to be told that the Clinton Administration is gone and Al Gore did not win the election.”
The lawsuit against the White House’s flawed climate science was brought jointly by CEI, Senator James Inhofe (R-OK), Representatives Joe Knollenberg (R-MI) and Jo Ann Emerson (R-MO), and other non-profit advocacy groups. CEI’s pleadings in the case can be found in the docket at the federal District Court for the District of Columbia (CV 00-02383).
This makes it sound as though the EPA report is merely a rogue faction of the government defying the White House. But where's the statement to that effect from the administration? One can kinda-sorta-maybe read it into Bush's "bureaucracy" crack, but given that he's never argued against the very idea of "global warming", that would be a charitable stretch.
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