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
Yes, on purpose, as I always do.
Quite not, it's only just I've seen this particular routine before......therefor my YAWN to your first post.
BTW, your "born on date" = June 3?
OK .. I'll bite .. who is the 2% that should get our tax dollars???
Strange you should mention that, because this whole episode with Rush reminds me so much of the Keysters tactics. Stir up a whole lot of controversy, get the base all upset, and call oneself....."holier than thou"......
What is so strange to me is how fast the "keysters" (as RUSH originally named them) were so happily jumping on the Rush bandwagon today. I mean, really,.......did he NOT torpedo their guy in the primary?
I agree with that. Foreign policy, he's doing very well. I have no complaints.
My complaints are National policies. After the war, we're stuck with every bill the Democrats put on his desk. We will all have to live with them, and the kids, and the grandkids. New social spending never goes away, nor do new programs. It's very rare to see anything in Wa. be cut back.
A progressive income tax that redistributes wealth, along with big government spending and never ending social programs constitutes SOCIALISM. Now, I am only calling it what it is. Maybe you agree with big government and progressive income taxes. Maybe most Americans do. That's okay, but if you do, at least admit that you are a socialist. I'm just calling Bush what he is. Apparently, most of America is happy with that. But it's still socialism.
Try this from the MRC (http://www.mediaresearch.org/realitycheck/2002/fax20020604.asp) in the FR posting at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/694626/posts :
The networks had no problem hitting Bush from the left when he had a conservative position on global warming. But now that Bush?s EPA has joined with liberals who say climate change is real and is caused by human activity, none of the networks even hinted at the wide array of scientists who still reject that premise. Instead, ABC, CBS and NBC last night gave airtime to critics who expressed disappointment that the administration had not slid further into the extremist camp.NBC used loaded language to indicate that Team Bush was late in accepting the reality of the liberal view. ?For the first time, this White House acknowledges human activity is responsible for greenhouse gases, and the problem poses some threats to this country?s future,? NBC?s Tom Brokaw argued last night. ?A dramatic shift, the Bush administration concedes it is mostly a man-made problem from pollution,? correspondent Robert Hager echoed a few moments later.
Hager revealed that the EPA report included the view that warming could have positive repercussions, including lower heating bills and longer growing seasons, but CBS and ABC skipped over those inconvenient paragraphs. ABC?s Terry Moran said it painted ?the starkest picture yet? of the allegedly dire consequences of unchecked warming, while CBS?s Bill Plante predicted ?heat waves, widespread drought, rising sea levels and coastal erosion.?
Plante lamented the lack of tough new regulations: ?The report offers no new ideas beyond the President?s plan to reduce greenhouse gases over the next decade through market incentives. Instead, it calls for adapting to the changing climate.? Moran said the proposals amounted to telling Americans to ?get used to it....The President has proposed some tax incentives and other things to reduce the intensity of global emissions, but that?s not enough, say environmentalists.
NBC?s Hager showed Harvard University?s Michael McElroy who slammed Bush from the left: ?It?s like being an alcoholic. So now you finally have found out that you have a drinking problem, but you?re not prepared to give up the booze. You simply would like other people to do it for you.?
Baloney? If global warming wasn't a top tier item on voters minds up until now, just wait until the media gets through with their frenzy by the elections in November. GWB will rue the day he allowed this report to go out.
You are so naive.
Ya might realize this isn't 1776 anymore
Even if you take those powers away from the Feds .. the States will still taxes the crap out of you
Gee calling us Socialist now .. Isn't that just special
BTW .. did ya happen to go to private schools as a kid .. or did you use the socialist money to pay for your education ??
Bush has been very consistent on Global Warming from the start of his campaign to the present time. He believes, based on what he has read and been told from both sides that there is warming going on. He also does NOT believe that Human contribution is significant enough to take actions that would wreck our nation's economy to fix.
That has been his stance from the beginning and that is why he made it one of his first policy decisions not to join the previous administration's embrace of the Kyoto accords. If you will remember, Al Gore PROMISED to meet Kyoto protocols even if the Congress refused to ratify the treaty. He said he would do it through the regulatory process without legislation. The scary part is, that he could, as president, constitutionally do it and would have done it.
We can't do that because Rush Limbaugh and other purist conservatives are so busy undermining the President and running around screaming the sky is falling like Chicken Little every time the NYT drops an acorn on their heads, that we won't get a Republican Senate in the Fall.
We won't get a Republican Senate and we won't get our judges and we can thank MissAmericanPie and all the rest of you Bush Bashers who are going to stay home and give the President a "slap in the face" for not being a stupid clone.
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