[clintonh8r]

Rush comes clean, sort of. How about the resident Bush-bangers?

[Coachm]

Bureuacracy(sp?) = EPA = Christie Whitman = RINO That about explains it!

[KQQL]

Someone at the EPA needs to be FIRED!

[UnBlinkingEye]

Who's more full of $hit, Rush or Bush? What would this forum be saying if Clinton tried to weasel his way out of his own administrations position?

[NittanyLion]

One thing that we know for sure, my friends, is that in most cases the attempt to do the right thing is always there with this administration.

In all cases, I can usually agree that this administration is trying to do the right thing, for the most part.

Did Rush throw enough qualifiers in there?

[gov_bean_ counter]

Folks, I had a conversation with people in the White House this morning

Don't tell me, let me guess. Rush lives in a white house and talked with Marta this morning. That is about as close as the big fraud will get to this "White House".

[Pokey78]

Rush backpeddles faster than Deion Sanders.

Sorry Rush, won't work with me.

[Slick]

His conclusion is bizarre. He claims that because Bush says he does not support Kyoto, he doesn't agree that Human beings have changed the environment in such a way as to cause global warming. This is simply wrong.

It is perfectly reasonable to conclude that human generated CO2 will cause global warming and that we shouldn't do anything at all about it. If you don't believe so, read the book 'The Skeptical Environmentalist', and his section on global warming.

Essentially, the author's conclusion is that any but the most well-designed program to deal with global warming will cost more than global warming will cost, so, unless this perfect program is implemented, from a cost-benefit analysis, it isn't worth it.

Because I trust politicians to come up with perfect solutions about the time hell freezes over, I support doing nothing to prevent global warming, and just dealing with the consequences of it. In time, economics will move us to non-poluting energy resources; until then, as you were.

[goldstategop]

The President listened. That's what I was hoping to see and I'm heartened. Let's hope the head of whoever put this Algore stuff out rolls.

[nunya bidness]

"I do not support the Kyoto treaty."

"To clarify, Mr. Bush has not withdrawn from Kyoto, nor otherwise rejected it. The State Department's recent denial of a formal request to reject the treaty instead hints that, by expressing disdain while remaining formally a "party" to Kyoto, the administration is instead playing chicken with the Europeans. If true, the Bush administration gambles it can leverage its role under Kyoto's terms to extract a deal more to Mr. Bush's liking, while the Europeans believe they can pressure the United States into ratifying the agreement that to this day, rhetoric notwithstanding, bears our valid signature."

Huh?

[Eva]

I can explain the difference between drilling off the coast of Florida and drilling in the ANWR. Bush is referring to the immediate environment in Florida, not the general world environment. The immediate environment in Florida is beautiful and inhabited by people as well as wildlife, the environment in ANWR is desolate and uninhabited by humans and the wildlife wouldn't notice the difference.

[rebelsoldier]

Conservatives are wasting their time hoping against hope that Bush isn't a wishy-washy, touchy-feely, Rockafeller liberal Republican that only pays lip service to conservatives and their cherished ideologies. In short, Bush cannot be salvaged or "turned" because he isn't what you want him to be. We are faced with yet another situation in which the "supposed" conservative leadership is anything but.

[billybudd]

Rush is a confused mess. That quote from Bush doesn't say anything about what Rush thinks it implies. Bush simply says that Kyoto is a bad idea. He doesn't say that global warming is uncertain. He doesn't say that humans aren't contributing to global warming. Where does Rush see all this? Because Bush used the word "bureaucracy"? That's an awfully marginal reason for Rush to totally change his tune from his complete bashing of Bush yesterday. Something is going on and I think Rush is feeling guilty about yesterday.

[CyberAnt]

"there was a far greater dislike and disgust with the Clinton administration among the general population than we ever knew"

I think Rush knew, because he said that 1 year after Clinton was impeached, the poll numbers that the dems touted so proudly had totally reversed. At impeachment, the polls supposedly said 75% of the public did not want Clinton removed from office. However, 1 year later, 75% of the public felt he should have been removed.

If you look at the President's numbers, at 76% ... to me it says the 75% of the public is still in the right corner.

This also reinforces my theory of why the dems cannot get anything to stick to Bush; people don't trust the dems because they lied about Clinton and his mess.

[self_evident]

"I read the report put out by the bureaucracy."

I couldn't, not in a million years, come up with a better one line answer to calm conservative fears on this issue. Awesome.

[lavaroise]

The president is not sinless, Rush is not sinless, they all agree to that, we all are a happy family and see eye to eye, IMHO.

[IronJack]

Well, maybe the president should have forcefully rejected the report. Then, since he IS the Chief Executive and these people supposedly work for him, maybe he should have a come-to-Jesus with the folks at the EPA, and enlighten some of them to other career options. Or would that be too decisive, too Republican to ask of a Republican president?

[DemoSmear]

Global Warming "evidence" refuted by Meteorologist