EPA ISSUANCE OF THE REPORTS STINGS THE BOSS

Ol Sparky: If this was put out against Bush's wishes -- and that is hard to believe given all of the other intentional compromises by this Administration -- then Christie Todd Whitman and any other else responsible for the release of the report MUST be fired. Nothing else is acceptable.

Here is what Ari Fleischer just said at the press conference. Does this sound like Christie Whitman or anyone else is going to be fired?

MR. FLEISCHER: No. Here's -- the bottom line for the President is, number one, he has made a proposal that he believes is a proposal that not only can reduce the problem of greenhouse gases and global warming, but also protects the American economy, so the American economy can lead the world in technological and scientific advances that also have an effect in reducing pollution. The President has said, citing the National Academy of Sciences, that the increase is due in large part to human activity. The President has also continued, citing both, now this report the EPA has sent to the United Nations, previous evidence from the National Academy of Sciences, that there's uncertainty -- and the recent report notes that there is considerable uncertainty. That's the state of science, and the President agrees with it. I don't think people dispute that.

Looks like they want it both ways.
--Raoul

If these people came on Civil Service at the end of the clinton era which it sounds like, they do not have career status (takes three years) and can be dismissed a lot easier as career conditional employees (former Civil Service here who helped get rid of an incompent employee -- took almost two years but we DID IT!). Undermining this Administration should get them terminated since they used flawed data in the report I believe to make this President look bad.

Or if they are in Senior Executive Service (SES) positions they serve at the pleasure of their boss -- Ms Whitman who I would believe is in trouble herself and could can them. I believe that normal Civil Service rules to not apply to SES positions! At least that is how I remember it when these SES positions were created. Some people who were GS-16's chose to stay GS-16's because they didn't want to take a chance on an SES.

The other day I stated that ms. Whitman might want to be looking around as this President NEVER forgets and this one from the EPA is a big foulup!

The other day I stated that ms. Whitman might want to be looking around as this President NEVER forgets and this one from the EPA is a big foulup!

I may be wrong, but I don't think that this is the first time that Ms. Whitman crossed the President. Maybe it wasn't her doing, but it is her department. Maybe she will clean house instead and prove that she actually is a republican. Maybe....

Again read what Ari Fleischer said. Did he talk w/o permission. No, this president is NOT a conservative & all of you that go to nebulous rationals to mold him that are becoming as foolish as the dems did for Bubba. But give GW one over Bubba as this media blockout of negativism makes Bubba look like schoolyard play.

SheLion: Me thinks Christie Todd Whitman wants to be a Bush Lap Dog! Just like she was with Clinton. Why President Bush doesn't dump her arse is beyond me. She is USELESS!!

Has the president fired Christie Whitman yet for the report? Or has he fired Ari Fleischer for saying that the president agrees that human activity has caused global warming? Or for Fleischer saying that it was old news, that Bush has believed it for a year since a speech about it last June? Just checking.
--Raoul

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