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Thursday, April 17, 2008

Shaft Not Shift

CNN: Bush shifts on climate change
Revising his stance on global warming, President Bush proposed a new target Wednesday for stopping the growth of the nation's greenhouse gas emissions by 2025.

The new White House climate initiative comes as Bush appears, in the view of congressional Democrats and environmentalists, as increasingly irrelevant in the climate debate both on the domestic and international stage.
With 7 wasted years down the drain on this dramatically important issue, Bush punts it to 2025.

He did his job. He kept corporations as happy as pigs in s**t. In the last 8 years, gas mileage has improved by a whisper, gas prices have tripled, home heating fuel is prohibitively expensive, and the White House did nothing to promote alternative energy on any type of relevant, small, or grand scale. The key word is nothing.

This searching for a legacy Bush thing is actually Presidential later mid-life crisis. Somebody get this guy something so he can go cut brush. Environmentalists are kind in calling Bush not relevant, he is the problem.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Well that is an interest look and commentary. I couldnt agree more on the years of inaction. I would say though that this is still a shift in thinking though. For year his administration has going out of its way to frame climate change as to paraphrase "still under going significant debate over the role and degree of human influnce". This announcement is a significant departure from the posture his administration took. True its a little late and not enough for anything to happen at this point in his term, but just symbolically this gives me something to smile about as its at least something somewhat progessive from wingers.

Carl Szczerski (Canada)

Jim Sande said...

I think at his core Bush believes that wealth particularly material wealth is connected with a divine privilege theory. He has worked during his term ceaselessly to bring massive wealth into the hands of a few elite corporate managers. Global warming 'theories' are nothing more than further constraints on the type of wealth producing business that corporations do.

Also global warming is essentially an issue brought forth by progressives. Any ascent or acknowledgment of the issue moves away from the intense sense of loyalty found within the ranks of the authoritarians in the Republican party.

I believe that Bush is also essentially a determined politician who loves the win and the campaign but hates policy making. Based on this aspect of his career, I can only conclude that he is making this 'shift' based on some type of political calculation.

There are really only two foremost concerns for Bush. He needs a legacy, and he needs to bolster the Republicans.

Americans in general are behind global warming as a huge and important issue that needs attention. I believe Bush is merely calculating that this makes Republicans appear as environmentally conscious which in general they are not - Inhofe, McConnel yeow.

Essentially we need to step over these people. They can will remain weights but we need to act as you know. I think the debate with a need to change minds is not important. We simply need a whole new set of leaders. The opportunity for that new set is there. Bush is playing a Rovian hand to mess with that in the minds of Americans. He is using his massive megaphone to broadcast a deception.

BTW thanks for commenting, please do so again!!

Glynn Kalara said...

BV$H is as Ralph Nader ( the man who ironically put him office) not really a person at all. He's a Corp. masquerading as a person. Well we can all see what occurs when American style fascism rules because thats exactly what we've had for the last 8yrs.