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Bushie Jr. Renegs quicker than Senior

Oh yeah, during the campaign he was a going to be new kind of leader. Why, he actually pretended to give a damn about the environment! Ah, but us Dems knew better, didn't we? So perhaps we weren't so surprised by his reversal on clean air initiatives, though we might have been caught off guard on the speed of said reversal.

I liked this guy's take on it all. It's a transcript of an auditory radio report from CBS:

Dave Ross Commentaries

Mar 15, 2001
BUSH
REFER TO AUDIO LINK.

Oh, those definitions.

You think a word means one thing, and then it turns out it meant another thing all along.

In a speech in Saginaw Michigan, on September 29th, George W. Bush was clear. He was actually MORE of an environmentalist than Al Gore.

He was not just in favor of reducing power plant emissions -- he wanted to make those cuts MANDATORY:

TAPE:

A little stumble there - but he eventually settled on the word Carbon DIOXIDE - and notice he said he would REQUIRE reductions.

It reassured Democrats that this guy Bush was no ordinary Republican. He REALLY cared about the environment.

Some Republicans thought it was a typo. but it was no typo. Christie Whitman, head of the EPA, kept saying the same thing: that this administration would regulate carbon dioxide. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill joined the chorus.

And then something changed.

The President is NOW saying that because of the power crisis, he would have to cancel his promise, and CO2 would now be AOK. But was it the power crisis that made him change his mind?

According to the Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks campaign funding, the coal industry raised 3.4 million dollars for Republican candidates and causes last year, including $114,000 for the president.

And the coal industry didn't want the rules. The National Mining Association didn't want the rules. The Competitive Enterprise Institute didn't want the rules. James Harlass, head of a West Virginia Mining company that gave 100,000 dollars to the Bush Inaugural fund didn't like the rules.

And now, they have nothing to worry about. Because, upon further research, it turns out that Carbon Dioxide is not a pollutant under the Clean Air Act anyway.

You see? It all depends on what the definition of a pollutant is.

Now this.

http://www.710kiro.com/daveross_commentary.jsp

Bush is a freakin' idiot! First, he undermines consumer confidence by talking up recessionary fears so that he can pass his tax cuts. Now he's going to talk up an energy crisis so that he can pay back his wealthy contributors.

This dim wit is trying to paint the bleakest picture possible in order to emerge as Super President to the rescue, when we all know that if things turn around it will just be because of Greenspannie On the Spot cleaning up his own prior interest rate mess from last year.

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