Day: May 14, 2007

When Will Bush Wake Up on Global Warming? Stardate Unknown

Trish

“The market-based approach seems to work.” — White House Spokesperson Tony Snow, commenting on the anti-strategy employed so far by the Bush Administration to fight global warming, which has brought natural systems around the world to the brink of collapse.

Remember the Star Trek episode where the Enterprise crew is in an alternate universe and everyone is lusty and mean, wears midriff t-shirts, and Spock has a beard?

Is Tony Snow living there? Because back here in this universe, I cannot conceive how anyone could look at the market-based approach to global warming and see something that comes anywhere close to “working.”

Quote du Jour

Buck Banks

If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.

— Abraham Lincoln, 16th U.S. President

Stand By for Change of Subject

Trish

ABC is reporting that Bush will speak at 1:25 p.m. EST, imploring Congress to implement his stupid, corn-fed, greenhouse gas belching, Big Ag buddies enriching, global warming worsening energy plan that no one paid any attention to during his State of the Union address because it does absolutely nothing to fix the problem.

But hey, maybe it will get people to focus less on his endless failings, his neocon attempts to overthrow our republic, and his incitement of the world’s animosity toward each and every one of us.

Or not.