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January 19, 2006
Betcha He's Still Too Stupid To Listen
Global warming isn't just a liberal conspiracy or a Hollywood fabrication anymore... now even Republicans are admitting it. In a damning indictment of George W. Bush's irresponsibility and individual fault over global warming, six former heads of the EPA -- five of them Republicans -- clobbered the current administration's ostrich-like position on global warming on Wednesday.
“I don’t think there’s a commitment in this administration,” said Bill Ruckelshaus, who was EPA’s first administrator when the agency opened its doors in 1970 under President Nixon and headed it again under President Reagan in the 1980s.
Russell Train, who succeeded Ruckelshaus in the Nixon and Ford administrations, said slowing the growth of “greenhouse” gases isn’t enough. “We need leadership, and I don’t think we’re getting it,” he said at an EPA-sponsored symposium centered around the agency’s 35th anniversary. “To sit back and just push it away and say we’ll deal with it sometime down the road is dishonest to the people and self-destructive.”
Gee, imagine that: the Bush administration being dishonest to the people. In other news, Pamela Anderson has implants.
Christie Whitman, the first of three EPA administrators in the current Bush administration, said people obviously are having “an enormous impact” on the earth’s warming. “You’d need to be in a hole somewhere to think that the amount of change that we have imposed on land, and the way we’ve handled deforestation, farming practices, development, and what we’re putting into the air, isn’t exacerbating what is probably a natural trend,” she said. “But this is worse, and it’s getting worse.”
Yeah well, Christie, Bush is most certainly in a hole somewhere. He's got his head up his...
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