Yes, all those countries have signed. All industrialized nations except the US. Politically, pragmatically, environmentally, symbolically all very negative that Bush makes us all look like we don't care and are isolationists. Something you'd expect out of Buchanon but not a mainstream president. I'll bet Bush is pressured into flip-flopping on this soon. It's bad policy and bad karma. Just like his father's "Read my lips", he tried to play the tough bully macho man dictator but his power and respect are eroding to the danger point where they may have to capitulate and thus leave GW where his father was left, as a neutral character without real direction or vision. Only difference is his father had much-much more experience, qualifications, respect from peers, devotion to the job and even intelligence. When Bush Jr. flip-flops on Kyoto his people will try to spin it as a victory because he'll get some concessions, but in reality it will be big-time damage cotnrol. He simply cannot go into the 2002 elections as the alienating backward loner who listens to no one but old oil and power cronies. The way it looks like now you have to wonder if Bush even has any friends left. He may have to dump Chcney or be stuck with a dangerous dinosaur. Conservatives are worried, moderates are alienated, Democrats are firmly against almost everything he's trying to do, the press haven't even begun to give him hell and the allies are saying "okay, then screw you too, Junior". Meanwhile we have a real economic problem here and that is not being addressed. Now that he's made his big non-decision on stem cell research it's time to cheerlead for the economy, stupid. Only problem is, what's good for Texas is usually bad for the economy so he's going to have to learn something about how the rest of the country (and world) works. He needs to quit his pimping for the oil and gas business and actually start representing the country.
New from California, we actually have a power glut here. So much extra we may have to sell it at a loss somewhere. So much for Cheney's Big Lie saying we need 1900 new power plants. And now you can see how the "energy crisis" was just a scam played on us by Bush-Cheney cronies going hog-wild at the troughs. If there had been a real shortage why would we have gluts now? Exactly. |
