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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DavesM who wrote (170105)	8/10/2001 10:20:59 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 769667

Well I love the logic of someone is doing something and then nothing has happened yet so therefore we prove that someone can say two things and those who don't think about it make connections that have a short circuit. I turned off the bathroom light just now and I did not get fired so thus turning off the bathroom light in the American spirit of leaving poop smell in the dark does not cause unemployment. However it also does not stop the methane from the poop from being a green house gas. Ah the sweet smell of logic. tom watson tosiwmee

To: DavesM who wrote (170105)	8/11/2001 12:51:21 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

It's called increased efficiency, something Germany has aggressively mandated. We could as they have cut 20% by efficiency and conservation alone. Remember Germany is the country now leading the way in developing the next generations of fuel-efficient and alternative fuels engines. There was a plan in this country to increase efficency of air-conditioners which would have been very positive but Bush-Cheney slashed it as soon as they took office. It was a priority of theirs, it seems, and I'm sure you can trace it to soft money they received from some air-conditioner manufacturers who'd rather fight than switch. Another issue is fuel efficiency for SUV's. Critics say lighter trucks cause more fatalities but when Bush-Cheney back retaining gas guzzlers hey're hypocritical when they talk about our need for more drilling. Lighter trucks would greatly decrease our fuel needs. But Bush-Cheney oppose teling Detroit what to do. Much of this is market-driven. Detroit will either adapt or lose more market share. Notice no one is buying heavy SUV's anymore and you can get used ones very cheaply now. Ironically it has been mainly suburban women who've wanted the big SUV's in recent years, a power trip for them. But now you see them buying small mini SUV's from Japan. On the issue of power plants. We can't expect much but an attempt to return to old mistakes from Bush-Cheney but billions in R+D ought to be put into creating next generation energy plants instead of abandoning the discipline of Kyoto (and future treaties stemming from it) and to greatly reward clean power producers. Plenty of misleading PR ads on Tv about "clean coal" but coal can never be clean. It is the dirtiest form of energy and it's just false advertising. "Cleaner" maybe but still dirty. As for nuclear, sounds great but who wants a nuke plant in his backyard? No one. I drove past San Onofre yesterday and noticed no houses building within many-many miles. In other words that one nuke plant had killed real estate values of prime SoCal coast for 20 miles in every direction. Also even more worrisome, what to do with the spent fuel waste? Bush-Cheney want to ship it to Siberia and pay Russia tens of billions for that right. But what a mess. And again, no one not even Siberians want a nuke waste dump within 100 miles of where they live. In the ignorant old days we used to dump it in the ocean etc. but boy is that a bad idea. And anywhere on earth it can seep into ground water and underwater rivers and end up in your kid's drinking glass. No, nuke power is not the way to go either. The new Marshall Plan to develop hydrogen-solar and wind is the way to go but since the Energy Cartel cannot make money on that they use their tremendous influence to kill those programs, and they succeed especially with Bush-Cheney in charge. Met two Republican guys from Ohio this weekend both who voted for Bush and both of whom are entirely disillusioned with him now. They both feel great malaise wishing there was another election to pick another president and both amazgingly said "Bush cheated to win in Florida". I didn't have to say a word, they had already made up their minds he isn't presidential material and that they were snookered by the sales job on him last year. When I finally spoke and told them about my energy price manipulation theories they agreed but one said "yeah but how quickly people forget". I told them to wait until Lieberman gets his hands on those energy papers of Bush-Cheney's, then the story will be huge, maybe bigger than Watergate. They agreed on that too, and that the tax cut was more trouble than it was worth and that higher energy prices had already eaten it up. Also the tax cut has killed Bush's promises to beef up the military. No money left for it. And Tom Dascle's speech over the weekend about Star Wars being the "most expensive way to contain the lesat likely threat" is right-on. Also he noted that during the Star Wars test that "succeeded" recently the lasers were pre-programmed to know exactly when the missile was being launched, from where and the missile even had a homing beacon on it. As if any enemy would give us that info? And which enemy could threaten to laucnh such an attack anyway? None exist so far as I can see. Meanwhile Bush has alienated our allies completely. Anyway when Republican men like these lose faith in Bush-Cheney so quickly no matter how much the White House spin-doctors try to sell us the new "compassionate moderate Bush" image it may be impossible for them to ever turn him into a winner again, or to convince anyone that he's sincere or intelligent. This stem cell decision pleased no one. It was a cop out engineered by the spin room in The White House. Bush probably didn't even figure it out himself. But that is about all we can expect from this president, being cleverly handled so as to appear to keep one foot near the center and to keep the press and public opinion from skewering him too much. Clinton was the master of offering popular dynamic moderate new programs while in office. Bush is clumsily trying to copy this but it isn't working. His faith-based idea is a real blunder. Impossible to ever pass or manage. Pandering to religious groups is all it is. What else has he done besides gouge us to enrichen his cronies, threaten the environment and damage our alliances? Bush is already apologizing and backtracking on his initial anti-environmental moves but first impressions are difficult to erase. He would have to do a full 180 now and become an advocate for clean, efficient energy conservation but unfortunately for him he is stuck in a corner with the "toxic president" tattoo on his forehead, and it is a tag well-earned. He would also have to dump Cheney. But then who would run the White House? Rove, Card and what's her name his smart (but dishonest) PR lady? Colin Powell is doing a good job but you get the feeling he's on his own out there.