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Politics : WHO IS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT IN 2004 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (2572)	6/21/2003 6:43:04 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 10965

More Revisionist History ____________________________ Editorial Published on Friday, June 20, 2003 by the Baltimore Sun HOWEVER JUDICIOUSLY President Bush may be trying to handle Iran, when it comes to global warming it seems as though his administration is pushing the same sort of fudged reality that it pursued with Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. According to The New York Times, an Environmental Protection Agency report due next week was cleansed by the White House of references to the many studies blaming smokestack and tail-pipe emissions for climate change. In place of that material, the White House sought to insert a study underwritten by the oil industry that questions the role of fossil fuels in global warming. But EPA officials balked, preferring to leave the topic unaddressed. Mr. Bush is not the first president to allow political motives to color the information his government releases. But it's hard to remember one who was bolder about seeking to deceive Americans in order to serve his political backers. All the facts on Iraq are not yet in. But the Bush administration's calculated manipulation of years of climate change research that his friends in the energy industry consider hostile to their economic interests gravely undermines his credibility in other areas. Does he only play fast and loose with the truth where oil is involved, or is every subject fair game? If this sounds harsh, consider the pre-revised history. Global warming, of course, was Al Gore's issue. He wrote a book about climate change long before he ran against Mr. Bush for the White House. But many later studies supported Mr. Gore's conclusion that man-made greenhouse gases trapped in the Earth's atmosphere were a major contributor to the warming trend. The EPA and the National Academy of Sciences both issued reports last year targeting carbon dioxide emissions from power plants and vehicle exhausts as primary sources of these greenhouse gases. But Mr. Bush, who as a presidential candidate called for limiting power plant emissions, now seems determined to forestall such costly consequences for the energy industry by raising doubts about whether it is truly at fault. Last year, he simply dismissed the EPA report as a document "put out by the bureaucracy." This year, his political aides headed off EPA at the pass. These tactics come straight out of a playbook put out by GOP pollster Frank Luntz to help Mr. Bush deal with environmental issues - his political Achilles' heel. On global warming, Mr. Luntz urged opponents of regulatory controls to "make the lack of scientific certainty a primary issue in the debate. ... Should the public come to believe that the scientific issues are settled, their views about global warming will change accordingly." So the debate goes on, and the air gets dirtier and hotter and nothing is done - our own weapon of mass destruction. But its first casualty is the value of Mr. Bush's word. Copyright © 2003, The Baltimore Sun commondreams.org

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (2572)	6/21/2003 8:01:08 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 10965

''If there's one person in this country who ought to be laid off, it's George Bush.'' Kerry Rips Bush on Economy By Holly Ramer The Associated Press Thursday 19 June 2003 truthout.org NEWPORT, N.H. (AP) A president who has allowed the loss of 2.5 million jobs should be the next worker to get pink-slipped, Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry said Thursday. Speaking at a small library art gallery, Kerry noted that New Hampshire voters have a reputation for fiscal conservatism. But he said there is nothing conservative about the Bush administration racking up a huge deficit or having an attorney general who tramples on civil rights. ''There's nothing conservative about them; they're extreme,'' he said. ''If there's one person in this country who ought to be laid off, it's George Bush.'' Kerry laid out his views on education and the environment, tying both to jobs. Greater investments in schools will produce skilled workers, he said, and bringing new technology to the search for alternative energy sources will create jobs. ''We don't have a worker shortage in America, my friends,'' he said. ''We have a skill shortage in America because we're not paying attention.'' Kerry said he has the strongest environmental record of anyone running for president, describing his role in blocking oil drilling in the arctic wildlife reserve. ''I led the fight that stopped them in their tracks from drilling,'' he said. He urged people to get involved, to vote in 2004. ''We need to get angry. We've got to get out and talk to folks who somehow think that some bumper-sticker slogan about guns or gays or something is the reason they ought to get out and vote, when they're getting killed in the economy,'' he said. ''They're getting killed at school, they don't have any health care, the air is polluting their lungs and their lives are not the quality they ought to be,'' he said. ''You can't just walk out of this library today and complain.''