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Bushism will endure

Posted by David Roberts at 2:26 PM on 06 Jun 2008

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"There has occasionally been voiced the misimpression that a future administration will take a significantly different attitude towards climate than this administration."

-- deputy national security adviser Dan Price

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by hapa at 2:45 PM on 06 Jun 2008

Misimpression?

That is a seriously convoluted sentence, even for a politician.

by kmp at 4:16 PM on 06 Jun 2008

Spineless Worms

Price is trying make the Bush Administration seem legit by claiming that the next administration won't be any different. He's the worst president ever and they just can't own up to it. Spineless amoral worms.

by Cacaoatl at 12:16 AM on 07 Jun 2008

Is he related to Inhofe?

Maybe a secret love child. Wait a second. Someone making love with Inhofe. Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! Creeps me out.

Randy Cunningham
Cleveland, OH

Randy Cunningham

by randino at 6:39 AM on 07 Jun 2008

In a convoluted sort of way, he's right!

A friend said: "You gotta hand it to Lieberman-Warner-Boxer et al. They [the good cop] have perfected the good cop, bad cop routine with the rest of the Senate [the bad cop] to such a fine art ... only a fool [or a 'misimpressioned' citizen] would think ['that a future administration will take a significantly different attitude towards climate than this administration.']"

by LGT at 10:30 PM on 08 Jun 2008

Price Is Right

I can dream with the best of you, but if you think Barak Obama or John McCain, both of whom fully support the coal and nuclear industries -- the latter of which also contributes significantly to global warming -- will do anything substantial, I've got a few bridges I'll sell you. You must also think the U.S. is a democracy or, for you more educated readers, a republic. If so, I've got an entire package of bridges for you, really cheap!

There's no way that the ruling class would allow a U.S. presidential candidate to get the nomination of one of the major parties if (s)he posed a serious threat to their wealth. But without posing that threat, no one can make significant progress in fighting global warming, because it's the creation and maintenance of that wealth that drives the problem.

What the U.S. seriously needs is a major revolution, whether it's peaceful violent, or somewhere in between. Without that, nothing significantly good will happen on this issue. And a revolution won't come from people who've either had it far too good for far too long (most Americans) or from people too selfish, myopic, and shortsighted to sacrifice their environmentally destructive lifestyles and/or dreams for the Earth.

Sorry for the dose of reality, but as a wilderness and wildlife advocate, I've been living it for decades.

by Wolverine at 3:12 PM on 10 Jun 2008

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