Dick, Dick, Dick

Just stay out of it, won’t you? 2

In an article about the Bush administration's halting, grudging baby steps toward maybe, somewhat, possibly considering the eensiest-beensiest mandatory restrictions on carbon emissions, perhaps, some day, if it doesn't cost any industry any money, we get this beautiful capper of a final paragraph:

A number of big businesses, including some oil, chemical and utility companies, view a cap-and-trade system such as Europe's as inevitable. Opposition to caps -- led by Vice President Dick Cheney -- remains powerful within the White House, according to people familiar with the deliberations.

Farce.

David Roberts is staff writer for Grist. You can follow his Twitter feed at twitter.com/drgrist.

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  1. sunflower's avatar

    sunflower Posted 6:53 am
    23 Jul 2007

    Going after the interests of Dickis like hitting a beehive with a stick.

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  2. mstessyrue Posted 8:39 am
    23 Jul 2007

    PovertyThis administration needs to prioritize the needs of the people in this country.  The US is part of the UN's Millennium Development Project, which has the goal of eliminating global poverty.  However by examining the conducts of our government, no poverty is reduced.  Rather, poverty has increased.  According to the Borgen Project, whose goal is to fight global poverty, it only takes $19 billion dollars annually stop world hunger and poverty.  However, more than $340 billion dollars has been put into the Iraq war at a rate of $2 billion dollars per week.  Our government needs to realize that it is indirectly funding poverty, violence and hunger, the three things that it pledged and vowed to eliminate.  It is time for a change.  

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