In his State of the Union address, President Bush threw away the last opportunity he had to save his historical legacy. He continued his business-as-usual do-nothing approach on global warming, which is the gravest threat facing the American way of life. As I wrote earlier in a column for the Center for American Progress web site:
President George W. Bush believes history will end up judging him favorably. He compares himself to Harry Truman who left office unpopular in large part because of a difficult war on the Korean peninsula but who is now admired by historians. President Bush suffers from an unpopular war, too, yet absent a dramatic reversal in President Bush's climate policies--never mind Iraq--it's a good bet that neither historians nor future generations of Americans will ever warm to President Bush.
Predicting the long-term consequences of the president's misguided and mismanaged invasion of Iraq is impossible. But it is not at all difficult to detail the suffering that humanity faces because of global warming. If the United States "stays the course" with President Bush's non-interventionist climate policies over the next decade, then by the third decade of this century all of American life--politics, international relations, our homes, our jobs, our industries, the kind of cars we drive--will be forever transformed.
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d41295 Posted 7:50 am
25 Jan 2007
> do-nothing approach on global warming,
> which is the gravest threat facing
> the American way of life.
I think the greatest threat to the American way of life is clearly the collapse of our system of health care, which is now even threatening middle class Americans with average employer-sponsored health programs. Global warming won't really hit the fan for another 30, maybe 40 years. Health care's problems is already affecting tens of millions of Americans, and perhaps over 100 million.
It will not matter if the sea has risen another 6 cm when you cannot afford the root canal you painfully need and the co-pay for your wife's second melanoma costs you $37k. Let's see you complain then about Greenland's melting glaciers.
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sunflower Posted 8:02 am
25 Jan 2007
The mentally ill do not respond to external stimuli like the rest of us.
The long-term prognosis is not good.
Congress must restrict his Iran privileges, now.
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mcar2185 Posted 10:07 am
25 Jan 2007
I can't wait for Bush to leave office. Hopefully we get a better president next time.
-mcar2185 at http://www.eco-cide.com
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Biodiversivist Posted 11:57 am
25 Jan 2007
d41295,
I hear you. The health care system is just icing on the cake. Maybe we should use impeachment proceedings to gain his cooperation while we still have him for two years. We have to do something about the health care issue, and soon.
In the end, it all comes down to biodiversity. Poison Darts--Protecting the biodiversity of our world
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