It's telling that the Bush Administration -- the gang that has been grabbing power for the executive branch since Day One -- says that only Congress can deal with climate change policy.  Seems like a total delaying tactic to me.  The Bush gang knows that nothing is going to happen in this Congress, so they try to push the responsibility to them.

The Bush logic:  it's OK for unelected bureaucrats in the Office of the Legal Council to legalize torture or for unelected bureaucrats in the Dept of the Interior to allow destruction of West Virginia wilderness via mountaintop mining, but bureaucrats must not do anything to slow climate change.

How does Bush spell renewable?

Re-nuclear.

Technology-neutral: large centralized nuclear power plants.  

Dave,

You're exactly right on this. This is the speech I've actually been fearing for quite some time.

What is of almost greater concern to me is that the Republicans who are fighting what would have been a  completely limp approach are still going to be in the Senate in 2009 and will be very likely to throw up as many parliamentary roadblocks as possible (see  Coburn, Tom) regardless of who is elected in November.  

This is just a reminder that we're not nearly as close to federal action as we need to be.

And another 15+ years of emissions growth? As you say, that'd be nothing short of a disaster.

Is that the long term damage Bush is doing to his political party exceeds the long-term damage he's doing to the planet.

It is easy to score comedy points on our President's latest climate mitigation mumbling, but how best advance the ball?

Republicans typically lead with the economy and the party line is to frame this as a debate between cheap (dirty) energy and expensive clean energy.  Nice sound bite, wrong facts.

The debate is between expensive dirty energy and clean cheap energy.  The rising cost of fossil fuels without improved efficiency is strangling the economy. The sub-prime mortgage crises is not the only thing tanking the U.S. economy.  Rising costs of energy services are hammering everyone.

Can the economy afford to keep increasing the fossil fuel it burns for the next 17 years?  Whomever leads the way to reducing energy costs will gain an inside track to the White House.

Frame the issue for what it is.  Reducing GHG emissions is an economic imperative.

Tom Casten, Chair, Recycled Energy Development LLC

What else would you expect from the man who brought you the war in Iraq. By the way we just spent a trillion dollars and over 4000 lives in order to hand that country over to Iraq. The most radical moslem country in the middle east.

This is the man you need to fix your global warming problem.

The eons of time and nature was good to us down here. It was not until we become civilized that destroying our habitat become fathomable or fashionable.

Talking Heads in my head all night...

Wait hes still alive?