to continue advocating tax cuts, let the free market take care of the problem, oppose state programs that are actually addressing the problem (like that radical "patch-work" plan in in California), drag our feet in international negotiations, and basically pass the buck to the next administration. Cheers!

The last remaining roadblock to Grist Ecologists voting Republican has been removed!

Welcome to the G.O.P.!

This makes it so that Bush and McCain are now perfectly in lockstep on policy issues.

Jabailo: Well, other than the fact that they are fascist authoritarians and mass-murderers, yes, then they may well get another look-see from me. When the 10th level of Hell thaws. I don't know though. I remember reading some wag comment in Adbusters Magazine a couple years ago that the Republicans are the party that wants to give our country away to the corporate fascists immediately, but that the Democratic Party wanted to take a go-slow, wait and see approach. I had to think honestly about that a few seconds, and concluded that by and large, with a few exceptions, at least on a national level, the author of those comments was correct. Bravery, common sense, intellectual curiosty, and foresight are not the hallmark of most of todays political, corporate and institutional management. "Leader" is a term I use very sparingly, lest it become like the currently devalued "hero".

Now I hope that I am reading your piece correctly.The republicans want to give the whole show away to corporate facists,and so do the democrats but the democrats want to go more slowly.I can get behind that.You can't trust either party.It is a revolting,revolving game.One party screws us and screws us til we get a few grains of intelligence.Then we vote the bums out and the other party waltzes in and finesses our meager mentality until we kinda catch on that they too are just using us,ad infinitum.

The last remaining roadblock to Grist Ecologists voting Republican has been removed!

How 'bout a viable and workable climate plan?

That's a pretty good roadblock.

Also, this would've been much less of a roadblock had they actually released it 4 years ago...when they were supposed to.

The folks in the current administration and their right side of the aisle counterparts aren't Republicans.  Teddy Roosevelt asked me to make this post.

Archigeek and Usandthem,

As Jerry Brown once said, the only difference between the Democrats and Republicans is the pace of destruction.  While a slower paces is obviously not as bad as a faster one, neither is acceptable.  That's why I vote Green, and even those people are too conservative.