Saturday, July 12, 2008

You Can't Spell Bush Without BS

It has been a while since my last post, primarily because I have not had the stomach for all of the BS emanating out of Washington and particularly from the mouth of soon to be former President George Bush. Hey I just realized that you can't even spell Bush without the letters BS...how appropriate.

On Friday the BS administration rejected its own experts' conclusion that global warming poses a threat to the public welfare, launching a comment period that will delay action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at least until the next president takes office. For those unfamiliar with what I am talking about...the Environmental Protection Agency published a 588-page examination of the issues surrounding greenhouse gases but then refused to adopt its staff's findings that such gases could cause disastrous flooding and drought and affect food and water supplies in the near future. In their infinite wisdom President BS and his administration portrayed the EPA publication as "onerous command-and-control regulation" that "would impose crippling costs on the economy" without reducing the gases widely held responsible for the warming climate. Even though EPA staff members concluded that regulations reducing greenhouse gas emissions could save $2 trillion through lowered gasoline costs and other benefits over the next 30 years. That's $2 Trillion with a T.

The impetus for federal action came from a Supreme Court decision in April 2007 that rebuked the BS administration and ruled that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases were air pollutants subject to federal regulation under the Clean Air Act. If the EPA found they were a threat to the public, the court said, the agency was required to produce regulations to reduce the risk. California's Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said the administration has never believed in global warming nor in doing anything about it. Interestingly enough, one day earlier, a former EPA official, Jason K. Burnett, said that Vice President Richard "DICK" Cheney's office had worked to alter sworn congressional testimony provided by a federal official in January to play down global warming and head off regulation of greenhouse gases. By not taking a stand on the health impact of the pollutants and seeking new public comment instead, the BS administration purposely extended the period before the government can act well beyond Jan. 20, 2009 -- when the next president will be inaugurated and current President BS will have ridden off into a heavily polluted Texas sunset, special interests groups and big business well placated and his legacy as the worst President in the history of the United States etched in stone.


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