Oh, boy. This will be fun: Daily Kos reports that Dubya is about to do a 180…
Yes, it’s all true! Dubya, king of the “Kyoto Protocol is bullshit, y’all” blather, suddenly realizes his ass is getting warm, so to speak. The Independent has the story:
President Bush is preparing an astonishing U-turn on global warming, senior Washington sources say.
After years of trying to sabotage agreements to tackle climate change he is drawing up plans to control emissions of carbon dioxide and rapidly boost the use of renewable energy sources.
And of course we all know what Bush’s concept of “renewable energy” is…
Anyway, The Independent article mentions that the Bush administration might have suddenly noticed the growing movement to curb carbon emissions in the US1, as well as – yes, you guessed it – an upcoming speech by Al Gore:
Over the past few days rumours swept the capital that the “Toxic Texan” would announce his conversion this week, in an attempt to reduce the impact of a major speech tomorrow by Al Gore on solutions to climate change.
The White House denied the timing, but did not deny that a change of policy was on its way. Sources say that the most likely moment is the President’s State of the Union address in January.
(Links added.)
I’m assuming “soon” means this week (goodness, could there be an election coming up?), and that the final Grand Amazing Plan to Save the World™ will be announced in January 2007, to be filed away and regurgitated in the 2008 Republican primary candidates’ stump speeches.
Will Bush’s speech be more convincing than this?
Global warming is an issue that my administration is very concerned about – deeply – deeply in a deep kind of concerned way. I start my day and I think about the warming of the globe.
(Yes, that’s Will Ferrell as Dubya – click here for the hilarious video).
I won’t hold my breath.
Honestly, does he think he’s going to fool anyone? He’s already pissing off his own buddies; The Independent article quotes a representative of the ExxonMobil front group, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (famous for the “carbon dioxide is life” ads, as well as calling Al Gore a Nazi). It pains me to say that I agree with the guy:
“We are left with the unpleasant conclusion that the only motivation is political.”
No kidding.
