In A Class By Himself
by sarabeth at 6:00 am on November 1st, 2006 in Bush Man Date, Podium SpinThere are lies, and damned lies. And then there’s Tony Snow.
At this point, he has to be the hands-down undisputed lying champion of this administration. And that, as we are all too painfully aware, is saying a lot. A heckuva lot.
Yesterday, Mr. Snow put his best foot forward on the subject of President Bush’s record on environmental issues. Unfortunately it went straight into his mouth. He first claimed that:
…the President has, in fact, contrary to stereotype, been actively engaged in trying to fight climate change and will continue to do so.
That was followed in swift succession by :
Well, what the United States has done is we have actually taken the lead on those kinds of innovations (a global mandatory emissions cap and trade program)…
It is entirely possible that, since Mr. Snow has so many other things on his mind these days — most especially fund-raising and campaigning for beleaguered Republican candidates — he got confused between fighting climate change and fighting all efforts to fight climate change.
Or maybe our Tony just believes that denying that it is manmade and denying that it is a problem qualifies as fighting climate change. (After all, if we can keep winning the war on Iraq just by saying that we’re winning, surely we can fight climate change just by denying that it’s a problem.)
Ampontan wrote:
I hold no brief for Tony Snow (lying is part of a press secretary’s job, regardless of administration), but no, climate change is not that much of a problem for us heathen who don’t worship at the church of environmentalism. (That it has become a substitute for a standard brand religion also seems quite apparent to us heathen.)
Try this for a start:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/11/05/nosplit/nwarm05.xml
or this
http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=042506A
or An Appeal To Reason, the Economics and Politics of Climate Change, an address by Nigel Lawson at the Centre for Policy Studies. (Sorry, no link, but it’s out there on a pdf file.)
For a guy who is angry at the corporate gravy train, it’s odd that you would overlook the possibility that regardless of the motives, you are in fact backing a gravy train of government grant money for scientists. Pork is still pork, no matter how you cook it.
On another tack, I used to contribute to another person’s blog (Japundit), and he also used Wordpress. I’m thinking of starting my own on a modest scale (i.e., spending as little as possible). This theme looks good. How do you like Wordpress?
Posted 09 Nov 2006 at 12:04 am ¶