Bush Administration Puts Hands Over Eyes, Chants LaLaLa I Can't Hear You!
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 06.25.08
This is probably the most uploaded picture on the web today, as we shake our heads at reading that the White House's method of dealing with information it doesn't want to hear: It doesn't open the e-mail. No matter that the Supreme Court told the Environmental Protection Agency to determine if greenhouse gases were harmful; they just, as Chris put it, "put their hands over their eyes and chanted "la la la la I can't hear you" or perhaps, Elvis Presley's Return To Sender.
The ever-so-helpful EPA put the report through the wash and spin cycle until it came up clean enough for the Government's delicate sensibilities. According to the New York TImes, Over the past five days, the White House successfully put pressure on the E.P.A. to eliminate large sections of the original analysis that supported regulation, including a finding that tough regulation of motor vehicle emissions could produce $500 billion to $2 trillion in economic benefits over the next 32 years. Now the report is about to be released and unlike the first document, comes to no conclusions.
Words, and EPA administrator Stephen Johnson, fail us. ::New York Times, and Jon Taplin
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Really. November, why are you so far away?
I'm sure this kind of thing validates the feeling of a lot of people, but shouldn't we really be focusing on the task at hand (i.e. upcoming elections)? Unless you're unfamiliar with the legislative process in the USA, you know very well how laws are made and passed. If the right set of people aren't in office that will pass laws and appropriate funds in the way you'd like, then you work with like-minded people to get a better set into office. Ad hominem attacks and funny pictures of primates will NOT result in the changes we need to make to be better stewards of this planet. I suggest people check into the work of the Rocky Mountain Institute (www.rmi.org) and get involved and moving. Or sit there and make fun of Bush while McCain gets elected and your important issues get pushed aside for another four years. Your choice.
Did you expect a different response from a former oil man and an administration top heavy with former oil execs?
Kinda makes you wonder why CHENEY isn't running
Come on, people. I can accept expressions of frustration, anger, even outrage. But can anyone out there even feign surprise?
This is standard operating procedure.
Our president is a criminal.