RFK Jr.: “For They That Sow the Wind Shall Reap the Whirlwind"

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “For They That Sow the Wind Shall Reap the Whirlwind”

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Mon Aug 29, 7:05 PM ET

As Hurricane Katrina dismantles Mississippi’s Gulf Coast, it’s worth recalling the central role that Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour played in derailing the Kyoto Protocol and kiboshing
President Bush’s iron-clad campaign promise to regulate CO2.

In March of 2001, just two days after EPA Administrator Christie Todd Whitman’s strong statement affirming Bush’s CO2 promise former RNC Chief Barbour responded with an urgent memo to the White House.

Barbour, who had served as RNC Chair and Bush campaign strategist, was now representing the president’s major donors from the fossil fuel industry who had enlisted him to map a Bush energy policy that would be friendly to their interests. His credentials ensured the new administration’s attention.

The document, titled “Bush-Cheney Energy Policy & CO2,” was addressed to Vice President Cheney, whose energy task force was then gearing up, and to several high-ranking officials with strong connections to energy and automotive concerns keenly interested in the carbon dioxide issue, including Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham, Interior Secretary Gale Norton, Commerce Secretary Don Evans, White House chief of staff Andy Card and legislative liaison Nick Calio. Barbour pointedly omitted the names of Whitman and Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill, both of whom were on record supporting CO2 caps. Barbour’s memo chided these administration insiders for trying to address global warming which Barbour dismissed as a radical fringe issue.
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[jean]

1. Barbour is the one who said looting is tantamount to grave robbing and

authorized his police to be ruthless in handling looters ... we saw a woman being arrested for looting baby diapers.

Bobby nails it in the last paragraph:

"In 1998, Republican icon Pat Robertson warned that hurricanes were likely to hit communities that offended God. Perhaps it was Barbour’s memo that caused Katrina, at the last moment, to spare New Orleans and save its worst flailings for the Mississippi coast."

[rodeodance]

2. Grand smackdown to Haley Barbour--who has been all over the tube

yacking about the devistation of Katrinia! Chris Matthrews interviewed him and noted -HOW Passionate he was.....



.......Now we are all learning what it’s like to reap the whirlwind of fossil fuel dependence which Barbour and his cronies have encouraged. Our destructive addiction has given us a catastrophic war in the Middle East and--now--Katrina is giving our nation a glimpse of the climate chaos we are bequeathing our children.

In 1998, Republican icon Pat Robertson warned that hurricanes were likely to hit communities that offended God. Perhaps it was Barbour’s memo that caused Katrina, at the last moment, to spare New Orleans and save its worst flailings for the Mississippi coast.

[jean]

3. kick

[ginnyinWI]

4. RFK knows what's going on with the environment

Here's the organization he works for, the National Resources Defense Fund: http://www.nrdc.org/

[paineinthearse]

5. #3 nomination

Fuck Barbour and the elephant he rode in on.

[autorank]

6. This is what we need now. 500,000 people w/no place to live--

for a year. Wow, :wtf: are they going to do about this. Good thing we've had five years of balanced budgets and we've got some room for flexibility in the system to help with this disaster.

Where are the questions like mine--what happens to these good Americans for the year or so it takes to fix NOLA?

CM (corporate media) can't think, it can't report, it can just gesticulate, pathetically.

[Usrename]

8. hi autorank - you need to check out this link

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4515079

here's your CMMFers! WE SHOULD SEND THIS TO GOVERNOR BATSHIT HIMSELF. SCREW THE CMMFers! Wphew...

[autorank]

9. Thanks :) Wow! What a deal!

[kimpossible]

7. A kick for Bobby Kennedy

And for his Ring of Fire radio show!

http://www.ringoffireradio.com

[indepat]

10. My Friend Barbour is surely on the radical fringe