It's Taken Over 5 Yrs-But Bush Finally Made Concession Speech To Gore-MoDo

[kpete]

MAUREEN DOWD: A Prius in Every Pot

It's taken over five years, but George W. Bush finally made a concession speech to Al Gore.

He conceded that America needs to conserve, by buying hybrid vehicles and developing new energy sources.
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Even if W. shows up on TV in a gray cardigan, it's patently preposterous for the Republicans to make this argument, after selling us on the idea that it's our manifest destiny to get into giant cars and go to giant Wal-Marts and giant Targets and buy more giant bags of stuff. Now they're telling us to squeeze into tiny electric cars and compete for precious drips of oil with the Chinese and Indians who are swimming in enough of our dollars to afford cars.

The U.S. could have begun developing alternative fuels 30 years ago if Dick Cheney hadn't helped scuttle an ambitious plan in the Ford administration.

By the time these guys get gas from cooking grease, global warming will have us cooked.

read the Whole thing at:
http://jurassicpork.blogspot.com/2006/04/maureen-dowd-prius-in-every-pot.html

[Hubert Flottz]

1. Bush has Always been a loser!

Al Gore knew it!

[diddlysquat]

2. Thanks for posting this!

[necso]

3. Splendid.

However, while $.20 may be a fair estimate of the effects of the most-direct manipulations of oil price (eg, conspiracies by speculators), other types of manipulation (eg, scaring the speculators) may be making the price-gouge rather worse than this. But only the most egregious and poorly-disguised manipulations will probably ever be exposed (if any ever are), much less rectified and prosecuted -- as is generally the case with business and commerce.

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Oh, and that's "brutal" as a matter of journalistic, literary craft... of course. Command of such (and various) styles and devices is a metric of craft.

[coda]

4. Helped scuttle an ambitious alternative fuels plan and left intact

those winning core beliefs of 30 years.

Well, he is the "grown-up", afterall.



"Principle is OK up to a certain point, but principle doesn't do any good if you lose."

- Dick Cheney, 1976


"Let us rid ourselves of the fiction that low oil prices are somehow good for the United States."

- Rep. Dick Cheney (R)WY, Oct. 1986


"Higher gas prices are a sign of a failed presidency."

-- Halliburton CEO Dick Cheney, 1998



"They caused it themselves."

- Vice-President Cheney, blaming California for the Enron-engineered power debacle


"Go fuck yourself."

- Vice-President Last Throes, 6-24-04, Senate floor

[Chomp]

5. I love Dowd,

and can't understand the hard time she gets from the left.