Our country desparately needs some real commitment to alternative energy, not this smoke and mirrors 'stuff'

full quote:'the dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. the occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. as our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.'abe lincoln on civil war leadership crises.

Now every company or institution that has suffered layoffs will be vying for Bush to come and talk to them. Does this mean a bail-out for Ford and GM, too? I'm glad these people got their jobs back, but I'm not happy about the reason.

Does this surprise anyone? It's just part and parcel of this joke of an administration.

When they transferred the money to that lab to rehire the laid-off workers, where'd they transfer it from ? How many workers lost their jobs elsewhere so Bush wouldn't be confronted with reality?

Back in 2001, the Bush administration proposed a 36% cut in NREL's funding in their budget. Steve Bunk's artical "Renewable-energy funds threatened" in Nature (411, 4-6 (31 May 2001) doi: 10.1038/35108082) has the details. Too bad Bush didn't visit back then.

"President Bush was unaware of the pending sale of shipping operations at six major U.S. seaports to a state-owned business in the United Arab Emirates until the deal already had been approved by his administration, the White House said Wednesday."

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/P/PORTS_SECURITY?SITE=7219&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2006-02-22-10-50-29

Where to start? "President Bush was unaware..." Tell us something we DIDN'T know already. And how silly is it to call this "...his administration..."? Is there ANYONE who still believes Bush is in control of ANYTHING? If he were in control, would it be possible for such a controversial issue to proceed to final approval without involving or even INFORMING our Dear Leader?

How much more of this must occur before everyone realizes the truth -- that we have a Figurehead in Chief, not a Commander in Chief? Our President is nothing but a ventriloquist's dummy like Charlie McCarthy, except we don't know for sure who "Edgar Bergen" is -- and there's NOTHING comic about this situation.