Remember when he said that, over and over, in a debate? His voice has that prissy hissiness about it, and when he wants to appear serious, he just sounds pissy.

His credibility on this topic now, after eight years, is at the same level as Hannibal Lector announcing that he has become a vegetarian. Even if true, it's way too late, way too crazy.

G.W. Bush is petulant. That is an adjective I should have put in my previous post.

First, Mr. President, there is no such thing as 'clean coal' because coal is, well, carbon. Cap and trade means the oil companies just get to put smaller companies out of business because they 'buy' their carbon emissions.

With Bush, it is the same crap, different words, same formula. Jesus H. Christ. Are Amercians so stupid to continue to believe this stuff? Luckily, no. Most of the people have been trained to watch American Idol instead.

So, Bush's legacy will be his war. You can't change it Mr. President. You will go down in history as the worst President. Ever.

Worse than Nixon. Worst than Hoover. Even worse than Buchanan. Congrats Dubya. You did accomplish something. You made it to the bottom. Just like college, the military and business. You failed. Only this time Daddy can't bail you out.

We have too. And, yes, we are frickin' bitter.

No one, I repeat NO ONE is pretending to pay attention to that shithead anymore. He could read the Georgetown phonebook for all it matters.

I just read about this speech on Reuters. This guy is so clueless that he is now calling for a halt in carbon emmission GROWTH by 2025. He'll probably be dead by then. Once again he's leaving the bill for his party to someone else and trying to make that look like leadership.

His plan is to drive the value of the dollar down so much that most people in the U.S. won't be able to afford fuel anymore.

Bush's legacy should include 9/11 before the war. We seem to have seared that out of our collective brains, but 9/11 could have been prevented. He had fair warning and blew it off to go on his month-long vacation in the Texas heat. Never forget; it's the most horrible mistake of his presidency.

>Never forget [9/11]; it's the most horrible mistake of his presidency.

And something a Dem president absolutely WOULD have been impeached on. I mean, come on... if they got as much traction over oral sex (something a retired teacher friend referred to as "not even sex" back in her day), think how Delay et al would have gone on about 9/11?

When I think that back in the days when Al Gore was negotiating Kyoto, the Europeans wanted strict emissions limits and the Americans, in deferrence to industry, replaced that with cap-and-trade... only to cop out of the treaty after having had their way... then I am bewildered to read:

"The Wall Street Journal reported that the words (cap-and-trade) were stricken from the speech at the last minute after protests from industry lobbyists."

Not good enough anymore? Jeez we were farther than this ten years ago.

How about Bejing? They make all the crap we buy. Getting back to the US, Isn't that part of Southeast Texas home to several oil refineries, which are notorious polluters? Per-Capita means nothing, probably, except this is where a lot of manufacturing is being done.

The President's speech writers threw an IQ test at us:

In 2002, I announced our first step: to reduce America's greenhouse gas intensity by 18 percent through 2012. I'm pleased to say that we remain on track to meet this goal even as our economy has grown 17 percent.

Since greenhouse gas intensity is defined as greenhouse gas emissions divided by economic output, Bush is effectively claiming that emissions have been nearly flat. But how many people will assume emissions have been cut, "even as our economy has grown"?

In fact, emissions have been just about flat since 2000. Assuming they remain so, Bush's goal can only be achieved through economic growth. Using the 17% growth number claimed, we would need another 1% of GDP growth by 2012 to claim that flat emissions are an 18% reduction. But I can't verify the 17% claim.

http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/emissions/downloads/08_Trends.pdf

I heard some of the speech this morning and couldn't shake the feeling that Bush thinks it's the US's job to write legislation the whole world will follow. That if we won't play, no one will play. But that's not the case. The rest of the world is moving forward without us and we're gazing at our Industrial Era jobs in a pool surrounded by daffodils.