climate change

When you follow Bush so closely, your country will kick you out of office:

Kevin Rudd's Labor Party won Australia's election, ending John Howard's 11-year rule after promising to tackle climate change, restore workers' bargaining power and withdraw Australian troops from Iraq.

Labor won 83 of the 150 seats in the House of Representatives, gaining 23 seats from 2004, according to Australian Broadcasting Corp. projections. The Liberal-National coalition has 58 seats, with two independents and seven still undecided, ABC said.

Add this to the news from yesterday that Poland's new Prime Minister is saying all his troops will be out within the next year, and we are left with a coalition of the dwindling. Amazing how something like this happens on the other side of the world, and yet it should leave a big empty feeling in the White House. Bush is a plague on other world leaders, and their best chance of viability is to stay the hell away from him and denounce his actions.

Huckabee was just praising Reagan for the "defeat of the Soviet Union" and then immediately talked about how we must defeat the Taliban. Interesting point. True when Reagan was "defeating the Soviet Union", he was using the Taliban to help. These people really need some lessons in history.

UPDATE:

Aravosis gives Huckabee a little lesson on Reagan - in particular his birthday.

UPDATE 2:

Shut it McCain! This guy is trying everything he has to keep the mic. I wonder if anyone is doing a time share chart like the Dodd campaign did. If you know of one, let me know. Here we go (thanks to the Dodd campaign):

UPDATE 3:

There is a terrible buzzing that is cutting out the microphones. Wolf has announced it is caused by lightning. God has spoken to Pat Robertson and told him that "Republicans are not meant to debate". </snark>

UPDATE 4:

Climate change time. Rudy just said he believes what the scientists are saying that it is man made. DAMN THAT LIBERAL!!!!

Romney - let's drill in Anwar!

McCain - wants more nuclear power and invest in alternative fuels. Nothing about drilling.

UPDATE 5:

They want to pardon Scooter! One of the arguments was that "Clinton only lost his law liscense". Yeah - what about that whole impeachment thing? Brownback was still using the old GOP lie that Plame was not covert. HEY MORON - that has been proved false time and time again!

UPDATE 6:

Health Care - Rudy said all the Democrats proposed was socialized medicine and that it would destroy medicine in America. Yeah - god forbid we have health care like Canada and the UK. Look how diseased they are!

UPDATE 7:

Forgot about this one earlier. The question was asked about what to do with Bush. Thompson had the great answer - "I wouldn't send him to the United Nations".

David Ignatius has an interesting OpEd in today's Washington Post about John McCain. The piece over all paints McCain as a Conservative by all definitions of the term. There is however one part that really struck my curious side:

"I don't want it that badly," McCain says. "I will continue to do what is right. I will continue to pursue torture, climate change. If that means I can't get the Republican nomination, fine. I've had a happy life. The worst thing I can do is sell my soul to the devil." He explains: "Every time I did something because I thought it would be politically helpful, it turned out badly." As an example, he cites his waffle during the 2000 South Carolina primary, when he said flying the Confederate flag at the state capitol was a state issue.

In fact McCain has already done that. He did so by accepting the character assassination that Bush did to him in 2000 and then embracing Bush for his own political gain. Even the cold hearted Dick Cheney got defensive when his daughter was brought up during the 2004 debates, but McCain can watch his family be down right lied about by Bush and finds that is ok. McCain not only sold his soul to the devil but gave his family up in the deal also. I guess this is true "conservative family values".

I reported last week about a former oil industry lobbyist turned White House
staff member who, on a regular basis edited scientific reports regarding the
destabilization of our environment so that it would remove some of the
implications of the petroleum industries major contributions to global warming.
The White House in a normal spin tactic, played down the reports of this
happening and coined it as a common practice for many to read and make notes.
Ironically enough the person changing these reports resigned last week so that
he could “spend more time with his family”. He has now taken a job with Exxon.

The G8 summit is approaching. This is a summit of eight major nations to set
forth common goals and work together in achieving missions ranging from poverty
in Africa to the environment.

The Times of London is now reporting that the White House is still continuing
to turn its back to global warming and what scientific research around the globe
has proven. They are now wanting to use their normal spin on the one thing that
sustains our life and if mistreated will be a bigger threat than any WMD or
terrorist group out there.

As an example of this deadly spin the Bush White House is trying to author,
take one simple sentence out of the G8’s proposed statement:

“We know that the increase [in global warming] is due in large part to human
activity”

The White House does not like that sentence. Instead they want it changed to:

“[There is] increasingly compelling evidence of climate change, including
rising ocean and atmospheric temperatures, retreating ice sheets and glaciers,
rising sea levels and changes to ecosystems”