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ROBERT F. KENNEDY, JR
Kennedy writes the single best piece on Bush’s destruction of the environment in, “Crimes Against Nature.” It is a long but compelling article. Kennedy makes these major points: -- Rolling Stone
Cloaked in meticulously crafted language designed to deceive the public, the administration intends to eliminate the nation's most important environmental laws by the end of the year. Under the guidance of Republican pollster Frank Luntz, the Bush White House has actively hidden its anti-environmental program behind deceptive rhetoric, telegenic spokespeople, secrecy and the intimidation of scientists and bureaucrats
Bush's Environmental Protection Agency has halted work on sixty-two environmental standards, the Food and Drug Administration has stopped work on fifty-seven standards.
Penalties imposed for environmental violations have plummeted under Bush. The EPA has proposed eliminating 270 enforcement staffers, which would drop staff levels to the lowest level ever.
George w. Bush seems to be trying to take us all the way back to the Dark Ages by undermining the very principles of our environmental rights, which civilized nations have always recognized.
There is no scientific debate in which the White House has cooked the books more than that of global warming. In the past two years the Bush administration has altered, suppressed or attempted to discredit close to a dozen major reports on the subject. These include a ten-year peer-reviewed study by the International Panel on Climate Change, commissioned by the president's father in 1993 in his own efforts to dodge what was already a virtual scientific consensus blaming industrial emissions for global warming.
Generations of Americans will pay the Republican campaign debt to the energy industry with global instability, depleted national coffers and increased vulnerability to price shocks in the oil market.
They will also pay with reduced prosperity and quality of life at home. Pollution from power plants and traffic smog will continue to skyrocket. Carbon-dioxide emissions will aggravate global warming. Acid rain from Midwestern coal plants has already sterilized half the lakes in the Adirondacks and destroyed the forest cover in the high peaks of the Appalachian range up into Canada. The administration's attacks on science and the law have put something even greater at risk. Americans need to recognize that we are facing not just a threat to our environment but to our values, and to our democracy.
TAKING ON THE NEOCONS
TPJ has written about the Republican domination of issues through the use of “think tanks.” See TPJ, “A War Of Ideas.” Dems have recently initiated one excellent think tank – Center For American Progress
TPJ has found an excellent article giving Dems a detailed prescription on who to set up think tanks, “31 Ways to Take on the Neocon Think Tanks: A Progressive Policy and Position Promotion Think Tank Prospectus.” – Op Ed News.com It is a must read for all Democrats interested in waging the battle against the neoconservatives.
GORE JUST KEEPS GOING AND GOING AND …..
Al delivers another sterling address at Middle Tennessee State University. These are the highlights from the speech: -- WATE.com
Former Vice President Al Gore told college students Tuesday night in Murfreesboro that the Bush administration is using fear as a political tool.
Gore said at Middle Tennessee State University that this is unworthy of the presidency.