The Desperation of George W. Bush

Last week, CommonDreams published a clever, hard-left article titled “Game Over: Thirty-Six Sure-Fire Signs That Your Empire Is Crumbling” by David Michael Green. One of them was, “You know your empire’s crumbling when a massive environmental nightmare is looming around the corner, and your emperor not only ignores it, but claims it isn’t real while taking steps to exacerbate it.”

Hard criticism, but true.

And then, wonder of wonders, after a career spent casting doubt on global warming science and favoring Big Oil at all times and at all costs, President Bush changed his tune in his recent State of the Union speech, claiming that new energy technologies “will help us to confront the serious challenge of global climate change.”

That’s the first time he has mentioned “climate change” as if it were real.

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