Energy independence is the best way to disengage from the ME and to send them back to the stone age.
Dick is a left of center moderate who mistakenly believes that that is where the rest ofthe country is as well.
Yeahhhhh... more research on hydrogen-powered fuels -- that's something that everyone can get excited about that will get the price of gas down this summer.
Duhh?
"As anyone remotely into New Age voodoo knows, the Chinese symbol for crisis is said to consist of the words “danger” and “opportunity.”"
Oh geez. What does new age have to do with foreign language semantics.
Dick Morris has officially lost his mind.
He also ignores a basic fact: the reason so many Democrats are ripping the President is because they HATE CAPITALISM. The American people are upset over gas prices, but by and large the VOTING public--the investor class---can understand (if explained to them)why prices are so high.
The anti-capitalist/socialists and the general public right now are in general agreement: high gas prices aren't a good thing. But that agreement stems from DIFFERENT GOALS.
The Chuck Schumers of the world want to give control of the commodity to a government bureaucracy...the people want to get more gas at a cheaper price so they can spend more money at WAL-MART.
The challenge for conservatism is to make this an opportunity to educate our fellow citizens about how important it is to get more oil from our own resources, cut government's "take" on our energy resources (EPA regulations and taxes), and get new viable sources of energy moving again: clean coal and nuclear power, for instance.
So where does Morris think all this hydrogen is going to come from???
A more realistic solution is start drilling here at home.
And start building more nuke plants.
The same character for wei by itself means "danger."
The same character for ji means "opportunity" (or "machine" or "airplane").
According to another dictionary, by James C. Quo (1960), which uses the Wade-Giles system, the Chinese word is wei chi in the Wade-Giles transcription. Quo has wei shown as second tone.
So the common report appears to be correct.
Which Chinese character is Mr. Morris referring to? I know of no such symbol.
New age voodoo, perhaps. Chinese character, no. Read on:
How a misunderstanding of Chinese characters has led many astray
Chinese translation of "crisis"
Not conversant with Chinese, we must accept this derived wisdom on faith.
That's exactly what it is: "derived" wisdom, based on wishful thinking, not facts.
I've learned to pay attention to Dick Morris when he's discussing the Clintons, and ignore him on everything else.
Bush can restore some prestige with the following energy plan:
1. Relax EPA regulations on building new refineries.
2. Relax EPA regulations on the variants of petrol that need to be offered.
3. Relax EPA regulations on diesel - American tax and environmental policy has an insane bias against diesel.
4. Offer tax incentives for diesel cars and consumption.
5. Petrodiesel technology is a gateway to bio-diesel, a viable prospect, as in many cases it's made out of rubbish, which is something we never run out of. ;) Offer tax incentives for R&D into this technology; give grants to universities that do research into it.
6. Drill ANWR.
The mere announcement of these measures should cause a drop in the price of oil. As a medium-term strategy, it should allow the USA to become much more energy independent.
Regards, Ivan
Actually a good piece by ole toe sucker. He forgot to add that Bush needs to pound it into the nation's head everyday, that it was the democrats and their environmental friends that are in large part responsible for this nation's dependence on foreign terrorist oil.