Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 11/12/2008 1:51:47 PM PST by Kukai
Barack Obama, who has spent much of the time since his election closeted with his advisers in Chicago, sent a strong signal today that he intends to make a decisive break with George Bush on environmental policy once he moves into the White House
The move was part of a carefully coded series of messages from Obama meant to reassure America and the world about the shape of his administration, which does not assume power until January 20.
Also today, Obama appointed Madeleine Albright, who served as Bill Clinton's secretary of state, and Jim Leach, a former Republican member of Congress from Iowa who endorsed his campaign, to meet international delegations visiting Washington for the G20 summit.
Obama will not attend the summit, and aides have repeatedly noted that Bush remains president until January 20.
But while Obama and Joe Biden, the vice president-elect, have remained elusive since the election, the Democrat has delivered a number of messages intended to heighten anticipation of the changes to come once his administration is installed.
In one such signal, the president-elect sent Jason Grumet, a policy adviser who has been mentioned as a possible energy post, to an environmental conference in Washington to offer reassurances that there would be swift movement on climate change legislation.
"The whole transition team felt it important to be here," Grumet said. "I think it is going to be a very very busy 2009, and I think we are going to need all of you to be on top of your game."
However, Grumet did not offer policy specifics, and his optimism was in contrast to others at the conference, organised by the consulting group Point Carbon and the Pew Centre on Global Climate Change.
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Strap in folks, we’re going over the edge of the cliff
I guess DOW 8000 is not low enough...
Change we can believe in? We’d better believe in it, because we’re going to have to live them.
This clown is going to reverse everything Bush did just because they came from Bush ... no matter what the topic is. That’s his “change.”
This bunch are going to set up a totalitarian government and dictate every aspect of our lives.
And please observe the No Smoking signs.
You said — “I guess DOW 8000 is not low enough...”
Mmmmm..., what do you think? Down to 5000 by January 20th?
Kyoto here we come.
This is the tax increase that will hit us all, right in the teeth of the credit meltdown.
We’re about to find out what a depression really feels like.
That's too bad...I'm gonna make a really lousy slave.
Jim Leach. I voted and put signs out for this guy. Unbelievable.
Hopefully Mariannette Miller Meeks will run again for that seat and we can get a real conservative in there.
Here comes the Kyoto train...
Close up those coal mines.
Fixed it.
Our Father
Barack in Heaven
Mellow be thy game.
Thy Kingdom come
Thy Will be done
In Perth as it is in London.
Give Us this day out daily bread!!
And forgive us our debts!!!
Lead us forth into temptation!!
For thine is
Dr. King’s room
and his power and his glory.
A-men. A-men. A-a-a-a-a-a-men
ok that pic is probably a bit too gross
If Obama does.
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