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[Bernard]

Leaders terminate people's employment for things like this. Sound like another Clinton hold-over permanent employee running amok in the government.

Time to lower the government's payroll. Or is that just wishful thinking?

[Cicero]

"It certainly creates the appearance that she's an absentee landlord at EPA," said Frank O'Donnell, executive director of the Clean Air Trust. "It's starting to look like she's (EPA) administrator in a ceremonial capacity."

The implication that the Bush administration doesn't want her to do her job is ridiculous. She is failing to administer her own department.

No, you can't fire civil service employees, but you can shuffle them around and put them into dead-end jobs. And you can put in plenty of political appointees at the top to help you enforce policy. Whitman should have had more than enough time to be on top of this sort of thing by now. She's probably just bored with her job.

[umgud]

The United States is the world's biggest energy consumer and emissions producer

And Reuters is the world's biggest slanderer and antagonist of the USA. They can't print anything without taking a jab at us or making snide remarks.

[RDangerfield]

StopDemocratsDotCom: Leaders terminate people's employment for things like this. Sound like another Clinton hold-over permanent employee running amok in the government.

Meanwhile we have Ari Fleischer's press conference on June 5, where he told reporters that President Bush not only believes that human activity has caused global warming, but he has believed it since June 2001.

Q I'm glad you make the connection explicitly, since the President addressed greenhouse gases, but not specifically global warming. Does the President agree with the conclusion that human activity is likely the cause of global warming?
MR. FLEISCHER: That's what the President said in his speech in June 2001.
Q That's not exactly what he said. He does agree with it?
MR. FLEISCHER: When the President cites the National Academy of Science as saying that the National Academy of Science indicates that the increase is due in large part to human activity, I don't know how the President could say it more specifically than that.
Q He hasn't changed his mind at all?
MR. FLEISCHER: No. Here's -- the bottom line for the President is, number one, he has made a proposal that he believes is a proposal that not only can reduce the problem of greenhouse gases and global warming, but also protects the American economy, so the American economy can lead the world in technological and scientific advances that also have an effect in reducing pollution.
The President has said, citing the National Academy of Sciences, that the increase is due in large part to human activity. The President has also continued, citing both, now this report the EPA has sent to the United Nations, previous evidence from the National Academy of Sciences, that there's uncertainty -- and the recent report notes that there is considerable uncertainty. That's the state of science, and the President agrees with it. I don't think people dispute that.

So, in this case, since he hasn't fired anyone in the EPA or Gov. Whitman, who is he going to fire? Does he fire Ari Fleischer for revealing what the president really believes? Or is he just trying to have it both ways as the Washington Times accuses?
--Raoul

[Don Myers]

Who is in charge up there?

[The Raven]

Notice how this stuff happens in election years?

This is hardball.

The Dems and Europe need to come up with better global warming evidence before we spend a trillion a year on this. AND they need to be truthful on the costs to the world.