Environmental Status Quo

At least Bush's environmental plans aren't going anywhere, and while the status quo isn't great, it's better than what he's offering.

For those of you who didn't know, Bush's Clear Skies Act calls for a reduction in greenhouse gas density in proportion to GDP. That means that we can still absolutely produce more emissions. Furthermore, even though Bush's latest plan calls for reductions in sulfur and mercury, the administration still does not consider CO2, the largest source of emissions and greenhouse gases, to be an emission, and it's mentioned nowhere in his bill. According to 'the man,'

"To protect the environment, to protect jobs here in Ohio and around our country, Congress needs to get a good Clear Skies bill to my desk now."

Doesn't Chimpy usually say that any sort of environmental regulation would hurt the economy? Remember Inhofe? The Republican senator from OK who sterilized women and said that black people should oppose social security because they won't live long enough to have the benefits? If only we never had to hear from him ever again:

Senator James M. Inhofe, the Oklahoma Republican who is chairman of the environment committee, said the bill was "killed by the environmental extremists who care more about continuing the litigation-friendly status quo and making a political statement on CO2 than they do about reducing air pollution."

Mr. Inhofe, who considers global warming "a hoax," predicted that the full Senate would not support caps on carbon dioxide, asserting that Democrats were determined not to allow a Republican president a major environmental victory.

Democrats, he said, were "putting a far-left political fund-raising effort over the health and well-being of America's children and our nation's environment."

It's a hoax. Because Michael Crichton said so. The man wrote scientifically about bringing dinosaurs back to life, so he's a knowledgeable scientist. Who knows everything. Therefore this is bunk. So is this. And this.

For all you conservatives out there, take responsibility, because everyone's going to hurt from this, including you and your own. No compromise, no surrender, not on this issue.