For six years, Europeans have pleaded with President Bush to seize the initiative in the campaign against global warming. Now that he has, many here are even more frustrated. Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala
Why not headline the story "Attempted German Grab at Crippling US Economy Thwarted by Bush?" It would be just as true. The story fails to mention that the EU is not even meeting its commitments under Kyoto or that its emissions trading scheme is a non-working disaster. Why try a re-vamped "Plan A" when the previous Plan A didn't work at all? Plus, it is all politics/ideology and essentially no science. No American President (well, Maybe a President Kucinich) would possibly embrace a UN-centered command-and-control domination of the US economy. The Senate wouldn't accept it any more than they did Kyoto. Pointless is the best word to describe this story.
