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...climatologists have accumulated suggesting that human industrial pollution is quickly warming the earth. And, even better, since the study calls for more time-consuming and expensive research before we can make any claims about global temperature change, it gives Bush and the American Petroleum Institute a nice tool to delay any progress on fighting global warming. Bush officials in the Environmental Protection Agency advocated a deeper look into the science of climate change as a preliminary to policymaking, which most of us north of the Mason-Dixon line know is strictly a stalling technique to protect our GDP from...
Republicans were quick to pounce; House majority leader Tom DeLay accused Democrats of venting more "hateful rhetoric at President Bush than they ever did at Saddam Hussein." In fact, Kennedy's remarks may have been a case of frustration with the war overtaking the facts. While the CBO report does say it cannot account for how all the money being funneled into Iraq is being spent, it contains no reference to any unaccountable $1.5 billion. Nor is there any evidence that the funds are being used to lure foreign troops to Iraq. Asked on CNN whether he had proof...
...council meetings, Chopra showed little tolerance for efforts to prolong or delay...
...case for going to war without delay was always couched in terms of Iraq being "a grave and gathering danger," and so far, reports suggest, Kay's group has not, thus far, come up with the goods to support that case. Which means that his preliminary report comes at a bad time for the White House and 10 Downing Street. Just this week, polls find President Bush's domestic approval ratings at an all-time low of 49 percent, while his administration faces increasing difficulty in convincing his electorate and legislature to underwrite his commitments of American life and treasure...
...about the platform dispute, the abstinence-only lobby promptly crowned Harold queen of standing up for what you believe in. Conservative and mainstream news outlets took the issue of Harold’s supposed silencing and ran with it. Thirty-eight members of Congress, including House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, sent Harold a letter of support, encouraging her to press on with her “healthy message of abstinence until marriage...