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...into the Federal Register - the official record of Washington rules and regulations - by Nov. 20, they will take effect before Bush leaves office and can likely only be undone by a new Administration. "It will be a lasting challenge for the policymakers who will take the helm," says Vickie Patton, the deputy general counsel for the Environmental Defense Fund...
With Obama headed for the White House, many of these changes could have a short shelf life. The true environmental legacy of George W. Bush will be in what he didn't do - address climate change. Since Bush took office, EDF's Patton notes, the U.S. has released more than 50 billion tons of greenhouse gases. "This is a sobering legacy for the nation," she says. "It's time for America to move forward." That job will fall to Bush's successor, Barack Obama...
...ghost of J.F.K.? Yes, this is an update of Dickens' A Christmas Carol, with Kennedy as Marley's Ghost. George S. Patton (Kelsey Grammer) is the Ghost of America Past, George Washington (Jon Voight) the Ghost of America Present, and an Angel of Death (Trace Adkins) points Malone to the future. From these wraiths we learn that pacifists like Malone would have been responsible for the continuation of slavery into the 21st century (because they opposed the Civil War) and for the Holocaust (you know why). A flashback to 1938 shows Neville Chamberlain signing the nonaggression pact with Hitler, then...
...Ceremony with China. To prove it's fair and balanced, the film - which was not screened in advance for the press but was shown to 2,500 delegates during the Republican National Convention - also has a Larry Craig joke. Malone asks, "You heard the rumors about Lincoln being gay?" Patton replies, "Maybe he just had a wide stance...
...that’s why it needs to be destroyed!” and “We are gonna abolish July Fourth!”).The plot? Michael Malone decides to abolish the Fourth of July, but before he can do so, three ghosts (George Washington, General Patton, and JFK) appear to him in Dickens-like fashion to “Teach him the true meaning of patriotism.”It seems clear that this film was created for a conservative audience, or if nothing else, a xenophobic, interventionalist, sexist, and racist one.With this conservative comedy in mind...