Bob wrote:
> >relaxing green blocks on power production,
>
> The latest I read is the Artic is now off limits (again) to new
> oil production. He reneged again.
Nah. At most he'll greenwash it. Al G. woulda slapped in nationwide
price fixing, and tried to force the electricity industry to employ
unionized workers by the thousands to pedal their way to power
generation on excercise bikes. Or made "public power contribution and
healthy excercise pedalling" compulsory by every household. Or just
plain told everyone to go back to horse-and-buggy and hand-waved fans.
> >scuppering the OECD
> > "all your money are belong to us" initiative, etc.
>
> Scuppered not. The battle isn't won yet. The OECD is taking
> a new tack.
But Bush is their enemy - he sees plainly enough that the USA is the
worlds biggest tax haven and stands the most in harm's way.
> >Enemy of my enemy,
> > and don't look gift horses in the mouth. For the moment at least.
>
> Well, I stretched my brain as far as possible to see Bush as a gift
> horse, and couldn't pull off that feat. Gift horse: as in getting
> something for nothing? I don't believe I can get something for
> nothing. Particularly from a politician or a government.
Gift horse as in: getting a helluva lot more than anyone could have
expected. Most politicians would have handwaved kyoto through and at
most stalled the ratification. Most would have "compromised" away the
tax cut idea into a blatant tax raise plus handouts for their good
buddies. Most would have dropped the missile protection thing by now.
Modulo the deliberate weakness of the executive in a checks-and-blances
system, Bush basically seems to have taken the "I said it so I'll do it"
attitude that's normally only prevalent in politicians with no chance of
ever getting a chance to "do".
> He's just about as far from Libertarianism as Gore is.
That's silly. Nobody could say the Moon is only a short walk away, but
it's still kinda "near" compared to Andromeda.
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