The notion of W hiding data regarding GW is par for the course as he did the same thing regarding
WMDs vis a vis Iraq when unleashing the disastrous
Shock and Awe campaign on March 21, 2003. Combine this with his equally disastrous
Afghanistan campaign against the Taliban, the longest war in US history (1999 - 2021), which ended up with yet another defeat, kinda sums up what a totally inept president W truly was.
Climate changed the president into a White House version of Wile E. Coyote. Devices that looked perfectly reliable in the Acme catalog detonated at the worst possible moment. Jet skates blowtorched the presidential hindquarters. A rubber band drilled him snout-first into a mesa. President Bush announced America’s complete withdrawal from the Kyoto treaty in March 2001. (To Van Helsing applause from the deniers. “The Kyoto Protocol is like a vampire,” S. Fred Singer told the Times, advocating some Transylvanian police work. “You need to drive a stake through its heart.”)
The president gave as his reason the energy shortages then browning-out California. A few years later, it emerged that the crisis had been deliberately manufactured by Enron—coincidentally, the president’s largest corporate supporter. (During the campaign, George Bush had bummed rides on the Enron jet. In November, staffers boarded Air Enron to oversee the Florida recount that gave their boss the presidency.) CBS News got their hands on audiotape. Private conversations between Enron traders. In a corporate satire—something to make business seem foolish and sinister—you wouldn’t believe the dialogue.
“All that money you guys stole from those poor grandmothers in California?” asks Enron Trader 1.
“Yeah,” replies Enron Trader 2. “Grandma Millie, man.”
“Yeah. Now she wants her fucking money back for all the power you’ve charged,” says Enron Trader 1. “Jammed right up her ass for fucking $250 a megawatt hour.”
In conclusion ...
At the climate agencies, political appointees became a kind of universal mistranslator.
Kinda sums it up to me.
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