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Politics and Pop Culture.
And occasionally informative, amusing, or bizzare non sequiturs.
Matt's in charge here, others can post.
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wWednesday, January 29, 2003 |
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From the "I thought I'd heard that before" department.
Salon.com | Joe Conason's Journal Now they will all tell you that Bush is simply brilliant for supporting this visionary technology. Do the math, as my friend Jack Gillis did, and it turns out that Gore's notion of replacing the internal combustion within 25 years, as he suggested in 1992, is within a year of the date now proposed by Bush for the same goal.
It's reassuring to know that my favorite part of the Bush speech was an ideal that Gore proposed in '92. Now let's see if he does anything about it. Oh, I might have viewed that offer of aid to Africa for Aids in a better light if Bush hadn't halved Frist's original proposal in the last congress:
Bush to Pledge $500 Million for Global AIDS Fight Zeitz and other critics have accused the Bush administration of undermining legislation in Congress that would provide far more funding for the fight against AIDS.
A leading proposal by Republican Bill Frist of Tennessee, one of Bush's closest Senate allies, called for increasing U.S. spending to combat AIDS around the world from $1 billion to more than $2 billion annually over the next two years.
Typical greed-head bullshit - fight against something until you know you're going to lose, then switch sides, claim credit, and water down the proposal (remember Campaign Finance Reform?)
Update: I forgot to mention, I've got Gore's book (Earth in the Balance) if anyone wants to borrow it. It's dry, but very smart.
posted by
Matthew Carroll-Schmidt at 12:13 PM
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