I know this is going to get lost in the Dennis the Menace impeachment proceedings (Go Dennis!), but GW left the G8 summit today with a celebratory fist pump, that damn smirk, and this:
Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter.
That's a direct quote. This guy can't even figure out how to talk to our allies in a constructive manner.
UPDATE: did not see this diary from MsLibrarian. my apologies.
Absolutely shameful for a world leader. I wish he was just giving another backrub to PM Merkel. This from a president who has opened up logging in old growth Redwood forests in the Pac NW. Who has led precisely 0 (zero, none, nada) initiatives for alternative energy sources and even has made moves backwards by suspending research on Solar Energy to study the environmental impact. Yeah, you read that right.
SUSPENDED SOLAR RESEARCH TO MAKE SURE IT DOESN'T HARM THE ENVIRONMENT. fuck.
He rolled back the decades old (and outdated) Clean Air Act with the aptly named Clear Skies Act (cause if you can't see it, it can't be pollution!) to lighten emissions standards.
He has loaded the EPA with idealogues and encouraged them to not enforce federal regulations for a clean (less filthy, rather) environment.
Oh, and we still haven't signed on to Kyoto because of backwards logic about China and India, even taking the above quote from the emperor's mouth into account. Great.
The lack of concern and remorse sickens me. Not to mention the polluting he's done to our image in the world with his GI Joe-esque Black Sites, Abu Ghraib and Gitmo.
Only 6 months and 13 days to go. Thank freaking god.