Bush Touts Clean Air At Coal Plant

[Seneca]

Bush Touts Clean Air At Coal Plant

(CBS/AP) At a massive coal-fired power plant on Lake Erie, President Bush said Monday that his air pollution policies will promote efficient energy production at a time when America faces blackouts.

"The lights went out last month — you know that," Mr. Bush said at Detroit Edison's Monroe power plant, south of Detroit in southeastern Michigan, which was darkened by the blackout. "It might have been good for candle sales, but it certainly was not good for job growth," he said. "It recognizes that we've got an issue with our electricity grid and we need to modernize it."

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More: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/09/15/politics/main573244.shtml

[opihimoimoi]

1. Didn't the smirk jus relaxed pollution standards??

What a double talking jerk!

[Seneca]

2. the irony in the headline floored me

Imagine the winking and nudging between him and the plant bosses. "Cleaner air! Need to create jobs!"

Coming from one of the worst JOB LOSING pResidents in history.

[bif]

3. This will help

create jobs. Maybe create 50 new ones out of the 2.7 million that have been lost. Wow! Where do I sign up?

[Robbien]

4. Mike Malloy did something on this last night

The plant Whistle Ass chose is the worse polluter in Michigan. Wonder if he had a problem breathing the air as he smirked his propaganda.

[salin]

5. This is what happens when you are lazy and detest policy

you can't even realize when what you are saying is laughable in the context of where you are saying it. Every day he makes himself look like the big head of the "wizard" (re: empty and illusory) making more people wonder who is behind the curtain pulling the shots. Wonder how it feels to be him - as more and more people (re: voters) view him as more malevalent and ineffectual than his father, and an empty suit?

[underpants]

8. Policy? what's that? As DiIliulio said it's all run by the political arm

Rove.

This is W aggressive and not shying away. The unbelieveable hipocrisy of this no accident, they are changing the subject by being so forward. No one in his right mind would do this, that is what they are counting on people missing.

Oh and the fear thing "The lights went out last month----- you know that" starts with a fact and distorts the hell out of it. What was the cause of the blackout? Not enough energy or not enough transmission lines?

[Seneca]

9. I take it we need a Toto!

Get him to run behind the curtain and expose his fraudelence.

I am all for it. That is a decent analogy.

[realFedUp]

6. build one next to the White House

bet that'll mean a lot of white-washing....

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

7. Someone explain to Bush that a retrofit of an energy plant would

employ at least a couple of thousand people for at least two or three years. Add to that the additional employment for product manufacturers, the boon to the local economy from all the extra workers there...

Of course, that would cut profits for the Corporation during the retrofit and divert that money to a bunch of blue collar and middle managers.


HOW STUPID DO THEY THINK WE ARE??????







This one's for you, Dubya:

[hatrack]

10. "Bush Touts Nuclear Power At Radioactive Waste Dump"

"Bush Touts Forest Plan At Clearcut Site"

"Bush Touts Endangered Species Protection At Real Estate Developers' Convention"

"Bush Promotes Relaxed Water Standards In Visit To Sewage Plant"

"Bush Supports Elimination Of CAFE Standards During Visit To Hummer Factory"

How stupid does he think we ARE?

[spotbird]

11. Bush Touts Health Care Plan at Cemetery

From Fox news:

“In a surprise move today President Bush visited the Sunny Acres Cemetery and Crematory to discuss methods of reducing health care costs to Medicaid, Medicare, insurance companies and employers. The new cost reduction initiative is described as a plan to introduce “farness and balance in taking one’s turn waking into that Good Night.” Bush believes that certain cancers and chronic illnesses should be left in “God’s hands and not the medical professionals.”

“Administration officials have compiled a list of illness which are deemed too expensive for treatment and better left to Providence. The diseases are listed alphabetically and the first ailment listed is asthma. Bush commented “Do you have any idea how expensive it is to treat a severely asthmatic child. They get pneumonia, bronchitis and when they are healthy they are still sick. They need lots and lots of really expensive medicine, is that in God’s plan? We all know the answer to that question.”

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

14. Faith Based Health Care

Will now be made available to all Americans without insurance. People arriving at hospitals without insurance will be given a tract and for a small fee will be given last rights by the hospital chaplain before leaving to die in misery at their own home.

Brought to you by Soylent Green, now available at soup kitchens throughout America!


Caption on edit: IT TASTES LIKE CHARLTON HESTON!!!!!!!

[Hawkeye-X]

15. Emoticon Eric!

I love him! any new updates on him?

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

16. He's got a website w/fairly up to date blog here:

http://www.emotioneric.com/

I found him googling Soylent Green and the graphic worked better than anything else...

[spotbird]

17. And who said he didn't have a plan?nt

[Changenow]

12. LOL

kick

[donotpassgo]

13. We already have Bush touting creating healthy forests by cutting em down

n/t