Rolling Stone Blows CHENY/BUSH Secret Campaign (Enforced By Rove)To Deny Global Warming Wide Open...

[kpete]

The Secret Campaign of President Bush's Administration To Deny Global Warming
TIM DICKINSONPosted Jun 20, 2007 12:49 PM

The Secret Campaign of President Bush's Administration To Deny Global Warming Cheney's statements were the latest move in the Bush administration's ongoing strategy to block federal action on global warming. It is no secret that industry-connected appointees within the White House have worked actively to distort the findings of federal climate scientists, playing down the threat of climate change. But a new investigation by Rolling Stone reveals that those distortions were sanctioned at the highest levels of our government, in a policy formulated by the vice president, implemented by the White House Council on Environmental Quality and enforced by none other than Karl Rove. An examination of thousands of pages of internal documents that the White House has been forced to relinquish under the Freedom of Information Act - as well as interviews with more than a dozen current and former administration scientists and climate-policy officials - confirms that the White House has implemented an industry-formulated disinformation campaign designed to actively mislead the American public on global warming and to forestall limits on climate polluters.

Cheney took full advantage of the president's cluelessness, bringing the CEQ into his own portfolio. "The environment and energy issues were really turned over to him from the beginning," Whitman says. The CEQ became Cheney's shadow EPA, with industry calling the shots. To head up the council, Cheney installed James Connaughton, a former lobbyist for industrial polluters, who once worked to help General Electric and ARCO skirt responsibility for their Superfund waste sites.

Cooney was put in charge of damage control and was apparently instructed to craft a letter to the Times denying that the president had changed course on climate change. But this time, Cooney's editor was not just Connaughton, but Bush's chief political adviser, Karl Rove. The collaboration with Rove raises questions about Cooney's congressional testimony last March, in which he insisted, under oath, that he had not discussed with Rove his work at the CEQ.

The letter drafted by Cooney - and vetted by Rove - insists that the Climate Action Report "reinforces" the "significant scientific uncertainties" emphasized in the president's climate policy. Edits to the rough drafts of the letter were blacked out by White House censors, but Rove's pithy endorsement of the final draft survived. "Great," he wrote in praise of Cooney's spin. "Defends the report rather than staying focused on the policy."

8 pages, read the whole article at:
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/15148655/the_secret_campaign_of_president_bushs_administration_to_deny_global_warming/1

[MissWaverly]

1. Why is our Congress permitting this abuse

I don't understand how he gets a "free pass" on this.

[acmavm]

5. Why? I don't know but maybe we better take a closer look at where they

get their campaign money from. Especially in light of the fact that they are now the 'majority'.

There's some reason that they're selling us all down the river. And they sure ain't taking the boat trip with us, are they?

[MissWaverly]

8. No, and none of this is what America is supposed to be about

Do they just assume that torture, GITMO, domestic spying are just going to go away if they ignore them long enough.

[acmavm]

11. I think so, I have an idea that they think they won't be tarred with the same

brush if they ignore it. They just pretend they don't have a responsibility to do something about it. We the people, the truly intended rulers of this country, want it halted. They look around and whistle happy tunes into the air, and pretend they're not part of the problem. They're wrong.

[MissWaverly]

13. that is the saddest thing of all

If they don't want to do their job, fine, resign, but don't pretend to be a congressman and sit back and let torture, fraud, corruption, discrimination, cronyism, illegal occupations go on until the next election cycle. They are accountable as well.

[roseBudd]

19. actually 60 is a majority, the veto pen will now be seen more as they reassert their brand

of tax cutting super heroes bravely doing battle against "tax & spend" Ds.

Reality is most of the electorate doesn't know or doesn't remember the majority R spending of the last 6 years.

tax & spend is a phrase any fifth grader will recognize

[Usrename]

41. borrow and spend

these guys have borrowed four trillion dollars in order to give the rich folks three trillion in tax cuts..

[roseBudd]

44. yes they have but Ds don't use catch phrases like robots & most of the

electorate does not have the time or will to keep up with current events. DUers are not reflective of the general knowledge of the population. We know because DUers sift through publications and post all news that reflects poorly on Rs

[MissWaverly]

32. saw an interesting thing on Bill Moyers

there are now 25 lobbyists for every congress critter, constantly spewing out the ideas of big business vs the common good of
the constituents back home.

[nolabels]

38. Yea, but just think how many that 25 will look like when a...........

mob of a hundred thousand show up and have much different ideas for how things should be going :shrug:

[MissWaverly]

46. or the state governments will roar past them

The "Arnold" coming out against gerrymandering, says there was more chance for change in the Hapsburg
monarchy than our government. Change will happen in the environment, election reform, health care
and immigration and accountability. People are moving, they better get up front and "lead" them.

[defendandprotect]

35. How much of our Congress does the OIL industry own?

THAT's the question . . .

[mzmolly]

17. "Permitting" how?

:shrug:

[MissWaverly]

27. they are supposed to provide oversight

since they refuse to bring impeachment proceedings, since they continue to fund things like "abstinence based" programs to
prevent pregnancy that have been proven to not work, they are enablers and Sen. Lieberman is the biggest Bush enabler
in congress, and they do not read him the riot act. If he had been in the same party as DeLay and acted like he
does in the House, bad mouthing the GOP, do you for 1 minute think that DeLay would not have made sure that he
saw the error of his ways. This country does not need two Republican parties.

[mzmolly]

47. Impeachment isn't possible at the present. I hate to have that one

undoable "thing" loom over every thing that happens? As for Lieberman, unfortunately we need the jerk in order to maintain a majority.

[MissWaverly]

48. It isn't possible becuz the dems argue it will make Bush popular

Yep, believe it or not that's the official beltway reason that the Congress is not moving on this. If
Bush stays unpopular then the Dems will do well in 08. Tell that to the 500,000 people whose homes
are still wrecked from Katrina, you have to suffer two more winters w/o decent housing becuz we want
to be popular.

[mzmolly]

49. No it's because we'd need about 20 Republicans to join us in order to impeach.

That's the unfortunate reality and until we can present evidence that would convince the overwhelming majority of "the people" that Bush should be impeached for something, it wont happen. It's not about being popular or not. Democrats suffer politically with that ass in office as well because we appear "weak" and "permissive."

[MissWaverly]

52. don't worry once Gordon Brown takes over at Brit PM

the truth will comes out regarding Bushco, remember the uproar over the Dubai ports, I have felt all along
that it would be the Republicans who would initiate the unraveling of Team Bush.

[mzmolly]

53. That would be interesting.

:hi:

[MissWaverly]

54. yes, indeed, I can't wait for Wednesday

:-)

[Beartracks]

22. Dems -- indeed, the entire country -- react...

... (or fail to react) to this stuff as if it's either a) "politics as usual", or b) some sort of justifiable "counterweight" to the Clinton years or to the many decades of Democratic congressional control.

[MissWaverly]

28. I think we owe it to the world to impeach these people

[BrainGlutton]

23. Well, like many things this Admin does, it's abuse but it isn't illegal.

Yet.

[MissWaverly]

29. well, I don't know about that

there's been a lot of damage to the world due to global warming in the last 6 years, we have lost a lot of the ice at both poles
and in Greenland, that's going to have an impact, it has to. I just heard a lecture the other day which said that normal human DNA
has not changed that much in 1 million years, but that cancers cause such rapid mutations to DNA that they are hard to treat,
very little change for 1 million years and then rapid, uncontrollable change, oh, nothing to see here, please, move along
and fill up your tank on the way out.

[sellitman]

2. Sent to greatest (#5) BUT......

This needs to go to Keith and be made public knowledge. (Fat chance).

These monsters are dooming their own offspring.

[druidity33]

40. well

Rolling Stone does have a pretty large worldwide circulation...

:shrug:

[rubberducky]

3. It`s becoming very clear that bush is the president

in name only. Take cheney away and you have a first class clueless dumb ass. Even when bush had to testify, he wouldn`t go without cheney. cheney probably pumps him full of praise just to keep the idiot in line.

[mwb970]

26. Bush has evidently done nothing at all, good or bad.

It has become obvious in recent weeks that every action that the "president" has taken has been Cheney's doing, and that those actions have been uniformly bad, if not evil. It will eventually be revealed that Cheney lies behind every single scandalous, un-American act of the entire administration. He's like some kind of super-criminal mind controller that everyone obeys mindlessly and that can't be stopped by any available means.

He'll laugh at us from Hell through all eternity.

[malaise]

4. WTF?

And it ordered a former intern from the Bush-Cheney campaign in the NASA press office to prevent Dr. James Hansen, the godfather of global-warming science, from talking to the media.
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There is a pattern with these young Rethug punks enjoying dissing experts in their fields. These young punks posing as christians are about to learn the lessons of their lives. The first thing they'll learn is that they were not hired because they are intelligent. They were hired becasue they take orders well.
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Cheney is going down. I wonder if he won't croak during the heart surgery. That would be convenient.

[glitch]

6. There were hired because they take orders well and are DISPOSABLE.

Proud to be the pawns of the campaign, no doubt.

[ldf]

9. and if he DID croak during heart surgery

i'm afraid i must INSIST on a dna match with the cremated remains, from a reputable and trusted crematorium....

i'm just sayin'...

:shrug:

[acmavm]

14. Oh man, WHAT heart surgery? And isn't that an oxymoron of sorts?

[MissWaverly]

31. the battery of his pace maker needs replaced

and they have to remove it to do it.

[Oldtimeralso]

34. The Wizard of Oz team

One needs a heart, the other needs a brain!

[Kat 333]

36. lol

:hi:

[acmavm]

45. HEY!

[Spazito]

7. Thanks for the link, much appreciated! n/t

[Coexist]

10. knr

[mantis49]

12. k&r

[proud patriot]

15. egads

[kineneb]

16. knew it all along

read Molly Ivins' (RIP) book "Shrub"...and Gore Vidal's "Dreaming War"...Bush is mere puppet...Cheney and Rove are the puppetmasters

climate change evidence is "inconvenient" for the oil companies...therefore it must not allowed to be publicized...

...and the mess in the ME is all about controlling the oil resources, nothing more...if their major export were sugar beets, there wouldn't be US troops there...

[mzmolly]

18. Rolling Stone "Rocks." No pun intended.

So do you KP, thanks for the info! :yourock:

[Tigress DEM]

20. Cooney, "Well it depends on your definition of discuss is."

Seeing this played out in Cooney's perjury trial...

Cooney, "See I'm a good ol' boy at heart and I don't think of emails on the RNC account or having Rove writin' on my 'essays' as being 'discussion'. I think of discussion as a face to face conversation. Man had an opinion and I knew what it was, but we never had to 'discuss' it."

RE:

The collaboration with Rove raises questions about Cooney's congressional testimony last March, in which he insisted, under oath, that he had not discussed with Rove his work at the CEQ.

[Wiley50]

21. The Bush Admin equivalent of "what is is" n/t

[Beartracks]

24. Perhaps they should've asked him...

... if any aspect of his (Cooney's) work at the CEQ had ever been or had ever been understood to be the grammatical subject or object of any sentence or sentence fragments, coded or uncoded, communicated in either a unidirectional or bidirectional manner between him (Cooney) and Rove at any time with or without any number of intermediary people or devices and by any method over any distance involving written word, spoken word, sign language, smoke signals, radio waves, electronic data transfer, ESP, sign language, semaphores, lights, morse code, crop circles......................... :eyes:

[Tigress DEM]

55. Do you think he would have blown up on the stand right there?

Like an android with a non-logical looping algorithm?

[Morgana LaFey]

25. These folks are about to make me pro-death penalty after all

This type of betrayal of the whole damn planet warrants ---- well, not much less it seems to me. My GOD, what have they wrought? And we're (rightfully) worried about the deaths of mere thousands in Iraq, and (rightfully) the deaths of thousands in NOLA? Terrible, all, but just wait til we get to the globally warmed up future, which is just around the corner now.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

30. Screwed by this cabal at every opportunity...

"despise" is lacking in intensity the revulsion I feel towards these criminals.

[OzarkDem]

33. We knew this at the time, why so long to report?

why did it take so long for news magazines to begin investigating it?

Rolling Stone, where were you during the Energy Task Force meetings? Still blaming everything on Clinton?

[live love laugh]

37. "Cheney took full advantage of the president's cluelessness..."==> Bullshit.

Cluelessness is Bush's teflon and it's worn thin.

[mzmolly]

50. I agree.

:hi:

[RestoreGore]

39. And nothing will be done about this- again

[SpiralHawk]

42. republicons = dishonor and lies

k and r

Why do republicons HATE America?

[BuelahWitch]

51. Not only America, they hate the planet earth!

[rosesaylavee]

43. Well at least Rolling Stone has

some journalists that still do investigative work. So we know that skill set has not been lost entirely. Good to know.

Waiting to see what Congress will do with this info.

Maybe write Dingle and Waxman this morning and ask them what they intend to do?

John Dingle, Chair
Committee on Energy and Commerce
2125 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515

[phone]
(or email via this site: http://energycommerce.house.gov/membios/contact_form.shtml)

******

Henry Waxman, Chair
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
U.S. House of Representatives
2157 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
[phone]
(or email the committee via this site: http://oversight.house.gov/contact.asp )