Inslee: Kennedy ‘Got Us To The Moon,’ But ‘Bush’s Energy Policy Wouldn’t Get Us To Cleveland’ »

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Inslee: Kennedy ‘Got Us To The Moon,’ But ‘Bush’s Energy Policy Wouldn’t Get Us To Cleveland’ »

On Thursday, President Bush will host a meeting of the world’s major emitters of greenhouse gases where he will push them to accept his misguided framework of “voluntary” reductions. Bush is using this meeting as an excuse for skipping yesterday’s conference at the United Nations where world leaders met to lay out an aggressive “road map” once the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012.

Yesterday, ThinkProgress spoke with Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA), who sharply criticized Bush’s decision to skip the U.N. meeting and his destructive global warming policies. “Kennedy got us to the moon,” said Inslee. “George Bush’s energy policy wouldn’t get us to Cleveland.” From the interview:

has this hallucination that somehow a voluntary system will cause the huge investment we need in high technology to be made. And we simply know that volunteerism is great for PTA bake sales, but they will not reorder the economic system of the world, and move to a clean energy technology. <…>.........

http://thinkprogress.org/?tag=Congress

But if we continue down this path of George Bush, with the rose-colored glasses, and he can wave his magic wand and suddenly everyone is going to make this investment. That dog just won’t hunt. And we’ve seen this sort of fictional policies before in his optimism that he was going to sprinkle success over Iraq and it’s the same thing with global warming.

Watch it:

Bush’s chief science adviser, John Marburger, recently said that manmade global warming is an “unequivocal” fact. But as Inslee notes, embracing rhetoric isn’t enough. He added that Bush has basically been reassuring his “friends in the oil and gas industry” that “we accept global warming, but don’t worry friends, we’re not going to actually do anything about it.”

[riqster]

1. Good point. But, lay off Cleveland ferchrissakes NT

[YOY]

3. As a Clevelander living elsewhere I still feel for the place

I've got a soft spot for my hometown and get rubbed the wrong way when it's treated as a laughing stock.

Still, every time I go home I get depressed. The place is suffering job wise. 3 of my parents' 4 kids live in other states. I've even found myself saying "It's a great place to be from, but not always a great place to be."

I'd love it if my hometown could make a comeback...

[riqster]

4. The Tribe won the Division title!

:applause:

Does that help?

[YOY]

5. I used to work for the Tribe...I'm a real buzzkill when it come to pro sports because of it.

Although it was fun to throw snowballs off of the pitcher's mound in the middle of winter they put me off of Pre-sports for life after I saw what I saw. I was building security...not the game day guys you see in the blazers.

I've got a few stories about Cleveland sports stars. Some funny, some outrageous. Most do not put the players in a good light.

[rateyes]

2. That's a great line---

:rofl: