There is really nowhere in the country that’s the second part except maybe Miami. Everyone has heaters, our problem is the other way around when we get a hot snap and not everyone has AC.

And the first thing is completely unconnected to the actual temperature, less the WH is suggesting that the climate will change so much that parts of the country will change so much that they will no long get cold enough to endanger people. Which would require them going up to at least 60 at all times, even at night in the middle of winter.

And such a change would kill a lot more people from the heat, as making South Dakota 60 at night in winter would require it to be something like 150 during the day in the summer. And while they have heaters, they do not have AC.

If you were to magically drop the temperature 10 degrees in this country, most people would be fine, although heating costs would go though the roof. If you raise it 10 degrees, you’re going to end up with a lot of death people in the summer in parts of the country where it didn’t get above 80 and they made do with fans, or it didn’t get above 90 and they made do with a window AC.

After the Plame leak—the Press Secretary assured us that no one at the WH was involved. Bush promised to fire anyone who was. When it became evident that at least 3 at the WH were involved, no one was fired. (Libby had already resigned)

When hearings were held about the fired US attys, the administration claimed it was all a political witchhunt by the opposition party in Congress. All of the top appointees at the Justice Dept have now resigned or been driven out, and Gonzales has had to hire a criminal attorney for possible charges that he lied to Congress.

After the scandal at Abu Ghraib broke, Bush promised to hold those responsible accountable. But no senior officers or Pentagon officials paid the price for the abuses.

The administration knows that it has a major problem with credibility in these press conferences. Yet they send Perino out to make ridiculous and dangerous statements like that. I guess next she’ll claim that the lead in toys we import from China is beneficial because it makes them sturdier.

Rabid sufferers of BDS who pick on the administration for petty offenses:

Everyone else posting and commenting at TMV

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What was chopped was a long portion that diverged from true public health discussion into environmental discussion (the second paragraph of “Background” on page one and all of pages two through nine). Also removed was the last part of “Modeling,” about modeling and forecasting. Then the phrase “are likely to” got changed to “may,” and I forget the one, maybe two other small changes that were made.

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Well, we’ll point out [Hillary Clinton's] mistakes too. I seriously doubt they’ll even be in the same pallbark as Bush’s, but you never know.

She’ll be a better speaker, and more competent, but could be more dangerous and repellent. It will depend more on how far left she goes after election than on how goony her inside circle turns out to be. No doubt while the public has become accustomed to her, she has learned lessons from her early 1990s arrogance, conceit, and overreach. (Hopefully, anyway.)

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Didn’t [Murcoch] give money to Hillary? I guess Bob is hedging his bets.

Just like Andreas with Archer-Daniels-Midland. And, for that matter, the pharmaceutical industry and others.

Bush Derangement Syndrome, meet eco-nuttiness.

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Sam had it close. Stupid? Maybe. I prefer “inept.”

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Aside from Shaun Mullen, who has fulminant “BDS” but also claims to be a critic of Hillary Clinton, what will y’all do when Bush is gone and the liberal media treat Saint Hillary as they did in the past, the way FEMA employees masquerading as reporters can be expected to treat a FEMA official during a “news” conference? (Katie Couric, meet St. Hillary. Don’t rub your knees raw from worship. We’ve seen liberal Democrats masquerading as journalists, even “crusader” journalists, all the time.)

Actually, you don’t have to invade Iraq in order to steal its oil, thats just silly. Merely causing the price to go from $25 to $80+ causes every barrel pumped from anywhere in the world to generate record profits. Which is exactly what has happened. Oil companies can get three times what they used to for the same stuff without lifting a finger. Now thats a bargain.

Stupid. Stupid is the word you are looking for. That was hands down the stupidest answer I’ve heard from the White House to justify its stance on Global Warming. It shows that not only does she not have a clue what she is talking about, she will adamantly defend her uninformed opinion with theories she pulls out of her ass. These are our leaders, dear god.