A sign of the Apocalypse

[FlaSoxxJim]

It had to happen eventually.

 

No back-handed compliment or sarcasm. Bush nominated Acting EPA Administrator Steve Johnson to the top job permantly. He will the first career EPA employee to head the agency and for once there will be a scientist in the top spot.

 

http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=7265

 

Sure, he's going to have to push a lot of the weak Bush environmental agenda. But he will be able to communicate with scientists and hopefully will demonstrate enough moral conviction to not just sit back and watch EPA rules get gutted or allow EPA lawyers to roll over in court and let industry steamroll environmental safeguards. He also has 24 years logged as a protector of people and the environment, rather than having any long-held ties to Big Energy like we might have seen in other candidates.

 

OK, GWB... you got this one right.

[Texsox]

I believe President Bush's greatest strength is he hires good people. I might not agree 100% with all of their positions and views, but with one exception, I applaud the way he has filled the positions. In fact, I might regret saying this without thinking all the way back, but he may have the best track record of the past 30 years.

 

Again, taking the politics out of it, I think he has done a tremendous job in this area, across the board. Or does he make them look better?

[LowerCaseRepublican]

/golf clap

 

Guinness

[JUGGERNAUT]

I don't think any one can argue with the fact that Bush is certainly a man of action. This is what most distinquishes him from his father. His father would have preferred to ride out his presidency & enjoy two terms having made more friends then enemies & not riling any feathers.

 

This Bush cares little for that. He has a strong sense of values on just about every issue & is not shy to act upon them. I disagreed with his decision to go to war with Iraq because I didn't think we could afford it (blood & money).

However; he understood the power of symbolism more so than I did. That's why he held strong to the date of the interim government last Jun & he held strong to the election date this year. Members of the press seem to think both were holllow dates but Bush knew better. He had a sense that if the Middle East could witness an election in Iraq the desire for democracy would spread like wildfire. That's what we are seeing now.

 

Regardless of whether a nation is primarily Christian, Muslim, or secularist

most people will seek democracy when it seems to real to them.

 

My biggest problem with Bush is that he's forgotten his compassionate conservatism when it comes to the capitalism. Where is the compassion in the global economy? Where are the unions? Where is collective bargaining? Where are the principles of anti-trust and competition?

 

Case in point I recently trekked down to Daytona for the Great American Race. Many cars had yellow, pink, & flag decorated magnetic ribbons on their cars in support of the troops. I stopped at a store to buy one, but when I read Made in China on it I decided to log on to the web site that accepts donations to help purchase light-weight bullet proof vests for our troops.

 

At the same time I took notice that Publix owns about 7 out of every 10 plots for grocery stores in the state. In a nation moving towards 350 million people does it make sense to scale the anti-trust laws to global dimensions or would the nation be better served to scale them to a state level? Technology allows the little guy to be more competitve. Why don't our anti-trust laws reflect this? Why do we only have a choice between Comcast, Dish, & Direct-TV for subscriber TV services in Chicago? I'm sure a little guy can provide just as good a service at a better price.

 

This is what irks me the most about Bush but I never had great hopes that he was the man to change it. He simply doesn't care about anti-trust laws

or the little guy in business.

 

Bush will probably go down as the most influential president towards global democratization since Wilson but under his watch the world is seeing the development of the biggest monopolies ever. Not in the sense of their being no opportunities but rather their being no realistic opportunities. Who can compete with the Wal-Marts & the Targets of the world when they have the plots & the distribution networks designed to get them the best price possible for retail merchandise?

 

This is why I say the anti-trust laws need to be updated. Land ownership & lease rights are the most valuable aspect of doing business in the US today. The government should watchdog it to insure that competition exists in that respect in all 50 states. Not just the nation as a whole.

[mreye]

It had to happen eventually.

 

No back-handed compliment or sarcasm.  Bush nominated Acting EPA Administrator Steve Johnson to the top job permantly.  He will the first career EPA employee to head the agency and for once there will be a scientist in the top spot.

 

http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=7265

 

Sure, he's going to have to push a lot of the weak Bush environmental agenda.  But he will be able to communicate with scientists and hopefully will demonstrate enough moral conviction to not just sit back and watch EPA rules get gutted or allow EPA lawyers to roll over in court and let industry steamroll environmental safeguards.  He also has 24 years logged as a protector of people and the environment, rather than having any long-held ties to Big Energy like we might have seen in other candidates.

 

OK, GWB... you got this one right. 

Feels good, doesn't it, Jim?

[FlaSoxxJim]

Feels good, doesn't it, Jim?   

 

Eewww, no. I feel dirty, dirty, dirty.

[southsider2k5]

Eewww, no.  I feel dirty, dirty, dirty. 

 

Is that dirty or dirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrty?