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I was going to post a positive note for energy independence from a week when hundreds of U.S. mayors got together in New York to trade best practices in reducing global warming emissions and Bill Clinton’s foundation announced a major-league effort to make buildings in 16 big cities worldwide energy efficient. Then I read the BBC news report about the Bush administration trying to eviscerate the G-8 summit's draft proclamation on the need for swift, united global action on climate change, and all my desire to report something hopeful ended up on the floor in a dark pool of pissing wrath.
What are we to do about this guy? Him, Cheney and the people around them seem bent on scorching the earth. It’s not just that he’s the president with by far the worst environmental, domestic and foreign policy records ever. He don’t know nothing, He don’t learn nothing. He just don’t give a damn. Let the world burn to a crisp.
I’ve long since recognized that railing at George W. Bush on a blog is about as constructive as masturbating, but you don’t even feel good afterwards.
At one point, I think when his pbulic opinion poll numbers plummeted and held, I rationalized that the public understood his brute incompetence and stupidity, but was just going to let him play the lame duck until November 2008. I thought, well, what’s the alternative? It would take at least a year or year and a half to impeach and try Bush-Cheney, and the media would focus so much attention on it, that everything else—global warming, the war in Iraq, nuclear proliferation, healthcare, AIDs, everything—would become an unread post’um in the nation’s inbox. I like show trials as much as the next guy, but do I really want the issues I care about to stand still while the Democrats search for courage under their makeup?
Not really.
But now I don’t know. Like the galley slaves in ancient Rome, we’re beaten if we don’t row and we’re beaten if we do. Now the little Rovean devils that are Bush’s minions are trying to control the agenda after he leaves office by setting the clock so far back on global negotiations on a post-Kyoto treaty that the next administration will need to make a Herculean effort just to clear away the bullshit and bad vibes.
Every year that we delay a worldwide agreement on a carbon budget and how to implement it means a greater risk of cyclones, droughts, floods and epidemics. Every year that we dawdle means a greater risk of another war for oil.
I just wish George W. Bush and Dick Cheney would go away.
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