Stateside With Rosalea: Thumbnose McBush

Tardy reporters watch the President's Friday speech in the staff canteen at the Harry S. Truman Building in Washington DC. Apparently the Secret Service is unaware that no-one -- even in their wrong mind -- wants to have a President Cheney, so the cut-off time for being admitted to the auditorium was a whole hour before the speech.

Forget Quickdraw McGraw. The President of the United States has it all over that guy when it comes to outdrawing anyone who challenges his authority. Pesky scientists, for example.

Friday’s release of a White House “Fact Sheet”: Toward a New Global Approach to Climate Change and Energy Security, when read in conjunction with Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson’s acceptance speech at his nomination back in 2005, reveal the true intent of this administration’s sudden interest in energy security and climate change. From Paulson’s 2005 speech:

“Of course, the whole world is dependent upon the U.S. economy as a major engine of its growth. And our economy’s strength is rooted in the entrepreneurial spirit and competitive zeal of the American people, and in our free and open market. It is truly a marvel, but we cannot take it for granted. We must take steps to maintain our competitive edge in the world.”

Paulson has been asked by the President to coordinate the creation of a new international clean technology fund to “help developing nations harness the power of clean energy technologies.” Announcing the fund in his speech to the Major Economies Meeting on Energy Security and Climate Change on Friday morning, the President linked such an initiative to “the elimination of tariff and non-tariff barriers on clean energy goods and services.”

Perhaps one of those “non-tariff barriers” is the requirement for research projects funded by the Departments of Energy and Defense—where such research is usually done in the U.S.—to be heavily vetted by a panel of scientists before the go-ahead to spend money is even given. What possible scientific sense does it make to have the projects under the purview of the Department of the Treasury?

And what country in their right mind is going to share their clean energy research with a nation that has at its heart—in the State Department’s inner courtyard in D.C.—a sculpture of an eagle at the very moment it is about to clasp its talons around its prey?

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