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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi: Bush a total failure
by rahul | July 17, 2008 at 03:58 pm | 378 views | 3 comments | 5 recommendations
Just prior to the end of Bush administration, some members of the Republican party have expressed their rejection to his policies. This time, House Speaker Nancy Pelosy expressed her veiled scorn towards President Bush. However, it is too little to late.
House Speaker: Bush a total failure
Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:14:00US House of Representatives Speaker, Nancy Pelosi has called President George W. Bush 'a total failure' who talks but 'has no ideas'.
"You know, God bless him, bless his heart, the president of the United States, a total failure, losing all credibility with the American people on the economy, on the war, on energy, you name the subject." Nancy Pelosi said in an interview with CNN on Thursday.
Pelosi, 68, said the House and Senate were busy "trying to sweep up after (Bush's) mess over and over and over again ... The president knows it. He needs something to talk about because he has no ideas."
The speaker was especially critical of Bush's proposal to lift a ban on offshore oil drilling as a means to ease the current fuel price crisis, calling it a ploy to draw attention away from his failures.
"We have seven and a half years of failed energy policy by the Bush administration. We have a faltering, down turning economy. The president needs a decoy."
"So he's going out there, he even has the nerve to say the economy would be better off if we could drill in protected areas offshore," she said, adding the Democrats' proposal to free up the US strategic petroleum reserve, which she said is 91.5 percent full.
"And we're saying let's take 10 percent of that ... and use that to put on the market so that we increase supply, reduce prices, and when the price comes down, we can buy back the oil at a lower price."
SG/MMN
July 17, 2008 at 03:58 pm by rahul, 378 views, 3 comments
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at 16:01 on July 17th, 2008
For more, see previous NP coverage: http://www.nowpublic.com/world/pelosi-marks-bush-failure-loser
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Robin Nadeau (not verified)at 12:14 on July 19th, 2008
Dear Speaker Pelosi,
Thank you for refusing to buckle to the president and his oil buddies, in order to put our coastlines in jeopardy -- especially in the face of the added intensity of storms, increasingly prevalent thanks to Global Warming -- the very reason we should be cutting down on the use of fossil fuels, not encouraging more oil production. With proper leadership, the power companies should be investing in development of renewables such as Solar and Wind.
Another powerful lobby that needs your resistance is the Nuclear Energy lobby, which has a slick PR campaign (no doubt lubricated by generous campaign contributions) to brainwash our legislators into giving them generous subsidies and the assurance that we tax payers will bail them out if they have a chernobyl-type accident. They claim that they are 'green' and use no fossil fuels -- ignoring the use of fossil fuel for the mining and production of the nuclear material, the construction of the plants, and the delivery of the toxic waste to repositories. They also fail to show the copious supply of water that they use: according to the Union of Concerned Scientists, in order to cool the core of the prototypical plant that would produce 1.600 megawats of electricity, by 30 degrees F., 762,384 gallons of water PER MINUTE is required; only 70% of that water returns to the source body of water; with 43 of our states suffering drought conditions, this would be highly irresponsible. Why should be burden ourselves with energy production that depletes our valuable water resources, and produces toxic garbage that takes thousands of years to stabilize, when we have an endless supply of sun, wind, geothermal and tidal action to exploit. Please do not jeopardize the future of our children with this curse. France is in dire danger from its 58 nuclear plants, and has had to shut down nuclear plants during the 2003 and 2006 heat waves combined with drought conditions.
Germany wisely is phasing out its oil, coal, and nuclear plants, replacing them with an intensive Solar program as well as Wind.
Please guide America into a positive and healthy future, free of carbon and toxic pollution.
We need Congress to protect us because DOE and RNC are not serving us well in their role of watch-dogs.
My sincere thanks, Mrs. Robin Nadeau, 26 Mickler Blvd., St. Augustine, FL 32080-5906. E-mail: renadeau@bellsouth.net
at 18:36 on July 17th, 2008
rahul, I like this story. It's good stuff.