Genuinely Embarrassed by The White House

Despite all the disappointing actions over the years of this administration, I was still taken aback by the sheer ignorance (gall? idiocy?) of Mr. Bush during a recent speech in Cleveland, Ohio, where he said, "I mean, people have access to health care in America. After all, you just go to an emergency room."  Come on, do you seriously consider that a health care solution?

More recently, in an e-mail message sent out by Martin McGuiness, Special Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs, was the claim that, "This administration has done more for the environment and addressing energy security and climate change than any other in history."

Really?  Al Gore points out the folly in such a claim:

The truth is that far from having the best record on the climate crisis, this administration would rank at the very bottom. Remember, this was the White House that hired an energy lobbyist to censor the scientists authoring the government's climate reports.

Immediately upon taking office, George Bush rejected the Kyoto Accord that called for only a 7% cut in CO2 below 1990 levels. He claimed, with no basis in fact, that the treaty would damage the U.S. economy. And in April, 2005, the Government Accountability Office determined that George Bush's climate program "lacks a major component required by law: periodic assessments of how rising temperatures may affect people and the environment."

It really is embarrassing.