Wednesday, July 02, 2003

Junk science: Iain Murray (in two articles today - The Washington Times and Tech Central Station) takes on the hype over the Bush administrations "censorship" of documents relating to climate change. Murray points out that the documents had been discredited and the removal of them was necessary to maintain scientific integrity. What's interesting is the administrations weak tea approach to fighting environemtnal extremists. Maybe this is another example of Ponnuru's shift to the left, particluarly as campaign season comes into view. But a principled stand on environemtal honesty would go a long way towards securing the Republican base and attracting those young, hip libertarians (like Eno, if we define hip loosely enough). If I understand you your disappointment with Bush is not so much that he's done very much wrong, but that he 's done very little right. Democrat-lite, as you say. Would an issue like the environement be enough to make you support a Republican, if they took an aggressive posture?

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