This is why I hate conservative politics.

[Calvinist Basset]

NPR just interviewed Republican senators Chuck Hegel (sp?) from Nebraska. Chuck was one of the senators instrumental in keeping our country from ratifying the Kyoto Treaty because, back in 1997, he wasn't convinced that humanity was adversely affecting the earth with Greenhouse gases.

Now, he's changed his mind and proposing legislation that he hopes Bush will support. Basically, he wants to give tax breaks and other incentives to drive more ecologically conscientious practices.

But what gets me outraged is simply this: progressives seem to be **always** correct about the social, environmental and crucial issues that need to be changed; and conservatives fight them tooth and nail. Then, when it is irrefutably proven that the progressives were right all along, the damned conservatives come sneaking in the proverbial back door, pretending that they had always supported the issues or just recently made a "new" discovery that no one else had ever considered.

In this case, ten years or so went by in which we could have been making a significant difference in the alteration of global warming. But conservatives kept us from doing that, and even more years will now pass as they debate, ponder and do whatever else until genuine action is taken.

AARRRRGGGGGHHH! :grr:

[gizmo1979]

1. Actually he was against it before he voted for it.