Bush's global warming flip-flop. (Insider Report).(President George W. Bush)(Brief Article)

Radio celebrity Rush Limbaugh, longtime cheerleader for Republican presidents and the Republican Party, has, on more than one occasion, acknowledged that Clinton-Gore programs and policies are being adopted by the Bush administration. The latest example: Climate Action Report 2002, the EPA's global warming report released on June 3rd. If Rush failed to attack this toxic EPA emission, his credibility would be blown with millions of listeners; he has hounded Clinton, Gore, and the "environmental wackos" for over a decade on this issue. In his commentary on the report, Limbaugh was forced to bite the bullet. He said: "Ladies and gentlemen, on the front page of Monday's [June 3rd] New York Times there's a story that has the Bush administration essentially saying, 'Yes, the phenomenon known as global warming exists, and guess who's causing it? You! American humanity with our highly technologically advanced lifestyle--our automobiles, air conditioners and whatever else, we're the ones causing it.' The Times story b egins, 'In a stark shift for the Bush administration, the United States has sent a climate report to the United Nations detailing specific and far-reaching effects that it says global warming will inflict on the American environment, In the report, the administration for the first time mostly blames human actions for recent global warming. It says the main culprit is the burning of fossil fuels that send heat-trapping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.' "Implying that Bush had transformed into Gore, Limbaugh then asked rhetorically, "George W. Algore, anyone?"

"The administration appears to have abandoned another core conservative principle," said the GOP's radio icon, "leaving us all to ...