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Jimmy: Well… since President Bush is SOARING in the polls with his approval rating hovering in the 30% range I thought it might be interesting to take a look at his environmental record and his perceived Turn-Around on the environment, particularly on climate change.

As I have noted before Bush doesn’t always earn the enmity the environmental community harbors against him. One personal anecdote that would be funny if it wasn’t sad is this walk-the-walk vs. a talk-the-talk comparison of residence between George Bush and uber-conservationist Al Gore. Now Big Al has since made amends and is LEEDing the way by giving his place an environmental make-over… but it sometimes makes me wonder where his heart really is.

Bush does live somewhat conservatively to the extent any president can but what about Bush’s policy? I find it hard to cut through the rhetoric with the environmental community attacking every policy as not enough and Bush seemingly unwilling to aggressively defend his policy for fear it might hurt his street cred as an evil capitalist.

I guess some research is in order.Though some will dismiss Whitehouse.gov as biased tripe, I do encourage you to visit the site here and look at the many accomplishments we have made during the Bush administration. It’s a vast contrast to what you will read anywhere else where only controversy and strife make seem to make the news.

Anyway, I’ve made the case before that economics are tremendously important to the environment and I’ve defended Bush on these grounds. The purpose of this thread though is to debate actual actions and accomplishments so I open up the comments and invite you to share your perceptions of how good or bad Bush is doing and I’ll again try to defend the seemingly indefensible: Bush’s record on the environment.