Bush became President in the year 2000. That was break my break out my calculator 2021 – 2000 = 21 years ago. It occurs to me that our younger readers, born in 2000, or even 1990, may not know how genuinely horrid Bush was, as President.
I was blogging even back then, and I remember how horrid Bush was; certainly worse than Trump, at least for Trump’s first three years in office, until the Covid pandemic. To convey the full horror of the Bush years would not a series of posts, but a book. The entire experience was wretched and shameful.
Of the many horrors of the Bush years, I will pick three. (I am omitting many, many others, including Hurricane Katrina, the Plame Affair, Medicare Part D, the Cheney Energy Task Force, that time Dick Cheney shot an old man in the face, Bush’s missing Texas Air National Guard records, Bush gaslighting the 2004 Republican National Convention with terror alerts, and on and on and on. An I didn’t even get to 9/11, “You’ve covered your
Opinion An open letter to Energy Secretary Granholm: Policy is too important to be made behind closed doors
Author By Howard Crystal
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The following is a contributed article by Howard Crystal, legal director of the Center for Biological Diversity s Energy Justice Program.
Dear Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm:
During the last four years, we wasted precious time that should ve been spent working feverishly toward a just, clean energy transition. And the public has been kept in the dark.
As a litigator with more than two decades of experience in energy policy, I ve seen up close the agency s long history of developing energy policy behind closed doors.