NYT Op-Ed - "The Arrogance Of Jeb Bush" - Freaking Nails It
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Yes, he was strafed from both sides for his tortured and fact-challenged explanations of the Iraq war. The fumbling is understandable: Bound by family fealty, the fraternal load of the biggest foreign policy debacle of our time, Jeb Bush can’t state the obvious. But an equally astounding, and perhaps more absurd utterance, has not received nearly as much attention — his climate change stance. Bush the youngest believes the Earth is warming. No doubt, he’s willing to go further out on a limb and conclude that heat expands, cold contracts and a dolphin is not a fish.
That’s as far as he’ll go. He says the science is “convoluted,” even though the latest assessment from international climate scientists states with 95 percent confidence that humans are the cause of a sick planet. That obfuscation is also understandable. You simply cannot be a leader of the Republican Party without appearing to know less than a fifth grader about earth science. The real stunner was a statement made earlier this month at a campaign event. What bothers him is not the threat of megastorms, life-killing droughts, city-burying sea rises — but experts in the scientific community who are sounding such alarms. Those people.
“And for the people to say the science is decided on, this is just really arrogant, to be honest with you,” said Bush. “It’s this intellectual arrogance that now you can’t have a conversation about it even.”
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Coming from Florida, much of which could be underwater in our children’s lifetime, Jeb Bush knows better. He is reflective and well-informed about his own health and weight loss. And he once spoke the language of common sense about trying to restore a smidge of the wild in the strip-mall-saturated Sunshine State. But now he has to be dishonest to keep his tenuous hold among the top tier of Republican candidates. He’s already out of line with his party on Common Core school standards, and immigration. A trifecta of conservative heresy would be enough to knock him out completely. It’s too late — his embrace of science denial will not save him. It doesn’t matter that he may rake in $100 million during the fake campaign, where he can remain under the radar of nominal oversight by not formally announcing. It doesn’t matter that he may yet win the Koch brothers primary, which explains more than anything why he favors more fracking for oil and gas.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/29/opinion/the-arrogance-of-jeb-bush.html?_r=5
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