Zero Sum

Hooray for a return to science and reality-based decision making.

U.S. President Barack Obama told the Environmental Protection Agency Monday to reconsider California's request to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from cars, reversing the climate policies of former President George W. Bush.

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The president also directed the Department of Transportation to move forward with setting vehicle fuel efficiency standards for 2011 by March, giving automakers an 18 month period to impose them.

He also instructed the U.S. government in general to become more energy efficient.

"The days of Washington dragging its heels are over. My administration will not deny facts. We will be guided by them," he said.

  TPM

Except where it concerns Israel.

In addition, Glenn Greenwald quotes R.W. Appple in the New York Times back in the Bush I presidency as saying that “most American leaders since World War II have felt a need to demonstrate their willingness to shed blood to protect or advance what they construe as the national interest. . . . - all of them acted in the belief that the American political culture required them to show the world promptly that they carried big sticks.”

Obama will be no exception.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.