"White House aides had billed President BushÕs Rose Garden speech last week as a major turning point at which the president would unveil an ambitious set of proposals to address the problem of global warming Ñ a late-breaking act of atonement, as it were, for seven years of doing nothing.

Sadly, Mr. BushÕs ideas amounted to the same old stuff, gussied up to look new. Instead of trying to make up for years of denial and neglect, his speech seemed cynically designed to prevent others from showing the leadership he refuses to provide Ñ to derail Congress from imposing a price on emissions of carbon dioxide and the states from regulating emissions on their own." NYT