DV:

Boy, is that what you think of as realism?

I beg to differ with you, and with Peter as well.

Where's the weasel in figuring a way to combine resources and incentives and march away from oil addiction?

It's a better job of "weaseling" than Clinton ever did in describing where we had to go, a better job than Bush could ever pretend to do, and a better job than McCain could possibly do. So if that's weaseling, let us make the most of it.

If instead of defamation and bitterness you started thinking about how such a program could be contributed to by you and yours, in a way that did not compromise your purest vision of our ideal energy scenarion, you might help us move ahead instead of just peeing on the tires.

He has just laid out a plan that could conceivably work to remedy the biggest messes in the current national scene, a straight dialogue on how it could be done, and all you can think to do about it is call him names.

I swan, you are hard-bitten cases indeed.


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