What happens when two numskulls clash? You get Repub vs. Repub.

I have seen some completely incoherent ranting from diehard ultra-conservative Republicans who blame everything from the color of their own poop to not being able to read a map, on Democrats. On one blog, authored by someone I consider to be dangerously mentally unbalanced (kind of in the same vein as Ann Coulter), she blamed not being able to follow directions to a location on “liberals.” Somehow, liberals had sabotaged the car’s GPS system, and forced her to get lost.

Anyway, in my view, there are good and bad Repubs, Democrats, liberals, communists, and whatever. Brand names don’t necessarily dictate the scope of the product. In this case, Gov. Terminator has actually done something worthwhile. I know that I’ve ragged about the governator previously, primarily because he was behaving like a first class dork and appeared to be following in the dingy footsteps of the Bushkins. But now he seems to be standing on his own.

Bush science, as everyone with working cerebral knows, is about as dimwitted as it gets. Science is only science if it appeals to the bank accounts of corporate interests, such as the oil industry. Global warming? Sure, if it won’t hurt corporate interests. Oh, um, means we have to cut down on fossil fuels. Well then, it doesn’t exist.

From ABCnews.com:

A president who doesn’t acknowledge the virtually universal consensus among scientists that mankind is dangerously overheating its home planet stands to be upstaged by a governor — a fellow Republican — who does.

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger reached a deal with state Democrats today on legislation that would make the state the first to impose across-the-board strict greenhouse gas emissions cuts on industry, energy plants and businesses — the same sort of regulations a growing number of national legislators of both parties believe could make their way to Capitol Hill next year.

Assembly Bill 32 still has to be formally approved by the state legislature, which is expected to vote on it later this evening, but with the agreement reached today, it looks like a done deal.

Go for it, Arnold. Bush likes it hot? Great, let’s send him to Mars.

Could it be that Tony Blair has finally decided that he’s nobody’s poodle, and the life of a subservient lapdog is less than anticipated? Has he finally chewed away at the leash that bound him to his owner, George Bush?

Well, this news is about a month old, but it does seem like the laptop has flown the coop, given up his poodle-ism, and is now acting like a man and a responsible prime minister. He has apparently decided that global warming is not a good thing, that Bush science is something out of Dr. Frankenstein, and perhaps—maybe Tony Blair is concerned about the future of the world. The world which his four young children will inhabit one day.

Maybe he is a man who actually wants to do something for the children growing up now, rather than just blabbing about family values and saving pre-embryos.

From the Timesonline

TONY BLAIR broke ranks with President Bush yesterday to announce agreements with the state of California to cut greenhouse gases and promote stem cell research in defiance of White House policy.

The Prime Minister met Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Governor of California, to lay the groundwork for a new transatlantic carbon trading system intended to encourage companies to reduce emissions.

Frustration with the President’s refusal to cut carbon emissions has driven Britain to risk the wrath of the White House and do business with states on climate change.

The deal with California, which was to be signed after a summit in Los Angeles, came only hours after Mr Blair defied the White House publicly and called for extra investment into stem cell research.