Well, whaddayaknow?

The White House has finally admitted that humans are responsible for the global warming of the past several decades (sidebar: Rush Limbaugh's head explodes). Press conferences are scheduled for just after the Republican National Convention to announce the White House's further admissions that species evolve and that the Earth is round and might just be older than 6,000 years after all. An official decision as to whether the sun is pulled across the sky by a chariot has been postponed pending further committee hearings. Now, you might be tempted to call the global climate change position switch a flip-flop. In fact, you might be tempted to call a whopping lot of policy reversals flip-flops.

But lo, let us not hold back any longer. Let us now laugh out loud, hold our sides in pain, gasp for air as we look at the BushCo "flip flop" record, in sum. Let us observe the short list of issues about which BushCo has either completely reversed his position, or has simply openly lied to the nation about to further his administration's shockingly small-minded, self-serving corporate agenda:

The creation of the 9/11 commission. The Iraq WMD investigation. The Israeli/Palestine conflict. Nation building. Same-sex marriage. Veterans' benefits. The value of Osama bin Laden. The Saddam/al Qaeda link. North Korea. The U.N. vote on Iraq. "Mission accomplished." Ahmed Chalabi. Steel tariffs. The Department of Homeland Security. Campaign-finance reform. Energy policy. Hybrid cars. The deficit. Assault weapons. Abortion. Science. Global warming. The environment.

And the list, as they say, goes on. And on. And on.

Yes, you might be tempted. However, the final score isn't in yet, as you also might recall the last time the Bush administration put out a scientific document acknowledging that human emissions were warming the atmosphere with potentially catastrophic results, the president himself then dismissed it as "a report put out by the bureaucracy." That would be his bureaucracy, of course, but then he's admitted he's not a detail guy and doesn't "do nuance." David Kay, the man Bush put in charge of the WMD search in Iraq, has gone on record admitting that they were wrong wrong wrong about the existence of said weapons, but that hasn't slowed Bush down much on that front either. Bush's appointment to head the FDA's panel on women's health opposes prescribing contraceptives to single women and recommends scripture for headaches, eating disorders, and PMS.

Forget all the rest of the million reasons Bush shouldn't be president of the United States. This one should be enough: beyond not just understanding science (which he clearly does not, in spite of all that fancy-pantsed Ivy League schoolin'), he's downright hostile to it. It's the 21st century for crying out loud. The Renaissance happened 500 years ago. He has every right to wallow in his own ignorance, but if wants to do that, he should be running for office in Kansas, not to lead the country.