As election day approaches, the Republican party is attempting to make up for eight years of neglect with wonderful promises of environmental reform to come. Of course the head of this reformist movement is George Bush. After eight years of sleeping on the job, while James Watt and Donald Hodel turned the Interior Department into a cruel and expensive joke, Bush is calling himself an environmentalist! I suppose somewhere out there, some ultra-conservatives might actually believe it too.

During these last eight years, while the E.P.A. became synonymous with corruption and the nation’s energy policy was thrown out the window, George had kept his mouth shut. Never one to speak out on matters of principle, George has sat on the ideological fence. He doesn’t want the American voters to think of him as unconcerned, but at the same time he doesn’t want to offend the millionaire campaign supporters who helped elect him in the first place.

So there we have Uncle George, sitting on a fence and keeping his mouth shut. It is just further proof that the best way to gain leadership in the Republican party is to not show any.

Joel Wicklund

Young Democrats