(Indianapolis, IN) The President has begun his industrial walk on the wild side ("The White House says...doo da doo, doo doo doo da doo...") by announcing he is going back on a campaign pledge to regulate carbon dioxide emissions.  The White House (doo da doo, doo doo doo da doo) isn't even challenging media reports that Bush promised to regulate CO2 emmissions from power plants and now has decided not to do so.  The New York Times reported that, "a cabinet-level review had concluded that Mr. Bush's original promise had been a mistake inconsistent with the broader goal of increasing domestic energy production."

Uh huh...more like a mistake inconsistent with kissing the ring of the oil and power industries.  One is forced to wonder which Bush campaign pledge will be the next to go - my guess is civility (see: Shrub's record in S. Carolina).

AND THE DANNY GOES TO: EPA Administrator Christie Whitman for taking a job that makes her this administration's equivalent of Jack Kemp - in charge of something liberals love but about which the President couldn't care less. Trouble is, unlike Captain Jack, Whitman actually cares about the work her agency is supposed to do.