Status Check

In his State of the Union Address this year, Bush promised energy independence, uttering the famous phrase "America is addicted to foreign oil." The typical media fluffers gushed about the pure audacity of it all. It's now 8 months later, and I just thought I'd ask: how's it going?

As I wrote back in February, this, like the AIDS in Africa initiative or the Man on Mars, is never going to happen, and it speaks to the cynicism of the press corp that they don't even think that a promise made in the state of the union speech is anything more than a rhetorical flourish, completely unworthy of following up on.

I bring all this up because it appears that he's about to do it again this time promising to eliminate global warming. I am sure we will all gush over the sheer "Nixon in China-ness" of the move, just as much as I'm sure that come next Monday, it will all be forgotten, and once again, the press will allow the President of the United States to make a promise to the American people that he has no intention of keeping.