Agreements and Disagreements

I actually agree with Inqy Democrat shill Dick Polman today:

Democrats are basically advertising today that Bush is not an insulated bubble boy, after all; that Bush is willing, in fact, to reach out and hire a guy who has repeatedly busted his chops on national radio and TV; that Bush is not terminally addicted to being surrounded by yes men. Those pithy Snow quotes - here's one early list, from a pro-Democratic group - appear to be proof of that.

Moreover, the Democrats, by openly advertising Snow's iconoclasm, have undercut their own longstanding contention that Fox News and all its hirelings are just lickspittles of the administration.

Indeed. Snow definitely won't be the punching bag old Scotty was and is way smarter than Gregory the other hacks who used to steal McLelland's lunch money and tie his shoe laces together.

I can't of course agree with every thing in the Inqy today. I'll choose this, tell me what's missing:

An ill wind has blown a bad idea from Alaska to Cape Cod.

Alaska Republicans Rep. Don Young and Sen. Ted Stevens inserted an amendment in a Coast Guard financing bill to derail a proposed 130-turbine wind farm off the coast of Massachusetts.
Local residents, politicians and energy entrepreneurs have been debating the idea for five years. Now, two members of Congress from a state thousands of miles away from Massachusetts swoop in at this late hour and effectively kill it - secretly, without debate.

What's up with that?

That's no way to encourage development of alternative energy, which Congress claims it wants to do as it seeks to elude blame for an era of high gasoline prices. Companies won't invest the time and money to pursue projects if they don't have a fair chance at approval. Congress needs to reject this backdoor maneuver and let the public vetting of Cape Wind continue.

To my knowledge, the Inqy has never even mentioned this story before the Republicans got involved. Why not? Because the biggest opponents of this project were the "environmentalist" RFK, Jr. and his uncle Teddy. Of course the only ones mentioned are the GOP members.

Update: The Boston Globe didn't back away from detailing Kennedy's opposition, why did the Inqy?

Greenpeace has their position:

The maneuver to stop the wind farm ''is clearly a backroom deal, and they're going to get called publicly on it," said John Passacantando, executive director of Greenpeace USA. ''The Democrats are going to kill the first big offshore wind farm in the United States because of their relationship with Ted Kennedy."

Hypocrisy is second nature to "Chappaquiddick Teddy".