Well, Bush is right about one thing
Bush Promotes Wetlands Plan to Counter Kerry's Attack
By ELISABETH BUMILLER
CORAL GABLES, Fla., April 23 — President Bush made a highly lucrative visit on Friday to the state that made him president, coupling a promotion of his environmental policies in Naples with two fund-raisers for the Republican National Committee that brought in $4.4 million.
It was the second day in a row that Mr. Bush had spoken of a new goal to expand wetlands, but this time he did it in a state, run by his brother Jeb, that is crucial to his re-election prospects. Mr. Bush seized on the wetlands issue this week as a way to blunt criticism from Senator John Kerry, his presumptive opponent for president, who has made the environment a central line of attack against Mr. Bush.
"I know there's a lot of politics when it comes to the environment," Mr. Bush said in a noontime speech under a hot sun at the Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve in Naples, with mangrove trees, sable palms and Gov. Jeb Bush at his back.
Yes, there's a lot of politics when it comes to the environment. Bush himself never speaks of it until it becomes politically contentious.
