Bush, in Reversal, Won’t Seek Cut in Emissions of Carbon Dioxide, says his earlier promise was a “mistake.” Trends are clear — he continues to pander to corporate interests, he continues to demonstrate that he doesn’t really understand the positions he takes, and he’s fully able to leave his cabinet officials — in this case EPA chief Christie Whitman — swinging in the breeze. And yet — this boggles the mind, although, by the dictum that a people get the ruler they deserve, it shouldn’t — the illegitimate son’s job approval rating is 60%, similar to that his father and Bill Clinton had early in their presidencies. It probably has something to do with the incredibly bald-faced bribery of his tax cut promises. Heartening, though, that in that poll, half of respondents recognized he’s not really in charge of what’s going on in his administration. And almost half of Americans, and more than three-quarters of African Americans, do not feel he’s their legitimate president. New York Times