well, i'm a democrat and if i was in office, things would be different.  After 9/11, i would have gone to the people and told them how this tragedy was caused by our dependence upon oil, and that it was time to make the necessary sacrifices to eliminate that dependence to ensure that something like 9/11 never happened again.

People were ready to band together, make a sacrifice, and do something that would make a difference.  It would have worked.  But, of course, the repubs pissed away the greatest opportunity in history to make the world better.

The question is, would Al Gore have taken the opportunity after 9/11?  I personally think that he would have, and I would love to peak into that alternate universe where he was rightfully sworn in as president (instead of this really bad joke of a universe where the greatest failure in history has been sworn in).

Yeah, it's a pity. I was thinking pretty much the same thing after 9/11 — they'll come to their senses now and promote energy alternatives and conservation. Little did I know, they do not have any senses to which to come.

I'm pretty sure Al Gore would have taken such measures, and the right wing would have made screeching noises and thown feces from their cages. I could live with the screeching noises more easily than the hard crash we're headed for now.