Bush to flip-flop on global warming?

Let's face it, after saying that we'd take a different track than the rest of the industrialized world--who took years to come up with a carefullly crafted plan to work together on these challenges [aka Kyoto]--and then not doing anything for 5 years, this might be a bit overdue:

After years of trying to sabotage agreements to tackle climate change he is drawing up plans to control emissions of carbon dioxide and rapidly boost the use of renewable energy sources. ...

Over the past few days rumours swept the capital that the "Toxic Texan" would announce his conversion this week, in an attempt to reduce the impact of a major speech tomorrow by Al Gore on solutions to climate change. ...

But Iain Murray, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, Mr Bush's chief climate change cheerleader, is deeply alarmed: "We are left with the unpleasant conclusion that the only motivation is political."

For once, Iain might not be wrong. Bush will propose that Congress figure this out, Congress will then add any number of the following measures into the bill: drill everywhere and anywhere without permits, place newkular power plants next to subdivisions using eminent domain, massive subsidies for energy producers, etc. Democrats will have to oppose the legislation, and Republicans will be able to paint them as do-nothing on global warming. Fascinating.