fear of the public podium vs. the back room

stupid vs. smart

I've always believed that she was a paper leader. She barely won (supposedly) the election, she never takes a firm position on anything, you rarely hear her speak other than pre-scripted short sound bites, and she generally "weasles" out of everything.

Has anyone else noticed this pattern?

Gregoire is a disgrace to the state of Washington, sorry to say...

I really hate saying this, but I hope Dino beats her the next time around, if she even is the candidate for the Dems.

Anyone could do the "job" that she is doing at the moment. She hasn't really done anything since getting into office.

Reality Check

"I do disagree with one thing, though, that Bill [Richardson] said, and that is that on a carbon tax the cost will be passed onto consumers and that won't happen with a cap-and-trade. Under a cap-and-trade there will be a cost. Plants are going to have to retrofit their equipment, and that's going to cost money, and they will pass it onto consumers. We have an obligation to use some of the money that we generate to shield low-income and fixed-income individuals from high electricity prices, but we're also going to have to ask the American people to change how they use energy."

The resemblance is eerie.

Priorities for a Healthy Washington lobby day (environment stuff, not health care stuff despite the confusing name) a couple weeks ago. She was speaking to the choir on environmental issues and spoke much more strongly about the cap and trade bill, talked about leading a coalition of Western states in carbon reduction, took some shots at Bush and the federal government's inaction etc.

Ever.

And when she does this, she disses us in Seattle, who have had enough with wishy-washy on global warming. Period.