An ungracious speech?

Some people didn't like to the inaugural speech. Most of them are taking a plane back to Texas. Here's the NYTIMES story reporting that some of those around the ex-president thought Barach Obama was taking shots at the Bush administration.

They probably thought lines like the one about the need to "restore science to its rightful place" were out of line. It's laughable to hear Karen Hughes complain about sharp elbows and being "ungracious." Sometimes you just need to tell it like it is. But the new chief of staff had the best answer to the complaints:

Mr. Emanuel mocked Bush advisers for bristling at the message of the Inaugural Address. “If they didn’t know that was the judgment of people, then their subscription to the newspapers were canceled over the last three years,” he said.

If you want evidence to support the suggestion that science has been removed from its proper place in the last eight years, there are plenty of places to look. A good starting point is the story of James Hansen, a climate scientist for NASA whose conclusions were rewritten by unknown Bush appointees.