] How will future historians explain it? How will they ] possibly explain why President George W. Bush decided to ] ignore the energy crisis staring us in the face and chose ] instead to spend all his electoral capital on a futile ] effort to undo the New Deal, by partially privatizing ] Social Security? We are, quite simply, witnessing one of ] the greatest examples of misplaced priorities in the ] history of the U.S. presidency. NYT | Friedman: Geo-Greening by Example |