about Bush’s “Clear Skies” Initiative? Spinsanity thinks so. The environmentalist critique of Clear Skies is that it slows down planned reductions in pollution levels. Spinsanity scores Dean for implying that Clear Skies would actually increase pollution (“The Clear Skies Initiative … basically allows you to put more pollution into the air”). I’m inclined to give Dean a pass. If the initiative results in there being more pollution in 2012 than current law would allow, that means that it is allowing more pollution–right? For the same reason, a person who supports the cancellation of a scheduled tax cut can reasonably be accused of wanting a tax hike, because he wants taxes to be higher than they otherwise would be. What do you think, Prof. Adler?