Al Gore: The Ken Lay of Global Warming

Predictably, the NY Times has today ceded 1/4th of its op/ed page to a guest opinion piece by Al Gore, Pope of the Church of Global Warming.  It's title?  "We Can't Wish Away Climate Change".

[sigh]

The first paragraph is a thing of climate-hysteric beauty:  "It would be an enormous relief if the recent attacks on the science of global warming actually indicated that we do not face an unimaginable calamity requiring large-scale, preventive measures to protect human civilization as we know it."

You have to love the chutzpah, coming from a guy whose every pronouncement of impending doom to mankind made over the last 20 years has been demonstrated false in just the last few months.  Since last November, we learned that a) hurricanes are not becoming either stronger or more numerous than in the past, b) the Himalyan glaciers are not melting, c) the Amazon rain forests are not endangered by global warming, d) arctic sea ice is not disappearing, e) antarctic sea ice is actually expanding, f) Greenland is not melting, g) polar bears are not in any way an endangered species, h) sea levels are not rising, period, i) crop production in Africa is not decreasing, j) global warming is not a threat to water resources to 3/4ths of the globe, and k) there has been no global warming at all since 1995.

But it gets even better, as Pope Al continues talking himself into a corner:  "...what a burden would be lifted! We would no longer have to worry that our grandchildren would one day look back on us as a criminal generation that had selfishly and blithely ignored clear warnings that their fate was in our hands. We could instead celebrate the naysayers who had doggedly persisted in proving that every major National Academy of Sciences report on climate change had simply made a huge mistake."

The irony of Pope Al pointing fingers at anyone else and accusing them of criminal behavior is stunning in light of what we know today about the utter and complete fraud he has attempted to perpetrate on the world community.  This is a man who was given a Nobel Peace Prize and an Academy Award for the production of a fake documentary - An Inconvenient Truth -  every element of whose narrative was designed to convince the people of the world to spend trillions of dollars in establishing a global carbon trading scheme.  At the same time, Gore was secretly setting himself up in the carbon credit trading business, massively enriching himself in the process.

Now we know that every element of the narrative to An Inconvenient Truth is a lie, the foundation of the most expensive fraud ever perpetrated on mankind.  And we know that Pope Al has been one of the main beneficiaries of that fraud. 

When similar fraud-based houses of cards come tumbling down in the corporate world, as happened with Enron, Arthur Anderson and others, the United States Justice Department conducts formal investigations and people go to jail.  The proper analogy here is to think of Pope Al as the Ken Lay of the Global Warming fraud.

But it doesn't end with Pope Al - you also have to consider the fake "scientists" who have since November been revealed to have intentionally falsified their data in order to produce fake "science" in support of the global warming fraud scheme.  Again, when corporate emails revealing systematic fraudulent behavior are made public, the U.S. Justice Department conducts formal investigations, issues indictments, and throws people in jail.  Given that the emails revealed since last November reveal exactly such fraudulent intent, similar investigations from U.S. and European law enforcement officials are in order.

If future generations want to find criminal behavior in the current generation, they need look no further than Mr. Gore himself, and the fake scientists who dummied up the data to support his criminal endeavor.

Pope Al sums up his op/ed piece with the following breathtaking assertion:  "We have overcome existential threats before. Winston Churchill is widely quoted as having said, “Sometimes doing your best is not good enough. Sometimes, you must do what is required.” Now is that time. Public officials must rise to this challenge by doing what is required; and the public must demand that they do so — or must replace them."

This is the one true thing he writes in the entire piece, and I fully agree.  It is time for public officials at the U.S. Justice Department and law enforcement agencies around the world to rise to the challenge and do what is required here:  Investigate and prosecute Pope Al, the fake scientists who dummied up the data, the officials at the United Nations International Panel on Climate Change, and anyone else who has had a knowing hand in the perpetration of this massive, unprecedented fraud against humanity.

If these public officials fail to perform their obvious duty in this case, then the public must replace them.  It was probably not Pope Al's intent, but in this piece he has made the best possible argument for returning both houses of congress to Republican control this November.  We know the Obama Administration will never act to correct this fraud so long as they are able to avoid it.  Congressional pressure from a new majority will be the only way to force it, and if that fails, then the President himself must be replaced in 2012.

Pope Al had better make all the millions he can as quickly as he can.  Time is growing short, and the editorial board at the NY Times will not be able to provide him cover forever.

Obama Approval Continues to Tank

morning's Rasmussen survey has him at -21 in the "strongly approve/strongly disapprove" measurement:

...and, for the first time, his overall approval rating has fallen to 43% in this poll:

If he continues down his path of radical leftism, he will be in the 30s by summer.

It's morning in America.  Have a great Saturday.
 

Post-Summit Stuff

Ronald Reagan would have been proud of congressional Republicans yesterday.  The healthcare summit was a draw according to MSNBC, which means the Republicans won, and won big.

Some thoughts, in no particular order:

• The President was petulant, condescending and tense.  His idea of "bi-partisanship" appears to be to tell any given Republican who was speaking "those are all good points", and then to immediately dismiss them and move on.  He diminished his office by playing emcee to the room, and made himself look a little silly by singlehandedly talking longer than all the Democrats combined, and all the Republicans combined.
• The comparisons of President Obama to Ronald Reagan as a "Great Communicator" need to end, and end now.  Obama is very literate, and speaks well.  Reagan was a little less smooth as a speaker, but he was convincing whenever he spoke, and able to persuade others to his point of view.  Obama has zero ability to convince others, which is why he fails whenever he tries.  From last year's trips to Copenhagen to try to win the 2016 Olympics for Chicago, to try to get a deal on global warming, to his campaigning for Democrat candidates in races in New Jersey, Virginia and Massachusetts, Obama is on a losing streak of epic proportions in terms of personal persuasion.  He may be a great talker, but he is far from being a great communicator.
• Harry Reid looked as if he was chewing on a lemon and had a grassburr in the seat of his pants all day.  But then, that's pretty much how he always looks.  Nancy Pelosi is a worthless, lying sack of horse dung, and I literally celebrate every time her party is stupid enough to put her in front of television cameras.
• The Republicans, much to my surprise, showed up well-prepared with factual information and real ideas for real reforms that would actually improve healthcare delivery in the U.S. while lowering costs.  Naturally, each and every one of those ideas were rejected out of hand by the President and the other Democrats in the room, given that their goal here is to create a new, massive dependent class of Americans, not to in any way improve the system.
• Paul Ryan was especially impressive, easily the most serious and best-prepared person in the room.  His critique of the budgetary shenanigans contained in the Democrat plan were utterly understandable to the average person and thus devastating to the Democrat cause.
• It didn't hurt anything at all that the Rs were also able to bring real medical doctors to the table in the form of Senators John Barrasso of Wyoming and Tom Coburn of Oklahoma.  These two guys debating nitwits like Turban Durbin and San Fran Nan just is not a fair fight.
• The sad thing about all of this is that there really is a need for real, good faith reforms in the U.S. system of healthcare delivery.  Unfortunately, such reforms cannot happen at the federal level so long as radical leftist ideologues occupy the White House and the majority in congress.  And so we are left with the current stalemate.  Any real reforms must continue to happen at the state level on a piecemeal basis.  Obamacare is dead - Democrats will not be able to force the monstrosity through on a "reconciliation" strategy.

It is dead.  RIP.

Have a great Friday.

Some Stuff To Consider

The latest Rasmussen survey  on the Texas gubernatorial race shows incumbent Rick Perry running away from Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison by a 48-27 margin.  9/11 truther candidate Debra Medina has slipped since her revelation on the Glenn Beck Radio Program a couple of weeks ago, now coming in at 16%.  This is too bad, since for a while there she was providing some actual suspense in this race, with everyone wondering if Sen. Hutchison could manage to even finish second after the horrid and ridiculously stupid campaign she has run.

Disclaimer:  I have long been a fan of Sen. Hutchison for a variety of reasons I will not go into here.  But I have lost pretty much all respect for her and the morons who are running her campaign after the nit-witted campaign she has presented to Texans this year.  In fact, I really find myself at this point rooting for Medina to make a comeback and edge her out for second place.

Seriously, Sen. Hutchison has for the last few weeks been running radio ads featuring a guy with a folksy Texas drawl (I think it's the guy who does the Whataburger commercials) complaining about Gov. Perry's "fancy roadside parks".  I swear I am not making this up - Sen. Hutchison and her campaign's "brain trust" (Pictured at the beginning of this piece) think they're going to defeat a 10-year incumbent Governor who has never in his life lost a race for elected office by complaining about roadside parks.

In light of all of that, no magnitide of defeat will be too much for Sen. Hutchison to suffer in this election.  She gets what she deserves.

Elsewhere, the news is all about today's Healthcare Summit, at which President Obama will get a 3 hour photo-op while ignoring any suggestions for real, sensible reform offered by the Republicans who are stupid enough to actually show up.

George Will  has a very nice op-ed piece about it all today.  His opening paragraph is right on point:

Today's health policy "summit" comes at a moment when, as happens with metronomic regularity, Washington is reverberating with lamentations about government being "broken." Such talk occurs only when the left's agenda is stalled. Do you remember mournful editorials and somber seminars about "dysfunctional" government when liberals defeated George W. Bush's Social Security reforms?

Meanwhile, our favorite simpering half-wit com-symp op/ed writer, E.J. Dionne apparently woke up yesterday and realized that the liberals are in the process of losing a large swath of young people exactly as they did in the 1980s.  This comes as a surprise only to E.J.  Pity him an his existence.

I love this story , in a tragic sort of way.  So let me get this straight:  a killer whale has already killed two people, and we're somehow supposed to be surprised when it kills a third?  In a sane world, this whale would have long ago either been put out to sea or put down.  Instead, our frivolous, simpleton-minded society somehow believes the beast is just misunderstood, and should be protected.  Even this woman's own sister is quoted as saying the victim “would not want anything done to that whale” because she loved the animals like children.

Well, guess what, sis?  Killer Whales aren't children, and they're called "killer" whales for a reason.

Idiot.

Have a great Thursday.

So Much for the "Pivot to Jobs"

Y’all remember way back in January – yes, a whole month ago – when the word out of the White House was that President Barack Obama was going to finally, at long last, really, truly get serious about dealing with the economy and implementing policies designed to create jobs? He was, according to his army of professional prevaricators – otherwise known as the mainstream news media – going to perform a “pivot to jobs”, a fancy dance move that would promenade away from his single-minded focus on the frivolity of cap and trade and healthcare nationalization, and dosey-doe to a new (for him) pursuit of policies designed to create real jobs.


So what has changed in the President’s behavior since that barrage of White House talking point parroting by the lapdog media?

Nothing.

If you got up early on Sunday morning and logged onto RealClearPolitics.com as I did, the very first headline you saw was a link to a transcript of the President’s Saturday morning YouTube address, demonstrating what he is clearly focused on today. The headline read “It’s Time to Move Forward on Healthcare”. Huh? Beg pardon? Say what?

Did I misread that? Is it a typo? Did it really say “It’s Time to Move Forward on Jobs”, or “It’s Time to Finally, at Long Last, to Focus on the Economy”, or “It’s Time For Me To Get Serious About Doing My Job”, or “It’s Time For Me To Drop My neo-Fascist Dreams”?

No, I had it right – it really does say “It’s Time to Move Forward on Healthcare”. Hooboy.

So I clicked on the piece to see if the headline was misleading. I thought, you know, the address might have been more focused on jobs and the economy, with just a passing mention about healthcare that was latched onto by a headline writer at RealClearPolitics. But no, the entire piece is about healthcare nationalization. I mean that literally – every word of the speech is solely focused on socializing 1/6th of the U.S. economy. It reads like a speech the President would have made last July – chock full of the ad hominem attacks on and demonization of healthcare providers we have so come to know and love from this President. We’re right back to boogeyman politics. Ok, really, we never left.

So much for the “pivot to jobs”.

Seriously, this should not come as a surprise to anyone – we’ve said all along this guy is not going to change. He has no clue what to do about the economy, and doesn’t much care. He has no clue how to go about creating jobs, and why would anyone expect otherwise? This is a man who has never been involved in a job-creating endeavor in his entire life – he has spent his entire adult life as a political agitator and a politician. His mentors in life have all, without exception, been men of the radical left. He is constitutionally incapable of changing his behavior, and has no desire to change it in any event – he is what he is, a man seeking the creation of a neo-fascist American state.

Oh, well, it could’ve been worse – the President’s Saturday address could have been all about cap and trade. Hmmm, why do I suspect that will be his topic in the coming weeks?

So the White House and the Democrats in congress remain focused on healthcare nationalization. They’re holding a summit on February 25th dedicated to healthcare nationalization. They’ve invited Republicans to attend, and will no doubt reject out of hand any Republican idea that would not lead directly to nationalization of 1/6th of the economy. The White House, after leaving it entirely up to congress to write various healthcare nationalization bills over the last 14 months, is going to post its own healthcare plan on its website on Monday. An anonymous source tells Fox News that the White House plan will be based on – guess what? – the current Senate bill, only without the bribes to Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana and Ben Nelson of Nebraska in exchange for their votes.

Yeah, that’s the ticket! The White House obviously believes that the only reason why the overwhelmingly liberal voters of Massachusetts elected a Republican last month to fill that state’s vacant senate seat was due to the backroom deals surrounding the senate healthcare negotiations, and that all those polls taken since showing upwards of 60% of Americans opposing healthcare nationalization are meaningless.

So, you might ask, why does this President remain myopically focused on what is so obviously a political loser of a policy? Because healthcare nationalization is not about “fixing” the healthcare system, it’s about creating the most massive new dependent class of Americans since FDR’s New Deal.

This President has not abandoned his goal of “transforming America”, which he repeated hundreds of times throughout his presidential campaign. He wasn’t kidding when he said that, nor was he resorting to hyperbole. His true, undying goal is to transform this country into a neo-fascist state, and the only way to make that happen is to render as many Americans as possible dependent on the federal government for their livelihoods and their healthcare. This is why the only “jobs” he has even attempted to create are government jobs, why his regulatory agencies focus on making it harder and costlier for anyone to create a private sector job, and why he refuses to abandon his unpopular plan to nationalize healthcare.

There is no mystery here, folks. This President is extremely transparent, and he has been telling us for a couple of years now what he really plans to do to this country. It’s time everyone started taking him at his word.

The 6 Step Cycle of Leftist Rationalization

In a column last week, E.J. Dionne, our favorite whiney, slobbering leftist nitwit columnist, complained that the Obama/Pelosi fake stimulus bill was “if anything, too small”. This is invariably the final rationalization of those on the left when their programs turn out to be unmitigated disasters for the nation – they would have been successful had they just been larger, and if anything, they were just too small.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal? If anything, just too small. Thus, over the decades, Democrat-dominated congresses enacted constant expansions of the benefits of Social Security without enacting corresponding expansions of worker contributions, leaving the system today basically bankrupt.

Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society? If anything, just too small. Trillions of wasted dollars later, the poverty rate today is higher than it was in 1965, the African American family has been decimated by the perverse incentives contained in Great Society programs, and liberals continue to contend it all would have worked if only we’d have spent more.

Johnson looked at John F. Kennedy’s minimal interventionist policy in Vietnam and said it was “if anything, just too small.” Out of that keen observation, the U.S. presence in that country soon grew from a few hundred advisors to more than half a million handcuffed-by-political-considerations troops, and the mother of all quagmires was born.

FDR, at Yalta, looked at Stalin’s plans for annexing much of Eastern Europe into his growing communist bloc and said it was “if anything, just too small.” Ok, he really didn’t do that, but he might as well have, as Stalin got everything he wanted out of that conference, ensuring communist domination of Eastern Europe for half a century.

Last year’s $100 billion 2-year increase in the budget of the soviet-style Department of Education? If anything, just too small. The result of this and the other enormous increases in the baseline budgets of a vast array of wasteful socialist federal programs is that the nation now faces a structural annual deficit in excess of $1 trillion as far as the eye can see.

A cap and trade bill that would waste $2 trillion taxpayer dollars over the next decade to marginally decrease man-made carbon dioxide emissions? If anything, just too small. With the failure of this human atrocity of an idea, the Obama Administration now pursues the wrecking of the U.S. economy by seeking soviet-style command-and-control regulation of “greenhouse gases” by the Environmental Protection Agency under the auspices of the Clean Air Act.

A bill to socialize the finest system of healthcare delivery in the world? If anything, just too small. Most of those on the political left will tell you that the bills currently before congress are too timid, and achieve their goal of a federal takeover of 1/6th of the economy over too long a period of time. They’d much prefer that their Democrat heroes in congress and the President commit outright political suicide by passing an outright, immediate single payer system into law and telling an adamantly opposed public to shut up and take it.

Harry Truman at least was correct when he looked at the bombs that were used in the fire-bombing of Dresden and said “if anything, they’re just too small.” Hiroshima and Nagasaki followed shortly thereafter, and a world war was ended. Then again, Truman may have been a Democrat, but he wasn’t a leftist.

We could go on and on here, but the point is obvious: liberals will never admit to the failure of their consistently failed policy ideas. In their minds, the only reason for the failure of their socialist experiments is that they just weren’t well-funded enough. In other words, if anything, they were just too small.

And so, we invariably end up with the same 6-step cycle of rationalization we have seen from President Obama and his lapdogs in the media like Mr. Dionne.

Step 1: Pass a hideously ill-considered, shamefully wasteful program into law. This step is known as Abject Stupidity. Step 2: Stand idly by as the program utterly and completely fails to produce the results you misled the public into believing it would produce. This step is known as Inevitability of Outcome. Step 3: Look on as the people slowly wake up to the reality of what is happening in Step 2, and public opinion turns radically against you. This step is known as Uh-Ohhhh. Step 4: Begin the process of pointing fingers of blame at anyone else who happens to be standing nearby in order to deflect attention away from yourself. This step is known as Desperate Responsibility Avoidance. Step 5: When Step 4 doesn’t work, team up with your fellow liberals to develop a common set of lies to try to convince the public that they simply misunderstood what the program was intended to do, and that it is really producing exactly the intended results. This step is known as Joe Biden Will Say Literally Anything.

Step 6: Finally, when all else fails, and your party is now facing an enormous repudiation of everything it stands for at the polls next November, try to shift blame to the Republicans, painting them as obstructionists and blaming them for making your program, “if anything, just too small.” This step is known as The Last Refuge of a Leftist Nitwit, and is ably personified by E.J. Dionne.

So, to summarize, here is the 6-Step Cycle of Leftist Rationalization:

Step 1: Abject Stupidity

Step 2: Inevitability of Outcome

Step 3: Uh-Ohhhhh

Step 4: Desperate Responsibility Avoidance

Step 5: Joe Biden Will Say Literally Anything

Step 6: The Last Refuge of a Leftist Nitwit

A sincere word of thanks to Mr. Dionne for playing the role of this week’s Poster Child for the slow-motion suicide of the tired, dying, dinosaur leftist news media.

Hobnobbing With Tex!

Welcome to yet another incredibly enlightening edition of the only op/ed column in America that has been telling you there has been no global warming since 1995 since…well, since 1995, Hobnobbing With Tex!


Item: Dr. Phil is a phraud.

No, not that Dr. Phil (although he’s a fraud as well) – we’re talking about Dr. Phil Jones of London’s East Anglia University. After years of trying to convince the world that the last 50 years constitute the warmest climate period in recorded history, Dr. Phil turned the world of the Church of Global Warming on its collective head over the weekend when he publicly admitted for the first time that the so-called Medieval Warm Period may well have been warmer than current times, and that there has likely been no global warming at all since 1995.

Dr. Jones, of course, is the very same fake “scientist” who for the last decade falsified data in what has now been rendered a failed attempt to literally erase the 500 year Medieval Warm Period from history in his now-infamous “hockey stick” graph that purported to show steadily and moderately fluctuating temperatures for 2000 years leading to a rapid spike upwards since 1950. Real scientists have over the last seven years repeatedly demonstrated not only that the Medieval Warm Period did indeed exist, but also that Dr. Jones’s claim of a recent spike in global temperatures in excess of ordinary historic fluctuations is a fantasy.

But still, Jones was able to persist in propping up his fraud – which formed the very foundation of Church of Global Warming religious dogma – with the help of a compliant, lapdog media until thousands of emails exchanged between himself and a group of fellow fake “scientists” were made public last November. These emails clearly demonstrated a cooperative effort among the global warming alarmist fake scientist community to include fabricated data in their studies, hide real data from the public, and smear real scientists who attempted to publish studies refuting the alarmist claims.

Since then, Jones has found himself under increasing fire from the British news media, and under intensifying scrutiny from his bosses at East Anglia for his obvious academic fraud,  and from the British government for his blatant violations of the British Freedom of Information Act. It appears the warmest place in London these days is Dr. Jones’s office, and he’s attempting to cool things off by finally weaving a little reality into the fantasy world he has made millions of dollars concocting.

One can only hope this latest ruse by Dr. Jones will not have the effect of convincing his bosses and the British government to call off the dogs. Dr. Jones has, along with Al Gore and many others, played a major role in the execution of the most massive fraud in the history of mankind, a fraud that has convinced developed nations around the world to implement wasteful, enormously expensive policies that have cost taxpayers billions upon billions of dollars, and led directly to millions of deaths due to starvation, malaria and other needless causes.

Prison is where such people belong, and the sooner sanity arrives and governments begin the process of putting them there, the better.

Item: Bayh, Bayh, Evan.

It's like deja vu all over again:  The similarities between the first two years of the Barack Obama Administration and the first two years of the Bill Clinton Administration continue to accumulate. Throughout late 1993 and early 1994, the country witnessed a rash of retirements by Democrat members of congress, as those members began to wake up to the mess Slick Willie had made of his first year in office, and realized that Clinton’s then-fading public approval rating was going to harm their own chances at re-election.

Fast forward to late 2009, and over the last five months or so, we have seen the same phenomenon rising among current congressional Democrats, and for the same reason: President Obama, by dramatically misreading the results of the 2008 elections and pursuing a radical leftist policy agenda, has made a hash of his first year in office, and shows no signs of any willingness to moderate his worst impulses. This has placed the Democrats’ significant congressional majorities in real peril, and many of these senators and congressmen, seeing the handwriting on the wall, are opting for retirement rather than defeat the polls.

Last Friday, Rhode Island congressman Patrick Kennedy announced he would not seek re-election in the wake of polls showing his potential for success in November increasingly unlikely.  Liberals across the country and in the media engaged  in hand-wringing that this would leave congress without a single Kennedy for the first time in half a century.  The rest of the country realized that, given the horrid performance of congress over the last 50 years, this can only be a good thing.
But the latest, and highest-profile retirement came on Monday, when Indiana Senator and former presidential candidate Evan Bayh announced he would not seek re-election to his senate seat this year. Bayh couched his decision in personal terms, claiming it was not motivated by any fear of losing in November. But the truth is that he has been running behind in recent polls to a couple of potential Republican challengers, and has had a difficult time raising campaign funds. With the President obviously intent upon continuing to pursue his radical agenda, it’s pretty apparent that Senator Bayh read the handwriting on the wall and decided to try to preserve his viability for a future presidential run rather than end his career with a loss this November.

Thus proving that, even in the Liberal Zoo, discretion often remains the better part of valor.

Tuesday: This is Funny, Funny Stuff

Hitler weighs in on the climate scandals here. Close the door to your office if you don't want your co-workers to wonder what in the hell you're laughing out loud about.

The Sunday Morning Sensation

Well, Professor Phil Jones has apparently finally decided to begin weaving some level of actual truth into his global warming fantasy tales.  His admissions this week that a) the earth may well have really been warmer during the medieval warming period than it has been over the last 20 years, and b) there has been no global warming since at least 1995 amount to a concession that his infamous "hockey stick" chart was in fact a fraud - as it has repeatedly been demonstrated to be over the last 5 years - rendering the entire foundation for global warming theory suspect at best, more likely the complete and utter sham we've long suspected it to be.

Gawd, it's great being right.

Meanwhile, Howard Dean continues to be the raving lunatic we've all come to know and love, and Al Gore, the Pope of the Church of Global Warming, remains sequestered away from the public eye, as he has been since the abject failure of his Copenhagen global warming confab back in December.

But the complete collapse of the Church of Global Warming fairy tale and its full reporting in the European and Asian news media has done nothing to stop the leftist parrots in the American news media from robotically blubbering its talking points.  Reliable liberals Ceci Connoly and Juan Williams dutifully repeated the CGW-approved lines on the Fox News Sunday roundtable, even as host Chris Wallace and the other roundtable participants no doubt had to strain to hide their snickering.  The whole Climategate scandal has yet be really reported in any meaningful way on any of the major network news broadcasts, or in reliably leftist newspapers like the NY Times.

Of course, the radical leftist government employee James Hansen , continuing his unfettered violation of several federal statutes with apparent impunity, continues to spew his fright scenarios, although this week he likely had to do it from his living room given that the record snowfall in Washington DC likely had him shut in.

And nothing, short of congressional action or a court order, can stop the Environmental Protection Agency from making every effort to destroy what little is left of the U.S. economy by continuing to pursue its mad goal of regulating carbon dioxide, one of the key staples of life on earth, under the Clean Air Act.   While all the attention of the public and the media has been focused on the Obama Administration's efforts to destroy the U.S. economy through massive new socialist legislative proposals, little attention has thus far been paid to the backdoor efforts to accomplish the same goal via soviet-style command and control regulation of every aspect of our daily lives.

Now that the voters have stopped the Obama legislative agenda dead in its tracks, we'll see more attention paid to the administration's regulatory agenda.  One can only hope the courts will come to their senses before it's too late and the EPA has been allowed to go too far down this road.

The nine months left until the November mid-term elections are possibly the most critical nine months in this nation's history.  We must somehow survive the belligerent Obama surge until the voters get their next opportunity to continuing to correct the horrible error they made in 2008.

The Friday Fix

After November, there will be one less chronic drug abuser in the House of Representatives.  Patrick Kennedy has announced he will not seek re-election.  The fewer Kennedys around abusing everything and everyone in sight, the better.

John Mayer, after bragging in an interview with Playboy Magazine about his "racist penis", and using the vaunted "n-word" in the process, obviously decided a simple apology was not enough , and that crying was in fact required here.  I have to admit I had no idea until this morning that it was even possible for a penis to possess racist thought. Go figure.

The erstwhile liberals over at the Politico assure us that, all the mountain of evidence to the contrary aside, the leftists in the mainstream media love Sarah Palin, they really, really do.  Whew.

As if the poor folks in Haiti didn't have it bad enough, this morning they must frantically hide their women, children and wallets, because Nancy Pelosi is coming to town along with a contingent of her fellow leftist thieves.  God help Haiti.

You know it's getting bad for President Obama when even the fake polls conducted by CBS and the NY Times feel the need to accurately show his public approval rating diving below 50% into the mid-40s.  They dummied it up just enough to keep the 46% approval hovering 1 percentage point above the 45% disapproval, but nobody's really buying that nonsense anymore.  This guy is on a free fall into the high 30s by summer.

Finally, I leave you today with a link to the the coolest of all the cool webites in the Internet: this site chronicles everything that was ever blamed on "global warming".  It's well worth taking a little time to browse through some of the most absurd claims.  Of course, we now know that most of those claims were thrown into the IPCC report without any fact-checking at all.

Have a great Friday, folks.

Al Gore Brainwashed Idiot of the Week Award...

...goes to MSNBC's Contessa Brewer, for her claim that the record setting blizzards pounding the Northeast United States this week are evidence of more "global warming", or something like that.  Seriously, you have to see it to believe it.

The Wednesday Wail

If you engage in public speaking with any frequency, there has almost certainly been at least one time when you, at the last minute before going on stage, scribbled a few notes on the palm of one of your hands to use as a reminder to make some key points that you had not included in your original slides or script.  I do this almost every time I give a presentation or speech. Once, while waiting to give testimony before a legislative committee, I realized that the witness just before me was making pretty much all of the points I had intended to make, and, lacking any paper, ended up scribbling an entire set of new notes on both palms in the few moments before I had to take the witness table.  Ironically, it ended up being probably the most effective testimony I've ever offered.

And so we get to the leftist media's latest obsession with Sarah Palin.  It seems that, when offering her speech to the Tea Party convention in Nashville on Saturday, the former Alaska Governor had scribbled a few notes on the palm of her left hand, and this showed up on the cameras.  Immediatly, the neo-fascist goon squads that make up the regular contributors to the Huffington Post, Daily Kos and other far-left nut site went berserk, spending all day Sunday making the wholely illogical analogy between President Obama's inability to speak to a class of 6th graders without his Teleprompter crutch, and Ms. Palin scribbling a few reference notes on the palm of one hand.

Here I sit on Wednesday morning, for some reason watching Morning Joe on MSNBC, and the liberal pea brains who host this program are still obsessing about this, four days after Ms. Palin delivered her speech.  The context has changed a bit, with much of the focus now on the pathetic White House spokesman, Robert "I'm almost as utterly incompetent in this job as Scott McClellan" Gibbs, who mocked Ms. Palin at Tuesday's press briefing by showing the assembled reporters notes he had scribble on his own fatty palm.

The lefties in the media all thought that was very cute, but the reality is that it amounts to just one more clear indicator that this President and his staff simply have no understanding of how ordinary Americans actually function in life.  Every time they and their unflinching allies in the press manufacture some new fake excuse to mock Ms. Palin, they make her a more sympathetic character to millions of Americans, and show themselves for the arrogant pinheads they truly are.

Of course, the best news of this week is that the repeated record snowstorms in the DC area have forced the House of Representatives and much of the federal government to shut down for the entire week.  If we could get another six months of this, the budget deficit would be cut in half.

But there's no shutting down Barack Obama's mouth, or the smarmy mouth of Robert Gibbs.

A couple of other things:  John Murtha, one of the very worst, most unethical people to ever serve in the U.S. congress, died on Monday.  He is, in my opinion, a truly tragic figure:  A real, genuine American hero in his early life, who became a real, genuine, unabashed scumbag in his later life.  One of the most mixed legacies I've ever seen.

Finally, the U.S. Senate should be applauded:  the effort to invoke cloture on the nomination of communist Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board failed on a vote of 52-33. Becker was hand-picked by Obama's benefactors in the SEIU, which funneled tens of millions in illegal contributions into the Obama campaign, to fill the post.

That made Tuesday a great day for America.  Let's see what we can do about Wednesday.

The Monday Morning Mass Hysteria

All you need to know about Barack Obama, part 6,593:  When speaking to a military audience, he does not know how to pronounce the word "corpsman". Either that, or he thinks everyone in the navy is a zombie (for all you humorless liberals, that would be a walking corpse).

After spending an entire year killing any chance of passing a healthcare nationalization bill by holding all negotiations in secret and shutting Republicans out of the process completely, the White House has decided to actually hold a public meeting on the subject - right out in the open, with TV cameras in the room!  - and even invite some evil Rs to attend.  I'm sure it'll be a fabulous success.

Yeesh.

Some guy who writes for the Nashville Post is whining that Sarah Palin has somehow "hijacked" the Tea Party.  What a terrible way for a writer to waste his one shot at national exposure.  Somebody give this clown a Kleenex.

If you hate your local TV weather guy, just be glad you don't live in Baltimore.  I think this may be the same guy who wrote the silly piece about Palin and the Tea Party.  He has a long commute.

Our favorite liberal bed-wetting columnist, E.J. Dionne, has written something completely senseless about about how passing a healthcare bill is like renovating a kitchen. Or something like that.

Finally, just in case you live under a rock and missed it, WHO DAT????

Sarah Palin: Doing Everything Right

Sarah Palin is doing everything right. What do I mean by that? Well, let’s go back to a conversation I had last November with a group of Washington insiders. By “insiders”, I mean that this group of four men and one woman make their livings working in the political process in the nation’s capital: Three are lobbyists, one a pollster, and one an executive at a trade association. While I live in Houston and visit DC on work assignments 12 to 14 times a year, all of the others spend their entire lives living and working inside the Washington echo chamber.


It was a fascinating conversation – at least to me – and I was at the time the odd man out. You’ll see what I mean by ‘at the time’ in a moment.

We were having a wide-ranging political conversation over dinner, and one of the lobbyists posed this question: “Sarah Palin: is she a viable future candidate for national office, or is she done?” I sat silently as, one by one, the five political pros at the table knee-jerked to the “she’s done” posture.

The reasons thrown out for their dismissive posture towards Gov. Palin were predictable: “Too ditzy”, “doesn’t speak well”, “inexperienced”, “knows nothing about foreign policy”, “shouldn’t have resigned her job as governor”, and perhaps most fascinating of all, “doesn’t fit in around here”. This came from the lone female at the table, a lovely woman who grew up in New York state, educated in private schools and Yale, and who worked her entire life in one government job or another before becoming a lobbyist a few years back. Despite that background, she still possesses some modicum of common sense, although she displays all the lack of understanding of middle America you’d expect from a person of her background.

Keith Olberman Agonisties

Poor Keith Olberman.  Ok, wait, let me back up.  Keith Olberman can kiss my burnt orange Texas a**.  He epitomizes everything that is bad about the political left in America:  hopelessly ignorant yet cocksure; consistently wrong yet condescending; unable to make the simplest argument based on logic or facts yet smarmy and dismissive when engaging anyone who disagrees; completely unaccomplished in any real-world endeavor yet self-justified in lecturing others.

For exhibiting such a horrid set of personal behaviors, he is of course awarded an hour-long, prime time show on cable television's most biased "news" channel, just as similar oafs like Janeane Garafalo and Al Franken were initially given their own radio talk shows on the now-bankrupt and deceased Air America.  The American left always awards the dimmest bulbs among them - that's how Al Gore became Pope of the Church of Global Warming, after all.

And as always happens when the American left puts one of its most pathological dimwits on full display to the public in the media, the ratings go to hell.  It happened with Air America, it happened with Chris Matthews, who currently hosts the single lowest-rated prime time show on any cable "news" network, it has happened with every leftist radio talk show host who has ever been given a national stage, and it is now happening to Keith Olberman, Rachel Maddow and the rest of the uniformly left-wing prime time contingent at MSNBC. 

It has been obvious for years now that MSNBC cannot hope to compete in any meaningful way with Fox News - Fox now out-draws MSNBC consistently by about a 4 to 1 margin in both total audience and the 18-49 demographic that is so critical to advertisers - so obvious in fact that no one even really bothers to list Fox among MSNBC's ratings rivals anymore, choosing to focus instead on the race for a very distant second place between MSNBC, CNN and even CNN Headline News.  It has been widely reported this week that MSNBC's uniformly leftist prime time lineup has now fallen behind a more balanced CNNHN, an incredible feat of incompetent management rivaled in modern times only by CNN's dramatic fall from grace, and Toyota's quality control process.

The Friday Morning Fright Fest

Let's dig right in with one of my favorite pet peeves, the worthless, feckless, wimped-out, pretend-to-be-conservative Democrat "Blue Dog" Caucus in the House of Representatives.  These 42 or so members of the House constitute the most over-hyped and under-accomplished caucus in the history of American government.

Take a look at this story. Yesterday, the Democrats raised the U.S. debt ceiling by a whopping $1.9 trillion, the largest such hike in U.S. history, by far.  The story really plays up the role the Blue Dogs played in ensuring the bill also invoked "pay as you go" budgeting rules in the house for 2010, making them seem to be these intrepid protectors of taxpayer dollars.  Well, bullshit, as we like to say down here in Texas.

First of all, these "pay as  you go" rules have been in effect for the vast majority of the last 12 years, as the federal debt has literally exploded.  This Blue Dog caucus has been in existence since the mid-1990s, as the federal debt has literally exploded.  Am I repeating myself here?  Well, sorry, I'm a little pissed.

The Blue Dog caucus has been in existence since around 1995, and has yet to take a single vote as a group against any huge spending bill proposed by their Party's leadership.  They caved on the fake stimulus bill last year, most of them caved on a cap and trade bill that would have added yet another $2 trillion to the national debt, and most of them have been feverishly negotiating special deals for their districts in exchange for their votes on the healthcare nationalization bill.

The only way this worthless collection of fake fiscal conservatives could ever make themselves a truly relevant caucus would be to oppose some huge spending bill - any huge spending bill - favored by their leadership as a bloc.  But because they are fake fiscal conservatives who only assume that posture as a means of getting elected in what are otherwise Republican districts, they never do that.  These are the very worst people in the U.S. House of Representatives, because they give the Democrat Party a patina of ideological diversity it does not in fact possess.   A pox on all their Blue dog houses.

Ok, let me take a deep breath here before moving on...

The Thursday Morning Thrill Ride

Wow.  You miss a couple of days blogging and all hell has broken loose.  Where to begin...

How about here.  Arkansas Senator Blanche Lincoln, after having spent the last year desperately attempting to set herself up as the 60th vote for the Obama healthcare nationalization plan, suddenly finds herself down by 23 points to a Republican opponent in her bid for re-election.  So now she gets religion, and asks the President when he's going to start fighting back against those evil liberals in his own Party.  This would be comical if it weren't so damned pathetic.

Back in December, I wrote in my newspaper column that it was very clear to me at that time that, unless the President radically shifted his legislative and regulatory agenda back from the far left to the center of the political spectrum, both houses of congress would clearly be in play and subject to a GOP takeover this November.  I also admitted I was out on a limb with that projection, and that the national punditry would take a little while to reach a similar conclusion.  That realization among the pundit class has now begun in earnest, with this piece from an AP writer being the latest evidence of this transitional thought process.  If the AP, which has been firmly in the Obama tank for the last 2 years, has writers coming very reluctantly to this conclusion, you now the polling data is very, very compelling.

This is important news - Democrat Collin Peterson, Chairman of the House Ag Committee, has now introduced a bill that would deny EPA the ability to move to regulate "greenhouse" gases under its entirely fraudulent "endangerment finding" published in late 2009.  Rep. Peterson is extremely influential among farm state Democrats, who make up about 40 votes in the House, enough to get a bill passed with solid Republican support.  We continue to see rising support in the Senate for similar legislation among "moderate" Democrats who, like Sen. Lincoln, see their polling numbers fading rapidly under the steady leftwards assault on the economy and our freedoms by the Obama Administration.


This one actually surprises me a little bit.  The President actually had a pretty good day last Thursday when he went to a GOP caucus retreat and had a semi-free flowing Q and A session with members of the loyal opposition.  And he did well - I mean, the man is not competent at much, but he can debate when he's been properly schooled beforehand.  So when I saw early yesterday that a group of pundits and bloggers from across the political spectrum had sent a petition to the White House to make these kinds of sessions a regular periodic event, I half expected the Administration to at least give lip service to wanting to explore the possibility.  But these guys are clearly the most inept and clueless bunch we've had ensconced at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue since at least the Carter Administration, so I suppose it should not surprise me that they are choosing to forego an opportunity to make their guy look good on TV 2 or 3 times a year.

I know you will all be shocked to hear this, but the Obama Commerce Department has been dummying up fake unemployment numbers in an obvious effort to prevent the published rate of unemployment from rising above 10%.  As we mentioned on Monday, the Administration has already demonstrate its willingness to fake these economic indicators by having to revise its third quarter GDP estimate downwards twice, ultimately taking it all the way down to 2.2% from an initial estimate of 4.6%.  I'm laying odds that the 5.7% 4th quarter GDP estimate published last week will ultimately be revised downwards to somewhere south of 3.5%.

And then I came across this. This does not bode well for any of us.  Maybe we all ought to consider taking up golf. 

Have a great Thursday.

The Monday Morning Mind Meld

Are you sitting down?  If not,  you might want to before reading the next sentence...

The Barack (the Hussien is silent) Obama Administration will release its 5 year budget plan today.  It projects a budget deficit of $5.08 trillion during that time period, which is 35% higher than the administration's previous projection.  The Politico story I've linked you to makes a fetid effort to blame it all on higher than anticipated war spending, but that is just a very small portion of the increase in spending.  You should also understand that this budget anticipates something over $600 billion in revenues related to the mind-boggling stupid cap and trade plan that everyone in Washington knows is not going to be passed into law.

The most dishonest, least transparent administration in American history continues its deceitful ways.

The folks over at Weazelzippers.net show us that this President will surrender his dignity to pretty much anyone.  The Mayor of Tampa?  Seriously?

If you still wonder why Newsweek continues to teeter on the brink of bankruptcy, all you need to do is read this insipid piece by the terminally irrelevant Anna Quindlen. This nitwit is still making the "we won, so just get in line" argument that Obama himself quit making along about March of 2009.  Unreal.

That's all I can stand for today - y'all have a great week.