[L.N. Smithee]

Was there no American political figure with the courage to write something like this?

[GSlob]

'Was there no American political figure with the courage to write something like this?"
There would be, if and after we could clean out those "pollut[ing] the office they]hold", and prevent their creeping back. But not earlier.

[IrishRainy]

Rockefeller and Snowe are a couple of idiots. As IF they actually know anything about global warming.

Honestly, the egotism of these morons makes me ill.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Not in the White House, no.,

[PA-RIVER]

Senator Inhoff had the nerve .... Repub from Oklahoma.

Why wont they allow debate on this? They would lose the debate.

They have the Soviet style of governing. If you can't win the war of Ideas, then imprison your intellectual competition. Worked for Stalin.

[EEDUDE]

"Was there no American political figure with the courage to write something like this?"

No.

And this lack of political courage is in my opinion responsible for our recent losses in the House and Senate.

Having convictions is of no use unless one is willing to stand up for them.

[rfp1234]

--Was there no American political figure with the courage to write something like this?--

Senator Inhofe. Perhaps not quite as eloquent as an English Lord, but effective nonetheless.

[CPT Clay]

Way to go!!

We all should writhe letters to WV and ME newspapers in this vain.

The earth cools and the earth warms.

prevent a wave from crashing to the shore or a sine wave from going up and down. Same thing

More Gasses were spewed out of MT ST Hellens than have ever come out of all the tailpipes in the the world ever combined!!!

[OESY]

Was there no American political figure with the courage to write something like this?

There is one, though he was not responding to the same question about global warming.

"You have more censorship in the McCain-Feingold bill, which blocks the right of free speech about American campaigns than you have from the FBI closing down jihadists. We've already limited the 1st Amendment right of free speech by a set of rules that are stunningly absurd. In California, you can raise soft money to run negative commercials attacking your opponent through the state party and you cannot raise soft money to run a positive commercial on behalf of your own candidate. That's California state law. It's stunningly stupid and a clear infringement of free speech.

"So we've had a 30-year period of saying it's OK to infringe free speech as long as it's about politics. But now if you want to be a jihadist, and you want to go kill people, well who are we to say that's morally wrong? I think that's suicidal. I'm using the word deliberately. A country -- a Supreme Court justice once said 'The Constitution is not a suicide pact. This country has every right to defend itself, and you saw the same thing recently on this U.S. Airlines provocation, where you had six people go way out of their way to cause trouble, and then claim they were infringed upon. And I think, frankly, the President should invite that U.S. Airlines crew to the White House and thank them, because we ought to set a standard that if you're provocative about killing people, we're not going to show you any mercy.'"

-- Newt Gingrich, http://www.humanevents.com/winningthefuture.php?id=18533

[JasonC]

Nope. Not one.