Posted on 06/11/2008 12:53:19 PM PDT by vietvet67
Now that the lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer are here, things are usually slowing down. But as temperatures in the Northeast crept toward the century mark this week, things were heating up in certain quarters.
One of them is the Democrat party where, since the presidential candidacy of Hillary Rodham Clinton has been effectively snuffed by forces beyond her control, there is a sense of urgency. And why not? Time is decidedly not on its side.
There are approximately 150 days left until the November elections and they can't come too soon. In case you haven't noticed, especially if you read the papers, the Democrats have controlled Congress for a year and a half and things haven't exactly been going according to plan.
Global warmists suffered a chill this week when the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act went down to defeat. The blatant cap and trade bill would have bankrupted our economy in the service of an alarmist threat built upon the shifting sands of junk science.
Thankfully for now, we will not share the woes of our British brethren who have already experienced the tender mercies of the greenies and who seem to be on the verge of a good old American tax revolt. According to a new poll, "Britain appears to be feeling increasingly negative about being more carbon neutral. We are questioning the truth behind being greener and many feel that Government is creating a green fear for monetary gain."
And hopefully it's only a matter of time before that opinion makes its way across the Atlantic; challenging the spurious claims of the Anthropogenic Global Climate Change crowd, as they now call themselves.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
If McCain would come out publicly and say something like, “Friends, I was wrong about global warming and domestic drilling. There is a crisis, a crisis of energy dependence on nations that want our destruction. We must drill now, drill here and become energy self-sufficient”, he would win the election in a landslide.
But, I don’t expect him to do this.
As well as retract his “reign in business” and regulate CEO pay, and his comments... oh never mind... he can’t retract enough to even be considered remotely conservative.
DRILL NOW!
You left out a word: it's my friends.
Would’nt you think that the people so worried about global warming would be relived and reassured to find that many of dire predictions were just mistakes, errors and misjudgements and things aren’t so bad after all? What a load off your mind. But no! They persist in their panic, fear and activism. Why What’s the pay-off for continuing to believe scary stuff that is not true???
We know that Gore has a vested interest in having this BS fly. I suspect there’s a whole army of leftist freaks who will benefit financially from their so called remedies.
As always - follow the $$$$$..
“What’s the pay-off for continuing to believe scary stuff that is not true???”
Money and power. They couldn’t win power on the strength of their ideology (Communism and Socialism are dismal, brutal failures), they are finding that the courts won’t give it to them, and now their last chance is in regulations based on naked fear.
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