Beam Me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 12/22/2009 5:14:39 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
It was serendipitous to have almost simultaneous climaxes in Copenhagen and Congress. The former's accomplishment was indiscernible, the latter's was unsightly.
It would have been unprecedented had the president not described the outcome of the Copenhagen climate change summit as "unprecedented," that being the most overworked word in his hardworking vocabulary of self-celebration. Actually, the mountain beneath the summit – a mountain of manufactured hysteria, predictable cupidity, antic demagoguery and dubious science – labored mightily and gave birth to a mouselet, a 12-paragraph document committing the signatories to ... make a list.
A list of the goals they have no serious intention of trying to meet. The document even dropped the words "as soon as possible" from its call for a binding agreement on emissions.
Copenhagen will beget Mexico City next November. Before then, Congress will refuse to burden the economy with cap-and-trade carbon-reduction requirements and will spurn calls for sending billions in "climate reparations" to China and other countries.
The New York Times reported from Copenhagen that Barack Obama "burst into a meeting of the Chinese, Indian and Brazilian leaders, according to senior administration officials. Mr. Obama said he did not want them negotiating in secret." Naughty them. Those three nations will be even less pliable in Mexico City.
At least the president got a health care bill through the Senate. But what problem does it "solve" (Obama's word)? Not that of the uninsured – 23 million of whom will remain in 2019. Not that of rising health care spending. This will rise faster over the next decade.(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...
George Will is a great example of something that;s missing these days: credibility. Even if you don’t always agree with him, when he says something people listen. Obama has lost all of his credibility as have most of the msm. They’ll never get it back and they don’t realize it.
Nebraska's Ben Nelson voted for the Senate bill after opposing the heart of the bill's financing. Arkansas' Blanche Lincoln, Indiana's Evan Bayh and Virginia's Jim Webb voted against funding aspects. Yet they support the bill. They will need mental health care to cure their intellectual whiplash.
Only two?
You've got your favorite paragraph...
I've got mine.
Before equating Harry Reid to Henry Clay, understand that buying 60 Senate votes is a process more protracted than difficult. Reid was buying the votes of senators whose understanding of the duties of representation does not rise above looting the nation for local benefits. And Reid had two advantages – the spending, taxing and borrowing powers of the federal leviathan, and an almost gorgeous absence of scruples or principles. Principles are general rules, such as: Nebraska should not be exempt from burdens imposed on the other 49 states.
Will wonders never cease. It seems just like yesterday that Mr. Will invited Yobama to his house for dinner and some good time conversation.
Sorry ... I don't buy any crap that fool writes anymore.
And then trashed Sarah Palin as a no-'count, no-Ivy nobody and a know-nothing PTA shouter.
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