Posted by
Sgt Relic on Saturday, July 26, 2008 8:43:45 AM
“Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.” - H.L. Mencken
Over on the TH front page today we have this offering from Michael Barone “A Step Back From Enviro Lunacy”. Mr. Barone makes an argument for drilling and nuclear power and an escape from environmentalism. Although I support his overall conclusion, I remain unconvinced that his analysis would bear close scrutiny on several points. He points to the more centralized (read socialist) governments as being in a better position to ignore enviro-wackos but fails to point out that Japan, France and Chicago (not technically a country), his examples, also have very high gas prices because of the taxation, the result of socialism, that goes along with central planning and authority. He correctly identifies $4 a gallon as the tipping point that stirs the masses and here is where we diverge.
It's $4 for a hue and cry but where is the tipping point for congress? $5? $6? The tipping point for congress is the price at which democrats begin to throw THEIR bad apples out of congress. I don't see any sign of that happening.
Environmental obstructionism is a large part of the problem, but an uneducated or disengaged public is an even bigger one. A politicized judiciary doesn’t help much either as they hand down ruling after ruling against the best interests of the public. Remember, carbon being defined as a pollutant is a SCOTUS decision, not a scientific fact. As Justice Scalia correctly observed in the decent, the loose definition of airborne pollutants is broad enough to include Frisbees under that ruling. Anyone care to plug Frisbees into that AGW computer model?
An issue of this magnitude requires leadership, leadership we obviously don’t have in place with our current crop of finger in the wind politicians. Where then is the leadership on this issue? Obama? Hardly, he thinks $4 is fine. McAmnesty? Lukewarm, he’s busy trying to be a democrat himself. Mr. Newt the Green Conservative? I think not, the image of him playing slap and tickle with Red Nanny is still too fresh. T. Boone with his birdie cuisinarts? He's just in it for the federal subsidizes on wind power. Who and where is the Anti-Gore?
If Mr. Barone is correct it takes money and a mouthpiece to turn back 35 years of wandering in the green wilderness. Doesn’t anyone out there want to be as rich as Al Gore? Win an Oscar? Pick up that Nobel Prize you always wanted?
We need a movement and movements require leaders. A leaderless Army is easily defeated, not so, an Army with a Washington, a Lee or a Patton standing at it’s head. So I repeat, who wants to lead? The Army is here. Where’s the General?