The global warming farce is a good issue for Democrats only when there aren't any real issues facing the American people.
Al Gore hopes to put global warming back at the top of Washington’s agenda Thursday, but some Democrats in Congress are questioning his timing when they are getting pummeled by Republicans over record gas prices.
“I think the American public will be much more receptive to arguments about climate change when gas prices aren’t so critical,” said Rep. Zack Space, a freshman Democrat who represents a mostly rural district in Ohio.
In other words, once real issues are dealt with, we can go back to hoodwinking Americans with alarmist propaganda. But not now. First we need to do something to lower gas prices and get re-elected.
Space and other Democrats say that gas prices have begun to overwhelm other issues.
It's 100 degrees here in Phoenix at 1:30 in the morning. Of course, it's been 100 degrees at 1:30 in the morning in Phoenix for thousands of years. Not to legitimize their bogus science, but I'd take another 5 degrees for $2-a-gallon gas. I bet you would too. Just think of how nice you'll feel in the winter.
Democratic lawmakers have backed away from the global warming debate in the past few weeks, concentrating instead on attempts to lower gas prices.
What? Democrat lawmakers have done everything in their power to defeat Republican attempts to lower gas prices.
Senate Democrats considered global-warming legislation after the Memorial Day recess but quickly dropped the issue after a Republican filibuster. Since then they have focused on proposals closely related to gas prices: taxing the windfall profits of oil companies, curbing oil speculation in the futures markets and pressing oil companies to develop millions of acres in untapped federal land under lease.
None of which would lower gas prices.
“People’s anger about a lot of things is crystallized as a result of the gas prices,” said Lautenberg. “The anger is focused by the visibility [of inflated prices] at the pump.”
Lautenberg warned that Americans aren’t eager to hear about the need for more financial sacrifices if there’s not a possible reward in the not-too-distant future.
“If it looks like it’s just a continuation of an attack of our economy and family budgets, then its starts getting dispiriting,” he said of innovative yet expensive energy proposals.
He needn't worry. If Americans grew dispirited over attacks on our own economy and family budgets, we would have dumped liberalism as a serious ideology 78 years ago. Because that's precisely what liberalism is.
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