Pres. Clinton began with a discussion of the “Clinton Global Initiative”. Once you add the smug Clinton smile to the description of how the initiative works you can almost see the pyramid scheme in action. Russert, loyal liberal sycophant that he is, then tried to clean it up by giving Bubs a chance to explain that he does not personally touch the money, in Clinton speak he leaves the money alone in “almost 100%” of the cases. Wouldn’t you love to see the details of the transactions where the Clintons touch the money? Of course you never will because the Clinton finances are both usually secret and quite murky when revealed.
Pres. Clinton then talked about how he and Al Gore designed the Kyoto Protocol (about the same time as they invented the internet). Clinton/Gore demonstrated that support by not only failing, but actually refusing, to submit Kyoto for ratification. Pres. Clinton now thinks that India and China actually need to be involved in a "global" warming solution. Clinton, in typical liberal fashion felt US unilateral limitations would provide an example to India and China that they can make money without polluting then leading India, and especaially China, to then voluntarily reduce their own domestic pollutants. Yeah, the Chinese have demonstrated an abiding concern for prevailing social concerns.
Clinton's statement merely illustrates that eight years of the Clinton Administrations failed to change Chinese policy to America's advantage on anything. We now know that Chinese power, wealth and influence over American policy all grew exponentially during the Clinton years. One may wonder as to the effect of all those illegal millions of Chinese government and corporate dollars Bill, Al and Hill collected and used during the 90’s had in producing or accelerating Chinese hegemony?
Old Bill just cannot resist lying where a lie isn’t necessary. After spending five minutes discussing the secrecy of his current fund raising operations, the topic shifted to balancing the budget. Bubba’s first words were to describe himself as a “depression era baby”. What???? Bubba is a boomer, born not only after the Depression but after World War Two. The “depression era” birth sounds must arise from the same special history that Bill used to justify the pointless American involvement in the Balkans because two world wars started in the Balkans.
Pres. Clinton’s larger point is also almost pure prevarication-a commitment to balance the budget. The budgets Clinton and the two Democrat Congresses of his administration proposed featured enormous deficits for as far as the eye could (mid 21st Century). Only after Republicans took control of Congress, and after 3 vetoes, did Bubba sign on to a balanced budget.
Russert had the usual anti-Republican as his political panel. Aging isolationist Pat Buchanan, no longer a Republican, was on hand to express the “conservative” perspective for Fairness Doctrine purposes. The panel discussion started with the Republican front runners skipping the “black” debate last week. Why on earth would Republicans pander to the liberal black leadership? No Republican since Lincoln evinced more public affection for black Americans than has George W. Bush and the black leadership smeared W as the leader of a lynch mob.
The Republican snub wasn’t racist, it was recognition that the black civil rights racketeers like Jackson and Sharpton, etc…. will never support Republicans so, until that leadership drops its nearly universal opposition to and hatred of all things Republican there isn’t much point in Republicans participating in their events. This is not the same thing as ignoring black issues and other, broader minded black political groups, which the Rs should not do. It is to say Rs have no reason to legitimize liberal civil rights groups that are mere fronts for the Democrats.
Buchanan did articulate the reason Republicans will win the White House, the Democrat debate showed the Democrats to have become committed to the most radical liberal agenda ever. Federal criminalization of smoking; strict federal enforcement of the 21 year old drinking laws; and pro homosexual education provided to second graders were three commitments the Democrats made last week.
Why again do I call them the political freak show?
8 comments:
Kyoto is an excellent example of how yesterday's thinking could screw up the future. For the northern hemisphere global warming brings enormous benefits such as longer growing seasons, less need for winter home heating, improved health from fewer winter infections and ice caused falls brbreaking the hips of the elderly, and improved foreign trade opportunities with likely opening of the Northwest Passage to year round shipping. (That's partially the reason companies like Fording Canadian Coal Trust have doubled this year. Disclosure--I hold very substantial positions in Fording.)
I also anticipate a collapse in oil prices as new offshore fields are discovered with the retreat of Arctic ice.
The biggest challenge we'll face are water shortages which can be dealt with a range of novel solution in which importing. Israel, for example, buys water from Turkey. Shipped now by tanker Israel plans to build a underwater pipeline from Turkey.
The weather here in Des Moines is warmer than where I live in Oakland! If trends continue, the kinds of semitropical vines and trees I grow will thrive in Iowa!
" northern hemisphere global warming brings enormous benefits"
WTF?
If the Gulf Stream stops flowing, sea level rises and the warm weather brings drought (or floods) to the grain growing regions, will those also be benefits?
Actually you could both be right, partially right or both wrong simultaneously.
Climate science is among the most speculative of science because there is such limited real data available. We don't have accurate temperature measurements from even a centuruy ago, much less eons.
Spotlight, why was it warmer in 1926 than in 2006? That's a tough one.
can spotlight explain how the ice age happened? And...how did it end?
Was it just too much dinosaur poop?
Can spotlight explain why the weathercasters cannot predict the current weather within a 15 minute window accurately?
Could spotlight please explain how George Soros paid off that "scientist" that said the White House was "censoring" global warming fanatics?
Why can't those intellectually curious liberals understand they are nothing but useful idiots for people like George Soros.
Why don't they ever check him out?
They never critically analyze anything...they just wait for George to pass it along to MoveOn.org and blindly go along with it.
George Soros OWNS Hillary Clinton.
The Clintons are champions at raising illegal money. I always thought the inside joke over the Clinton's Soprano's commercial was the fact that they out-Soprano the Soprano's.
At least four persons who worked for the America Coming Together (ACT) fundraising group, which the Federal Election Commission recently fined $775,000, work directly for the Clinton campaign.
Funded with millions of dollars from billionaire George Soros, America Coming Together (ACT) misused about $70 million.
Clinton camp operatives being paid by ACT include Harold Ickes, the group's former president:
JoDee Winterhoff, former political director for ACT, who has been running Mrs. Clinton's political operations in Iowa:
Minyon Moore, a onetime ACT official, who works as state and local director for the Dewey Square Group who has been hired by Clinton and whom is listed as a senior advisor for the Billary Campaign:
Mo Elleithee, a Clinton campaign spokesman, had been a spokesman for ACT:
ACT's onetime chief executive, Steven Rosenthal, now runs a consulting firm called Organizing Group Inc., which is listed as a vendor to whom the Clinton campaign owes more than $100,000.
"The Republican snub wasn’t racist"
That may be true. But it sure was stupid. Sporer may have missed the fact that this pissed off lots of Latinos too - in many ways the made-for-R's minority. And to assume that African-Americans are a monolithic D subgroup is pretty darn ignorant as well. But it surely bodes well for my party's chances in '08. Once again looks like Huckabee would be the most formidable opponent for us.
"Spotlight, why was it warmer in 1926 than in 2006? That's a tough one."
If you think that's a tough one, you may need to hit some basic science and math books.
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