One hundred nine historians already nearly unanimously agree. They call the presidency of George W. Bush a "failure." The History News...

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Today on the Hill, lawmakers in both parties get a second chance to strut and tut-tut as they harangue oil company executives about high gas prices–and display their abject ignorance of, and hostility towards, basic economic principles of supply and demand.

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Unfortunately, it’s not just gaseous Democrats demonizing oil companies as evil profiteers and crusading for punitive measures like the Carter-era windfall profits tax that Ronald Reagan valiantly battled.

The RNC rightly took on Obama’s support for the tax.

Transcript:

MCCAIN: “Um, I don’t like obscene profits being made anywhere–and I’d be glad to look not just at the windfall profits tax–that’s not what bothers me–but we should look at any incentives that we are giving to people, that or industries or corporations that are distorting the market.”

I warned you of McCain’s class warrior rhetoric in January when he sneered at those who embrace the profit motive and bashed “greedy” corporations who engage in free enterprise.

Would Ronald Reagan ever stand up in front of the liberal media and Republican voters and inveigh against “obscene profits?”

Any pro-McCain trolls out there care to explain? 50 brownie “points” available now!

Background: IBD’s excellent overview of the windfall profits-taxing windbags here. The answer McCain should have given

See also: Jonah Goldberg, The Windfall Profits Tax Slap.

McCain: “We must enact comprehensive immigration reform”

And, now, straight from the campaign trail with Arnold “Move Left” Schwarzenegger, McCain has shed every last pretense that he “got the message” from grass-roots immigration enforcement proponents and is back to his full, open-borders shamnesty push. No surprise to any of you. But his complete regression back to the “comprehensive immigration reform” euphemism is a notable milestone.

Same old, same old about sham background checks.

Been there, done that.

They’ve learned nothing. Nada. Zippo. How about you?

Video flashback: Obama on negotiating “with somebody like Ahmadinejad”

Waging the incompetent jihad in London

Gray Lady fighting dirty against McCain campaign? Update: NYT Ethics PolicyMay 21, 2008 6:30 PM

The Times Strikes Back, Lamely May 22, 2008 9:59 AM

Did Democrats argue that Congress can hide legislation from the President?

Here's an interesting juxtaposition, we follow this item  with the Press Briefing by White House Spokesman Dana Perino:

31,072 American scientists against AGW - The Global Warming Petition (click!) was signed by 9,021 American PhD's and 22,051 additional American scientists.

(Luboš Motl, The Reference Frame)

Press Briefing by Dana Perino - May 20, 2008 3:09 PM EDT
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room

Excerpt:

Les Kinsolving. (reporter for WorldNetDaily.com)

Q Thank you, Dana. Two questions.

MS. PERINO: Okay.

Q WorldNetDaily reports that more than 31,000 U.S. scientists, including 9,000 Ph.D.s, now signed a petition rejecting global warming, the assumption that human production of greenhouse gases is damaging the Earth's climate. My question: What is the White House reaction to these 31,000 U.S. scientists?

MS. PERINO: I would say that everyone is entitled to their opinion. What's your next question?

Q That's all?

MS. PERINO: That's all I'm going to say. (BUSINESS WIRE)

For an administration allegedly hell-bent on cooking the planet and 'denying global warming' they sure give the impression of having imbibed deeply from the Kool-Aid barrel.

Consider that global warming hysteria is driving the most dangerous misdirection of effort and resources in human history. No one knows what the 'right' temperature is for the planet any more than we know its current temperature with a precision greater than guessed change over centuries. The only thing holding the silly scare together is the alleged 'consensus of scientific opinion' despite facts not requiring a quorum and here's more than adequate demonstration of lack of unanimity of opinion anyway.

And the administration's response? 'Everyone's entitled to their opinion' (which is true -- they just aren't entitled to their own facts).

Audio (MP3): Dr. Arthur Robinson’s presentation at the National Press Club

Now, while the administration is yielding to the anti-energy watermelons, we have the National Academies hosting panicked meetings about America's loss of competitiveness -- it is being outcompeted on the world stage. Check out their podcast: Is America Falling Off The Flat Earth? (alternate link)

One startling omission in the NAS 'Gatherings' podcast is cheap and abundant energy (arguably the foundation of America's industrial greatness). Why? If America does not get off its collective butt and bring one heck of a lot of fossil fuel and modern power stations online in the near future no amount of hand-wringing or education/innovation initiatives are going to help. Industry needs innovators, smart, educated workers and committed, productive people but, above all, industry needs abundant, reliable and cheap power.

Get busy or lose. What's so hard to understand?

WCCO meteorologist: Global warming 'extremism' uses 'squishy science' - Longtime WCCO-TV meteorologist Mike Fairbourne says that the environmental movement is practicing "squishy science" when it ties human activity to global warming.

Fairbourne's assessment Monday came on the same day that the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine appeared before the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., and announced that it has the signatures of more than 31,000 scientists -- including Fairbourne's -- who agree that the human impact on global warming is overblown.

Fairbourne, who joined WCCO in 1977 and has been a meteorologist for 40 years, said that while there is no doubt that "there has been some warming" of global temperatures in recent years ... there is still a pretty big question mark" about how much of that warming is from human activity. (Star Tribune)

Stink over alarmist theory - YOU'D think a record of dud predictions would shame Alarmist of the Year Tim Flannery into silence. But, no. It seems this professional fearmonger has learned instead that global warming is a faith that grows on panic, not facts. (Andrew Bolt, Herald Sun)

The Bush administration’s listing was an act of submission in the face of lawsuits from environmental activist groups.

As usual with acts of submission, this one didn’t satisfy the demanders. They’ve gone back to court to sue because the listing doesn’t “include steps against global warming.”

GOP presidential candidate John McCain supported the listing: “He said that he strongly supports the move and believes it should have happened ‘long ago.’”

Does he support his radical environmental friends’ latest round of lawsuits?

Ask him!

All it takes is one gaffe to taint a Republican for life. The political establishment never let Dan Quayle live down his fateful misspelling of...

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