Ten-Year-Olds Playing Soccer - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Well, this is certainly a strange headline: “U.S. energy chief floats idea of a carbon tax: NYT.” Wha? Did I miss this at his confirmation hearing or was it, as I fear, neither asked nor in any answer? Must just be an epiphany, one that the Times reporter happened to luck upon.

Now to follow, the Secretary of the Treasury will surely propose new appliance standards (causing that market to tank after hearing only broad strokes but no real specifics), in this new world of Cabinet officers at-large and confirmation-free “czars” lording over Senate-confirmed (and apparently roving) officials. It reminds one of the line attributed to none other than the Goracle himself describing a recent Democratic administration: ten-year-olds playing soccer—when someone rolls a ball onto the field (any particular topical issue), everyone chases it, regardless of their position.

Bravo, David Vitter - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Just got this e-mail from someone up on the Hill, regarding John “Clearly NOT the ‘Science’ Guy” Holdren’s confirmation hearing as (of all things) chief science advisor to the president). I do think it’s fair to say we told you so on this one. Possibly Gore turned the job down?

[Louisiana senator David] Vitter got Holdren to admit (three times) that he thinks 1 billion people will die from Global Warming by 2020. Also hammered him on the population control issues. It was beautiful!