Government Electric: GE lawyer to become top federal environmental litigator « Green Hell Blog

Apparently, it’s not enough that GE CEO Jeff Immelt is already on President Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board — and getting stimulus money in return.

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Carlson: When did the Hopemeister turn bitter?

What Carlson sees is a man completely unprepared for the fact that he can’t sell refrigerators to Eskimos. Whether that comes from a narcissistic personality or just plain inexperience, the fact remains that Obama has reacted poorly to the rapid disintegration of his own popularity and that of his policies. Like a petulant child, Obama has assumed that the problem is that he hasn’t spoken often or loudly enough, which is one of the reasons that his speeches on health care have not changed an iota in substance but have gotten louder and angrier in tone.

Obama couldn’t sell ObamaCare, and now he wants to scold America for not agreeing with him. Carlson is right to call this bitterness, but it’s the bitterness of a man who may have been told no for the first time in his political life, and clearly doesn’t know how to react to it.

[But how could ANYTHING improve with a bit more CO2 in the air?]: Some Very Good News

The New York Times reports today that childhood mortality has declined significantly in Africa in recent years, citing a remarkable figure of 10,000 less deaths per day.