comMITTed to Romney!

Meg Whitman’s surge in the polls, pulling up even with former Governor Moonbeam, Jerry Brown, has caused Cali’s greenies to hit the panic button and release a negative radio ad, decrying Meg’s environmental policies, which automatically makes me think that Meg is on the right track.

How these folks can believe that they have any credibility left after the release of the “climate-gate” emails showing the faked, fraudulent “science” behind the “global warming” scam, is beyond me.

Meg is an outstanding business woman and she understands that excessive regulation is a job killer and with areas of the Golden State suffering under the weight of 40% unemployment, the last thing that beleaguered state needs is another pallet load of bricks for it’s companies to carry.

~~John Cronin~~

By: Courage Campaign

Airing on radio stations in Los Angeles, Sacramento and the Silicon Valley on the final day of the world summit on global warming in Copenhagen, the 60-second spot highlights the fact that Meg Whitman and Sarah Palin share the same view on the climate crisis. Both argue that nothing should be done right now to address the problem — Whitman has said she would suspend Assembly Bill 32, California’s landmark carbon reduction law, as her first act in office.

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Word came early this morning about the resignation of “Green” jobs czar, Van Jones.

Chalk up another Obama appointee getting thrown under the bus. As one wag said this morning, “Sure hope it’s a “green” bus.

~~John Cronin~~

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I couldn’t resist sharing this video; it really is unbelievable.

As an owner of a new home myself, I have seen these new light bulb regulations in action. We have government-regulated “energy-efficient” bulbs in most all the common areas of our brand-new home. When I asked if I could switch out the bulbs for normal ones (the light is very harsh and “classroomy”), I was told the entire fixture was “green.” These new bulbs clip-in instead of the conventional screw-in bulb. The field supervisor explained that they were designed that way so people could not switch them out, even if they wanted to. Well, I figured I was too smart for that. “What if I bring in an electrician to switch out all the can fixtures for conventional ones?” I asked. He told me I would be hard-pressed to find one who would actually do it, because switching these “new” bulbs and fixtures for old ones is officially against the law now. When, oh when, will the government get out of my wallet and out of my life?! Today it’s light bulbs, what’s next?

My favorite line is, “Doesn’t this bother anybody?” Well, Mr. Poe, it bothers me.

If you are having trouble viewing the YouTube embed above, or if it’s taking too long to load, click HERE to view the clip.

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Hat tip to Rush Limbaugh for this one! There are some great lines in here about the nature of McCain’s changes.

CAMPOS: McCain’s the real flip-flopper

By Paul Campos, Rocky Mountain News 

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

One of the curiosities of American politics is the media’s ongoing infatuation with John McCain. A bit of this is based on things such as McCain’s opposition to torture (unfortunately we can no longer treat opposing torture like opposing child molestation, i.e., something one assumes is standard equipment in a presidential candidate rather than a luxury upgrade). Yet most of the journalistic love affair with McCain is based on other factors.

Consider this typical endorsement from The Orlando Sentinel: While McCain “has stuck to his principles at the risk of sinking his campaign,” Mitt Romney “has abandoned positions that would have alienated his party’s conservative base.” (Indeed I checked a computer database and discovered that, in the national media, Romney is at least six times more likely to be described as a flip-flopper than McCain).

This does not merely ignore but actually inverts the truth. The fact is that no presidential candidate in either party has flip-flopped as egregiously as McCain on such a wide range of issues. Here’s just a small sample of Sen. Straight Talk’s recent series of remarkable conversions to politically convenient stances:

* On abortion rights, McCain has done a 180-degree turn, from favoring only the most minor restrictions and opposing the overturning of Roe v. Wade, to supporting an almost total ban, while advocating that the Supreme Court reverse Roe immediately.

* McCain has transformed himself from a deficit hawk who mocked supply-side economics, into someone who sounds like he’s drunk deeply from the wackiest vats of supply-side Kool-Aid, to the point where he now claims raising taxes decreases revenues (a claim so wildly in conflict with the facts - for example federal tax revenues almost doubled in real terms after the Clinton tax increases - that it’s either a shameless lie or a product of astounding ignorance).

* In regard to ethanol subsidies, McCain has gone from treating them as the worst sort of pork, to becoming a strong supporter of a program despised by economists, but beloved of Iowa farmers and the good people at Archer Daniels Midland.

* Six years ago McCain sternly condemned Jerry Falwell as “an agent of intolerance.” Eighteen months ago he gave the commencement address at Falwell’s university, while openly embracing one of the most noxious figures of the religious right.

These are just a few examples from a far longer list. On topics ranging from immigration, to campaign finance reform, to gay marriage, to accepting support from various sleazy characters he previously shunned, McCain has either completely reversed his views, or seriously equivocated regarding what they are this week.

Yet the media continue to lavish him with worshipful paeans to his supposedly uncompromising commitment to principled leadership no matter what the political cost etc., etc.

Part of this is accounted for by lazy autopilot journalism, which stops people from bothering to check whether the story line they’ve repeated for years still has any relationship to reality.

But part of it is something worse. When it comes to McCain, many of the sophisticates at the top of the media pyramid are like a masochistic spouse who treats open infidelity as a twisted sort of faithfulness. They love McCain because when he lies to their face he doesn’t even pretend to be doing otherwise. According to the pretzel logic of a certain kind of journalism, that counts as candor.

All this would be merely amusing if McCain were not a genuinely tragic figure. The young man who showed such exemplary courage in the face of his North Vietnamese tormenters has become an old man whose courage abandoned him when subjected to the more subtle tortures of worldly ambition.

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HAT TIP to Nivek for the link to this image. Don’t you just love photography?

What do we call it when a Republican bows down to Al Gore and the liberals of New Hampshire? “Pandering desperately”?

To whom do you think McCain is pandering below? He is hoping that big sucking sound he is hearing is not all the independent votes rushing out the door to Obama!

This photograph was taken last night in New Hampshire:

Here is a recent comment by Nivek on the above photograph:

Just went to the carbon coalition website that McCain is endorsing with his sign. They have links to recommended videos to watch, and one of them is to a “peak oil” video. Peak oil has been proved wrong again and again, has been used by environmentalists for decades to justify pushing for heavy restrictions on transportation, and the fact that McCain is pandering to it speaks volumes to me.

Is that Al Gore standing behind John McCain?

~ Vic

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