More Evidence Suggesting Climate Change is Politics, not Science

One of my favorite blogs is Powerline, which has this great post about what scientists who don't have a political dog in the fight are saying about the whole Climate Change myth.

I about fell out of my chair when I heard the president call for more drilling and development of American oil, gas, coal, and nuclear resources during the State of the Union speech. Until he got around to the end of that part of the speech, where he strongly suggested an offer of "compromise" with conservatives on those issues if they would only get on board with his Cap & Trade bill. Of course, he gave a not-so-subtle suggestion that conservative resistance to the idea of "climate change" was borne of ignorance or conscious choices to ignore the scientific "consensus".

I found it interesting that the president followed up his SOTU with a visit with Republican legislators, where he harangued them for 90 minutes with a message that they need to stop opposing him and using "divisive" rhetoric to stop progress.

It certainly was a well-crafted message, where he steadfastly refused to engage them on policy details, focusing instead on his pleas that they stop spreading unfair characterizations about his policies. For example, he affably suggested that Republicans were telling their constituents that his healthcare bill was "some kind of Bolshevik plot".

Besides the fact I never heard any GOP lawmaker ever call it "Bolshevik", their characterizations of the healthcare plan was consistently "Socialist". Which of course is accurate.

It seems that he was successful from a PR perspective in presenting himself as a reasonable person who is willing to compromise and meet Republicans halfway for the benefit of the country. Avoiding details was an absolute requirement for this message, because whenever the details of his policies leak out, Americans resoundingly reject them. This is a president who is determined to push through his agenda at all costs, apparently believing that fooling enough of the populace to allow the bills to pass is OK, because in the end it's going to be somehow good for us who oppose them.

This might be an interesting year, in which I think conservatives may be able to recover enough seats in congress to slow down Obama's hard left turn.