Tuesday, March 11, 2014

IS IT POSSIBLE FOR CONGRESS TO PLUNGE ANY LOWER?

In a time when the approval ratings for Congress have hit rock bottom and when the executive branch of government has presumed to take over the function of law-making, last night's Senate bull-session on global warming is the most extreme example of an ineffective institution fiddling while Rome burns.

Despite a still-floundering economy, an international crisis in the Ukraine, a Middle East policy in tatters, abundant evidence of nefarious deeds in the IRS to punish recalcitrant conservatives, an ill-conceived national health plan that promises to further bankrupt the country and former allies scampering to find security in new alliances, the U.S. Senate chose to devote an all-night session to prattle and blather about global warming.

To say that the ridiculous has met the vacuous and that they have combined to hold sway in the Senate is an understatement.  A cursory examination of global temperatures over the last 12 years reveals that they have held steady and even declined.  To maintain that global warming is a scientific concept immune to challenge is to beg the question, for in many respects the conclusion of the "warmers" appears to be more like a premise masquerading as a conclusion.  But, be that as it may, any effort to resurrect and pass Cap and Trade or any other such legislation would have little to no effect on CO2 and CFC emissions and the stratospheric ozone layer, as China, India and other emerging industrial powers will, come what may, continue to produce emissions of enormous proportions. This is not to say that Americans should not strive for a clean environment on the home front, but to harness our own economy to the doubtful dogma of global warming would be folly in the extreme.

And so the irresponsibility of Congress persists.  With a weak and toxic chief executive leading the charge, the ineffectual solons of the Senate choose to muddle along, further obscuring salient issues with more and more pablum for the masses.  May we soon awaken from this languishing nightmare of 5 years.

Deo Vindice!

May God bless Texas, and may the Lone Star State remain forever red!







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