Now that the lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer are here, things
are usually slowing down. But as temperatures in the Northeast
crept toward the century mark this week, things were heating up in
certain quarters.
One of them is the Democrat party where, since the presidential
candidacy of Hillary Rodham Clinton has been effectively snuffed by
forces beyond her control, there is a sense of urgency. And why
not? Time is decidedly not on its side.
There are approximately 150 days left until the November
elections and they can’t come too soon. In case you haven’t
noticed, especially if you read the papers, the Democrats have
controlled Congress for a year and a half and things haven’t
exactly been going according to plan.
Global warmists suffered a chill this week when the
Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act went down to defeat. The blatant cap and trade bill would
have bankrupted our economy in the service of an alarmist threat
built upon the shifting sands of junk science.
Thankfully for now, we will not share the woes of our British
brethren who have already experienced the tender mercies of the
greenies and who seem to be on the verge of a good old American tax
revolt. According to a new poll, “Britain appears to be feeling
increasingly negative about being more carbon neutral. We are
questioning the truth behind being greener and many feel that
Government is creating a green fear for monetary gain.”
And hopefully it’s only a matter of time before that opinion
makes its way across the Atlantic; challenging the spurious claims
of the Anthropogenic Global Climate Change crowd, as they now call
themselves.
Time is running out for them as evidenced by the fact that over
30,000 American scientists, including 9,000 with Ph.D.s, have
signed a petition denying that humans have any effect on
what we used to call the weather. The petition says, in
part:
There is no convincing scientific evidence that human
release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gasses is
causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic
heating of the earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the earth’s
climate. Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that
increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial
effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the
earth.
And, not surprisingly, proof of this continues to
emerge. Over the past two decades, NASA satellites have
collected data which shows that the planet is in a cycle of
greening itself and that “the Earth as a whole became more
bountiful by a whopping 6.2%.” The reason? “Their 2004 study, and
other more recent ones, point to the warming of the planet and the
presence of CO2, a gas indispensable to plant life.”
Soon, the drumbeat of truth will be too loud to ignore, even for
the mainstream media, and attempts by the AGCC gang to blame the
current cooling trends on La Nina will be gone with the wind.
But don’t wait for the announcement that it’s all been a farce, as
the left rarely admits its mistakes.
ONE GLARING EXCEPTION is the acknowledgment by the World Health Organization
that the threat of a global heterosexual pandemic of AIDS has
“disappeared,” and that “outside sub-Saharan Africa, it was
confined to high-risk groups including men who have sex with men,
injecting drug users, and sex workers and their clients.”
In the 20 or so years that the opposite myth was allowed to
circulate, gays and their supporters garnered much sympathy and
made great progress toward seeing their lifestyle gain popular
acceptance. After all, it could happen to anyone, right? Wrong.
But now the clock is running on the gay marriage agenda, as
evidenced by the California Supreme Court’s refusal to stay its
decision on gay marriage until the voice of the people is heard.
They know that a pro-traditional marriage Constitutional Amendment
just might pass this November as did a similar measure in 2000. And
so they are in a hurry to allow “marriages” between now and then to
muddy up the legal waters so our betters in the courts can continue
to decide things for us.
Another election issue that is a ticking time bomb is runaway
gas prices. The longer Democrats continue to block drilling in ANWR
and offshore, the greater the opportunity for the GOP to point out
where much of the fault lies.
Although our education system and the media have done a great
job in advancing the liberal agenda, most Americans can still grasp
that Democratic plans to tax oil company profits will result in
those companies passing those increases on to consumers. They are
coming to understand that local, state and federal governments
make nearly twice the amount on a gallon of gas that the oil
companies do. This issue should be a no-brainer for
Republicans.
ON ANOTHER FRONT, liberals are in a desperate rush to end the Iraq
War before it can be won. While Democratic fringe groups have for
years been against any military action not engaged in by Bill
Clinton, their leadership has been in a race against the clock to
show their “support” for our troops by declaring their mission a
failure and bringing them home as defeated and dispirited
losers.
But here again, time is clearly not on their side. Sunnis and Shias are
fast coming together in support of the Iraqi Army who recently
retook Basra, Sadr City and Mosul, bases formerly under insurgent
control. U.S. combat deaths last month totaled 20, the lowest
number in four years. A year ago, the total for May was 121. Al
Qaeda in Iraq is on the run, as should be those who gave them aid
and comfort by opposing our efforts there at every turn.
If Republicans can’t capitalize on the sense of urgency in
American pocketbooks and persuade John McCain to renounce his
positions on ANWR and global warming; if they won’t stand up for
traditional marriage while popular sentiment is still with them;
and if they can’t make the most of our country’s love for its
military and their mission; then they deserve to lose in
November.
