Not for the first time, President-in-Waiting Hillary Clinton is hurting my head. Speaking to a crowd in Cedar Rapids, Iowa she said:
Global warming hits particularly hard at the poor, she said.
“One in four low-income families have already missed a mortgage or rent payment because of rising energy costs,” Clinton said.
People run their oil-fired heaters when it’s cold, therefore global warming ought to be a good thing for low-income families in colder climes, right?
Unless she’s saying that people are missing mortgage payments in order to run the air conditioning. Which can’t be right.
Unless there’s some sort of premium around saying the words “global warming,” “low income families”, “mortgage payments” and “rising energy costs” in the most efficient possible way, forgoing context in favor of brevity.
But she couldn’t be that calculating. Could she?
No, no, no, you don’t get it. See, if there is a cold winter, that is caused by global warming. If there is warm winter, that is caused by global warming. Heavy snow, global warming. Light snow, global warming.
As an answer to all problems, global warming is a nice catch all.
Wait a minute … she’s stealing James Taranto’s line at WSJ opinionjournal.com.
“(Insert Anything-Bad-To-Scare-People here), women/children/poor hardest hit.”
Some people just don’t think. No brains left in the political sphere anymore.
*sigh*
How long til this is all over???
I remember a simpler time when it was all just called El Niño….people were less scared by a harmless South American child than they are by Al Gore’s bloated visage.
~Ens Tim
The election will come down to Clinton vs Thompson. The perfect MSM machine vs a human being.
People are sick of politicians. Bet on Fred.
In the meantime, heavy drinking is recommended.
Oooh, heavy drinking. I hadn’t thought about that. What a good idea.
Plus ~ stay away from the TV and newspapers.
I might make it now. Thanks, LookingGlass!
Yes, Ens Tim. Once upon a time there were two weather phenomena that created drastic climate changes — El Niño and La Niña. They caused droughts and storms and all sorts of calamitous weather. Now it’s only Global Warming that gets the credit.
*SIGH*
(that’s a BIG sigh)
Hillary is just describing my ex-wife.
I thought she did not pay bills on time because she was greedy and stupid-now I realize it was just because of global warming.
That makes her missing mortage payments all the more understandable…………….
It’s like watching an alternate universe with these boobs…Dante’s 8th Circle denizens should be updated.
Stupid is, as stupid does.
Well now, don’t you feel bad Skippy?
The least you could do is go and apologize…
I actually heard La Nina blamed for something today. This particular hurricane season or something like that. Other than that, in response to Lex’s post … that is so pathetic. All I can say is that I am shocked and appalled! [Cdn political joke]
The sad thing of it is she is right, or at least will be… Once a carbon tax is passed (and I don’t just mean a direct tax paid to the gov’t, I mean any regulation causing increased expenditures to counteract GHG emissions, be it purchasing offsets, sequestration, or mandatory cost-inefficient alternate energy investments), the price of energy WILL go up and it WILL be the poor that are the hardest hit. It sounds like she’ll have a program to help fix that, so we can all rest easy – which makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
“Not for the first time, President-in-Waiting Hillary Clinton is hurting my head. ”
Lord, I love that phrase. I may have to use it Lex, copyrights aside.
Michelle,
I will apologize to my ex wife the day she throws herself in front of a bus going 50 mph.
However, my story is the best warning ever why joint checking accounts are instruments of the devil.
Not that I’m not bitter or anything…………..
S-san , Bitter…clearly demonistrated… amusing often… cynical absolutly. Best
James has it nailed, but allow me to help you more fully read between the lines:
…if there is a cold winter, that is caused by global warming. “Send me money.”
If there is warm winter, that is caused by global warming. “Pay me $50,000 to fly, via personal jet, to give a speech. The $50k is merely to compensate me for the discomfort of having to leave my 20,000 sq. ft. estate, so it’s tax dedeuctable.”
Heavy snow, global warming. “Watch my movie.”
Light snow, global warming. “Line up and kiss my Oscar.”
As an answer to all cash flow problems, global warming is a nice catch all.
Let’s face it, Hillary is an Idiot. And Global Warming effects everyone, not just the poor but especially the ones like us who pay for all her and her ilks so called “social” programs. It is like trying to stop a leak in a Dam wall with your finger. It does not solve the problem. Hillary, too bad we may be stuck with her for 4 years. Ah, the horror, the horror…..
Hillary……..in front of a bus…..50 mph……makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
See I can quote out of context too.
The policies that would reduce CO2 and those that would reduce energy costs are mostly diametrically opposed. Gas-fired power plants are better for CO2 reduction; coal-fired plants are better for keeping electricity relatively cheap.
And more expensive gasoline helps reduce CO2, of course, by reducting driving and incentivizing smaller cars.
Hillary must be either too dumb to understand the above, or too much of a demagogue to admit it.
I’m delighted to see all the activity in posting on the Internet, which really amounts to the sensible people of all persuasions beginning to say about Global Warming — “hey, wait a minute here, this doesn’t quite make sense.”
If you would like to read an extremely satisfying, carefully detailed take-down of Gore’s film An Inconvenient Truth, Google directs you to a site called “Ponder the Maunder,” which details all the mistakes in that film, very completely. And the kicker is, it was a special four-month long research project carried out by a 14-year old genius girl named Kristen Byrnes. She did an outstanding job. And if our scientific weenies had any sense, they would try to sign her up as an employee in about seven years.
My husband and I have been preparing a concise summary of present positions on manmade global warming for a friend of ours who is going to a board meeting of an environmental group. Believe me, Ponder the Maunder is included in the package, as well as Christy’s recent piece that Lex quotes. Gonna be fun. Almost wish I could be there. Nah. Maybe not. Not enough booze in the world to dilute the pomposity.
Marianne Matthews
Last I heard, archeologists are still looking for the SUV’s used by danish bronze age womyn™ causing temperatures to be >10º centigrade (keep up with the times will you!) above present temperatures.
Haliburton probably whisked them away to protect W and Cheney.
For some reason it is no longer acceptable to actually observe what has happened in the past and the consequences – if any.
The good news is that ‘ordinary’ people seem to have stopped taking ‘scientists’ serious.
The problem is of cause the ‘Peter and the Wolf ‘ scenario.
I am comforted however by the reactions I have encountered from people who actually pay taxes and vote. They are not insane or impressed – even if they are not from Missouri.
People in the US may do do insane things, but… they do the right thing when necessary.
peace
Hejde
“Hillary in front of a bus”. I almost spilled my coffee when I read that.
Greetings from the Peak Tower!
Dammit, Looking Glass, be careful with that kind of advice!
In late 1996, shortly after the election, Judge Bork (not that I approve of him, either) gave advice on how to get through the second Clinton term.
Said advice was to drink as much alcohol as possible, consistent with continued functionality. He then presented his favorite Martini recipe.
Alas, I’m afraid I took his advice entirely too much to heart, and am now as you see me, drinking too much and commenting on other people’s blogs.
Dammit, Sir, every time I try to cut back, and/or quit, somebody comes up with another reason for me to just tilt the head back and pour it in!
Is there something we could do which would allow people to think and talk about politics without inducing a desire to drink more than is good for one
Unless there’s some sort of premium around saying the words “global warming,” “low income families”, “mortgage payments” and “rising energy costs” in the most efficient possible way, forgoing context in favor of brevity.
But she couldn’t be that calculating. Could she?
You nailed it! I really like this blog!