Environmentalists will peddle their BS for hours and make it sound as if the stuff is good enough to eat.  Bob Graham and William Reilly, Co Chairs of the Commission investigating the Deep Water Horizon oil spill, explained how their report is sufficient to justify sweeping regulatory changes in the U.S. and shutting down an entire critical industry.

Republican members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee were skeptical. Yesterday Fred Upton (MI) pounded the gavel to start but the two witnesses pounded sand with their with a sweeping indictment of an entire energy industry based on “systemic” failures of management on a massive scale.  The question was a simple one;  voiced with anger from Gulf Coast representatives.  What caused the spill?

It seemed to me that “systemic failures” was mentioned in the report many times.  The implication being that the commission examined 2500 deep water rigs in the Gulf.  Or the sand pounders would have the casual observer believe.  Not so…as the questions soon disclosed.  Graham and Reilly’s commission (going out of business 5 weeks) investigated 3 companies doing this work and the rest of their findings and recommendations were drawn from this and  past spills.  There was no thought given to examine  successful operations.

I read the dailies during this disaster.  I understood that a blow out prevention valve did not work.  Brian P. Bilbray (CA) summarized it best for me.  The valve appears to be very important as a cause.  The Commission chose not to look at the valve and instead cited “systemic” regulatory faults as justification for recommending a halt to further oil development

And oh yes…this blow out prevention valves lies, not on the bottom of 5000 feet of water, but gathering rust on a dock somewhere on the Gulf Coast of America. “Mr Chairman I recommend we impanel a new investigative commission of engineers and authorize them to find this valve and take it apart bit by bit until they are able to say why it did not work and pinpoint the cause of this oil spill.  This piece of safety gear is being used today and who knows but what the next disaster is waiting to happen.  We cannot take seriously any longer the report of the present commission.  Our witnesses have clearly demonstrated the failure of their approach.”

I think that if one were able to detach Graham and Reilly from their environmental propaganda for the masses for a few minutes they would say: “thank you very much but our approach produced results beyond our wildest dreams.”

Oh!  If only I were ready to follow Beck’s call for acceptance and prayer as a way to  ward off the calamity headed my way as an American.  I believe in the saving power of  God’s Will and that as a finality  It will prevail despite the apparent calamities lurking around every corner of His creation.  I just have doubts about Glen Beck’s grasp of how His will works.

The alcoholics “acceptance” comes after the enemy, alcohol, has totally defeated them.  It is not until this “bottom” is reached that recovery begins.  The alcoholic says; I am never cured…I am always recovering.  To say “I am defeated by Obama and must accept it before recovery is in the offing will never be in my lexicon.  More importantly it is the part that anger plays in Glen Becks scheme of things that sets me apart from him.  That is; along with his radical adherence to libertarianism.

Today Beck convinced me that he believes anger must be stuffed.  This is understandable since the alcoholic, in his recovery, is not allowed an excess of any emotion.  While “Denial, Bargaining and Acceptance are written large in his life; anger is writ so very small.  It has come up before with him as he cautions us time and again “not to act out of anger”.  I believe the committed libertarian can hold on to their philosophy only in the absence of an active electorate.  The type of activism demonstrated on November 2 brings fear and trepidation to the heart of a libertarian.  You see political activity born out of anger leads the country class to pick sides and to act with energy on the implications of our choices.  We did this on election day and not one libertarian was elected.  That is the way of it.  Glen Beck will see his world view take hold and accede to power only when we set aside anger, when anger is justified and screamed for, as it is today, to be replaced with Becks “alcoholic” acceptance and therefore giving up that dreaded “partisan” indulgence exhibited last “freedom” day.

Glen Beck is right about one thing.  That being prayer to an almighty God.  When all is said and done, and faced with the intensity of evil in our world,  on our knees is not a bad place to be.  That is.. before we head out to the polling place and pull the Republican lever.

Drip…drip…drip…it pounds my skull and aches my brain.  This steady high stepping march into what Mark Levin gently calls “a soft tyranny” hurts and was on display today in the hallowed halls of Congress.

Chairmen Jerry Costello and Jim Oberstar provide the venue.  Its called the House Committee on Transportation and Subcommittee on Aviation.  There is a definite pattern here.  You have seen it in the lead up to Health Care and Financial Reform Bills and demonstrated clearly as the Cap and Tax bill was cooked up.

Here is how I see, given no change in our political system these days, a Fascist dominated America evolving over time.  The architecture  has a corner stone of these Fascist like laws is the meticulous organization of so-called citizen consumer groups.

Mr. Moore is the Director of the Consumer Travel Alliance.  These are the foot soldiers.  Mr. Moore had chapter and verse down clear, touting the need for regulating the airline industry.  His army of private citizens provided the government with more than enough fodder favoring an “airline reform bill”  Fodder is used for feeding.  Who is being fed?

The fatted calf being lead to the slaughter, as I see it, is the airline industry.  It has been force fed consumer complaints, disruptions in service, various annoyances like legal action and physical assaults and promises of a bright day when all of the members of the Consumer Travel Alliance have what they want.  Mr. Moore testified that only a strong government  will bring about this Utopian vision of his members.  The vision must be articulated.

Politicians are citizens too.  But these days it is the political connection that worries me.  these diaries will  The likes of Oberstar and Costello have long since abrogated their bond with real citizens in favor of the State.  Mark Levin is right when he calls the likes of these two “statists” vs politicians.  The high ringing consumer rhetoric is lost in the not-so-veiled  threats of total government control.  This unflagging threatening language has consequences.

Simply put Fascism is marked by an unholy marriage between business and the State.  The lessons learned for me today revolve around who was not invited to testify at the Aviation Subcommittee hearing.  Maybe turning the example around would better illustrate the point.  Mr. Ridley (Southwest Airlines) and Mr. Baldanza (Spirit Airlines) were invited and their testimony clearly showed that they are resisting the force feeding tube. They energetically defended the airlines in the face of the likes of the Consumer Travel Alliance, the Business Travel Coalition representing Travel Management Managers and abusive committee members. I conclude that those airlines not invited have been restrained in varying degrees at the forced feeding  station.  Sturdy wings are needed in order that bloated bills will fly.

A Fascist state will never fly in this Country except that, as Rush says, the citizens are made stupid.  When I look at health care, financial reform, carbon pollution and oil slicks in the Gulf I see one common element.  Today it was the “opaque” way airlines do business.  Then there is the secrecy of big oil and big banks and wall street and global warming deniers are hiding behind big oil.  The common theme, cited over and over and over again today was the need for “full disclosure and transparency”.  When Oberstar’s transportation bill is written it will be 2000 pages of airline re-regulation all in the name of sunshine disinfecting a dirty airline industry.

Senate Republicans are milk toast and the Dems are giddy.  Senator Bill Nelson (D-Florida) walks in and brandishes his Blackberry.  “I have my Blackberry here and, Mr. Chairman (Nelson Rockefeller (D-West Virginia), you need to see this”  Apparently his coveted Blackberry has “clear and detailed” new video pictures of the deep well oil blowout.  He hands it eagerly to an equally eager Chairman.

Ms Klobuchar, Dem Senator MN, joins the dance as a C-Span camera pans away.  They look with intensity into the Blackberry and broad smiles blossom on both.  They look genuinely happy looking at the spectacle.  To this observer; granting a personal deep and abiding conservative perspective, they are barely covering a giddy affect.

Rush Limbaugh is right, in my opinion, when he says that liberal Democrats thrive on “tumult, chaos and confusion”.  I remember Rahm Emanuel’s famous admonishment to his troops.  “Never let a good crisis go wasted.”  Limbaugh is right also when he says: “The liberals are bound and determined to see this country, built on the Founder’s dream, damaged beyond recognition.”  Their dream is a country built over in the image of Karl Marx.  Nelson, Rockefeller and Klobuchar are dancing at the Commerce Ball to that tune.

Republicans at the dance?  Vaporous.

a. We will see that economic revitalization is consummated with green jobs and clean energy

b. My dear, dopey citizen we will reduce gloal warming emissions and set you free from foreign oil at the same time protecting everything that walks, swims and grows (humans need not apply) thereby reducing the planets stress.  The sun, geothermal and God are excepted.

c.  We have passed the stimulus bill and invested  in mass transit, renewables and weatherization. “A green plan for the economy will provide a path out of poverty and a more just society (middle class need not apply)

d. Hybrids, solar panels and wind turbines; our gift to you,  are very expensive so for now be content with green jobs and less pollution. (Gulf of Mexico excepted)

e. Californians we have a special gift for you.  It is a waiver under the Clean Air Act in order that you may enforce your own tougher pollution standards and build a prosperous and bright future.  (ya right)

f. People of the U.S. have no fear of high petrol prices.  We will start a legal review of off-shore oil and gas leases and begin environmental reviews.  Oh! In the meantime we have this problem in the Gulf.  But as soon as that is cleaned up…

g.  So. We have halted lease sales in the Arctic Oceean, Bristol Bay and conservation areas in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (Oh hell; just cede Alaska and Arctic circle to us)

h.  Al Gore and the Marxist Greens wish you a clean and oil free life and long live the Browner/Obama green team.

Hey America! How is it all working for you.  Here are a few of my thougts.

The clarion call for big tax bucks will resume.  Yours and my money paying for the country’s distruction.  “Invest in those green jobs” says the President.  “we must free ourselves from the evil of fossil fuels and generate the energy needed to run the country with wind, solar, biomass and geothermal power.  Send the displaced workers out to build turbines, panels and grids.”

Meanwhile…back to the real world of national interest and a true realist; Putin of Russia.  Didn’t he say last year that Russia will explore and produce fossil fuels and generate the energy needed to run his country.  I recall his saying “build more refineries and pipelines”.  In Iran, Qatar and Russia he called for a natural gas cartel.  Gather together Algeria, Indonesia, Libya, Venezuela and work to “break the U.S. dominance of the worlds economy”

Putin needn’t work so hard.  Obama is doing the heavy lifting.

Administrator Jackson, EPA, is steadfast and determined to enforce regulations limiting CO2 emissions.  Recent disclosures of scientific malfeasance on the part of U.N. global warming researchers brings to mind the statements of Czech president Vaclav Klaus on the subject.  He was interviewed by a representative of Hospodarske` noviny in 2007 and subsequently has written a popular book.

May I quote him?  “Global warming is a false myth and every serious person and scientist says so.  It is not fair to refer to the U.N. panel.  IPCC is not a scientific institution: it’s a political body, a sort of non-government organization of green flavor.  It’s neither a forum of neutral scientists nor a balanced group of scientists.  These people are politicized scientist who arrive there with a one-sided opinion and a one-sided assignment. ”

In short he implied strongly that global warming advocates are one brick short of a load and by association the same could be said of many members of Congress.  These people, led by Senator Boxer, are driven by ideology to cripple our defenses.  At a time when the Country is at war and in the midst  of a recession they will impose a tax on carbon.  “We must put a high price on carbon” is the common mantra of the left.

Klaus says: “…top-level politicians do not express their global warming doubts because a whip of political correctness strangles their voice.”  It is amazing to me that his prophesy of 2007 is realized today.  The farce and fraud of climate change and the predictions of global catastrophe has had a strong dose of sun light recently and still the left hangs onto questioned scientific findings as if they are biblical.  Their descriptions of CO2 driven destruction bring to my mind Armageddon.

The final decisive battle between the forces of reason, called skeptics, and the enemies of this Country who look forward to carbon regulations, is coming.  The battle field is political and President Vaclav Klaus put his finger on the ultimate reality.  “…its obvious that environmentalism is a new incarnation of modern leftism.”

Draw your own conclusion.  I say the “cold war” never ended and is rapidly warming up.

Tim Wirth is a retired Senator from Colorado.  These days he is busy at the U.N with matters relating to global warming.  On the twenty ninth of January he moderated a panel sponsored by the World Economic Council on Climate Change Davos Switzerland.  The panel was notable for its anti-American bias as participants laid the ground work for the next climate change summit in Mexico.

The star of the panel was President Calderon.  He appeared to be on the hot seat since the last summit in Copenhagen was described as anything except successful.  He strained credulity trying to describe Mexico’s progress in combating global warming and limiting CO2 emissions.  The goal in his Country is 18% reduction by 2012 and 30% by 2020.  This goal will be met, Caleron said, provided the United States gets serious with regulatory and legislative mandates.

This leads me to the co-star of the meeting, Representative Markey from MA.  He was quick to state that the OBama Administration was intent on reducing carbon emissions  and added, parenthetically, that the recent elections in his State changed the political landscape only slightly and the will to combat global warming was as strong as ever.  Mr. Markey added this; even if legislation is stalled in the Congress the EPA has sufficient legislative muscle to get the job done.  He spoke about his efforts in drafting Cap and Trade legislation and shepherding the bill through the house.

I couldn’t help thinking he was right.  Cap and Trade may only be a smoke screen as far as the environmentalists getting their way in crippling the black fuel industry in America.  They are being hassled, badgered and taking violence square on the chin.  There will be no drilling for oil of shore, ANWR or any other place requiring new development.  The coal industry is being choked by legal pollution as coal fired plants, one by one are the targets of the environmental coalitions across the country.  Our military defenses will be impacted one day, leaving this Country at risk while we try to fight the war on Islamic terrorists and prevent conventional attacks by our many enemies across the Globe.

I am thinking, given the lack of any research and development or new construction, that Nuclear energy is just a fantasy.  Obama’s recent conversion is a cynical ploy to mollify the masses.  It goes on and on.  New sources of energy lying outside the vaunted “renewables” is left sucking the rarefied air of discovery, development and production because of thuggish environmentalist behavior on all fronts.

So the bottom line for me is this.  An enemy of the U.S. could not have come up with a more efficient weapon aimed at destroying our war making and defense posture than global warming hysteria and the subsequent  frenzy to reduce CO2 emissions.

Tim Wirth, former Senator from Colorado and President of the United Nations Foundation, Looks very comfortable.  He is moderating a panel hosted by the world Economic Council on climate change.  The January 29th meeting in Davos Switzerland is notable for it’s participants

Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary Of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate change, spends the majority of his time traveling the Globe fighting for U.N. global warming policies.

Shyam Saran, Special Envoy to the Indian Prime Minister, fighting for the interests of his Country, makes it clear that the threat of global worming is not a priority.

President Calderon of Mexico is on the hook for the next Climate Change summit following the joke that was Copenhagen.  He commits  his Country to a target of 30% reduction in greenhouse gases by 2020 after an 18% reduction by 2012.  The Mexican President notes, with Latin enthusiasm, that success depends on the efforts of America. This distinguished group is rounded out by Congressman Edward Markey author of Cap and Trade Legislation in the U.S. House.

Markey noted that the “slight change” in U.S. politics following the election of Scott Brown to the Senate will not deter the efforts of the OBama Administration to curb CO2 emmissions and the World should know “we will lead the efforts” in combating Global Warming.

The panel was very much together on one point.  That is the majority of atmospheric contamination by CO2 is colored “red, white and blue” and therefore most of the effort must come from the American People.  Markey makes the point, with determination, that if Cap and Trade legislation if stalled in the Congress the Obama administration is prepared to advance the effort through the regulatory mandates of the Environmental Protection Agency.  In other words, by my calculation, “jamit”.

It is agreed by all that the planet has a fever and man is responsible.  Recent disclosures of massive technological fraud aside it is full steam ahead.   The effort will disarm this country and it appears that Wirth and Markey are on the front line.

“Clear indicators of radicalization are illusive.”  So say Fort Hood investigators.  Former Army Secretary Togo West Jr. and Retired Admiral Vern Clark effectively slammed the door shut on any effective way to identify potential terrorist infiltrating the Armed Services since the bottom line of their report says: “Officers must scrupulously document possible warning signs of radicalization on members fitness reports.”

A few senators, acknowledging prevailing political correctness protocols and their obvious violation, dared to ask the question. How do you scrupulously document “an illusive indicator”?  Senator James Inhof (R) Oklahoma pleaded with the witnesses to get to point.  He pointed out the obvious.  Thirteen soldiers were killed at Fort Hood and the “alleged” perpetrator was a Muslim.  A young Muslim who was radicalized by an Imam preaching “death to all infidels” and especially death to American soldiers who kill believers and occupy their countries.

That comment and Inhofe’s follow on questions opened up the contorted testimony of Clark and West.  Officers must document radical behavior.  I know the military pretty well and when personnel are asked to “document” with the command “must” it opens a process laden with non-pertinent  entries.  This is especially true when they are given a command in ambiguous terms or full of contradictions.  West and Clark’s proposed directive has both.

A young Army officer is in contact with a Muslim cleric.  Not just any Muslim cleric but an Imam who is implicated in several terrorist acts.  Said officer acts out his frame of mind and we have documented bizarre behavior.  He then proceeds to arm himself sufficiently to kill 13 soldiers and becomes injured in the process.  Lets fast forward these events and say they occur following the implementation of the investigator’s proposal remembering, since the Commander-in Chief is a PC advocate, that the documentation leading up to the killings never acknowledges that Jihad bred indoctrination has been going on.

A religion is involved in the progression of this story ending in lethality.  It would not take much imagination to picture an afternoon in the officer’s coffee mess as a cadre of concerned people discuss and argue back and forth ways in which to comply with an order full of ambiguity and contradictions but choked full of cultural constraints against getting to the nub of the issue.  These men have been radicalized by sensitivity training assuring that their reports will culminate in none action.

Radical sensitivity to religious inspired activity, especially when  is Muslim fosters arguments that run in circles and any documentation reflects that.  Just as Former Army Secretary Togo West and Retired Admiral Vern Clark ran the Senate Armed Services Committee in circles with Chairman Carl Levin (D-MI) leading the parade, speciously debating when the focus ought to be in the case of scrupulously documenting member’s radicalization.  Will the phrase “religious radicalization” suffice?  Will the terms Jihad and radical Muslim extremism be banned from the Military lexicon?

How then would the case of Major Nidal Malik, Lieutenant Colonel and Psychiatrist, USA be documented and even with the West and Clark directive in place would the end result be any different?  I will leave you to answer that one.

The punditry chimed in loud and clear.  The MA results have been explained.  Scott Brown’s victory was the result of a combination of Martha Coakley‘s ineptitude and a massive disaffection among independents with her campaign.  It is as if the vaporous Scott Brown and his vaunted truck exist only in the abstract.

Although the elite liberal class will never, much to their detriment, understand the reality of yesterdays election a conservative will get it immediately.  Brown’s victory is a fresh rebirth of the Founders vision.  A vision, as Scott Brown put it so well, that John Adams and his brothers gave up so much for.   In a style  well suited, he gave flesh to that vision anew.  The Senator elect laid it out there clearly in a way that the current crop of liberal will never understand.  That is the relationship between governments and the governed that assure liberty.

Lessons learned, to barrow a phrase, rests, not with the Administration and Congress but with the citizenry.  He will carry away from MA an abiding understanding of what it will take to make a course adjustment in this Country’s direction.

In every aspect of governance the fuzzy lines of “big tent” thinking as articulated by Sen Mitch McConnell and John McCain and bipartisanship as touted by just about everyone in the Beltway will be scrubbed away.  Scott Brown’s victory resulted from erasing the blurred divisions between right and left.  And they were erased only because the candidate did the erasing.  Granted, he clarified national defense, big government, high taxes, and health care for the MA electorate while leaving life, guns, energy, honesty and a free press for an other day.  Hope and change spring eternal.