David

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July 1, 2009

Stop the Delusional Greenies, At All Costs

It's a new version of the old philosophical riddle: If the House rams through a totalitarian, economy-crushing enviro-wacko bill that's not even been written, have they really taken our liberty and prosperity away?
 

Late on Friday, as most House members were preparing to depart for their week-long Independence Day vacation (now there's an irony – as if any of them still give the slightest damn about what the holiday commemorates), Speaker Nancy Pelosi and a completely out-of-control Democratic “leadership” rammed through a “cap and trade” bill that is simply the biggest tax increase in world history and would outlaw domestic energy production as we've known it.

More than that, the bill was not even written when it was passed. The original 1,090-page monstrosity was altered to a 300-page set of amendments at 3:05 a.m. Friday morning (!), and then moved and voted on immediately. Minority Leader (another irony, as he couldn't keep eight of his own from defecting, without which the bill would've gone down in flames) John Boehner was able to use a couple of parliamentary maneuvers to delay things until late afternoon, but ultimately the bill passed anyway.

As of this writing, there is still no written product that could be delivered to the Senate for its review, which means the House passed a 300-page stack of blank paper, and will let Pelosi and Rep. Henry Waxman fill it in at their convenience. This from the same speaker who rode into the office in 2006 claiming she was going to clean up how the GOP ran the chamber. Obviously, she lied through her teeth and simply told people what they wanted to hear in order to win.

Third-world banana republic dictators are paragons of virtue under the rule of law compared to the way Pelosi is running the House. She'd have to improve a whole lot just to be a total disgrace. She has long since shredded beyond recognition the oath she took to uphold the Constitution, which was just as much a big fat lie as those she used to get Democrats back into power.

The execrable Pelosi is every bit the tyrant and despot that King George III ever was, and she will stop at nothing to get her way, so drunk on power is she. She recognizes no limit on her reign and no rule (of law or a chamber) is safe around her. As such, she is very much to be feared.

As are Obama, Reid, Waxman and the rest. They have reached the point where they think they are gods, so much so that they can wave the magic wand of government and change both the climate and the laws of physics. They honestly believe that solar and wind can instantly and fully replace oil, coal, natural gas and nuclear power with no harsh economic impact. And no amount of reality will penetrate that all-consuming delusion. They actually believe their own fantasies, and that those ends justify any means.

To paraphrase a description of The Terminator: They can't be bargained with. They can't be reasoned with. They don't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And they absolutely will not stop, ever, until freedom, liberty, capitalism and America are dead – replaced by a completely wrecked world, destroyed by their unfathomably arrogant attempt to re-make it as they think it should be.

Or perhaps a better way to put it would be that they lack the basic humility required to consider the possibility they might be wrong. They have become Eve in Genesis 3:5, buying the serpent's lie and gorging on forbidden fruit, convinced that they “will be like God, knowing the difference between good and evil.” So lost in their massive egos are they, that they think they can create a better world than He did, through dictatorial government.

Whatever their exact motivations, which could fill many a psychology Ph.D. thesis, the point is that a government that's capable of this is capable of anything. Nothing should be put past them, as they see limits on power as mere obstacles to be gotten around, not barriers sealing off places to which they cannot go.

That in turn means we have to be equally committed to defending our standards of living if they are to fail in attempting to destroy them. Just as they go outside the limits of their power, we have to prepare to do the previously unthinkable. The Declaration of Independence says that government “derives its just powers from the consent of the governed,” which means that when government breaks its compact with the people and loses that consent, we are no longer obliged to respect it. On this Fourth of July, that principle should especially resound.

In this case, that could take the form of defying this bill – should it pass the Senate and become law – and drilling anyway. To paraphrase Patrick Henry, give me domestic oil, coal, natural gas and nuclear power or give me death!

And it should certainly take the form of waging all-out verbal and political war against anything “green” from this moment forward. (Which really ought to be called red, for the totalitarian communism inherent in it.) The Sierra Club, Greenpeace, Al Gore, et, al. should be called what they are – lunatic enemies of freedom, liberty, the Constitution and modern human civilization – and treated accordingly.

To those who think that sounds extreme, I would say that it's not nearly as extreme as what the enviro-wackos propose to force down our throats wrapped in the total fraud of “climate change,” not to mention the destruction it will cause. Or its de facto irreversibility, since you surely can't demonstrate something is fixed when you can't even prove it exists. We will come to rue our overindulgence of the psycho-greenies’ delusions. That day could well be upon us now.

Meanwhile, America in its ignorant stupor remains preoccupied with the death of Michael Jackson.

God help us. The Roman Empire came to a more respectful end than this in being overrun by Huns and Visigoths . . .

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