Posted by
John Dendahl on Wednesday, April 08, 2009 6:50:07 PM
During Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s service as U.S. Senator from Colorado, home to my wife and me along with much of our family, I attempted to communicate with him several times to share facts about global warming running counter to his predisposition to be threat-to-peace Al Gore’s clone. I am virtually certain all these communications were short-stopped by the staffer through whom I had been instructed to communicate with the senator.
One of those included this: "Even if Sen. Salazar supports raising taxes, I am confident he is honest enough to say that directly rather than sliding through an enormous tax increase like the carbon cap scheme having a colossal fraud as its entire support."
Well, I lied a little in that I have no such confidence in Salazar’s integrity. Nor did I have it when that was written in December 2008.
Salazar's successor, Michael Bennet, isn't starting out any better. Three attempts over a month to get his attention with e-mails at his website have drawn the same boilerplate: "Hearing from Coloradans is important to me. I will respond to your concerns in the near future." Wouldn't one expect "near future" to fall within a month?
I now believe what was initially a bonanza for grant-seeking scientists has become the pot at the end of the rainbow for elected officials, bureaucrats and the left generally, all sensing here a stupendously large (and economically ruinous) source of revenue. That Gore and a number of sly business executives have also figured out how to make billions buying and selling carbon emissions "rights" is also worth our notice.
The Nobel Committee’s decision to give Gore the Peace Prize ranks right up there with its earlier decision to give one to Yasser Arafat. Read more Gore, propaganda and "peace" here.