Wait. Did that sound too, like, right-wing Visagothy? If so, I apologize to all the moderates and independents I’ve just now sent running back to Obama. Because I’ve learned that if there’s one thing voters hate worse than the combination of inflation, high-unemployment, plummeting home values, and an imperial leftwing president, it’s the whiff of debatable hyperbole from “extremists” who rape wikipedia entries.
So.
“Obama Commerce Nominee: U.S. Has ‘Obligation to Lead’ on Climate Change Legislation”:
John Bryson, President Barack Obama’s nominee to be secretary of commerce, said it was “incredibly important” that the United States pass cap and trade legislation and that America needed to be a global leader in combating man-made global warming.
“I regard it as incredibly important that the United States comes forth in this year with federal climate change legislation as a foundation for moving ahead,” Bryson told the U.N. International Energy Conference in late August 2009. “I think we in the U.S. have an obligation to assist in significant ways in providing leadership in this community of nations that you represent and addressing energy and climate change.”
[…]
“Long term, a reasonable and balanced ‘cap-and-trade’ system for reducing carbon dioxide emissions could be adopted once new carbon- dioxide removal technology has been developed and becomes commercially available.”
Bryson, a co-founder of the liberal environmentalist group Natural Resources Defense Council, was most recently a member of the United Nations’ Advisory Group on Energy and Climate Change, a panel of scientific and industry experts tasked with providing advice on combating global warming.
My. That’s an unfortunate choice.
I would hereby like to register my strong and official note of protest. With all due respect, naturally, to the office of our very very NOT socialist President, and with a kindly nod toward our shared goals of making this country strong and vibrant — AND a responsible and largely carbon neutral citizen of the world.
I said Good Day, sir!
I thought I just read somewhere that the rest of the developed world just gave up on Kyoto.
Shouting “come back!” isn’t leadership.
Obama always manages to nominate true believers to his cabinet posts. But with the whole AGW connivance so completely busted and discredited, and Cap-n-Tax clearly DOA in Congress, what does he hope to achieve, I wonder, besides gaining a few brownie points with the nutroot lunatic fringe?
Unless the Imperial President has some more executive fiat in mind, and needs an enforcer to implement it ruthlessly.
Obama’s Richelieu or Mazarin perhaps?
The fastest way to reduce CO2 emissions would be to reduce demand for energy. The fastest way to do that is to kill a shitload of people, which will also reduce demand for energy.
Soylent green, anyone? It’s a win-win proposition.
I meant, killing people would also reduce CO2 emissions. I need a new editor.
Is there an ideal carbon dioxide level they’re shooting for? I mean, there’s like 336 parts per million (0.03% of the atmosphere) now. So whats ideal? 300ppm? 293.482ppm? What is the number that is too low; could we become so adept at eradicating the offensive gas that we plunge the earth into an ice age? Kill all the trees?
Oh well, I guess I shouldn’t worry about such things. The government has shown itself adept at running everything they try, I’m sure managing the climate is but a small thing for so august a group as we have in Washington…
The King is a good kingThe President is a good regulatory state capitalist in the mode of say, Richard Nixon; it’s his evil advisors that are causing all of our troubles!Bob,
Executive Order, Rules, Regulations (the CFR should be up to volume eleventy-billion by now) and by sending a swarm of officers hither to eat out our substance…
I thought these people didn’t like mixing religion and government. Guess I was wrong.
First American Church of Gaia membership will surge! More than the economy, anyway.
“…could be adopted once new carbon-dioxide removal technology has been developed and becomes commercially available.”
Well, gee, don’t commit yourself, pal.
He lost me at “community of nations”
No such thing.
We’re all breathing out POLLUTION!
Jeebus what a cluster-frel this stuff is.
That’s exactly the kind of thing I’m wary of Colonel John. That’s what this guy’s nomination says to me.
Even 1,000 years ago, Canute knew no man can control Nature, despite his courtiers claims. Obama is no Canute.
Did you notice that Bryson did nothing but stand there and smile? He never spoke…
http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/2011-05-31-obama-john-bryson-commerce-secretary_n.htm
And for what it’s worth, McConnell is threatening to filibuster his appointment unless the O!ministration and the Democrats move on ratifying the trade agreements with Colombia, South Korea, and Panama.
this a a Commerce nominee? …the fuck?
new carbon- dioxide removal technology
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They know they’ll all die without it, don’t they?
New carbon- dioxide removal technology: that’s in the same development pipeline as all the other green wunder-tech that will enable us to win the war on the sun, isn’t it?
You nailed it there Pablo. The NRDC? Has any group caused more poverty in the United States than the NRDC? They are against everything, any kind of progress whatsoever, behind a fig leaf of environmentalism. They are radical socialists hiding behind a mask of liberal environmentalism.
The NRDC logo should be a watermelon, green on the outside, red on the inside.
Kind of like appointing Barret Brown the Pope.
Or naming Benjamin Natanyahu Caliph.
“Winning!”
I guess it’s the dad in me that felt so badly for Martin Sheen’s boy when he went nuts. I feel the same way for young men like John Bryson, who don’t have the necessary tools to process the way the world is working around him. It’s great to have strongly held beliefs, but he simply cannot process that establishing mandates isn’t effective in a world that shifts daily through market pressures that can be constrained, but not controlled.
Well, he certainly has cut himself a big piece of meat. I hope he remembers to clean his plate.
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There is a way it could kinda sorta make sense, if you pretend that USDOC isn’t about trade and economical crap like that.
Ya see, USDOC also includes NOAA and NWS, which have been pushed — not altogether successfully — into taking point on
Kinetic Climatic Actionglobal warming.How much you wanna bet that’s Bryson’s charge as SecComm?
They are against everything, any kind of progress whatsoever
That’s the thing that kills me about today’s “progressives”. Say what you will about Wilson, TR, FDR, etc. but at least the early Progressives actually wanted, you know, progress.
That they wanted to force it at the point of a gun is unfortunate, but still.
It’s true.
They’re adding insult to injury by forcing us *backwards* at the point of a gun.
I think I just threw up a little bit in the back of my mouth..
The secretary of commerce wants to make sure there’s nothing to secretary about.
cranky, that leaves more time for pr0n and twit-twat-dic-pics. Priorities!
WATF.
TLD
Obama’s mission in this life is to thoroughly destroy capitalist America. End of story.
He is evil. End of story again.