OPTIMISTIC VIEW ON THE EPA MOVE?

Kim Strassel has an excellent piece in the Wall Street Journal today about the dangers of the EPA attempting to leap frog congress and it doesn't involve congress getting angry or indignant over being spurned. It does, however, involve congress being off the hook when it comes to the Cap & Trade disaster.

Did Obama unwittingly put himself alone on Disaster Island by vicariously issuing a threat to congress through the EPA and its head Lisa Jackson?

The thing about threats, though, is that at some point you have to act on them. The EPA has been sitting on its finding for months, much to the agitation of environmental groups that have been upping the pressure for action.

President Obama, having failed to get climate legislation, didn't want to show up to the Copenhagen climate talks with a big, fat nothing. So the EPA pulled the pin. In doing so, it exploded its own threat.

Far from alarm, the feeling sweeping through many quarters of the Democratic Congress is relief. Voters know cap-and-trade is Washington code for painful new energy taxes. With a recession on, the subject has become poisonous in congressional districts. Blue Dogs and swing-state senators watched in alarm as local Democrats in the recent Virginia and New Jersey elections were pounded on the issue, and lost their seats.

But now? Hurrah! It's the administration's problem! No one can say Washington isn't doing something; the EPA has it under control. The agency's move gives Congress a further excuse not to act.

This is where it gets good. Strassel points out that lawsuits targeting the EPA are sure to mount and congress will collectively look at Obama as the person responsible.

Green groups pioneered the art of environmental lawsuits. It turns out the business community took careful notes.

Industry groups are gearing up for a legal onslaught; and don't underestimate their prospects. The leaked emails from the Climatic Research Unit in England alone are a gold mine for those who want to challenge the science underlying the theory of manmade global warming.

Be sure to read Strassel's ENTIRE PIECE. It is excellent.

SARAH PALIN GETS AL GORE TO SWEAR

Ain't it funny how Allegory is virtually hidden from view until he has a real crisis on his hands. As long as the phony crisis he was perpetuating was on auto-pilot, Allegory didn't do many interviews. Now that his fraud is ironically being exposed as a true crisis for him, he's seemingly doing more of those interviews.

Now we learn of another reason why Allegory may want to refrain from interviews. When he gets frustrated, he apparently swears. Want a hint about the word he used? How about H-E-Double Hockey Sticks?

Check out a portion of this answer to an interview Allegory had with SLATE:

...the basic facts are incontrovertible. What do they think happens when we put 90 million tons up there every day? Is there some magic wand they can wave on it and presto!—physics is overturned and carbon dioxide doesn't trap heat anymore? And when we see all these things happening on the Earth itself, what in the hell do they think is causing it? The scientists have long held that the evidence in their considered word is "unequivocal," which has been endorsed by every national academy of science in every major country in the entire world.

Personally, if the guy swears, it's no skin off my nose but I find it fascinating the level of frustration Sarah Palin appears to be causing him.

Check out this video courtesy of he HP

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IS THE FBI FINALLY GOING AFTER CAIR?

Could be good news if Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch is right in his latest column. The FBI rightfully ended ties with CAIR last year. CAIR was named as an un-indicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation trial, in which the defendants were found guilty of funneling money to terrorists.

One year after ending ties with CAIR, the FBI may actually be targeting them according to Spencer, who points to the book "Muslim Mafia" as being an integral part of proving CAIR'S true intentions.

As a result of the revelations in Muslim Mafia, Representatives Sue Myrick (R-NC) Trent Franks (R-AZ) Paul Broun (R-GA) and John Shadegg (R-AZ) wrote a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder, requesting that he "provide each Member of Congress a summary of the evidence and findings by the DOJ and FBI which led them to name CAIR an unindicted co-conspirator in a terrorism trial." Holder has not publicly complied, but CAIR is by no means out of the woods yet.

When Muslim Mafia hit bookstore shelves, CAIR did not deny any of its allegations, resorting instead to its tried-and-true tactic of shooting the messenger, defaming the Gaubatzes and Sperry as "hatemongers" and suing to recover the documents, claiming that the material had been stolen and even that Chris Gaubatz had trespassed on CAIR property.

Go figure - Eric Holder not forthcoming about CAIR? When you consider Holder's role in pardoning Marc Rich, two Weather Underground members, FALN terrorists it's not all that surprising is it? Let's not also forget dropping charges against the Black Panthers at the Philadelphia polling station, KSM trial in NYC, and prosecuting CIA agents over Enhanced Interrogation Techniques.

But I digress. Back to Spencer.

This investigation is long overdue. The respect and access CAIR has enjoyed from government and law enforcement agencies, as well as the mainstream media, has long been out of sync with its steadfast opposition to virtually every anti-terror measure that has been devised since 9/11; its assistance in an attempt to sue airline passengers who reported on suspicious activity by Muslims in an airport; and its relentless demonization of everyone who speaks honestly about the jihad threat in the U.S.

Read the WHOLE THING.

VIDEO: A CLIMATEGATE CHRISTMAS

From the group that brought us the "Hide the Decline" video comes a medley of Christmas songs using the now infamous verbiage found in the many scandalous emails that came out of the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia.

From the MINNESOTANS FOR GLOBAL WARMING.



h/t to HAP

VIDEO: WACKOS IN COPENHAGEN SQUASH DISSENT

Once again, the left proves that when it comes to the tolerance they claim to espouse, it's simply a backward lie. Tim Phillips of Americans for Prosperity is shouted down in this video by whack jobs who Lord Christopher Monckton calls the "Hitler Youth" beginning at the 1:20 MARK.



h/t to GP

VIDEO: GENERAL BOYKIN NAILS PROBLEM AT FORT HOOD

This one sent in by Barrackaid #30. It really is a shame this guy is retired. Three Star General William Boykin in an interview with CBN lays it all out truthfully. Unfortunately, current Chief of Staff of the Army, George Casey is publicly saying exactly the opposite.

Yes, it's much easier for a retired General to say this. The difference between Boykin and Casey is that the former doesn't have Obama telling him what to say.

However, it speaks volumes that the man in charge is saying things that make our nation look weak while Boykin's words are ones this country would rally behind immediately after he said them if he held Casey's position while saying them.



h/t to Barrackaid #30