This Allen West guy is my kind of man:

There are three words I hate to hear used. I hate big-tent. I hate inclusiveness. And I hate outreach. I think you stand on the principles that make you great, which transcend everybody in America, and people will come to it.

Lt Col Allen West (ret), congressional candidate for Florida:

And I guess this president believes that job creation is giving 22 staffers to his wife.

From Obama’s Nobel Prize speech:

I do not bring with me today a definitive solution to the problems of war.

I know what you’re thinking: “Oh no! What do we do now!?”

But don’t you understand? Obama has seen in his infinite wisdom that humanity has to struggle on in ignorance a little longer until we are ready to receive the gift of Ultimate Peace from his hands. We’ll just have to be patient and continue to learn from him. The right moment has not yet come.

Maybe it will be during his second term. Cue the bumper stickers: ‘Obama 2012 – From the man The One who brought you the receding of the sea levels, now the ultimate solution to the problems of war!’

Bret Stephens notes a number of similarities between Stalinists and Global Warmists:

• Revolutionary fervor: There’s a distinct tendency among climate alarmists toward uncompromising radicalism, a hatred of “bourgeois” values, a disgust with democratic practices. So President Obama wants to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 83% from current levels by 2050, levels not seen since the 1870s—in effect, the Industrial Revolution in reverse. Rajendra Pachauri, head of the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, insists that “our lifestyles are unsustainable.” Al Gore gets crowds going by insisting that “civil disobedience has a role to play” in strong-arming governments to do his bidding. (This from the man who once sought to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution.)

• Utopianism: In the world as it is, climate alarmists see humanity hurtling toward certain doom. In the world as it might be, humanity has seen the light and changed its patterns of behavior, becoming the green equivalent of the Soviet “new man.” At his disposal are technologies that defy the laws of thermodynamics. The problems now attributed to global warming abate or disappear.

• Anti-humanism: In his 2007 best seller “The World Without Us,” environmentalist Alan Weisman considers what the planet would be like without mankind, and finds it’s no bad thing. The U.N. Population Fund complains in a recent report that “no human is genuinely ‘carbon neutral’”—its latest argument against children. John Holdren, President Obama’s science adviser, cut his teeth in the policy world as an overpopulation obsessive worried about global cooling. But whether warming or cooling, the problem for the climate alarmists, as for other totalitarians, always seems to boil down to the human race itself.

The list goes on here.

And don’t miss Messrs Krauthammer and Goldberg on the same subject.

This is what a press conference looks like in our Green New World (with Video):

McAleer, a veteran journalist and film maker, has recently made a documentary “Not Evil Just Wrong’ which takes a sceptical look at the science and politics behind Global Warming concerns.

He asked Professor Schneider about his opinions on Climategate – where leaked emails have revealed that a senior British professor deleted data and encouraged colleagues to do likewise if it contradicted their belief in Global Warming.

Professor Phil Jones, the head of Britain’s Climate Research Unit, has temporarily stood down pending an investigation into the scandal.

Professor Schneider, who is a senior member of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said he would not comment on emails that may have been incomplete or edited.

During some testy exchanges with McAleer, UN officials and Professor Schneider’s assistants twice tried to cut short McAleer’s question.

However as the press conference drew to a close Professor Schneider’s assistant called armed UN security guards to the room. They held McAleer and aggressively ordered cameraman Ian Foster to stop filming. The guard threatened to take away the camera and expel the film crew from the conference if they did not obey his instructions to stop filming Professor Schneider.

The guard demanded to look at the film crews press credentials and refused to allow them to film until Professor Schneider left the room.

Take that, McAleer, and all you other Deniers! You are lucky you got away like this. Next time we’ll have to send you to a reeducation camp where you will learn the atrociousness of your blasphemy through growing organic cabbage for polar bears and filling Al Gore’s private stock of incandescent light bulbs, all with your bare hands as your only tools! And if that doesn’t help the Planetary Agency for Environmental Salvation might well decide that your carbon output is too high in real values (meaning compared to your societal worth) and dispose of you in an environmentally sound way.

H/T Ian Murray

Even a strong believer in Keynesian economics couldn’t be in favour of a second “stimulus” in light of how the money of the first “stimulus” is being spent:

Politico reports “$4.7 million for Lockheed Martin to study supersonic corporate jet travel,” more than “$210,000 for the National Institutes of Health to study the sex lives of college students,” and “roughly $233,000 for California college students to conduct exit polls in Africa about voting patterns.”

CBS Evening News adds “$221,000 for a study on why young men don’t like condoms, $5 million to provide geothermal heat for a Tennessee mall that’s all but empty, and $950,000 for studying ant behavior at two Arizona universities.”

The Hill notes that “at the top of the GOP list of wasteful projects is a $5 million grant from the Department of Energy to create a geothermal energy system for the Oak Ridge City Center shopping mall in Oak Ridge, Tenn. The main problem with the project, say Republicans, is the mall has been losing tenants for years and is mostly empty.” The senators “also noted that researchers at Penn State University received $1.57 million to search for fossils in Argentina and that a liberal-leaning theater in Minnesota, In the Heart of the Beast, named after a famous quote by leftist leader Che Guevara, received $100,000 for socially conscious puppet shows.” 

The Hill also reports that “nearly $6 million in stimulus money was paid to two firms run by Mark Penn, who was Hillary Rodham Clinton’s pollster in the 2008 presidential election.” Federal records “show that $5.97 million from the $787 billion stimulus helped preserve three jobs at Burson-Marsteller, the global public-relations and communications firm headed by Penn.” Burson-Marsteller “won the contract to work on a public-relations campaign to advertise the national switch from analog to digital television.”

We could live in a world of Keynesian laws and yet the so-called Recovery Act would still be more of a waste than  sending taxpayer money into outer space because NASA jobs would probably come at a cheaper rate than Monsieur Penn’s three preserved jobs for $6 million. Of course, the big drawback would be that we might never learn why young men don’t like condoms. But Obama warned us that sacrifices would have to be made, right?

Obama’s approval ratings won’t get any better if he will seriously try to pass a second “stimulus”, let alone if he succeeds passing one. Most Americans don’t like the first “stimulus” and nobody will be so blind as not to see that his new economic proposals are nothing but a smaller copy of the epically successful “Recovery and Reinvestment Act”. It makes me think of a line from a song of the (very European) band Vaya Con Dios that went “They say you learn from your mistakes. It’s a lie.”

When talk of a second so-called stimulus came up shortly after the first had been passed, the French Cowboy didn’t think anybody can take the idea seriously (apart maybe Paul Krugman). Even then it was clear that the public had no appetite whatsoever for another pricey “New Deal” type of experiment. But now Obama is asking for just that. And this is less than a week after the Commander-in-Chief basically said that he’ll cancel the entire Afghanistan war thing if it gets too expensive in weighted dollar terms. (“Weighted” because in the Obama universe a dollar spent on a war just costs so much more than a dollar spent on wheatherising a public dog park.)

It appears that spending future generations’ money on massive expansions of government is the one thing Obama is hellbent to do even if polls suggest that it will destroy him politically. Does this mean that destroying the US economy and putting the nation on a political path that must make the Founding Fathers turn over in their graves is something Obama finds more important than himself? It’s either that or he’s living in a bubble that is more of an illusion than the one of the housing market was.

Charles Krauthammer on the EPA’s decision to treat CO2 as a pollutant:

It really is what Vaclav Klaus, the president of the Czech Republic, said: Environmentalism is the new socialism. It is a way for the feds — for the best and brightest in the federal government — to regulate all aspects of life. It used to be in the name of socialism, which was social equality. Now it’s in the name of the planet.

When will Obama argue that his health care plan is going to win the war in Afghanistan, too?

“What has happened is a lot of the debate in Washington has been around health care, so people think, well, I guess they must not be working on jobs,” Obama said Friday in Allentown, Pennsylvania. “No, we’ve been working on jobs the whole time. Health care is part and parcel with where we need to take our economy.”

Obama argued that insurance premiums are taking a greater and greater toll on small businesses, so therefore, “Us being able to control health care costs and giving small businesses the opportunity to pool with other small businesses and individuals around the country so that they have the same kind of leverage with insurance companies that the big guys have — that’s an economic plan. That’s part of our jobs growth.”

If that is so then the economy would do better if Obama spent more time golfing instead of working on his ‘jobs plan’.

Sometimes life is unfair:

ABC announced today that it too will carry [President Obama's] speech. Originally scheduled programs, including “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” will now air next Tuesday at 8pmET.

My immediate thought upon reading this was: “So instead of broadcasting ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ they will air ‘A Charlie Brown Presidency’, but I was instantly ashamed of this notion because Charlie Brown really is a decent and likable character.

H/T Mary Katharine Ham