Can't Let 'Em Go

Two obsessions from which the Enemy Media just can't pry themselves loose: global warming and Bushophobia....

***ABC's GMA Touts Sci-Fi Future of Death, Doom and Fire

To promote a new climate change special airing this fall, Thursday's Good Morning America hyped terrifying future predictions of "more floods, more droughts, more wildfires" and, bizarrely, invited viewers to somehow morph into prophets and "report back" about what life is like in the year 2100. Featuring a slate of global warming alarmists, reporter Bob Woodruff previewed "Earth 2100" and touted the show as "a countdown through the next century" that "shows what scientists say might very well happen if we do not change our current path." An online version of this story hyperventilated, "Are we living in the last century of our civilization?" However, the oddest concept of this upcoming special includes a interactive online game that Woodruff claimed "puts participants in the future and asks them to report back about what it is like to live in this future world." At one point, Woodruff played a few examples of these "reports." In one, a teenager laments: "It's June 8th, 2015. One carton of milk is $12.99." Another video features a second teenager who admits he's "scared [profanity bleeped] right now."

Hey, come to think of it, I'm pretty "scared [profanity bleeped] right now", too.  I'm, as of yesterday, paying $4.35 for a gallon of gasoline.  The pump price tote board at my neighborhood filling station is vibrating.  I can't even look at it without getting motion sickness.  By Independence Day I may not be able to even drive by it without my economy car getting blown off the road like it was being angrily pursued by a giant electric fan.  And just forty-eight hours ago the Speaker of the House of Representatives said this:

"We cannot drill our way out of this...A barrel of oil now costs four times more than it did when President Bush took office," Pelosi said. "Two oil men in the White House, cost of oil four times higher. Price at the pump: $4 a gallon."

Is she lamenting that "George Bush's war" in Iraq apparently wasn't for oil after all?  Or celebrating the achievment by their environmentalist "no new sources!" extremism of what liberals have always wanted: skyrocketing energy prices that will level the economy and bring the long-Donk-besieged energy sector under direct federal control by public demand?

Give her her due, though; she is right that we can't drill our way out of exploding oil costs today.  But what about "2015"?  If we'd been drilling all along, mightn't the digits on that pump price tote board actually be perceivable?  Or, God help me, stable - and a lot lower?  When are we going to get serious about energy policy in this country?  Evidently not for a long, long time if the current political winds don't drastically shift.

Why doesn't ABC do a horror special on future life in America after the collapse of Social Security and Medicare whose free market reform Democrats refuse to even consider has plunged the U.S. into a second and permanent Great Depression?  Or the irradiated war zone it will be thanks to the Supreme Court decreeing that, in practical terms, we can't fight the terrorists militarily anymore?  At least those apocalyptic visions are real.

***Cafferty Scolds House Democrats for Not Pushing to Impeach Bush

Six months after he chastised Congress for not following George McGovern's advice to impeach President Bush, CNN's Jack Cafferty on Thursday scolded House Democrats for disposing of the latest impeachment effort by the far-left Dennis Kucinich (earlier NB post on Cafferty's blog entry). Fretting that "the House of Representatives voted to send an impeachment resolution against President Bush to a committee where it will die," Cafferty used his "Cafferty File" segment during the 4 PM EST hour of The Situation Room to lecture: "Congress continues to refuse to exercise its constitutional responsibility, which is oversight of the executive branch of our government. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi long ago said impeachment is off the table. This is a joke. We have a President who has abused the power of his office over and over and over again. It's what got the Democrats elected to the majority in Congress in 2006. The Democrats, no doubt, are worried what it will look like to many voters if they spend their time on impeachment. To hell with what's right or wrong."

I gotta admit, I do share Cafferty's surprise, if not his outrage.  I expected the double-impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney to be the first order of business of the 110th Congress after the Democrats took it over in 2006.  That's what insurrectionists like Cafferty had been demanding for six years, simply as revenge for the failure of Al Gore's Florida coup attempt (and the GOP's impeachment of Bill Clinton) before Iraq became the Left's cornucopia of perfidious sedition, diseased conspiracism, and malignant political agitation.  Now they had back the keys, and it was time to run Dubya and Big Time over.  And elected Dems always give the hard Left what it wants.

Except of one niggling little detail: they didn't have the numbers in the Senate to actually remove either boogeyman from office.  Neither did the GOP when they impeached Clinton, but that was a belated stand on the principle that the rule of law did, after all, apply to La Clinton Nostra, not an exercise in raw banana republicanism.  And with the southern moderate "blue dog" wing larger than the size of the narrow Donk majority in the House, the impeachers might not have been able to win a floor vote to get Bush and Cheney shipped next door for trial at all.

A year ago the "surge" was still stoppable by such treacherous means, at least theoretically.  What would be the point of a coup attempt now?  The Dems have lost on Iraq, Bush is a legless duck, and their messiah is about to make his rapturous return to smite the remains of his predecessor's presidency anyway.

The point to Jack Cafferty's fevered mind is that Congress, when it is controlled by his own party, has a constitutional responsibility to exercise the overthrow of the Executive Branch of our government when it is led by a member of the opposition party, especially when he has "abused his power" - defined as pursuing policies Jack Cafferty disagrees with - "over and over and over again".

Why can't he just be happy with skyrocketing energy prices and call it a day?

***You Read It Here First: FNC Picks Up Williams, Brokaw/Letterman

On Tuesday night, FNC's Brit Hume and Bill O'Reilly picked up statements reported Monday night on the MRC's NewsBusters blog and Tuesday morning in CyberAlert. O'Reilly set up his O'Reilly Factor "Top Story" segment by running two clips, starting with David Letterman trashing President Bush on Monday night: "Even I am perceiving now that things are horrible in ways they shouldn't be horrible. Now, we're not going to impeach the guy. Could we get our money back?" Then O'Reilly played this from NBC anchor Brian Williams' commencement address on Sunday at Ohio State, a quote the DrudgeReport had highlighted in linking to the NewsBusters posting on it: "I come here today with a request for the Class of '08: We need you to fix the country." Earlier in the evening Tuesday, June 10, Brit Hume read this item during his "Grapevine" segment: "Former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw chided Late Show host David Letterman, Monday, for his claims that the nation is in a horrible state because of President Bush...."

Hey, Dave?  Two things: You've just gotten your name stricken from Jack Cafferty's Winter Holiday card list; and if you think things are "horrible" now, just wait a few years after your Obamessiah has had a chance to work his "magic."

And Brian?  Be careful what you wish for; you just might get it.