"Global Warming" is truly a misnomer. It's should be called "Global Fleecing" because that's precisely what it is.

Global Warming is a trend no doubt, a simple natural cycle of nature. But Anthropogenic Global Warming (aka the Al Gore hypothesis) is discredited science at best, intentional fraud at worst, and is being soundly refuted. See:

U.S. Senate Report:
Over 400 Prominent Scientists Disputed Man-Made Global Warming Claims in 2007

Senate Report Debunks "Consensus"
Report Released on December 20, 2007
U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee

http://tinyurl.com/24ym5b

Intro:
"Over 400 prominent scientists from more than two dozen countries recently voiced significant objections to major aspects of the so-called "consensus" on man-made global warming. These scientists, many of whom are current and former participants in the UN IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), criticized the climate claims made by the UN IPCC and former Vice President Al Gore."

2007 was the watershed year in which scientists, even those from the IPCC committees, completely discredited the IPCC review process, exposed its purely political motivations and machinations, and drove the final nails into the coffin of the Gore / Hansen AGW climate change monster.

There are many other more immediate issues facing the world than "Global Warming." Try depletion of pelagic fisheries, water reclamation, ensuring adequate future food and energy supplies, or curtailing whale hunting. But these issues don't make headlines and don't allow politicians to mandate the massive global redistribution of wealth possible with AGW. Think about it. When was the last time a blockbuster movie was made about the collapse of the wild Slimehead (aka the Orange Roughy) fishery?

Climate change fearmongering is now being driven by BIG Business which forsees a huge market in peddling "Green" wares to populations preconditioned to respond to the various "global warming" and climate doomsday hysterias ( http://tinyurl.com/2zkzt8 ). Typically, these are the unscientific masses who don't understand the science, who don't subscribe to Nature or AAAS Science, and who take everything they read and hear on the TV as the gospel truth. GW and Climate Change are all about PROFITS, not saving the World from a fate which will not occur anyway.

As for motive: Not only does Al Gore have a ego the size of Air Force One which needs to stay in the limelight since it's not in the Oval Office, but Al and his cronies stand to profit immensely from his climate change monster. Once he has government mandates, then the cash will flow - directly into his bank account from yours. That's why he is now rolling out his PSAs in order to influence you to influence Congress, and why he has been made a partner in one of the largest venture capital firms in the nation out on Sand Hill working on - wait for it - carbon credit trading.

Folks, AGW is pure POLITICAL science, NOT hard science. Don't fall for the hysteria.

http://tinyurl.com/24ym5b

If Al Gore spends 300 million dollars convincing people, it will not change the science which is not there.

Posted by: Miata7 | April 1, 2008 08:20 PM

The science is not where you are looking, no. Care to look where the scientists are? http://www.realclimate.org/

I also remember "when the science wasn't there" and "the jury was still out" for 25 years on the surgeon general's report on smoking and cancer. And I remember when "the science wasn't there" on the link between aerosol cans and the depletion of the ozone layer. Funny how we don't hear too much about that "hoax" anymore on Fox News or Rush do we? And if someone some day finds out that Al Gore owns 300 million private jets, it will prove he is a hypocrite, but will not change the science of global warming.

Fortunately, even the candidate of the Republican Party has seen the incandescent light on this one, so the GW deniers will not long be able to prevent the civilized world from saving them, along with the rest of us.

USMC_mike: you know very well that's not why so many Republicans are retiring this year.

1) Has anyone had the heart to tell Al Gore that global warming stopped years ago? Temperatures have plateaued since then and last year they went down.

2) Has anyone told Al that for his correlation to be correct, temperature have to go up every year.

3) The key to the global warming models is the temperature of the oceans - a recent study indicated that the oceans have not changed in temperature, and last year the ocean temperatures went down as well.

I'm just telling people what the facts are.

If Al Gore spends 300 million dollars convincing people, it will not change the science which is not there.

1) Has anyone had the heart to tell Al Gore that global warming stopped years ago? Temperatures have plateaued since then and last year they went down.

2) Has anyone told Al that for his correlation to be correct, temperature have to go up every year.

3) The key to the global warming models is the temperature of the oceans - a recent study indicated that the oceans have not changed in temperature, and last year the ocean temperatures went down as well.

I'm just telling people what the facts are.

If Al Gore spends 300 million dollars convincing people, it will not change the science which is not there.

1) Has anyone had the heart to tell Al Gore that global warming stopped years ago? Temperatures have plateaued since then and last year they went down.

2) Has anyone told Al that for his correlation to be correct, temperature have to go up every year.

3) The key to the global warming models is the temperature of the oceans - a recent study indicated that the oceans have not changed in temperature, and last year the ocean temperatures went down as well.

I'm just telling people what the facts are.

If Al Gore spends 300 million dollars convincing people, it will not change the science which is not there.

Chris,

Only your being bored could lead to this silly column. No one is asking Gore to step in except a few bored columnists who are running out of interesting things to write,

Give Gore credit for being able to do what he wants and making it clear without you or anyone else trying to interpret it.

Let him work on the environment and give him credit for that. Why would either Clinton or Obama listen to him anyway?

Jimmy Carter wants to house the homeless, so what does he do? He goes out and builds them homes. Al Gore wants to save the environment, so what does he do? Raises $300 million to fund a bunch of commercials. I'm right behind you Al, sitting in my idling SUV.

I haven't seen a poll yet that anyone wants Al Gore back. The importance that the media and pudnits put on Al Gore and John Edwards just shows how out of touch they are. Gore reminds me of a fat toad.

After he won the popular vote for president, won an oscar, and won the nobel peace prize, was right about Iraq, and was right about global warming, why on earth would he want to enter this mess? He should continue his initiatives and privately gloat. He's so successful that even though he is out of politics, people still rip him on message boards like this. I guess it's hard for people to eat crow.

Its good to have someone take the lead to improve America. Its bad when the population votes ignorance. I really dont think that people care about anything anymore probably from drinking the water or eating the food grown here. Maybe when America is China they will wake up and be heard. I hope I am wrong. Go Al

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USMC_Mike is brainwashed... what a surprise. Coldest year in a decade? Really? Where? Ever wonder why someone would tell you the coldest year since 1998? Why not go ALL the way back since 1970, or even 1870? Well, sometimes lies are exposed by how they are posed. No scientist would contend Anything about global trends based on one decade. Think.

Gore is annoying. I swear he'd be a lot more palatable if he didn't always have that smug smirk on his face. I think he should stick to the inconvenient truths... he's had a lot more success there.

Big Government: How do they get away with borrowing trillions of dollars from China (is that including the interest?) and accusing anybody else of raising taxes? What would they suggest? Keep borrowing? Maybe cut out the military budget? Personally, I think the lack of an educated population plays right into the hands of the conservatives, because they need an ignorant lower class to protect their wealth and fight for their corporate interests (Iraq). Our public schools teach to a level of education which prepares people to take orders, holler "Yes, sir!", and quote Rush Limbaugh. (USMC_Mike, for example)

Clinton fixed the tax problem 8 years ago. There was a surplus. NOW, look! It's enough to really make one wish the next president would not raise taxes. Just cut the military budget. The problem is right here --> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/31/AR2008033102789.html?hpid=topnews

To zouk
Your old tired BS quote - "Newsflash - Liberals like to raise taxes. alert the media."

Here is a true newsflash - neo-cons like to borrow lots of money, spend it on one-time expendures, drive the entire country deeper into debt (and helping extend the credit crunch) and CLAIM that lowering taxes (for the rich) will magically fix the mess they got us in the first place.

Your guy Bush & the Republian congress has added THREE TRILLON dollars to the debt in SIX YEARS. So when ALL of our taxes go up just to pay for the debt service, thank him.

bias ~ [n] a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation.

Please memorize this, CC.

Thanks, Chris. For once, I am in entire agreement with you and you said it well.

Obama supporters will do anything to supress the truth about him.

Its not going to work.

Obama's guaranteed to lose the national electon.

It would be nuts for Democrats to nominate him, regardless of what the current vote totals are.

The more we find out about Obama, the more we find that his "accomplishments" aren't his at all, but that he was given credit for the work done by others to make him look far more impressive than he actually is.

Obama is like a "Potemkin Village"

He looks good on the surface, but there's nothing behind it.

He's spent his entire political career running for office, and strong-arming people into putting his name on bills he never even did any work on.

The WP says so themselves in their recent article.

The NYT says "big image, little results"

All this will come out before the general election.

As will the truth about how his negligence led to people who voted for him freezing in slums in his district that Rezko, and in the rest of Chicago, that Rezko got $100M to repair, but never touched.

He can't win the general election.

But he can cause Democrats to lose it.

Everyone interested in the Presidential election should read the article that there's a link to at the bottom of this message.

Its from a Chicago reporter who's known Obama since the beginning of his career and has followed Obama's career ever since then.

The take-home message is that Obama is a total fraud, a manufactured product of the chicago politicial machine.

It tells about him stealing credit for bills he never worked when he was in Chicago, just like he did in Washington.

It talks about "Obama's Slums" and fact that Barry didn't care one bit about the people who elected him.

Its about the fact that Chicago Barry Obama is the one of the most clever con-men in the world and the biggest fraud that's been put over on the American public since Bush.

Its filled with facts about Obama from someone who has known him for years.

The title's cute. Obama isn't. He's a fraud.

news.houstonpress.com/2008-02-28/news/barack-obama-screamed-at-me/

mark in austin: channel 11 in houston just ran a recording of robo calls being made to Houston Clinton delegates from an Obama telemarketing company, with misinformation about convention sites and complaints that Clinton delegates were being spit on at their convention sites. On sat you alleged undocumented misdeads by Clinton supporters, this story was sourced with a tape from a Houston Clinton delegate. Thought I should clarify where the mischief was actually coming from. Sounds like childish behavior.

Despite the seriousness of his message, Gore looks more relaxed doing what he is now than he ever did as a politician.

Although the "National Journal" named BHO its resident "most liberal", he is, as the ever perceptive Silicon Valley magnate notes, to the right of HRC by most standard analyses.

See

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/spectrum.xpd

Wherein we learn that only Senators Boxer and Durbin are to the left of HRC according to the voting history of current D Senators.

My fave Senator is Lugar, the man in the middle.

The multimillionaire who has lost a fortune by not compiling while posting to "The Fix"
shed some light on his own position on the left-right spectrum while gratuitously insulting bsimon, who is one of the posters here who does know squat about something.

Optimyst, I was distracted by your "Worst blogger". Do you think BHO took an improper deduction for a contribution to the "Black Caucus"?

i wonder how much the welfare check zouks gets costs taxpayers? he has bought a porsche with it you know, and a yacht and a supermodel with a 26-inch waist.

on the internet, no one knows you're a dog.

and hence another demonstration of the wisdom of the market.

Posted by: kingofzouk | March 31, 2008 06:22 PM

Indeed the Fix pays her exactly what she is worth.

Newsflash - Liberals like to raise taxes. alert the media.

When Sen. John McCain addressed the nation's burgeoning mortgage mess last week, he insisted it was time for a little "straight talk."

"I will not play election-year politics with the housing crisis," the GOP presidential hopeful insisted while unveiling his plan, which many have since described as friendlier to the mortgage industry than the Democrats' proposals.

What McCain did not say - which some believe smacks of politics - is that two of his top advisers were recently lobbyists for a notorious lender in the mortgage meltdown.
John Green, the senator's chief liaison to Congress, and Wayne Berman, his national finance co-chairman, billed more than $720,000 in lobbying fees from 2005 through last year to Ameriquest Mortgage through their lobbying firm, disclosure forms reviewed by the Daily News show.

Ameriquest was forced to settle suits with 49 states for $325 million. More than 13,680 New York homeowners got taken for a ride by the company, records show.

They would be defined as the most blatant and aggressive predatory lenders out of everybody," said Bruce Marks, head of the nonprofit Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America.

uh -oh. drindl is circling the hates sites again.

It makes her feel good to have a purpose, since the market won't provide.

and hence another demonstration of the wisdom of the market.

Wait even better liberal science. there was no carbon and the temperature went up anyway.

Either way, it proves whatever you need it to prove to get your money from the rich.

colder, warmer, wetter, drier - it all proves global warming, according to Lib science anyway.

As the New York Times points out, tax revenues saw an "average annual increase of 6.5 percent in the eight years of the Clinton administration" while "the annual per capita revenue from income taxes fell 1 percent under President Bush."

The Center for American Progress Action Fund's Robert Gordon and James Kvaal recently noted that McCain's tax cut proposals would "cost the federal government more than $2 trillion in tax revenue over 10 years."

more mccain flipflopping:

In 2000, while he was first running for president, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) broke from conservative orthodoxy and argued against "giving tax cuts for the rich." Explaining his change of heart, McCain told The New Republic's Jonathan Chait that he "didn't pay nearly the attention to those issues in the past" that he should have and that he was only "a supply-sider" because he didn't understand the issue:

"In the interest of full disclosure, I didn't pay nearly the attention to those issues in the past," he recalls. "I was probably a `supply-sider' based on the fact that I really didn't jump into the issue."

But now that McCain has clinched the Republican nomination, he's helping supply-side economics make "a political comeback." Last week, the New York Times reported that as McCain pushes for the Bush tax cuts to be made permanent, "his camp increasingly cites as justification the supply-side effect on upper-income families."

Like his previous support for supply-side economics, McCain's re-embrace appears to also be more faith-based than fact-based:

"What really happens is that the economy grows more vigorously when you lower tax rates," said Kevin Hassett, an adviser to the presumptive Republican nominee, John McCain, and the director for economic policy studies at the conservative American Enterprise Institute. "It is beyond the reach of economic science to explain precisely why that happens, but it does."

it must be magic... or maybe, voodoo economics, as Bush I called it.

Making fun of liberal "scientists" is just too easy to really be any fun.

Posted by: kingofzouk | March 31, 2008 06:15 PM

But if you really want a one sided exercise in absurdity and futility - talk to Libs about the military.

Just don't mention economics. That is truly dangerous and can cost millions.

wmw4 | March 31, 2008 05:59 PM

Are those the temperatures recorded from parking lots, air conditioner ducts and saunas, contrary to the stated procedure of the organization?

Of course in the early 20th century, there were no air conditioner ducts, no parking lots and come to thihnk of it - lots of carbon. now I wonder why the temperature didn't go way up, considering all that carbon?

Wait I know, I know, maybe, just maybe, there is no cause and effect from carbon(which is not a polutant), to warming.

could it be something else? Maybe the sun. Imagine that, the sun warming the planet.

the government ought to do something.

Making fun of liberal "scientists" is just too easy to really be any fun.

I got rhythm,
Algorithm,
Who could ask for anything more?

bsimon --

I'm to the left of Obama.

You have even less of a clue about my politics than you do about Barry's.

Most of his positions are to the Right of Hillary's.

I've yet to meet an Obama supporter that knows squat about policy.

Dear USMC_Mike:
Before you go around calling others idiots, it might be a good idea to get your facts straight and not embarrass yourself. From the National Climate Data Center report on the climate 2007: "For 2007, the global land and ocean surface temperature was the fifth warmest on record. Separately, the global land surface temperature was warmest on record..." See for yourself at http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/2007/ann/ann07.html.
It is true that 07-08 winter has been the coolest of the decade (both nationally and globally), but it was still warmer than the 20th century average!

Sorry bsimon!
I meant, you are right- ah heck, I should not trust my brain anymore today. My apologies.

just what we need -- another totally clueless repulican who has no clue what's going on in the ME:

"MERIDIAN, Miss. - As he launched a tour here designed to highlight his family's long tradition of military service, Senator John McCain said Monday that he was surprised by the latest turn of events in America's current war in Iraq.

Mr. McCain said he had not expected Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki to try to oust Shiite militias from Basra without consulting the Americans, and that he was troubled by some of the demands that were made by the Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr as part of his offer of a ceasefire after the militias held off the American-supported assault. "

here's a clue, John -- the iraqi government listens to Iran, not the US.

Usmc Mike - The Repubicans are bailing out because they dont like the idea of being in the minority and they want to be out before the flood of Republicans becomes so large that it puts a lid on how much they can charge for thier experience and contacts. Simply its just not fun any more and besides, its time to pull in the big bucks.

"Juan Cole analyzes the latest cease-fire in the multi-front Iraqi civil war:

The entire episode underlines how powerful Iran has become in Iraq. The Iranian government had called on Saturday for the fighting to stop. And by Sunday evening it had negotiated at least a similar call from Sadr (whether the fighting actually stops remains to be seen and depends on local commanders and on whether al-Maliki meets Sadr's conditions).

Cole also notes in his headline that Bush has been reduced to sheer irrelevancy: al-Sadr and Iran clearly are in control of the situation.

Think about that. Four thousand plus American lives have been sacrificed, countless Iraqis have also died, at a financial cost in the multiple trillions and the upshot is not democracy but the spread of radical Shiite islamism. There aren't words in the English language ominous enough to describe how profound a catastrophe this is.

Note to United States: Bush/Iraq is why you should never, ever, elect a president with a C+ average.

Note to United States II: Bush/Iraq is also why you should never, ever elect a president who has "senior moments" and scrambles the differences between Shiite and Sunni."

"Yes, slip of the submit (in other words, my fault)- you are right drindl and svreader."

Ahem.

Another slip of the submit, sir? :)

Maybe Gore is genuinely happy to be out of politics? and why should he be pressured to intervene in the primary when everyone knows he hates Hillary?

http://www.political-buzz.com/

Yes, slip of the submit (in other words, my fault)- you are right drindl and svreader.

By Marc Kaufman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, January 10, 2007; Page A01

Last year was the warmest in the continental United States in the past 112 years -- capping a nine-year warming streak "unprecedented in the historical record" that was driven in part by the burning of fossil fuels, the government reported yesterday.

According to the government's National Climatic Data Center, the record-breaking warmth -- which caused daffodils and cherry trees to bloom throughout the East on New Year's Day -- was the result of both unusual regional weather patterns and the long-term effects of the buildup of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Correction, Tim Berners-Lee is the founder of the www or world wide web, not the Internet.

The invention of the Internet is is often attributed to Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn. Sorry for that.

"A combination of global warming and the El Niño weather system made 2007 the warmest year on record with far-reaching consequences for the planet."

david --

Nope. Tim created the first "web browser"

Why don't you use one to check your facts next time?

Gore is a wise man. He was disdained by the liberal wing of the Party in 2000 and vilified by the pundits and others for giving up the fight against Bush. No doubt, he must sympathize with Clinton as she is going through her own ordeal. The bizarre rehabilitation of Gore (evidenced by the same malcontents now singing his praises) is stranger than fiction. Surely, he would rather undergo brain surgery than run for president again. Sadly, the handwriting is on the wall: Democrats eat their own ... and then spit them out again. No doubt, if Obama loses, he will be next. What a sad commentary on the workings of the Democratic Party, held hostage to the whims of a fickle press and an obdurate and unforgiving voter.

they should have paid someone else to take those exams - Like Teddy Kennedy. at least, to his credit, he knows he's dumb.

quite a feat, considering how much smarter all liberals are.

Posted by: kingofzouk | March 31, 2008 05:32 PM

except poor al gore of course, the D student. almost as poor a student as John Kerry. Imagine getting worse grades than George Bush.

"Tim Berners-Lee is credited with inventing the Internet."

My inner geek is telling me that Berners-Lee invented the world wide web, not the internet. That laypeople often confuse the two is possibly the source of the above misstatement.

1. either Repubs are very good at fooling people or

quite a feat, considering how much smarter all liberals are.

"Republicans turned all of that "upside down" and created the myth that Gore had taken credit for something he didn't do, and said something he never said"

Just like thay did with hillary and the bosnia hostage release, I suppose.

1. either Repubs are very good at fooling people or
2. Liberals are very bad at truth telling

Either way, it is clear you Libs are always running at a disadvantage, what with all that ignorance and all.

now, do you want to continue thrashing each other, much to my delight, or shall you simply concede now, much as you'd prefer to do in Iraq?

Al Gore seems like a good man, but he is not a presidential politician.

For the record, Tim Berners-Lee is credited with inventing the Internet. And yes, indeed Gore never really claimed that anyway...

And the running-mate! How could I leave out the running-mate? That selection was another colossal indicator of just how tone-deaf the Gore campaign was. What was he thinking?

"One of the key reasons Gore didn't win by a landslide what that the press got played like a violin by the Republicans."

Ah, yes, the excuse of first-resort for the thinking analyst. Blame the press. Ignore the completely tone-deaf campaign. Ignore the pandering to the polls. Ignore the trying to be something he wasn't. Instead, rewrite history, and blame the press. Must've been something of a vast, rightwing conspiracy.

I'm not sure who's more deluded: People who think that Al Gore will be the presidential nominee, or people who think he will be the VP nominee. The idea of ignoring all the Democratic primary voters by picking someone who wasn't on the ballot is pretty ludicrous. But so is the idea that Gore would have any interest in being VP again. It's a tough call.

Chris,

One of the key reasons Gore didn't win by a landslide what that the press got played like a violin by the Republicans.

Al Gore was the driving figure in congress in changing the "no private commerce" ARPANET into the "open to everyone, and pretty much anything" Internet we use today.

Republicans turned all of that "upside down" and created the myth that Gore had taken credit for something he didn't do, and said something he never said.

America missed out on someone who would have been a great President.

They're doing the same kinds of thing now with Hillary Clinton, and we're in danger of missing out on the most qualified candidate again.

Hillary Clinton's the best person for the job.

She knows how to fix what's broken.

Obama just knows how to gladhand.

Just like Bush.

"I often get asked the question, 'Is there anything I would have done differently?' And yes there is. If I had it to do over again, I would have kissed Tipper much longer at the convention. But she was struggling." --on the 2000 presidential race

"I'm sure this is funny. But at the end of this I want to have some bread crumbs leading back to my dignity." --vetoing a sketch about flatulence during a read-through for his appearance on "Saturday Night Live"

and now environmental science.

Posted by: bondjedi | March 31, 2008 04:24 PM

I would not call what AL gore does environmental science exactly. No where in the long history of science do the activities of bullying, advertising, spending money, lobbying, giving speeches, advocating policies and spending initiatives, sweeping up money in carbon offsets, etc, constitute science. this is what is commonly referred to as issue advocation or more simply politics. his history of exxagerrations doesn't help.

On a side note, stating how many scientists agree with you is also not science. Scientists actually pride themselves on going against the grain. a recent book outlines the actual scorecard of global warming zealots vs skeptics and the more qualified by far, fall into the skeptics category, across the board. the models that are used are simply replete with inconsistentcies. without an underlying philosophy, it is hard to advance the cause, science lives by disproving existing theories, they are not able to positively prove anything.

At this point, the debate is far from settled and is not ready for policy choices. that is not to say that progress should not continue and that voluntary measures are always good.

Al Gore to Leslie Stahl:

"All I have to do is be the best Al I can be, because I'm good enough, I'm smart enough and, doggone it, people like me"

Former Gore aides now believe he could emerge as a compromise candidate acceptable to both camps at the party's convention in Denver during the last week of August.The opening has emerged because opinion polls show Mr McCain stretching his lead over both Mr Obama and Mrs Clinton, whose campaigns are engaged in a daily cycle of attacks, character assassination and mutual recriminations on religion, race and the economy.

Is Al Gore an acceptable compromise to your choice for the Democratic nomination?

www.youpolls.com/details.asp?pid=2002

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I believe that Al Gore has indeed finished with elected politics and has moved up to a new level of pomposity. I thought it would be hard to think he could get a bigger head than the one he had in 2000 but, alas, I was wrong. A purely political Nobel and a purely political Academy Award can do that to a person. It will be interesting to see how bi-partisan this will be, given his demagogue approach on the issue over the last several years. I understand the argument that he is above the partisan bickering of politics, but given the "we" approach, wouldn't one think that his support would materialize behind Obama?

It seems to me that for years now the American public has not had the attitude change that is supposedly necessary to "fix" global warming, whatever that means. Perhaps one of the biggest advertising campaigns in the history of man will facilitate it. But nothing like that was necessary for the civil rights movement, Normandy or going to the moon. We did not wait for those things and we certainly did not wait until the ad campaigns came about to decide to act.

"Zouk is funny. You're not."

Looks aren't everything.

"Deciding not to run because you can't win doesn't mean you have honor."

See your GOP retiree post above, genius. Why do you think they're retiring?

Where is the passionate but misguided leichtman? Sparring with Tweedletard Mike and Tweedletarder GOP is getting tedious.

Note to Howard Wolfson: word is getting around that Clinton's campaign does not promptly pay those who labor to make her events look good, said an employee of the event production company Forty Two of Youngstown, Ohio.

"I feel insulted by the way that the campaign treated this company and treated us personally," said the employee.

the Clinton campaign has yet to pay Forty Two for two other February events, and the employee said the campaign has stopped returning phone calls, e-mails and didn't respond to a certified letter.

Politico also reports:

Among the debts reported this month by Hillary Clinton's struggling presidential campaign, the $292,000 in unpaid health insurance premiums for her campaign staff stands out.

Al Franken was reported to have the same problem a few weeks back. No wonder Democrats want the government to cover health care. They don't want to do it themselves. Or could it be they're just hypocrites? No way!

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0308/9259.html

"In April 2006, Dayton was selected by Time as one of "America's Five Worst Senators." The magazine dubbed him "The Blunderer" for "erratic behavior" such as his closure of his office in 2004"

"Dayton is the defendant in a 2003 wrongful termination lawsuit -- officially entitled Office of Senator Mark Dayton v. Brad Hanson -- that was appealed to the United States Supreme Court. Oral arguments were heard on April 24, 2007"

Deciding not to run because you can't win doesn't mean you have honor.

ProudtoHaveaWideStance:

Good use of the Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V for your last post. Sadly, even cut-and-pasting other people's materials you are unfunny.

Keep trying, though.

"For nearly seven years, the nation has turned its terror focus on Al Qaeda and the hunt for Usama bin Laden. But there is a domestic terror threat that federal officials still consider priority No. 1 -- eco-terrorism."

Dear Al Gore,

I hope you can sleep well at night with your private jets and your heated pools.

Please know that the brainwashed idiots who buy in to your hoax are committing acts of terrorism on your behalf.

Please come back to politics.

Sincerely,

America

"Show me a D Mark Sanford."

Former Senator Mark Dayton of MN decided one term was enough.

What the pundustry is saying:

of Gore's ad choices, Ed Morrissey says, "What other strange bedfellows can Gore pair for his campaign? Jeremiah Wright and David Duke? Eliot Spitzer and Ashley Dupre?"

PoliGazette's Michael van der Galien imagines Gore's stump speech: "'I invented the Internet and I won the Nobel Peace Prize (which I also may have invented); elect me president!'"

Clearly the Democrats are panicking, as Morrissey says, "Desperation leads the unwise to folly, and this is perhaps the best example yet seen." Jules Crittenden adds, "I think my favorite part ... aside from the whole thing, that is ... is the idea that replacing the Hero of Tuzla and the change-hoping bigot buddy with an exaggerating doomsayer somehow gets this train back on the rails."

Sean Connery,

I'm flattered you are keeping track of my posts today.

I'm quite sure I am adding meaning to your otherwise dull life.

Who's up for an after-school snack?!

"Maybe that's why R's are retiring. They're not addicted to power and don't define their lives by their elected office."

Zouk is funny. You're not.

They're retiring because the alternative is getting the snot knocked out of them in November.

You are right, though, in that it would define their lives were they to run again, much as your life is defined: "loser."

"2007: Coldest year in a decade. I sure hope we're not headed for an ice age."

The moron hat trick today for SCUM_Mike: professed ignorance on the Constitution, military affairs, and now environmental science.

"Losing a couple of elections, having a brush with cancer and enduring the loss of people you love dearly....it changes you"

Dear God. A perfect example of liberalism at its finest. Such a fixation on power, self, and government.

Losing an election is like getting cancer?

Losing an election is like losing your mother?

Losing an election changes your perspective on LIFE?

Ha Ha Ha... wow.

Maybe that's why R's are retiring. They're not addicted to power and don't define their lives by their elected office.

Show me a D Mark Sanford.

I would call Gore's loss a death experience...

And people thinking that in some wild cosmic fourth-dimension universe Gore is going to top the Democratic ticket are completely insane. So much for 30 million votes, eh? Foolish talk.

And Chris, it's fitting that your blog is "The Fix" when you've got a fix of your own that needs filling.

And the global warming hoax continues...

2007: Coldest year in a decade. I sure hope we're not headed for an ice age.

This Gore for Prez talk may be all that is needed for Hill to face reality and get the heck out. There's no way she's going to let a Gore push happen at the convention, especially since it's payback time for Bubba sitting on the sidelines during Bush-Gore 2000.

Of course, the ding-dong Clinton camp may just cry and moan and continue on as a 3rd party, clinging to the spoiled brat strategy by saying that Gore didn't win the FL and MI delegates, he didn't have to go through the caucuses, he didn't make peace in Ireland, and all of the other ridiculous CAW CAW CAW crow attacks favored by Clinton and her supporters.

In the .0001% probability that Obama does not get the nomination, we would be much better off with a Gore-Obama ticket than a Clinton-Obama ticket.

Could not agree more, Chris. Gore reminds me of someone who had a near death experience. People who survive such traumas often change the way they view the world, and decide that the things that were so terribly important before are no longer part of the equation. On a micro scale, I had a similar experience. Losing a couple of elections, having a brush with cancer and enduring the loss of people you love dearly....it changes you. Maybe that's where Al is. At any rate, why would he want to sully himself with all this nonsense? One lifetime of politics is enough.

Obama/Gore in 2008!

I know this is very unlikely and a bit crazy, but...

1. Gore would be welcomed by Democrats.
2. He's been fully vetted and would be
ready "in a heartbeat" to be President.
3. He would add "gravitas" to the ticket
4. He could accomplish more on Global Warming as Vice-President than as a private citizen.
5. After 2 terms with Obama, he could run for President!

Obama/Gore in 2008!!!!!!!!!!!!

"Gore has clearly moved on. But can the Fix?"

One day, the Fix, too, will move on.

But his time has not yet come.

gore - still a snore.

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