Conservative Common Man

Run for the water! It is a scorching 53 degrees in southern Illinois and The Bulbous Goreacle’s prophecy of doom is becoming reality. Not even following Sheryl Crow’s one-square per sitting rule can save us now from the impending inferno!

Excuse me a moment, I need to go put on a sweatshirt.

Okay, now that I’ve warmed up, we need to figure out if we have any hope at all. What can be done to save the planet from boiling and who is going to take action? What we need is more than action… we need an ideology… we need communism. Fortunately there is no shortage of communists in the U.S. and they are more than willing to further the sham, I mean impending terror of anthropogenic global warming to impose their ideology on an unsuspecting populace.

The Washington Post’s Juliet Eilperin wrote a glowing tribute to Communist Seattle, Massachusetts, and California titled “Block by Block Communities Fight Global Warming.”

Officials in King County and other places are rethinking the way their communities grow and operate, all with an eye toward reducing their overall carbon footprint. After decades of policies that encouraged people to move out to the suburbs in pursuit of larger homes and bigger back yards, some policymakers are now pushing aggressively to increase urban density and discourage the use of private cars.

In Massachusetts, the state demands that developers calculate and disclose the climate impact of their projects. In California, Attorney General Edmund G. “Jerry” Brown Jr. has sued communities and power companies for failing to offset the greenhouse gases generated by their expansion plans. And Washington, D.C., officials are installing a new trolley line and bike rental kiosks in an effort to cut back on car trips within the city.

Juliet even writes about a real issue without even realizing it. The issue would be the cost of gasoline and who is really responsible for its rise:

But not without occasional resistance. Brown has sued entities as varied as San Bernardino County and petroleum giant ConocoPhillips to hold them accountable for the impact of their growth on the state’s greenhouse-gas releases. He reached settlements with both last year: San Bernardino officials agreed to estimate the county’s 1990 and current emissions levels, analyze how its land-use decisions will affect its emissions by 2020, and to develop a plan to cut emissions stemming from its land-use policies and government operations. ConocoPhillips agreed to pay the state $10 million to offset the climate impact of expanding its oil refinery in Rodeo, Calif.

Pop quiz that anyone whose brain has not been melted by the scalding 53 degree May 3rd temperatures could answer. From where does the money for $10 million dollar penalties come? Perhaps the people that buy gas share in funding the penalty! It is unfortunate that there isn’t a poll tax to fund all these communist politician mandated stupid and wasteful plans. This particular tax, of course would only be levied on the people that actually cast votes for those candidates with Marxist leanings.

This election year, we are fortunate (cough, cough) enough to have two candidates with openly, just not admittedly, Marxist leanings and a third candidate who isn’t much better. There shouldn’t be confusion as to the qualifications of the three candidates since there is a clear winner on this issue. From J. Taylor Rushing at The Hill:

An environmental activist group on Saturday cited the “sham” of a national gas tax holiday proposal in its endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) for president.

Friends Of The Earth Action (FOEA) said the holiday idea proposed by fellow presidential contenders Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) was the key reason for its endorsement of Obama.

Showing the type of logic that permeates these groups, its president Brent Blackwelder made the following statement.

“The two other candidates responded with sham solutions that won’t ease pain at the pump, but Senator Obama refused to play that typical Washington game,” Blackwelder said. “Instead, Obama called for real solutions that would make transportation more affordable and curb global warming. He showed the courage and candor we expect from a president.”

I’m apparently no Friend Of the Earth because I am having trouble seeing how paying more for something makes it more affordable. Of course I never claimed to have the intelligence of an Obama supporter.

The bottom line is that Hope-a-dope Obama out-Marxed Hillary on this one. Is this because he is so out of touch with the common man that he believes we are so stupid that we can’t see the benefit of keeping more of our own money as opposed to sending it to the Federal Department of Waste (otherwise known as the federal government?) The alternative is that he is too stupid to realize that the notion of paying less for gasoline might appeal to regular people.

I wonder if Karl Marx is looking up from his ultra-warm dwelling and watching with pride as his American disciples spread his message through stealth and in the face of the dreaded obstacle, sometimes known as common sense.

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