What Do Nancy Pelosi And Charlie Gibson Have In Common?

Both are completely oblivious to the news.

Charlie Gibson here and Nancy Pelosi here.

More evidence that ignorance is a prerequisite to liberalism.

Will Nancy Pelosi Make Walt Minnick A One Term Congressman?

Idahoans can't vote Nancy Pelosi out of the Congress. But they help to vote her out of the Speaker's job.

Mr. Minnick continued: “We need to be giving consumers the incentives and knowledge to make wise personal health-care decisions. And finally, it makes no sense at all for the government to be running a health-care company.”

The irony is that a majority of politicians agree on this path, but are hostage to Mrs. Pelosi and her ruling liberal minority. And Mr. Minnick’s problem is that his fate is lashed to that leadership.

He can disavow this bill until the Idaho elk come home, but his voters see the big picture. They might applaud his votes, consider him a great representative. Then again, they might look at Mrs. Pelosi’s ambitions, and decide a vote for Mr. Minnick isn’t worth the risk of keeping her in power.

Who's Dumber? Nancy Pelosi Or Barbara Boxer

Nancy Pelosi's entry:



Barbara Boxer's entry:



Well, they're both from San Francisco

Nancy Pelosi Is A Heavy Handed Despot

Along with being a hypocrite and a liar.

In their zeal to protect their members from politically hazardous votes on issues such as gay marriage and gun control, Democrats running the House of Representatives are taking extraordinary steps to muzzle Republicans in this summer's debates on spending bills.

On Thursday, for example, Republicans had hoped to force debates on abortion, school vouchers and medical marijuana, as well as gay marriage and gun control, as part of House consideration of the federal government's contribution to the District of Columbia's city budget.

This isn't quite what Nancy Pelosi promised would happen in 2006.

"The American people called for greater civility in how Congress conducts its work, and Democrats pledge to conduct our work with civility and bipartisanship, and to act in partnership - not partisanship - with the president and Republicans in Congress."

If that was what Americans voted for, then Pelosi certainly isn't giving it to them.

Saving Nancy Pelosi

It's now quite clear that the kerfuffle regarding the CIA's keeping an Al Qaida assassination program secret from Congress was manufactured to give Nancy Pelosi cover.

Two U.S. officials with detailed knowledge of current CIA operations said the agency presented Panetta last month with new plans for moving forward with training for potential members of the assassination teams -- activities that would have involved "crossing international boundaries," in the words of a former counterterrorism official briefed on the matter.

"When a CIA unit brought the program to Panetta's attention, it came with a recommendation to brief Congress since there was some thought being given to moving toward a somewhat more operational phase -- that is, a little training," said an intelligence official with direct knowledge of the events.

In other words, it was just something that was being considered and had never been operational, or particularly close to operational. When the CIA started thinking more seriously about it, they decided that it was time to tell Congress. And Panetta exploited that to affect outrage and bolster Pelosi's irresponsible claim that the CIA illegally withholds information from Congress all the time.

Democrats Still Trying To Cover Pelosi's Butt

Well, Leon Panetta had a choice to make - his party or his country. He's made his choice.

Laughing At The Hypocrites and Mediocrities Who Rule Us

I inaugurate each new year with a column recognizing the most idiotic utterances from the politicians and media types who have anointed themselves our superiors. In truth I could write a Kozmo Awards column every week with all the barnyard effluvia that typically finds its way into the news. It requires a great deal of discipline to limit myself to just two such columns per year as we wave goodbye to the old year and greet the new. The year just past easily presented me with the juiciest selection of targets of opportunity in the 18 years that I've been doing this. Obama worship and environmental alarmism reached levels that deserve their own chapters in abnormal psychology texts.

Unfortunately, this psychopathology has so gained the upper hand in our popular culture that I've begun to feel like the man in the fable about the village whose grain bins were tainted with ergot, a natural source of the hallucinogen LSD. He was selected to receive the village's single portion of clean grain so that somebody would remember that everyone else was crazy.

And so in awarding the 2008 Kozmos, I hope to remind you of what is sane and what is not.
Nancy Pelosi is the Speaker of the House of Representatives. As such, she was easily the most powerful Democrat in the country last year. Wouldn't you find it comforting to learn that she grasped the essentials of the critical issues facing the nation? I'm sorry to disappoint you. On NBC's Meet the Press last August, Speaker Pelosi explained her opposition to oil drilling: "I believe in natural gas as a clean, cheap alternative to fossil fuels," she explained. Later in the interview she extolled natural gas as, "cheap, abundant and clean compared to fossil fuels."

Notice to Pelosi acolytes: Natural gas is every bit the fossil fuel that oil and coal are. And burning natural gas releases carbon dioxide just as burning oil and coal does.

Nancy Pelosi fails on alternative fuels, but wins big with the Alternative Reality Kozmo.

Only one man could win the Al Gore Memorial Kozmo for carbon footprint hypocrisy, and that's Al Gore. Last year, Al Gore won for hosting a Nobel Prize celebration in Scottsdale, Arizona to which he and Tipper arrived in a private jet, as did his guests. He served exotic delicacies flown in from around the world.

Well, during the year just passed, Al Gore spent his winnings on a new carbon-belching toy - a 100-foot long houseboat complete with high performance personal watercraft. The irony proof Al Gore christened his carbon belching yacht, "Biosolar One."

For most of the last year, the mainstream media had to dig deep to stoke the alarmism that sells papers. It was USA Today that won the prize for the most Ridiculous Fear-Mongering Kozmo of 2008 with its prediction that, because of global warming, 20 foot long giant snakes would slither into the southern one-third of the United States, swallowing pets and children.

"As climate change warms the nation, giant Burmese pythons could colonize one-third of the USA, from San Francisco across the Southwest, Texas and the South and up north along the Virginia coast, according to U.S. Geological Survey maps released Wednesday.
The pythons can be 20 feet long and 250 pounds. They are highly adaptable to new environments," America's News McPaper predicted.

There is no reason to believe that either Al Gore or Nancy Pelosi is willing to give up their jets, so hide your children. Snakes are going to eat us all.

But, there is a bright light in the global warming darkness. Not all environmentalist wackos simply stoke fear. Some seek out novel solutions and they deserve recognition. The Live Like Ed Begley Environmentalist Kozmo of the year award goes to Al Gore and Brad Pitt admirer, Beverly Hills plastic surgeon Craig Alan Bittner. Perhaps inspired by the movie "Fight Club," Dr. Bittner is accused of using his patients' liposuctioned blubber to fuel his and his girlfriend's SUVs. As Bittner himself boasted on his website: ""Not only do they get to lose their love handles or chubby belly but they get to take part in saving the Earth."

While this might appeal to the biofuel crowd, the California Department of Public Health and the California Board of Registration in Medicine, among others, have some issues with Dr. Bittner.

At last report, Dr. Bittner had fled to Columbia. It's too bad that California authorities can't recognize true genius when it manifests itself. Hopefully Dr. Bittner will win this year's Nobel Peace Prize.

Introductory Chemistry For Nancy Pelosi

Over this last weekend, Nancy Pelosi (who is trying to save the planet) declared that natural gas (which she has invested in) is an attractive alternative to fossil fuels. Today's Wall Street Journal lets the Speaker in on a little secret - burning natural gas emits carbon.

Nancy Pelosi's Intelligence

Nancy Pelosi says that the latest John McCain advertisement "insults our intelligence." Here's how intelligent Nancy Pelosi is.

“I believe in natural gas as a clean, cheap alternative to fossil fuels,” she said at one point. Natural gas “is cheap, abundant and clean compared to fossil fuels,” she said at another.

Ahem.

Nancy Pelosi is fortunate that she's not a contestant in the teenaged Miss America contest.



I wonder if she even knows that burning natural gas yields carbon dioxide?

How Does Nancy Pelosi Stay In Office?

If you have ever wondered how it is that a nutcase like Nancy Pelosi has one of the safest seats in Congress, perhaps it has something to do with the city she represents.

Warning, beyond graphic. This is disgusting.

Game On: No New Energy

Nancy Pelosi has just handed the November election to the Republicans, if they have the stones to accept the gift.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday ruled out a vote on new offshore oil drilling even as Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said he might be open to a compromise that included it.

The scramble over expanded drilling off America's coasts — ammunition for a weekend of rat-a-tat-tat by the presidential campaigns — underscores the political power of $4-a-gallon gas. Though President Bush and other backers of new drilling acknowledge it wouldn't directly affect gas prices for years, they have pounded Democrats for opposing the measure, which is now supported by most Americans.

Do the Republicans want to win? Well, last Friday's demonstration showed promise. Let's see if there's some follow through.

We'll see. Supposedly a few Republican rebels are preparing to restart their demonstration.

Continuing with their guerilla tactics from last week, House Republicans will be back on the floor Monday to talk gas prices, even though Congress is in recess, and they may stay there all week.

More than a dozen Republicans have already committed to make appearances, according to House GOP leadership aide, including National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Tom Cole (Okla.).

Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.) and Mike Pence (R-Ind.), who led Friday's five-hour talkathon after the House shut down for the August recess, are also expected to be there, according to this aide.

"In an urgent memo sent to GOP Members and staff Saturday (“A Call to Action on American Energy”), Republican Leader John Boehner (R-) and Whip Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) hailed Friday’s action, and encouraged House Republicans to return to the Capitol beginning Monday morning to help keep the historic effort going," said a press release just released by Minority Leader Boehner's office.

This is a winning issue. If there is any one issue that clearly divides Democrats from Republicans on an issue that is of paramount importance to voters, it's energy policy. And Republicans are on the winning side on this issue. Americans favor new drilling by a 2-1 margin.

Update: Is it possible that some Republicans are getting it?

McCain supporters in Michigan will distribute tire gauges at Obama’s energy speech in Lansing.

The RNC will also deliver gauges reading “Obama’s energy plan” to Washington newsrooms.

No Oil, No Drilling, No Debate

Republicans should take notice of what scares Nancy Pelosi.

WHY NOT have a vote on offshore drilling? There's a serious debate to be had over whether Congress should lift the ban on drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf that has been in place since 1981. Unfortunately, you won't be hearing it in the House of Representatives -- certainly, you won't find lawmakers voting on it -- anytime soon.

Instead of dealing with the issue on the merits, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), a staunch opponent of offshore drilling, has simply decreed that she will not allow a drilling vote to take place on the House floor. Why not? "What the president would like to do is to have validation for his failed policy," she said yesterday when asked that very question. "What we're saying is, 'Exhaust other remedies, Mr. President.' . . . It is the economic life of America's families, and to suggest that drilling offshore is going to make a difference to them paycheck to paycheck now is a frivolous contention. The president has even admitted that. So what we're saying is, 'What can we do that is constructive?' "

Screw The Polar Bears, Drill Here, Drill Now

Elitist opinion treats anthropogenic global warming skeptics as the moral equivalent of Nazi holocaust deniers and the intellectual equivalent of flat Earth adherents. All of the computer models, all of the newspaper editorial boards, all of the Hollywood stars, the Democratic Party leadership, both major party presidential candidates, the Weather Channel and the infallible United Nations all agree – burning fossil fuels will warm the Earth, melt the glaciers, flood coastal cities and cause kidney stones. In fact, just this last Wednesday, I received a letter from that noted atmospheric scientist, Leonardo DiCaprio, warning me that cute little polar bear cubs would die screaming in anguish as their melting snow dens collapse.

Global warming seems to have everything going for it, except for warming. Ten years ago the news that 1998 was the warmest ever recorded made headlines. What has not made headlines is that, ever since, the Earth has been cooling and today its temperature is about the same as it was a century ago. This data was verified by thousands of buoys scattered around the world’s oceans to measure water temperatures at depths down to several thousand feet. These buoys confirmed what your bones already know, that the Earth is growing colder.

Have you seen that in the headlines? I haven’t. I don’t watch television news, but I doubt that any of the networks have mentioned it. Even Shepard Smith, host of the supposedly conservative Fox News recently expressed his incredulity that anyone could doubt global warming: “It’s hard to believe this, but there are people watching us right now, and I’ll get e-mails from hundreds of them, who don’t think we have anything to do with this [global warming]. They refuse to believe it. They believe that what’s happening is they want to try to tax us on our carbon eventually, and that this is all a conspiracy to get us. ”

It strikes me as curious that computer models predicting global warming qualify as news, while the actual fact of global cooling is not news. Those of us who place more faith in data than theory are the fools. And of course, computer predictions of global warming are the primary reason why we are not permitted to develop any new oil in this country. Instead we are told that we have to pursue whimsical solutions like wind and solar power, even though any reasonable evaluation of data or computer models prove conclusively that both are losers. Meanwhile, nuclear remains a taboo. And so, we are paying more than four dollars per gallon to drive our cars. And much of the money we spend on that fuel ends up in the hands of America’s most venomous enemies.

All the while, we remain the only nation in the world that chooses to leave undeveloped all the fuel we would need to wean ourselves from imports. Tens of billions of barrels of easily recovered oil are sitting in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and along our coasts. According to the Institute for Energy Research, our shale oil deposits hold at least 8 times as much petroleum as the proven reserves of Saudi Arabia.

Recently, a few timid Republicans rose up on their hind legs and called for more domestic oil and gas development. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Luna) denounced this as a “hoax.” For decades now, Democrats have insisted that new oil development would take a few years before it bore fruit. But, immediately after President George Bush announced that he was rescinding the executive order banning oil exploration along US coastlines, oil prices dropped by $10 per barrel each of the next two days and another $5 on the third day. Natural gas prices have fallen even faster and farther.

That was quite a different reaction than Ms. Pelosi gained when she threatened to sue OPEC for not pumping enough and pushed through legislation barring the government from purchasing oil for the National Strategic Reserve, the only solutions that her party has authored.

Republicans need to stop seeking the approval of the mainstream media. The MSM will publish stories about how global warming will increase the incidence of kidney stones (as they did this week) or repeat the rantings of a crank who hoaxed them into reporting that global warming was causing stronger earthquakes.

If Republicans get aggressive about energy policy, they’ll not only be doing right by America, they’ll win the November election. If not, they deserve a place in the rubbish can of history.

News Not Fit To Print

Considering how much opinion finds its way onto the front page, perhaps a little room should be made for news on the opinion page. There have been a number of interesting stories in these last few weeks that have not seen the prominence they deserve. In fact some have been totally ignored.

For example, you probably heard that several hostages were rescued from the so-called Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia (FARC) guerillas in Columbia. These cocaine smuggling terrorists have made life miserable for Columbians for years. You might also have read someplace that the FARC has suffered a number of other devastating defeats recently.

But, unless you read the Wall Street Journal, you probably have not heard that a laptop computer was recently captured and that it contained a wealth of information about the FARC and its allies. Along with revelations about FARC’s alliances with Venezuela and Ecuador, we learned that the Democratic Party was conducting back channel negotiations with the FARC.

More recent information has come to light that Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco, where else?) had a direct hand in these negotiations and had personally designated Representative James McGovern (D-Massachusetts) to represent her to the terrorists. Among the issues discussed was the recently negotiated Columbia Free Trade Agreement. The terrorists are against it. Nancy Pelosi exercised unprecedented powers to stall the treaty in the House. Coincidence?

If you doubt the authenticity of the intelligence, it should be noted that Columbia allowed Europe’s Interpol to examine the hard drive and Interpol concluded that the evidence was authentic and that the hard drive had not been tampered with.

A few years ago, the front pages were covered with the Valerie Plame affair. Valerie Plame was a CIA desk jockey who’s “cover” was blown after her husband, the execrable Joe Wilson had written a New York Times Op-Ed piece in which he claimed to have disproven President Bush’s claim that Iraq had sought to purchase high grade uranium ore from Niger. The mainstream press dutifully repeated Joe Wilson’s accusation that Karl Rove had exposed his wife and ruined her career.

Well, it turned out that Joe Wilson’s Op-Ed was directly contradicted by the report that Joe Wilson had submitted to the Bush Administration. The Iraqi trade minister had indeed visited Niger to promote trade between the two countries. And considering that uranium ore is Niger’s only export, the Niger government interpreted the visit as an attempt to purchase the raw materials for a nuclear bomb.

This is old, if not widely reported news. Even less widely reported was the recent revelation that Valerie Plame shares her husband’s reverence for the truth. When asked why the Bush Administration would have hired a flaming lefty like Wilson for such an assignment, the answer given was that, he had been recommended by his wife. She vehemently denied that publicly and under oath. A recently declassified document shows that indeed, Joe Wilson was hired after his wife’s recommendation.

You’d think that the truth would deserve as much prominence in the mainstream news as the original lies received. You’d think. But you’d be wrong.

Early last month, the New York Times briefly noted that a major military operation was getting underway in Iraq. In fact, what was happening was an Iraqi-led operation to snuff out the last remaining organized remnants of Al Qaida in Iraq. An estimated 12,000 terrorists had been surrounded and ever since their number was being ground down. The final pocket of about a thousand was essentially wiped out. Iraqi president Maliki declared the war essentially over. I didn’t learn this from reading American newspapers or watching American television news. I learned it reading the Times of London online edition.

At last check, the US had only suffered one combat death this month.
So, how did the mainstream media go about putting a negative spin on this grim milestone? They noted that combat deaths in Afghanistan had surpassed Iraqi combat deaths.

I think that I am far more likely to read about Britney Spears being seen again in public sans underwear than good news from Iraq.

Finally, the latest underreported story was the revelation that the United States has spirited 550 tons of purified uranium ore out of Iraq. Now, what would 550 tons of uranium ore be doing in Iraq? As everyone surely knows, Saddam Hussein had no plans to develop nuclear weapons. And so, he would have had no use for uranium. Surely, somebody simply misplaced it. It was probably Niger.

Aren't You Glad You Elected Democrats?

It's been a year,



And, don't forget, Nancy Pelosi also wants to sue OPEC for not pumping enough oil while obstructing domestic oil development.

Oooooh, OPEC is really scared!

Nancy Pelosi Praises Iran's "Goodwill"

Don't expect this interview to get wide exposure from the Mainstream Media.

Nancy Pelosi speaking to the San Francisco Chronicle: "Well, the purpose of the surge was to provide a secure space, a time for the political change to occur to accomplish the reconciliation. That didn’t happen. Whatever the military success, and progress that may have been made, the surge didn’t accomplish its goal. And some of the success of the surge is that the goodwill of the Iranians-they decided in Basra when the fighting would end, they negotiated that cessation of hostilities-the Iranians."

Nancy Pelosi's Lowers Gasoline Prices

Well, she promised she would, didn't she?

Why Should Anyone Doubt Nancy Pelosi's Patriotism?

Well, maybe it's because she nuzzles America's enemies like a friendly puppy, while stabbing allies in the back.