IGM Shaky-Pants Dems

Inter-Galactic Memo
To: All Personnel
Fr: W. Leavitt, Political Analyst
Re: Shaky-Pants Dems
4-26-09

It turns out that the House Democrats scheduled a high-profile global warming hearing for the 24th, at which they brought in the Big Gun, Al “Shaky Pants” Gore, to testify before some committee or other. Al’s an international expert on global warming, as we all know, since he spent half his life learning how to grow tobacco and then became a Senator so he could invent the Internet. It’s a good thing we have dedicated, knowledgeable people like Mr. Gore to scare the pants off us. Al was to the guest celebrity and testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee last Friday.
Representative Joe Barton (Rep-Texas), ranking Committee member apparently didn’t get the memo about curtailing free speech and invited someone from the other side of the debate to appear as well, so as to get an even-handed report. Lord Christopher Monckton, a former science adviser to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, was asked to come and deliver an opposing view with mitigating evidence, which seemed appropriate and sensible to everyone involved. Until he actually showed up. Monckton was not informed of the decision to refuse his testimony until after he had arrived in DC.

“The House Democrats don't want Gore humiliated, so they slammed the door of the Capitol in my face,” Monckton told Climate Depot in an exclusive interview. “They are cowards.”

This is the Limey talking now, not me. And it’s not like Lord Monckton is a stranger to Washington; he has testified before, as well as at the dreaded IPCC. He is a well-respected expert, especially on the political and economic issues related to climate change.
I guess he didn’t have a very good opinion of Gore’s decision to not allow a dissenting voice. I say this because of the following quotes.

“The Democrats have a lot to learn about the right of free speech under the US Constitution. Congress Henry Waxman's (D-CA) refusal to expose Al Gore's sci-fi comedy-horror testimony to proper, independent scrutiny by the House minority reeks of naked fear,” Monckton said from the airport Thursday evening.

That’s pretty funny, a Brit lecturing us on the Constitution. Or was he just lecturing the Democrats?

Waxman took the brunt of Monckton’s ire since he was the one who made the announcement.
But my favorite Monckton quote is this one:

“Waxman knows there has been no 'global warming' for at least a decade. Waxman knows there has been seven and a half years' global cooling. Waxman knows thttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifhat, in the words of the UK High Court judge who condemned Gore's mawkish movie as materially, seriously, serially inaccurate, 'the Armageddon scenario that he depicts is not based on any scientific view,'” Monckton explained.

That’s just good fun, isn’t it? Of course, the Republicans are just as bad. If the tables were turned we can be sure they would be nixing someone for daring to disagree with the party line. I just like it when someone else picks on poor old AlGore. I’m sure he’s a nice man—well, harmless at least—even if he is a pompous wind-bag and narcissistic demagogue. Now-a-days, no one but the worst of the rabid libs will even listen to him. Conservatives laugh at Al while Liberals are embarrassed by him. Except for the usual suspects, like Reid, Pelosi, Frank, Waxman, et al.
Meanwhile, the climate will continue to fluctuate with little notice of us humans. And we will continue to adjust. It’s a wonderful life, ain’t it?