PrintAugust 12, 2008
Another Bipartisan Betrayal
In the week that the last of the climate-change "hockey stick" finally disappeared into Steve McIntyre's wood-chipper, it makes complete sense that a gang of five Republican United States Senators would form a cabal with five Democratic senators to betray the Republican base on energy. It makes sense that they'd hand Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) a get-out-of-jail card on oil drilling that is short on drilling and long on alternative energy subsidies. And it makes complete sense that they would be completely shocked when Mr. Conservative, Rush Limbaugh, went ballistic on them.Actually, Rush didn't go ballistic. He seemed to feel, as all of us must feel, a kind of numbness. That is what usually happens when you have been betrayed: a deadening numbness.It's a pity that our Republican Senators don't act more like Radames, the hero of Verdi's Aïda. When he realizes that he's betrayed Egypt by revealing vital...(Read Full Article)
