This is a country of incredibly ignorant folks.

It’s time for Dems to stop playing nice. Treat the Reps like you would a recalcitrant kid. Tell them exactly what will happen if they don’t cooperate, give them a chance and then swoop down like a bird of prey if they keep doing the same dumb thing.

I know, I know that takes a spine and other vital body parts that Harry seems to lack, but a girl can dream can’t she?

. . .Reid said, explaining that procedural motions that he could employ to clear the nominees would eat up too much floor time. “It would take until the summer, until we finish the July recess and beyond, for us to get this done, filing cloture on every one of these. I hope it doesn’t come to that.

Well, if Reid had started bringing up cloture motions on this back in, oh, February, when it first became clear the Republicans were interested in nothing other than obstruction, we might now have a few of these nominees through.

Ya gotta start sometime, Harry. Waiting for the Republicans to start “playing nice” is not a good game plan.

Shouldn’t any intelligent human oppose climate change legislation when climate change is a made-up hoax?

An intelligent human wouldn’t come to that conclusion to begin with. A Republican might, if an oil company wanted him to.

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RealityCheck Says:

First you pansies cried “Global Cooling”

You really don’t get it that science revises its conclusions as it gathers more evidence, do you? This is the same line of attack that creationists use against evolution – that it changes its mind over time as we learn more. Later theories > earlier theories because they are based on more information.

The earth is an ever evolving planet…and just because it doesn’t fit into the way you picture it at the moment…doesn’t mean we need to put a “phony tax” on everything that breaths. Worry more about pollution like I do…then trying to dream up phony crap that doesn’t matter…except to Alpha Gores savings account!

Bunch of pantie waist.

Good Lord, Marwick, you are amazingly stupid.

Mind if I amend the comment just a bit?

“the GOP is reveling in the opportunity to serve as those “severe tire damage” spikes on the road to doing anything sane or sensible”

If you lived throught that era, (as you must have), you’d remember that very few republican appointees were rejected, making your assertion seem overblown, to say the least.
Or are you really a progressive, and I’ve totally misread you??

At the time when the Bush appointees were a major focus of public attention, most of my attention was focused on academic pursuits. Due to the amount of hooplah raised by the right when Bush appointees were being threatened with filibuster, it may be possible that I overestimated the degree to which obstructionist tactics were being used.

As to my own political beliefs, I don’t like to conform to a single ideology, but rather explore issues from as many points of view as possible. What this means is that in heavily right-wing environments I will argue from the left, and in left-wing environments I will argue from the right.

I don’t see how the verb “speaks” comes off as comparable to “patriot” or “proud”, although I do admit the reference is somewhat obscure to those who don’t like hard bop jazz music as much as I do. I’m relatively new here (I just discovered the site through twitter), so I don’t know the extent to which “self important conservative losers” are a problem (although the conservatives I saw posting today seem to be the unthinking antagonistic sort). Nevertheless, I intend to continue reading the site and commenting when I think it interesting. I can’t promise we’ll always get along, but I do intend to make my posts thoughtful and reasonably polite.

Now, if it’s all the same to you, there are more important things to discuss than me.

“It is obvious that anthropogenic global warming is not science at all, because a scientific theory makes non-obvious predictions which are then compared with observations that the average person can check for himself. As we both know from our own observations, AGW theory has spectacularly failed to do this. The theory has predicted steadily increasing global temperatures, and this has been refuted by experience. NOW the global warmers claim that the Earth will enter a cooling period. In other words, whether the ice caps melt, or expand — whatever happens — the AGW theorists claim it confirms their theory. A perfect example of a pseudo-science like astrology.” – Frank Tipler, mathematical physicist at Tulane University

“It is not possible to engage in rational discussion with irrational beliefs. It is also not possible to engage in rational discussion with those whose interest in the global warming bandwagon is as a way to make money or build a career.” – Prof. Jonathan Katz, Washington University

And you wonder why jobs are going to China and India. LOL. Their scientists disagree with the US liberals on so-called “climate change.”

It’s that we get a lot of self-important conservative losers here, and they seem to prefer egotistical names, like “proud,” and “American patriot.” Your handle seems similar, in that your obscure reference is easily misread as egotistical blather. I’ve been here awhile, so forgive me if I misread you. Except that you seem to be attempting to posit conservative memes:

It wasn’t cute when the Democrats were doing it during the Bush years, and it’s not cute when the Republicans do it now.

If you lived throught that era, (as you must have), you’d remember that very few republican appointees were rejected, making your assertion seem overblown, to say the least.
Or are you really a progressive, and I’ve totally misread you??

Give me one example, genius,
Estrada and John Bolton.

John Bolton was a dumber idea than Harriet Meiers (see below).

I don’t know who “Estrada” was. Eric? No, Miguel. I guess it’s “do the wingnut’s homework for them” time again, ain’t it? The bane of all geeks… This guy was nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals. So we’re not even talking about a cabinet post, OK.

Let’s focus on why Estrada was opposed. Wikipedia?

George W. Bush nominated Estrada to a position on the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on May 9, 2001; the court is very influential, and is widely seen as a stepping stone to the Supreme Court. He received a unanimous “well-qualified” rating from the American Bar Association. Democratic Senators opposed the nomination, noting Estrada’s lack of any prior judicial experience at the local, state, or federal level. Democratic Senators also objected to the refusal by the Office of the Solicitor General to release samples of Estrada’s writings while employed there. Republicans, however, stated that the Democratic concerns were actually just an attempt to deny Estrada a circuit court seat because of his conservatism.

Bold mine. So they openly opposed him up front because of nonexistent qualifications. OK, fine. Just like Meiers, Bush attempted to nominate someone with not-even-remotely-in-the-ballpark qualifications and got shot down immediately.

So what was your complaint again?

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Wayne Ant Schneider Says:

John Bolton was one of the most un-diplomatic men in American history. He had no business going anywhere near the United Nations, let alone being our Ambassador there

I can’t imagine why this guy should get any job with the word “diplomat” or “diplomatic” in the title. He’s completely the opposite of that, in all respects.

However, his copy-paste doesn’t figure in the returns on that investment. And, of course, it absolutely ignores the worst possible case of human civilization coming to an end when the World’s ecosystems collapse.

Best let him be.

It’s hard to keep a worldwide hoax going. Sooner or later there are leaks in the balloon and the hot air seeps out, sort of global-warming style.

Even mainline press accounts increasingly are puncturing the global warming balloon. The Washington Post recently pointed out that Al Gore’s dire predictions of devastating 20-foot rising seas caused by global warming are, well, all wet.

It turns out, says the Post’s David A. Fahrenthold (a reporter, not a commentator), that the latest predicted increase in sea level by 2100 (that’s 91 years from now) might be enough to “submerge a beach chair.” Not exactly civilization ruining, huh?

The story doesn’t stop there. Even the chair’s fate is only a “might” not a certainty, the story notes. Why? Well, for the very reason we’ve been pointing out for about three years: “Scientists say the information comes from computer models which could be wrong.”

Go figure. The question is whether Congress and the White House will shove down our throats hundreds of billions if not trillions of dollars in penalties in order to solve this non-devastating problem before enough people recognize the truth and put a stop to their nonsense.

http://orangepunch.freedomblogging.com/category/environment/

That brings us to today’s Global Warming Quote of the Day:

“Modern China cares about as much about ‘anthropogenic global warming’as Chairman Mao did about providing his population with five-course steak dinners. AGW’s only use, as far as the Chinese are concerned, is as an ingenious device to suck up money and power from the gullible West. And this isn’t meant to be an insult to the Chinese, by the way. I mean it wholly as a compliment to their far-sightedness, shrewdness and pragmatism.” – James Delingpole, The Daily Telegraph, June 10, 2009

What’s amazing is that even as Japan and Europe begin reneging on previous promises to sacrifice their own wellbeing to save the earth from another dreaded portion of a degree higher temperature in the distant future, the U.S. Congress plunges ahead. And just think, it’ll only cost our economy a mere pittance:

Reduce aggregate gross domestic product (GDP) by $7.4 trillion,
Destroy 844,000 jobs on average, with peak years seeing unemployment rise by over 1,900,000 jobs,
Raise electricity rates 90 percent after adjusting for inflation,
Raise inflation-adjusted gasoline prices by 74 percent,
Raise residential natural gas prices by 55 percent,
Raise an average family’s annual energy bill by $1,500, and
Increase inflation-adjusted federal debt by 29 percent, or $33,400 additional federal debt per person, again after adjusting for inflation.

Golly. We just can’t understand why other nations wouldn’t be in a similar hurry to slit their collective economic throats. Only in Congress.

http://orangepunch.freedomblogging.com/category/environment/