Wednesday, June 4, 2014

We Blame Global Warming (and other good stuff from WI Club for Growth)

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This Wednesday Update       June 4, 2014

We blame global warming

It’s now official: Global warming causes absolutely everything that happens in the world, provided whatever is happening is something you don’t like.

The latest bad thing to be attributed to global warming is the shrinkage of the U.S. economy in the first quarter of this year, and you know it has to be true because eleven paragraphs into this story, we get the word straight from a White House spokesman.

Yes, Mr. Furman said the economic damage was wrought by the severe winter, but if you have a problem with global warming being the cause of frigid conditions lingering on into spring, you just haven’t been paying attention. Those wretchedly cold months we all just endured—huge hunks of ice still floating off Lake Superior beaches during Memorial Day weekend—were entirely consistent with the disastrous impact of our consumption of fossil fuels roasting the planet, thus causing everything to freeze. You can’t make this stuff up.  

But wait. We got carried away. This is supposed to be about the economy.  And it’s worth noting that the story line about this year’s first quarter seeing the first economic contraction since 2011 doesn’t exactly square with what was reported early last year.

The bottom line is, five years into a “recovery” presided over by Mr. Moment-When-the- Rise-of-the-Oceans-Began-to-Slow-and-Our-Planet-Began-to-Heal, the economy still stinks, chiefly because those who mistake themselves for deities have proven no better at managing global commerce than at regulating the global climate—as if there were just one and it was never supposed to vary.

Perhaps more succinctly, there’s nothing that won’t be used as an excuse.
 

Your Tax Dollars at Work

The victims of capitalism, that is to say, the oppressed workers of the American labor movement, passed the hat, scraped together their pennies, and, in what must be regarded as a modern loaves-and-fishes miracle, came up with a third of a billion dollars for campaigns to wipe out Conservative reformers in this year’s elections.

Evidently some Conservative commentators have misreported the entire sum as being designated for the elimination of five Republican governors, and John Wojcik of People’s World thoughtfully sets the record straight: Congressional Republicans will get some of the $300 million thrown at them, too.

A couple of thoughts: First, Mr Wojcik’s name suggests he of all people ought to know better than to associate himself with “People’s” anything, and if he lacks the necessary common sense, he may have surviving relatives who could fill him in.

Second, the source of labor’s $300 million war chest bears contemplation.  In January, the Labor Department published numbers showing the vast majority of unionized U.S. workers are in the public sector.

It is therefore axiomatic that the money to be spent trashing GOP candidates this year, extracted from workers through compulsory union dues, will originate overwhelmingly from tax dollars. Taxes you pay, just once-removed by being laundered through government payrolls, will be spent by the AFL-CIO to elect candidates who will give the AFL-CIO even more of your money. Launder, rinse, repeat.  No wonder Scott Walker, who’s done so much to break up this racket, tops the AFL-CIO hit list.

The unions say dissatisfaction with the economy may help them defeat GOP governors, a cynical claim in that unions appropriating the taxpayers’ money to use against them is one reason the economy isn’t satisfying anyone except billionaire administration cronies.

Open Season

Under bipartisan American doctrine, the United States does not negotiate with terrorists.  That has contributed to the safety of people who might otherwise have been kidnapped, held hostage, ransomed, and likely murdered anyway by double-crossing fanatics:  The prospect of no reward eliminated most incentives for taking the risk.

Or so it was until Saturday.

Speculation abounds as to why the Obama administration, in evident defiance of federal law chose to release five murderous, high-level jihadis from captivity in Guantanamo, in exchange for U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, held by the Taliban for the past five years.

To be clear, a prisoner exchange would have been ill-advised even were Bergdahl a genuine hero. As it is, former comrades risked their lives trying to rescue him, even though many consider him a deserter. 

But individual personalities are not relevant. That’s precisely the point of the no-negotiations policy, effective for decades until shattered by Obama’s sophomoric behavior that as of this past weekend makes every American, in or out of uniform, a tradeable commodity terrorists will want to acquire.

We may guess at the administration’s rationale. Not to be ruled out are the possibilities that this is step one in emptying Guantanamo, and that the administration is banking on Americans being so in thrall to sentimentality that it can play any criticism as an example of Republican cruelty.  

What can be ruled out is the incompetence or idiocy many of our friends too readily ascribe to the Obama gang. It’s contemptible, but neither incompetent nor idiotic to practice political vandalism in pursuit of cheap, momentary advantage. Stay close to home if you can.  
 
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