It Ain’t Easy Being Green
by Big Dog on Apr 27, 2007 at 07:56 Political
Global Warming! The mantra from the left is heard everywhere and it has progressed to legislatures where hapless politicians jump on board the GW train by enacting legislation that will cost billions of dollars and not do one damned thing to solve this so-called man made condition. In Maryland the Democrats who tout their commitment to the working stiff a bill was signed into law by Saint Martin O’Malley forcing the state to adopt California car emission standards. I guess all that smog in California convinced them that this will work in cleaning up air that is no where near that in California. Maryland already forces car owners to get their emissions checked (at $14.00 a pop) and that was not good enough. Now we will have to shell out around three grand more for a vehicle. Thank goodness my jeep still has a lot of miles left on it.
But how do these champions of the environment do in their own lives? The platoon (I really should not attribute a military term to Democrats) of people who want to be the next Democratic President had a debate in South Carolina last night. We will not discuss the insanity of debating this far in advance and instead focus on their greenness with regard to the debate. All of the hopefuls flew separately in non-commercial aircraft in order to get to the event. None of them flew commercial, none of them shared the same plane and therefore the costs. None of them did anything (even though at least four of them left the same place (DC)) that would reduce their carbon footprints. They all flew in either corporate jets or chartered flights and this means that nearly a dozen separate planes flew these environmentally friendly people to the event. The cost was also staggering considering they could have booked First Class seats on a commercial carrier for a thousand dollars or less but instead used campaign money to spend between 7 and 9 thousand dollars to fly on a chartered aircraft.
How can these people keep telling us they are fiscally responsible or that they are just like the rest of us when they continue to spend money recklessly and use their positions to fly like kings instead of one of the people they claim to represent? How can they claim to be stewards of the environment when they would not even coordinate with each other so that one chartered flight was used? Better yet, why did they not take commercial flights and same both money and the environment? There are 35,000 flights a day in the US so I find it difficult to believe that they could not get a seat and even if their busy schedules required special arrangements they could have flown together and shared the costs.
The reason is quite simple. They are the do as I say and not as I do crowd. They do not have to follow the rules that they impose upon the rest of us. According to the Gospel of Gore man is causing global warming and man needs to be more thoughtful of the environment. Just like the prophet Gore whose house uses more energy in a month than the average household uses in a year, the Democratic contenders conduct their business with little regard for the environment that they all say we are destroying. This phenomenon is not unique to Democrats because it is pervasive throughout the Congress. They all impose rules on us that they do not follow. However, since those Democrats have made global warming an issue and have espoused taxing us into oblivion to repair it, it is only fitting to call them to task for their hypocrisy.
As a solider I know that one of the most important things a leader can do is lead by example. I shared the same hardships as my soldiers and I never had them do something that I would not do. With Congress, and these Democrats in particular, the idea of leadership is do as I say and not as I do. Their idea of leadership is where the monarchy has one set of rules for the royal elite and another for the rest of us poor rubes. They believe they have the education and experience to tell us, the misinformed and uneducated masses, how to live life. Unfortunately, most of these Presidential hopefuls could not empty a urinal if the directions were written on the bottom.
Is it any wonder Congress has a lower approval rating than the President?
As an aside, I am not a GW believer (I think they call me a denier) but if they are going to espouse it, I am going to hold them to it.
Source:
Newsday
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