What Al Gore Really Wants

[Harper_is_Bush]

What Al Gore Really Wants

Sunday, March 25, 2007

By Robert Tracinski

Al Gore made his triumphant return to Washington last week to give testimony before Democrat-controlled committees in the House and Senate. He returned, not as a failed presidential candidate, but as an environmentalist prophet.

As Senator Barbara Boxer gushed, "You have acted for us. You have acted more than anyone else."

Gore's transformation is remarkable. The stilted, insincere candidate from the 2000 election campaign is gone. The new Gore believes in global warming the way the pope believes in Catholicism — indeed, possibly more so — and he comes across as sincere and impassioned. While the sincerity may be doubtful (as we shall see below) the passion is definitely real. But what is it a passion for?

What does Al Gore really want?

To be sure, Gore's testimony had the faults of all sermons. It tended to pile too many analogies on top of one another and to veer into the maudlin. Gore made repeated appeals to the ideals and virtues of "our grandparents" — showing what hidebound conservatives all of these liberals really are under the surface — and under hostile questioning from Republican Rep. Joe Barton, Gore produced a metaphor so maudlin and simplistic that it ought to disqualify him from being taken seriously on any scientific subject:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,261123,00.html

Don't ask me why I'm posting FOX news.

Go to the link, read the rest, and respond if you feel strongly about it.

[tnlefty]

1. All I'll say is that a copy of Earth in the Balance is in my bookcase,

whereas nothing by Robert Turdhead, uh Tracinski is there.

[Harper_is_Bush]

2. Not popular!

How come?

[Prophet 451]

3. That frigging documentry

I just knew that the anti-global warming crown would embrace The Great Global Warming Swindle. All the people who didn't believe in global warming in the first place are now holding that piece of crap up like it was the fugging Bible. It was academically dishonest, the research was faulty and it came nowhere near "exploding" global warming. If you looked hard enough, you can find a few scientists who still believe in creationism too. Hell, you could probably find a couple who still believe that the earth is flat.