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I would pay good money to hear this guy speak. He has an absolutely brilliant piece up at National Review Online concerning the continuing irrelevance of the “elite” Left.

Here is a preview:

If the American Left is furious over the loss of most of the nation’s governorships and legislatures, the U.S. House, the Senate, the presidency, and soon the Supreme Court, the Europeans themselves are furious over America’s power: as if Red America is to Blue America as America is to Europe itself. Thus how can a mongrel culture of Taco Bell, Bud Light, and Desperate Housewives project such military and political influence abroad when the soft, subtle triangulation of far more cultured diplomats and sophisticated intellectuals from France, Germany, and Scandinavia is ignored by thugs from Iran, North Korea, and most of the Middle East?

And:

Second, political powerlessness follows from ideological exhaustion. Communism and Marxism are dead. Stalin and Mao killed over 80 million and did not make omelets despite the broken eggs. Castro and North Korea are not classless utopias but thugocracies run by megalomaniac dictators who the world prays will die any minute. The global Left knows that the Cold War is over and was lost by the Left, and that Eastern Europeans and Central Americans probably cherish the memory of a Ronald Reagan far more than that of a Francois Mitterrand or Willy Brandt.

Go check it out.

No, I really do not want Global Warming to actually happen and mess up everyone’s good time, but this guy is off his rocker. I want to remind him that his precious Kyoto Protocol received a tentative 99-1 vote in the US Senate. I know we never actually “officially” voted for or against ratification, but the point is that even if, and I do mean if, the President did change course and sign the Protocol, it would not stand a snowballs chance in hell of passing. Secretly the environmentalists know this and are glad the President pulled out of the treaty. After all, if he had sent it to the Senate and it got slapped back in his face, then who would they blame for the worlds problems?

Anyway, this guy definitely lost me after the first line of the second paragraph and the first line of the third paragraph:

In the disaster-flick genre, there are always two crucial moments when characters must commit acts of breathtaking stupidity, or else there would be no imminent danger and thus no movie. One, of course, is when somebody we’re meant to care about decides to run toward the erupting volcano, rather than away from it. The other comes earlier in the movie, when some Benighted Authority Figure (B.A.F.) looks out the window at the columns of smoke and brimstone belching from nearby Mount Sinister and snaps, “Problem? I don’t see any problem, and I’ll tell you one thing: There’s not gonna be any evacuation, not on my watch. Now everybody back to work.”

Bush is playing the B.A.F. in a movie titled “Heat Wave,” and Irwin Allen — long ago gone to that Lost World in the sky — would be proud.

So, President Bush is “breathtakingly stupid”? Nice way to begin your op-ed.

Also, there are more than a “few qualified scientists” who think Global Warming is bunk.