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“Do As I Say, Not As I Do”: The Motto of Liberals Everywhere (and, Apparently, the Obamadministration)

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  January 16th, 2009 at 10:21 PM  | 

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Only three years into George W. Bush’s eight-year tenure as President of the United States, BDS-afflicted lefties, led by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., were branding Bush an “environmental criminal” who would “go down in history as America’s worst environmental president.”

“When the Republican right managed to install George W. Bush as president in 2000 [Auth: Remember, he was Selected Not Elected!], movement leaders once again set about doing what they had attempted to do since the Reagan years: eviscerate the infrastructure of laws and regulations that protect the environment,” Kennedy wrote.

By 2007, the verdict was unquestionably confirmed in the mind of the far-left environmentalist movement: Bush and his policies have become “an outright catastrophe for greenhouse gas emissions and future generations,” wrote liberal website Climate Progress.

The latter of those was referring to the increase in U.S. carbon emissions from 5,888 million metric tons in 2006 to 5,984 MMTCO2 in 2007 (a rise of 96 MMTCO2, or 211.6 billion pounds of CO2).

So here’s a question for you: if a rise of 211.6B lbs of CO2 nationwide in a full year makes Bush an “environmental criminal,” then what does an output of 575 million lbs of CO2 in one weekend, because of one person make the individual responsible for that output?

For more on the “do as I say, not as I do” carbon emission of the far-left environmentalist wing (remember Al Gore and his $20,000 monthly power bill, racked up in his pursuit of us shutting our power off?), here’s a graph showing what all goes into making this weekend of Barack Obama a power consumer to such a degree that a normal house (not Al Gore’s) would take nearly 58,000 years to equal it.

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  • Rod_Patrick

    They are all bunches (not just a single bunch) of lying bastards.

    Proof? All the rhetorics in the last election.

  • asthecrowflies

    UPDATE TO THIS EARLIER POST:
    ?????????..

    In protest against the policies and legislation proposed by the congress and PE Obama, citizens are being asked to fly their flags upside down on January 20th.

    Our country is in grave distress!
    ????????????

    Citizens are being asked to declare their intentions of flying their flag upside down, as a sign of our country?s distress, at the end of each ?comment submission? made on any website. This will spread the word to those who may have missed the original post.

    Thank you,

    *I intend to fly my flag upside down on January 20th. Our country is in grave distress.

  • rand

    Are you really going to complain about a serious boost to the economy in these times? I suppose liberals aren’t the only ones who can be hypocritical. You should be applauding these people for spending money.

    • http://jeffemanuel.net Jeff Emanuel

      I just want to be the one selling carbon offsets to a crowd that (a) equals 58,000 years of home power output in one weekend, and (b) is convinced that they’re saving the environment, all at the same time.

      Heck, a crowd like that could be sold a whole lot more than carbon offsets (for evidence, see what they bought on November 4…)

      Nice try at changing the subject, by the way. Seriously, it almost worked. No, really. I promise. For real. I’m cereal.

  • baseketball

    To lay the airplane and hotel room carbon emissions of people the man has never met at his feet. Of course, this is hardly a one-sided pettiness, the other side is just as guilty, but we should strive to be better than the opposition.

    • http://jeffemanuel.net Jeff Emanuel

      Tell me this: Would the Libs say the same about the millions who traveled to greet Jesus as he rode into the city of Jerusalem on Palm Sunday — or would the New York Times have featured 14 front page stories in the two weeks leading up to the event about the world-destroying carbon footprint of this “Messiah’s” followers?

      • baseketball
    • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

      Are you suggesting he’s so uninfluential that he is incapable of getting his supporters NOT to exhaust all that CO2?

      You clearly have a rather low opinion of his actual skills. You must subscribe to the affirmative action view of his candidacy’s success.

      Well done. That was truly excellent sarcasm.

      • baseketball

        “You clearly have a rather low opinion of his actual skills.”

        Yep.

    • Jaded

      is quite sad….let it go man HE SUCKS…..if you find you cannot take the ABUSE WE plan to impart on him over the next four years there are other sites for you to feel valuable at!

      • baseketball
    • http://jeffemanuel.net Jeff Emanuel

      …the beginning of the oceans’ decline and the end of global warming. All we’re doing is reminding him what he promised.

    • HappyBunny

  • Kenny Solomon

    Activity: The One running his gob incessantly, spouting abject bulls*** that when enjoined as policy and law, will destroy the US economy faster than anyone could have anticipated.

    Units: 1

    Hours/Distance: Unending/Infinite

    Carbon Generated: 2.3 Trillion units (preceding The One’s anointment) and an exponential increase expected within 100 days.

    Additional Calculations: 1+1 = 3.

    Total CO2 Emitted (pounds): Immeasurable with current technology.

    Sources: Common freakin’ sense ; Look-backs at output from gubmint skrewlz ; Everry mainstream media outlet.

    ————————–

    By the way, you do realize, don’t you, that all the coming probable removals of personal rights, freedoms and liberties will not pertain to any of The One’s ‘chosen people’ ?

    I absolutely refuse to feel sorry for whoever voted for The One. People who can least afford to get bit even in the slightest are going to get wiped out and become, as the saying goes (thanks Moe !) ‘barking mad insane’.

    • doc4169

      The people have no rights except to pay their taxes so the annointed ones can frolic and claim they are doing it all in the interest of the people.
      Hasn’t it been said that the Progress Liberal Left thinks that Americans in general are dumd and will follow like lemmings anything they are told?
      It’s time to stand up and be counted. Force these corrupt individuals from power.
      If it requires another revolution so be it.

  • doc4169

    Seems that the national financial crisis and so-called Global Warming effect does not bother either Obama, Gore, or the Democratic Party Progressive Marxist Left when it comes to them.
    But they’re already preparing to tax farmers close to $100 dollars per head of dairy cow for producing methane.
    In effect they will kill the dairy and beef industry by doing so. Or, raise the price of milk and beef to astronomical prices. But, it’s fine and dandy to produce all the carbon they need to show off their new power.
    So damn the torpedoes full speed ahead. Let the people pay through the nose for the taxes we will be imposing upon them.
    Hmmm… didn’t we have a revolution against tyrannts that taxed us unmercifully?
    I suugest that politicicians in Washington produce more gas than our livestock could ever produce. Parties not withstanding.

  • margo

    He’s talking about millions of more jobs too. Everyone of them is going to make carbon.

  • izoneguy

    n/t

  • climateprogress

    Yes Bush and his policies have become ?an outright catastrophe for greenhouse gas emissions and future generations,? as I wrote an ClimateProgress.org. But the rise in emissions during his presidency are a only small part of that catastrophe.

    Bush has almost single-handedly stopped any international action on climate. He has made domestic action at a national level impossible, and even blocked rational Republican governors from taking action at a state level. He muzzled US climate scientists so they couldn’t explain to the public the risks on inaction.

    You and most of your readers are going to live long enough to see just how tragically wrong you are about climate change. Sadly, by then, it will be too late to spare billions of people from untold misery for decades if not centuries. Still, you can’t say you weren’t warned, just that you didn’t care enough to learn the scientific truth.

    BTW, if our trade deficit with China hadn’t exploded under Bush’s watch and we actually manufactured all the stuff we borrowed money to buy from them, then Bush’s annual growth rate in GHG emissions would have been 50% higher.

    • mbecker908

      He really DID accomplish something great.

      Oh, and I’m serious.

      Since you’ve only been here a day and we don’t know you, did you have to attend university to get this stupid or were you just dropped on your head?

    • Jaded

      get down on your hands and knees and thank The Lord (not Obama) that your stupidity is allowed to flourish on the internet due to one President George W Bush!

    • icbm

      the scientific truth is unknown, and there is disagreement about it

      or do you believe whatever you read in the ny times and see on the al gore silver screen?

      the consensus that liberals like to claim for global warming is largely fabricated and imaginary

      if you were actually able to admit there is disagreement and discuss some of the arguments, i would respect your viewpoint more and be willing to listen to it

    • George Claghorn
    • mbecker908

      From The Daily Princetonian… Highlights are mine.

      Physics professor William Happer GS ’64 has some tough words for scientists who believe that carbon dioxide is causing global warming.

      “This is George Orwell. This is the ‘Germans are the master race. The Jews are the scum of the earth.’ It?s that kind of propaganda,” Happer, the Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics, said in an interview. “Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant. Every time you exhale, you exhale air that has 4 percent carbon dioxide. To say that that?s a pollutant just boggles my mind. What used to be science has turned into a cult.”

      Happer served as director of the Office of Energy Research in the U.S. Department of Energy under President George H.W. Bush and was subsequently fired by Vice President Al Gore, reportedly for his refusal to support Gore’s views on climate change. He asked last month to be added to a list of global warming dissenters in a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee report. The list includes more than 650 experts who challenge the belief that human activity is contributing to global warming.

      Though Happer has promulgated his skepticism in the past, he requested to be named a skeptic in light of the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama, whose administration has, as Happer notes, “stated that carbon dioxide is a pollutant” and that humans are “poisoning the atmosphere.”

      Happer maintains that he doubts there is any strong anthropogenic influence on global temperature.

      “All the evidence I see is that the current warming of the climate is just like past warmings. In fact, it?s not as much as past warmings yet, and it probably has little to do with carbon dioxide, just like past warmings had little to do with carbon dioxide,” Happer explained.

  • NedReck

    “?Do As I Say, Not As I Do?: The Motto of Liberals Everywhere (and, Apparently, the Obamadministration) ”

    Just look at the “One” himself. He still smokes… even admitted it to Tom Brokaw on the Sunday talk show… Meet the Depressed.

    Now… although I do not… I will defend a person’s right to smoke, if they so choose. Not my business.

    But Mr. Obama needs to clean up his OWN individual emissions… before he starts imposing vast and comprehensive standards upon this country.

    With all the “warnings” about smoking… Mr. Obama MUST be smart… to know more than doctors and scientists. Or is it… just another liberal… not willing to live by his own liberalism?

    Ned Reck

  • olsmithie

    trees and grass take in and produce nice pure Oxygen from.
    A process that has been going on since day one?
    Carbon dioxide? that stuff every breathing creature puts out when it breathes?

    As I was freezing my butt off this weekend from all the “global warming” I was thinking about how ridiculous the whole carbon crap premise is. The slack of quality education in this country is obviously taking its toll. It is much easier to fool people who have no clue how the physical world works.

    Bearing in mind that the environmental movement is really a “religion” explains a lot of the bogus junk science. I guess they are taking it on faith, after all I’m sure Al Gore wouldn’t lie to people for profit.

    Regards