California--Where Ignorance Is A Virtue

Senator Barbara Boxer is shown shortly before demanding that one of the peasants go get her a bottle of prune juice. I admit to finding Her High and Mightiness a guilty pleasure for me. If Carly Fiorina had defeated Boxer at the polls, we wouldn't be treated to our daily dose of Boxer stupidity. Her latest attack on Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-TN) over the Small Business Innovation Research Bill is just another example of her royal ignorance.

The main purpose of the act was to get the Environmental Protection Agency out of the business of regulating greenhouse gases. And naturally, the greenhouse gas that gives the green weenies far too much nefarious control is carbon dioxide. Based on junk science and ginned-up hockey-stick graphs, the Democratic Congress tried to pass cap and tax legislation that would solve nothing except to further enrich Al Gore. In the meantime, energy prices would go through the roof, and Alice-in-Wonderland green businesses would receive tax-breaks and gobs of gummint money. Even with both houses of Congress and the White House, they couldn't pull it off. But--if you can't legislate, regulate.

Well, back to carbon dioxide. Not carbon steel. Not carbon fiber. Not carboniferous plants. Not carbon carbon. Carbon dioxide. The Queen of the Democratic Dunces, our Babs, went off on a rant. "It is essentially a repeal of the Clean Air Act as it involves a particular pollutant, carbon, which has been found to be an endangerment to our people." I'll pass on the temptation to mock the use of the word "endangerment." Babs, baby, it's carbon dioxide and you have yet to prove that man caused or can fix that endangerment.

Lest you think that this was a simple slip of the tongue, Boxer then said "And what is the science telling us? That it is dangerous to breathe in air pollution with lots of carbon in it." Aside from not knowing the difference between carbon (a solid) and carbon dioxide (a gas), Boxer flat-out lied about the "science." Absolutely no reputable scientist considers CO2 a pollutant. It is a trace gas, essential for plant life and a natural product of all animals who bother to breathe now and then. Without carbon dioxide, the CO2-absorbing plants would die causing us to croak as well since along with the ocean, plants are the major source of the production of oxygen. Whatever you do, don't ask her to explain photosynthesis.

Her "science" and statistics are made-up garbage produced by the Goracle and pseudo-scientists looking for government funding. The CO2 that the green weenies wanted to tax and relocate because of global warming was insufficient junk science. So Babs added how it poisons the air. Well, no it doesn't. And we have a lot of work to do to get it to the level that it would affect breathing animals. Submariners breathe air with as much as 8,000 parts per million and survive quite nicely. The current proportion in the air around us is 390 parts per million.

Considering herself to be on a roll, Boxer (the wife of Joe Boxer?) went completely off the reservation. Never forget the children, the children! "Compromising the work of the EPA means that more Americans, particularly young children, will suffer from the impacts of severe asthma attacks," Boxer said, creating a new terror out of whole cloth. "More children will end up in hospitals attached to respirators." I know of absolutely no scientific, or even unscientific theory that connects CO2 to asthma at any age. But harking back to global warming, she finally got around to protecting us old geezers: "More seniors' lives will be put at risk from heat waves and severe weather."

"Don't Call Me Ma'am" Boxer is not just certifiably nuts, she's certifiably ignorant. Her summation was equally berserk. After getting carbon and carbon dioxide mixed up more than four times during her rant, and calling a trace gas a pollutant, Babs capped it all with "If you can't breathe you can't work." Well, if the EPA drives carbon-based product prices up through the roof by regulating carbon products to death and screwing up our tax code with "trading and capping" while destroying major energy industries in the name of pie-in-the-sky green technology, we'll all soon be taking our final breaths.

Old Senators never die, but this one won't even fade away. She's like a low-IQ vampire, sucking the life out of others in order to preserve her own useless life.