[StBernard] America's Party

[Westley Annis]

THE CONSERVATIVE REVIEW - January 1, 2010

America's Party
by Pat Buchanan

For Democrats like Harry Reid, who called them "evil-
mongers," and Nancy Pelosi, who called them "un-American," 
the NBC News poll must have hit like a sucker punch at a 
Georgetown wine-and-cheese. 

The Tea Party movement, those folks rallying against spend-
ing last spring and Obamacare in the summer town halls, 
are viewed more favorably than the Democratic Party. 

Forty-one percent of Americans have a favorable opinion of 
the Tea Party movement, to 35 percent for Obama's party. 
Only 24 percent view Tea Party activists unfavorably, 
while 45 percent hold a negative view of the Democrats. 

While Tea Party types played a role in the GOP's comeback 
-- helping take down Gov. Jon Corzine in New Jersey and 
turning a John McCain deficit of 6 points in the Old 
Dominion into a 17-point victory for Bob McDonnell -- the 
movement is no subsidiary of the GOP. For it played a 
major role in routing liberal Republican "Dede" Scozzafava 
in New York's 23rd and came within a point of electing a 
third-party conservative. 

As Congressional elections are 10 months off, though 
primaries begin in the spring, where do Tea Party types 
find the battles to keep them in fighting trim? Copenhagen 
may have provided an answer. 

While Obama came home with a nothing-burger, Hillary stole 
the show. Without authorization of Congress, she committed 
the United States to lead a campaign to transfer, beginning 
in 2020, $100 billion a year "to address climate change 
needs in developing countries." The fund would start at 
$10 billion and grow by 1,000 percent in a decade. 

The $100-billion-a-year global fund sprang from the fertile 
mind of Prime Minister Gordon Brown. 

By 2020, U.S. citizens, whose nation is careening toward 
default, will be borrowing tens of billions more every 
year from China, if Beijing is still willing to lend to 
us, so we can ship those tens of billions off to the sump 
holes of the Third World. 

The arrogance of power here astonishes.

Not only does Hillary's commitment represent a doubling of 
U.S. foreign aid, she declared at Copenhagen that climate 
change -- known as global warming before a blizzard brought 
Obama winging home early -- is "undeniable." 

Now, undeniably, there is climate change. But we call it 
spring, summer, fall and winter. As for global warming and 
cooling, that has been going on for millennia. Not so long 
ago, we exited what is known as the "little ice age." Over 
the 20th century, the official rise in global temperature 
was seven-tenths of one degree Celsius. 

People are wailing about the "hottest decade" in history. 
But who would have noticed if the Chicken Littles had not 
told us we are all burning up and we must act now to save 
the planet? 

How do we save the planet? By giving them power and money. 

Hillary's hundred billion a year is just the tip of the 
iceberg, and this iceberg is not melting. We are at the 
beginning of the biggest con in history. 

Earlier this month, the Environmental Protection Agency 
made an "endangerment finding" that carbon dioxide, the 
food of plants and trees, is a dangerous pollutant. Under 
the Clean Air Act of 1970, this gives EPA power to shut 
down the U.S. economy, though EPA head Lisa Jackson says 
the ruling will apply only to 10,000 utilities, refineries 
and large manufacturers that emit more than 25,000 tons 
of carbon dioxide every year. 

Congress has done nothing to reverse this usurpation of 
power. 

Strict enforcement of this finding would make America 
a pasture and guarantee China's future as the first 
industrial power, the factory for mankind. What is the 
purpose of this preposterous EPA finding? 

It is the EPA nightstick to club into line U.S. companies 
that are fighting the Gore-Kerry-Obama cap-and-trade bill 
stalled in the Senate, which represents another huge 
transfer of wealth and power from the private sector to 
Beltway bureaucrats. 

What the Obamaites are saying to industrial America is: 
Back off your opposition to cap-and-trade, or the EPA 
shuts you down. 

The Tea Party irregulars have it in their power to stop 
the New World Order crowd cold. All they need do is stop 
cap-and-trade in the Senate for 10 months, until November, 
and block Hillary's $100 billion fund from ever seeing 
the light of day. 

If the Tea Party activists can hold the line, they can, 
next fall, send Congress a message it will not soon forget 
about getting off this Acela to globalism and getting back 
to putting America first. 

In Europe, democracy is dead. French and Dutch voted to 
kill the EU constitution. The EU rechristened it the 
Lisbon Treaty. The Irish voted no. They were forced to 
vote again. The British detest it, but Gordon Brown has 
denied them a vote. 

The West is disappearing into a New World Order, and 
against globalism, the Tea Party folks may represent 
our last best hope.