Al Gore Has A Dream

Well, yes, that one's interesting, too, but the one I'm talking about is his dream of ruining the country in order to save it.

John Pethokoukis has a great short article at U.S. News & World Report in which he estimates the price tag of Big Al's full-option climate change package at a cool $5 trillion dollars. "Gore's fantastic—in the truest sense of the word—proposal is almost unfathomably pricey and makes sense only if you think that not doing so almost immediately would result in an uninhabitable planet." Hence all the scare tactics and overheated (so to speak) rhetoric: you're not going to squeeze that kind of cabbage out of the American people unless they think they're just this side of doomed.

The really frightening thing, though, is that, as the long march of history has taught us, no idea is so fantastic that a sufficient quantity of politicians, social quacks, scientific frauds, professional fanatics and poltroonish citizens can't be found to give it a whirl, regardless of the ultimate cost in capital and even human lives (vide the South Sea Bubble, prohibition, National Socialism, Communism, Jimmy Carter's foreign policy; the list is practically endless). Now, I suspect that the majority of my fellow citizens aren't quite ready for a nation covered in bird-slaughtering windmills and lined with highways clogged with pedal cars. But one never knows, for sure.

So, I urge those of my countrymen who are concerned for the preservation, not only of their individual liberty, but of our country's economic strength, to remember that Obama has signaled his intention of finding Gore a place at the table in his administration. Ironic, isn't it? Al Gore has once again given intelligent and rational citizens an important reason to go to the polls this November.