Democrats in Washington following Obama into the political abyss

President Obama has asked his former campaign manager, David Plouffe, to oversee House, Senate and governor’s races to stave off a hemorrhage of seats in the fall. The president ordered a review of the Democratic political operation — from the White House to party committees — after last week’s Republican victory in the Massachusetts Senate race, aides said.

The democrats have followed President Obama to the edge of the cliff and now Obama wants them to jump. In one short year, Obama’s agenda and Obama himself have managed to alienate the very people that put him in power, the independents.

President Obama’s answer to last Tuesday’s “Massachusetts Massacre” as its being called has been a debacle in and of itself. Obama went out on Wednesday acting contrite and said “We’ve lost touch with the people.”

It took less than 24 hours for Obama’s massive ego to rear it’s ugly head once again. On Thursday, Obama was grabbing headlines with rhetoric about being “fighting mad” and “not walking away from health care.”

If this is the leadership that the democrats desire, well then, see you in the growing unemployment lines. Because that’s exactly where President Obama is taking the democrats in Washington.

The White House under President Obama lacks direction. Obama himself admitted that he may have taken on too much. Obama is all over the map with plans to take over the banking industry, the auto industry, the health care industry, at times sounding more like Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez than the leader of the free world.

President Obama and his campaigners can try to sugarcoat last weeks Brown victory in Massachusetts until the cows come home, but it wont hide the alarming trend of the political landscape.

Democrats ran under the premise that they intended to “change” the way business is done in Washington, but based on Obama’s handling of the health care reform debacle, where “transparency in government” was about as clear as a brick wall, and its rather obvious to Americans that Obama and the democrats are playing politics with the people, and the people don’t like it.

Let Massachusetts serve as a warning to the democrats. in the 2008 elections, the people did not vote for Obama’s “change” as much as they voted against McCain/Palin. That appears to be the bottom line.

If President Obama, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi think that an entire year of ignoring the people that put them in office is any way to sustain their political careers, than by all means, let the rest of the democrats in Washington follow their fearless leaders over the political cliff. JD

I have said this for years.  There is no such thing as global warming.   It has been getting cooler for 11 of the last 15 years.    But researchers are making billions of dollars in research grants keeping this lie alive.   Thats the rub here.  Its all about money and control,  and the dullards that permeate the environmental movement are all a part of it.     JD

LONDON — Computer hackers have broken into a server at a well-respected climate change research center in Britain and posted hundreds of private e-mails and documents online — stoking debate over whether some scientists have overstated the case for man-made climate change.

The University of East Anglia, in eastern England, said in a statement Saturday that the hackers had entered the server and stolen data at its Climatic Research Unit, a leading global research center on climate change. The university said police are investigating the theft of the information, but could not confirm if all the materials posted online are genuine.

More than a decade of correspondence between leading British and U.S. scientists is included in about 1,000 e-mails and 3,000 documents posted on Web sites following the security breach last week.

Some climate change skeptics and bloggers claim the information shows scientists have overstated the case for global warming, and allege the documents contain proof that some researchers have attempted to manipulate data.

The furor over the leaked data comes weeks before the U.N. climate conference in Copenhagen, when 192 nations will seek to reach a binding treaty to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping greenhouse gases worldwide. Many officials — including U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon — regard the prospects of a pact being sealed at the meeting as bleak.

In one leaked e-mail, the research center’s director, Phil Jones, writes to colleagues about graphs showing climate statistics over the last millennium. He alludes to a technique used by a fellow scientist to “hide the decline” in recent global temperatures. Some evidence appears to show a halt in a rise of global temperatures from about 1960, but is contradicted by other evidence which appears to show a rise in temperatures is continuing.

Jones wrote that, in compiling new data, he had “just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (i.e., from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline,” according to a leaked e-mail, which the author confirmed was genuine.

The scientist’s use of the word “trick” has been seized on by skeptics — who say his e-mail offers proof of collusion between scientists to distort evidence to support their assertion that human activity is influencing climate change.

“Words fail me,” Stephen McIntyre — a blogger whose climateaudit.org Web site challenges popular thinking on climate change — wrote on the site following the leak of the messages.

However, Jones denied manipulating evidence and insisted his comment had been taken out of context. “The word ‘trick’ was used here colloquially, as in a clever thing to do. It is ludicrous to suggest that it refers to anything untoward,” he said in a statement Saturday.

The University of East Anglica said that information published on the Internet had been selected deliberately to undermine “the strong consensus that human activity is affecting the world’s climate in ways that are potentially dangerous.”

“The selective publication of some stolen e-mails and other papers taken out of context is mischievous and cannot be considered a genuine attempt to engage with this issue in a responsible way,” the university said in a statement.