Today, heavyweights from the global warming movement are meeting in Vegas for the “National Clean Energy Summit 2.0.”  That they chose to have the convention in the most wasteful, energy inefficient city on the planet speaks volumes about the participants.  However, attendees like Clinton, Gore, and Schwarzenegger have bigger problems than simply being hypocrites. 

According to new Gallup numbers, they’re losing you.

In the last year alone, the number of people who think the media is exaggerating global warming have jumped 6 points from 35% to 41%.  In that same time, Gallup reports that the number of Americans who are seeing signs that the effects of global warming are occuring has dropped from 61% to 53%.  Dems have one bright spot in the poll, which indicates that DNC party members have remained faithful to the cause, but they’re losing independents rapidly.  The number of indies who doubt global warming jumped 10 points in the last year, from 33% up to 44%.

Most observers say the economy is behind the drop in support, but the coolest summer in decades can’t be doing them any favors.

We’d like to point out that they’re not helped by folks like Al Gore, who own several mansions, travel in private jets and limos, set environmental conferences in eco-unfriendly places like Vegas, and hold stakes in the very carbon credit companies that they’re pushing as the solution to all our woes.

A quick look at history will show: the first casualty of hypocrisy is credibility.

- Robert Laurie

Once again, when faced with voters who disagree with them, Dems have decided to attack rather than listen.

At the end of a town hall meeting in Douglassville Georgia, Representative David Scott (D) opened the floor to questions.  It seems he should have opened it to “questions I want to answer,” because a doctor got up and dared to inquire about health care. 

David Scott did not want to talk about health care.

Instead, he became incensed that someone would have the audacity to “take advantage” of the fact that he’d opened the forum for questioning, and berated the audience. 

Despite the Representative’s tirade, the Doctor who asked Scott why he would vote for a government plan that has already “failed in Massachusetts” is one of the Representative’s constituents.  According to the Atlanta newscast below, he has called several times asking for the meetings on health care which Scott claims he is willing to attend.  So far, however, he’s been unsuccessful in setting one up.

Scott is going to hold a health care specific meeting, one sponsored by his left wing pals from the AARP, but no one knows precisely when.  Hopefully, when he opens the floor to questions, the room  full of belligerent union members will allow the opposition to speak without roughing them up too badly.

We have two pieces of video on this. The first is a news story from Channel 11 in Atlanta.  The second is the uncut video feed of the event.

We’re starting to sound like a broken record, but we still have to say it: Who the hell do these Congressmen think they are? Representative Scott, when your constituents ask a question, you are to answer it, concisely and to the point.  If you can’t be bothered to do that, you don’t deserve your position.

Georgians?  Scott is up for re-election next year.  With his condescending, hubristic hissy fit, he’s shown he’s incapable of carrying out his office in an adult fashion.  Hopefully, you’ll take this child out of office.

- Robert Laurie