End game for eek!-o-freakery

When Democratic Senator Harry Reid announced the long-awaited energy bill last Tuesday, I felt a momentary pang that our own dear leader has renounced the slavish me-tooism of his predecessors. But then that is par for the course - the British state only ever imitates disastrous US policies.

The Reid bill does not mention cap-and-trade and does not even cap emissions or impose renewable electricity standards on utility companies. A group of 350 eek!-o-freak organizations that have been riding the climate catastrophist wave promptly issued a protest:

At every opportunity, a minority of Senators who are in the pocket of America’s largest polluters in the coal and oil industries chose obstruction over working together to solve America’s energy and national security challenges. As a result of their actions, the big polluters will continue to reap record profits at the expense of Americans.

Actually, the oil and coal industries have been at each other's throats for decades, with the oil majors paying greenmail into the bulging coffers of leading eek!-o-freak organizations. If the enviropukes had bothered to study history, they might have realized that Wilberforce and Co. prevailed against slavery by playing British merchants off against the West Indian planters.

But they did not. Making far too much money by the indiscriminate denunciation of sin, environmental organizations reversed the sensible environmental slogan and tried to act globally while thinking of local advantage. They lost sight of the possible, overplayed their hand, and have lost the game.

If, in the world's leading emitter of greenhouse gases, the Democrats dare not risk their electoral fortunes on the global warming scam in which they and The One himself profess to believe, then the wave has broken and the tide is in full retreat.