Algore is headed to Congress today to talk about — what else? — climate change:

Former Vice President Al Gore will meet with House Democrats Thursday to appeal to reluctant lawmakers to approve the controversial climate change bill on Friday

You know, if we could harness just half the amount of gas coming from this fat, bloviating idiot, we could power half the cars in the United States.

There is no global warming. There may be climate change, but it’s got nothing to do with mankind. It’s the friggin’ sun. The ONLY reason people on the left are carping on this is because a) it’ll lead to higher taxes, b) it’ll reduce our standard of living (maybe to third-world status, depending on how far they can go with this), c) it’ll make people like Gore rich (he buys and sells “carbon offsets”), and d) it’s the ultimate big government scheme, i.e., you dictate to people how to live, what to eat, what to drive, what they can and cannot own, etc. It’s a sham, the greatest hoax in the modern age, and the hippies believe it!

I hate to rehash the old debate, but back in the seventies (and yes, I’m old enough to remember this) they were warning about a coming ice age. We were going to freeze to death if we didn’t stop running our air conditioners and driving our cars to work (the SUV wasn’t invented yet). Then sometime in the 1980s, Mother Nature kicked the “Ice Age Alarmists” in the balls and warmed up the planet a smidge. Never fear, they just changed the wording on their memes to adapt. Just a simple matter of replacing “ice age” and “global cooling” for something else, like “melting ice caps” and “global warming”.

Well, as you know, here we are in the first decade of the 21st century, and the planet is cooling off again. Another kick in the coinpurse for the eco-nazis. Well, they hate wasting paper, so instead of changing back to the “ice age” meme (some already have), they instead think to themselves, “Let’s just call it ‘climate change’, that way we cover ALL the bases!” So simple, yet so brilliant. Now, anytime some freak weather phenomenon comes along, Algore can get out his pointy had and laser-pointer and go on a campus speaking tour, telling our youth how we’re destroying the planet and all that. Lord knows he won’t go face-to-face with any skeptics.

They can dress it up and call it whatever they want, it’s still first-class socialism. And with the track record these people have on predicting what the earth is going to do, it’s amazing they even have the nerve to stand up there at all, let alone have the gall to continue to lecture to us on how we should live.

Update: Algore cancelled his plans. Never fear, though, the Democrats are hell-bent on going forward with this thing, even though they more than likely haven’t read it, probably don’t understand the implications of it, and possibly don’t have the votes to pass it.