Back Talk

It is problematic for them since authorities have attributed some of the fires to arson – police arrested a motorcyclist seen setting one of them – and a downed power line ignited one of them; I have yet to work out how the DemPols can rationalize Bush’s culpability on these. I blogged earlier that a newspaperman and a couple of politicians, including Barbara Boxer, blamed Bush for the severity of the fires because our National Guard are fighting in Iraq and unavailable for assisting with the fires. This is a lie, slime politics on display, and nothing but a blatant attempt to tar the President. The National Guard command announced that we have ample Guard force available if, in an extreme case, they needed to use troops. SlimePols adhere to the principle that if one slings enough mud, some of it is bound to stick and, secondarily, the dirtiest lie appears on page one whereas the retraction appears on page twenty-one. Therefore some of them, notably Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, rashly claimed that man-made global warming caused the fires since Southern California is experiencing the hottest year in history, and we are having the worst fires ever. Of course, twenty minutes after he made the global warming reference on national news, the shockingly mendacious Harry Reid denied he made the remark. When asked if the global warming/forest fire claims are true, a scientist responded, no, and no. The year 1936, not 2007, has the distinction of those two records, and, incidentally, the number of American deaths in those fires ranks second only to 9/11. George Bush wasn’t born until 1946 but don’t you have this uneasy feeling that somehow he caused those fires back in 1936.