The Popularity of Al Gore’s Books, Obama’s First Year and Scott Brown’s Impact
NPR reports that people in the UK have resorted to burning used books in their stoves and fireplaces to keep warm amid record-cold temperatures.
The Obama White House marks one year in office.
Republican Scott Brown scores an upset victory in the Massachusetts special election for U.S. Senate over state attorney general Martha Coakley.
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1. ENVIRONMENT
NPR reports that people in the UK have resorted to burning used books in their stoves and fireplaces to keep warm amid record-cold temperatures.
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Director of Energy and Global Warming Policy Myron Ebell on why Al Gore’s books make the best fuel:
“It is appropriate that his books be used to help keep poor people warm since the principal reason the British government is totally unprepared to deal with the brutally cold weather is because they have fallen for the global-warming myths propagated by Gore himself. Burning Gore’s otherwise worthless books to keep people from freezing is their highest and best use.”
>>>Watch the video “An Inconvenient Truth Keeps People Warm”
2. BUSINESS
The Obama White House marks one year in office.
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Vice President for Policy Wayne Crews on the direction the President should take the Treasury Department in year two:
“Since it insists upon doing more than keeping the books, the Treasury Department must take a leadership role in removing obstacles to corporate and small business innovation like tax and capital gain liberalization, and help expand economic deregulation on a massive scale. Apart from paying the government’s own light bill, Treasury’s leadership is only valuable when it prioritizes wise and honest alternatives to spending yet more stimulus money that it doesn’t have.”
3. POLITICS
Republican Scott Brown scores an upset victory in the Massachusetts special election for U.S. Senate over state attorney general Martha Coakley.
CEI Experts Available to Comment: Adjunct Fellow Fran Smith raises concerns about how Democrats in Congress will react to the popular discontent.
“What’s a cause for concern, however, is how the Democrats are likely to embrace people’s fear and anger by taking up their own populist cudgel to even more vigorously attack capitalism, consumer choice, and any and all Big Business entities. There indeed is fierce popular anger at bank bailouts and big bonuses – Wall Street has become a synonym for greed and arrogance that caused the financial meltdown, with little recognition that government and quasi-government entities like the Federal Reserve and Fannie and Freddie contributed to the financial problems.”
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