Miscellany

I said that countries would backtrack on global warmist policy nonsense in an effort to increase their economic competitiveness.  I've cited ongoing evidence of this, here is just the latest.

Much of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's economic revival strategy is still on the drawing board, but earlier this month he helped his cause by abandoning Tokyo's 2009 pledge to reduce the country's carbon emissions by 25% from 1990 levels by 2020.

The only formalized international effort to combat global warming climate change was the Kyoto Protocol, as in Kyoto, Japan.  The fact that Japan is going back on emissions commitments is, symbolically at least, devastating.

And, once upon a time, I said this  (btw, definitely worth a click-through if you're into strolling down the memory lane of Obama's unbridled arrogance.):

As long-time readers of this blog know, I have advanced the theory - from almost the very moment that Barack Obama was elected - that he would be a disastrous President and that he would destroy the Democratic Party.

Well, I just found this.

The Hill reports on a raucous meeting of House chiefs of staff yesterday. The room, it says, was “seething with anger over the immense damage being done to the Democratic party” by Obamacare. One chief of staff declared, “this either gets fixed or it could be the demise of the Democratic Party.”