Joe Romm’s The Climate Ate My Homework! (re Southern California fires)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- January 13, 2025

“In a rational and moral world, the catastrophe of the Los Angeles fires, fueled in part by climate change, would be one of many climate ‘Pearl Harbors’ that might help wake up the public to the urgent need for climate action.” (- Joe Romm, last week)

“Is it just a coincidence that the worst of the worst happened in California, the Climate State? The Green State? The DEI State? Joe, the mainstream is not buying your ‘Climate Ate My Homework’ reasoning.” (below)

Just add “policy” in two places in Romm’s quotation above, and substitute “inaction” for “action” at the end, and his conclusion can be fixed. But who is Joe Romm? And what is his track record? I have tangled with Angry Joe for decades (I am a ‘sociopath’ to him) and can address these questions.…

Carter on Smaller Government: Words for Trump

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- January 11, 2025

In his February 1977 address, President Carter stated:

I also said many times during the Campaign that we must reform and reorganize the Federal Government.

I have often used the phrase “competent and compassionate” to describe what our Government should be. When the Government must perform a function, it should do it efficiently. Wherever free competition would do a better job of serving the public, the Government should stay out. Ordinary people should be able to understand how our Government works and to get satisfactory answers to questions.

Our confused and wasteful system that took so long to grow will take a long time to change. The place to start is at the top—in the White House.

I am reducing the size of the White House staff by nearly one third, and have asked the members of the Cabinet to do the same at the top staff level.

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