The battle between reason and hysteria continues unabated.  I hear daily the same tired misrepresentations, emotional appeals and useless calls for change.

The fact is that the truth has not really slowed the Man caused Global Warming Alarmists as much as it has caused the skeptics to fight a little harder for rationality before we spiral into a morass of knee jerk policies.

In gravely narrated special on TV yesterday the fact that China has passed us as the leading CO2 producer, and India is not long in joining them was mentioned.

You may recall that India and China were exempted from the Kyoto Treaty, and it was their exemption that caused Al Gore to note that the treaty was useless without their inclusion.

And now we see the result of that exemption, they have continued unabated to become the worlds leading befoulers.

Today’s “Founder’s Quote Daily” from the PatriotPost.US is presented below:

“The State governments possess inherent advantages, which will ever give them an influence and ascendancy over the National Government, and will for ever preclude the possibility of federal encroachments. That their liberties, indeed, can be subverted by the federal head, is repugnant to every rule of political calculation.”

– Alexander Hamilton (speech to the New York Ratifying Convention, 17 June 1788)

What’s truly a shame is that Mr. Hamilton was wrong. It’s a pretty fair bet that he didn’t expect the states to abdicate their responsibilities under the Constitution. I think it’s safe to assume that he thought that the state legislatures would take their responsibility to select senators seriously.

Unfortunately for us they didn’t. Several states failed to select senators, and their legislatures ultimately abdicated their responsibility to the popular vote of the people. Eventually this resulted in the drafting, and ultimate ratification of the 17th amendment to the Constitution.