Brrr and grrr! Global warming caused my flat tire

If it wasn't for the premeditated harm being perpetrated on the U.S., the "sky is falling" crowd would be downright laughable, what with Algore busy blaming global warming for spawning that monstrous snowstorm that recently buried much of America.

Ernest Istook, a former Republican congressman from Oklahoma, poked fun at Al, writing in Politico: “If you lose your job, blame global warming. If your boyfriend bugs out, blame global warming. If your kids set the house on fire, blame global warming. If the cashier gives you the wrong change, blame global warming.”

Then Istook turned serious: “It’s nothing new for Al Gore to claim that global warming (or should we call it global cremation?) is causing cold weather instead of hot. He already admitted that he was wrong to tout ethanol, but did it for political purposes. His latest comments are just as consistent.”

Conservatives in the U.S. House aren't laughing. They decided to do something about it last Thursday, approving an amendment to a government-spending bill that would block funding for the Obama administration’s so-called "czars.” You know, Mr. 0's hand-picked advisers who answer neither to Congress nor the American people, only to the dictator in chief. The amendment specifically targets the “climate czar” by blocking funding for energy and climate change. The move would unfund the czars through the end of the fiscal year.

Said Rep. Steve Scalise, who authored the amendment: "I think this sends a strong signal to the president that we are tired of him running this shadow government, where they have got these czars that are literally circumventing the accountability and scrutiny that goes with Senate confirmation. We are going to save millions of taxpayer dollars, but we are also going to send him a signal that he is going to have to hold his administration accountable to the same transparency that he promised, but has unfortunately failed to deliver," Scalise said.

Not letting his miserable track record with Congress get him down, the plucky Mr. 0 is using his regime's agencies and the Clean Air Act to push through his global warming agenda anyway. In fact, the new year began with new carbon limits, and the Environmental Protection Agency is drawing up regulations that require companies to get permits to release greenhouse gases.

After all, who needs Congress, or the support of the American people for that matter, when you're a tyrannical dictator, right?

By the way, American Enterprise Institute scientist Ken Green recently told Fox Mr. 0's new regulations are "job killers," that "any kind of regulation is a weight on economy." ... "It requires people to comply with the law, which takes work hours and time, which reduces the profitability of firms. Therefore, they grow more slowly, and you create less jobs."

Mr. 0, of course, is pleased: It's a lose-lose situation for capitalism that has communists everywhere applauding him.

The Scalise amendment, which must clear the Dem-controlled Senate, would also prohibit funding for the director of the White House Office of Health Reform; the State Department’s special envoy for climate change; the special adviser for green jobs, enterprise and innovation at the Council on Environmental Quality; the senior adviser to the secretary of the treasury assigned to the Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry and senior counselor for manufacturing policy; the White House director of urban affairs; the special envoy to oversee the closure of Guantanamo Bay; the special master for TARP executive compensation at the Department of the Treasury; and the associate general counsel and chief diversity officer at the Federal Communications Commission.

So you might want to thank Rep. Scalise while urging your U.S. Senators to follow suit. Get their contact info through the U.S. Capital Switchboard at (202) 224-3121.