Krauthammer: Obama’s Global-Warming Folly; No, Mr. President, we don’t need a war on coal.

 

Charles Krauthammer   "The economy stagnates. Syria burns. Scandals lap at his feet. China and Russia mock him, even as a “29-year-old hacker” revealed his nation’s spy secrets to the world. How does President Obama respond? With a grandiloquent speech on climate change.

 

"Climate change? It lies at the very bottom of a list of Americans’ concerns (last of 21 — Pew poll). Which means that Obama’s declaration of unilateral American war on global warming, whatever the cost — and it will be heavy — is either highly visionary or hopelessly solipsistic. You decide:"

....there is no point in America’s committing economic suicide to no effect on climate change, the reversing of which, after all, is the alleged point of the exercise.

Unemployment Stays at 7.6% Under-Employment JUMPS By Half/Percentage Point   "There is a long way to an economic recovery and look for the unemployment rate to rise in September when some of these summer jobs go away."