Kennedy a Classless Act

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. displayed a disturbing lack of judgment when he chose to blame Hurricane Katrina on President Bush and Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour. He marginalizes himself by making such ridiculous accusations.

Kennedy's blather is published on the Huffington Post, the perfect place for his drivel.

Being the radical environmental extremist that he is, Kennedy doesn't hesitate to attack his political foes, even as the extent of the devastation from Katrina is still being calculated.

He didn't have the decency to wait for the dead to be counted.

He babbles on about the Kyoto Protocol and "President Bush’s iron-clad campaign promise to regulate CO2."

Do you recall such an "iron-clad" promise? I don't believe that Bush based his presidential run on the regulation of CO2.

"Read my lips. CO2 caps." I didn't hear that.

Kennedy writes that in early 2001, Barbour, who had served as RNC Chair and Bush campaign strategist, was "representing the president’s major donors from the fossil fuel industry who had enlisted him to map a Bush energy policy that would be friendly to their interests."

In Kennedy's world, Barbour is the enemy. He's a Republican--strike one. He represented Bush's big money donors--strike two. He was friendly to the interests of the fossil fuel industry--strike three.

I wonder how Kennedy managed to write his post without saying "Halliburton."

He continues:

On March 13, Bush reversed his previous position, announcing he would not back a CO2 restriction using the language and rationale provided by Barbour. Echoing Barbour’s memo, Bush said he opposed mandatory CO2 caps, due to “the incomplete state of scientific knowledge” about global climate change.

Well, the science is clear. This month, a study published in the journal Nature by a renowned MIT climatologist linked the increasing prevalence of destructive hurricanes to human-induced global warming.

The science is NOT clear, AT ALL.

Kennedy comes off like an environmentalist wacko when he makes such statements.

I would like him to explain the connection between human-induced global warming and monster storms of the past. If the global warming he blames on Bush and Barbour caused Katrina, what caused monster Hurricane Camille?

Camille hit thirty-six years ago.

Strongest hurricanes that struck the United States, measured by central pressure readings

1. Florida Keys, 1935, 892 millibars, 26.35 inches

2. Camille, 1969, 909 millibars, 26.84 inches

3. Andrew, 1992, 922 millibars, 27.23 inches

4. Florida Keys and Texas, 1919, 927 millibars, 27.37 inches

5. Lake Okeechobee, 1928, 929 millibars, 27.43 inches

6. Donna, 1960, 930 millibars, 27.46 inches

7. Galveston, 1900, 931 millibars, 27.49 inches

7. Grand Isle, 1909, 931 millibars, 27.49 inches

7. New Orleans, 1915, 931 millibars, 27.49 inches

7. Carla, 1961, 931 millibars, 27.49 inches

A quick glance at the strongest hurricanes to hit the U.S. debunks Kennedy's theory. The science supporting a relationship between human-induced global warming and destructive hurricanes is murky at best.

For example:

1997 was an unusually quiet year in the tropics, one that crossed up forecasters and was a welcome relief from the ferocious 1995 and 1996 seasons.

The year's meager totals -- seven named storms, three hurricanes, one major hurricane with winds of more than 110 mph -- fell well below the seasonal average of 10 storms, six hurricanes and two major hurricanes.

Only one storm made landfall in the United States this year. For the first time since 1961, no storms formed in August. And only one storm developed during August and September, the traditional peak of hurricane activity. The last time that happened was 1929.

Forecasters were wrong about 1997. They predicted a rough hurricane season, but it didn't happen.

Now we are all learning what it’s like to reap the whirlwind of fossil fuel dependence which Barbour and his cronies have encouraged. Our destructive addiction has given us a catastrophic war in the Middle East and--now--Katrina is giving our nation a glimpse of the climate chaos we are bequeathing our children.

In 1998, Republican icon Pat Robertson warned that hurricanes were likely to hit communities that offended God. Perhaps it was Barbour’s memo that caused Katrina, at the last moment, to spare New Orleans and save its worst flailings for the Mississippi coast.

This type of Leftist goofiness might be lapped up over at the Huffington Post, but I find it laughable.

Fossil fuel dependency was not encouraged by "Barbour and his cronies." Fossil fuel has been our lifeblood since at least the beginning of the 20th century.

Kennedy also says the Iraq war is about oil, the radical Left's mantra.

Furthermore, Pat Robertson is not a Republican icon. How ridiculous!

Is Michael Moore a Democrat icon? Well, I guess that's not a good example. Moore is a Dem icon; but Robertson most definitely is not an icon among Republicans.

Something that's not so laughable is the way Kennedy mocks people of faith. That's just offensive. I sense that he's being sarcastic. However, it's sarcasm at the expense of believers.

For Kennedy to say, even jokingly, that Barbour made God mad so his state took a direct hit from Katrina is shameless.

He dismisses the tragedy of this massive disaster to do a little political sniping. He shows no concern for the sufferng people of Mississippi.

Of course, I knew Leftists would blame Bush for Hurricane Katrina. The tsunami was his fault, too. Everything is his fault.

What I didn't know is that Robert Kennedy, Jr. is so politically opportunistic and so thoroughly classless.