this is such a cool few paragraphs, i would like to publish it as a separate post

Think of the benefits. Most of the GOP would disappear from Congress. Americans could see their views on the issues of the day (e.g., climate change) reflected in law. And Southern legislators would finally be able to forge the 19th century theocracy they apparently desire.

Governor Rick Perry has already expressed his desire that Texas secede again. I say “Think bigger, Rick. Take the rest of the Confederacy with you!” How sweet it would be to say farewell, friends, and best of luck.

I’ve seen nothing that gets close to presenting the facts as well as that one picture does.

I’d like to submit an occasional essay?

Thanks for chiming in and responding a bit. Tiring doing it mostly alone or with the help of one our two real CleanTechnica readers.

We need a virtual pesticide for the electronic aether.

Do you think you should not be challenged when you spout this crap in public?

The problem for you is, everything I said is true. Insofar as slithering away goes, you and your fellow socialist will be doing the slithering in 2012, much as you did in 2010.

Enjoy your last gasps, leftist. Your time is almost over.

I got to try some more of the lefty hyperbole in the reverse, okay here goes:

“What we need in this country is a partition, like Pakistan and India. Then, you can do as you please without opposition. Get all the leftists in one place and let them bankrupt themselves.”

Ooooh, felt good! Now I see why you guys do that.

The Topic is CFLs vs incandescent bulbs and recent congressional action in that regard.

The problem is that your word salad is filled with cute republicanisms and devoid of the dressing of truth.

Please slither away, there are too many like you and I’m bored with your species.

Obama re-authorized the Patriot Act on May 26, 2011, for 4 more years. O could have let it lapse. The dems had two years of total control of the govt, yet all those things you complained about are still going on. Why is that?

Obama could relax the searches by the TSA today, if he wanted. Why doesn’t he? Because he has no courage. If he told the TSA to back off and something happened, he is afraid he would be blamed.

The rigging of elections has been done for the last 50 years by the democrats, the teacher and public employee unions, and acorn. If someone else is getting into the business of election rigging, I say go for it, give the dems some competition.

Citing made-up statistics from lefty websites doesn’t do anything for your claims, it’s like asking pig farmers if the nation should eat more pork.

On your number 2, looks to me like I don’t have to buy any of that stuff, because the funding that enforces the elimination of the incandescent bulbs has been removed.

You did remind me that I was getting low on light bulbs, so I ordered a couple cases from Amazon. I don’t think I am going to be buying any of those $30.00 LED’s earthled, that’s for sure.

Most Americans don’t give a rat’s butt about the lefty agenda anymore, not if it’s going to cost them anything at all.

What happened with cap and trade again? Actually, I was sort of hoping that the Dems would have got that through, ’cause it would have sealed their fate in 2012, coupled with Obama care. Pity, that.

When the lefty leaders like Gore and Friedman have houses the size of Delaware and run around in DC-10 personal aircraft with 6 people on-board. Then you have the Baracky, taking Air Force 1 and all the support aircraft and limousines, etc, out to go campaigning for re-election donations – burning thousands of gallons of expensive fuel on the tax payer’s dime while NOT doing his job, which, come to think of it, he hasn’t done much of since all this hopey, changey bulls*** he manufactured got him elected.

This green bs is a lot like the dems on taxes – they like to impose them, they just don’t like to actually pay them – how many of Obama’s appointees have evaded tax again?

I’ll begin to take this green stuff seriously when people like Tom Friedman actually live their life by the principles they spout that the rest of us should follow. Friedman and Gore are a couple creepy dudes on top of being liars and hypocrites.

On your number 3, when the tax payers see that property taxes hold the line or go down by removing collective bargaining from public employee unions, who have been showering the democrats with campaign cash for 50 years in return for generous salaries, pension, health care and short work weeks, they will ask for more property tax reduction and finally perhaps we can remove the parasites from the public jugular.

The left is losing, dude, and it isn’t going to get better for them. The next ten years are going to be economically depressed, so the public is not going to look favorably on anything that costs them more money

You guys better hope that the O’s luck holds, ’cause if he loses in 2012, the EPA will be either begging for dimes on the street or shut down.

You may wanna find another “cause” to get involved with, young feller. How about world peace?

I switched to CFLs in 2006. With the exception of one bulb which broke when I clumsily knocked over a lamp, every CFL that I bought five years ago is still in use today.

They have provided light and a small but significant savings of energy and money. I haven’t bought an additional bulb in a couple of years.

We have accepted limits on the flow rate of our faucets and the flush rate of our toilets in the interest of conserving precious water. We’ve accepted fuel efficiency standards for our vehicles as a measure of reducing pollution and conservation of petroleum resources.

Much of society, of civilization, is concerned with placing limits on human activities, on behavior, on consumption of resources.

In the interest of protecting what we hold and use in common we place restrictions on the production of poisons, pollution, weapons, incendiaries and even noise.

Now, Jeff Jacoby tells us that the same people who rolled over for the Patriot act, illegal wiretaps, and public body cavity searches of small children and grandmothers are headed for the barricades over being deprived of the use of incandescent light bulbs?

We do not occupy this planet alone, the universe does not revolve around us, society is about setting limits, so grow up, get over it.

Yes, your freedom is threatened but will you complaisantly watch your elections rigged by corporate interests, your right to privacy voided, your children violated, and go to the ramparts over light bulbs?