The Politics of Fear Revisited; Barbara Boxer on Global Warming

    President Bush, Vice-President Cheney, and other Republicans were accused of using the “politics of fear” to win elections. We heard Democrats say that it was time to move beyond the “politics of fear'” yet as we can see in this article the “politics of fear” is still being used in full force. Only now it is being used by the Democrats and it is being used on a different issue.

  When President Bush tried to warn the American people about the very real threat of terrorism he was accused of using the “politics of fear.” But just look at the following quote from the above linked article  and then try to convince me that Barbara Boxer is not engaging in the “politics of fear.”

If the Senate doesn’t pass a bill to cut global warming, Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer says, there will be dire results: droughts, floods, fires, loss of species, damage to agriculture, worsening air pollution and more.

  How is she not using the “politics of fear” when she makes those claims. But this is nothing new from this administration, they have been using the “politics of fear” since Barack Obama became president. The only difference between President Obama and President Bush is the issue that they use the “politics of fear” on.

  While President Bush used the “politics of fear” on terrorism President Obama has used the “politics of fear’ on other issues. This example is the latest usage of the “politics of fear,”  but it is not the first time since the election that Democrats have used the “politics of fear.” As a matter of fact the “politics of fear” is becoming a mainstay with Democrats and the Barack Obama administration.

  President Obama used the “politics of fear” in order to demand swift approval of his stimulus bill. Remember when he said a catastrophe would happen if the stimulus bill was not passed right away? I do, this was the “politics of fear” and as we have seen with the failure of the stimulus bill that while the economy still isn’t improving there is no catastrophe.

  I am getting so sick and tired of hearing all of these doomsday profits; Barbara Boxer, Barack Obama,  Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, John McCain, and Al Gore, the list goes on and on, try to tell us that they know what is going to happen with the weather years down the road when meteorologists can’t even predict the weather that is coming two days from now.

  These people need to be arrested, and thrown in jail for attempted fraud.   This is the biggest Ponzi scheme in history, dwarfing even Bernie Madoff. And there doesn’t seem to be anything that we can do about it.