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Last week 24 House Republicans introduced the No Taxpayer Funding for Climate Zealots Advancing Radical Schemes Act which if passed will defund our “climate czar” John Kerry’s office. This federal feed-bag is beyond political accountability to the voters or Congress, but at least the taxpayers will not be footing the bill for his emissions-spewing, global gallivanting to promote suicidal climate policies.
A Congressional rebuke would be a fitting end to Kerry’s public career––one marked by thoughtless adherence to leftish Democrat shibboleths, new-world-order received wisdom, and bad policies dangerous to our national security and interests.
Kerry’s latest junket was to China last week to coax the communist regime to remain on board with the West’s suicidal “green” energy demonization of cheap, abundant fossil fuels as codified in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. That’s a big reason for the House’s bill to defund the energy czar’s $14 million budget and his staff of 45.
As Rep. Chip Roy (R. Texas) put it, Kerry is the “poster child for the Biden administration’s anti-energy policies that are destroying both our economy and national security.” The trip to China, Roy adds, which is “the top threat to our national security and the world’s number one polluter,” will do nothing but “further hamstring our energy policy.”
Moreover, approaching China as a suppliant and de facto junior partner––Xi didn’t deign to meet with Kerry personally–– in our relationship only emboldens our global rival to continue with its duplicitous diplomacy. As the Wall Street Journal pointed out the obvious, China’s agreement to stick with the Paris deal is “another way of saying Beijing intends to keep increasing its carbon emissions for another seven years. From 2015 to 2022 China’s greenhouse gas emissions grew nearly 12%, while the U.S. cut them by some 5%, according to the Climate Action Tracker.”
And it’s not just China’s duplicity about mitigating “global warming.” China understands that the West is in thrall to the climate-change cult and its “green energy” psalter, and takes such meetings as a way to leverage influence over our foreign policy by dangling the promise of cooperation on greenhouse gas emissions, of which China is by far the biggest emitter––almost as big as the next four emitters combined.
The Journal continues, “The Chinese summary [of the meeting] said Mr. Wang [foreign affairs chief] mentioned how Beijing wants the U.S. to ‘pursue a rational, pragmatic, and positive policy toward China’ and ‘properly handle the Taiwan issue,’ among other things.” The explicit acknowledgement of the quid pro quo, which China will not honor, is just another bold assertion of China’s superior position vis-à-vis its geopolitical rival.
It’s obvious that such negotiating in bad faith has long characterized China’s behavior once one looks at the Chi-Com’s deeds rather than listening to its dishonest tactical rhetoric. While the West has been dismantling its supply of cheap fossil fuels, according to Climate Action Tracker, the Journal reports, “China’s emissions under current policies remain sky high with no sign of substantial emission reductions before the 2030 peaking timeline.”
And no wonder, given that China has been building dirty-coal plants hand over fist. The Journal continues, Climate Action Tracker tells us that China’s “coal production reached record levels in 2022 for the second year running.” According to S&P, “China has added some 112 gigawatts of new coal-fired power plants.” Global Energy Monitor writes, “As of January China had some 306 coal-fired power stations proposed, permitted or under construction. . . . When finished those plants would generate some 366 gigawatts, or about 68% of the world’s total coal capacity under development.” And don’t forget the 180 new coal mines that will “produce some 657 million metric tonnes per year upon completion and could release as much as eight million tonnes of methane emissions a year.”
Meanwhile, we in the West are shutting down “renewable clean-energy” nuclear power plants, outlawing natural gas heaters and stoves, nudging investment funds away from fossil fuel producers, paying the “green” tithe on our gasoline purchases, and mandating EVs and banishing internal combustion engines even though the electricity transmission infrastructure and battery storage are decades away from being adequate for a shift of such magnitude.
But Kerry’s ineptitude and fealty to received wisdom have characterized his public career from the start. For 50 years, he has been a malign force in American politics and foreign policy. From his 1971 testimony before Congress viciously slandering his fellow troops in Viet Nam, to his recent bout of climate-change kowtowing to China’s communist regime, he has served himself and his party rather than his fellow citizens and the nation’s security and interests.
Kerry’s campaign for president in 2004 provides a good example. Kerry’s strategy was to turn George W. Bush into a dangerous, venal bumbler who started the second “unnecessary war” against Saddam Hussein based on fabricated evidence. But this position was a political one in response to Howard Dean’s surprising traction he gained in the primary by running as the antiwar candidate who drew energy from a ubiquitous and vocal antiwar movement; and later by the discovery––which happened only because of the war––that Hussein had no stockpiles of WMDs, though Iraq still retained the knowledge of how to manufacture them.
Before then Kerry, like Hillary Clinton and John Edwards, the other senators in the primary race, in October of 2002 had voted for the Authorization for the Use of Military Force based primarily on the same intelligence consensus in the West that Hussein likely had WMD’s. Twelve days after 9/11, for example, Kerry had told Face the Nation, “It is something we know––for instance, Saddam Hussein has used weapons of mass destruction against his own people, and there is some evidence of their efforts to try to secure these kinds of weapons and even test them.”
Almost a year later, on the same show he acknowledged the danger that Hussein would use WMD’s against the U.S. or Israel, or that Hussein “may even miscalculate and slide these weapons off to terrorist groups to invite them to be a surrogate to use them against the United States.”
This dangerous contingencies that followed from Hussein’s possession of WMD’s, moreover, had long been the consensus in American foreign policy. Indeed, in 1998 Congress passed the Iraq Liberation Law, which decreed that “it should be the policy of the United States to seek to remove the Saddam Hussein regime from power in Iraq.” By then the first Gulf War clearly had not settled the issue of Hussein’s WMD’s, nor had several years of IAEA inspectors, whom Hussein had impeded and gulled, and finally just kicked out of the country in 1998. Diplomacy, inspections, and sanctions clearly were not working, and in the aftermath of 9/11, Americans were not in the mood to keep rolling the dice.
In 1998 Kerry himself thought the same. He warned, “[Saddam] can rebuild both chemical and biological [WMDs]. And every indication is, because of his deception and duplicity in the past, he will seek to do that. So we will not eliminate the problem for ourselves or for the rest of the world with a bombing attack.” This meant, as Kerry put it, “we have to be prepared to go the full distance, which is to do everything possible to disrupt [Hussein’s] regime and to encourage the forces of democracy,” which the Senator specified included sending in ground troops––exactly what Bush would be doing five years later.
Kerry’s rank opportunism and that of the Democrats during the primaries included vicious and duplicitous ad hominem attacks on a president conducting a difficult war––one voted for by the three major Dem primary candidates, and based on policy prescriptions that were endorsed by the foreign policy and security agencies, while many of our European allies and the opposition party exploited those difficulties for political gain.
Finally, we should not forget Kerry’s tenure as Secretary of State during Barack Obama’s second term. A plutocratic globalist and champion of the “rules-based international order,” Kerry’s preference for diplomacy, “soft power,” supranational institutions, and multinational covenants and agreements reinforced Obama’s, and led inter alia to the pusillanimous response to Putin’s annexation of Crimea in 2014, just one of the many failures on Obama’s and Kerry’s watch.
Indeed, it was Kerry who provided what could be the epitaph for our idealistic, naïve foreign policy that has led to Russia’s adventurism in Ukraine and Syria, Iran’s support for terrorism and imminent possession of nuclear weapons, and China’s naked ambition to supplant the “new world” order with its communist tyranny.
In March of 2014, Kerry scolded Putin,
You just don’t in the 21st century behave in 19th century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped up pretext. It is serious in terms of [a ] sort of modern manner with which nations are going to resolve problems. There are all kinds of other options still available to Russia. There still are. President Obama wants to emphasize to the Russians that there are a right set of choices that can still be made to address any concerns they have about Crimea, about their citizens, but you don’t choose to invade a country in order to do that.
The astonishing parochialism and condescending arrogance of these words pretty much sum up the West’s feckless foreign policy idealism. As we are witnessing in Ukraine today, most of the world invades other countries on flimsy pretexts, as it has for all of human history. But our “modern manner” is woefully lacking in the tragic realism that has defined human existence since the Cro-Magnons invaded prehistorical Europe and disappeared the Neanderthals.
Kerry’s career and policy prescriptions are evidence of the mischief such political opportunism and naive ideals can cause. It may not be enough accountability for his catalogue of failure, but defunding his sinecure at least offers some poetic justice.
Kerry is extraordinarily naive snd condescending
When you are a horse faced Marxist-socialist you should wear a hood in public and particularly to a congressional hearing where there are other obscene looking characters.
It’s hard to say what is going on in Kerry’s head, but it certainly shows in his face.
And he has an incredibly long horsey face. I think I saw John Wayne ride him in a couple of Westerns.
Whoever down voted me hates John Wayne, America and heterosexuality.
That would probably be our rezidentura THX. He definitely hates John Wayne because he has trashed his films on this comment board.
re: heterosexuality he appears to be lukewarm at best.
I grew up in Southern CA, which had four local stations to the three national ones, ABC, CBS and NBC, so I probably saw every John Wayne movie ever made. It’s just plain anti-American to hate him or his movies. He was so cool. A Republican, of course.
He’s my favorite movie star. I’ve probably seen nearly all of his movies, but I don’t recall a horse as ugly as Kerry.
So he was a movie star! Wow, that’s really an accomplishment.
//sarc//
He looks like Lurch from the tv show “The Addams Family”. Check it out
The only exciting event left for Kerry is when his butt ugly wig blows off in his helicopter’s rotor downwash………………………
I couldn’t agree more with the premise of this article and, while FrankenKerry certainly must be stopped, one has to wonder: 1) What are the odds of “Climate Zealots Advancing Radical Schemes Act” actual passage? 2) What are the chances that it’s introduction was just a publicity stunt? 3) With a national debt at $32 Trillion and the overall US debt at $101 Trillion, how much will the reduction of a $14 Million budget impact things (7/160,000)?
The time for “show” bills is long over. Climate activism is destroying the infrastructure of this country, quite intentionally. Seems it’s time for a little activism of our own.
I, for one, would like to see John Kerry removed as a climate czar along with his $14 million budget and staff. In fact, he needs to be trounced good and hard in his next bid for re-election. He speaks and I want to smack his mouth off his face!!👋 😶🤐🤤
That will only happen with a change in the White House and Senate. That;s the only way anything will change.
As climate czar he should have to fly coach every where he goes and pay for the ticket himself. Better yet, eliminate the climate czar position permanently and make it illegal to ever have one again.
1). It could pass in the House because we are the majority, but right now it’s probably going to be voted down in the Senate due to the Mitch McConnell, Lyndsey Graham as well as other rhinos going along to get along.. If it’s a PR stunt, all I can say is now is not the time for stunts. We must be serious people, clap back at lies, call them out for what they are LIARS, Republicans and Conservatives refute their statements with true and rational discourse. Let the public see us standing up to them and saying NO, you are not right!
Bitch McCornhole, the Kentucky mud turtle, isn’t going to be around much longer. He’s in a race with Alzheimer Joe to die of decepitude. Both of them keep falling down and freezing up on video.
Good riddance to both of those villains.
The climate czar from Nantucket
Has brains like slop in a bucket
He has no concerns
For the fuel that he burns
His policy seems to be…
**** it!
LOL Dwayne. Lurch has helped to send us to some kind of alternate universe. I can’t figure out where we are any more.
Ha ha haw! Good one!
I like Mark Levin’s nickname for Kerry… “Mashed potato face”
Kerry’s still pissed-off that the Navy Vets he served next to in Vietnam rightly Swift Boated him out of the Presidency.
Bitterness seems to be prevalent in 60’s Leftist die-hards… Hanoi Jane, Hillary, Carville, Reich, Sharpton, Biden… et.al.,
Sowell’s “Anointed” visionaries. A bitter vision.
I like Rush’s name for him: Lurch.
I thinks he looks more like Herman Munster than Fred Gwynne did. The only thing he needs are two bolts on the neck. Amazing that someone whose face would crack mirrors and stop clocks married a ketchup heiress.
She wasn’t a ketchup heiress. She was the widow of a rather decent Republican U.S. senator who was a ketchup heir. Lurch seems to have spent his step-children’s inheritances down to the bone in his lust for the White House.
That grain of rice in his buttox that “earned” him the medal migrated upward and has replaced his pea brain so that now his thinking capacity is the size of that grain of rice.
Yes but that grain of rice required a band-aid. He’s a purple heart hero! And all he had to do was murder an unarmed teen aged boy to get a medal.
Purple Heart Hero!
Just like POW Hero!
Yeah, I felt sorry for McCain back when he was alive because he’d been tortured but being a POW didn’t make him a hero.
He told everyone he ws too.
If such a person , a Viet Nam coward / high-dollar gigolo with mediocre IQ and zero personality, were from the South, we’d have never heard of him.
His social standing in the decadent Northeast USA is his only “attribute.”
A blue blooded Yankee for sure. Not that there’s anything wrong with being a Yankee, I’m one myself, but elitists are scum and I really hate WASPs.
He’s actually not a WASP. In fact he’s everything but a WASP; he just imitates their attributes because he admires them. He’s a Heinz-57, if you will pardon my use of the phrase for him, a real mutt.
John Kerry is always for something..before he’s against it. Another in the long list of morons that makes up this alleged administration.
John F’n Kerry is a total embarrassment as he has always been. Shame on the people who voted for this fraud at any time in the past. The empty suit liar has done more damage than almost any other politician.
Didn’t Kerry illegally meet with North Vietnamese officials back when? If so, wouldn’t that be considered consorting with the enemy?
Yes he did, and he proposed a Madam Binh seven point plan later in his “career.” He was born a turd and he’ll die a turd.
How can this article mention Kerry’s “rank opportunism” without a mention of the millionairesses he married?
He probably takes daily ketchup enemas from that dowager skank.
For quite some time, John Kerry has looked like death warmed over. At this point, having betrayed his country and countrymen for ever fifty years, does he even have a soul?
Maybe. But God may not have mercy on it.
Following his medal grubbing in Vietnam, and his betrayal of his military brothers, Kerry “made money” by serially gold digging wealthy women, then decided “his” wealth meant he was better than others. During his presidential run I always had the feeling that following required handshaking with the unwashed masses he retreated to his luxury campaign bus to shower off the filth. This “better than you” and “pole up a$$” attitude is what characterizes his interactions with “lessers.” But there’s no problem with traitorous Democrat Marxists that a bounty won’t cure.
A horse is a horse, of course, of course
And no one can talk to a horse of course
That is, of course, unless the horse is the famous ketchup Kerry!
Go right to the source and ask the horse
He’ll give you the answer that you’ll endorse
So long as you pay his bills of course
He’s always on a steady course
And always flies first class of course
Talk to Mr Heinz!
People yakkity yak a streak and waste your time of day
But Mister Ed will never speak unless he has something to say
Like global climate warming change ruining your day
A horse is a horse, of course, of course
And this one’ll talk ’til his voice is hoarse
You never heard of a talking horse?
But nothing worse than a dickless horse
Except Mr Dawn of the Dead
Well listen to this…
I am Mrs Heinz!
Good one! Do you remember this limerick from Kerry’s election loss?
While Johnny is sitting and thinkin’,
Theresa’s resuming her drinkin’.
It’s really quite sad,
‘Cause we could have had
The nuttiest First Lady since Mary Todd Lincoln.
That’s F’ing funny!
Ketchup Kerry probably does most of his thinking on the toilet.
What can one say that’s good about John Kerry. Absolutely nothing.
Well, he’ll probably die soon. That’s good.
the nly good thing about kerry is that he didn’t get all that many US service men killd …. kerry was hat was called a cowboy ……. a remf that ran around chasing medals and accolades ……. but the cowboys typically go good men killed ………… kerry was/is like buttigieg, who constantly bragged about getting “outside the wire” ……. just like chinjoe’s son in irag ………… a remf……… in the rear withe gear………. playing hero and putting good men in harms way, for faux glory …………. and faux medals ……….. kerry and his”forgot to duck” medals that he supposedly thru ar the white house when he a hanoi jane were doing there deal . hating America and the military that keeps them safe from there masters………. the chinese/russians that keep paying off their buddy,, prezzie cheat to win bribehim biden……… crackhead’s dad
Reading about this contemptible, virtue signalling, “energy czar” who hypocritically consumes more fossil fuel than a small town, reminds me of our very own contemptible, hypocritical, fraud up here in Kanada: Justin “Blackface” Trudeau. Unfortunately Trudeau is almost 3o years younger than Kerry so we will likely have to put up the the airhead’s smug, condescending demeanor, in one way or another, for quite some time.
wow what a great read on this dude
Yeah he has a horses’s face, but he’s really a horse’s rear end.
Kerry is more of an Iranian mullah than anything else.
It’s KOHEN!!!!!
NOT KERRY!!!!
Context matters!
And would SOMEONE PLEASE crack his financial accounts and steal BACK the Heinz family fortune from these “creatures”!!!!
UNDERSTAND exactly what we are dealing with here.
Maybe. But God may not have mercy on it.
The biggest reason to despise John Kerry is his ” Do as i say, not as I do attitude ! He uses this design to make a lavish living style while he promotes financial type slavery to every hard-working American through over taxation ! He also promotes an Elitist Global dictatorship as he sits near the top !!! DEFUND JOHN KERRY’S INITIATIVE AND HIS CREW THAT WORKS UNDER HIS WING !
There is definately a lot to find out about this subject. I like all the points you made