Opportunity knocks

Since we've all been preoccupied with, um, other stuff, I guess I missed some remarks Hillary Clinton made over the weekend:

Clinton told young Europeans at the European Parliament that global economic turmoil provided a fresh opening. "Never waste a good crisis ... Don't waste it when it can have a very positive impact on climate change and energy security," she said.

So, this is a "good" crisis now?  Why, it's almost like the Obama administration has a set of priorities other than solving our economic woes. Like ramming through a laundry list of lefty agenda issues, or something.  Super.

Oh, and Reuters takes time to mention the ubiquitous "some" without actually quoting anybody. Classic:

But with many countries in the grip of a punishing recession, some question whether businesses can muster the hundreds of billions of dollars needed to cut carbon emissions.

No, really? Some think that maybe—just maybe—while we're in the midst of an economic crisis (that Hillary's boss keeps reassuring us could turn into a catastrophe) it might not be the right time to slap expensive new regulations on the industries that we're going to depend on to grow the economy?  Yeah, we're screwed.

I seem to remember a certain bunch of people carping about "the worst economy since Herbert Hoover" over the past four or so years.  Where are they now?

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