Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) does not hold back what he thinks and he seems to take seriously his obligation to inform the American people, as we saw recently with his comments after a briefing about the “objects” that were shot down over the U.S. and Canada last weekend.
This from redstate.com.
It’s truly a thing of beauty watching Senator Kennedy grilling people in the Senate.
Somehow, he always seems to cut right through the bull to the heart of the matter.
If a witness is trying to skirt around an issue or doesn’t know what they are talking about, Kennedy is not going to let them get away with it.
We saw during a hearing for one of Joe-Joe Biden’s judicial nominees, how Kennedy decimated the candidate by just asking a simple question about what’s in the Constitution: What do Articles II and V pertain to? The nominee did not know. But we’d think it an important thing for someone who wants to be a federal judge to know the basic elements of the Constitution.
On Wednesday, Kennedy was grilling Dr. Robert Litterman, who was testifying during a hearing to consider “climate-related economic risks and their costs to the Federal Budget and the Global Economy.”
Of course, we know Kennedy is going to have a field day with this topic. Litterman is the founder of Kepos Capital and the Chair of the Climate-Related Market Risk Subcommittee of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
Kennedy asked a rather important question that we would think someone pushing the climate agenda should know:
“How much would it cost to go carbon neutral by 2050, at least generally?”
But Litterman responded that he was not sure.
And Kennedy pressed:
So you’re advocating we do these things, but you don’t know the ultimate cost.
Litterman said:
Yes, absolutely, I certainly don’t know the ultimate cost.
Kennedy then asked another witness, President of the American Action Forum Dr. Douglas Holtz-Eakin, the same question, who estimated $50 trillion.
The Senator asked:
If we spend $50 trillion … how much will that lower world temperatures?
Holtz-Eakin responded that he doesn’t know because it would be contingent on China.
Kennedy then asked what would happen if China and India didn’t cooperate with the effort, and Litterman said he didn’t know how much that would lower temperatures.
And this is the point at which Kennedy got to the crux of the matter in a moment that’s going viral.
Kennedy asked if Litterman believed that Xi Jinping would do anything that was not in China’s best interest, but do it because it was in the global best interest.
Senator John Kennedy to climate researcher who is convinced that China will do its part in reducing emissions:
"Do you believe in the Tooth Fairy? Do you believe in the Easter Bunny? Do you believe that Jimmy Hoffa died of natural causes?" pic.twitter.com/NdcfQ4IunU
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) February 15, 2023
That question goes to the heart of the problem on the left.
Litterman said, ‘yes,’ he believed that Xi understands we have to work together to address this global problem which, of course, means anything Litterman has to say after that has no validity if he’s that delusional.
“Do you believe in the Tooth Fairy?” Kennedy asked. “No, sir,” Litterman said.
“Do you believe in the Easter Bunny?” Kennedy queried. “No, sir,” Litterman replied.
“Do you believe that Jimmy Hoffa died of natural causes?” “No sir,” Litterman answered.
But if you believe that Xi would do anything that was truly against his interests for the benefit of the world, then that’s the functional equivalent of all those prior statements.
Final thoughts: This must be about the money. These Green-World fools cannot possibly be stupid enough to believe what they try to convince us to believe. We must not allow them to make significant decisions that are going to have a huge impact on us and our economy based on their faulty logic.
