What Is the U.S. Congress Doing To Implement Renewable Energy?  The Same Thing It’s Doing on Gun Control 

We’ve seen a few pieces here recently discussing the sad fact that the will of the American people and the laws enacted by the Congress that voters elected are orthogonal to one another—a fancy word that simply means statistically independent to one other, or having no bearing on one another.

There are wonderful examples of this in the arena of renewable energy, of course, where the U.S. Senate is currently doing everything in its power to disembowel the Environmental Protection Agency because of the EPA’s placing regulations on the emissions from coal-fired power plants—yet almost 90 percent of Democrats and even 68 percent of Republicans support more solar power because of their concern that fossil fuels damage the environment.

Yet if you’re trying to hand out a prize to the subject in which Congress is most obviously indifferent to it constituents, you can’t discount gun control.  In the wake of so many tragic shooting sprees in which innocent school children have been murdered over the past few years, Americans are nearly unanimous in their voice that, at a minimum, we need more stringent background checks for prospective gun owners.  Yet the subject holds no water in Congress, where our law-makers thumb their noses at the voters, and simply refuse to take action, even though the common American is begging on his hands and knees for the safety of his children.

It would be easy to end this post on a tragic note, but why?  Here’s a challenge:  I’ll bet you that you will not be able to watch the video on gun control linked here without bursting into hysterics; it’s that spot-on.