Whitewash?

I just read this over on Rush's site. It's another one of those things that just makes you shake your head and leaves you speechless. You've been reading about Steven Chu, Obama's Energy Secretary, and his comments that we Americans are acting like teenagers because all of us won't blindly follow The Impotent One. Well, here's eomething else about him:

I'll tell you who this guy is.  The name is Steven Chu - you know, we don't hear much of his cabinet secretaries.  We hear about the czars.  This guy spoke up and the name rang a bell to me out there.  So I went out there and I did a little check.  And this was from the [London] Times back in May 27, 2007.  This is before Steven Chu ever even had dreams of being an Energy Secretary.  "As a weapon against global warming, it sounds so simple and low-tech that it could not possibly work. But the idea of using millions of buckets of whitewash to avert climate catastrophe has won the backing of one of the world’s most influential scientists.  Steven Chu, the Nobel prize-winning physicist appointed by President Obama as Energy Secretary, wants to paint the world white. A global initiative to change the colour of roofs, roads and pavements so that they reflect more sunlight and heat could play a big part in containing global warming."  This guy wants to paint everything white.  This is who the Energy Secretary is, and he tells us to stop acting like teenagers. 

He's just yet another wacko who has won the Nobel peace prize...you know, the one Yasser Arafat won. Personally, I think it would be an insult to win that prize considering the company one would be in. Our Energy Secretary thinks we should paint the world white to combat global warming. Just let that sink in for a moment.

JASmius adds: The term "whitewash" in context of the Hussein administration has so many twists and folds of irony as to be at risk of setting off a rhetorical gamma ray burst.

So let's just tack on what Secretary Chu indiscretely thinks of Us, The People:

When it comes to greenhouse-gas emissions, Energy Secretary Steven Chu sees Americans as unruly teenagers and the administration as the parent that will have to teach them a few lessons.

Speaking on the sidelines of a smart grid conference in Washington, Dr. Chu said he didn’t think average folks had the know-how or will to to change their behavior enough to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.

“The American public…just like your teenage kids, aren’t acting in a way that they should act,” Dr. Chu said. “The American public has to really understand in their core how important this issue is.” (In that case, the Energy Department has a few renegade teens of its own.)

This from the same "parent" who evidently didn't know that oil policy didn't fall within is purview as Energy Secretary.

Somebody needs to introduce him to the back side of a woodshed, if you ask me. (h/t Ensign Ed).