I know John Holdren well. He is intelligent, well-educated, and highly accomplished. He is also the ultimate watermelon. He’s constantly talking environmental protection but inside he’s redder than a monkey’s ass.
Fans of the late, great Julian Simon will remember Holdren as sharing (with infamous population hysteric Paul Erlich) the losing end of the famous wager Simon made with the neo-Malthusians regarding trends in resource scarcity. It is no surprise that the Bamboozler has welcomed Uncle Ho aboard and it bodes ill for liberty.
Holdren’s big thing is that he wants greenhouse gas emissions credits to be distributed to the world’s national governments on a per capita basis. Thus whenever you take a hot shower or crack open a cold beer you would have to pay some utterly impoverished and unproductive jihadi’s dictator for the privilege.
When Holdren was at Cal some of the students took to calling him Uncle Ho (think Ho Chi Minh). We are going to hear a lot from and about this guy. I’m going to be calling him Uncle Ho.
The Obama Cabinet might be named Obama China Cabinet if it turns out to be staffed with crackpots.