There was a new Gallup poll which put Congress’ approval rating at 14%.  After seeing Nancy Pelosi on Meet the Press on Sunday, I’m surprised it’s that high.

First of all, there is this laughable and head-scratching quote:

MR. BROKAW:  Well, I think most people understand that, but at the same time, if we work our way off carbon-based fuels, in the meantime, this is not going to happen overnight.

REP. PELOSI:  No, it isn’t, but you could–again, you could reduce the price at the pump immediately with…(unintelligible).  You can have a transition with natural gas.  You can have a transition with natural gas.  That, that is cheap, abundant and clean compared to fossil fuels.

When did natural gas stop being a fossil fuel?  So, Nancy Pelosi thinks that we should switch everything to natural gas since it’s not a fossil fuel (and of course the sharp increase in demand won’t raise prices on natural gas (?), but anyway…)

But then they continue:

MR. BROKAW:  You just mentioned natural gas, and you emphasized it as well in your last radio address talking about the energy plan.  And then we read in The Wall Street Journal that you and your husband have made a substantial investment in the plan that T.  Boone Pickens has put forward, which has a heavy emphasis on natural gas as well.

REP. PELOSI:  But let me see if you call substantial three percent of our investments.

MR. BROKAW:  Oh, it’s what, between 100 and $200,000.

REP. PELOSI:  No, no, it was between 50 and $100,000, and it’s part of an, you know, entrepreneurial package.  This is the package we sign up for, this is what they invest in.  But that’s not the point.  I’m, I’m, I’m investing in something I believe in.  I believe in natural gas as a clean, cheap alternative to fossil fuels.

I’m always suspicious of somebody who puts forward a plan that will benefit them financially.  It tends to bleed away the sense of altruism.

That’s what I love about Congress, though: they’re selfless.

Nancy Pelosi took time off of her six week vacation to appear on Meet the Press.

I’m being a little harsh on this Congress, though.  I mean, look at all of their accomplishments.  If you find any, let me know what they are so I can appreciate them too.

Anyway, keep up the good work, Congress. I look forward to seeing several Democratic scandals in the future.  I’m glad to see that it will involve natural gas.  Which I’m now assured is not a fossil fuel.

And ketchup is a vegetable.

Thomas Friedman was on Meet the Press yesterday.  (Why do I torture myself by watching these shows?)  He annoys me to no end (”The world is flat, the world is flat, hari krishna, the world is flat….”).  Here’s a typically obnoxious quote:

FRIEDMAN: [...] And the world has a problem, it’s getting hot, flat and crowded. And I think we solve our problem by taking the lead in solving the world’s problem. Because the argument of this book is that in a world that is–global warming, hot, flat, rise of middle classes from India to China to Brazil; and getting crowded in terms of population, what I call ET, energy technology, is going to be the next IT, the next great industrial revolution.

Doesn’t that make you just want to reach through the screen and shake him, yelling “Stop repeating your thesis and speak in complete sentences!”?

I think I just don’t trust that man’s mustache.  What’s he hiding?

I think we should get a fund together to send him a globe.