Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1776, "That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed." "From the consent of the governed." Today is the day that we exercise that consent. "That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends" - those ends being life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Myron Ebell is the director of energy and global warming policy for the Competitive Enterprise Institute, who wrote recently, "The attempt to subvert Christian evangelicals into supporting energy-rationing policies that will consign the world's poor to perpetual poverty is being financed by left-wing foundations such as the Hewlett Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and the Pew Foundation and organized by major leftist pressure groups. People who front for this effort should be ashamed of themselves. They should also check the factual case against global warming alarmism presented by the Interfaith Stewardship Alliance".

The environment, alternative energy, and the jobs it would create.

They consider themselves great American patriots. They love this country just as much as you and I do. Their vision of how it should be is different than ours - their rationale and their reasons are different than ours - but they think that they are doing the right thing. In fact, they so think that they are doing the right thing, that even if it involves lying to achieve their ends, that the ends justifies the means...