Lickety-Split Links (020410, Morning)

I had forgotten that Al Gore shared his Ig-Nobel Prize with the IPCC’s disgraceful leader, which makes the following point raised at the American Interest (HT Instapundit) so spot-on:

Al Gore, who shared the Nobel Prize with Rajendra Pachauri and the increasingly discredited IPCC, has a special responsibility to environmentalists and others in the United States to clearly state that bad science and poor judgment have no place in the leadership of the movement to stop climate change.

I suspect Gore still believes that the “science” is “settled.” But if he no longer does, I doubt that he would ever have the guts to admit it.

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At Calculated Risk, a “Rebound? What Rebound?” observation: “The current level of (vehicle) sales …. (is) still below the lowest point for the ‘90/’91 recession (even with a larger population).”

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Phillip Klein at the American Spectator’s blog, in a post that should be called “Obama v. Bush for Dummies” — “Why Obama Is an Even Bigger Spender Than Bush.”

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Las Vegas’s mayor reacted to this Obama statement (”When times are tough, you … don’t blow a bunch of cash on Vegas when you’re trying to save for college”) by saying that the president is “a real slow learner” (HT Hot Air).

I’m not so sure. A “brilliant” (so we’re told) person legitimately interested in the economy’s recovery would not repeat the same commerce-suppressing mistakes … would he?

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Allan Sloan “discovers” what readers of this blog have known for months — “Next in Line for a Bailout: Social Security.”