We linked earlier today to the House Select Intelligence Committee’s decision to mandate that the director of Central Intelligence spend more time worrying about global warming and less time worrying about terrorism. Unfortunately, that seems to be fairly representative of the priorities of the Democratic party these days. The good folks over at the Unalienable Right pull this quote from a speech Obama gave in Detroit today:

Challenge the “tyranny of oil?” Is that really the challenge that Obama believes America is now faced with. Look, we’re all for reducing dependence on foreign sources of oil–and we could start by drilling some holes in ANWR, on the continental shelf, etc.–but Obama seems less concerned with where the oil’s coming from, then the deeply suspect premise that oil “threatens to destroy [our way of life] if our generation does not act now and act boldly.” Still, there’s at least one Democrat who is willing to speak to the real danger we face, and the need for this generation to act now and act boldly in confronting it. Here’s Joe Lieberman on the floor of the Senate today: