GOP TO DEAR LEADER: DON'T TRY IT AGAIN!

The House Republican Conference today released a new video, "Don't Try It Again," highlighting the Dear Leader's plan to announce a series of new energy taxes and EPA regulations to combat climate change.  While the regime's excessive EPA regulations have already resulted in significant job loss, Dear Leader has now called for more.  His energy plan will hurt families, manufacturing, and job growth – and it will destroy a growing coal industry that is responsible for 760,000 American jobs.

Daniel P. Schrag, a geochemist who is the head of Harvard University’s Center for the Environment and a member of a presidential science panel that has helped advise the White House on climate change, told the New York Times that he hoped the presidential speech would mark a turning point in the national debate on climate change.

"Everybody is waiting for action," he said. "The one thing the president really needs to do now is to begin the process of shutting down the conventional coal plants. Politically, the White House is hesitant to say they're having a war on coal. On the other hand, a war on coal is exactly what's needed."

Mitch McConnell responded to it yesterday and referenced the quote:

"It is an astonishing bit of honesty from someone that close to the White House, but it really encapsulates the attitude this administration holds,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said on the Senate floor Tuesday.

"Declaring a war on coal is tantamount to declaring a war on jobs. It's tantamount to kicking the ladder out from beneath the feet of many Americans struggling in today’s economy, and I will be raising this issue at the White House with the president later today."

Many news organizations linked to the article in the Times because of the newsworthy statement by an Obama adviser but by the end of the day the "war on coal" quote, indeed all references to Schrag had been scrubbed.

Ever since current editor Jill Abramson famously said in 2011, "In my house growing up, The Times substituted for religion. If The Times said it, it was the absolute truth." — only to have that quote airbrushed out hours later, it seems like the Times' touch-up artists have gone into overdrive, removing doubleplusungood crimethink remarks, even after they've been quoted by dozens of blogs and Websites — and in this case, the Drudge Report and Instapundit — before the Gray Lady has tossed the original quote down the Memory Hole.  But then, each time they airbrush an article, the original quote becomes magnified that much more, much like the Barbra Streisand Effect.

In other words, the Times' current administration has now lost all credibility.

Pathetic...but, sadly, not surprising.