Liberals and environmentalists have been brainwashing the public and Congress for 25 years, intensively and unceasingly, about 'man-made' global warming, which has prevented us from using America's rich natural resources of oil, gas, coal, and uranium, for the production of energy.

(By the way, who made the Earth's 'Ice Age' go away? It sure wasn't 'Man' !)

The American people are not dumb, but the steady drumbeat of environmentalist strategy to thwart the harvest of energy resources has had its effect, especially on the career politicians in Congress, who rely on the financial and electoral support of this special interest to get reelected forever.

There is little question that the country is suffering a dire shortage of leadership, a shortage of people who are willing to confront those enviros, who don't feel a need to be 'liked' by their peers, and who are willing to take a 'pro-energy' position which might cause them to be attacked by fanatical liberals and 'greens'.

Free market principles AND ample energy supplies is what enables this country to continue to lead the world in prosperity, standard of living, technology, medical progress, low unemployment, etc. Without cheap, plentiful energy, our advances will shrivel into a mediocre, even backward, way of life.

I have nothing against wind, solar, etc, but they will always be puny, almost negligible, compared to what the future will need.

One of the principal areas of activity stifling our country's overall vigor is the ever expanding federal government and its leviathan of regulatory bureaucracy, (e.g. EPA) of which the restriction of energy development is a prime example of how our creeping loss of liberty is a drag on American progress.

The chief villain in this story is the US Congress, which creates and empowers the stifling bureaucracies, and which has long since been corrupted into two chambers of sinecures, where the principal occupation of its members is to guarantee perpetual reelection and lifelong tenure, the well-being of the country be damned.

So how to end this shortage of leadership? I suggest one way: create a 100% turnover in the US Congress in the next few elections.

Since Congress is a key factor in proposing laws, policy, and debates in our country, and provides its members with the visibility to reach all the people (thru C-span TV), shouldn't we strive to make it available to citizen legislators instead of career political hacks?

I'll bet that 535 freshmen in Congress would be a great seedbed of REAL leadership! And how do we do that?

Simply never reelect anyone in Congress!

I'm Nelson Lee Walker of tenurecorrupts.com