Political Grapevine: 10/19

" And now the latest from the political grapevine. The politico newspaper reports that some New York democratic lawmakers are worried embattled house Ways and Means Committee chairman Charlie Rangel could hurt their reelection campaigns. Rangel is at the center of a drawn out house ethics investigation. And some vulnerable junior Democrats are growing impatient. Within its slow pace one says quote the past month it's escalated another says I love Charlie but this can't go on forever. Last week a democratic candidate from Western New York essentially endorsed a Republican effort to oust Rangel from his chairmanship saying quote. Elected officials should be held to the highest possible possible standard Rangel should voluntarily stepped down as chairman of the committee. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown says climate negotiators had fifty days to save the world from global warming. He is forecasting doom if world leaders failed to take action but December's United Nations conference in Copenhagen. Quote we should never allow ourselves to lose sight of the catastrophe we face if present warming trends continue. Brown forecast global warming could be more costly than both world wars and the Great Depression combined. Last week -- we reported declining correspondent for the BBC news at a story titled what happened to global warming. In which he noted that the eleven straight years without an increasing global temperatures. Has skeptics loading. Prime minister brown will no doubt shudder at this prediction from the head of the UN's climate change panel about hopes for firm action at the December meeting quote. The prospects that states will actually agree on anything in Copenhagen are starting to look worse and worse. And earlier this month the White House announced the obamas had chosen 45 new pieces of art borrowed from Washington museums to decorate the White House residence. But it seems one piece of California artist Ed -- Is guarding them garnering the most attention it's called I think I'll. And it deals with the subject of indecision. The words maybe yes maybe no and on second thought. Cross the painting as you see here conservative blogger Michelle Malkin wonders if quote. Next we'll find out that Obama has one of those magic eight balls on his Oval Office desk. A conservative think tank blog simply reads quote indecision and Obama you don't say. The art critic for New York magazine writes predictably clueless anti Obama web site groused that the painting was celebrating in decision. And justice inevitably -- insiders were disappointed in the choices one of the curators at the National Gallery of Art which loaned more than half the pieces says quote. All the works are terrific they have a lot of -- power they're often very Karl colorful."