Ashton, currently the most indefeasibly righteous people in our politics are the left -- lefteous? The folks who cannot see _anything_ good about the United States... funny. I happened to be in Canada when whatsername handed down her diatribe. I got apologies from hotel clerks and cabbies afterwards.
For pure, undiluted certainty about the Revealed Wisdom, nothing quite beats an American leftist university professor with tenure and a tax-supported salary.
Hey, I've an idea! -- let's see what happens when you bring, say, a Falwell disciple and a Berkeley Political Studies professor together. If it can be done in such a way as to contain the resulting blast, our energy worries are over, and we can tell the Saudis to go fish. Might make the country more livable in a lot of ways.