Nancy Pelosi named Ed Markey to a head a new committee on climate change. The only trouble is that Michigan's John Dingle thinks his own House Committee on Energy and Commerce should take the lead on global warming issues. His response is classic:

"We should probably name it the Committee on World Travel and Junkets," Dingell said. "We're just empowering a bunch of enthusiastic amateurs to go around and make speeches and make commitments that will be very difficult to honor..."

Ouch. Those are dangerous words to be throwing around in the Congress.