Mr. Gore Goes to Washington



It's beginning to have about it the patina of Inevitability, no? Patriotic Gore, possible Nobel laureate, after his Years in the Wilderness -- not unlike Richard Nixon's time out of The arena as an attorney in New York -- comes back, chastened, Principled, lean-and-mean, to claim the mantle that was his birthright from back in the days when his schoolmates at St. Albans called him out of Ozamandias The former Vice President returns as Conquering Hero at the end of March, less than a month after he wins his all-but-collected Best Documentary Oscar. That film, "An Inconvenient Truth," by the way, is going to be shown to every secondary school kid in BritainFrom Politico:

"Former Vice President Al Gore has accepted an invitation to testify next month in a congressional hearing on the highly controversial issue of climate change.

"Gore's film, 'An Inconvenient Truth,' which focused on global warming, received two Oscar nominations this week, one for best documentary feature. For people who make a parlor game of guessing Gore's intentions for 2008, the appearance will surely stoke speculation that he may yet be a late entrant into the Democratic presidential derby.

"Gore will appear at a joint hearing on Wednesday, March 21. He will be the only witness to appear before the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality and the Science and Technology Subcommittee on Energy and Environment. Gore served on both committees during his House tenure representing a Tennessee district."

Would riding into Washington on a White Horse be too ostentatious?