Drudge led this morning with a Nancy Pelosi quote from her current China trip.

“We have so much room for improvement… Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory… of how we are taking responsibility.”

She’s so right in one respect…

We are all sinners… with so much room for improvement… compared to the unchanging standards of an utterly holy and righteous God. Every aspect of our lives… is touched by sin… and must be subjected to an inventory… in Christ now (in which case we are forgiven) or without him, later, in front of an utterly holy and righteous God on judgment day (in which case we’re not). We have the free will, and the opportunity to… take responsibility… for our sins by confessing them, repenting and asking Jesus Christ into our life. Then we will be saved. There is no other way.

And yet she is so utterly wrong in how I suspect she actually meant to apply it, which probably goes something like this…

The world has too many people and too big a carbon footprints and not enough well-intentioned, cleverly engineered laws and government programs to ‘help’ the poor and ‘improve’ society and make people do the right thing. If only government would make it harder for people to stop doing things we know, in our omniscient benevolence aren’t good for them, the world would be a better place. If only everyone would trust government to do the right thing and if only everyone did more good works we wouldn’t have to force them to do what they should. Alas, we know they won’t… and so we must.