The Republican National Committee resolution, passed without fanfare on Jan. 13, declared, “The United Nations Agenda 21 plan of radical so-called ‘sustainable development’ views the American way of life of private property ownership, single family homes, private car ownership and individual travel choices, and privately owned farms; all as destructive to the environment.”

Sustainability has become a four letter word, as I discussed in the blog on the 20th anniversary of Agenda 21.  I expect some serious conservative teeth gnashing when they meet in Rio later this year to revisit the '92 Earth Summit and Agenda 21.

In the end this being driven by the private property rights movement that arose over planned growth management (detailed in another blog by the way).  The corporations and conservative think tanks know that this is an easy target to stoke the fear of big government.  And this is driving the new attacks on liberals regarding their embracing of the supremacy of the state.

There was a time when liberals were attacked for the moral relativism.  They still are, but with the rise of Obama and others like Hillary Clinton and her it takes a village, this has become an ineffective line of attack.  Obama is a lot of things, but a moral relativist is not one of them.

The Tea Party folks are not new - they and those that oppose them have just found a name to call these conservatives who are not within the formal system.  Notions like sustainability are suspect because it is more of an academic buzz word to them.  And academy and its subset of the scientific community are assumed guilty of misguided (or nefarious) intentions until proven innocent.  With the likes of Fox and the RNC, this innocence will be hard to prove.