Obama Tries to Screw in Loose Bulb of Energy Record
“Because many permitting and review decisions for significant infrastructure projects involve multiple Federal agencies, the Executive Order sets up a Steering Committee chaired by the Office of Management and Budget’s Chief Performance Officer and composed of relevant Federal agencies and directs it to develop a Federal government-wide plan by the end of May that includes clear deliverables and timelines for reducing the amount of time it takes to make permitting and review decisions,” the White House said in its announcement.
“…It is critical that we make pipeline infrastructure a top priority. …This Presidential Memorandum builds on a strong record of accomplishment.”
Republican Sens. John Hoeven (R-N.D.), John Thune (R-S.D), Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), John Cornyn (R-Texas), Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and David Vitter (R-La.) will respond to the Cushing visit with a press conference on the Hill directly afterward.
“President Obama’s visit just highlights that he is continuing to obstruct construction of the Keystone XL project while gas prices continue to rise for American consumers,” Hoeven’s office said in announcing the planned rebuttal. “The fact is, the southern portion of the project doesn’t require presidential approval because it doesn’t cross an international border. It requires approval by only state authorities, the Army Corps of Engineers and other agencies.”
Not that Republicans have been resting on their laurels waiting for the president to come back to Washington. On Tuesday, Lugar lashed out at the administration at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee nomination hearing for the first assistant secretary of State who would be devoted entirely to energy issues.
“Given the multiple crises in the Middle East, and the certainty that threats to oil supplies are not limited to the current Iran situation, President Obama did not act in our national interest when he rejected approval of the Keystone XL Pipeline,” Lugar said. ”Even his own Energy Department says that Keystone would help lower gasoline prices. After more than three years of State Department review, one must conclude that it was presidential politics, not lack of time which led the president to reject the pipeline.”
Obama wraps up Thursday at Ohio State University in Columbus to tour the Center for Automotive Research — namely, electric cars.
While he was away today, a group of liberal senators advanced a strategy of blaming pump prices on rampant speculation by introducing a bill that would order federal regulators to “invoke emergency powers to rein in crude oil market speculators responsible for rapidly rising gas prices,” said the office of sponsor Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.).
The bill, co-sponsored by Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Al Franken (D-Minn.) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), gives the Commodity Futures Trading Commission a 14-day deadline to implement trading limits outlined in the Wall Street reform law.
“To combat excessive gas prices we need a crackdown on out of control speculation and gambling in oil markets,” Blumenthal said. ”This agency — inactive for too long — must be compelled to act, stopping manipulation and abuses that cost consumers and endanger our fragile economic recovery. Emergency powers of the CFTC must be used now to correct market dysfunction and disruption driving up prices at the pump.”
Blumenthal asked Attorney General Eric Holder on Sunday to probe and punish “excessive speculation” in the oil markets.
If it weren’t an election year Obama and the rest of the anti-energy social-Democrats would be cheering and trying to drive energy prices even higher. If he manages to winin Nov expect him to continue his attacks on our energy supples and suppliers.
The fact of the matter is that Obama & Co., in thrall to his far Left environmental base, and eager to “fundamentally transform” the U.S. and its economy–in the process trying to arrogate to the Federal government the power to tax and direct and constrain and dictate every aspect of our lives–has done everything possible, through regulatory and other actions, to penalize, hamper, and cut the production of “old” energy i.e. the coal and petroleum that still provides 95% of our energy today–deliberately driving up the cost of gasoline, putting coals fired generation plants out of business, banning any further oil prospecting on our Continental shelves or on Federal Lands, while diverting billions of federal tax dollars to fraudulent, not techno logically mature, no economically competitive, not ready for prime time “environmentally friendly” and “new” sources of potential energy—like, wind farms, solar energy, and electric cars—most of which “investments” have gone to companies and people friendly to the President and his agenda, to campaign contributors, and backers, to cronies whose companies have, after taking billions in government subsidies, promptly declared bankruptcy, and have either not produced any products at all, or produced high priced products that the public does not want.
This is a scam on a gigantic scale.
The origins of the modern left can be traced back to the famous passage in Rousseau’s Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality, in which he condemned the institution of private property: “The first man, who after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, ‘this is mine,’ and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.”
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And what would you propose? Everyone should own that property as part of a syndicate? The government should own it (and the rest)? Or should we all learn to just hover?
Private Property translates well into Existence, because we have bodies. We are born to reflect, and that is that.
“Private Property translates well into Existence, because we have bodies.”
And as P.J. O’Rourke once observed (in “All The Trouble In The World”), this is precisely why greens in general, and “watermelons” (“green on the outside, red on the inside”) in particular, do not even want private property to exist.
It implies that we have a right to exist, and they just will not stand for our continued oppression of Holy Mother Gaia. Only the “true conservators” of same have any right to exist at all, and as Richard Glover said in the Sydney Herald (and probably wishes he hadn’t), they want to live in caves, wearing only t-shirts saying “Support Wildlife”- and which would indeed do so, as each would be its own little ecosystem, complete to spores, mold, and fungus.
The real problem is not that we have nihilistic fanatics running around loose; we’ve had that problem literally since the beginning of history. (Look up the Skoptics in Russia, or the Hashashin, sometime.) The problem is that now there are enough ignorant, delusional people in positions of social and political power (the President, the MSM, Hollywood, etc.), that these gibbering dingbats are being taken seriously enough that their delusions are guiding public policy.
When a cult takes over a society, the results tend to be unfortunate. Hunter S. Thompson once observed (re the “Jesus Freak” movement of the early 1970s) that “Entire empires have been destroyed by vengeful freaks claiming a special relationship with God”. This is especially true of those who regard dirt as a deity, as the Gaiaists do.
However, what HST forgot is the more dangerous corollary. That being the number of polities wiped away by even more vengeful freaks who believed that they, themselves, were in fact gods.
Which is a good definition of most of the deep-ecology left’s enablers in the halls of power today.
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And the national socialists and the greenies will be the staunchest of allies…until they’re not.
Strange bedfellows indeed. I have witnessed over the past three years the inconsistencies, oxymorons and outright hypocrisy of the left, first dancing with this partner, then that. Claiming someone like Steve Jobs was the strongest supporter of ecology while ignoring his incredible wealth yet excoriating same from the “average” Wall Street “fat-cat”.
At some point it has to reach critical mass and implode. Democrats, by definition don’t like each other. You can’t make me believe that Holder has any respect for Obama and vice-versa because they BOTH have been steeped in pots of their own superiority over others.
Eventually, the greens will have outlived their usefulness and only a select few will be chosen to be amongst the privileged, a precarious position at best as shown by the likes of every green crony socialist project to-date. (On the other hand, if Obama wants to use them as examples of the “failure of capitalism” then I guess that’s ok)
There are many problems with the dysfunctional minds in the left corner but none moreso than the inability to acknowledge that the rest of the world watches, sees and understands what they’re doing. If you leave your fly open, someone’s going to notice.
One of the basic principles of would-be autocrats of any stripe is that they hate competition. While they may unite against a common foe, in the end each one will turn on the other, on the Old West badman’s principle viz. the marshal, i.e. “This town ain’t big enough for the both of us, hombre”.
Another factor is their astounding ignorance of science. Somehow, they believe, when those who survive their “Great Simplification” are living in mud huts (while they live in stone castles), they will still have their Blackberries, their Wi-Fi, their limousines… and multiple-bypass surgery. The fact that all of the above require the very technology base they seek to erase is totally lost on them. And the “super” technologies some of them dream of using to replace the “evil” technologies of today won’t run without an infrastructure, either; even Star Trek style replicators have to be plugged in, somewhere.
When you couple the ethics of the Mafia (Castellamarese War 1932 vintage) with the technical acumen of a Micronesian tribal shaman running a post-WW2 “cargo cult”, you have a good definition of the average “deep-ecology” and “progressive Utopian” leaders of today.
The only real question is that, if they ever do achieve their Luddite goals, just how big and unrecoverable the resulting crash will be. I’m thinking about Walter M. Miller’s “A Canticle For Leibowitz” level- if we’re lucky.
If we’re unlucky- more like Wells’ “The Time Machine”.
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Sorry for that. I must have not been paying very good attention to your post.
“President Obama began a two-day tour-de-energy today as the administration put a full-court press on an issue that could leave him vulnerable in a campaign season: energy costs that keep stinging consumers.”
You forgot to mention the endless ads being run on Hulu complete with silly graphs touting the same. Curious, how only the great leader seems to have ads running on Hulu.
George Orwell only missed the date for his book 1984 by about 28 years….
BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
Actually, Eric Arthur Blair (Orwell’s real name) wrote the book in 1946-47, and the title “1984″ is simply the year of its publication, 1948, with the last two digits reversed.
“Orwell” was using science fiction to comment on the way the world was at that time. And considering some of the things that happened in the five years after VJ Day (Berlin Airlift, Soviet annexation of Eastern Europe, the Attlee government in Britain- yes, there really was an “Anti-Sex League” in Britain back then), his parody was a bit too close to the bone to be really amusing. (Yes, the book was originally intended as an example of black comedy, rather like Dickens’ “Bleak House”.) The “Ministry of Truth”, BTW, was based on a combination of Pravda… and the BBC. (Blair had at one time worked for the latter.)
He also anticipated that in the future, the efforts of would-be social reformers to remake the world in their own Utopian image would descend through tyranny to farce. As we see today.
That book was titled “Animal Farm”. And was set in a barnyard because Blair considered that it needed a setting as simple as the minds of those who believe they are so brilliant that reality itself must bend to their will. Sort of like modern-day “progressives”.
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If Obama is so serious about his stand on energy then let’s issue a challenge: Starting tomorrow no use of petroleum, petroleum products, or other fossil fuels by the White House.
No Air Force One. No Marine One. Give up the big limousine and the bus. The White House is probably heated with fuel oil so no heat. The electricity probably comes from coal-fired power plants so stop that too. As of tomorrow no electricity that does not come from windmills and solar.
And since plastic is a petroleum product, no more use of anything containing plastic, and that goes clear down to the wrapper on the loaf of bread and the ink in his pen.
Obama, still trying to screw in the fat end of the light bulb. Grossly incompetent.
Let’s face it. The one thing we can be absolutely sure of after three years, is no matter the personal accolades claimed by the Left, the nebulous scholastic awards, the profundity of “YES WE CAN”, Obama’s biggest problem is he completely devoid of intellect.
But you got the Feckless One credit for his nerve.
Can you imagine having the unmitigated gall to claim success and credit for production increases in domestic drilling when Obama has done everything short of blowing up the rigs to impede it?
So Jay Carney doesn’t know that (1) we know that obama’s an incurable liar and that (2) his record on most matters is fairly public knowledge and we are able to know what he’s lying about and when he’s lying?
Jay-Baby doesn’t know that?
The American voter must choose. The politicians, in both parties, have kicked the energy can down the road for two generations. We have run out of road, and run out of time. Americans must and should conserve energy, not due to ideology, just frugal, common sense, living. We must decide, now, on climate change. Based on sound scientific judgments, I do not consider it is dangerous to humanity, but if I am wrong, we must severely curtail carbon combustion, within the next few years, or suffer predicted catastrophes.
However, and it is a big however. My President has no concept of our energy infrastructure. If America does not quickly begin to drill, dig, burn and radiate our plentiful native fuels, we will lose our advanced way of life. The green energies will find niche markets but are far too costly to sustain our society. If the government forces green energy on us, Americans will starve. We will become poor. Gasoline prices are starting to bite hard, on our economic life, and the Head of DOE wants them to double.
Today, the SC voted 9 – 0 to require EPA to submit to our courts rather than unilaterally financially destroying citizens without redress to the court. The SC also criticized Congress for writing Clean Water Laws containing poetry but no clear legal standards.
It is past time, decades late, to change out incompetents in both parties, who have screwed up our energy policy. Or continue and suffer skyrocketing energy costs as promised by candidate Obama.
These costs can break us. America runs on cheap energy, and without it, we will lose the future.
This guy is a bum. So, some Congressman said those are phony jobs? Yes, obviously he was attacking their newness. What??? It is amazing that this ridiculous straw-man and more like them, and the absence of this president ever saying anything that is logically sound slips past his supporters. Maybe it doesn’t slip, but waltzes. It is like he is talking to little children. It really is.
Does anyone other than an adoring press pay any attention to these campaign blame tours? The newshawks may find some incremental leverage for their causes in these blatherings, but we the average non elite voter only see the rising prices.
Speaking to the proposed legislation offered by a certain leftist U.S.senator better known for his comedic skills than anything—trying to control commodities markets of internationally traded goods to rein in speculation is stupid. If oil companies could not trade futures on the oil futures market based in the USA, futures markets will be established elsewhere. Speculation spreads risk and thereby saves oil companies and consumers money. Speculation and futures markets are critical to the liquidity of the purchase and sale of any number of commodities throughout the world.
In there ignorance basic economics, those that decry speculators and speculation are simply trying to pin the blame on a Kulak under Stalinist Russia, a Goldstein in the novel, 1984, or a Jew, the kind that supposedly conspires with all the other Jews to kidnap Goy children, poison wells, spread plague, and corner markets, etc., etc. ad nauseam.
Senator Franken and President Obama are classic demagogues. They do not understand basic economics. For our sakes, they need to be thrown out of office.
What makes it worse is that they think that they do understand it. When people are at their worst is often when they stick their noses into something they don’t understand. Steven Chu should know better but apparently he isn’t as bright as everyone makes him out to be. But, let me ask anyone this: “How often have you had to deal with a generally smart person who you cannot explain the task you are trying to do?” By that I mean they constantly interrupt, dismiss or belittle your explanation with some over-simplified rationalization.
Although such arguments can have two sides, I have often had the difficulty of trying to make an analogy for a person who doesn’t understand the complexities of what I need to do and the time it will take. They are not stupid but have a dozen other negative qualities that prohibit the transfer of knowledge. Impatience, arrogance (and with that a complete lack of humility), egoism, etc etc.
There are a great many intelligent people but intelligence is but a singular virtue and useless without the ability to realize one’s own limitations.
“After more than three years of State Department review…”
How about some hearings to have the State Department explain and defend what they have been up to for over 1000 days ??
Maybe we would like to see how our tax dollars are being spent on such ‘evaluations’.
To add insult to injury, the promised tens of thousands of “new energy” jobs that these “investments” were supposed to generate, were presented as basically accomplished “facts” by Obama & Co. and their spokesmen and functionaries, were counted in the endless repetitions of the administration’s totals of “jobs created or saved,” and trumpeted to the skies when news reports–reluctantly, I am sure–have reported that few if any new–and permanent–jobs have been created, and that often the paltry number of jobs created have cost the taxpayers staggering amounts of taxpayer dollars per job, sometimes in excess of 100K per job.
Carney said. “But the reality is oil and gas production in the United States has increased under President Obama; reliance on foreign oil has decreased significantly under President Obama. We have made clear that some of the trend, especially in the increase in domestic production, is due to policies of the previous administration, but it is due also to the actions that this administration has taken.”
No Mr. Carney – the facts are oil supply in the USA is up in spite of your boss not because of him. And the EPA is putting the squeeze refineries that may well cause some to shut down.
Typical liberal – taking credit for something they’ve tried to strangle the life out of that refuses to die in spite of their best efforts. And half a pipeline? No shit? Another half-assed measure eh? Typical.
I particularly liked the sniveling trib to “increasing production on federal lands.” Well, that will not be very hard to do when you are the one solely responsible for an over 40% decline of such in just 3 years.
The job creation element of this project is only 5 full time employees, not 10. Which brings the government subsidy to about $10.8 million per job created. (not so bad when you consider the sustainable energy jobs created by the stimulus only cost just over $6 million per job created on average).
To put job creation numbers in perspective, just remember 3.5 million people lost their jobs in the month of January 2009 due solely to the policies of the Barak H. Obama administration.
The output of the plant is further subsidized in the form of government regulatory laws passed in California that require a certain percentage of net electricity be from renewable sources. In short, the electricity is forcibly contracted to a price point that has no relation to actual market value on the down side. The customers will be paying the difference. Under this construct of stupidiy, the price can never go down, irregardless of market conditions.
Not very forward thinking in my book.
Too boot: Sempra Energy, the owner of Copper Mountain Solar recently announced they are outsourcing solar panel production to Mexico due to regulatory and tax environment in the USA.
OBAMA’S GREEN ENERGY MACHINE IS RUNNING OUT OF GAS
Did you know that the 4th greatest president ever, and greatest wartime leader in 500 years, also believes that he’s the Christopher Columbus of green energy technologies, saving the world one wind mill at a time from the catastrophe of man made global drowning? The audacity of the man. Though oil makes the world go round it’s the obsolete energy of ignorant flat earthers who want a GOP president from the medieval past offering an AFFORDABLE ENERGY ACT. Mock on Mr. President and kick us in the a$$. By November 6th, with fuel costs in the stratosphere, your green clean energy machine will end up like Solyndra and run out of gas.
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“Scuze me whilst Ah ‘fix the horse t’the cart and git on down the road a ways t’the general store so’s I kin gits me some supplies a’ferrn’ they runs out. I doesn’t needs no awl er gas. Just Hay. Ma ol’ mule gits about 3 MPB (miles per bushel) an’ he’s a might wore out…but I got no feer that Mr O’bamma ( Ah luvs me them Irish sunsabitches) is a-gonna git us outn’ this hyar mess for’n too long a spell. Meewhiles, Ah thinks we be all juss fine and ain’t noe use a’frettin’ over it.
Solar panels, wind mills, switch grass, ethanol, and pond scum are all political energies. That is, they are not a real solution, but serve to pretend we are doing something serious about energy supplies and costs. Real energy is coal, oil, natural gas, and nuclear (with a little hydro). But access to cheap oil & gas is freedom; without it its free-doom. Cheap oil & gas is necessary to propel your cars, train engines, busses, and air planes. You can’t power these things with solar panels and wind mills. And cheap energy is necessary to power your factories. Without it, they can’t compete here in the USA. High labor costs coupled with high energy costs is the end of what’s left of manufacturing. Its that simple.
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Tim Wilson-it’s a sorry world
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This is all as was foretold in Atlas Shrugged. All the talk that sounds fine until you realize it doesn’t actually say anything. The bold faced lies. The false facts and the skewed facts. The new appointees who report only to little o, the new Offices of This, the new Directors of That. Any day I expect to hear of a new Dog Eat Dog Law, or a new “Fairness” Doctrine that is the complete opposite.
Ayn Rand said, “When one deals with words, one deals with the mind.” She then bemoaned that a time was coming in America when “words meant nothing.” We are fully there. It is the Socialist way to call horrible things the opposite of what they actually are and to make them sound good.
If she was right about everything else, one can’t help but wonder if her end result will also come to pass.
“…a Federal government-wide plan by the end of May that includes clear deliverables and timelines for reducing the amount of time it takes to make permitting and review decisions.”
So, instead of taking two years to deny a permit, they’ll deny it in one year. Yeah, that’s progress!
So Obozo, our clown in chief, is now in favor of drilling?
Had me laughing and rolling in the aisles. Didn’t he lobby senators to vote against the pipe line??????
So then I remembered, that you know when a politician or a lawyer is lying, their lips are moving. And this man is both a politician and a lawyer.
I have three reactions. First, does Jay Carney ever feel any embarrassment over his job? He is like a carnival shill. Second, Obama is in full campaign mode – he is ramping up his use of ridicule, straight out of the Alinsky playbook. Third, this administration’s response to every private sector problem is to hire more government bureaucrats – an illogical strategy if ever there was one.
“…he is ramping up his use of ridicule, straight out of the Alinsky playbook. ”
There are a couple of ways to look at this. One is that this tactic only works with certain kinds of people and then, only for a certain amount of time. People like Bill Maher probably get wood over it, thinking that such smart-assery is quite clever. And, of course it’s possible that 2)there are enough of these kinds of people to storm the polls in the Fall and get this ass-hat re-elected. However, I think what’s really going on is 3) that this guy, whether he knows it or not, is panicking. His behavior indicates as such and he’s just about ready to flip the board over in anger because he can’t win. On that day, you’ll see the sorest of losers and the media claiming how racist the nation is by un-electing the pitiful Marxist.
Even the left though I think tires of propping up this cardboard cutout of a president. It’s going to reach a crescendo where, like now on one day he was saying how there’s nothing he can do about oil prices while staking a claim in OK and crying out what a great “oil guy” he is by “fast-tracking” and “cutting red tape” to get an already-in-the-works pipeline from OK to TX.
When he’s talking out of both sides of his mouth the noise only really emits from a different orifice.
But the media and the O-blammoPR machine will go into full spin cycle and re-write the news to provide whatever sounds best but the problem is they will lack in coordination and one paper will report “X” while another will report “Y” and still another “Z” thus getting the Obamanauts in an unstable orbit and not sure what to do. Again his position on green energy vs. oil is the perfect example. Last year all we heard was how we needed to “tune up our (electronic ignition) cars” or “inflate our tires”, etc etc. and that we can’t continue to “deplete the world’s oil”…this was while he was stumping for solar/wind/etc. Now, all of a sudden in less than 48 hours, he’s “fast-tracking” this pipeline from OK to the gulf coast because he’s somehow “pro-oil”.
Unreal. Those of us who can think see the shows he puts on and we shake out heads but his drooling mouth-breather fans are left dazed and confused.
“…does Jay Carney ever feel any embarrassment over his job? He is like a carnival shill.”
I have often wondered this myself. What a low life any spokesperson for this President must be. None of them would know the truth if it bit them in the arse. Their job desciption must read something like
–must be able to tell outrageous lies with a straight face every time you apear in public
–must have no conscience
–must have a complete disdain for the American people
–must be able to develop sing-song phrases such as “indisputable, incontrovertible, immutable, inexorable facts” and “everyone gets a fair chance, everyone does his fair share, and everyone plays by the same rules.” (This 2nd statement has me hoping that Affirmative Action is about to be dissolved).
–must be White to allay claims that this Administration is racist
–must wear glasses to appear intelligent
–must have small piglike eyes
Drill Our Way to Lower Oil Prices? Yes We Can! Posted 03/15/2012 http://news.investors.com/article/604557/201203151838/oil-prices-drop-quickly-on-talk-of-petroleum-reserve-release.htm
Obama Changes We Can Really Believe In?
I haven’t had the pleasure of visiting the White House in decades so I can’t personally attest to all of the following details on recent alterations in America’s executive mansion but they are interesting, to say the least.
For example, has anyone noticed that our president no longer conducts his rare press conferences with the traditional trappings of American flags in the background?
Instead, a bright yellow curtain replete with what some people believe are Arabic symbols now decorates the press room, along with Obama’s trusty teleprompters, of course, without which he tends to put his foot in his mouth.
And, has anyone noticed that the decor at the White House has radically changed since the Obama clan occupied 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue?
The Oval Office is now almost devoid of the traditional display of American red, white, and blue. It has been replaced with what appears to be middle eastern wallpaper, drapes, and decor and the hallway Obama uses to talk to the press now features middle eastern-style chairs, drapes, etc.
And, has anyone noticed that Obama seems more Islamic than he seems American?
It’s understandable, actually, since his paternal heritage is Muslim, all his Kenyan relatives are Muslims, his mother married two Muslims, and he spent years of his childhood in Muslim Indonesia where he was partially educated in a Muslim madrassa and he diligently studied the Quran.
Before any White House alterations were made, surely the POTUS had extensive input from his lovely, style-conscious FLOTUS who, only a few years ago discovered she was proud of her country. She must be even more proud of her husband’s Muslim roots.
Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama must also be tickled pink that America’s White House now reflects both her tastes and her hubby’s documented Islamic affiliations even though those tastes and affiliations give rise to suspicions that the Obamas aren’t all we have been led to believe in.
Is Barack Hussein Obama a Muslim at heart? . . . (See pictures and read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=18390.)
My comments to
Senator David Vittor
http://pjmedia.com/blog/obama-tries-to-screw-in-loose-bulb-of-energy-record/
When I passed through Punta Areanas, Chile in October of 1972 the Saturday before we elected Jimmy Carter I was talking with a local shop keeper.
He told me that when Allende was elected he made lots of fine promise but when he began to implement those promises everything flew off the shelves — poof!! and you couldn’t replace it. Now, under Pinochet,The gaps are beginning to fill back up.
We have a parallel in Obama. His resistance to sound business practices have produced a number of these gaps including the incandescent bulb. He has been the president of (NO)choice but his.
It is time to raise questions about this and why he has opposed domestic coal and oil production. This opposition has been in place for years and is not an Obama creation but why has he supported it?
“most notably through the historic fuel economy standards the President has established, which will nearly double the efficiency of the vehicles we drive and save families $1.7 trillion at the pump,” the latter\said, highlighting nuclear energy”
I would challenge Obama’s fuel efficiency as being all that efficient.
This sounds far more like propaganda than it does like fact.. More gaps in production that eliminates choices and more jobs and opportunities.
Don’t let Obama take credit for that which he couldn’t prevent with his best efforts.
Richard L. Whitford
This is why people need to get behind Gingrich…now! He’s the only person in this race that has made the president, Chu – Energy Secretary, Carney – Obama mouthpiece and Axelrod answer to his message of higher gas prices and drilling.
It’s getting national and internet coverage now but Newt is the one who started it and continued to hammer Obama in speech after speech that the above people had to answer to. Even Fox news finally came out with all the particulars about oil and future reserves, facts Gingrich outlined in a speech two days earlier.
Unless we want Romneycare Romney and doesn’t know how to fight Obama and the press Santorum, you better get behind Gingrich. He’s had Obama running around in circle for weeks.
Here’s what Gingrich did.
Came up with slogan 2.50 gal gas on March 2nd.
Did a 30 minute video explaining how to do it.
The conversation about gas prices began to take hold
The president had to go out and start making speeches about gas prices and drilling.
Gingrich used the speeches to ridicule Obama policies and understanding of drilling.
The president had to go out and make some more speeches about gas prices.
The presidents Energy Secretary pronounced he wasn’t interested in bring down gas prices
Gingrich called him on it telling people this administration wanted European gas prices $9 and $10 dollars.
The presidents Energy Secretary had to back pedal on his original statements
The presidents mouth piece Carney ridicules 2.50 a gal gas saying not possible.
The president mouth piece Carney had to back pedal on statement.
In presidential speeches Obama specifically used the 2.50 a gal gas which meant he was talking about Gingrich.
The outcry and press coverage about gas prices escalated and Obama is making a 5 state tour trying to explain his energy policy.
This is how it’s done folks. Gingrich is inside Obama’s head and taking it to him. What plan has Romney or Santorum’s had that woke the whole country up to the fact we can blame Obama policies for not having enough energy and high gas prices. NADA !