07.26.10
When an autocrat with utter disregard for the Constitution harbors utopian fantasies with the zeal with which he ought to harbor patriotism . . .
. . . thousands of jobs vanish – by design.
07.10.10
We’ll just pretend there’s a market for it
Andrew Wilson at The Weekly Standard on how those loan guarantees The Most Equal Comrade announced for the two solar-panel companies have nothing to do with wealth creation. More like the opposite.
07.03.10
Distorting the free market with money we don’t have in the name of an obvious lie
The Most Equal Comrade, deliberately ruining America on a daily basis. Today, the front he acts on is solar panels.
06.29.10
We’ll see if any Pubs fall for this – and then fire them
This is the kind of juncture at which we can find out precisely the extent to which the GOP still suffers from Reasonable Gentleman Syndrome.
Per Senator Global Test, TCM had a “constructive” meeting with senators from both parties at which he said he was ready to “scale back” his energy/climate proposal to get Pubs on board. Global Test said TCM was adamant, however, that “putting a price on carbon” was still at the core of what he intends.
There will be some RSG-afflicted Pubs who will stroke their chins and say there are merits to some portions of the FHer vision on this. We can be sure that Grahamnesty and McLame will be in that camp. Possibly the Maine ladies as well. So we will have the advantage of knowing where to breathe our fire.
06.22.10
The regime takes a smackin’!
U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman strikes down the oil-drilling moratorium.
Already the Freedom-Haters inside and outside of government are getting out the long knives.
Now, we just need to watch closely this “patient bill of rights” dog vomit.
Reaction to the madness
Oil-industry execs meeting in London slam TCM’s drilling moratorium. These are people whose business it is to thoroughly understand the world’s energy needs, and they’re saying this move jeopardizes the ability to meet those needs.
If there’s any silver lining to this, it may be that once we’ve defeated the regime, we can start drilling in ANWR.
06.17.10
A vaporous policy
A Washington Times editorial says that TCM is carrying on in a sadly long presidential tradition: the search for a “public-private” collaboration for viable, profitable alternative energy sources. Two fatal flaws with the whole undertaking: alternative fuels can’t compete on their own because gasoline is so efficient by comparison, and getting government involved in innovation is a misuse of it.
06.16.10
The most blatant lie TCM has told recently
The one from last night about how we’re running out of oil reserves.
It means “make certain things more expensive and thereby distort the free market”
Chris Horner on what The Aquarian Totalitarian means when he says “make green jobs profitable.”
TCM’s Oval Office address – a roundup
Jonah Goldberg likens it to the actual oil leak: a focused stream at first that billowed into an amorphous cloud of goo. Key points: A whole lot more jobs will be lost besides those of fishermen and hotel employees; TCM’s utter lack of credibility, since he’s the de facto CEO of two car companies, in talking about “ending the partnership” between government and oil companies; BP’s obsequious “green” history including support for cap-and-trade; the absurdity of the notion that a “green” economy will mean the end of environmental disasters.
Michael Goodwin says the camera “caught him looking starry-eyed into the wild blue yonder,” as if the hapless SOB can’t even muster the zeal to pull off his crude power grab.
06.13.10
Be careful in calling for TCM to get proactive about anything
BN has seen fit to tread judiciously in the matter of the Gulf oil spill. Previous posts, readily found in the Energy Policy category, convey the common theme that the main frustrating thing about TCM’s response has been his demeanor. He tends to put things in ways that set him up for ridicule (which is fine with BN), such as the “I-can’t-suck-up-that-oil-with-a-soda-straw” remark, but he actually does have a point. That said, so do Bobby Jindal and the entire camp expressing frustration. Why was the offer of expert help from the Netherlands spurned? Why are miles of boom still sitting in storage? And, of course, why is the Most Equal Comrade continuing to party and golf while everyone else is trying to come up with ideas for dealing with this?
So TCM gets a pass, sort of, on the basic question of how he should be responding to the actual accident. But then he and his regime do the utterly predictable and use this particular situation to get political about overall policy. And we do mean political: It seems the seven engineers enlisted to peer review Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s report – the one that has led to a moratorium on all drilling – recommended no such thing and are outraged that their input was twisted for that purpose.
Job-killing, economy-killing policy formulated on a foundation of falsehood: the signature way things are done in The People’s Republic of Obamica.
06.03.10
Because the regime hates economic well-being
The MMS has extended the drilling ban beyond just deep-water sites to include water of any depth.
05.27.10
Breaking: Top kill worked
BP engineers have succeeded in stopping the gushing of oil from the well in the Gulf of Mexico. That’s engineers from the private sector, from a profit-making company. Highly trained experts. Pointy-heads and metrosexual totalitarians from the post-American regime had nothing to do with it.
04.25.10
How a Reasonable Gentleman sets priorities
A word of explanation may be in order for new readers. At BN, we employ some terms of our own coining, one of which is Reasonable Gentleman Syndrome. It refers to the notion that normal people who cherish liberty enough to give it some thought when examining particular issues, particularly normal legislators and those responsible for government policies, can “reach across the aisle” and work with Freedom-Haters. It’s that mindset that assumes that because one sees these people in the Capitol Hill mess at lunch, or at social functions around town, or on Parents day at one’s kids’ school, one can be assured that FHers are really just nice, reasonable Americans looking for real solutions to issues, albeit coming at them from a little different angle. Many a normal-person-type statesman has had his or her entrails clawed out for making such a calculation.
Lindsey Graham buffs up his RG bona fides by telling Harry Reid that, by golly, he has principles, and won’t put giving a wink and nod to illegal aliens before imposing tyranny in the name of discredited science. Now, that’s some cajones, Congressman Squishy!
04.18.10
The next means for the seizure of yet more of your assets at gunpoint
. . . is the newly revitalized cap-and-trade push (all the more insidious given what we know about the science, per the post below), being readied for ram-through by the usual cabal of Freedom-Haters and Reasonable Gentlemen (at least two of whom are women – from Maine).
04.08.10
But it acheived its real purpose: making FHers feel good about themselves
The green-jobs portion of the stimulus has had, um, underwhelming results.
In fact, jobs of any kind are still hard to come by.
04.05.10
From “I’m pursuing a high calling” to “at least I have a job”
Excellent Michael Barone column in which he compares the climate of diminished expectations in the age of the Most Equal Comrade with the robust sense of vision and possibility of that 1983 – 2007 era, when people assumed they could make a living delivering what the world deeply needed and they found deeply fulfilling.
04.01.10
Then there’s the upcoming EPA tax on CO2 emissions
Which, per what I was saying in the post below, drives home (excuse the pun) the point about the stability of oil prices.
All in the name of a massive scientific fraud.
$434 per vehicle in the 2012 model year, $912 by 2016
That’s how much more expensive cars will be now that the FHer regime has once again dictated to private organizations (wait, some of them aren’t so private now) how they will make their products. Oh, you can save$3000 in fuel costs over the life of the vehicle, but a.) What is the “life of the vehicle” and how many people keep their vehicles that long?, and b.) That’s a big assumption about the stability of the price of oil.
The usual sprout-munching ninnies, such as the Natural Resources Defense Council, are pleased.
