If you haven’t been paying attention to the whole Rick Santelli fiasco, you should be. It started last Thursday when Santelli bashed Obama’s mortage plan on live television and continued with Chris Matthews trying to defend the White House’s attacks on Rick. Now it seems that Rick Santelli is gaining some momentum in the media with Larry Kudlow becoming just as livid when talking about the unprecedented attacks the White House is making against the press.
No people, that is not a quote from me, but it just so happens to be a quote from this “I pledge” video:
Yea, empty promises, all of them. First off, how in the world is Demi Moore going to free 1 million from slavery in the next five years? This freeing of 1 million slaves is going to even be more complicated if she won’t advocate military intervention. But then again, with The One in charge of the military, is it really that wrong to advocate force? I mean, he is pratically a god and would never decide to do anything wrong.
Then there is the idiot wearing pink (I don’t even know who he is) who pledges to “be of service to Barack Obama.” I’m sure that guy will not be found the moment Obama calls for “sacrifices” and ask for volunteers for military ‘service’. I mean, Biden is saying that Afghanistan is in trouble so I’m sure The One will be in need of some able bodies pretty soon.
Wait, what am I saying, I’m sure Biden’s statements are going to be used as future justification to cut and run on the Afghanistan people. Thank goodness we at least won in Iraq.
Why does this not even surprise me? I mean, when you want to increase the government’s control of our energy use, which will in turn affect every other aspect of our country, you can’t help but have socialist tendencies.
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We really are in for a tough four years.
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Or at least created one since Obama won. However, the question remains, how long will it last? I think they will be back to burning flags in no time when they discover that Obama won’t be their knight in shining armor. Iraq seems to be won but Afghanistan is a whole different story and these people hate war of any kind, no matter how justified. Therefore I give it about a year before this “new patriotism” wears off. How long do you give it?
You remember the recent AP Story about how Barack Obama needed to do something about Global Warming because there was little time left? Well it seems that several scientists disagree with the article’s claims and one goes as far as calling the AP piece ‘propaganda.’
“The mean global temperature, at least as measured by satellite, is now the same as it was in the year 1980. In the last couple of years sea level has stopped rising. Hurricane and cyclone activity in the northern hemisphere is at a 24-year low and sea ice globally is also the same as it was in 1980.”
Deming said the article is further evidence of the media’s decision to talk about global warming as fact, despite what he says is a lack of evidence.
“Reporters, as I understand reporters, are supposed to report facts,”Deming said. “What he’s doing here is he’s writing a polemic and reporting it as fact, and that’s not right. It’s not reporting. It’s propaganda.
“This reads like a press release for an environmental advocacy group like Greenpeace. It’s not fair and balanced.” (Emphasis Added)
Obama is supposed to announce today that Carol Browner will be his choice of “Energy Czar”. As I stated a couple days ago, the position of energy czar is something that we should all be worried about if it is actually effective. Luckily for us, the Wall Street Journal is already predicting that this position of ‘energy czar’ will be doomed from the get-go.
“There’ve been so many czars over last 50 years, and they’ve all been failures,” said Paul Light, an expert on government at New York University. “Nobody takes them seriously anymore.” He pointed to officials placed in charge of homeland security and drug policy.
The problem is that “czars” are meant to be all-powerful people who can rise above the problems that plague the federal agencies, he said, but in the end, they can’t.
“We only create them because departments don’t work or don’t talk to each other,” Mr. Light said, adding that creation of a White House post doesn’t usually change that. “It’s a symbolic gesture of the priority assigned to an issue, and I emphasize the word symbolic. When in doubt, create a czar.”
Basically, ‘czars’ have been worthless in a historical context in United States.
Out of all the things that Obama could have gone and done, this is one that I definitely wish he wouldn’t have. If his definition of energy ‘czar’ even remotely resembles the James Hansen’s (the guy whose Institute messed up NASA’s temperature report), we all might be in a load of hurt. Take a look at how he defines it:
Yep, you heard him right. If the price of oil fell from from a record high of $147/barrel to roughly $50/barrel, this “carbon czar” would be there to make sure you, the consumer, wouldn’t reap the benefits of lower prices. Wouldn’t want those pesky, inexpensive fossil fuels getting in the way of the expensive alternative energy sources, now would we?
At least someone at the Capitol already has an idea of what this will do with energy costs.
“I look forward to learning more about the position of an ‘energy czar’ in the new administration,” Senator Inhofe said. “Certainly Carol Browner’s record as the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency under former President Clinton is well known. She is a proud liberal who has long advocated an environmentalist agenda that would drive-up energy costs on families and put thousands of Americans out of jobs. At a time when the economy is already suffering, it will be interesting to see how President Obama will reconcile what seems to be conflicting agendas in the White House.”
On a different note, why in the world would they use the word ‘czar‘ to describe this position? You know where that word comes from? It’s roots trace all the way back to the word ‘Caesar’ which basically means emperor, an autocratic ruler. So it appears that Obama has appointed someone to a position whose title precludes them from having to take orders from a lowly president. Doesn’t sound like there will be a lot of oversight or ‘checking and balancing’ going on with this new office.
Oh, but who needs Democracy anyways when our government only has our best intentions in mind.
