Posted on 08/19/2009 12:29:47 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
Today's Wall Street Journal contains some puzzling news for all Americans who are impacted by high energy prices and who share the goal of moving us toward energy independence.
For years, states rich with an abundance of oil and natural gas have been begging Washington, DC politicians for the right to develop their own natural resources on federal lands and off shore. Such development would mean good paying jobs here in the United States (with health benefits) and the resulting royalties and taxes would provide money for federal coffers that would potentially off-set the need for higher income taxes, reduce the federal debt and deficits, or even help fund a trillion dollar health care plan if one were so inclined to support such a plan.
So why is it that during these tough times, when we have great needs at home, the Obama White House is prepared to send more than two billion of your hard-earned tax dollars to Brazil so that the nation's state-owned oil company, Petrobras, can drill off shore and create jobs developing its own resources? That's all Americans want; but such rational energy development has been continually thwarted by rabid environmentalists, faceless bureaucrats and a seemingly endless parade of lawsuits aimed at shutting down new energy projects.
I'll speak for the talent I have personally witnessed on the oil fields in Alaska when I say no other country in the world has a stronger workforce than America, no other country in the world has better safety standards than America, and no other country in the world has stricter environmental standards than America. Come to Alaska to witness how oil and gas can be developed simultaneously with the preservation of our eco-system. America has the resources. We deserve the opportunity to develop our resources no less than the Brazilians. Millions of Americans know it is true: "Drill, baby, drill." Alaska is proof you can drill and develop, and preserve nature, with its magnificent caribou herds passing by the Trans Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS), completely unaffected. One has to wonder if Obama is playing politics and perhaps refusing a "win" for some states just to play to the left with our money.
The new Gulf of Mexico lease sales tomorrow sound promising and perhaps will move some states in the right direction, but we all know that the extreme environmentalists who serve to block progress elsewhere, including in Alaska, continue to block opportunities. These environmentalists are putting our nation in peril and forcing us to rely on unstable and hostile foreign countries. Mr. Obama can stop the extreme tactics and exert proper government authority to encourage resource development and create jobs and health benefits in the U.S.; instead, he chooses to use American dollars in Brazil that will help to pay the salaries and benefits for Brazilians to drill for resources when the need and desire is great in America.
Buy American is a wonderful slogan, but you can't say in one breath that you want to strengthen our economy and stimulate it, and then in another ship our much-needed dollars to a nation desperate to drill while depriving us of the same opportunity.
- Sarah Palin
One of the things I wish Sarah would spend time doing right now, is working with a voice coach, as funny as that sounds.
Even though she usually is spot on with her words, her delivery is so fast (especially when she is passionate about something!) and her voice range is so high, she sounds like a teenager. I say this as a fan of hers, not as a criticism. This is a small part of why the press has been able to get away with marginalizing her as not someone to be taken seriously.
Look at the Idiot in Chief...99% of the time he’s WRONG on the facts, WRONG on the history, yet he “sounds good” so people think he knows what he’s talking about!
This was pointed out to me by my formerly left wing nutjob sweetie who is now solidly in OUR camp. But his honesty in appraising her as a candidate is helpful, I think.
I know some otherwise sensible people i work with,moderate to conservative individuals who are convinced shes an intellectual lightweight. I fight the good fight but as of yet its not a winning battle.
“how about that interview,what about the debate” etc. Unlike them,i (you,we here) watched the debate. we did not rely on the media to play Monday morning quarterback. We know she was sandbagged in interviews.
I hope shes better perceived when the time comes because she,above all other politicians,is truly included in the phrase,We The People,unlike those who fancy themselves our rulers.
“We can’t spare this woman. She fights.”
The origins of this quote:
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“Can’t Spare This Man”
(Excerpt)
One night, about eleven o’clock, Colonel A. K. McClure, whose intimacy with President Lincoln was so great that he could obtain admittance to the Executive Mansion at any and all hours, called at the White House to urge Mr. Lincoln to remove General Grant from command.
After listening patiently for a long time, the President, gathering himself up in his chair, said, with the utmost earnestness:
“I can’t spare this man; he fights!”
In relating the particulars of this interview, Colonel McClure said:
“That was all he said, but I knew that it was enough, and that Grant was safe in Lincoln’s hands against his countless hosts of enemies...”
(from Lincoln’s Yarns and Stories , by Colonel Alexander K. McClure)
http://www.rickwalton.com/lincoln/linc125.htm
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The quote has been adapted by Sarah Palin’s supporters to stress how important she is to the center-right grassroots.
It’s earliest application to Palin that I can find was by author David Karki in an op-ed for the North State Writers Group April 22, 2009:
http://www.northstarwriters.com/dkk175.htm
The quote, as modified by karki, has become a battle cry for Palin supporters who are convinced that, more so than any other prominent GOP figure, she is showing leadership in opposition to Barack Obama, the Democrats and all that they represent.
- JP
That might be why she's having such impact with the written word.
I think you mean by her habit in talking very quickly on tv. I think thats probably new. Her experience with the media recently has mentally handicap her a bit, I think. Its constantly at the back of her mind that the interviewer is out to get out and she want her point out as quickly as possible before getting interrupted or edited out. If you watch her previous interviews on tv and debate in Alaska. It was ALOT better
Thanks! I love the quote. Might steal it as a tagline, but I also like the one I have.
LOL
And I think that your assessment has a great deal of merit. Very well thought out.
I used to be a Fred Thompson fan during the primaries, but no longer. I think criticism about him being lazy is going to stick with me. I didn’t think of it before, but he’s not much of a fighter
Sarah Palin/Peter Schiff 2012
I love the graph showing dry wells. The dims seem to think that if you have a lease, you have oil or gas.
nooo, the pipe was going to kill the carabou
Lurking in the back rooms of Washington is Cap & Trade. It has worked its way thought The House of Representatives.
This dangerous monster is still around, it deserves as much scrutiny by the taxpayers as health care.
Town Halls for Cap & Trade ?
Sarah Palin seems to be the only one speaking out on this BS. Is it just me, or do we hear anyone else decrying this?
i might add, that obama is in a similar shoe as well. I’ve been seeing ALOT of obama stuttering clips recently. Without the teleprompter he’s not that impressive at all.
People talk about how articulate OBama is, but whenever he’s off prompter, he stutters ALL the time
and he is all those things as well and a criminal mobster communist loving enemy of America
I agree with you on this score. She needs to learn to modulate a bit. Right on message, but the voice should compliment the message not be a distraction to it.
Hillary had the worst voice I've ever heard in politics outside of congressman Anthony Weiner or Chuck Schumer, both are the winiest people.
That’s prolly the word I was looking for...”modulate.”
I think that’s what I meant! LOL
Good news! WTG Sarah.
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