He may not be up to it.
Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 07/07/2008 5:53:58 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
Perusing the Sunday newspapers with plagiaristic intent, I come across an article about who's responsible for the current energy debacle.
Politicians are mentioned along with the amazingly shortsighted auto executives and the oil industry itself. Names — lots of names — are dropped, everyone from the current Bush to the previous Bush to Clinton.
But not a mention of the culprit-in-chief, Ronald Wilson Reagan — still, after all these years, the Teflon president.
(Excerpt) Read more at ibdeditorials.com ...
It is the monstrous stupidity of liberals like Mr. Cohen and their friendly RINOs that has put much of the potential energy output of this nation off-limits. Private enterprise can’t do its great work when moronic liberals make illegal or too damned difficult much of the potential oil, coal, natural gas, and nuclear production that we could be enjoying. The markets cannot respond properly to incentives when the libs and RINOs have tied up so many resources and blocked such important options.
I’m getting tired of these Luddites getting all excited about the current price of oil, and getting all shivers over the examination of my carbon footprints.
They want globalization, they want big taxes to be spent on controlling freedom and liberty. It’s not about global warming or climate change.
It’s about warming up to big Global taxation, one world government, and changing the climate to accept a unified taxable system a.k.a. big brother.
Richard Cohen in IBD!?
I thought that ancient scatterbrained leftist had died.
If you like $5/gal, Thank Congress. If you want $10, Vote Obama.
Pray for W and Our Troops
Just another surly socialist.
Forgets and if not,resents,the men who protect his rights to be a butthead.
We should send Mr. Cohen to Planet Gore.
Forget about taxing energy. Just come right out with it and tax all money. Every time money is used tax it. It would be more honest. If it’s spent, tax it. If it’s saved tax it. If it’s lost or gained, tax it.
Oh, that’s the way the system already works. Never mind.
Most of his [Carter’s] dire predictions — “It is a problem we will not solve in the next few years, and it is likely to get progressively worse through the rest of this century” — have generally come true, although not quite as soon or calamitously as he warned. The pity of it all is that in American politics, being right is beside the point.
Well, of course he was correct... The Democrats made certain of that by blocking drilling.
I don’t see in this piece why the writer thinks Reagan is to blame for the energy crisis. The only clue he gives is his view that Reagan did not push thru an energy policy. But that’s kinda hard to blame on Reagan since Carter, Bush, Clinton, and Bush did not do so either, by his own admission. And the reality is that Reagan did propose an energy program. He pushed for more drilling on public lands, just as both Bushes did. It was only Carter and Clinton who had no energy policy.
Cohen is a moron. Conservation as the hallmark of energy policy is doomed to failure and is the sign of a weak mind as they don’t WANT to make the really *tough* energy policy decisions.
Why? Because we all know what it means to conserve. Some conserve more than others because of smaller incomes. Some conserve more than others because of *larger* incomes. They know what it means to pennypinch and they are glad to do it.
Some conserve more than others because they like to feel good. Using a gallon of gas less a month make them feel good because they are saving the earth. Sort of like the feeling one gets when getting your car’s oil changed.
The bottom line is we ALL know what it means to conserve and CHOOSE whether to do it or not. Having the president of the United States tell us to put on a sweater and turn down the thermostat is the height of moronimity and shows what the Democrat Party really thinks of your intelligence.
Yes, let’s abolish Reaganism and return to what preceded it, namely high gas prices and rationing.
If we all wore sweaters and drove 55 like Carter suggested, we would all be saved now.
btt
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