Posted on 07/13/2009 8:34:34 PM PDT by redk
There is no shortage of threats to our economy. America's unemployment rate recently hit its highest mark in more than 25 years and is expected to continue climbing. Worries are widespread that even when the economy finally rebounds, the recovery won't bring jobs. Our nation's debt is unsustainable, and the federal government's reach into the private sector is unprecedented.
Unfortunately, many in the national media would rather focus on the personality-driven political gossip of the day than on the gravity of these challenges. So, at risk of disappointing the chattering class, let me make clear what is foremost on my mind and where my focus will be:
I am deeply concerned about President Obama's cap-and-trade energy plan, and I believe it is an enormous threat to our economy. It would undermine our recovery over the short term and would inflict permanent damage.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
It was pure Palin.Bingo!The key bullet points on energy from her TV interviews with CNBC and Glenn Beck way before she was named as VP (natural gas to "hungry markets across America")...
...This was Sarah all the way.
This op-ed reads like a transcript of the speech that she gave when she announced that she would be stepping down as Governor -- from invoking God, right down to the definitely Palin-esque word, "progressing."
...We must move in a new direction.We are ripe for economic growth and energy independence if we responsibly tap the resources that God created right underfoot on American soil. Just as important, we have more desire and ability to protect the environment than any foreign nation from which we purchase energy today.
In Alaska, we are progressing on the largest private-sector energy project in history...
Bingo, Triple-E.
If she argues that man-induced global warming is a hoax, then she’s lost half the audience for her op-ed.
Smart girl.
- JP
Surprise! It's Palin! I love it! Thanks for posting..
Instead it is done in countries like Indonesia and Nigeria where entire rivers and bays are filled with waste products. And workers are paid 50 cents an hours, and if one dies - oh well, pay the family $5,000 and put in the next lackey.
And don't get me started on “recycled computers” in China!
The moonbats over there better would be advised against speculating that Palin’s piece was written by a ghost-writer. American Thinker contributor Jack Cashill has written some pretty damning and well researched articles about Ayers and Favreau ghosting the two Obama books in the same way that Ted Sorensen wrote Profiles in Courage. Plagiarism is a democrat thing.
I’ve followed the Cashill stories with much delight.
GO Sarah, this is awesome!
It was an awesome well written article. I did hear the guy who interviewed her tonight on Greta’s show. He said for the first time in a long time she is actually happy which made me feel good, but what got me worried is the fact that she looks much skinnier then she did before. I hope that she is eating well, I know that she is a runner, but still, all of the personal attacks against her and her family must have taken a toll on her health. God Bless her, I know with God’s guidance she will be just fine. The ones who smear her and demean her will have to deal with God
What Sarah wrote is now on Fox News.com expect MSNBC and CNN to have a hissy fit and bash her in ways you never thought possible. They hate the fact that she has come out against their beloved messiah
GEE who saw this comming..oh..me..posted this in part back on 7/4
The key I think to watch for is if she comes down in to the lower 48 as a very hi profile independent advocate for Alaska oil and gas and against cap and trade.. it’s the logical door.. it give her a very legitimate platform to attack Obama, while being seen as doing her higher duty for Alaska...and to not to being seen as just attacking Obama with no reason.
Taking out the Number Two is a destabilizing move that casts implied doubt on the solidity of the Number One. In asserting dominance, the coming aggressor is wise to herald their impending advent by a demonstration of strategic capability that leaves Number One alive and crapping his BVDs. Taking down Number Two first does that quite nicely.
Having thus asserted "I'm coming for YOU," the aggressor is free to choose the time and place at which they will level a direct assault on Number One's defenses (such as they may be), overrun his position, effect his capture, and either hold him for ransom, or make a very public, very thorough, and very violent end of him.
For Cap 'n' Crunch, lets' hope she opts for the latter.
GREAT move, IMO.
That’s going to leave snowmachine tracks on Zero’s backside.
Yes, and fortunately she is using it correctly as an intransitive verb here—as in we are progressing, rather than we are progressing the state or country. The latter is the usage that MoDowd keeps mocking.
Definitely in her voice, however, and good to see her coming out so strongly on the offensive!
I wouldn’t go with oil vs wind.
I’d like to hear someone point out that we have a trade deficit. We buy more from foreign countries than they buy from us. If electricity becomes more expensive in the US, the cost of the goods we make will become more expensive, we won’t sell as many overseas, our trade deficit will increase, and people will lose their jobs.
I personally like tidal power, underwater windmills basically, it’s renewable, “green”, but I expect that Nimby’s won’t like it like they don’t like windmills.
Or that it’s necessarily a bad thing.
I always like to talk about the ice age. About how first there were no glaciers anywhere near Long Island, NY, then there were glaciers on Long Island, then no glaciers.
Then I ask them how the humans changed the environment to result in glaciers on long island and how they changed the environment to get rid of the glaciers.
Then I say, the environment changes all the time and humans have nothing to do with it.
In 1974-1975 both Time and Newsweek wrote stories about the coming ice age or global cooling. They weren’t sure what was causing it, but they were pretty sure the govenment should do something about it.
This is the Sarah Palin that should have been unleashed in the presidential campaign. McCain was a fool for holding her back. Rinos are big suckers.
That crudball McCain wouldn’t even let her address the crowd in Phoenix on election night.
You know what it means! Any more questions?
the wapo comments could use some real comments instead of the daily kos magots with their usual hateful attacks
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