Posted on 07/14/2009 4:51:33 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
If Palin Derangement Syndrome-afflicted media members thought the Alaska Governor's surprising pre-Fourth of July announcement meant she was getting out of politics, her op-ed in Tuesday's Washington Post should change their minds.
In a scathing rebuke of the Obama administration, Sarah Palin took off the gloves to attack the recently House-passed American Clean Energy and Security Act, disaffectionately known as cap-and-tax.
Marvelously, Palin also took a couple of jabs at her not so adoring press:
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.
American prosperity has always been driven by the steady supply of abundant, affordable energy. Particularly in Alaska, we understand the inherent link between energy and prosperity, energy and opportunity, and energy and security. Consequently, many of us in this huge, energy-rich state recognize that the president's cap-and-trade energy tax would adversely affect every aspect of the U.S. economy.
There is no denying that as the world becomes more industrialized, we need to reform our energy policy and become less dependent on foreign energy sources. But the answer doesn't lie in making energy scarcer and more expensive! Those who understand the issue know we can meet our energy needs and environmental challenges without destroying America's economy.
Job losses are so certain under this new cap-and-tax plan that it includes a provision accommodating newly unemployed workers from the resulting dried-up energy sector, to the tune of $4.2 billion over eight years. So much for creating jobs.
In addition to immediately increasing unemployment in the energy sector, even more American jobs will be threatened by the rising cost of doing business under the cap-and-tax plan. For example, the cost of farming will certainly increase, driving down farm incomes while driving up grocery prices. The costs of manufacturing, warehousing and transportation will also increase.
The ironic beauty in this plan? Soon, even the most ardent liberal will understand supply-side economics.
Ouch! That's gonna leave a mark...likely on many of her detractors, assuming, of course, they get the joke.
That said, readers are encouraged to review the entire piece, and ponder just how this is going to play at Palin-hating media outlets the next 48 hours.
Link, please.
- JP
Is everyone going to ignore it but Rush and Greta?
IFILL: Let me clear something up, Sen. McCain has said he supports caps on carbon emissions. Sen. Obama has said he supports clean coal technology, which I don't believe you've always supported.
BIDEN: I have always supported it. That's a fact.
IFILL: Well, clear it up for us, both of you, and start with Gov. Palin.
PALIN: Yes, Sen. McCain does support this. The chant is "drill, baby, drill." And that's what we hear all across this country in our rallies because people are so hungry for those domestic sources of energy to be tapped into.
They know that even in my own energy-producing state we have billions of barrels of oil and hundreds of trillions of cubic feet of clean, green natural gas. And we're building a nearly $40 billion natural gas pipeline which is North America's largest and most you expensive infrastructure project ever to flow those sources of energy into hungry markets.
Barack Obama and Sen. Biden, you've said no to everything in trying to find a domestic solution to the energy crisis that we're in. You even called drilling -- safe, environmentally-friendly drilling offshore as raping the outer continental shelf.
There -- with new technology, with tiny footprints even on land, it is safe to drill and we need to do more of that. But also in that "all of the above" approach that Sen. McCain supports, the alternative fuels will be tapped into: the nuclear, the clean coal.
I was surprised to hear you mention that because you had said that there isn't anything -- such a thing as clean coal. And I think you said it in a rope line, too, at one of your rallies.
IFILL: We do need to keep within our two minutes. But I just wanted to ask you, do you support capping carbon emissions?
PALIN: I do. I do.
IFILL: OK. And on the clean coal issue?
BIDEN: Absolutely. Absolutely we do. We call for setting hard targets, number one...
Yeah she got caught in a trap. Do I disagree with the guy who put me on the ticket. Can't you see the David Shusters of the world running up to McCain and saying "your VP candidate just said she's against what you stand for. How do you respond Sen. McCain?".
Now Sarah is free to state her own positions.
Wow it is in there, I just read down to where she said it.
Actually, she did, during the debates. I remember being worried by that, and assumed/hoped she was subordinating her own views to support her running mate McCain's position.
So, I've been waiting to hear her repudiate this. Now, on to amnestia.
She’s so dumb, why would WaPo even give her the space. She can probably barely read. /s
The only thing I disagree with is Palin continuing to go to Leftist new sources...
I’d like to see her on other news sources as well..
Maybe Palin is taking the conservative fight directly to the belly of the enemy.
My apologies. I thought everyone here was familiar with the liberal mantra that anyone who had conservative ideas was simply a Fox news drone who couldn't think for themselves.
btt!
Sarah just started an issue based conversation, yet you worry because of what the media says about her. As conservatives we have to get beyond how the media frames this. All conservatives will be tarred as mean, stupid, or both while truly mean and stupid liberals are given a pass. The sooner we fight back by not believing them, the better.
Excellent Bump!
Amazing that they’ll claim that Palin couldn’t possibly have written this,
but seem to have no interest whatsoever in who wrote “Dreams of My Father” or any of 0bama’s speeches.
It’s pretty obvious he didn’t write the book - his other writing is sub-par where the writing in Dreams was clearly in the same “voice” as other things Ayres has written.
And as for 0bama’s “articulate speeches” - only when he’s reading someone else’s words off a teleprompter. That’s a fact. He cannot speak nearly as “articulately” when he doesn’t have others words in front of his face.
> Interesting because the McCain-Palin ticket supported a
> cap and trade policy.
That was McCain’s, NOT Palin’s, position.
There was a lot of behind the scenes tension in the McCain camp because Palin was way more conservative than McCain.
McCain’s people hated her.
Lakeshark is right. Sarah has always been about the issues. It’s the libtards that can’t seem to stay focused on them because if it’s about issues - they KNOW they lose.
The only thing I disagree with is Palin continuing to go to Leftist new sources (interviews with Chucky Gibson and the Perky Katie Couric) and now Editorials in the Washington Post. She needs to stick to Fox News, National Review, and American Spectator.
I actually believe extending herself to liberal media outlets is a good idea. There are plenty of disaffected Blue Dog democrats and PUMAs who are starting to get the scales removed from their eyes. I used to be the odd one out on a forum full of them. Even some democrats are starting to lose faith in both parties, and if Sarah Palin can reach out to both disaffected dems and her conservative base without changing her core values, then 2012 is hers to lose. They won’t switch to Fox immediately, so why not stick it to them in a place that they will likely frequent?
Sorry, I guess I failed to see your sarcasm towards the media. My mistake
Done.
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