The Undocumented One:
“I won the election. So die, already, America. ”
Posted on 07/07/2010 10:58:38 AM PDT by bestintxas
There was no "official" announcement. Not in so many words. Connect the dots of what has occurred in just the past two weeks to deep-water oil drilling, shallow-water drilling, and oil refining. The effect is the same. Barack Obama is shutting down Big Oil.
One of the first actions taken by the president after the BP oil leak began was to announce a six-month moratorium on all "deep-water" (deeper than 500 feet) drilling. That immediately affected 33 oil rigs and more than 120,000 oil-related jobs. The industry has an estimated $3-billion impact on the Gulf economy.
The executive order, from Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar via Obama, was taken to court by drilling companies. It was quickly enjoined by U.S. District judge Martin Feldman, who wrote a harshly worded opinion critical of the Energy Department's lack of scientific basis for such an overreaching reaction.
Not to be dissuaded by such trivialities as a federal court judge's ruling, what did Obama do? It was announced immediately that an appeal would be made, even though Democrat-elected officials such as Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) oppose the moratorium as a jobs-killer.
The Energy Secretary said he would make a new, reworded moratorium on deep-water drilling. In other words, the Obama administration would simply ignore the will of the court.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
What more do we need to convict him of dereliction of sworn constitutional duty?
The Undocumented One:
“I won the election. So die, already, America. ”
What else would we expect from the BIC?
(Box cutter in chief)
A less totalitarian and cowed Congress.
Is he shutting down big oil in Venezuela or the Mideast?
We have a relatively good amount of inventory right now and prices at the pump are around $3.00 a gallon, if we hit another speculative bubble and/or inventories start getting low, we’re going to see $5.00 a gallon or more. Thanks Obama!
He’s an illegal alien...why is he still in the WH?
He is seeking to strangle American Energy-—the true driver of economic growth. The Green Agenda will be a catastrophe beyond measure.
I just don’t get how 1 person can have that much power. This is not right. He is not a king.
He does garner alot of feelings he should strangle on a pigs foot or two.
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