. . . . Check out post # 40 , by little jeremiah.
Thanks, lj, good analysis.
Posted on 01/04/2011 5:20:37 PM PST by upchuck
That may seem like an absurd question, but it’s hard to come to any other conclusion when you consider what is happening to our energy industry on the Gulf Coast. As the Wall Street Journal reports today, the Obama Administration may have lifted its ban on drilling in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico, but there are still long delays in getting other permits approved to drill for oil. Why? No one seems to know. We assume that politicians do what is in their own self-interest, but in this case Obama seems to be damaging himself because he is dragging down the economy. As the Journal puts it, “The Gulf coast economy has been hit hard by the slowdown in drilling activity.” And Obama doesn’t seem particularly eager to change that fact.
There are only a handful of possible explanations of why he is doing this. (1) He doesn’t care, and his radical environmental agenda comes first. (2) He hates oil companies so much that he’s willing to have his political fortunes damaged further by dragging down the economy. (3) He hates capitalism so much that he’s determined to “gut” a leading industry such as energy. (4) There is raging incompetence in Washington.
In his recently released book Leadership and Crisis, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal recounts an exchange with President Obama during the Gulf oil drilling moratorium. (Full disclosure: I co-wrote the book with Jindal.) After telling Obama that the moratorium would potentially cost tens of thousands of jobs, ”The president went on to assure me that anyone who lost their job would get a check from BP. When I explained that BP might not write them checks because it was the federal government that imposed the moratorium the president said, ‘Well, if BP won’t pay the claim, they can file for unemployment.’ I was amazed by the level of disconnect. The people of Louisiana want to work, not collect unemployment or BP checks.”
For Obama, getting an unemployment check is about the same as getting paycheck.
So why is Obama doing this? Take your pick. None of the possible explanations offer much hope for the future. Bottom line: Obama is knowingly damaging our economy, and assuring that more money goes to energy producers like Venezuela, Iran, and Saudi Arabia.
. . . . Check out post # 40 , by little jeremiah.
Thanks, lj, good analysis.
Somehow it made everything fit in and make sense.
And showed me how urgently imperative it is to fight 0h0m0’s ineligibility as well as his evil policies etc.
Courage is needed in great measure!
(I lost my tagline and have to find it!)
Is Barack Obama Intentionally Trying to Damage Our Economy and Security?>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Doers a bear sh-t in the woods? Ye gads, it is frustrating waiting for people to wake up.
Obama is an empty suit. Its the 'power behind the throne' that people need to focus on.
You summed it up Loud and Clear, there’s no doubt about it, and if they can’t destroy the Constitution via death by a thousand paper-cuts, then there’s there’s always the KENYA SOLUTION.
Chaos. Followed by the UN blue helmets.
We can’t give the obots on here an inch. We know who they are and we know their motives.
Cheers!
We must never give up.
His Muslim roots and alliances also seem to be significant as to why Obama
The energy oil policies are not in our best interests.
Good for you, little jeremiah! Trying to get an 0b0t to change his mind is fruitless. Making sure that lurkers aren’t swayed by them is one of the goals.
Nice Lj. :-)
To grab the carrot and to avoid the stick.
You and many others do the heavy lifting. I just yap and bite ankles, but someone has to do it.
Couldn’t agree with you more.
An obvious culprit is George Soros. He wants to destroy the U.S. so he can remake the world, and he has said so pretty openly. But Soros is far from the only person who thinks that way.
Unfortunately the Communist destroyers have seized the levers of power in our culture. In academia, in the schools, in Hollywood, in the press, in many of our churches, and increasingly openly in the political arena.
The destruction of the Constitution can be seen in judicial activism. Our entire legal system is stuffed full of people who want to make it over so they can control it more effectively. Roe v. Wade, for instance, had a double purpose: to further the sexual revolution, kill babies, and destroy morality, but also to further the idea that the constitution can be twisted whatever way may be necessary to transform the culture and control it.
So, they deliberately put into office a guy they know is not eligible, and then they say, “So what? What does it matter where he was born, or who his father was? Don’t be racist!”
That has been the main argument of the trolls on these threads. It’s not important. It’s a distraction. Who cares?
Anyone who lurks for any length of time who is not a toadying 0h0m0 suckup would see the truth. What they want is for us and any lurkers to feel hopeless and defeated. Truth they could give a crap about.
Including the trolls who make believe they’re conservatives.
Grand summary, LJ. Cut to the chase, 0h0m0 should go 0h0me!
I don’t know how to make those little “tm” letters that up up high like Dan Rather (tm). 0h0mo should have the little trademark symbol.
0h0m0 Go 0hme!
New billboards???
I like it!
Duh. Captain Obvious.
Well, DUH! Rush has been shouting this for years. Any reasonably intelligent person KNOWS this.
Obama is really not a Marxist, although he uses Marxism. He is an Anti-Colonialist. Check out D'Souza's book. He's got obama pegged.
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