Posted on 06/25/2011 5:49:28 AM PDT by Kaslin
Obama moved on from incompetent to reckless when he released 30 million barrels of oil from the U.S. strategic reserve in a bid to save the summer tourist season.
But he told us he would do that in his first prime-time press conference.
"That whole philosophy of persistence, by the way, is one that I'm going to be emphasizing again and again in the months and years to come as long as I'm in this office. I'm a big believer in persistence."
I would agree. No one knows how to double-down on a mistake better than Obama.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner assured everyone that the administration’s decision to release 30 million barrels of oil from the U.S. strategic reserve wasn’t at all political. But he quickly reminded us that the decision was made in an attempt to cover another political mistake by Obama.
From Reuters:
"It's really as simple as this: there's a war in Libya, costs between one and two million barrels a day in lost output, I think 140 million barrels off the market so far," he said in response to a question at Dartmouth College, where he spoke on a panel.
"Reserves exist to help mitigate those kinds of disruptions and we helped to organize a coordinated global international response to help ease some of that pressure," he added.
Oh. It’s the war in Libya that’s the problem. Maybe admitting that Obama is prosecuting a war in Libya is a sign of progress, because the administration told us recently that there was no war in Libya. They told us it was just a time-limited, scope-limited, kinetic military activity.
If it’s a war that’s a problem, I have a suggestion for them: Perhaps the administration should “organize a coordinated global international response to” end the war in Libya.
You know?
I mean since they are organizing the “coordinated global international response” in prosecuting the war in Libya that caused the disruption in the first place.
What was the slogan? No blood for oil.
Soon Obama will be asking the country for more shared sacrifice, in a parody of Churchillian prose, by telling us that he can only offer us “blood, sweat, tears and oil.”
Our blood, our sweat, our tears, and Saudi, Brazilian and Canadian oil.
Would it be too much to ask for one (1) policy to come out of the administration that tries to leave the country better off than we were before the administration took over?
We have an energy policy, a foreign policy, a housing policy, a jobs policy, a banking policy, a healthcare policy, an environmental policy.
These same guys trot out a new policy every 30 days, to little effect.
We have economic policies in place that racked up a record debt and bought us nothing; we have rising inflation; we have slowing growth with no jobs recovery; we have a healthcare policy that’s increasing costs and regulatory burdens, not decreasing them; we have a housing market that’s going in the wrong direction; we have a banking policy that’s ensured that no money is lent, despite taxpayers funding a huge rescue of U.S. banks; we have an energy policy that’s made us more dependent on foreign oil, not less dependent; a policy that’s assured that our energy security is weaker not stronger.
In practically every field of government endeavor we are much, much worse off than we were two years ago.
I’m not asking for Obama to get everything right. But he could start by getting one (1) thing right.
Start with getting out of our way and letting us just live and work. Or propose a budget that gets…um…one (1) vote. Or enforce our laws.
There’s a great deal of room for improvement. It wouldn’t be that hard.
Because what he’s been doing so far, just ain’t right.
It’s reckless.
he didn’t make a mistake.
his intention would be to render the US as ineffective as possible while leaving us at the ‘mercy’ of our enemies
members of congress that continue to try and work with the left are actually helping them. the longer this continues, the lower the probability we can recover
Exactly. And that same government has grown exponentially in the last two years and is coming to control every single aspect of our personal lives in a way that Americans have never experienced before (and most of us never thought we would).
He’s been in office for two years and has set the country back 35 years.Jimmy Carter jr but a lot more dangerous.
He has set the country back at least 35 years
Carter³
aside from the war on Libya actually helping Islamists
(as even the French and British admit now),
Obama shows again he’s a #1 flip flopper and hypocrite. much better than even John Kerry:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2738944/posts
Obama was against tapping the Strategic Oil Reserve before he was for it. (FAIL from 2008!)
Don’t worry, when a Republican returns to the White House, everything will be better. Same wars, same spending, same debt, same economy, but it will be better.
Wrong - the reserves for National Security. They'r to supply the military and other critical infrastructure, NOT for our gas tanks. Bush was wrong when he did it too.
It’s OK for Democrats to kill people because they’re really helping them by killing them. I know. But what can you expect, they’re stupid.
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