Posted on 07/15/2011 5:23:32 PM PDT by neverdem
Based on current events in the GOP leadership ranks, I see no reason to think obamao would make any changes after reelection...
More likely, his first act will probably be an EO that shuts down all coal-using or oil-using power plants immediately...
Ping.
You have a point there
A liar the likes of one never seen in the US is today living at 1600 Washington Ave, DC.
How are we going to fight this? Seriously, how are we going to stop the EPA? We can vote Obama out of office, but the EPA is still there, destroying capitalism, freedom, etc. How can we stop them?
Until we can command the Senate and the Presidency, all we can do is try to stop -- or, at least, delay -- them.
The House can defund all or some of their activities. In some cases, the Senate may well concur -- if the GOP Senators stay together and the coal state Democrats cross over (to save their seats).
The House can also hold incessant hearings about the most offensive regulations -- publicizing their impact, delaying their implementation and generally harrassing the agency's officials.
The House is, in fact, advised to do both of these things -- if they want to be re-elected. And be aggressive about it.
>>>I’ll bet Mugabe started off as a socialist<<<
From his wikipedia entry:
” Mugabe left ZAPU in 1963 to join the rival Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) which had been formed in 1963 by the Reverend Ndabaningi Sithole, Edgar Tekere, Edson Zvobgo, Enos Nkala and lawyer Herbert Chitepo.
ZANU was influenced by the Africanist ideas of the Pan Africanist Congress in South Africa[21] and influenced by Maoism while ZAPU was an ally of the African National Congress and was a supporter of a more orthodox pro-Soviet line on national liberation. Similar divisions can also be seen in the liberation movement in Angola between the MPLA and UNITA. It would have been easy for the party to split along tribal lines between the Ndebele and Mugabe’s own Shona tribe, but cross-tribal representation was maintained by his partners. ZANU leader Sithole nominated Robert Mugabe as his Secretary General....
” According to Eddie Cross who participated in interviews of the leadership at that time to determine their views on the “longer term future”, Mugabe’s political viewpoint was that “a new ‘progressive’ society could not be constructed on the foundations of the past [and] that they would have to destroy most of what had been built up after 1900 before a new society, based on subsistence and peasant values could be constructed”...
“During the 1980s Mugabe’s policies were largely socialist in orientation. In 1980 and 1981 the Zimbabwean economy showed strong growth of the GDP with 10.6% and 12.5%. From 1982–1989 economic growth averaged just 2.7% (1980–1989 average 4.47%)....
“Robert Guest, the Africa editor for The Economist for seven years, argues that Mugabe is to blame for Zimbabwe’s economic freefall. “In 1980, the average annual income in Zimbabwe was US$950, and a Zimbabwean dollar was worth more than an American one. By 2003, the average income was less than US$400, and the Zimbabwean economy was in freefall.[108] “Mugabe has ruled Zimbabwe for nearly three decades and has led it, in that time, from impressive success to the most dramatic peacetime collapse of any country since Weimar Germany”.[12]
In The Daily Telegraph, Mugabe was criticised for comparing himself to Hitler. Mugabe was quoted as saying “This Hitler has only one objective: justice for his people, sovereignty for his people, recognition of the independence of his people and their rights over their resources. If that is Hitler, then let me be a Hitler tenfold”....
So - yep.
Actually, that was a rhetorical statement.
I just really don’t think the US should accept living in huts and eating bugs because other nations do, and might get mad if we don’t,is a good idea.
I know the amount of energy and money poured into these third world countries has been a lost cause. And has backfired in many ways.
But unless we change the current administration and the attitudes of many...we could be in the same shape.
I need to add...I don’t think eating bugs is very appealing. Oh, I know..protein, blah, blah, blah.
If someone really, really, tries hard, I'd bet the industry can deliver an appropriate response to Washington. (Pull the plug, let the chips fall where they may.)
Why yes! Just think of the long term savings from all those folks who die of heat prostration, freeze to death, or whose hospital backup power just can't keep the lights on in the OR.
This is what happens when a bunch of liberals go crazy attempting to turn this country in to a paradise none of us can no longer afford. Unelected pencil pushers, tucked away in some remote office spaces in order to justify their keep, are dreaming up and cranking out new rules and regulations by the truck load, day in and day out, killing jobs and businesses left and right.
Most of the party are just the street hookers for this sellout. The high dollar types are in office (and not just Democrats, imho) or behind the scenes pulling the strings.
Actually, the pubbies bettwr start working on the Omnibus Obamite Repeal Act of 2013 now. The Democrats can find out what’s in it after the vote...
I'm not sure who they are justifying it to but it isn't the American people.
It only took two planes to hit two buildings before people realized we were under attack on 9/11.
How many hits does our industry, economy, and way of life have to take before America wakes up and realizes this is an attack as well?
>>But unless we change the current administration and the attitudes of many...we could be in the same shape.<<
Only one answer, kill globalism.
...new standards on power-plant emissions that cross state lines — the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR)...
The big 0 said he would bankrupt Coal fired electric companies and he is going to make us set in the dark to prove it.
Here is your change America. Welcome to the third world status.
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