Posted on 02/16/2012 5:55:33 PM PST by Kaslin
Correction: Global demand has risen, BUT not US.
When oil goes up, Uncle Jintao is making more presents to send you. You should be happy. ;-)
This is a no-brainer. The Obama media won't hammer him like they did Bush when gas prices went up - my God, it was constant! We all need to throw an absolute fit and call out local news organizations to ask exactly why they aren't covering Obama's enviromentalist whacko decisons to make off shore drilling almost impossible while trying to stop the Keystone pipeline.
This is a no-brainer. The Obama media won't hammer him like they did Bush when gas prices went up - my God, it was constant! We all need to throw an absolute fit and call out local news organizations to ask exactly why they aren't covering Obama's enviromentalist whacko decisons to make off shore drilling almost impossible while trying to stop the Keystone pipeline.
I read your post, and recognized a kindred spirit.
I posted this a few years ago:
This is the weakness of liberalism.
Notice that when Republicans enter office, there is not an attitude of “We are going to completely stop doing things the way our predecessor did them, and we are going to do them our way from now on.” It is usually a very measured approach, letting things go the way they did for a period of time before making changes, and those changes are usually incremental, not radical.
This is because conservatives understand that you do not need to re-invent the wheel. The problem with reinventing wheels, policies or anything else is that you often make the same mistakes the first inventor did, unless you take extra care to see why those mistakes occurred.
Liberals do not have the humility to understand this. It is why liberals are all socialists to a greater or lesser degree and believe in big, centralized government.
I use the analogy of a jumbo jet flying through the sky on auto-pilot, with no flight crew present, and a passenger opens the cockpit door and enters.
Conservatives would enter the cockpit, look around and take stock of the situation. They might look at the fuel gauge, look at the attitude and get a general feel of the situation. They probably wouldn’t touch anything right away, realizing that there are circumstances where doing something for the sake of doing something can be far more harmful. They might decide to put the headphones on, see if they can communicate with anyone, see if they can hear anything, and so on. They would probably try to find someone who could talk them down, and failing that, might try to figure out if there was anyone onboard with piloting experience.
Liberals would enter the cockpit, look around and scream out “Nobody is flying the plane!” They would jump in the pilot seat, grab the control stick and shout “We have to get this plane on the ground or we’re all going to die!” They might dive the plane towards the earth, looking frantically for an airport, making the assumption that of course, you could fly a plane from the sky “just by looking around, there is the airport over there, let’s get to it!” without realizing that is one of the most difficult things even for veteran pilots who might have the advantage of at least being familiar with the area and comfortable with trying to pick up landmarks from the air. They would dive the plane, then suddenly realize they don’t know how to turn the plane, how to apply rudder or lower the flaps and landing gear (probably wouldn’t even realize those were needed) and would simultaneously realize they had no idea how to stabilize the plane in level flight or re-engage the autopilot. The passengers, feeling the gyrations of the aircraft and knowing something was wrong, would begin to panic, and before you know it, there would be a huge flaming hole in the ground.
It is the same thing with a military campaign, an economic crisis, an environmental issue, solving an education or social problem, or just about anything else you can think of.
Liberals see the levers, dials and controls of something powerful and complicated, and instead of figuring out how they work or even if they work, they make the assumption that no matter what, they can control this better than anyone or anything that controlled it before. They don’t even think that sometimes putting your hands on the levers of something powerful is much, much more damaging than keeping your bloody damned hands OFF of them.
If it is a military campaign, they get in their armchairs and begin looking at the maps, targets and forces involved, pick up the phones and begin issuing orders and edicts to generals. You end up with the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam, Desert One and Mogadishu.
On environmental issues you end up with some kind of foreign species of fish that you brought in from South America to control some other kind of issue, and it ends up destroying the native ecosystem, or on a global scale, you destroy the ability to obtain energy for an energy dependent world because you need to save the existence of the Alaskan Spotted Lugwort. They determined through their “science” that DDT made the egg shells of predatory birds thin causing their populations to decrease, and viewing it as a canary in a coal mine, outlawed DDT, thereby condemning tens of millions of people (or over the years, perhaps even hundreds of millions) to misery and death from insect borne diseases such as malaria. Even worse, you end up with liberals trying to deliberately destroy industry and economies, an attempt to plunge the entire western world into a depression, and they base their desire to do this on “Global Warming”. To sum up this particular angle and encapsulate the liberal mindset on all these issues, but most importantly environmental ones, remember this quote from a feminist wall mural I see in Cambridge, MA: “INDICATION OF HARM, NOT PROOF OF HARM IS OUR CALL TO ACTION”. Look well upon that quote...it sums up liberalism in one compact line.
If it is a economic or social issue, they begin to make policy and throw money at it without even considering for a single damned second if what they are doing is really going to produce the expected result. If it doesn’t help or makes things worse, they simply throw more money and legislation at the issue, without bothering to dismantle the agencies or defund what they did before that failed miserably. In this, you end up with Rent Control (a liberal invention which destroys the availability of affordable housing), Social Security (a liberal invention, a Ponzi scheme on a grand scale that gave people the false security they didn’t have to save for themselves) the Great Society, Welfare, School Busing, declining ability of students and failing schools, disintegration of the family and soon, socialism and Third World Squalor.
And folks, this new President, is steeped up to his oversized jug-handled ears in the arrogance and ignorance of Liberalism. He is a racist, socialist and marxist. He believes it to the core, and he is now the most powerful man in the world.
We have a problem.
Agreed! It’s amazing that as gas prices soar, Obama’s poll numbers are going up.
1.) GOP has been silent.
2.) Media has basically blacked it out, while also pumping up rest of economy
3.) Consumers are getting used to $3 plus gas (it’s been there for 3 straight years).
But the bottomline, the economy will never improve at these prices. So no matter how incompetent the GOP is and no matter how corrupt the media us, it won’t matter. Barry will pay for these high prices.
Good post, and you've put your finger on why it is that even Repubs have a bias toward interventionist and statist government. We call them "rinos" but its a rather human bias involved.
No one ever ran for office promising to do nothing. No one ever dreamed of becoming a senator just to let the folks back home handle things, and no one ever ran for office promising to leave things as they are.
And the ones who do, or who promise to not use the power they are given, don't usually get elected in the first place.
I have yet to hear any lawmaker, Repub or Dem, ask publically how have we survived 200 years without this or that new law, and then vote it down just on that basis alone. Instead they generate thousands of pages of new laws, thousands of pages of new regulations each and every year and there is never any end in sight, not even a moment to catch a breath.
"If elected, I promise to stay out of your business and let you take care of things yourselves" isn't much of a campaign slogan, even though its exactly the kind of person I'm hoping for. "I promise, if elected, to enact no new laws, and to repeal at least one old one every morning before breakfast" isn't thet kind of campaign promise that gets people excited, even though it would excite me. With that kind of political platform I don't think even my closest pals would vote for me.
Figger on vigorous lying about the economy and unemployment in the Executive departments and at the Fed, and covering support and outright cheerleading in the LieStream Media.
He won’t be loving it so much when his approval ratings start going back down into the crapper again. If gasoline goes well above $4 this summer and into the fall, he’s finito no matter who his opponent is.
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