Time for Thorns

The excerable Waxman-Markey bill narrowly passed the House,  and provided some moments of levity.    Waxman added 300 pages at 3 AM Friday,  so there was no complete bill,  just piles of pages with people trying to stuff the amendments into the proper places.    It still wasn’t up on THOMAS when I last checked.   So we have yet another  “bill” passed unread by anyone.    That is the modus operandi of the Democrats,  and of Obama,  because they are aware the more people know about such bills,  the more they find to object to.  They will attempt to do the same thing to the Obamacare health plan,  so be forewarned.

Here is Speaker Pelosi’s victory announcement.     The 8 Republicans who provided the margin of victory should be taken to the woodshed.   Yes,   I realize 8 of the 44 Democrats allowed to take political cover by voting “No” might have switched,  but these Republicans made it easy for them and should hear about it.

One must never underestimate the overall  stupidity or particular ignorance of  politicians,  or their cupidity,  just as one must seldom accuse them of an overabundance of courage or honesty.

Prime example:   The number of pols nattering on about the cloud of CO2 atop our atmosphere.    The problem is that CO2 is 1.5 times denser than air,  so it tends to go down,  not up.   Think of the poisonous lakes in Africa which occasionally belch — ever hear of the CO2 and methane galloping uphill to kill a village?    Of course not,  but that simple logic is beyond most Congress critters.

You must understand the corruption of the Obama administration and the EPA.    First,  the EPA must declare CO2 a dangerous pollutant in order to regulate it.    This required the EPA to ignore its own researcher’s inconvenient  report on  greenhouse gases  –  thank the Competitive Enterprise Institute for unearthing the emails showing not only EPA censorship,  but also the lies uttered to protect its preordained conclusion.

The wheels  are about to come off of the global warming/climate change stampede,  and in a big way,  but we can’t depend on truth and facts to carry the day.    Start insisting your Senators do the correct thing and the smart thing by stopping this unconstitutional taxing scheme.

Given the fancy dancing being done by the minions of His Oneness on what a cap-and-trade system will do,  you should watch him tell you himself.

If you don’t think you can stomach it,  here’s the meat of his January, 2008 conversation with San Francisco Chronicle editors:

“Under my plan of a cap and trade system electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket,  even,  you know,  regardless of what I say about whether coal is good or bad,  because I’m capping greenhouse gases,  coal powered plants,  you know,  natural gas,  you name it, whatever the plants were,  whatever the industry was,  they would have to retrofit their operations.   That will cost money.   They will pass that money on to consumers.”

So he clearly knows the damage of his plan,   yet he wants America to believe that the $1,000 he’s going to pay the favored few will make up for a hidden tax that will increase the price of EVERYTHING?

If you were half as stupid as Obama believes you are,   you’d already be dead except that respiration is an involuntary reflex.    You’d be wearing a body-length bib,  because you’d be a drooling cretin,  a mere blob of associated cells.    Oh wait – that’s what he calls a fetus, isn’t it?

Ian Murray at OpenMarket.org has a wonderful piece up on Obama’s inaugural speech, pointing out that His Oneness doesn’t understand infrastructure, energy, or markets:

http://www.openmarket.org/2009/01/20/the-daddy-knows-best-inaugural-address/

I think Murray is right, and furthermore, I don’t think Obama cares.  I don’t even see his goal to be helping the economy,  His Oneness has a much different agenda in my view.

Obama is announcing his energy and environmental picks, and proclaiming that  “my administration will value science, and decisions will be based on facts.”   If that were true,  he wouldn’t be talking about climate change, would he?

Obama said that national  security is linked to energy, and we have an addiction to foreign oil.  Both true,   yet neither he nor anyone he has chosen has any interest in maintaining,  let alone increasing, domestic production of oil and gas.

No,   His Oneness is going to bring us new forms of energy and a “new hybrid economy… with millions of jobs building winds farms, solar panels…”   He apparently doesn’t know that your average line worker in Detroit has none of the skills required for those jobs.

“The solution to global climate change must be global.”  Well, yeah, if you’re really going to do anything.  He mentioned that Sen. John Kerry had reported to him on the current climate conference abroad, but failed to include that most of the European Union said any Kyoto II would wreck their economies for decades.

Indeed, he has put together “a team of people uniquely suited… leading experts and accomplished managers” –  too bad only one of them knows anything about science, and his expertise is in alternative  energy.

For such an intelligent man, Obama seems to understand little about science or history.

If anyone  still believes Democrats in general, and Obama in particular, want affordable energy, listen to him tell the San Francisco Chronicle how he would BANKRUPT the coal industry:

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/p-j-gladnick/2008/11/02/hidden-audio-obama-tells-sf-chronicle-he-will-bankrupt-coal-industry

Let there be no mistake — Democrats have worked for decades to create expensive energy and to wreck the private health care industry.  Every bill they support on energy is designed to make it both scarce and costly.  For years they used “the children”; now it’s “the environment.”

Obama will use the same tactics  to kill oil and gas.  Remember his responses to nuclear power and increased domestic oil and gas production – “if the environment can be protected”.  That’s code for “it can never be protected 100%, so it can’t be done.”

Obama isn’t a stupid man, and he certainly knows he’d face resistance if he went along with Pelosi’s plan to nationalize energy production.  But he can achieve the same thing by simply putting the production and delivery companies out of business.  Bill Clinton used bad science and cherry-picked statistics to create the second-hand smoke scare.  Politicians and activists are still relying on the Clinton Administration’s faked report to ban smoking everywhere.  They don’t even care that you may know they’re lying – their ends justify any means.

UPDATE:  Watch Obama tell Iowa Public Television  how he’d use  government-created “price signals”  to force people to be more green:

http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=79758

The DC Examiner editorial lays out some of Obama’s spending wish list:

http://www.dcexaminer.com/opinion/The_Coming_Obama_Spending_Explosion.html

I especially like Obama’s own Global Poverty Act that would commit $845 billion in new foreign aid through 2015, by handing over your money to the United Nations.

Obama has another bill, safely hidden in committee at present, which would PROHIBIT the federal government from using 3-D and 4-D technology to estimate our oil and gas reserves.  You think he’s protecting the public from same untested, worthless method?  Not exactly.  He wants to force the feds to use the same technology which the oil and gas producers used many years ago, and brought in about 1 well out of every 10 drilled in a good year. The 3-D technology allows them to bring in 5 wells for every 10, and the newest, 4-D, brings in 7 out of 10.

Obama doesn’t want you to know the true extent of our domestic reserves, lest you accuse him of being a bald-faced liar for saying we have “only 3% of the world’s reserves, but use 25% of them.”  The 3% figure omits the Bakken fields, the Artic National Wildlife Reserve, all of the shale oil in the West, coastal Alaska — well, you get the idea.

And despite his claim to love clean coal technology, he has no intention of actually allowing it to be used, so Joe Biden was actually right about that.  We have the world’s largest coal reserves, and haven’t once done what the Germans did for years – remove entire towns in order to mine the coal beneath them.