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America’s 3rd World Style Demagogue President

by Phantom Ace ( 63 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Communism, Liberal Fascism, Progressives at June 16th, 2010 - 5:00 pm

Our President Barack Hussein Obama, in reality is nothing more than a Viceroy for the Progressive-Islamic Axis. In last night’s speech, he once again showed his 3rd World style rhetoric. Like all Progressive dictators, he blamed the previous government. Obama then used the BP spill as an excuse to enact his radical Cap and Trade agenda. Last night’s speech could have been written by Hugo Chavez as it was similar in style and full of demagoguery.

Now, no one disputes that this is a real disaster and that BP acted irresponsibly in commissioning Trans-Ocean and Halliburton to drill for oil in waters so deep that if a failure occurred there would be no way to fix it — at least until major damage had been done. BP, Trans-Ocean, and Halliburton, as well as the individuals involved, have much to answer for.

But the action of the President in demanding this immense transfer of the stockholders’ wealth without any legislation or court decision is extremely worrisome.

We live in a Constitutional Republic. The President’s job under the Constitution is to enforce the laws made by the elected Congress. His job is not to create new laws and enforce them all by himself. His job is as magistrate under the Constitution, not as Caudillo. He is not the law. He is supposed to enforce what Congress decides.

Read the rest: Our Caudillo President

Not only is Barack Hussein Obama our first Post-American President, he is also our first 3rd World style Demagogue!

Jonah Goldberg has a great article describing Obama’s response to the BP Oil spill as a failure.

In a peculiar instance of synchronicity, President Obama’s Oval Office speech to the nation last night resembled the very calamity it was intended to address: Like the oil spewing into the Gulf, it began as a focused and narrow stream of words — and quickly spread out into an amorphous cloud of goo.

What started as a just-the-facts-ma’am explanation quickly got caught up in political currents — by the end we were treated to bromides about the Greatest Generation and putting a man on the moon and preposterous insinuations that the Red Chinese will turn Green before us. (China, mind you, is the country where the rivers burn, the air is crunchy and the government is building a new, filthy, coal-fired power plant every 10 days for the next decade).

News Update: Israel appears to about to cave to International pressure over Gaza.

JERUSALEM – Israel is likely to significantly ease the land blockade of Gaza in coming days in an effort to blunt the international outcry over its deadly raid on a blockade-busting flotilla, officials said Wednesday.

Israel has been scrambling to find ways to ease the embargo and its own growing international isolation.

The leaders of Israel have once again sold their people out.

Barack Hussein Obama BP Oil Spill Speech

by Phantom Ace ( 160 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Gaza, Israel, Leftist-Islamic Alliance, Open thread, Progressives at June 15th, 2010 - 7:30 pm

President Barack Hussein Obama will address the nation tonight about the BP oil spill. He will use this speech to Demagogue BP and Push for Cap-N-Trade.

The president will also press for the passage of legislation to move the nation away from fossil fuels, the one piece of his ambitious domestic agenda that has stalled, but it’s unclear what that legislation will ultimately look like.

The president said recently that he wants legislation that puts a price on carbon, and vowed to help round up the votes for it in the Senate.

Democratic Senate aides said this week that there is little appetite for pursuing ambitious legislation to combat climate change this year, and predicted a smaller package that directly addresses the oil spill is more likely.

Another item of interest is that the Obama regime pressured Israel to speed up the Gaza Flotilla and include an International component.

The Obama administration, led by National Security Advisor Jim Jones, was heavily involved in the Israeli government’s decision to appoint an “independent public commission” to investigate the Gaza flotilla incident and pushed Israel to speed up the process in order to head off any attempts for increased pressure at the United Nations.

Over the last week, there were a flurry of high-level interactions between top administration officials and their various Israeli interlocutors. A State Department official told The Cable that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke with Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak and that Deputy Secretary Jim Steinberg, Special Envoy George Mitchelland others were working the phones as well. Barak also spoke with Vice President Joseph Biden, who was traveling in the region.

But in last couple of days, the final details were worked out between the White House and Prime Minister’s office, specifically by Jones and Israeli national security advisor Uzi Arad, according to an Israeli official. The National Security Council was much more involved than the State Department, with NSC Director Dan Shapiro in Israel to help and Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren playing a role as a go-between as well, the official said.

The message Obama officials delivered was twofold. First, they wanted to make sure Israel appointed international members to the commission who were credible. William David Trimble from Northern Ireland and Ken Watkin, a former judge advocate general of the Canadian Armed Forces, will be on it.

McIntyre Asks a Very Interesting Question

by snork ( 61 Comments › )
Filed under Environmentalism at June 1st, 2010 - 9:00 am

I’ll keep this short and sweet. Steve Mc at ClimateAudit has a post up on the BP cleanup plan. These plans have to be filed as part of the routine paperwork needed to get the final permit to drill. Now much has said about how government has failed us, and the buck is being passed as far back as Reagan (!) as well as to all private parties involved. Nothing surprising there. But Steve also asks this:

I also presume that the BP Oil Spill Response Plan (including prior editions) and Response Plans of other operators have been available not merely to regulators, but to environmental organizations for many years (I don’t know this, I am presuming it.) If effective skimming capacity is insufficient to deal with the present blow out – or whatever else is missing in the remediation capacity – shouldn’t this have been apparent to someone in the environmental movements? Has this been an ongoing topic of controversy for environmental organizations over the past 10 years? Not just in the abstract way of condemning all offshore drilling, but in the practical way of pointing out potential shortfalls in skimming capacity (or other practical defects in the Response Plan)? Just asking.

Very interesting question, indeed. Instead of photoshopping polar bears on to ice, shouldn’t these “watchdog” organizations, many of which have multibillion dollar budgets, be looking over the shoulders of both the oil companies and the government? Or are they really entitled to call themselves “watchdogs”? And while not denying the responsibility that both the private companies and the government have in this, is it not possible that someone in the NGO sector might have been able to prevent this by demanding that the government do its job, and in turn demand that BP produce a serious response plan, and not 500+ pages of platitudes?

Which leads to the next question: are there people at BP and in the government that they didn’t want to piss off? Or did they really secretly want some event of this sort to happen, and didn’t want to prevent BP from stabbing the entire industry in the back like they did?

It seems like questions beget questions. So next time some hippy from Greenpeace comes knocking on your door, these would be some good questions to ask.

President Jug Head

by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 233 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Economy, Environmentalism, Humor, Media, Open thread, Politics, Progressives at May 29th, 2010 - 10:30 pm

I don’t know about you, but whenever our Fearless Leader speaks, I look around and imagine that he looks like something in our kitchen, like the water cooler. Somehow it makes it all better, because I know that our water cooler has no control over my life.

It amazes me that on 27 May 2010, the leader of the free world and the President of the greatest nation on earth had the audacity to utter these words:

“I mean, we’re still years off and some technological breakthroughs away from being able to operate on purely a clean-energy grid.

During that time, we’re going to be using oil. And to the extent that we’re using oil, it makes sense for us to develop our oil and natural gas resources here in the United States and not simply rely on imports.

That’s important for our economy. That’s important for economic growth. So the overall framework — which is to say, domestic oil production should be part of our overall energy mix — I think continues to be the right one.”

Although I completely agree with him on that, his comments came only minutes after he announced a moratorium on all domestic oil exploration and drilling. Unsurprisingly, his adoring media let him off the hook instead of calling him on it:

Of course, nobody in the Press Corpse [sic -Obama’s own pronunciation] wants to be the recipient of one of these not-so-subtle gestures from President Jug Head:

One thing Fearless Leader knows is the art of subtle nuance.

If he were serious, he’d open up ANWR immediately and forge a cartel with Canada and Mexico (and perhaps other democratic countries in South America) to reduce/eliminate our trade with OPEC. Now THAT would be a legacy he could be proud of.

Unfortunately, my water cooler can’t do it, so let’s have an Overnight Open Thread.