Crossposted at Musings of a Mad Conservative.
Tonight, President Obama is going to kickoff his 2012 re-election bid during the State of The Union Address. He has already tried some very thuggish tactics to prevent any Republicans from campaigning too early. But, like all rules edicted by the liberals in charge, rules are for others, and not for them. (It should be noted that the memorialpep rally in Tuscon was actually the campaign kickoff, but it remains unofficial as tonight will probably have a much larger audience.) I have heard rumors and read rumors of what the President plans to address tonight. Among those, something literally mad me laugh for quite a while. The President it seems wishes to address some of the onerous regulations the Executive Branch has imposed on the Private Sector. When you stop laughing, read on.
President Obama never seems to disappoint when it comes to his ability to be disingenuous. Besides the fact that Candidate Obama pledged once to regulate the entire coal industry into bankruptcy, has imposed a record number of czars, all of whom are free from any congressional oversight, most of whom are from the most bizarre leftist radical organizations our country has ever spawned, and all of whom have questionable expertise in the areas they have been tapped to take lordship over. The oil exploration industry is at a standstill, despite a ruling by a Federal Judge that the standstill and ban on exploration was unconstitutional. The newly passed Health care law socializes a full 18% of the formerly private sector economy, and is so vaguely written, we still do not fully comprehend the impactdamage it will do to our nation. What we do know is that the phrase, “at the discretion of the Secretary,” is the most often written group of words in the Law. We have even made Thomas Edison’s most important invention, the incandescent light bulb, illegal by executive fiat. This last point is so much more poignant, since Edison is cited by the President as the type of genius Federal Overreach is unnecessarily stifling. Soak that in for just a moment.
My fellow conservatives have been lamenting the fact that Obama has been able to strike a more centrist tone lately, and been able to appear as though he is no longer the loony leftist he has been shown to be during the last 2 years. Indeed, the poll numbers would indicate a bounce in favorability back above the 50% mark. But, right now, this is all appearance. Reality will soon set in, if Obama’s promise of deregulation is just an empty promise. His dalliances in the Oil Industry have given us $100 a barrel oil. The Health Care Law has given us 4 consecutive years of gradually increasing tax rates and penalties. The stealth Cap and Trade imposed by the out of control EPA will have us paying more for electricity, as well as causing us to shed jobs in all sectors of the economy in the very near future. The Financial Industry is now completely constipated due to the onerous financial regulatory law, which coincidentally ignores completely the root cause of financial collapse, Fannie and Freddie. What jobs are being created are governmental jobs, or being produced by companies who are benefiting from tax dollars which are being funnelled against the express will of the American People. We have seen the Broken Window Fallacy before, it will not work for long term economic growth.
In short my fellow conservatives, do not be any more fooled by the man behind the curtain this time than we were the last. The wizard is still just the dolt from Thugcago. Eventually, all Americans will be forced to recognize this, and $4 per gallon gasoline will do it. Senator Inhofe does a decent job of explaining it all.
