Cracks In The Obama Facade

I’ve been seeing this trend in a few places. Dick Morris wrote about it last month. Now, Victor Davis Hanson expands on this trend. He also covers and expands on one theme I’ve been focused on from the beginning of my web site. The topic of energy and the green movement:

Energy. We are finding more natural gas than ever. There are billions of barrels of U.S. oil in Alaska, offshore, and in shale. Yet rigs sit idle and government leases are constricting rather than expanding — and for reasons other than the economy. Logic dictated a simple course: expand exploration, increase production, use the revenue to pay down the deficit, and, along with conservation, ready ourselves for the next round of inflationary energy hikes, petro politics, and Middle East petro-bribery by transitioning to alternate energies. In other words, the rare carbon bounty of the U.S. was vital in providing a window of survival, until technology solves wind, solar, and bio-fuel by making them more competitive and plentiful.

No to all that common sense. Instead, Obama is ignoring the potential of coal, nuclear, gas, and oil, intent on cap-and-trade, and pie-in-the-sky present-day Gore-ish wind and solar. The result will be that our energy bills will skyrocket. Our vulnerability will increase. Our overt enemies will gain leverage, and covert ones will keep using coal and nuclear for economic advantage. This is a disastrous energy policy and apparently has been outsourced to the Al Gore cadres. We have a rendezvous with real trouble when the global economy rebounds and  demands more oil and gas. Al Gore will keep his yacht, jet on private planes, and tinker with his various contraptions at his estate; the rest of us will be in gas lines.

JohnFN at the excellent Threedonia has a great post about the VDH column and added this insight:

In the months ahead, voters will have to reconcile Obama’s Chicago politics with the man he followed. It won’t be a pretty comparison for Obama, who has generally shown disdain for truth, attacked private citizens or laughed at the thought of their demise (Wanda Sykes), used his race as a weapon against enemies, named the former Administration in an unprecedented fashion, bullied private enterprise or simply seems cold like a car salesman – fitting behavior for a President more willing to meet with dictators than the opposite political party. Unifier, I think not.

Well said…

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