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Democrats Bankrupting America
Jul 26, 2008 | 7:27 PM
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They are doing so in order to maintain their favorite lobby.

Michael Barone echoes my last several blog topics in his weekly column today regarding the cost of oil. He ties it together simply with the environmental lobby - a lobby that is firmly entrenched in the Democratic Party - and the way our government operates:

"Our system of divided government and litigation-friendly regulation makes it hard for our society to do things and easy for adroit lobbyists and lawyers to stop them. Nations with more centralized power and less democratic accountability find it easier: France and Japan generate most of their electricity by nuclear power and Chicago, where authority is more centralized and accountability less robust than in most of the country, depends more on nuclear power than almost all the rest of the nation."

Perhaps the most important point he illustrates is this, and is a point I have made in prior topics:

"The ANWR ban is the work of environmental restriction groups that depend on direct-mail fundraising to pay their bills and keep their jobs. That means they must always claim the sky is falling. They can't get people to send a check or mouse-click a donation because they did a good job, the restrictions they imposed on the Alaska pipeline in the 1970s have done a good job in preserving the environment or because clean air acts of the past have vastly reduced air pollution."

Summing up the present situation our country finds itself, Mr. Barone takes a swipe at global warm-monger Grand Archbishop Algore:

"But it also has its benefits: Public opinion, when it has changed as it has with $4 gas, has an effect. Environmental restrictionists like Al Gore have been selling a form of secular religion: We have sinned against Mother Earth, we must atone and suffer, there can be no argument, but we must have faith. That was an appealing argument to many, perhaps most, Americans when gas was selling for $1.40. It has a much more limited appeal now that gas is selling for $4.10. The time may be coming when our lunatic environmental policies are swept away by a rising tide of common sense."

Music to my ears, and my wallet.

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cyrusmartin read my blog view my photos
Jul 26, 2008 | 8:38 PM

Yeah I agree totally.
The gas prices and the war in Iraq are CLEARLY their fault.

....not to mention the mortgage crisis, rise in unemployment, credit fiascoes, and the highway from Mexico to Canada that is being built.


Clearly, The Democrats are responsible and we should stop them before any more of their kind get their greedy hands on our resources and industries.

Shame on them! Shhhaaaaame!!!!

Oh wait... never mind.
That is a crock of crip.

-Cy
Kestrel read my blog view my photos
Jul 26, 2008 | 9:19 PM

Marks,

You've got it right, look a Al Gore "Do as I Say, Not as I Do". Example his Gulfstream II jet and SUV's in his driveway, his Carbon foot print would be that of a "Big Foot" LOL!
Marks read my blog view my photos
Jul 26, 2008 | 9:28 PM

Cy, you seem excessively sarcastic for some reason. Last I checked, the legislative branch of our government is responsible for passing policy-level legislation. This Congress has failed to do so, thus more airlines will fail because the price of fuel increased by nearly double over the course of the 110th Congress - run by Democrats - because they remain intransigent on a real energy policy.
Marks read my blog view my photos
Jul 26, 2008 | 9:32 PM

Kestrel, anytime I hear Algore talking I get a mental picture of Pinocchio's nose growing.
willie read my blog
Jul 26, 2008 | 10:07 PM

How funny, Marks! I think the last time I saw Al his nose did indeed look alot longer. LOL

I think many people just pretty much didn't pay attention to the environmental nut jobs until the gas prices got their attention. Now that they are paying attention, the 'greenies' may have to start worrying about where their own greenbacks are going to come from.
Marks read my blog view my photos
Jul 26, 2008 | 10:11 PM

Exactly, Willie! Disposable income nowadays isn't so disposable. I anticipate seeing news stories about the Sierra Club for Greed - er Green layoffs soon...
willie read my blog
Jul 26, 2008 | 10:21 PM

I see people everyday counting out their change because they cannot afford food anymore. It's either gas to get to work or food...they are really hurting. The price of food shot up due to the price of corn skyrocketing. This go green crap has hit alot of people hard.
scottythecomic read my blog view my photos
Jul 27, 2008 | 2:51 PM

I believe it is high time to limit lobbyists and PAC's, their input and power. Too many politicians on either side are simply bought.
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