Dixie - In Memoriam
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Okay, once again, a major news event happened, and not a soul here posted about it. I thought this was supposed to be a political message board? Even in Bush's worst hour, whenever he gave an address from the oval office, there was someone here within minutes posting about it. This is really strange, are you guys too busy playing the Werewolf game?
Now to my analysis of his speech. I thought it sucked.
He spent the first several minutes, telling us how he has been on top of this from Day 1, the number of responders who were immediately dispatched, and still remain, the world's greatest General is overseeing things, all the government agencies jumped into action from the very start! I know this was to combat the complaint that he has done nothing, but I think it drives home the point there is nothing the government can do. All of this response from all these government entities, and the oil is still gushing into the gulf. I mean, what difference does it make, how many resources have been dispatched, when they are tripping over each other and basically getting in the way of the people who know how to deal with this disaster? Why weren't experts from the Netherlands and Saudi Arabia called in? (or at least have their phone calls returned?)
Then he had to sound angry and tough on BP, announcing he was going to "inform" them that they MUST put money in an escrow account... the president has no such constitutional authority to do this. Any such arrangement was predetermined and agreed to (probably suggested) by BP. The interesting thing is, BP has said from the start, they are going to make this right, they are going to pay for the damages... but that's not good enough for a liberal, in fact, that is totally unacceptable. We can't let BP have the chance to be responsible, how would that look? We must let government take control of this before BP has the opportunity to do the right thing here.
Next, he launched into his pitch for cap and trade, with elegant Kennedy-like phrases and platitudes. He doesn't know how we are going to become energy independent, or how we are going to get there, but he promised to drag us into the wilderness to throw trillions of dollars at the wall until he figures it out. And even though thousands of jobs along the gulf coast are going to be destroyed, it is important we continue to have a moratorium on offshore drilling. Why? Well because we need to figure out what government regulations didn't work, and what new ones are needed in the future to prevent something like this from happening again. It really doesn't matter that the well explosion was not because of a lack of regulations. It doesn't matter that government was too incompetent to oversee the current regulations, we must add some more! That's always the answer from a liberal!
I caught several lies in his speech, most notably, that we have "run out of places to drill for oil" ....that is why he says we are 50 miles out in the gulf drilling. Well, what about ANWR? What about the thousands of other places we could safely and efficiently drill for oil without disrupting the environment, yet we can't drill there because of the environmentalists? Yeah, I guess after you take out all the places we could drill, but environmentalists don't want us to, then we've "run out" of places! So we're going to stop drilling for the oil we need, and buy more from the Arabs, while we fund a series of super-projects which amount to geeks in their basement, turning cars into golf carts! THAT is Obama's "Energy Plan!"
Now to my analysis of his speech. I thought it sucked.
He spent the first several minutes, telling us how he has been on top of this from Day 1, the number of responders who were immediately dispatched, and still remain, the world's greatest General is overseeing things, all the government agencies jumped into action from the very start! I know this was to combat the complaint that he has done nothing, but I think it drives home the point there is nothing the government can do. All of this response from all these government entities, and the oil is still gushing into the gulf. I mean, what difference does it make, how many resources have been dispatched, when they are tripping over each other and basically getting in the way of the people who know how to deal with this disaster? Why weren't experts from the Netherlands and Saudi Arabia called in? (or at least have their phone calls returned?)
Then he had to sound angry and tough on BP, announcing he was going to "inform" them that they MUST put money in an escrow account... the president has no such constitutional authority to do this. Any such arrangement was predetermined and agreed to (probably suggested) by BP. The interesting thing is, BP has said from the start, they are going to make this right, they are going to pay for the damages... but that's not good enough for a liberal, in fact, that is totally unacceptable. We can't let BP have the chance to be responsible, how would that look? We must let government take control of this before BP has the opportunity to do the right thing here.
Next, he launched into his pitch for cap and trade, with elegant Kennedy-like phrases and platitudes. He doesn't know how we are going to become energy independent, or how we are going to get there, but he promised to drag us into the wilderness to throw trillions of dollars at the wall until he figures it out. And even though thousands of jobs along the gulf coast are going to be destroyed, it is important we continue to have a moratorium on offshore drilling. Why? Well because we need to figure out what government regulations didn't work, and what new ones are needed in the future to prevent something like this from happening again. It really doesn't matter that the well explosion was not because of a lack of regulations. It doesn't matter that government was too incompetent to oversee the current regulations, we must add some more! That's always the answer from a liberal!
I caught several lies in his speech, most notably, that we have "run out of places to drill for oil" ....that is why he says we are 50 miles out in the gulf drilling. Well, what about ANWR? What about the thousands of other places we could safely and efficiently drill for oil without disrupting the environment, yet we can't drill there because of the environmentalists? Yeah, I guess after you take out all the places we could drill, but environmentalists don't want us to, then we've "run out" of places! So we're going to stop drilling for the oil we need, and buy more from the Arabs, while we fund a series of super-projects which amount to geeks in their basement, turning cars into golf carts! THAT is Obama's "Energy Plan!"
