Cap and Trade may raise independence on foreign oil
Those evil, heathen bastards at Big Oil, trying to make a profit, are going to go overseas for cheaper materials if we unnaturally raise domestic prices. Of course, that would cost jobs that won’t be counted in the nebulous “created or saved category”.
The government, in an environmental orgasm not seen in decades, has decided that the world ends at the coasts, and that raising price controls won’t affect anything. Or, they think they decided that, seeing as no one has read the MF’ing bill yet, let alone before it narrowly passed in the House.
Let’s get down to brass tacks. This was never about the environment or tax revenue, or the economy. Its another ploy to concentrate power in the hands of the federal government. Liberals want to run your life, and by God, they’re going to do it. It doesn’t matter what campaign promises have to disappear, who gets thrown under the bus, or how many secret lobbyist meetings have to take place. Your life is theirs, cradle to grave.
Remember how 95% of Americans won’t have higher taxes under Obama? Yeah, I guess he was sorta right, because the real number that will is at 100%. The real pot sweetener is that he’s going to injure the economy and our job market in order to do it? Is there really any stronger proof that he’s just looking for power?
The backlash Obama feels in 2010 is going to scare the shit right out of him. There has NEVER been a better motivator of the GOP.
Honduras latest victim of Democracy
Update: Rush has a great question: Meddling in Iran is wrong, but meddling in Honduras is right. Why does Obama meddle in favor of a burgeoning dictator in Honduras, but not when the dictators are in trouble in Iran? Does Obama really side with the dictators on this one?
Original Post:
Hillary and Obama are unhappy about it. They are joined by good friends Chavez and Castro.
From HillDog:
Mrs. Clinton has piled on as well. Yesterday she accused Honduras of violating “the precepts of the Interamerican Democratic Charter” and said it “should be condemned by all.” Fidel Castro did just that. Mr. Chávez pledged to overthrow the new government.
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama says the weekend ouster of Honduran leader Manuel Zelaya was a “not legal” coup and that he remains the country’s president.
Oh boy. Well, the WSJ has something more on this:
Honduras is fighting back by strictly following the constitution. The Honduran Congress met in emergency session yesterday and designated its president as the interim executive as stipulated in Honduran law. It also said that presidential elections set for November will go forward. The Supreme Court later said that the military acted on its orders. It also said that when Mr. Zelaya realized that he was going to be prosecuted for his illegal behavior, he agreed to an offer to resign in exchange for safe passage out of the country. Mr. Zelaya denies it.
Well, well. Unless one is prepared to debunk the WSJ story in some fashion, it appears our SecState and POTUS in agreement with dictators on being able to overthrow whatever elements of a lawful democracy they see fit. I’m gonna go ahead and side with people who demand freedom and lawfulness from their leaders. We have extreme interests in keeping this whole region from falling under Hugo’s reign, as well, and that only sweetens the pot when he promises to overthrow this lawful government that he hates. We’d be able to deploy and wipe him off the map, finally.
A word from a Honduran:
“We won’t go backwards,” one sign said. “We want to live in peace, freedom and development.”
I’m with ya, buddy. I just hope we get a chance to prove it.
