RSSViews on the News – 6/14/2008
Carolyn Hileman - The Voice | June 14, 2008
How much does gas need to cost before Congress undoes the harm done to the energy industry by opening up the energy reserves off limits in Alaska, off our shores and in our national parks? Carter first put ANWR off limits and Clinton stopped it again in 1995 before he placed huge oil shale reserves off limits in our national parks. No oil refinery has been built since 1975 due to regulatory barriers, and environmentalists fight expansion of existing refineries despite tremendous advances in emissions controls. The Democrats in the House continue to block oil exploration in U.S. coastal waters, knowing that other countries are tapping these energy resources off our shores. In November of 2006, House Speaker-elect Nancy Pelosi issued a press release touting the Democrats’ “common-sense plan to help bring down skyrocketing gas prices.” – results? Thank God cloture tabled the DOA Climate Security Act which threatened to raise energy costs while pursuing dubious climate change goals and undermining the American economy. Congress must repeal the 2006 ethanol subsidies as an ineffective disruption of the energy free market and rising food prices as an unintended consequence of this failed initiative. Gallup poll in May showed 57% of Americans wanted the U.S. to drill in coastal and wilderness areas, while the percentage of people fell to 20% who bought Pelosi’s line about price gouging.
The Mainstream Media has delivered a constant drumbeat of doom and gloom based on the premise that everything is bad and “change” is needed, solely to benefit the political left. The Mainstream Media has been very open in their biases criticizing supply side economics and refusing to acknowledge six years of uninterrupted growth, instead offering only criticism. Pundits who suffer from “Bush Derangement Syndrome” and blame everything from natural disasters to failed liberal programs on President Bush, should be pitied, not listened to!
With no experience of his own, Obama embraced the failed policies of President Jimmy Carter and now has expanded to include the failed “Great Society” domestic policies of President Lyndon Johnson. So far most of Obama’s rhetoric has been to whine about Bush policies and to offer vacuous promises of hope and change with no details to substantiate any real ideas. Obama has revealed early and often his plans to let the Bush tax cuts expire and then further increase taxes (higher income tax, capital gains taxes, dividend taxes, and tax hikes on small businesses) to pay for his expanded spending proposals. The one area Obama wants to cut spending is on national security by withdrawing troops from around the world and cutting weapon systems he knows little about and values even less. The last times that Presidents dramatically cut defense spending, it encouraged Soviet aggression under President Carter and emboldened terrorist attacks under President Clinton. Obama has also revealed his partisan approach to “defeat and retreat” in Iraq when he refuses to meet with General Petraeus, since he refuses to acknowledge changing realities in Iraq. Obama doesn’t like being called a liberal which is accurate since his ideas are closer to Marxism and communism which should be no surprise based on his intellectual mentors: Frank Marshall Davis, Saul Alinsky, William Ayers, and Bernadine Dohrn.
McCain has defined his platform as ‘Reform, Prosperity, and Peace” rejecting failed Bush programs, articulating poor Bush policies he would do better, and vowing to continue Bush successes. McCain has been very vocal about rejecting all earmarks, cutting government spending, and beginning the transition to personal accounts for health care and social security. McCain has also been critical of current performance on immigration, energy independence, pro-life and protection of traditional marriage and would seek to institutionalize his changes. McCain should promise to continue the Bush “Goldilocks” economic growth, historically low unemployment, low taxes, free trade driven prosperity, and safe from attack since 2001. The liberal Supreme Court Boudmediene v. Bush decision giving constitutional rights to terrorists highlights how important it is to have a Republican select future Supreme Court Justices.
Has anyone bothered to notice that the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Phase II Iraq Report substantiated all the reasons that President Bush cited as rationale for invading Iraq?
· Nuclear weapons program: “generally substantiated by intelligence community estimates.”
· Biological weapons, production capability and those infamous mobile laboratories: “substantiated by intelligence information.”
· Chemical weapons: “substantiated by intelligence information.”
· Weapons of Mass Destruction overall: “generally substantiated by intelligence information.”
· Delivery vehicles such as ballistic missiles: “generally substantiated by available intelligence.”
· Unmanned aerial vehicles that could be used to deliver WMDs: “generally substantiated by intelligence information.”
· Iraq’s support for terrorist groups other than al-Qaeda: “substantiated by intelligence information.”
· Iraq provided safe haven for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and other terrorists with ties to al-Qaeda: “substantiated by the intelligence assessments.”
· Iraq’s contacts with al-Qaeda: “substantiated by intelligence information.”
If you are sick and tired of government and politics as usual, read my web site with its individual issue analysis and recommendations at: http://www.returntocommonsensesite.com Remember this site is updated every Saturday. Individual issue updates this week include:
Politics at http://www.returntocommonsensesite.com/top/politics.html
Crime at http://www.returntocommonsensesite.com/dp/crime.html
Environment at http://www.returntocommonsensesite.com/dp/environment.html
Crime at http://www.returntocommonsensesite.com/dp/crime.html
Religion at http://www.returntocommonsensesite.com/dp/religion.html
Middle East at http://www.returntocommonsensesite.com/fp/middleeast.html
This Week’s Best Articles:
· “How to Beat a Rock Star: ‘Substance.’” By Holly Baily and Jon Meacham dated June 7, 2008 published by Newsweek at http://www.newsweek.com/id/140470/ .
· “Obama’s associations may haunt bid” dated June 8, 2008 published by The Washington Times at http://www.washtimes.com/news/2008/jun/08/obamas-associations-may-haun t-bid/ .
· “Amid Barack Obamamania, John McCain could still win the presidential election” by John O’Sullivan dated June 8, 2008 published by Telegraph at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/06/08/ do0804.xml .
· “One Historic Night, Two Americas” by Frank Rich dated June 8, 2008 published by The New York Times at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/08/opinion/08rich.html?_r=1&ref=opinion &oref=slogin .
· “Adhering to the Principles that Keep America Prosperous & Free” by Fred Thompson dated June 8, 2008 published by Town Hall at http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FredThompson/2008/06/08/adhering_to _the_principles_that_keep_america_prosperous__free .
· “Congress Fiddled With Warming While Earth Cooled” by Marc Sheppard dated June 9, 2008 published by American Thinker at http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/06/congress_fiddled_with_warming.h tml .
· “When Will the Big Media Investigate Obama’s Communist Influences?” by Bill Steigerwald dated June 9, 2008 published by Front Page Magazine at http://www.frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=E793A37D-B7B1 -4234-866D-9DF4E7294999 .
· “Obama, the Money Wizard” by Kyle-Anne Shiver dated June 9, 2008 published by National Review Online at http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=OTlkYzllMmM1Y2YxYjEwMzA3Njc 1OWE1MDM4ZjU5NzE= .
· “’Bush Lied’? If Only It Were That Simple” By Fred Hiatt dated June 9, 2008 published by Washington Post at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/08/AR2008 060801687.html .
· “Debates still rages on impact of tax cuts” by David M. Dickson dated June 9, 2008 published by The Washington Times at http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/jun/09/bush-onomics/ .
· “’McBush’ – A Strategy of a Losing Campaign” by Douglas MacKinnon dated June 9, 2008 published by Town Hall at http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DouglasMacKinnon/2008/06/09/mcbush_ -_a_strategy_of_a_losing_campaign .
· “The Drill-Nothing Congress” dated June 9, 2008 published by Investor’s Business Daily at http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=297904745555169 .
· “Fuelish Democrats” by Fred Barnes dated June 10, 2008 published by Front Page Magazine at http://www.frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=CB7B5E72-20EF -450E-B657-B0168D19395A .
· “Boiled in Oil” by Irwin M. Stelzer dated June 10, 2008 published by The Weekly Standard at http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/204k vwri.asp .
· “Where No Enemy Has Gone Before” by Erik Rush dated June 10, 2008 published by New Media Journal at http://newmediajournal.us/staff/rush/2008/06102008.htm .
· “LBJ’s List and the Conservative Challenge” by Jeffrey Lord dated June 10, 2008 published by The American Spectator at http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=13344 .
· “Modern Liberals, Whine Connoisseurs” by Peter Schweizer dated June 10, 2008 published by National Review Online at http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZmM4YjVhZjg5NDFiZmI5M2ZlNWNiMWNiZ DAwZjQ2NDM= .
· “Obama’s Defense Leaves Us Vulnerable” by Charles R. Smith dated June 10, 2008 published by News Max at http://www.newsmax.com/smith/barack_obama/2008/06/10/103236.html .
· “Crisis Point” by Kay Bailey Hutchison dated June 11, 2008 published by National Review Online at http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZjhkMGIxZmJhMjNkNjRiMjJkN2M0MjVkO DFmMTEyODg= .
· “Obamanomics” by Jennifer Rubin dated June 11, 2008 published by Human Events Online at http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=26935 .
· “Obama’s Defense Policy” by Ed Lasky dated June 11, 2008 published by American Thinker at http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/06/post_17.html .
· “Who Is Obama? Where Is the Press?” by Tony Blankley dated June 11, 2008 published by Town Hall at http://www.townhall.com/columnists/TonyBlankley/2008/06/11/who_is_obam a_where_is_the_press .
· “Big Mac: The Taxpayer-Friendly Candidate” by Lawrence Kudlow dated June 11, 2008 published by Town Hall at http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LawrenceKudlow/2008/06/11/big_mac_t he_taxpayer-friendly_candidate .
· “John McCain’s Best-Kept Secret” by Gary Bauer dated June 11, 2008 published by National Review Online at http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ODI0MzM1OGY1M2YxNjZiNTMwOTdkNDY2O DRhN2NhNjQ= .
· “Bush’s America: 100 Percent Al-Qaeda Free Since 2001” by Ann Coulter dated June 11, 2008 published by Human Events Online at http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=26967 .
· “Post-Bush Boom” dated June 11, 2008 published by Investor’s Business Daily at http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=298077351283303 .
· “House Subcommittee Rejects Plan to Open U.S. Waters to More Oil Exploration” dated June 11, 2008 published by Fox News at http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,365627,00.html .
· “$4 Gasbags” dated June 12, 2008 published by The Wall Street Journal at http://online.wsj.com/public/article_print/SB121322599645166029.html .
· “Congress Again Lards Iraq War Spending Bill” by Brian M. Riedl dated June 12, 2008 published by The Heritage Foundation at http://www.heritage.org/Research/Budget/wm1953.cfm .
· “Greens Thwart Gasoline Production” by Steven Milloy dated June 13, 2008 published by Front Page Magazine at http://www.frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=6C2A174B-055C -44B1-B5DB-F30B49860FFC .
· “Carter’s Second Coming?” by Richard H. Collins dated June 13, 2008 published by Town Hall at http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichardHCollins/2008/06/13/carters_ second_coming .
· “Barack Obama: A Candidate in Search of a Resume” by Gary Bauer dated June 13, 2008 published by Human Events Online at http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=26983 .
· “Dems Prefer Iraq Retreat Over Victory” by Charles Krauthammer dated June 13, 2008 published by Investor’s Business Daily at http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=298248292746341 .
· “The Gitmo Nightmare” by Matthew Continetti dated June 23, 2008 published by The weekly Standard at http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/216x daeq.asp .
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