It’s Almost Like

Monday 24 June 2013 - Filed under Uncategorized

It’s almost like Obama is trying mightily to ensure that Team BLUE loses its ass in 2014, then loses both houses and the presidency in 2016. In a bid to appeal to his base supporters in a time when he’s being rightfully scorned by most for a series of audacious acts against the American people ranging from spying on our telephone calls to using the IRS to specifically target political groups that oppose him, he chooses to go ahead with a unilateral effort to bring about new “climate change” regulations that will further drive the economy down by significantly raising energy costs. Ed Rogers at WaPo:

On Tuesday, President Obama will announce his plan to increase everyone’s power bill. Or, as he puts it, “a national plan to reduce carbon pollution, prepare our country for the impacts of climate change and lead global efforts to fight it.”
If you accept the science of global warming, then you accept the fact that the president’s unilateral action on climate change will have absolutely no effect in terms of adjusting the global thermostat to a temperature Obama finds desirable. The rest of the developing world, anchored by India and China, are building carbon-burning factories, power plants and even whole new cities that will overwhelm any new rules the president may impose on Americans and our struggling economy.

Especially when one considers that

The most recent poll I could find, conducted by the Pew Research Center following the president’s inaugural address, said just 28 percent of Americans think “dealing with global warming” should be a priority for the president and Congress. Americans ranked this issue last out of 21 different priorities. And as usual, the poll identified the economy as the most important issue. Well, Obama’s obsession with global warming and his desire to inflict higher energy prices on the average American family will harm the economy and be bad for job growth.

Awesome. Higher energy prices at the whim of a man who lives opulently, traveling in jets the world around, residing in a mansion that costs over a billion dollars a year to support.

2013-06-24  »  madlibertarianguy