I take Obama at his word when he says that he had no involvement with the Ebay auction of his former Senate seat by Gov. Blagojevich, but, knowing what an incestuous swamp Illinois Democrat politics is, I find it incredulous that he and Rahm Emanuel did not know what was going on.
Remember Watergate? “What did he know and when did he know it?” If it comes out that Rahm ’n’ Obama knew about this and did not blow the whistle, they will be starting out with a big ethical cloud over them. The best thing about that would be that it would take some steam out of the scary environmental agenda foreshadowed by upcoming energy and environmental appointments.
Soon-to-be Energy Secretary Steven Chu told the Wall Street Journal in September, “Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.” The average household that now spends, say, $2,500 per year on gasoline would see that triple to about $7,500 or more, dwarfing those promised welfare checks known as “the middle class tax cut.”
Combine him with prospective White House energy advisor Carol Browner and you truly have the makings of an economic disaster. She was EPA head under Clinton (not literally, as far as I know) and is an acolyte of AL Gore. Not only does Browner oppose drilling in the outer Continental shelf, but she wants to let the EPA declare that greenhouse gases endanger health or welfare, triggering regulation of them under the Clean Air Act.
The new EPA chief, Lisa Jackson, is a former EPA enforcer and Browner protégé. Together, this team poses a real threat to the future of the US economy and to Americans’ living standards. They either believe that human caused global warming threatens to destroy life on Earth or they pretend to believe it so they can use it as an excuse to give government more power over human activity.
The argument for global warming is based entirely on elaborately constructed computer models. We all know about “Garbage in, garbage out.” The actual data show no warming for the past ten years. But this is not about facts: this is about ideology. The left has always known that you need the threat of a terrifying crisis to persuade people to trade freedom for security. After the fall of Communism, the threat of nuclear Armageddon no longer worked, but along came global warming to save the day for totalitarians.
Energy and environmental policy may well prove to be Obama’s Achilles heel.
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