Old-Time Religion
September 26, 2008
Wall Street Journal writer, Dan Henninger, notes the apolyptic tones in Washington over the current financial crisis and hears the strains of “Give Me That Old-Time Religion” coming from Congressmen on Capitol Hill. He says:
You can’t claim, as holier-than-thou politics is now, that sending an army of regulatory storm-troopers into Wall Street will ensure integrity in mere bankers who themselves come from a broader, anything-goes culture.
Listen to what Henninger has to say in a WSJ video interview. Read his article here.
Sphere: Related ContentReid last minute attempt to sneak in drilling ban
September 25, 2008
UPDATE II: Specifics of the amendment are posted at Sen. Jim DeMint’s website. The ban specifically targets oil shale development. Reid’s specific proposal can be found here.
UPDATE, OPINIONTIMES.COM EXCLUSIVE: At the same time Harry Reid is attempting to renew the ban on oil exploration, an array of environmental groups will be submitting a lawsuit today or tomorrow to block the recent leases granted on the Roan Plateau in Colorado. The Roan Plateau has one of the largest reserves of natural gas in the world.
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Harry Reid is attempting to sneak in a renewal of the ban on offshore drilling into spending legislation sources tell Opinion Times. Reid is offering an “economic stimulus” amendment to the Homeland Security section of the bill which would extend the decades old offshore drilling ban.
The continuing resolution which came to the Senate from the House yesterday had all oil exploration provisions removed by a vote of 370-58. It was a major victory for proponents of expanding energy exploration. the nearly 1 trillion barrels of oil available through oil shale reserves in the mountain states of Colorado, Wyoming and Utah was also lifted.
THIS JUST IN: Harry Reid and The Grinch were separated at birth.
Reid’s motivation is unclear, but it brings to mind Mitch McConnell’s question put to Colorado Senator Ken Salazar “at what price for gasoline would you open up energy exploration?” See below.
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McCain/Palin Troops beware: you may be sleeping too secure
September 17, 2008
OpinionTimes.com EDITORIAL:
The recently converted McCain supporters (once disaffected members of the Republican base) should be excited about the current McCain bump. But it will be all for naught if the McCain campaign doesn’t focus that energy on a strong effort to get like-minded voters to the polls. Just kiss it all goodbye without a grassroots effort which eclipses 2004. And Karl Rove (love him or hate him) isn’t running that show this time. Rick Davis is. He’s doing an excellent job with media response and has made some great decisions at the convention and with how to message the pick of Palin for VP. But his candidate is out there talking about setting up a commission to study the recent crisis among Wall Street firms as well as regulation of financial institutions. But he should be troubled that the ground game is only now forming with just a few weeks to go, and the McCain is once again drawing upon ideas which serve only to depress the base.
Consider: Read more
Sphere: Related ContentDisaster for McCain if he signs on to “Gang of 16″
September 16, 2008
RedState.com has a great editorial on the rumors that John McCain plains to sign on to the disasterous “Gang of 16″ energy “plan:”
For the past several months, John McCain has ridden the energy issue, moreso than any other single issue, to the top of the polls. Governor Palin, one of the nation’s leading proponents of domestic energy production, further solidifies John McCain as the candidate who takes the energy issue seriously. To endorse the Gang of 16 plan would undermine Senator McCain’s credibility on the issue. In addition to the terrible politics of the plan for Republicans, the plan itself is terrible, terrible policy.
Read more here.
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September 12, 2008
This Iraq war veteran asks that very question:
America not ready for Salazar’s unbalanced energy plan
September 9, 2008
Colorado Senator Ken Salazar spoke on Friday to an energy forum of the Independent Petroleum Association of Mountain States. He called for a “balanced national energy policy” and dismissed claims he is against drilling and exploration in the United States. He told his critics to just turn it “down a couple decibels.”
He pointed to the fact that when he became Colorado’s natural resources director in 1990, there were 11,000 energy jobs in the state. He claims we have been successful in building the energy industry in Colorado because now there are 36,000 such jobs.
The response from oil and gas companies: “I think the industry feels he could be more helpful,” said Doug Hock, spokesman for EnCana Oil & Gas (USA).
But here are the facts:
- Ken Salazar with Congressman Mark Udall and Governor Bill Ritter worked to block leasing for natural gas exploration on the Roan Plateau.
- Ken Salazar has been persistently working to block development of Colorado’s vast oil shale reserves. He sponsored a bill that attempted to block the release of final regulations on oil shale development. There are an estimated 800 billion barrels of oil locked in the ground here in Colorado.
- In July, Salazar wrote a Washington Post editorial called The Heedless Rush to Oil Shale in which he argued that we should put off oil shale development because the energy companies developing methods to extract this oil are “still years away from knowing whether this technology can cost-effectively produce oil on a commercial scale.” What he didn’t note is that the reason they are so far away is because Senator Salazar, Congressman Mark Udall and others have been blocking regulations which would free up oil companies to do more research.
It is disingenuous for Senator Salazar to claim his is for drilling when he is against it. The You Tube video below makes it very clear that his true agenda is to block all energy development under any circumstances.
Sphere: Related ContentFormer DNC Chair laughs about hurricane
August 30, 2008
RedState.com has video of former DNC Chairman, Don Fowler laughing about the timing of Hurricane Gustav as it relates to the Republican National convention. He says it proves “God is on our side.” He also notes that Gov. Sarah Palin is “Dan Quayle on steroids.”
UPDATE: RedState.com has this comparison of the experience of Sen. Barak Obama and Gov. Sarah Palin. Who is the more prepared to be President of the United States? You decide.
UPDATE II: Former DNC Charman, Don Fowler, apologized for his statements.
UPDATE III: Here is the cleaned audio from the above video.
Hillary praises pick of Pailn
August 30, 2008
Hillary Clinton at the 2008 Democrat National Convention
In a brief statement released on Friday, Senator Hillary Clinton offered more inital praise to the Vice Presidential nomination by John McCain of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin than the Obama campaign did:
“We should all be proud of Governor Sarah Palin’s historic nomination, and I congratulate her and Senator McCain. . . . While their policies would take America in the wrong direction, Governor Palin will add an important new voice to the debate.”
Seems forced, but Hillary, like all Democrats, must praise this pick even if grudgingly. But we anticipate the honeymoon will be over soon and the attacks on Gov. Pailn will begin in earnest revealing the inherent duplicity in the liberal camp.
Sphere: Related ContentTim Gill “end career of next Rick Santorum before it starts”
August 28, 2008
This video of billionaire philanthropist and gay activist Tim Gill says in a concise manner what left-wing money people have been doing to build Democrat momentum across the country. It doesn’t start with the federal candidates. It starts at the state level by targeting up and coming leaders who are or might become state legislators.
Conservative activists and donors need to understand this if they want to turn back the liberal tide in the future. The initiative Tim Gill describes here (which he undertakes with the help of other liberal billionaires Pat Stryker and George Soros, et. al.), is the untold story of recent gains by Democrats. This in combination with a lack of Republican resolve between 2000 and 2006 is the explanation for the shift in Congress in 2006 and may well be the story if Democrats make more gains in 2008.
Sphere: Related ContentObama is still in trouble with Hillary voters
August 27, 2008
Barak Obama is in bad shape, and he should be concerned. First of all, Hillary Clinton showed in her speech on Tuesday night exactly why she would have been a formidable opponent to John McCain. The audience of Democrats in the Pepsi Center in Denver were loud and highly supportive. You could sense a strong connection between Hillary and the crowd. One came away from the speech wondering if the strongest audience response of the entire Democrat convention had just happened. Thursday night will need to be a barn-burner for Obama, or he is sunk with this crowd.
The second reason is exemplified by the reaction of the Clinton delegate in the video below. This is a clear example of how many in the Democrat party seem to feel about the nomination process and its end result. And this sentiment is clearly showing itself in the polls. With McCain and Obama drawing closer in the polls during Obama’s nominating convention and the disappearance of the gender gap, Barak Obama seems to have no foundation. And this convention is not causing the cement to harden. A key ingredient for him is clearly missing
UPDATE: Maureen Dowd captures the “anxiety” undertow at the DNC.
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