"This was the moment when the rise of the oceans
began to slow and our planet began to heal"
Barack Hussein Obama
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An Army Of Patronage Jobs |
This
video shows a
Democrat Insider Saying "Obama Has Secret Plan to Fund a Patronage
System."
"I was told by democratic officials in that
meeting, that we were going to get billions of dollars that was gonna
come down the pike our way, and we're gonna build an army (bigger than
the US army) of democratic patronage jobs, that is going to completely
freeze off the republicans for ever and ever" |
Obama Stops Drilling |
Obama is
shelving a plan announced in the final days of the Bush presidency
to open much of the U.S. coast to oil and gas drilling, including 130
million acres off California's shores from Mendocino to San Diego.
Obama's Interior Secretary Ken Salazar put the plan on hold Tuesday
while his agency conducts a 180-day review. But Salazar's critical
comments about the proposal made clear that the new administration will
rewrite it if not completely scrap it.
"It opened the possibility
of oil and gas leases along the entire Eastern seaboard, portions of
offshore California and the far eastern Gulf of Mexico with almost no
consultation from states, industry or community input," Salazar said at
a news conference in Washington. "In my view, it was a headlong
rush of the worst kind."
Gateway Pundit
reports that over the past 30 years:
Democrats have blocked
the development of new sources of petroleum. Democrats have blocked
drilling in ANWR. Democrats have blocked drilling off the coast of
Florida. Democrats have blocked drilling off of the east coast.
Democrats have blocked drilling off of the west coast. Democrats have
blocked drilling off the Alaskan coast. Democrats have blocked
building oil refineries. Democrats have blocked clean nuclear energy
production. Democrats have blocked clean coal production.
Already this year democrats
scrapped oil and gas leases in Utah and opened the 111th Congress by
introducing a bill to permanently
prohibit drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).
During his acceptance speech, Obama
said he wanted to end American's addiction on foreign oil.
"I
will set a clear goal as president: in ten years we will finally end our
dependence on oil in the Middle East," said Democratic Presidential
nominee Barack Obama.
Stanford University Professor James
Sweeney, the director of the Precourt Institute for Energy Efficiency,
is not a believer.
"If he means what it sounds like it means,
it's impossible." He says the U.S. consumes about 21 million
barrels of oil a day.
"We import two-thirds of our oil now and
the only way we can become independent is shut down industry and tell
people they can't drive, tell people they can't fly," said Professor
Sweeney.
Obama will hobble America and we'll all be
living like the Amish. |
Obama Lifting Sanctions Against Syria |
Obama has
decided on a new U.S. ambassador to Syria and is expected to lift
sanctions against a nation charged with aiding Al Qaida in Iraq and
secretly building a nuclear reactor with North Korean assistance.
Diplomatic sources said Obama, in consultation with Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton, has asked Frederic Hof to become the first U.S.
ambassador to Damascus since 2005. The sources said Hof, a member
of the National Advisory Committee of the Middle East Policy Council,
agreed to take the post.
"There will be an announcement very
soon," a diplomat said.
The sources said the Obama
administration was expected to suspend U.S. sanctions on Syria's
military and energy programs. |
International Criminal Court |
Two weeks ago, U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice, in a closed Security
Council meeting, voiced support for the International Criminal Court
(ICC). She said it "looks to become an important and credible
instrument for trying to hold accountable the senior leadership
responsible for atrocities committed in the Congo, Uganda and Darfur."
Obama said little about the ICC during his campaign for the
White House. But in his first weeks as President, his actions
speak less to constituents in Peoria and the Bronx than to admirers in
Paris and Brussels. Obama’s trans-American constituent service
includes his decision to shutter "Gitmo" and grant his first
presidential interview with Al Arabiya television.
In his
inauguration speech, Obama declared that "America is ready to lead once
more." He said American power "does [not] entitle us to do as we
please." In the parlance of the Left, these suggest submission to
international authority, which was raised again last week when Ben
Chang, spokesman for National Security Advisor General James Jones,
echoed Rice’s comments about the Court. In the context of an ICC
indictment for Sudanese President Omar Bashir, Chang told the Washington
Times, "We support the ICC in its pursuit of those who’ve perpetrated
war crimes."
So, what will ICC engagement
mean for
the United States?
"If the United States were to join the ICC,"
David Scheffer and John Hutson write, "one would have to accept at least
the theoretical possibility that American citizens (particularly
political and military leaders) could be prosecuted before the ICC on
charges of committing atrocity crimes," and without the protections
afforded by Constitutional and laws.
Waterboarding; Abu Ghraib;
detaining terrorists at Guantanamo Bay dissing Hans Blix.
Self-loathing Americans whose minds are confined in the cult of
globalism don’t see it that way. Each of these "offenses" has at
least one thing in common: they hurt the feelings of foreigners.
Insensitivity to the outside world, U.S. internationalists argue, is a
stain on Uncle Sam’s reputation from which we must repent. |
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