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The Obama Watch
The Contradictions of Obamaism
As a faithful tool of the environmentalists, the president betrays his main constituents.
There is a fundamental contradiction in the philosophy of President Obama that he is going to have to resolve before the electorate hangs him out to dry in the coming presidential campaign.
As the first African-American President, Barack Obama has come to embody the hopes of other groups that felt excluded from American society — Hispanics, women, gays and lesbians, the handicapped and so on. There is an openly articulated strategy among his supporters that these out-groups can be forged into some grand coalition — along with young people, pensioners and government employees — to outvote the only group that does not seem to respond to the President’s ministrations — white men employed in the private sector.
But there is a problem with this strategy. In climbing through the ranks of academia and the liberal political world, the President has found himself welcomed at every level by people who saw in him the qualities of leadership that could represent their case. But in making this ascent through academia, he has imbibed the reigning ideology of this world — environmentalism. Although the President may not recognize it, environmentalism works in direct opposition to the groups he purports to sponsor — the poor, the disenfranchised, the unemployed, and so forth.
When stripped of its homilies about the beauties of the nature and virtues of a “sustainable” economy, environmentalism is basically an ideology for the protection of privilege. It works in favor of those who feel satisfied with current levels of consumption and against those who are trying to achieve greater levels of prosperity. As Michael Schellenberger and Ted Nordhaus expressed it in their landmark essay, “The Death of Environmentalism”:
Environmentalists… aim to short-circuit democratic values by establishing Nature… as the ultimate authority that human societies must obey. And they insist that humanity’s future is a zero-sum proposition — that there is only so much prosperity, material comfort and modernity to go around. If too many people desire such things, we will all be ruined. We, of course, meaning those of us who have already achieved prosperity, material comfort and modernity.
Environmentalists make a living going around stirring up local opposition to all manner of development — drilling for oil, harvesting forests, building power plants. The premise is always that this is the “wrong place” for such development and that whatever needs to be done is better taken care of somewhere else. What never gets noticed is that environmentalists are also doing the same thing in the next valley and the one after that and the sum of all this is that nothing gets done. They urge people to “think globally, act locally,” but what this means in practice is professing some grand support for a “sustainable” economy built on “renewable” technologies while opposing the same things at the local level.
The Sierra Club, for instance, constantly opposes all manner of conventional electrical generation on the premise that it is supports “renewable” forms of energy. Hydroelectricity is considered a form of “renewable energy,” but this means building dams and the Sierra Club is opposed to all forms of dams. For years it has been carrying on a quixotic campaign to tear down the Hetch-Hetchy Dam in the Yosemite Valley, built in 1921, that provides San Francisco with one-third of its electricity and most of its drinking water. “Oh, but we don’t mean big dams,” they respond. “We’re in favor of small dams.” Yet when Free Flow Power, a Boston company, announced plans to try to build a 3 megawatt dam near Bellingham, Washington in January 2011, the Sierra Club announced its opposition the next day.
The Sierra Club and other environmental groups all profess to be in favor of wind and solar energy as “clean, green and sustainable.” But these energy sources are extremely dilute and involve covering huge amounts of landscape. On the east coast the best place to put them is on mountaintops, which always generates opposition. In California, however, there is always the possibility of the desert. Yet when the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power proposed in 2005 to build the Green Path North, a transmission line designed to bring wind and solar power from the Mojave Desert to Los Angeles, the project was opposed by the Sierra Club, the Center for Biological Diversity, the California Desert Coalition, The Redlands Conservancy, Friends of Big Morongo Canyon Preserve, Stop Green Path North and every municipal government in its path. After six years of fighting opponents, the LADWP finally gave up on the project last year.
The truth is, when it comes right down to it, environmentalists don’t want much of anything. They are happy with the way things are. In fact they wouldn’t mind going back a bit to a time when there weren’t so many cars, so many power plants and — let’s face it — so many people around all clamoring for a piece of the pie. This philosophy may work for those comfortably ensconced in a mountain hideaway but it hardly speaks to the vast majority seeking some improvement in their lot.
President Obama has not yet grasped this contradiction. He thinks he wants economic prosperity but he wants to please his friends in the environmental movement as well. As a result, he finds himself in ridiculously contorted positions such as traveling to Oklahoma to celebrate the construction of a pipeline that he is preventing from being built or responding to criticisms about high gas prices by asking Congress to revoke the oil industry’s modest tax breaks, which can only drive prices even higher, or bragging about the production of American oil when he has achieved the lowest rates of production in recent history from federal lands.
This problem is not going to go away. There is no limit to what the President’s environmental supporters will demand in terms of thwarting prosperity. The talk this week is that even if we have discovered much greater oil and gas resources than previously recognized, we should not develop them for fear of falling into the trap of “resource poverty” that supposedly afflicts states like Nigeria and Indonesia. Someone should tell this to the Canadians who are buying second homes by the drove in Arizona or the Russians who the New York Times tells us are snapping up million-dollar apartments in Manhattan, all because Canada and Russia have decided to develop their own resources.
Everyone is an environmentalist when it comes to answering a pollster or buying a Sierra Club calendar. But when the economy is visibly wounded by efforts to make oil a “fuel of the past” and replace it with immature and flawed technologies — or nothing at all — the electorate is eventually going to rebel. If the President doesn’t figure this out soon — and it doesn’t seem likely he will — he is likely to face a huge backlash in November.
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A. Fox| 4.6.12 @ 7:52AM
Well it's 06:47 hours here in Baltimore and no one is talking yet! Just have to ask when you all
start...are you all retired or just have a lot of time
on "your hands". Or do you all work after 12:00 hrs. or on a 3rd shift some where? Before you ask, yes, I am retired.
Timothy L. Pennell| 4.6.12 @ 8:30AM
I don't get it.
"If you see something, say something."
If that's not an Al Qaeda Code for an attack? Then I don't know what is.
ENOUGH ROPE| 4.7.12 @ 9:01PM
Obama is the most anti-Christ, most anti-American, most racist, and most lying American president ever. That should be a superpac campaign slogan.
A number of plaintiffs have filed an appeal with the Supreme Court of Georgia to declare Obama ineligible to be on the ballot in GA because he is NOT a "natural born" citizen." An 1847 SCOTUS case (Minor v. Happersett) ruled that "natural born" means that BOTH parents were citizens of the U.S. when the child was born. Obama's father was a citizen of Kenya when Obama was born. Obama is ineligible to be president; IT'S THAT SIMPLE. BUT, corruption in the GA courts have resulted in three losses thus far for the plaintiffs. THIS CASE SHOULD BE FRONT PAGE NEWS!!!
Most of the SCOGA justices were appointed by Democratic governors (while Zell Miller was a Democrat), so I expect this will go to SCOTUS.
Impeachment of Obama will fail while the Democ-Rats rule the Senate.
"WOLVERINE" in training| 4.8.12 @ 12:09AM
here's the only way to get rid of the fool
namely, every day, every way, every chance,
try to talk someone into realizing he is a
liar, hurting the country, dependence of our
chiledren on govt is bad thing for each and
every one of our children....etc
its the only way,...and i mean in grocery
lines, athletic clubs, store dressing rooms,
cashiers, wine tasting, bus stops, ...
Anthony| 4.9.12 @ 11:16AM
... it's nice that the asylum lets their patients have access to the internet ... please tell Nurse Ratchett I said hello...
Mike Hawk| 4.6.12 @ 9:30AM
It's Good Friday. A lot of us are up to other things first today.
Timothy L. Pennell| 4.6.12 @ 9:58AM
Now I get it,
Appleby| 4.6.12 @ 1:20PM
Thank you. I am off to church shortly (having spent last evening in church and will be in church tomorrow from 7:00 until well after Midnight, not to mention back to church again at 10:30 Easter Sunday!) In Canada, this is a Statutory Holiday and I plumb forgot that in the USA, websites think it's just Friday.
Indy| 4.6.12 @ 9:39AM
There's quite a mix here, some retired, some work flex hours, others are able to post while at work, i.e. self-employed, we are in different time zones, etc.
Good Friday is a day for me to step away from the computer. Have a Blessed Easter everyone, for anyone traveling, safe journey.
Teaghan| 4.6.12 @ 8:49AM
Sierra Club makes pretty calenders
Conservative Not Republican| 4.6.12 @ 1:49PM
Mainstream conservatives are just as bad as Obama. They have been hijacked by ideology and are enemies of Nature. They would happily pave over Yellowstown if there was a dollar to made by it. When did conservatives stop conserving our natural resources in exchange for the almighty dollar? Jesus would not approve.
play nice| 4.7.12 @ 5:41PM
Conservative Not Republican
dick
rick| 4.6.12 @ 1:51PM
Wasn't there a scandal a fews years back - Sierra Club Execs getting sweetheart deals on tracts of land at condemned property prices with no development rights - other than the construction of THEIR vacation home? Can anyone help?
LindaF | 4.6.12 @ 8:50AM
Oh, if ONLY those icky masses would accept their given role of bonded serf, and labor to serve their educated masters, who, of course, will be permitted to use scarce resources for such things as environmental conferences at great distances, camping with approved (and VERY expensive) equipment, and jobs that regulate limits on the amount and type of power available to the masses.
Nancy in NC| 4.6.12 @ 9:06AM
Agenda 21 anyone? The green folks are all over rounding us up, putting us in small square boxes with lots of other folks in small square boxes. There they can control how much energy we use, how much we drive, how many children we have. This incidious UN proposal is working its way into towns, cities and communities all over this country. Learn about it, learn how to fight it, and stand up against it.
Appleby| 4.6.12 @ 1:23PM
They're doing this in Canada, leaving most of the country essentially empty. The next Great Northeastern Blackout will see the vast majority of Canadians straded on the 61st floor of downtown high rises with no heat/air conditioning, no water, windows that won't open, and 61 flights of stairs to traverse -- with the sure knowledge that since all their doors have electronic locks, as soon as they leave, they can't get back inside until the power comes back on.
P.S. Does anybody know if Obama has ever lived outside a major metropolitan area since he left Indonesia as a child?
Von Mises Jr.| 4.6.12 @ 4:03PM
Chris Christie is about to sign an Executive Order for a "Development and Redevlopment Plan" that is replete with "smart growth" and "Sustainable Development." On page 38 of the 41 page Draft, it states that decisions may be made at levels higher than the state, and that it coordinates with the federal plan.
It is not representative in that the Senators, Assemblymen nor Mayors vote on it. It creates an unelected, unaccountable BOARD to decide property restrictions.
This is phase II of the subprime/Agenda21 redistribution of wealth and the attempt to herd the "Noble Savages" for serfdom and re-education.
Christie was also for the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (Cap and Trade) and just borrowed $107M for ObamaCare infrastructure. He is NOT, NOT a conservative.
Von Mises Jr.| 4.6.12 @ 9:00AM
Mr. Tucker mistakenly gives intellectual credit to liberals similar to how Mr. Ed was given the ability to speak. Liberal logic knows nothing of syllogisms, but operates on the non sequitur.
For those in Rio Linda, syllogism is a logical argument that consists of three propositions, and non sequitur is Latin for "it does not follow."
Indy| 4.6.12 @ 9:26AM
Shut down the power plants, forward all callers complaining to the enviornmentalists and ask them, where is all the power from wind and solar farms?
Ok, sorry for the snark, I was just trying to make a point, I do not advocate for shutting down power unless anyone who needed it for medical reasons had a backup source.
It boggles the mind that any coal state is a battlegound state, how anyone in those states can vote D is beyond me. When will the union member wake up? Do the citizens in those states understand how their economies depend on coal?
Anthony| 4.9.12 @ 11:24AM
probably the fact that deaths from breathing the local coal-choked air are way up in these states... that could be a motivating factor. just guessing I don't really know... the effects of environmental degradation are felt primarily by the poor and lower class, a fact which this article deliberately ignores, as if the writer is not well aware... you don't often see the 1% building mansions downwind of coal plants...
Historian| 4.6.12 @ 9:26AM
Actually ENVIRONMENTALISM is thoroughly American---Meso-American. Just as the Aztec sacrificed captivives so that Huizilapotle would guarantee the maize crop. The Enviro's sacrifice human health,and prosperity in the name of Nature or GIA. There favorite rite is abortion (like the Cannanites who staged orgies and then burnt the babies to Moloch at Gehhna.) They are the anti-prometheans.
Timothy L. Pennell| 4.6.12 @ 9:59AM
He's RAIN MAN. He does one thing really well. One thing, only. Too bad for this Country, that the one thing is: The ability to Tear things down.
For 236 Years, we've done thing, pretty much the same way. Freedom and Liberty. We have tried to let the American people do things their own way. "That's how America does it. That's how Dad did it. And it's worked out pretty well, so far." (Tony Stark)
The difference between then and now, is that we had people who believed in the Ideals of Freedom. Free Markets. Free People to pursue their own dreams of Building a Better Mouse Trap, and reaping the rewards.
Barack Hussein Obama is not one of us. He's an Agitator. He's a Troublemaker. He's that one rotten apple, in the Barrel, that ruins all of the others. The only thing he knows how to "Build" is a MOB.
A Great Man once said that: "The Environmental Movement is where the COMMUNISTS went to, when the Machine Gun Covered Walls of the Worker's Paradise, came down". It's a new Means to an End. "Control over the Means of Production", at a Bargain Basement Price of Zero. Drilling, Refining, Fracking, Mining, Nuclear, and even Burning Wood in a Wood Stove or Charcoal in a Grill. You can't Incinerate your Garbage, and you can't have a Landfill. You can't have Windmills, and you can't have Solar Farms, because you might step on a Lizard, or block the view of a Kennedy or a Kerry.
Let's be perfectly clear about one thing: He doesn't CARE about anything that he can't see in his Bathroom Mirror, every morning. If it isn't' Money and Power, Vacations, Golf, and Parties for HIM? He's not interested.
One of the 1st things he did, upon entering the Oval Office, was to, get rid of School Vouchers for poor Minority Kids in D.C. Their Mothers (They don't have Fathers, and if you mention that, you're a Racist)) pleaded with him to let their Children keep their Vouchers. They begged him not to force their babies back in to those failed, DANGEROUS, D.C. Public Schools.
He took the Teachers Union's Money, instead. Then he sent HIS KIDS, off to the finest Private Schools that Money (or a School Voucher) could buy, because: Those Schools do not meet MY Daughters' standards.
He doesn't care about the hundreds of Black Kids, all over this Country, who are Raped, Robbed, and Murdered by other Blacks, every day of the week. He only cares about a Dead Black Boy that he can USE, for his purposes. One that his fellow Race Hustlers, and Agitators can put to good use.
He doesn't care what you pay at the Pump. He doesn't own a Car. He's probably never owned a Car, in his life.
He doesn't care that you lost your home. He has a big White House, that doesn't cost Him a Cent, and a Mansion, back in his 1% Hood, in Chicago, that he got in return for getting his Criminal friend - Tony Rezko - Contracts to build and Maintain Public Housing in Chicago, that have since become Condemned, and are looking to be torn down. Tony's in Prison. Barry's in the White House.
He doesn't care that the price of Food is Skyrocketing. The Iranian Caviar, and the Brazed Lamb, and Oysters that he is served, costs the same as the Finest Wines, anyone could ask for. They cost NOTHING.
There are a Million JOBS waiting to be had. 1,000,000 JOBS. The Gulf. Alaska. Off the East and West Coasts. The Bakken Fields.
Where are the Teamsters? Where are the Carpenter's Unions? Where are the Pipe Fitters and the Welders?
While the Rank and File are LOSING THEIR HOMES, the Union Leadership is living the High Life. While all of these Joe Suckers, are shopping in "The Saver Aisle" Sweeney and Trumpka are asking one of Obama's SERVANTS, to "Pass the King Crab and some more of those Truffles".
He's become Mad, you know. I do believe, that he believes that he is, truly, the "One we've been waiting for". He has set himself above the Constitution. Going around Congress at every turn. Making Illegal Recess appointments when HE decides that Congress is out of session. He has put in place: Illegal Drilling Moratoriums, as he seeks to replicate Andrew Jackson's view that: "The Court has made its Decree. Now, let's see them enforce it". He has openly Challenged the Legitimacy of The Supreme Court, twice. If I'm a Conservative Justice, I'm concerned about my safety, if he should win Re-election.
What does all of this have to do with the premise of Mr. Scarf's Column?
Well. Since you asked: It's early, I hate this MFer, like I hate getting a wet surprise in my pants, when I f*rt.
He hates this Country. Hates it's Founders. Hates its White People. Hates our History, Traditions, our Way of Life, and I wish that he would just go away.
I just wanted to write all that down, while we still enjoy some semblance of a 1st Amendment.
la comedia e finito| 4.6.12 @ 12:22PM
"Barack Hussein Obama is not one of us.."
THANK THE GAWDESS, FOR THAT...!!
...I wouldn't wanna be you, either.. for one, your pointy white hood probably is pretty nastily stained...
fmm| 4.6.12 @ 1:53PM
It is obvious that he is not a democrat so he could not possibly have a pointy white hood.
la comedia e finito| 4.6.12 @ 2:36PM
...there are as many Southern Elephants, as there (might have) been Donkeys, who thought it was halloween all year round, and wore white robes and burned Crosses..nu?
Jive Bomber| 4.7.12 @ 3:29AM
But it's the democrats who are on record for all time as being the core of the KKK and the opponents of anti-lynching laws. Facts are such pesky things.
Anthony| 4.9.12 @ 11:34AM
haha - that was funny. the KKK have been neutered and they cry and whine on the internets about it constantly. well that at least is progress. they can't run around lynching black people and burning their houses so now they sit back and seethe because a black man is president. it's hilarious!
stiltskin47| 4.6.12 @ 3:36PM
AMEN...
SaintVince| 4.8.12 @ 2:04AM
Mr. Pennell, this is a BRILLIANT rant. Brilliant. Anything that can make you want to take up arms, errrrr, peacefully protest in the streets and at the same time make you piss your pant laughing is BRILLIANT. Thanks.
Albert| 4.6.12 @ 10:01AM
My father was friends with the executive director of the National Wildlife Federation (both passed on). His friend told him that the people he knew from the "environmental movement" were really after a fundamental change in the world and our country. The change he was convinced of they desired was a world where they governed and dictated to the 'unwashed' what could happen in keeping with their idealism. This goal was unwritten and unspoken, since it would be directly offensive to most of us. The in effect wanted to become dictators to the unwashed what could and would happen. Their actions speak louder than their words.
Those people worship "gia" or the earth as they see it, and reject any opposing view as that of heretics, who do not deserve to live on the earth. Read Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six for an example of their thinking taken a little bit over the edge. These same people want to drive behemoths, live in huge fancy homes with redwood decks made out of exotic woods.
Bill X| 4.6.12 @ 10:16AM
Obama has the standard Democrat coalition. Labor unions were sold down the river by Clinton with NAFTA and permanent free trade status with China. The Democrats hate women because they encourage them to murder their own children and they hate the unborn. They hate the poor and the minorities because they want to keep them poor and dependent on government. They love the environmentalists because the Democrats want a world where most of the population has been murdered.
Bill| 4.6.12 @ 10:17AM
Romney's VP list:
1. Pat Toomey
strength: PA is a swing state, former Club for Growth leader.
2. Marco Rubio
strength: FL is a swing state, the Latino votes.
3. Mitch Daniel
strength: IN is a swing state, a great "fiscal conservative", helped passed the "Right-to-Work" law.
4. Kelly Ayotte
strength: NH is a swing state, a Catholic, former AG, and the women votes, "Lady in Red" factor.
5. Chris "Great" Christie
strength: NJ will turn blue, former litigator, a fiscal hawk governor.
6. Paul "Genius" Ryan
strength: WI will turn blue,a fiscal hawk legislator.
My pick: Gov. Chris Christie
Obama will be forced to campaign in a "safe" blue state, NJ, while Gov. Christie will be favourite to deliver NJ for GOP. Gov. Christie will help fix the economy and never surrender to the big-labors or bureaucrats. Recently, he traveled Israel and vowed to thwart Iran's fascist regime and its nuclear threat.
President: Mitt Romney
VP: Chris Christie
Your comments, please.
Timothy L. Pennell| 4.6.12 @ 11:00AM
Christie's a FAT SLOB.
I don't respect anyone who has so little respect for himself.
Period.
Bill| 4.6.12 @ 11:25AM
"politically incorrect"
Mike Hawk| 4.6.12 @ 11:43AM
Christie is not a slob.
stiltskin47| 4.6.12 @ 3:39PM
"Judge Not"
Mike Hawk| 4.6.12 @ 11:42AM
None of your predictions carry any weight, except Christie. Neither Rubio nor Pat Toomey want to end their careers by being VP. They want to be Senators.
Bill| 4.6.12 @ 12:00PM
They never ruled out, either.
Jersey Prophet| 4.6.12 @ 5:27PM
Timothy, as always you're dead on! Christie is is NO conservative. He's on board for the supra national Agenda 21. While Germany's 70 billion dollar solar electricity sham is exposed as a total failure, Christie shoves a solar panel farm on the NJ neighborhood in which I live to enrich the builder - a convicted felon.
Don't you think these facts won't come out if he were selected as Romney's running mate?
SaintVince| 4.8.12 @ 2:30AM
Rubio would suck Obomney's cock to be VP. "Don't want to ruin their career." Ha.
Appleby| 4.6.12 @ 1:25PM
Rubio and Ryan have already declined, likewise the girl governor from NC.
Anthony| 4.9.12 @ 11:37AM
I'm from NJ. There is no way that Christie being nominated fr VP will deliver NJ to Romney. No... f**king... way....
Anthony| 4.9.12 @ 11:41AM
Also, I would caution that Rubio would not deliver the Hispanic vote much. He's a Cuban - they self-identify as white - and other Hispanics generally dislike Cubans and don't identify with them especially since they get preferential treatment as defectors because of political asylum. Rubio is a big gamble as VP pick - it won't be him.... Mitch Daniel is a good choice. Conventional wisdom says Romney needs a tea-party-ish far right guy to bulk up his conservative cred but I'm not sure that is such a good gamble for him. Didn't work for McCain. If I were advising I would tell him steer away from the loonies...
Purp| 4.6.12 @ 10:38AM
"the only group that does not seem to respond to the President's ministrations -- white men employed in the private sector." - not true, some do - white men that is.
Timothy L. Pennell| 4.6.12 @ 11:22AM
Yeah. Some White Men respond to the Narcissist's ministrations. They're the ones that take Sh*ts on Police Cars. They're the ones who never wash their hair. The ones who only frequent Night Spots that have some kind of Phallic name. And, the Wiggers.
As bad as he's done for "The White Men", he's been 100 Times WORSE for the Black Man.
Black Unemployment is off the Charts. You got more Blacks killing each other, than at any other time that I can remember. Ask the little Black Kids how they like going to the D.C Public Schools that he said - "Are not up to my Daughters' Standards" - seeing as how he took away their School Vouchers, in exchange for Teachers Union MONEY.
You're Pathetic. Tell us all what is BETTER in the Ghetto, since the Great Black Hope took over.
Look at Detroit. Look at Oakland. Look at every Black Urban Situation in this Country and tell us how they're BETTER than they were 4 Years ago.
You people Deserve everything you get. He's serving you a SH*T SANDWICH, because he knows that you are so Stupid, you'd would vote for the Colour of his Skin, no matter what he did. He could blow your Mother's head off with a Shotgun, and you'd marvel at his aim.
You people have a nice day in the Hell that YOU have allowed yourselves to be put in.
"Four More Years!" "Four More Years!"
Pathetic.
Purp| 4.6.12 @ 11:45AM
Unemployment - have you noticed we have 8.2% unemployment rate, another drop and the lowest in 3 years. Not good news for Richie Romney and the GOP, huh?
Ruh-roh, timmy, your racist slip is showing - actually it's up over your head and we can see your head is up your a**.
I suspect you are projecting how you feel about yourself, timmy ... it's a well known trap the psychotic get themselves into. Get some help.
MikeG| 4.6.12 @ 11:52AM
Purpie, wow only 8.2% unemployed. That is a real achievement. What about the workers who are not counted and the ones underemployed at part time jobs?
Stan Redmond| 4.6.12 @ 2:33PM
Also lowest number of workers evah. Way to go Obama. I want to play by his rules. If we let all those starving people starve to death then there won't be any more starving people in the world. What a great achievement that would be
Purp| 4.6.12 @ 3:01PM
Since the direction is toward better economic growth, what are you complaining about? GW Bush & his policies caused us to lose all these jobs, you should be glad they're coming back. Bitch, bitch, bitch it wouldn't matter if we had 5 million jobs new this month - you'd still be down on Obama - it's not over jobs, and you know it.
MikeG| 4.6.12 @ 3:25PM
Purpie, You are beyond dense. Your pals Barney Frank and the Dems caused the housing mortgage problems that tanked the stock market and the economy. Obama has done nothing to improve it.
Purp| 4.6.12 @ 6:03PM
Yeah, they signed the bills into law, right? They also controlled the regulators too, right? They pass the laws, they sign them, because, ya know they're the President since 2000, and then they pick and control the regulators, because, ya know, they're the President over the regulators too. Wow! I had no idea the Congress run by Democrats could wield Presidential powers over GW Bush from 200o to 2008 !
You idiots. You can't hide the jerk you voted in as President. The President I voted in has brought this country back almost to where it was when Bush left us losing 750, 000 jobs/ month. Another few months and he will have surpassed Bush and rescued us from the idiot's policies for the rich - and you're complaining? No wonder Fixed News viewers are dumb.
Pete| 4.6.12 @ 3:43PM
No it is not. You are of course IGNORING the people who have dropped out of the work force. That number continues to rise. But bend over and let Obama have his way.
John Navratil| 4.6.12 @ 3:59PM
Purp,
I'm sure the Dems have a plan to outlaw the business cycle. Bush takes a lot of blame with his deficits, but the fact remains, this is the slowest recovery in history. Compare this to the 24 months it took under Reagan for unemployment to rise and then to fall back to its pre-recession levels. Then followed by the longest boom.
If we had five million new jobs I'd still be down on Obama for his foreign policy, his energy policy, his cronyism, his repudiation of the bankruptcy laws to take GM from the bondholders and give it to the unions, his growth of government, the debt he is leaving us (he's now spent more than Bush and is on target to spend more that all other Presidents combined), his rule by executive order, Solyndra, et al, and his repeated inability to articulate the truth.
Purp| 4.6.12 @ 6:15PM
Gee John, ya think it's slower because it was nearly Great Depression II? Ya think, just maybe why it is worse than most? Duh....
As for your other interesting, but incorrect thoughts, oh well - deficits don't matter - you're God Reagan started that ball rolling, so look in the mirror if you don't like debt. It's still mostly debt left over from Republican administrations. Had ALL Republican President balanced the budget we would have only 6 or 7 Trillion in debt. Since all Republican Presidents recently (Reagan and Bush I and Bush II) indebted us 10 Trillion, that's where we'd be.
You can blame FDR for the Great Depression and WWII but no one believes it. And you can BLAME Obama for the Great Recession and Iraq and Afghan wars, but nobody believes that either.
BTW - where is Dubya during this Presidential campaign? Who is he endorsing? Why do you have the magnificent wonder boy, Georgie, under wraps? All the other Bushes have done so, what's wrong with him coming out for Richie? Hmmmm....
John Navratil| 4.7.12 @ 11:50AM
Purp,
We've had this discussion several times before. I really don't know why I waste my time talking to you as it is quite clear that you have drunk the Kool-Aid and remain incorrigible. I suppose it is for other readers.
No, I don't think the recovery was slower because of the depth of the recession. The recession of '83 (remember then - it was "The Worst Since the Great Depression") was deeper than this one, but MUCH shorter - in fact, this recovery is the longest since the '30s. Reagan was considered a one-termer because of it. However, he didn't subscribe to Keynesianism (H.W. Bush called his programs voo-doo economics) and the recovery was quick. Even in the '87 crash, Reagan insisted the market would sort things out. After a 20+% percent drop (it was larger elsewhere around the world), the only intervention was the Fed lowered rates 1/2 percent. The DJIA was up for the year overall and within two years, the high was again achieved. The message was NO GOVERNMENT SPENDING to intervene in the market. Precisely the opposite of Obama and his Keynesian policies.
Reagan was re-elected in '84, despite high unemployment numbers, precisely because the recovery was well underway, obvious to all, with monthy unemployment decreases and no "trend corrections". Obama's economic indicators are quite the opposite.
As to debt. No one likes it, but the spending authorization originates in Congress. Bush all but destroyed the Republican brand in the six years he had all three houses during which time he raised public debt. However, and as usual, you are making up numbers again.
Please read: http://www.cbo.gov/sites/defau.....brief.pdf. There is a nice chart of U.S. Public Debt on page two. You will observe that current debt (% GDP) is high by historical standards but not unprecedented. Here is your homework assignment. Observe the period between 1900 and the present and juxtapose this against the party controlling the House were budgets originate. You will find that the ONLY period when Dems controlled the House the debt DIDN'T rise was the post-war period until 1974. It seems "the greatest generation" was universally interested in reducing debt. Conversely, the only time debts rose with a Republican House was during the Bush Presidency, and then only modestly by comparison (see below).
As you, no doubt, recall from prior posts, the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 required that everything appropriated by the Legislature must be spent by the Executive. It seems that Nixon was abusing impoundment and not spending as the House and Senate wished. Continue on to the "Clinton surpluses" and notice that the Republicans controlled the House for the first time in 40 years.
Now, please read: http://www.whitehouse.gov/site.....s/hist.pdf (page 139, Table 7.1—FEDERAL DEBT AT THE END OF YEAR: 1940–2017).
Notice the federal debt held by the public at the end of FY1999 (i.e. start of Bush Presidency) is $T3.6. Eight years later is $T5.0. for an increase of $T1.4. Fast-forward a scant 4 years to see a debt of $T10.1 - A doubling of public debt. The Gross Federal Debt numbers are $T5.6, $T9.0 and $T14.8.
As to whom 'W' endorses: I couldn't give a hoot in Hell. I'm more interested in conservative endorsements.
So spin your little fantasies Purp, but when the facts come out to play, little Purp-y runs away.
Purp| 4.8.12 @ 5:14PM
You point me to numbers from the government you don't believe in? And, on top of that, you don't know how to read the tables? I'll point you to just one number - Gross Fed Debt (which IS the number you should use) for 2009 - 11.8 Trillion, which is GW Bush's last budget period. from 2001 (Clinton's last budget period) to 2009, GW added 6 Trillion to the debt. You can figure the others.
Reagan alone had over 220 billion/year deficits for 8 years - that's approx. 2 Trillion right there. Add about 2 T for Papa Bush, and we're where I SAID we were.
Reagan raised military spending which put us on the deficit spending craze, because he wouldn't pay for it by raising taxes, but did provide a lot of jobs. He deregulated whole industries, which provided jobs, but set us up for the bubbles to come.
If the House had raised taxes in their budgets, fine, then maybe they had something - but they didn't and knew they were DOA in the Senate. If they were really serious about budget, deficit reduction, etc. they would have taken the 4 Trillion dollar deal offered by the President last summer - but because some of it was tax increases, they blew it off - and lost the chance to have any entitlement reforms. So, they aren't serious, just ideological.
The Senate has a budget now, btw, will the House pass it?
John Navratil| 4.7.12 @ 12:29PM
Purp,
PS: Before you indulge in the sophistry that the Republicans have controlled the House for two years and haven't cut the budget, let me observe that the House has passed a budget in each of those years, but somehow the Senate is too busy to get around to one, despite the requirements of the aformentioned Budget Act.
Cynicon Implant| 4.6.12 @ 1:52PM
What would the unemployment rate be at if you added all the people back in who have stopped looking for work?
John Navratil| 4.6.12 @ 3:22PM
Purp,
"Another drop and the lowest in three years"
According to the Dept. of Labor, white unemployment peaked in Oct, 2009 at 9.3% while black unemployment peaked last August and then spiked again in February to over 14%. So much to the programs of the "exalted one".
At any rate, bragging about an 8.2% unemployment rate almost three years into recovery and ignoring the huge decrease in employment rate is a very small peg on which to hang a very big hat.
"Obama - the American bald ego"
Purp| 4.6.12 @ 6:17PM
Since we've almost wiped out the Bush Great Recession, ya, it's something to brag about.... Have a nice day .. and it over yet baby, not by a longshot.
John Navratil| 4.6.12 @ 8:03PM
Purp,
More accurately, the unemployment rate is almost back to inauguration day. You still have a few points to go to get to anything close to full employment.
Stated another way, the unemployment rate has finally settled to the level Obama claimed would be the highest it would be if we just let him spend like a drunken Democrat (don't want to give sailors a bad name).
Continue beating that gong for the world's greatest President (in his own mind).
Purp| 4.8.12 @ 5:16PM
Go back and add the 2 Wars onto GW Bush's budgets to see the true picture of what he did to this country and on top of it, he allowed the economy to crash - something Reagan didn't face.
The Bruce| 4.6.12 @ 4:01PM
Purp,
Ah yes, the U3 8.2% Unemployment Rate. I suggest you look at the U6 numbers--you know, the ones that actually still count the unemployed that have "left the workforce" which is to say those individuals that are still unemployed, but no longer collecting unemployment benefits.
Gotta love those gub'mint numbers.
Purp| 4.6.12 @ 6:19PM
Better'n Bushes' numbers Chuckles, and the country knows it ... read 'em and weep.
Purp`| 4.9.12 @ 3:23PM
Bushes' numbers, and the country knows 'em:
Bushes' 2003 tax revenue number, after 3 years of Bushes's tax cuts, which was 1.782314 trillion dollars in 2003.
Bushes' 2007 tax revenue number that was 2.567985 trillion dollars in 2007, which was 44% higher than 2003.
Bushes' total deficits number of 2.005615 trillion dollars, which is less than Obama's total deficits number of 4.351296 trillion dollars, which is 46% in 8 years of Obama's numbers in 3 years, with 1 more year yet to go.
Read 'em weep, Chuckles.
Purp| 4.8.12 @ 5:17PM
There still down from where they were in any case. Ya, know recovering from what GW Bush left behind is taking longer than expected or wanted - And?
Purp`| 4.9.12 @ 3:28PM
In any case there Obamaes' numbers still will be down under what they were at Obamaes' numbers at his inauguration - and those there numbers of Obamaes' still will be those there that ever are lower are his presidency than at the start.
And? Read 'em and weep, Chuckles.
The Bruce| 4.6.12 @ 4:12PM
Oh and Purp? Just take a look at the number of people that "left the workforce." (Note, the numbers on the left represent thousands, so add three zeros).
http://www.zerohedge.com/sites.....2/03/Labor Force Participation.jpg
The Bruce| 4.6.12 @ 4:14PM
Damn, the link's broken. Go here and click on the graphic:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/.....loyment-82
Purp| 4.6.12 @ 6:21PM
Wow, statistics to make your point... how wonky of you ... it's almost the second 1/2 in America, I can hear the "Morning in America" music now .. buh, bye Richie, hello Second 1/2 of Hope and Change.
John Navratil| 4.7.12 @ 12:32PM
Purp,
They are called facts, and used to support an argument. A foreign concept to you, no doubt, but quite useful in the real world. You are, of course, free to rebut.
Purp| 4.8.12 @ 5:18PM
I have, in your earlier msg where you misread tables.
John Navratil| 4.9.12 @ 10:23AM
Purp,
Rather thin for a rebuttal, don't you think? Do, please, point out my error.
chuck| 4.6.12 @ 4:25PM
Purp, you ignorant jackass,
THEY STOP COUNTING PEOPLE WHO EXHAUST THE UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS! THEY ARE JUST WIPING MILLIONS OF UNEMPLOYED OF THEIR BOOKS
You really are a dumb shit!
Purp| 4.6.12 @ 6:23PM
Who cares? The Economy is improving and your boy Richie has no clue what to do now ... hahahaha. Get ready for the second 1/2 of that Hope and Changey thing ... Wonder if Sarah can still see Russia from her house? nice personal attack ... but it won't change that you are going to lose in 2012!
Jive Bomber| 4.7.12 @ 3:38AM
Purp seems to be the only person in America of any political persuasion that saw ANY good news in the latest unemployment numbers. It certainly wasn't good news to the 12.7 million Americans still trying to find a job. For them "Hope and Change" are two words never uttered in the same sentence or even the same month.
Simply put, Obama needs a much better economy to have a chance at re-election, and his time is ticking away fast.
Purp| 4.8.12 @ 5:20PM
We'll see, won't we? In the meantime, the Electoral College is leaning way toward Obama's favor and almost all contested states are normally Red States. If the election were today, Obama is far ahead of Richie, so we'll see as the economy improves.
You can find that info on RealClearPolitics - hardly a left-leaning site.
Purp`| 4.9.12 @ 3:40PM
Who cares? The Economy is improving.
Read 'em and weep, Obamaes' numbers, Chuckles.
Economic Stimuluated as Promised.
Shovel Ready Jobs as Promised.
Dug out of the Ditch as Promised.
Rich paying there fare share as Promised,
Better HealthCare and Cheap too as Promised.
Cheap Green Energy as Promised.
Already 17 Tax Cuts for Small Businesses to Grow Jobs As A Fact.
Gitmo closed since January 2010 as Promised.
Deficit Cut in Half as Promised.
Gas Prices Higher as a Fact as Hoped to be Changed to.
Air in Tires replacing Oil Supply as a Fact.
Drill Baby Drill Drilling as a Fact.
Peas being eaten as a Fact.
57 of the 58 States Visited as a Fact.
And Oceans Receded as a Fact as Promised.
Hardly left-leaning Facts but Real Facts leaning straight and true.
... hahahaha.
markenoff| 4.8.12 @ 8:07PM
But didn't the$1,000,000,000,000 Obama stimulus prevent unemployment from going above 8%? That's what we were told all those "shovel ready" jobs would do. oh that's right, those "shovel ready" jobs weren't quite as shovel ready as we were told.
With 1,200,000 people dropping out of the workforce due to discouragement the unemplyment rate went down. The workforce participation rate is the lowest it has been in a long time. Now if Obama can just get a couple milion more people to give up on looking for work he can get the unemployment rate under 6% by November.
SaintVince| 4.8.12 @ 2:34AM
Brilliant.
Anthony| 4.9.12 @ 11:46AM
Racist ass. 25 months of employment growth under Obama and you blame joblessness on him? If you weren't so utterly consumed with hatred for black people you might have a moment to observe that when Obama took over we were LOSING 700,000 JOBS A MONTH! Still your racist rant is vile and putrid and points to why this country CANNOT SUSTAIN another racist anti-minority Republican EVER in the white house....
fmm| 4.6.12 @ 1:58PM
I think you mean white boys
John Navratil| 4.6.12 @ 4:01PM
Whose testicles haven't yet descended.
scooterr| 4.6.12 @ 10:53AM
it's an ethical violation -- attorney misconduct -- for a member of the bar appearing before a court publically to criticize the court for its handling of a case
smith| 4.6.12 @ 11:26AM
He is the reason the founding fathers had the wisdom and reasoning to have in the constitution that the president must be born in this country. His warped brain would fit like a glove in Kenya. But it is FOREIGN here. Most likely something to do with the magnetic wave forces around the earth that differ from continent to continent. Hillary tried to warn everyone in 2008, but was shut down. and shut up by the Chicago machine.Poor Romney don't have a snow balls chance in hell, if they have to they will come after him with machettes.
Purp| 4.6.12 @ 11:47AM
Wow - I didn't know Chicago was all powerful! Romney truly has no chance - with the economy continuing to improve, he has nothing to run on - except the WAR on WOMEN!
MikeG| 4.6.12 @ 11:54AM
Purpie, War on Women? Can you explain the battles, general, and strategy of this War? Or are you just repeating the usual nonsense from the DNC emails you receive.
Purp| 4.6.12 @ 3:45PM
The Republicans want to throw Grandma over the cliff, drive your wife into a ditch and deny young women birth control. Its a three-pronged strategy against women.
The Bruce| 4.6.12 @ 4:24PM
Denying young women birth control? How's that? They can still buy birth control the same way they've been doing it for 50 years--walk into the store and buy it for $9 a month. And nobody's trying to change that.
Stop spreading the lie that not including "coverage" of birth control in an insurance policy is somehow a denial of access to same.
MikeG| 4.6.12 @ 9:42PM
Purpie,
I know you are stupid and make things up, but humor me, do you have any facts to back up what you say? If you don't understand the meaning of the word "facts" I will understand.
Purp| 4.8.12 @ 7:34PM
This is not my words ... I would have way more to say about it than this
Purp| 4.6.12 @ 6:23PM
Just ask a woman ... are you that misogynistic?
MikeG| 4.6.12 @ 9:43PM
I am asking you Purpie since you seem to be the spokesperson for women.
SaintVince| 4.8.12 @ 2:46AM
Purp, you're a peeper just like your nasty assed uncle peeping through your cousin's blinds on a hot summer night. Stroking, stroking, rubbing, ummph, stopping. Wishing you could be part of the party Purp? Nothing for you to do other than peep into conservative blogs/websites and spew Decocrat talking points? You're out of your league...just like your uncle.
SaintVince| 4.8.12 @ 2:46AM
Democrat
Purp| 4.8.12 @ 7:34PM
You're sick... get some help.
Anthony| 4.9.12 @ 11:48AM
HAHAHA! TRUE DAT! They already lost the election with their "religious bigots should be allowed to dictate their stupid medieval prudery on women" platform. HEE HEEEE! Sorry, that $800 million you Super Pacs spend will simply help the economy grow and help Obama win! LOL!
kwan| 4.6.12 @ 11:36AM
The left's strategy is always pretty much the same. In order to achieve this or that greater good for the people (save the planet from global warming, health insurance for everyone) they must strip the citizens of their freedom and wealth. And of course the real goal is always the same: The implementation of a Totalitarian Socialist State.
Purp| 4.6.12 @ 11:50AM
Really? So how do you feel about forced vaginal probe ultrasounds? How does that fit in your freedom for all fantasy world?
MikeG| 4.6.12 @ 11:54AM
Purpie, how have had such a probe? How does the baby feel when it is sucked out and killed?
Purp| 4.6.12 @ 6:25PM
I'll ask the woman, you ask the fetus? Whoever gets and answer wins ... Deal?
MikeG| 4.6.12 @ 9:45PM
Purpie, you were once a fetus, so just imagine what if feels like to have your body stuck with a knife and your brains stuck with a knife and then sucked out by a vacuum. See, Purpie, you have your answer.
Dick Nome| 4.8.12 @ 10:07AM
In a Purp world, pregnancy is an affliction inflicted on women by troglodytes called men. A fetus is a parasite to be done away with. The rest of us live in a real but imperfect world where life is precious.
Anthony| 4.9.12 @ 11:53AM
oh please all you sanctimonious conservatives hide behind the lie that you give a rats ass about life. you don't. you want gun laws that provide you with the right to shoot anything that moves. you want bigger jails to let more people rot in. you want more wars to kill funny looking people. you don't want people to have access to health care if they don't make at least $50k a year. get off your high horse. your anti-abortionism is an attack on women and people who you feel are enjoying sex too much, you could give a rats ass about life...
Appleby| 4.6.12 @ 1:27PM
You can do an ultrasound without any kind of probe at all -- sorry to destroy your slutty little fantasy -- I have them about every 6 months to check on the condition of my heart. I have also seen home movies of my friends who (or whose wives) have had ultrasounds with the same little skatey things that run over the skin from the outside.
Purp| 4.6.12 @ 6:34PM
Oh, ultrasounds for medical reasons - yes, a wonderful, but apparently unheard of quaint idea that MEDICAL DOCTORS prescribe to save lives and improve health in Virginia.
Ah, but that is not what nearly became law in Virginia, until s**-for-brains wimp-a* pretty boy McDonnell backed off, thinking he could be VP. No, in VA, a woman was to be subjected to a completely MEDICALLY UNNECESSARY vaginal ultrasound probe - why you ask? Because the VA legislature and Governor Said So .... Now, there's Freedom from Big Government. Yep, just ask the thousands of women that were outraged by that move. So much so, Governor "Noballs" chickened out and removed the vaginal probe from the Bill - but still passed a medically UNNECESSARY ultrasound requirement that women HAVE to PAY for in order to get an abortion. Yep, that's Government staying out of your business, limited government all right... making sure they don't dictate their own morality onto others... Yeppers, Freedom in Virginia ... and 16 other states with ultrasound laws - for medically unnecessary MANDATES. Why how UNCONSTITUTIONal of them, no? You support that government intrusion into your life?
Ultrasound, yes, when you need it, it's great - but government mandated ... NO, NO, NO ... where's the TEA party when I need them? Hypocrites.
Mike Hawk| 4.6.12 @ 3:34PM
Your anal/ genital fixation is showing again. Typical Liberal.
Purp| 4.6.12 @ 6:35PM
If you ain't been f* d, you ain't been livin' Sunshine .. what can I tell ya? You brought it up, and I'm fixated?
Mike Hawk| 4.7.12 @ 8:20PM
Yep, typical lib.
Pete| 4.6.12 @ 3:47PM
How do you feel about murder?
Purp| 4.6.12 @ 6:36PM
Oh, I don't know - I'd say killing Osama Bin Laden was justified, don't you? So, I guess it depends, huh?
The Bruce| 4.6.12 @ 4:29PM
If you think an ultrasound involves probing the vagina it's obvious you don't have children--that's a good thing, please don't breed. The ultrasound device is placed on top of the stomach.
By the way, if you're against "forced vaginal probes," how can you be FOR abortion??? You do understand that in order to remove the fetus, the doctor must go into the uterus via the vagina, right?
Purp| 4.6.12 @ 8:25PM
Oh, my, you don't know about the VA legislature passing the law to insert a probe intervaginally for an ultrasound on a woman before she could have an abortion? Really? Fixed News and Rush Loudmouth didn't tell you? Google it, Chuckles and wonder at the limited government in Virginia ... it didn't actually become law, but one House in VA did pass it and the other was set to pass it, until Governor "I wanna be VP" thought better of it. But they still passed forced ultrasounds on women for no medical reason whatsoever, as have 16 other states. Limited government, my a** - hypocrites.
On your last points ... hmmm, let's I choose to have an abortion knowing full well the procedure, and they remove the fetus under my own choice vs. I don't want an ultrasound, vaginally or any other way - but the government forces me too = Gee I guess they're the same? Duh...
SaintVince| 4.8.12 @ 2:50AM
Purp, is this like the "probing" your uncle gave your cousin? Ummmph! :P
Therealguyfaux| 4.6.12 @ 12:10PM
When was the Environmentalist agenda (accent on "mental") ever consistent with improving the life of the average person? But of course, they'll probably (mis)quote Ralph Waldo Emerson, and call you "a small-minded hobgoblin" for calling them out on that fact.
Ken (Old Texican)| 4.6.12 @ 12:16PM
Sorry, Purp.
We still can't fix stupid here......and boy you are the living proof.
Southern Agrarian| 4.6.12 @ 1:55PM
I kind of like the environment to be green.
Stan Redmond| 4.6.12 @ 2:34PM
Watermelons.
junkyard infidel| 4.6.12 @ 6:05PM
perp has the thought process of a dung beetle !
Drifter| 4.6.12 @ 9:54PM
If the Sierra Club is to be included in this discussion, it should be noted that they were recently exposed as having taken $26 million from the natural gas consortium to militate against coal fired industries across the United States. Not exactly a shining ethical moment in envirosocialist history but very lucrative for the stringpullers...
Rhaquel Swelteer| 4.6.12 @ 11:03PM
I get the point, but in general, I believe the merits of projects should be closely examined. Shouldn't we know about the 30 spills/14 leaks on U.S. Soil in the first year of Keystone I? I used to live in Wyoming. I know about the the big aquifer supplying water to the wells for so many people in several states. And I have read about a spill into a river of this same tar based oil, a spill in the U.S. That has been disastrous. And I don't buy the proposisition that the people benefitting from this fight for the environment are wealthy. I've been the victim of a Doctor creating an environmental disaster. He said in court he chose that option for monetary reasons. You might think a doctor would pause -- do no harm? Trust NO ONE.
Marc Jeric| 4.7.12 @ 3:59AM
Environmentalism is a cult of death; their greatest success so far has been interdiction of DDT, with 560 million deaths attributed to that so far. The eco-nazis want to reduce the world's population from 6.5 billion to the "sustainable" 1.5 billion.
David| 4.7.12 @ 12:50PM
The author got the info for Green Path North Wrong. The transmission line was serving possible geo-thermal (20%) energy, natural gas power plants and in the future, natural gas power plants based in Mexico. There was no benefit to the hosting county of San Bernardino and LADWP wasn't going to be a collector line for solar and wind power. This article got it wrong on Green Path North.
Theo Prinse| 4.7.12 @ 2:04PM
Tnx Mr. Tucker. This is an excellent article !
SaintVince| 4.8.12 @ 2:55AM
JC! This whole thread topic has been shifted by one GD liberal. We are now talking about abortion and women's rights with regard to birth control. We are RETARDED. Think! people. Stick to the issues at hand. Obama wants nothing more than to make this election about fake, made up, problems and not about his record. He is a SERIAL LIAR. Don't let douchbags like Purp change the subject of the whole thread. Good Lord.
Jabber3| 4.8.12 @ 9:40AM
Right you are, Mr. Tucker. It is worthwhile noting that the among the groups that "feel excluded from American society" the wealthy are not among them but they make up a major portion of the environmentalist movement and thus are a very potent political force on which Mr. Obama has capitalized.
obadiah| 4.8.12 @ 1:24PM
never fear - george w obama will betray the environmentalists just like he's betrayed every promise and every supporter, except his true friends, the plutocorp campaign contributors and lobbyists like mpaa and BIG-pharma.
Marc Jeric| 4.8.12 @ 1:43PM
Environmentalism is a cult of death; these eco-nazis want to reduce the globe population from the present 6.5 billion to the "sustainable" level of only 1.5 billion, which level includes all of them.
Michele San Pietro| 4.8.12 @ 1:55PM
Obamaism is just contradictions, and the American people is fed up with it.
jan| 4.8.12 @ 4:10PM
How about we shut the electricity and the water supply of for a week to the Sierra club??
James| 4.8.12 @ 4:43PM
"The truth is, when it comes right down to it, environmentalists don't want much of anything."
NIMBY is out, BANANA is in: Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anyone.
WGMOW| 4.8.12 @ 7:41PM
I want to correct an error in this otherwise well-written, thoughtful, and hard-hitting article. The author states that Obama is "...the first African-American President." He is NOT the first African American president. He is a half-breed: half black and half white, raised by his white mother and white grandparents and could have just as credibly run as a white man as a black man. But he, or rather his handlers, realized that without the African American masquerade he would be just another low-level hack politician. Which is where his marginal intelligence and poor grasp of the economy and foreign affairs should have placed him. Instead, there he is, sitting on his phony African American throne in the White House, doing his best to destroy our nation.
Anthony| 4.9.12 @ 11:13AM
Yeah sure. Environmentalism never did ANYTHING positive. I guess that fact that we have beautiful National Parks that millions of Americans and foreign tourists visit yearly shows that environmentalists are pure elitist hypocrites sitting on a mountain top somewhere as you describe them. The fact that there is clean drinking water is a tragic fact of the selfishness of the anti-progress crowd. The fact that a crazed billionaire in Texas wants to dump radioactive nuclear waste on an aquifer that supplies drinking water to eight states is Progress and any attempt to stop this selfish and wreckless activity is a strike against poor Hispanics and African Americans living on minimum wage. What a shame environmentalists insisted that we take the lead out of gasoline and put catalytic converters on cars to clean the sooty air that so many of these urban poor have every right to choke on.... it's unconscionable! Where in the Constitution does it say we must breathe clean air and have no radioactive waste in our water!!!
Marc Jeric| 4.10.12 @ 3:42AM
Environmentalism is a cult of death! Eco-nazis want to reduce the global population from the present 6.5 billion to the sustainable level of only 1.5 billion. Just the interdiction of DDT, a safe arm in fighting malaria, has caused the deaths of 560 million people, mostly children. TRhat number of eco-nazi victims vastly surpasses the total number of murders by all communist regimes in the last 95 years.