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Obama keeps rolling the dice on green energy
Washington Examiner, by Editorial
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Posted By:StormCnter, 3/17/2013 6:42:22 AM
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| Like a desperate gambler who doubles down on a losing bet, President Obama is calling for spending $2 billion more on green energy projects. Apparently these billions will succeed where previous billions have failed. "We cannot afford to miss these opportunities while the rest of world races forward," said Obama at a campaign-style rally Friday afternoon at the Argonne National Laboratory just outside Chicago. The money will come from leases for offshore drilling. This might be a good idea if the administration were willing to increase offshore leasing. At least that way we would be expanding domestic production,
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Comments: And, I have the really bad feeling he´s getting ready to shut down Keystone.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
LComStaff, 3/17/2013 6:47:41 AM (No. 9229006)
Staff has corrected headline.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Trigger2, 3/17/2013 6:54:18 AM (No. 9229007)
The stupidity of this so-called man is stunning.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
ladychatalie, 3/17/2013 7:01:43 AM (No. 9229014)
Oh dear. This should irritate the govies who are preparing for furloughs far greater than the 2+ percent reduction in the increase of spending for this fiscal year. He´s oblivious to the suffering of anyone unless he can use it as a photo op.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Th-Gr-Sil-Majority, 3/17/2013 7:17:22 AM (No. 9229028)
...well, as others have said, the man and his adminisstration, are simply liars...
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Keekng, 3/17/2013 7:45:17 AM (No. 9229047)
"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." - Albert Einstein
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
OhioTom, 3/17/2013 8:56:37 AM (No. 9229122)
He´s neither stupid nor rolling the dice. He knows what he is doing will hurt the American people. This is his intention.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
JAN, 3/17/2013 9:05:35 AM (No. 9229137)
He´s rolling dollars, our dollars, towards his cronies under the guise of ´green´ energy.
This global warming fantasy is simply a mantra to lull the gullible.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
LanieLou, 3/17/2013 9:26:18 AM (No. 9229167)
Yesterday´s admission by many climate guru´s that GW is not happening should help fight back against this idiot. But it´s really not about climate change, is it ....
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
LudicrousSextus, 3/17/2013 9:37:26 AM (No. 9229183)
Rather unbelievable. Apparently, being an ´affirmative action idiot´ is the *only* skill-set this bozo possesses.
He damn sure has no grasp at all on reality.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
suedotsue, 3/17/2013 9:43:48 AM (No. 9229194)
Science doesn´t matter to anyone in politics. This scam has been going on for decades having been kicked off by a George Bush #1 mandate in 1990 in which he cited CO2 as a pollutant and mandated that US taxpayers help the world with climate change. It´s been stated numerous times that AGW isn´t happening but big media and politicians just plow ahead. Darrell Issa said he´s going to hold hearings now, he thinks climate is serious and requires a lot more taxpayer money to prepare for coming disasters. Even if CO2 caused AGW, US CO2 has plunged and is heading lower. It doesn´t matter if US CO2 drops to zero, world CO2 won´t change mainly because of China. The left knows this but they have only one thing in mind: a world treaty and to finish destroying of this country. Republican pols. are fine with this because they want big gov. and us to be silenced. The UN has even said it´s not about climate, it´s just about income transfer.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
bigfatslob, 3/17/2013 9:45:12 AM (No. 9229199)
Green = theft of tax dollars
The only thing warming is the pot we are boiling in to extract our tax dollars for the coomunist Chieftans on the left.
Obama is a watermelon, green on the outside and all red on the inside.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
uno, 3/17/2013 9:51:00 AM (No. 9229207)
Anything to weaken America. It all makes sense when you look at it in those terms.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Deedo, 3/17/2013 9:53:40 AM (No. 9229215)
From where does Obama get the authority to restructure the collection and disbursement of taxes?
Section 7 of the Constitution could not be more clear that:
"All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills."
I do not see any enumerated power of the Executive Branch to either increase taxes or restructure how they are spent. But this is a side-effect of modern Congressional abdication of their responsibilities. The Congress empowers a bureaucracy through the legislative process to dictate fees and regulations without further Congressional approval, which bureaucracies effectively become the fourth and true branch of government running the show.
We can dream of a leader that can curtail this carte blanche spending authority of the nameless and faceless bureaucrats, but don´t hold your breath.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Dragonslayer2, 3/17/2013 10:45:35 AM (No. 9229288)
As long as other people´s money continues to be too easy to spend, he will.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
mickturn, 3/17/2013 11:07:54 AM (No. 9229317)
This has nothing to do with dice, it has everything to do with crony payoff´s!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
JustRight, 3/17/2013 11:31:37 AM (No. 9229369)
This is nothing but a 2 billion dollar "slush fund" for our Kenyan King to enrich his friends.
When will Congress develop a spine and put and end to this wasteful use of taxpayers money.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
chiller, 3/17/2013 10:01:41 PM (No. 9230202)
Correct Lanielou, it´s certainly not about climate. It´s about taxes, but the expiration date on that argument has passed.
Lame duck landed a couple years early.
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