As the December COP15 meeting in Copenhagen approaches, the president is attempting to soften up the opposition with a string of attacks against those with the gall to oppose a global warming bill.
by Michael Naragon
Obama’s promises appear to be very conservative in nature, until you get beyond the teleprompted platitudes.
“Everyone should have a stake” in energy legislation, Obama explained, doubtless referring to the massive increase in energy costs that every American will be forced to pay, should the cap-and-tax bill pass the Senate.
The president claimed that energy independence was a major goal, “making the best use of resources we have in abundance.” Except for the oil in ANWR. Or the offshore fields that the Chinese are beginning to tap. Or the oil shale fields in states like Colorado, where Obama’s comrades in the Democrat Party have used legislation to prevent companies from using those abundant resources. Interestingly, the president said that one of the goals of his plan–which, incidentally, is being written by the haughty John Kerry–is to find the best ways to use fossil fuels. Translation: the best way to use them is not to use them.
Obama even boldly mentioned that coal would be one of the resources we need to use effectively. This is the same Obama whose EPA has blocked numerous attempts to build coal-fired power plants in several states, including South Dakota. In January, Bloomberg News reported:
“The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency placed a hold on approval of a coal-fired power plant in South Dakota, a move environmental groups say indicates increased scrutiny under President Barack Obama.
‘This is a signal that the Obama administration is taking a much harder look at coal power from the previous administration,’ said Darrell Gerber, a program coordinator at Washington-based Clean Water Action, which along with the Sierra Club opposed the plant.”
Those who oppose subjecting the United States to a economy-destroying environmental bill were labeled by the president as “naysayers… folks who would pretend that this is not an issue.” Even more striking was Obama’s statement that skeptics of man-made climate change are being marginalized.
Marginalized? When more scientists than ever before are speaking out against the worldwide economic hoax that is global warming/climate change? Perhaps in Washington, such science is being marginalized, since those who oppose the pseudo-religious climate change cultists are denied access or input in Congress or the White House. Apparently, the president’s door, which was supposedly “open” to Republicans, has been slammed in the face of those who would dare question liberal motives for pushing this misguided energy agenda.
“The closer we get [to a climate change law],” Obama warned, “the harder the opposition will fight, and the more we’ll hear from those whose interests and ideology run counter to the much-needed action that we’re engaged in.” This is one point I’ll grant the former one-term senator from Chicago. The opposition is fighting his efforts to subvert U.S. sovereignty to that of the United Nations in the name of climate salvation.
In a parting shot, the president went back to his tired mantra that clean energy legislation will create “millions of new jobs.” Funny, I seem to remember a similar promise when the second stimulus bill was passed. The truth is that the only jobs that will be created under an energy destroying bill like the cap-and-tax debacle are ones with the federal government and ones that the federal government subsidizes.
We who “cynically” dispute the “overwhelming scientific evidence” of climate change are once again being verbally reduced to an insignificant minority by this president, who seeks to push his own Leftist world agenda, using every tool and policy at his disposal to do so. Before it is too late, we must continue the fight against this methane-producing legislation before we’re all reduced to reading my blog in pamphlet form by candle light.
