Once again, Charles Krauthammer is in rare form, but then again since that sage columnist is often in this form, it’s probably not entirely accurate to call it “rare.” Well, the idiom works.
Writing on the failures of the various big-government initiatives this president had put into place, the conservative columnist quips,
So what do you do when you say you can, but, it turns out, you can’t? Blame the other guy. Charge the Republicans with making governing impossible. Never mind that you had control of Congress for two-thirds of your current tenure. It’s all the fault of Republican rejectionism.
He goes on to show how “a president whose central campaign theme is that Republicans put party over nation, sacrificing country to crass political ends” was putting party over nation, sacrificing country for crass political ends.
Krauthammer’s focus is the 1,700-mile trans-USA Keystone XL pipeline: “President Obama decreed that any decision must wait 12 to 18 months — postponed, by amazing coincidence, until after next year’s election.” The pipeline, the columnist reminds us, “angered Obama’s environmental constituency.” So, now the Democrat’s got them in his camp for 2012, but he has prevented private companies from providing the shovels for thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, of shovel-ready jobs.
Oh, and he’s depriving the American people of access to oil from our very hemisphere — and from one of our closest allies. As oil fluctuates near the $100 mark.
Post-partisan? Most partisan in more like it.
What was that earlier this week about some Democrat complaining that the Republicans were trying to keep the economy from improving in order to hurt Obama’s election chances?
Why would they bother? If that was their desire, all they have to do is sit and watch.
The jobs would be in “red states”. They’re not swing states, so there’s no political advantage going into ’12.
Recall that Dear Leader would prefer 6-8 dollar a gallon gas because then we could be like Europe and be required to use public transportation or bike to work. All of these goals would save the planet from global warming and the catastrophic consequences of evil capitalism. Onward toward world socialism and one world government.
Well apparently he just shut down frakking in Ohio,
I almost have to laugh, then I realize he’s not punishing his public union supporters, just his private ones.
But remember, it’s not because of his policies that the economy sucks, it’s because we’re “lazy.”
Actually, those of us who live know how critical the Ogallala Aquifer is. We’ve seen how the oil companies don’t give a shit for safety (of workers or of surroundings) if it might trim their profits a penny. It would have been inevitable that the pipeline would spring a major leak and poison the water supply for several states. So, for once, the obamessiah did the right thing.
Of course; when science isn’t in your favor, slander the oil companies.
Obama continues to pander to his base; he’s desperate.
Um, there have been pipelines laid all over the country on or near ecologically sensitive water resources and, so far, we have managed to avoid ecological calamity.
This isn’t about environmental protection at all. It’s about greens wanting oil to get as expensive as possible so that wind and solar can compete on cost.