Posted on 02/06/2011 6:59:19 AM PST by tobyhill
Sarah Palin blasted the Obama administration's handling of the Egypt crisis on Saturday in an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network.
"This is that 3 a.m. White House phone call, and it seems for many of us trying to get that information from our leader in the White House, it seems that that call went right to the answering machine."
Palin's reference to a 3 a.m. phone call referred to the 2008 bruising primary battle between now-President Obama and now-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton over responsiveness to unexpected foreign policy crises.
In the CBN interview, which was conducted Friday immediately following Palin's speech in honor of President Ronald Reagan's 100 birthday but aired Saturday night, the former Alaska governor questioned who might lead Egypt after President Hosni Mubarak if he were to resign.
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Let me remind you of the 12th commandment; “Thou shalt not blaspheme the name of Sarah Palin!” (Facts and contrary information will not be tolerated or accepted.)
“Makes you wonder where the greens get their funding?” ~ Yorlik803
Starting today, the Washington Examiner is running a special report on “Big Green”: the alliance of progressive activists, environmental groups like the Sierra Club, and the Democratic Party that has become perhaps the most powerful single lobby in Washington today.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/special-editorial-reports/Big-Green-Theyre-the-green-gorillas-of-American-politics-103831954.html
How the Environmental Movement Became Just Another Washington Power Bloc
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/how-the-environmental-movement-became-just-another-washington-power-bloc/?singlepage=true
It’s not just a band of flannel-shirted environmentalists any longer; it’s become a big-money, major player in Washington power politics and American elections.
September 27, 2010 - by Charlie Martin
Starting today, the Washington Examiner is publishing a five-part special report in association with Pajamas Media on “Big Green”: the alliance of the Democratic Party, environmental groups, and activists in the progressive movement. It’s not just a band of flannel-shirted environmentalists any longer; it’s become a big-money, major player in Washington power politics and American elections.
In this first of our five-part series in coordination with the Examiner, we consider how the consensus for environmental regulation in the ’60s became a source of political power and big money when it was taken up as a cause by the ruling class.
Starting today, the Washington Examiner is running a special report on “Big Green”: the alliance of progressive activists, environmental groups like the Sierra Club, and the Democratic Party that has become perhaps the most powerful single lobby in Washington today.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/special-editorial-reports/Big-Green-Theyre-the-green-gorillas-of-American-politics-103831954.html
It was, to some extent, a “stealth” campaign. “Conservationists” had been around for a hundred years, and the original Environmental Protection Agency was, after all, pushed through by Richard Nixon. Partly because of events like the Cuyahoga River fire in Cleveland in 1969, there was a general agreement in the 1960s that pollution of the air and water had become too obnoxious and that something had to be done.
The environmental movement quickly got involved with the New Left, becoming a sort of side-show for anti-war demonstrations while pollution became one of the litany of evils of what had been traditional American life. Along with real issues like river and lake pollution, there had been Paul Ehrlich’s book The Population Bomb, published in 1968; the Club of Rome’s book The Limits to Growth, in 1972; and a succession of other doomsday scenarios in the popular press.
What started as a largely bipartisan issue in the 60s began to transform into a more distinctly partisan issue in the 70s. Looking back, what was happening was a natural agreement of interests: in all of these groups, there was the general assumption that the various evils of humanity could only be remedied by government action, led by the enlightened. This meant that government must become stronger, have more power, and broaden its authority to deal with these new problems.
The environmental movement was quickly co-opted.
There is a natural progression in these things. It began as a mostly grassroots effort organized into non-profit groups, with dues and boards and presidents. The dues were used, as with any interest group, to lobby the government, either in Congress or in executive branch agencies like the EPA. The environmental movement began to develop a constituency, and that constituency was increasingly identified with groups like the Sierra Club. As those groups grew, they became big businesses themselves, although organized and run as non-profits.
People hear “non-profit” and tend to think of ragtag operations run on a shoestring by selfless activists; the large, well-known ones are major corporations with multimillion dollar budgets, and people who operate multimillion dollar companies tend to have nice salaries and nice offices.
Increasingly, being an environmental activist, at least in the upper reaches, is becoming a well-paid, high-visibility job.
What these activist groups have to “sell” is their ability to get things done in Washington, which means their ability to get access to politicians. Environmental groups could offer this through access to their membership and by encouraging their members to support the politicians who were friendly to their issues. Voting power meant re-election for the politicians, re-election meant moving up the seniority ladder, and seniority meant exercising power which made the politicians more attractive to the environmental groups. What’s more, for every elected politician, there are dozens of staff positions, committee staff, and dozens of staff positions within the non-profit groups.
Quickly, there arose an “environmental activism industry” thousands of people whose livelihoods depended on environmental activism. The environmental activism industry, in turn, depended on one thing: the government’s power to effect change in the environmentalists’ favored direction.
Now, forty years later, we see the results. As the Examiner pieces today show, the environmental movement has become a billion-dollar industry, providing thousands of people with jobs, all devoted to managing and, in general, to increasing the government’s power.
There is “green power” but it’s big government political power. There are “green jobs” but they are for the politically connected people who direct and wield the political power.
And there are the rest of us, who wonder how such a worthy endeavor became just another power bloc.
Charlie Martin writes on science and technology for Pajamas Media.
Isn’t it a little to early for you to be hitting the bottle?
She isn’t against or for the “revolution”.
She said we need to find out who is behind it and understand their motives before deciding if we should give them our blessing.
More:
Obama’s Oil Spill
March 31, 2008
Obama says he doesn’t take money from oil companies. We say that’s a little too slick.
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/obamas_oil_spill.html
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Obama’s Deceptive Anti-Oil Ad: ‘I Don’t Take $ From Oil Companies’
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/warner-todd-huston/2008/04/13/obamas-deceptive-anti-oil-ad-i-dont-take-oil-companies
By Warner Todd Huston | April 13, 2008 | 12:02
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Obama biggest recipient of BP cash
By: Erika LovleyMay
5, 2010 05:05 AM EDT
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0510/36783.html
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California’s Prop 23 and the [ PHONY ] “big oil money” campaign – outspent 3 to 1
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/11/05/californias-prop-23-and-the-big-oil-money-campaign-outspent-3-to-1/#more-27501
10.6 million from “big oil”
31.2 million from “big green”
Yep, that’s some dirty secret alright. But you won’t see this reported on one side news outlets or green blogs.
I understand your pessimism but do not totally agree. While there are still people that believe in this country, that believe in American Exceptonalism, and still have the freedom to speak their mind, we must have hope.
Hearing the speech by Sarah Palin, driving those ideas and thoughts inherent to the soul of true Americans, there is still hope if we all stand together and fight the good, hard fight.
Be proud of your conservative spirit, do not allow the MSM to intimidate, as it has the Republican Party over the last 50 years. The war for control of the future of America is raging, we won a battle in November, that has to be just the beginning. We must incrementally win back control, just as the left incrementally took control over the last century.
Too bad the criminals in the D of C did not keep their promises thirty years ago when they said America will never be held hostage to opec again.
They have other plans for the American middle class and the useless eaters.
Yeah, but it wasn't in the headline. So it doesn't count.
Spot on graphics!
Oh? States rights at home has to do with our country's political framework, and the role between the federal government and the states. What's occurring in Egypt is completely removed from that debate, and anyone can address one or the other at will. To call her a fool for doing so is disingenuous, at the least.
Then again, not being familiar with your FReeper name, I wonder if you're one of those anti-Palinbots who's sole interest is sewing dissension, for the sake of dissension, on any thread about Palin, instead of joining in the debate. If so, shame on you, you lessen FR's effectiveness with your sleaze. If not, I'll gladly stand corrected. But I suggest showing it by cooling your rhetoric.
Oh, one last thing; before you call me a Palinbot, I'm not. I like her a lot. I like the fact that she speaks out. We all should. But I've not set my sights on anyone for 2012, except to say NO to Romney, Huckabee, Gingrich, Bush, Rudy, or any close-to-democrat poseur.
Thanks for the quote, BTM—when or where did she say or write that?
She did an interview with CBN right after her speech Friday night about Reagan
This statement was in a interview no TelePrompTer
So, how did that great liberation movement in Cuba during the 1950s work out? Or, the revolution in Iran in the 1970s?
There's a fool all right ... and it's you.
Shazzam! Who didn't see that one coming?
Gov. Palin is CLEAR, FRiend;
as was your past hero, Mitt Romney,
who backed Ikhwan, the Moslem Brotherhood,
handmaiden to al Qaeda, to bring down
Egypt’s government.
How is Italy today? Lots of snow here in the USA.
ping for later reading - thanks!!!
I wish she would tell us what she would do if she was President. That seems much better than bashing Obama which is like kicking a dead dog.
Why ?? Nobody in her current position does it . Why should she?
Dear Leader certainly didn’t.
"She isn’t against or for the “revolution”.
Exactly! That's why she is a fool. Right now, today Americans are fighting and dying in Iraq because we, the Americans, chose to remove a dictator. In Egypt the Egyptians have chosen to remove a dictator, without risking the lives of American soldiers and this dolt speaks out against it? Yes Palin is a fool of the highest order. Why didn't she come out immediately and state her position after the revolt? This cowardly idiot sits back and just opposes whatever the administration does. That's not leadership. That's what high school girls do on Facebook. This dolt backs a dictator and fools like you back her. I side with the people. STATES RIGHTS DAMMIT!
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