Give a brother a break. It's not easy being green!
Posted on 01/26/2012 5:08:33 PM PST by landsbaum
When President Barack Obama promised this week to open 75 percent of potential offshore gas and oil resources to drilling and praised the controversial fracking method for extracting untapped oil reserves on land, a collective shudder went through his green constituency. Welcome to election-year rhetoric.
The green lobby is learning what other loyal Democratic Party constituencies have learned about being taken for granted. Like blacks and union members before them, the green lobby is discovering that, despite promises to champion their cause, reelection campaign rhetoric commands higher priority. It's safe for the president to offend loyalists. To whom would they flee? Not likely to Republicans.
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Give a brother a break. It's not easy being green!
Its eyewash anyhow.
Early in his term of office, he announced he was opening the coastlines to offshore drilling. Then, with his other hand, he took it back. He can always use the regulators and agencies to do the dirty work while he takes the headlines.
Similarly, they gave and ungave permission to drill offshore Alaska. Gave and ungave permission to drill offshore California. This is just in the last couple of years.
Now of course they are just asking for one more, five year, study to make sure the Keystone pipeline will be safe. Probably at some point he’ll announce that he is for the pipeline too, to take it off the table as a campaign issue, but never get around to issuing the permit.
Just like he announced he was against runaway regulations during his state-of-the-union, while his regulators are writing reams of regulations. And says corporations should pay more tax, while the corporations he likes pay none.
Its eyewash anyhow.
Early in his term of office, he announced he was opening the coastlines to offshore drilling. Then, with his other hand, he took it back. He can always use the regulators and agencies to do the dirty work while he takes the headlines.
Similarly, they gave and ungave permission to drill offshore Alaska. Gave and ungave permission to drill offshore California. This is just in the last couple of years.
Now of course they are just asking for one more, five year, study to make sure the Keystone pipeline will be safe. Probably at some point he’ll announce that he is for the pipeline too, to take it off the table as a campaign issue, but never get around to issuing the permit.
Just like he announced he was against runaway regulations during his state-of-the-union, while his regulators are writing reams of regulations. And says corporations should pay more tax, while the corporations he likes pay none.
They know he’s just talkin’.
Green products are the worst. I have spent my last buck on these overpriced scam items.
Right. He has socialists and communists quaking in their boots as well.
Obastard talks moderate, but every one of his policies is radical green socialist cr@p.
This artical is just more of the same by the LSM.
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