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The Blame Game and Excuses for Failure to Lead

he wanted the job so stop whining . . .

Everyone knows a person who when things don't go right, always has an excuse or someone else to blame. Well folks, I'm afraid it's becoming very apparent that our President is one of those types.

Ever notice how he never, NEVER takes responsibility. It's Bush's fault; it's those mean Republicans; it's those fat cats on Wall Street; it's those silly people who cling to guns; it's the Healthcare Insurance Industry; did I mention it's Bush's fault.

Anyway, after almost three years of watching this guy in action, it's become apparent that I don't think  he has ever been held accountable for anything in his life. And unfortunately, guys like him go through life blaming others for their own failings.

And now we have gas prices escalating due in part to the President's orgy of spending that has blow our debt to astromical levels and threatened our country's pristine credit rating for the first time in our country's history. The President's Treasury is printing money to pay for his outrageous spending orgy which is pushing speculators to bid up commodities such as gold, silver and oil. Now throw in that he has basically shut down any expansion of oil exploration in our country and has made current oil producers here sit on hold in getting new permits in the Gulf and what is our President's response to higher gas prices? 

He doesn't look in the mirror, goodness no, for he is the Anointed One, maker of heaven and earth and all that is good in the kingdom.

No he finds someone else to blame . . . gosh it must be nice to always blame others and never, never take responsibility for anything that goes wrong.

Let me give the President some hard facts:

Larry Kudlow, host of CNBC’s The Kudlow Report, had a good piece in Wednesday's National Review On Line entitled, “The Left Hates Oil Companies”. In it, Mr. Kudlow writes:

“When oil prices blew sky high in 2008, ExxonMobil paid $36.5 billion in income taxes, $34.5 billion in sales taxes and $45 billion in other taxes, for a total of $116.2 billion in taxes paid and collected in 2008.”

Kudlow explains that the tax credits that oil companies get is to expense out high-risk investments to find and produce the oil.

He adds, “So while President Obama is out there ragging on oil companies to remove so-called tax subsidies, it’s odd that he doesn’t mention how much in taxes the energy firms actually pay to Uncle Sam.”

Of course, it’s also interesting that the President has failed to mention that General Electric paid ZERO in federal taxes last year. Ironically, the CEO of GE is a good friend of Obama’s and GE has gotten Billions of our tax payer dollars and subisdies and tax write-offs for its “Green” industries, wind turbines, etc. Any guess which industry produces more energy for our economy?

Any guess which industry produces more jobs in this country? Trust me, it ain’t the green companies. Nope, they suck up tax dollars but fail to generate any worthwhile abundant energy and projections are that they won’t in our life time if ever.  

It’s the same old Hope and Change we’ve come to expect from this bunch. Find an American or American company, demonize them to hide the Administration’s complete and utter lack of a coherent policy and that my friends is the President's idea of leading.

In another bit of irony, this President abhors off shore drilling for oil yet recently went to Brazil to praise  the Brazilians for serious deep water drilling. At the same time, he pledges billions of our tax payer dollars to help the Brazilians drill in deepwater. Now, think about that for a minute. Does the phrase, “do as I say, not as I do” come to mind. Obama and his fellow tree-huggers believe oil and gas and it’s carbon are destroying our planet so we need to shut it down in the U.S. by making it so expensive that it ends or at least is curtailed substantially. Yet, isn’t Obama encouraging the Brazilians to explore and pump more oil. So if big oil in the U.S. is destroying our planet, doesn’t it also destroy the planet when it occurs in Brazilian waters with our tax dollars?

Mr. President, you are spiraling ever so near the land of caricature and Oz with destination loony tunes not far off. All that Hopeychangey has us out here seeing little Hope and Change and is only making things worse. It gets more depressing every day. This is becoming so Carteresk. Remember how dreary those days became.

Is there someone out there with a vision and drive to  put us back on the path to that “shining city on the hill” . . . 

The Double Talk We've Sadly Come to Expect

do as I say not as I do . . .

President Obama is praised as a man with a gift with words. After two years as President and three years on the national stage, it's become abundantly clear that words are all he has and mostly empty at that.

Obama's latest empty words came in a press conference last week when he declared that his administration has produced more domestic oil than any previous one. Of course no one saw that he had this fingers crossed behind him when he made that comment (!) nor that he has slowed to a crawl any new production in the country. 

And now in true Obama fashion, the President has decided that it's ok for the U.S. to help Brazil with its oil industry while it still has ours bottled up in red tape and drilling moratoriums. The blog Gateway Pundit has an excellent piece that is short in length that lays out some really discouraging facts on the current state of production in this country post-BP disaster. You can access it by clicking here.

 

Obama Starving Gulf of Oil Exploration and Jobs

you just can't make this stuff up . . .

Unemployment sits stuck in the mid 9's.

Gas prices continue to suck more dollars from consumers.

President Obama's State of Union Address was about Jobs, Jobs, Jobs.

Really?

Over on CNBC, Lori Ann LaRocco interviewed an oil industry official who basically described the oil industry in the Gulf of Mexico as "being on life support". He added, "We have not been able to get any drilling permits. Individual companies and associations like the American Petroleum Institute continually engage with the regulator, The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and try to get clarity on what they will require to approve these permits. This has been going on for some time but it has intensified since the lifting of the moratorium in October."

President Obama's State of Union Address was about Jobs, Jobs, Jobs.

Really? Really?

Each rig has a crew of approximately 200 but remember there are all kinds of companies that are associated with these rigs in support industries, suppliers and contractors. All you have to do is go through an industrial guide for Houston and it's easy to say that an overwhelmingly large number of the companies are linked in some way to the oil and gas exploration business. That's doesn't include all the other towns and cities along the Gulf coast.

Or how about comments from a Democrat U.S. Senator from Lousiana:

"U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu again is urging the Obama administration to issue deepwater drilling permits.

The Louisiana Democrat called on the administration to approve new permits at a Senate Energy Committee meeting Wednesday.

Landrieu says that deepwater drilling has been “virtually shut down” since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion last April. She says drilling can be done safely.

She says five deepwater platforms in the Gulf have left to drill in other parts of the world, costing the Gulf Coast about 5,000 jobs."

President Obama's State of Union Address was about Jobs, Jobs, Jobs.

Really? Really? Really??

Thousands upon thousands of jobs are being effected or lost or unfilled because of the Federal Government's inept approach to the Gulf.

President Obama's State of Union Address was about Jobs, Jobs, Jobs.

His words: meaningless. Those jobless: ignored. 

Yup, you just got to love all this Hope and Change . . .

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Best Perscription For Our Economy

and then there was nothing happening, the sounds of silence . . .

What business hates most is the unknown. They need to know the ground rules in order to plan for the future. The White House and the Liberals in Congress have so poisoned the environment that it has really caused a man-made disaster out of our economy. (that's turning Liberal phraseology back on them!)

This group has shown that they will use or abuse the power of the Federal Government to take over auto companies and in the process put Labor in charge and tell pension managers for teachers and everyday working people to go take a hike.

This group has piled up more debt in two years than all other Presidents combined!

This group has shown that it will shove through an outrageous and ruinous overhaul of our health care system despite the wishes of the majority of Americans. This group is going to let the Bush tax cuts expire in January thereby increasing everyone taxes and when it comes to business, do these Libs know who creates jobs??? This group thinks we can just stop using oil and replace it with wind energy and electric cars tomorrow.

This group refuses to take control of our borders thereby allowing a modern slave trade of Mexican citizens occur in this country and at the same time turn Phoenix into the kidnapping capitol of the world.

This group turns down offers from countries around the world to help keep millions of gallons of oil  from rolling up onto the beaches of Gulf Coast states because Big Labor won't allow it to rescind a law from the 1920's.

This group basically closes down NASA to future space missions and instead makes it's priority mission  an out-reach program to Muslim nations.

This is just a few of the numerous Liberal moves made by the Obama, Reid and Pelosi.

Well let me tell you what is the best and quickest solution to get this economy back on solid ground.

If Republicans can retake the House and Senate that would be the best news we've had in three years. With Republicans controlling both houses, NOTHING GETS DONE! Congress won't pass anything Obama wants and Obama will veto anything the Republicans want and they won't have enough votes in most cases to override.

And that folks is the best news business can hear. At least then, they can plan. 

I predict if the Republicans would do this on election day, you would see the stock market  react positively and the over all economic climate would turn positive as we head into the spring.

November 2nd can not get here quick enough for working Americans.

Really Mr. President????????????

when will politicians get it . . .

The President had an opportunity Tuesday night to treat the American people as adults. Instead, once again Mr. Obama took the approach that we are a bunch of stupid fools who will take any of Obama's words written on a teleprompter and believe them.

The President should have told us that he screwed up, he underestimated the severity of the problem, all responsibility lies with me and here is what we are going to do going forward. Instead, we got:

"From the very beginning of this crisis, the federal government has been in charge of the largest environmental cleanup effort in our nation's history "

Really?

I'm mean REALLY?

Are you serious Mr. President?

If so then your teleprompter is telling the American people that our Federal Government is a bunch of buffoons. You are going to look us straight in our collective eyes and tell us that you and your Federal bureaucrats have done a good job.

Mr. President, you have seen the pictures right? And that's what you classify as being in charge from DAY ONE?

I see . . .

So I guess the American people can see what happens when the federal government  has been right there from day one "in charge of the largest environmental cleanup" in our history.

Ironically, there is a lesson here but not one the President wanted us to learn Tuesday night. The lesson is if the President is proud of how his Feds have handled the "largest" environmental mess, then we now have a very good visual of what the Obama Government will do when it implements Obamacare and takes over 1/6 of our economy.

Boy, I'm not sure Americans can take much more of this Hope and Change . . . 

Obama Is Going to Lead Us To Energy Independence

man, I feel much better knowing this . . .

President Obama is trying to get people to forget about his complete incompetence in response to the Gulf Oil gusher by telling us all yesterday that he will lead us to clean energy.

Americans are getting much smarter when it comes to Obama and his Leftist policies so with that in mind, let's look at what is in our future if Obama is allowed to implement such a policy.

Obama and his fellow Leftist put the Federal Government at the center of any policy. So let's look at a such a current program to see what's in line for us:

Electric car subsidies. Both ObamaMotors' (formerly know as General Motors) Volt and Nissan's Leaf electric cars will enter the market at the end of this year. Nissan recently announced that its Leaf will cost $25,280.

Wow you would say, that's very reasonable to help save the Earth. But with all Leftist policies, we've learned to look past the bling and at the fine print. And what do we find? The American Taxpayer!

OMG what a surprise - we the taxpayers are subsidizing electric cars.

Moms and dads across the country will be subsidizing electric cars to the tune of $7,500 per car. Nissan has announced it will make its first deliveries in the states of California, Tennessee and Georgia. Why is that?

Well that's because taxpayers in those states are going to chip in $5,000 in "consumer tax credits" per electric car. So if you remove the tax dollars that each of us is throwing at each electric car and then add in what state tax payers are contributing, the cost of a Nissan Leaf increases to $37,780!

Oh, and there's this to add in. Buyers of ObamaMotors' Volt and Nissan's Leaf have to buy a charging station which will cost $2,200 but again, the fine taxpayers of the country will cover half of the cost.

So let's add this up. Taxpayers in Nebraska for example, will help cover $9,900 on each electric car AND taxpayers in the states of California, Tennessee and Georgia will see their share increase to $11,000 per electric car. If I remember right, the state of California is broke and it's unemployment rate is in double digits but hey man, we've got to save the earth and longfin smelts fish and trees . . .

And now, let me point out a provision in the policy that only politicians in Washington and their bureaucrats in the various agencies can come up with:

Neither car will make a profit for its maker which prior to Obama, was the goal for companies. Instead, under Federal statute part of the cost of each electric car will be charged to ObamaMotors and Nissan's pickup and SUV operations since electric cars create "head room under the EPA's rules" that allow each company to sell more pickups and SUVs which are each company's biggest sellers yet  on the eco-enemies hit list. 

So Obama's idea of moving us to clean energy is that car manufacturers build electric cars that no one wants and that taxpayers will subsidize and by doing so Obama will allow manufacturers to build more SUV and pickups which use more of that bad old substance gasoline.

Yet another fine example of Hope and Change . . . 

Libs Finally Pounce on the Annointed One

I'm sure this will be short lived but the Left is coming out firing at Obama and his complete lack of leadership on the Gulf oil disaster. Click below to listen. It will bring a smile to your face.

Now, let's be clear. This will be short lived because I'm sure Axelrod and the other Chicago Thugs in the White House have been on the phones already and are putting the squeeze on these guys.

In all seriousness, this is yet another example of how inept and unqualified Obama is to be President. Now think about this, remember those who would say thank god we have Bush and not Gore as President when 9/11 occurred. Well, can you imagine if Obama had been President on 9/11???

Sends chills throughout your body doesn't it . . .