NebraskaPatriot

Oops, but it was for the greater good . . .

same song, different verse . . .

News of yet another collapse in a "Green Energy" company into which President Obama dumped millions of our hard earned tax dollars.

William Yeatman writes at Global Warming.org that:

"Earlier this week, Stimulus beneficiary Evergreen Energy bit the dust. Then, Ener1, a manufacturer of batteries for electric vehicles and recipient of Stimulus largesse, filed for bankruptcy. And today, the Las Vegas Sun reports that Amonix, Inc., a manufacturer of solar panels that received $5.9 million from the Porkulus, will cut two-thirds of its workforce, about 200 employees, only seven months after opening a factory in Nevada.

I foresaw this spate of bad news last November. As I explained yesterday,

In a previous post, I compared renewable energy spending in the 2009 Stimulus to a green albatross burdening the President. I argued that Stimulus spending was inherently wasteful, because politics invariably corrupts government’s investment decisions. The result is taxpayers losses on bankrupt companies that existed only by the grace of political favoritism, a la Solyndar. I predicted the green stimulus would haunt the President, in the form of a slow drip public relations nightmare, as a litany of bad investments go belly-up in the run up to the 2012 elections.

Mr. President, are you still sure you want to"double down" on renewable energy giveaways?"

The pain of course, is not the President's but ours as we see our tax dollars wasted on investments that were ill conceived and illogical in the first place. After three years, it has become painfully apparent that Mr. Obama's appetite for spending others' money can only come to an end by sending him packing back to Chicago for good.

In honor of President Obama's insistence on using our tax dollars to prop up his Green Energy efforts, our friends at Crossroads GPS have a new ad out:

        

 

 

XL Pipeline Back on Center Stage

 

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." ~ Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe

Senate and House Republicans are working on ways to get the XL Pipeline project back on track after President Obama bowed to pressure from his leftist nut-case, environmentalist wacko supporters in refusing to approve it.

Nebraska U.S. Senator Mike Johanns has joined 43 other Senators in support of a bill that would allow the pipeline to begin construction in the U.S. while TransCanada and the State of Nebraska work out the new route through the state and around the Sandhills.

Johanns told the Omaha World-Herald's Joseph Morton, "The president gives speeches about energy security and creating jobs, but this legislation would actually do it. Our bill approves the pipeline while allowing Nebraska and TransCanada the time they need to find the right route through our state," Johanns said. "This pipeline is not only a national priority because of the energy and jobs it will bring, it's also a Nebraska priority."

One Democrat currently has signed on to the bill and that's, no not our Democrat Senator Ben Nelson but West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, who unlike Nelson, sees the common sense logic to the pipeline.

Over in the House, Speaker Boehner has said that they will pass this legislation as well but in their case, they are looking at tying it to a piece of legislation that Obama wants such as the American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act.

Stay tuned . . .

 

 

Do As I Say, Not As My Staff Does

and the beat goes on . . .

Well, isn't this just, oh so interesting. Investors Business Daily reports that "36 Obama aides owe $833,000 in back taxes".

Ah yes, President Obama is out there telling everyone that they need to pay their fair share. Maybe he needs to take some time in his daily staff meeting and get his own staff to pay their Federal taxes.

Yet another sorry chapter in the "Hope and Change" Presidency.

Click here for the article . . .

 

 

 

The State of the Union? ? ?

restless, uneasy . . .

Each year at this time, the President of the United States gives the State of the Union address. So I have to ask, What is the State of our Union?

This pretty much sums up my view:

 

ObamaMotors A Negative Charge To Its Dealers

the Green Energy sham continues at ObamaMotors . . .

It appears that U.S. consumers outside Holywood are just not buying President Obama's new electric cars. An article in Automotive News on-line reports that General Motors dealers across the country are balking at taking any more of Mr. Obama's Volt cars.

Apparently, dealers are having trouble selling the few they already have and don't want to increase their inventory of cars that no one wants. Oh, and then there's the little issue with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's investigation into the risk of fires in the Volt's battery pack.

All of this Washington central planning brings to mind this quote:

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy."  ~Ernest Benn

 

 

No Thank You Mr. President

Got to give our friends at American Crossroads credit, they come up with some great campaign ads as evidenced in the following:

 

We've Reach the Dumb And Dumber Stage in This Presidency

d-u-m-b . . .

President Obama has killed the Keystone Pipeline, it was announced today by an administration official. 

In one of the most asinine decision made by this President and god knows there have been some real whoppers, Obama killed the project because he says he didn't have time enough to consider all the ramifications of the project. 

This project has been studied to death Mr. President but apparently your left-wing tree hugging socialist admirers carry more weight with you than thousands upon thousands of parents who need the jobs this pipeline will create.

The Keystone project would have also increased our import of oil from Canada and less on the Middle East. Apparently, Obama prefers to do business with terrorist supporting countries rather than with the Canadians.

Did I say asinine? Well let me say it again . . . asinine.

November can't get here quick enough . . .

For some related reports, click here and here.

 

 

 

Now Is The Time For Nelson To Show Leadership

We've seen and heard the political ads that tell us Ben Nelson is a leader and a doer. Well Mr. Nelson, it's time you Lead and Do.

The United States Senate has not produced a budget in over 960 days. Let me do the math for you:

960 days    365 days in a year    = 2.63 years

It's been almost THREE years since the Democrats who control the Senate have produced a budget. Budget bills from the House are stacking up against the door of the Senate and yet nothing for:

THREE YEARS

If I'm a Republican for the U.S. Senate, I'm hammering Nelson every day on this. This alone disqualifies this guy for another six-year term. We'd would all get fired at our jobs if performed our job this way.

Ridiculous . . .

 

Apparently Logic Not Part of Harvard Education

this aught to make all the Harvard alums proud . . .

Remember how we've been told how brilliant President Obama is? How he is a Harvard graduate and simply is one of the most intelligent Presidents this country has ever had? 

Evidence keeps mounting to the contrary.

Yesterday, our Harvard educated President said the following according to the Washington Examiner on-line:

"he [The President] also responded to a recent Republican push to require him to approve the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada. "However many jobs might be generated by a Keystone pipeline," he said, "they're going to be a lot fewer than the jobs that are created by extending the payroll tax cut and extending unemployment insurance."

Stunning . . .

Obama's Policies Impact (!) New Unemployment Numbers

frustration over lack of jobs impacts numbers . . .

President Obama and his minions are all over the unemployment number released today, which showed the unemployment number dropped from 9% to 8.6%.

But, wait a minute. Let's look at this a bit closer. 

The Wall Street Journal on-line reports today:

"The U.S. economy created 120,000 jobs in November and the unemployment rate fell to 8.6%, its lowest level in more than two and a half years, the Labor Department said Friday."

But now the rest of the story according to the Wall Street Journal on-line:

"The big drop in the jobless rate, which stood at 9.0% in October, stemmed mainly from a decline in the size of the labor force. Some 315,000 people stopped looking for jobs last month, which is usually not a good sign."

Not a good sign? Really?

Apparently this is how Obamanomics works. You eliminate a portion of those unemployed and shazam, you lower the unemployment rate.

Basically, 315,000 people stopped looking for a job in November so they don't count in the unemployment count. Think about that. It's as if these people just vanished. Poof. Those 315,000 are no longer called unemployed!

Here's the facts: More people (315,000) stopped looking for jobs than found jobs (120,000) in November.

Boy, this Hope and Change really is great. It's better then New-Math!!!