Time to Make Cuts in the Department of Energy

The Heritage Foundation  "President Barack Obama spoke about some of that spending, proclaiming that his Administration made “the largest investment in history in clean energy research,” while also lamenting that he has not yet reached his dream of putting 1 million electric vehicles on the road. That’s with good reason. As President Obama admitted, the technology is “heavy” and “expensive.” In other words, electric cars can’t stand on their own two legs (or four wheels) without government support.

"That’s the story of President Obama’s DOE."

http://terrellaftermath.com/
  

'Quagmire Of Bureaucracy' Stifles Gulf Spill Research
"Last year, BP did give $50 million to several research groups in the Gulf. "But the rest of the money has been just caught up in a quagmire of bureaucracy, politics, turf issues," he says. "Why the hell isn't that money out there? We have lost a year, we have literally lost a year. That's a huge gap.""

Islamist Militancy in a Pre- and Post-Saleh Yemen

STRATFOR "The United States has a Yemen problem that it cannot avoid, but it also has very few tools with which to manage or solve it. For now, the stalemate provides Washington with the time to sort out alternatives to the second-generation Saleh relatives, but that time also comes at a cost."

California voters

California voters interviewed  "Now you know why I haven’t been “over the hill” to Santa Cruz in years. For the most part they are unwashed. zoned-out people who cannot utter a simple declarative sentence without sounding stupid. Listening to that one female, I wasn’t even sure if she knew her own name. [ I also think some of them have tiny, little creatures living in their hair and beards as well.]" From the comments to this post.

Hat tip to Harley Standlee, Placerville, Ca

Reagan Democrats: 'Tea Baggers' or MSNBC Viewers?

Ann Coulter  "In his third year in office, The Washington Post reported that "few members of government employee unions plan to vote next year for Ronald Reagan."
"As Howard Fineman suggests, Republicans must have been scared of how that might play out in the 1984 election. Still somehow, Reagan managed to win the largest electoral landslide in U.S. history, despite government workers being overwhelmingly, implacably opposed to him."

April 20, 2011; Today in U.S. Civil War History

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On-This-Day.com   1861 - Colonel Robert E. Lee resigned from the U.S. Army. Two days earlier he had been offered command of the Union army. Lee's letter of resignation

Time Magazine: Ice Makers Are Destroying the Planet!

Ecocentric "Want to save the Earth? Easy, just buy a couple of ice trays. To the long list of human inventions that are wrecking global climate—the internal combustion engine, the industrial era factory—add the automatic ice maker."

IPAB, Obama, and Socialism; another name for death panels?

NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE  "They’re back. Rationing, death panels, socialism, all those nasty old words that helped bring Republicans victory in 2010, and that came to seem so impolite after November of that year. They’re back because of IPAB. Remember that acronym. It stand[s] for The Independent Payment Advisory Board. IPAB is the real death panel, the true seat of rationing, and the royal road to health-care socialism. President Obama won’t admit to any of that, but his speech in response to Paul Ryan’s plan did push IPAB out of the shadows and into public view, however briefly. If Republicans don’t seize the IPAB issue and run with it, they’ll be losers in 2012."  Emphasis added.

Ryan's Plan Will Fix Medicare — Not Destroy It  "In his speech to the nation on Wednesday, President Obama joined the chorus of critics howling that Rep. Paul Ryan's federal budget proposal is cruel to seniors and will decimate Medicare as we've known it.

"The data show the opposite. Seniors and baby boomers will be better off under the Ryan proposal than under the Obama health law."

When they came for the rich, I said nothing

Rich Terrell

Dreamland, USA

Victor Davis Hanson  "Like children, we turn on any spoilsport parent who nags us to stop borrowing, cut entitlements and government spending, start drilling and building power plants, get real about dictators in the Middle East, and keep vigilant against radical Islamic terrorists.
"So we will keep dreaming until creditors, oil exporters, enemies or terrorists wake us up."

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/ericallie

 

Obama blames everyone but himself for high gas prices

Rick Moran  "The president's energy non-policy of funding solar, wind, and god-knows-what-other kind of power while doing everything to prevent opening new oil fields to exploration and development is not to blame for high gas prices, says the president."

As long as the subject of Obama's integrity is raised, consider this:

Obama's Executive Order coming to cut off funding to his political opponents?  "The White House last week began circulating a draft executive order that would require companies seeking government contracts to disclose contributions -- including those that otherwise would have been secret -- to groups that air political ads attacking or supporting candidates."

When we accept the endorsements from silly celebrities regarding whom to elect as president, this is what we get for leadership. Obama, the choice of Russell Brand and daytime talk show hosts.

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/garymccoy

Not True: Obama Suggests Minnesota Bridge Collapse Was Caused By Infrastructure Spending Cuts

sayanythingblog  "Liberals have long used the tragic 2007 collapse of a major bridge in Minneapolis to bolster talking points about what they characterize as a lack of funding for infrastructure. The problem is that the bridge didn’t collapse for want of maintenance.
"It collapse[d] because of a design flaw."

Chicago Tribune

CNS News: Obama Falsely Blames Bridge Collapse on Insufficient Federal Spending "Instead, the NTSB determined that the bridge collapsed partly because federal transportation inspectors did not properly inspect the design and did not give “adequate attention” to the parts of the bridge that caused the failure."
Did Design Flaws Doom the Minneapolis Bridge?  From the Engineering Ethics Blog September 01, 2008.

 Investigators Find Design Flaw to Blame for Minneapolis Bridge Collapse

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