Obama: too Shallow for Drilling
Daily Press Headline!
"Obama announces plans to expand off-shore oil drilling"
Now here is the latest from the press;
“Mr. Obama, who wants Congress to move a stalled climate change bill, has sought to reach out to Republicans by signaling he is open to allowing offshore drilling, providing coastlines are protected. “Nation Post
Sound familiar;
At the Healthcare Summit “He (Obama) hopes to have Republican support in doing so—but he is going to move forward on health reform." Wall Street Journal
It is called Political Theater and Obama is the best. When you find yourself in the grocery line reading the headlines of newspapers and magazines you are more than likely to find more truth in the article about the horse born with a boy’s head than you will in any local papers accolades of Obama.
GOP Rep. Mike Pence adds some light to the subject:
“The President’s announcement today is a smokescreen. It will almost certainly delay any new off shore exploration until at least 2012 and include only a fraction of the offshore resources that the previous Administration included in its plan.
“Unfortunately, this is yet another feeble attempt to gain votes for the President’s national energy tax bill that is languishing in the Senate. At the end of the day this Administration’s energy plan is simple: increase the cost of energy on every family in America and trade American jobs oversees at a time when millions of Americans are looking for work.”
My only hope is, now that Obama has made this declaration, our Governor will be successful in holding Obama's feet to the fire till the pipes are actually in the ground. Drill! Bob! Drill!
Obama- "unmovable Marxist Ideology"
Barack Obama goes to the Mark Warner School of Math
With the help of a complicit media, along with former Senators (and former Republicans) Russ Potts and John Chichester, Governor Mark Warner, and later Governor Tim Kaine were able to spin the web of deceit that said that Jim Gilmore left the state budget in shambles.
Warner so craftily told that story that after four tries he finally ushered through and signed the largest tax increase in the history of the Commonwealth to deal with the massive budget “deficit.” Barely two weeks after Warner signed the bill, his Secretary of Finance announced that the Commonwealth would end the year with a budget surplus, roughly equivalent to the amount of the tax increase. To add insult to injury we later found out that Warner’s administration also made a slight $137 million accounting “error.” Oops.
The fact that the Republicans couldn’t counter this pile of Warner’s fertilizer, partly because squishy members of their own party were helping to spread it, is a different story for a different day.
But fast forward to today where the story is how the Barack Obama Administration is applying the same mathmatic principles.
Dick Morris tells us:
President Obama was disingenuous when he said that the budget deficit he faced “when I walked in the door” of the White House was $1.3 trillion. He went on to say that he only increased it to $1.4 trillion in 2009 and was raising it to $1.6 trillion in 2010.
As Joe Wilson said, “You lie.”
Morris says:
So what was the real deficit Obama inherited? The $600 billion deficit Bush was running plus the $200 billion of TARP money that probably won’t be repaid (mainly AIG and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac). That totals $800 billion. That was the real deficit Obama inherited.
Read more to get the whole picture: Behind Obama’s Phony Deficit Numbers
Spinning the deficit, as well as the rest of his woes, as his “inheritence” from George W. Bush has become President Obama’s favorite pastime.
Charles Krauthammer puts it best:
FROM: bearingdrift.comBy Ward Smythe
- There is a statute of limitations on laying it all at the feet of your predecessor. It’s about one year. Time is up. At this point, it’s all whining
McAuliffe Brags About Discriminating Against Non-Union Workers
McAuliffe Brags About Discriminating Against Non-Union Workers
Claims to Have Hired "All Union Workers" in Right-to-Work Florida
Richmond, Virginia - Democratic candidate for governor Terry McAuliffe boasted in the final debate of the primary season that he had created jobs in Florida and hired all unionized workers in an apparent violation of that state's right-to-work law. Florida, Virginia and twenty other states have laws that prohibit compulsory union membership as a condition of employment. To require union membership as a prerequisite for a job would be discriminatory against non-union applicants.
"I've gone into states like Florida -- right-to-work," McAuliffe said yesterday in a debate hosted by the Washington Post and News Channel 8 at Northern Virginia Community College's Annandale campus."And hired all union workers."
Click here to watch the video.
Did McAuliffe violate Florida law and would he advocate the same in Virginia?
Florida's law reads, in part:
"The right of persons to work shall not be denied or abridged on account of membership or non-membership in any labor union or labor organization." (Florida Constitution, Article 1, Section 6)
Virginia's law reads, in part:
"It is hereby declared to be the public policy of Virginia that the right of persons to work shall not be denied or abridged on account of membership or non-membership in any labor union or labor organization." (Virginia Code, Section 40.1-58)
"Terry McAuliffe either doesn't know or doesn't care what the letter and spirit of right-to-work laws are if he brags about discriminating against non-union workers," said Republican Party of Virginia Chairman Pat Mullins. "Requiring all workers to be unionized is against the policy of Virginia and it is shocking that he would boast about breaking it. Our hard-working citizens and employers deserve to know: will Terry McAuliffe encourage the same kind of discriminatory hiring practices in Virginia he claims to have engaged in while in Florida?"
from RPV.org
