Posts Tagged Barack Obama

Lying to Con­gress, with­hold­ing cru­cial infor­ma­tion.  Out­side of the Global Warm­ing Estab­lish­ment, where have we seen this before? From Paja­mas Media:

The report from Spain’s Uni­ver­si­dad Rey Juan Car­los — which was the sub­ject of a George Will col­umn in theWash­ing­ton Post on June 25, 2009 — showed each “green job” that had been added by Spain’s aggres­sive wind energy pro­gram cost Spain nearly $800,000 and resulted in the loss of 2.2 jobs else­where in the economy.

Eight times, Obama had pub­licly referred to Spain’s pro­gram as being a model for a U.S. wind energy program.

The 900 pages of emails, obtained by the Com­pet­i­tive Enter­prise Institute’s Christo­pher C. Horner, show staff mem­bers from the DoE’s National Renew­able Energy Lab­o­ra­tory (NREL) and the EPA devel­op­ing a response to the report. They also show them coör­di­nat­ing the response with the Cen­ter for Amer­i­can Progress, plus the Amer­i­can Wind Energy Asso­ci­a­tion (AWEA) and the Global Wind Energy Coun­cil (GWEC) — two wind indus­try lob­by­ist groups.

What the emails show runs con­trary to state­ments made to Con­gress by the Assis­tant Sec­re­tary of Energy Cathy Zoi — the Obama admin­is­tra­tion response to the Span­ish report was in fact insti­gated at the request of the AWEA. It was then writ­ten with the close coöper­a­tion of the AWEA, the Cen­ter for Amer­i­can Progress, and the Union of Con­cerned Scientists.

The emails con­cen­trate on the polit­i­cal impli­ca­tions of the Span­ish study — and how to dis­credit it.

Cathy Zoi again. So she’s not just the Win­dows Czar. She cer­tainly seems busy. Con­flicts of inter­est. Rich shadow fig­ures fund­ing agen­das which have to be lied about to Con­gress.  Can suit­cases of cash and 18 minute tape gaps be far behind?

Hot Air is spot­light­ing a Time arti­cle contending

You know, Obama acts a lot like … Bush

But, you know, if we think REAL HARD, an image from days of yore starts to form of a pres­i­dent whose admin­is­tra­tion Obama’s is rapidly com­ing much more closely to resemble.

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Has the Health Care imbroglio so unhinged Obama that he’s gone com­pletely manic in his drive to expand his empire?

In a closed cer­e­mony at the White House, the pres­i­dent signed the Travel Pro­mo­tion Act. After gain­ing final pas­sage by the Sen­ate last week, the bill will raise an esti­mated $200 mil­lion a year by impos­ing a $10 tax on vis­i­tors to the United States from coun­tries where they are not required to obtain a visa. The rev­enue will be used to cre­ate and fund a new agency, the Cor­po­ra­tion for Travel Pro­mo­tion, that would work with the U.S. tourism indus­try to pro­mote the United States as a global travel destination.

Ah. Let’s look at the oper­a­tive phrase:

… to cre­ate and fund a new agency …

And what, pray tell, would that new agency do?

work with the U.S. tourism indus­try to pro­mote the United States…

Does any­body think that a fed­eral agency can do more to pro­mote tourism to the U.S. than Dis­ney? Than Harrah’s? Than 10,000 travel agents?

And then, boys ‘n’ girls, after Pres­i­dent Obama has built a big build­ing for his new agency, and staffed it with peo­ple who signed up with his good friend Andy Stern, who runs the S.E.I.U. and cur­rently sits on the Debt Board, and bought new energy-efficient win­dows for the place from Seri­ous Mate­ri­als, a win­dow com­pany whose vice pres­i­dent for pol­icy is mar­ried to Obama’s weath­er­iza­tion over­seer, Obama is going to go all around the world and say he was only kid­ding when he said not to go to Las Vegas.

OK — so far we’ve made Andy Stern happy, said it’s OK to go to Vegas, and built a big new build­ing with truly excel­lent win­dows, but how is that going to help tourism?  Oh! There’s more?

Yes! Oh, all you doubters.  We’re going to charge tourists $10 a head.  That’s to pay for the agency that will do what Dis­ney and Vegas and Atlantic City and New York City and Six Flags and the Grand Canyon and 10,000 travel agents can’t manage.

Heh.  When Harrah’s opened the big river boat casino at the foot of Canal Street in New Orleans they charged $5 to come aboard.  After the new­ness wore off nobody came.  And this in a town where you can gen­er­ally get some­body to bet on whether or not some­thing thrown up into the air is going to come down.

Nobody was going to pay for the priv­i­lege of walk­ing in a busi­ness estab­lish­ment what wasn’t show­ing movies and sell­ing Jujubes.  Then the casino started check­ing ID’s and let­ting locals in free and charg­ing every­body else.  Then they just gave up. Then the peo­ple came.

So when Obama’s tourists get sick of being spare-changed even before they get here and stop pay­ing, and stop com­ing, Obama’s Agency is going to go away, right?

Sigh. Like I said. Some­body get this guy some Valium.

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Here’s Larry Kud­low on what Obama-Care might mean in real, every­day terms:

By the way, a gov­ern­ment takeover of health care — which is essen­tially what Oba­macare rep­re­sents — will crip­ple one of our most pro­duc­tive job-creating sec­tors. Pri­vate health care pro­duced almost 700,000 new jobs in the last two ter­ri­ble years, all while over­all pay­rolls fell by 7.5 mil­lion. Think about that.

So while the gen­eral econ­omy was los­ing 7 1/2 mil­lion jobs, Pri­vate health care pro­duced nearly 3/4 million.

Voilà! We can’t have all those jobs, and a lot of them really well-paying, out­side our con­trol! Just how are we sup­posed to make sure income is prop­erly dis­trib­uted and every­thing mea­sures up to our idea of fair?

If you can’t con­trol peo­ple prop­erly why, any­thing can hap­pen. You might even get a police­man who, when try­ing to ques­tion a res­i­den­tial break-in sus­pect, expects that his ques­tions be answered clearly and promptly with­out the sus­pect yelling and call­ing him names! Now, what kind of a world would that be?

I know. Pretty grue­some to con­tem­plate such a world. It was tough on Kud­low, too. But just think about how many jobs there will be to save or cre­ate when these Health Care jobs go bye-bye under Obama-Care.

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Why the major media con­tinue to go along with this stuff is a won­der to me. Doesn’t even one of them want to be a real jour­nal­ist again, if only just for a day?

Accord­ing to the edi­tor and one of the writ­ers for National Review Online, it is a the old misdirection-of-attention gag.  If the House passes the Sen­ate bill as is there will be no need for a con­fer­ence com­mit­tee, no need for a sec­ond round of affir­ma­tion in each house. That’s the ball game. The whole Rec­on­cil­i­a­tion brouhaha is a swin­dle.  If the swin­dle suc­ceeds, with peo­ple con­grat­u­lat­ing them­selves because it will never make the next hur­dle, when there won’t be one, it will be the crown­ing achieve­ment of the Democ­rats’ and the media strat­egy of the last 30 years: just lie.

Then we can all join hands and sing Baraaaack Obaaama, he is the pres­i­dent
Baraaaack Obaaama, he’s leader of this land as Barack Obama stands in the Rose Gar­den, smirk­ing that patented ‘ol cute-as-the-dickens Barack Obama Smirk, and announces, for one and all, to the 57 states and all the ships at sea:

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