More Obama Cover-Ups, At This Point What’s New?
Obama has become quite good at covering up incidents, but I guess you have to be good if you want to be engaged in the Chicago Political MachineMafia… That’s why the latest cover-up by the EPA for recent emails regarding some interesting findings regarding GloBull Warming, and the latest Obama administration cover-up of the canning of the bio-ethics panel for embryonic stem cell research, come as no surprise.
The EPA must be aware that something fishy is going on with the global warming alarmism. Why else would they cover up recent emails, found by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, that voiced the opposite concerns of what Democrats, the UN, and the EPA would have you believe?
CEI is submitting a set of four EPA emails, dated March 12-17, 2009, which indicate that a significant internal critique of EPA’s position on Endangerment was essentially put under wraps and concealed. The study was barred from being circulated within EPA, it was never disclosed to the public, and it was not placed in the docket of this proceeding. The emails further show that the study was treated in this manner not because of any problem with its quality, but for political reasons.
CEI hereby requests that EPA make this study public, place it into the docket, and either extend or reopen the comment period to allow public response to this new study. We also request that EPA publicly declare that it will engage in no reprisals against the author of the study, who has worked at EPA for over 35 years.
The emails, attached hereto, consist of the following:
1) a March 12 email from Al McGartland, Office Director of EPA’s National Center for Environmental Economics (NCEE), to Alan Carlin, Senior Operations Research Analyst at NCEE, forbidding him from speaking to anyone outside NCEE on endangerment issues;
2) a March 16 email from Mr. Carlin to another NCEE economist, with a cc to Mr. McGartland and two other NCEE staffers, requesting that his study be forwarded to EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation, which directs EPA’s climate change program. The email notes the quantity of peer-reviewed references in the study, and defends its inclusion of new research as well. It states Mr. Carlin’s view that “the critical attribute of good science is its correspondence to observable data rather than where it appears in
the technical literature.” It goes on to point out that the new studies “explain much of the observational data that have been collected which cannot be explained by the IPCC models.” (Emphases added); [Read More Here.]
This data will never reach the media, and even if it did, most far left media outlets will not disclose the information anyway. Nobody wants to destroy the scheme that has been built up over the last few years. The jig is up Democrats, but they have too much money to make from cap and tax and passing Green legislation. They would rather pad their pockets than release this information to the American public.
The latest firing and cover-up happens to involve the bio-ethics panel for embryonic stem cell research. Bush implemented this panel for opposing views and ethics regarding that specific type of research. The panel expired in September and only had one other meeting before that time, however, Obama fired he panel before allowing them to expire appropriately when their time was up. This sounds very familiar to the IGs who happened to disagree with Obama or were investigating his cronies. He fired those IGs and now this panel before their contracts expired. I’m not sure why Obama feels it so difficult to allow the law to reign supreme and just not renew the contracts when time is up. There is something extremely suspicious about all of this.
The White House has dismissed the members of the President’s US Council on Bioethics just a few months before their mandate expires, indicating their services are no longer required by the President and that he is looking for a more “practical” advisory board.
So, if you don’t agree with Obama and his agenda count yourself on the enemy list – you are bound to get fired or savaged by his media minions.
Will Nancy Pelosi Make Money Off of Cow Farts Too?
Nancy Pelosi is set to make millions of dollars if cap and tax is passed on Friday. She currently has an estimated $15K-50K worth of shares invested in Clean Energy Fuels Corporation (CLNE). This company is of course heavily vested in alternative energy sources and given the fact that any legislation that passes effecting the energy sector will undoubtedly up the price of any public company currently trading in that sector on the stock market.
T. Boone Pickens is also a big investor of CLNE and he has been lobbying for clean energy for a number of years. He is set to make millions, if not billions from cap and tax. T. Boone was not very happy when he found out about Alaska Governor, Sarah Palin’s deal with Exxon Mobile, Trans-Canada and AGIA. Natural gas and oil supplies, if we were able to manufacture them in our own backyard would put big “Green” moguls out of business. Natural gas is also a compound that CLNE is vested in and given the fact that supply would be limited and demand high, prices would sky-rocket - now, if Palin’s gas-line comes to fruition, volume and supply of natural gas will increase for everyone and therefore the price will go down…
Shares of CLNE have gone up and down in value in recent years, thanks to the fluctuations in the price of natural gas and changes in the oil industry worldwide. And a Pelosi spokesman told The Washington Examiner last year that her husband takes care of their stock portfolio, so she has no knowledge of how any of her family investments will be affected by any particular piece of legislation before Congress.
Another prominent public figure with an interest in OWM is CLNE’s major domo, T. Boone Pickens, best known of late as a wind-energy investor and the man behind the largest-ever single donation to a state university, $165 million to Oklahoma State University for its athletic programs three years ago. CLNE is a cog in Pickens massive plan to create a giant wind farm in West Texas to generate electricity.
Pelosi will profit because OWM will boost the price of natural gas on the market. This is because natural gas burns with significantly less carbon emissions than other fossil fuels. For companies trying to get under OWM limits for greenhouse gases emissions, burning more natural gas instead of, say coal, will be a no-brainer. That will drive up demand for natural gas, which in turn will create upward price pressures.
So my next question for Pelosi, Gore, Pickens, GE, and all other entities that have banked on “Green” legislation; will money be made off of taxing cow farts?
Yes, folks, there was an idea floating around out there to tax methane and cow farts. All living beings happen to pass gas, so I would assume that they would first come for the cows, and then for us… There are those that are getting into the business of breeding cows that pass less flatulence, believe it or not. Would green cows make green burgers and would green burgers make my flatulence green? Yeah, didn’t think so…
The government is becoming Godzilla, toppling tall buildings and destroying everything it touches. I guess you could consider the government much like the opposite of Midas… everything it touches turns to…
Reagan was right when you said: ”If it moves tax it, if it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving subsidize it.”
ACTION! Cap & Tax… America’s Worst Nightmare
Late last Tuesday night the House Democrats made a deal on cap and tax (cap and trade) so the more conservative Democrats felt better about the bill and would ensure their vote for the legislation. The deal involved many of the Democrats from the mid-west and farm country where agriculture was a major concern for these representatives.
The House is prepared to vote on the bill to push it through the Senate by this Friday. Nancy Pelosi believes that given 2 days’ time she will have enough votes for a majority.
This bill is incredibly harmful, hurtful, expensive, and it quite frankly is one of the nastiest pieces of legislation I have seen in a long time. Liberals continuously use the straw-man argument that Republicans try to fear monger others into voting a certain way or believing certain things… I could say the exact same thing for GloBull warming, which is the biggest hoax of this century. In fact, when people finally wake up and figure out that the politicians are all in bed with “Green” companies, holding significant amounts of equity, and wanting legislation like this passed, not because it’s based on a true premise, but because it will line their pockets – then maybe common sense can reign supreme.
This cap and tax bill will have very little effect on the poorest – because they don’t pay taxes to begin with. They are leeches on productive society. The top quintile of the country, or the richest, will be burdened with this particular tax, but not as much as their federal income taxes. No, cap and tax will fall squarely on the middle class. Whether you are lower-middle class, middle, or upper, you will feel this significantly.
If you look at only the bottom quintile, C&T is more progressive than anything else in the federal tax system. But it’s downhill from there: The share of cap and trade paid by the middle quintile is three times the federal tax system’s average, and the share paid by the richest quintile is half that of the average.
I don’t really have a strong normative point to make here. Progressivity is in the eye of the beholder and all that. Nonetheless, I hope this puts some of the debate over the burdens of cap and trade in context.
If you are the least bit curious you can actually calculate the cap and tax burden on your household/family.
I have written several times regarding Cap and Tax – whether it was posting a video clip of Democrat Rep. Dick Durbin stating that all this legislation is one big tax, or Henry Waxman’s incompetency. I have written about our economy and how this will completely destroy sectors, increase the cost of living, increase our gas and energy prices, decrease our standard of living, and repress those who work hard to make a living.
Most of America disagrees with Cap and Trade, and congress was trying to come up with ways in wich they could cover up the bill and pass it off as some other cleverly deceptive rubbish:
The latest IBD/TIPP poll shows that cap and trade is a no go in the public eye. More people are beginning to understand what it actually entails/means. Indiana has also found a way around cap and trade this past week.
However, the Obama administration seems as though it may want to advance this agenda, but just under a different name.
How does the “The Clean Energy Divide” sound to you?
The Obama administration is exploring alternative names for cap and trade legislation.
People don’t really know what cap and trade means, but they don’t like it. So a new name is being concocted to gather support for the legislation.
It doesn’t look like the names “carbon tax” or “regressive tax” are in the mix, though. How does “clean energy divide” grab you?
WSJ: Seeking to bolster public support for climate legislation, the Obama administration is consulting pollsters who advocate avoiding phrases such as “cap-and-trade” and “global warming.” On Monday, the White House Council on Environmental Quality was scheduled to meet with Robert Perkowitz, president of ecoAmerica, a Washington-based nonprofit that uses “psychographic research” to “shift personal and civic choices of environmentally agnostic Americans,” according to its Web site.
“We’re trying to give them phrases that work,” Mr. Perkowitz said in an interview. He said that in a survey of some 2,000 Americans conducted by his group in March and April, less than half of the respondents said they would support a “cap-and-trade” policy, and that only 24% said they knew what the phrase means. “If you call it ‘clean energy dividend’…almost anything other than ‘cap and trade,’ you’ll get people responding a lot more favorably,” he said.
Isn’t that nice? let’s trick the American people so we can still strap the poor and the middle class with tax hikes to obtain our faulty liberal green agenda so Al Gore can receive a bunch of profits as well as GE, Google and Microsoft…
Not only will we have to ration Obamacare we will be back to rationing gas and unemployment will not only reach 10%, as Obama predicts, but higher – you cannot destroy the mining/coal industry and expect your unemployment rate to stay the same. Coal is one of the most abundant natural resources that America has… it is one thing that keeps us competitive abroad – and with this legislation you can kiss that goodbye. Is it really so “tin-foil” hat to think that the Democrats are in bed with foreign countries, selling out America for a little extra cash? (I’m sure we will also figure out who some of the Republican Reps./Senators are after the vote as well).
There still exist some principled Congress-critters and politicians, but they are few and far between. Michele Bachmann has been on the forefront of this debate, Jim DeMint is pretty outspoken when it comes to fiscal irresponsibility and unconstitutional legislation… but, other than that, it’s hard to make a case for most who waffle on their principles – so much so they may as well say “Leggo” my values.
The only way we can at least attempt to curtail the passage of this bill Friday is through melting the phones. Many of our represenatives won’t listen to our pleas or our common sense logic – believe me, my Senator and Represenative are Progressives! (Sarbanes & Cardin), but it’s still imperatiave that we at least try.
Find your Reps. here.
The Problem With Cash For Clunkers
Cash for clunkers sounds like a great idea. It seems so simplistic: I get money for turning in my old car. However, there is much more to this than meets the eye.
Cash for clunkers is another brilliant liberal idea, and by brilliant, I mean brain dead.
Liberals say that if you trade in your old used car, you will receive $4.5K for a new one. It can’t be the basic if it comes out of D.C., so why isn’t the media challenging this piece of legislation? We all know the answer to that one…ask ABC.
There are numerous downsides to this bill:
- If dealers anticipate a rebate for a trade in, they will only increase their base price for the car to make up for it.
-People drive old cars because they cannot afford new ones so how will $4.5K actually help? The down payments that many banks are asking for are much higher due to risk and tighter lending practices. The monthly payments are also tough to meet if you are of low income status. I just bought a new Mini Cooper and have a great credit/beacon score… but because I couldn’t put down $15K on the spot, I couldn’t get a bank loan. I had to settle for the higher rate at the BMW dealership.
-This will also increase the cost of used cars. If more people are trying to purchase new cars, then used car dealerships will suffer and will be forced to raise their prices to make a profit, rather than make a profit from volume of sales. In essence, this will hurt the lower middle class and the poor – the very people he professes to help.
-Charities will be negatively affected by this law. There are over 350K charities that are used car donors. These charities will see a direct decrease in donations if people believe they are getting a kick-back. These charities will have to cut staff and operations, causing more unemployment and fewer used cars for those who really need them.
-The proposed cost of this law would be $4B. This is another “government pays” bill. Therefore, one would think that maybe this is another bill that is circular… The Government will tax you to help pay for your car… why not just pay for it yourself then? All estimates that come out of the government are conservative at best; therefore, you can and should always take on another 50% to the original value.
-Other industries may suffer if there are consumer shifts. Priorities of consumers will shift based on whether they think they are getting a better deal. If cars go up something else will inevitably go down.
-The fact that the Democrats are global warming alarmists happens to be another excuse they will use. They will exclaim that used cars cause more pollution… I don’t believe that in the slightest, so I won’t even touch on it. There is still plenty we do not know about hybrids and whether or not they truly are as effective as people would like to believe. I also do not believe in the hoax or the hype – ’nuff said. Personally, my Mini Cooper’s gas mileage goes up as it gets older…just sayin’ 
-This is another pay-to-play scheme to pay off the $400M campaign donations given to Democrats and Obama by the UAW. If old cars are scrapped, new cars will have to be manufactured and purchased and more money into the pockets of the UAW.
This type of legislation has been tried before, in another country no less:
Germany has used a similar program for a few months, and of course it has actually cost at least three times more than government “estimates.” More than this, studies of the German experience have shown it has largely led to a mere shift of spending priorities. Consumer electronics sales fell in ratio to automobile spending meaning there has been no net gain for Germany’s economy.
It is so interesting and disturbing how Obama and the Democrats have gone after charities and small business. Charities have been attacked on both the stimulus front, the taxable deductions front, and now this idea for clunkers. A study showed that conservatives give more to charity than any other ideological group, because they do so through their churches. These churches are involved in many charities across the nation and it’s quite disheartening to see the Liberals be so antipathetic towards religious movements.
Obama and the Democrats are hell-bent on making people so dependent on the government, and only the government, that they will soon need to get their diapers changed by them too. This is insanity!
Introducing The New GM ObamaMobile!
This new environmentally friendly vehicle will be sure to entice the most progressive of voters. GM is proud to introduce the latest and greatest automobile; the ObamaMobile.
The ObamaMobile runs on oxygen, namely hot air and broken promises. There is only a left side blinker, careful that the car does not head in the right direction. If you happen to find yourself pulled over or required to speak with a travel mate, don’t worry, the ObamaMobile contains two new amenities; Teleprompters, and they will do the talking for you! This car is so great you will be visiting all 57 states in no time. The clear, plastic bubble overhead keeps all liberal voters unaware of reality and safe from Swine Flu. Enjoy and happy motoring… Government motoring that is!
