Sarah Palin Comes Out Swinging On Cap & Trade
If there is one person who knows energy in this country it is Sarah Palin. She has taken the gloves off and has come out swinging against cap and trade in her latest Op-ed in the Washington Compost. I love her subtle digs at Washington, DC, Obama, and this piece of legislation. She starts out calling it cap and trade but quickly moves into our beloved term; cap and tax.
Let the games begin!
I am deeply concerned about President Obama’s cap-and-trade energy plan, and I believe it is an enormous threat to our economy. It would undermine our recovery over the short term and would inflict permanent damage.
American prosperity has always been driven by the steady supply of abundant, affordable energy. Particularly in Alaska, we understand the inherent link between energy and prosperity, energy and opportunity, and energy and security. Consequently, many of us in this huge, energy-rich state recognize that the president’s cap-and-trade energy tax would adversely affect every aspect of the U.S. economy.
There is no denying that as the world becomes more industrialized, we need to reform our energy policy and become less dependent on foreign energy sources. But the answer doesn’t lie in making energy scarcer and more expensive! Those who understand the issue know we can meet our energy needs and environmental challenges without destroying America’s economy.
Job losses are so certain under this new cap-and-tax plan that it includes a provision accommodating newly unemployed workers from the resulting dried-up energy sector, to the tune of $4.2 billion over eight years. So much for creating jobs.
In addition to immediately increasing unemployment in the energy sector, even more American jobs will be threatened by the rising cost of doing business under the cap-and-tax plan. For example, the cost of farming will certainly increase, driving down farm incomes while driving up grocery prices. The costs of manufacturing, warehousing and transportation will also increase.
The ironic beauty in this plan? Soon, even the most ardent liberal will understand supply-side economics.
Absolutely BRILLIANT! – read the entire piece here.
The Palin Effect Hits New York?
Sarah Palin is unlike any politician we have seen for a very long time, if ever. She is a people’s politician and believes in middle America, more than the powers that be. She is a self-made woman who owes nobody, except God and family, for where she is today. So many Americans are drawn to her solely due to her genuineness and her bond with working Americans. She doesn’t speak using erudite and urbane words, fancy rhetoric that contains no substance – no, she just speaks in a simple fashion, right to the heart of America.
The Pittsburgh Post Gazette writes:
President Barack Obama is, by far, the most popular politician in America. And there is little doubt who is No. 2.
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That many liberals found Mr. Letterman’s remarks humorous speaks not only to their depravity, but to their fear. The 20,000 who turned out to see Ms. Palin in Auburn testify to the fact that she strikes a responsive chord with ordinary people no other Republican does.
Liberals and some Beltway conservatives assert Ms. Palin is stupid. She frequently is misquoted — most recently by Dan Balz in The Washington Post Wednesday — to make her appear so.
But I’d say she got the better of it in her exchange with David Letterman. And her brief walk across the stage at the GOP dinner Monday drew more attention than Mr. Gingrich’s stem-winding speech. For someone who, according to the Washington cognoscenti, doesn’t know what she’s doing, she’s doing pretty well.
I don’t think Sarah Palin has decided whether she’d like to live in the White House. But if she does, ignoring the conventional wisdom in Washington may be the best way to get there.
Palin drew a crowd of over 20,000 people in Auburn, a small democratic town, in New York. I do not recall any other “failed” vice presidential candidate still receiving this much attention and still shown this much support from regular folks.
Upon her departure to Washington, D.C., Monday, two New York senate Democrats filibustered with the Republicans, and switched sides. Of course you cannot tie the event directly to Sarah Palin, but the move after her visit, is definitely considerable. She was also ridiculed by David Letterman for her visit to New York, which even included a fund-raising event for an Autism Walk. Liberals seem to do all that they can to destroy this woman and use the most vile, despicable, and non-substantive attacks against her.
Letterman’s sexist, misogynistic remarks against Governor Palin and her daughter(s) were heard around the world. A New York lawmaker has called on Letterman to step down. It’s incredible, that of all places, New York is standing up for the Governor.
She has set off a loyal army of support around the nation and a petition has been created to fire David Letterman, as well as a campaign to write to the CBS/David Letterman sponsors to cease their sponsorship or be boycotted by former consumers. It will be interesting how this all breaks down.
And on a final note, Sarah Palin must be doing something right, hell even froze over, NOW, the National Organization for Women (or as I like to refer to them as, the Nauseating Obama Women), who have never so much as batted an eye when sexist remarks or unfounded attacks have been made against conservative women, have officially come out in support of Palin and have put Letterman into their Hall of Shame. I’m flabbergasted!
Gaffetastic Biden Contradicts Boss!
He does it again; Opens mouth, inserts foot!
Biden, when speaking and taking questions at his recent Kosovo excursion, was asked about the closing of Guantanamo:
So will Obama fulfill his vow – announced amid great fanfare in an executive order on day two of his presidency – to close the facility by January 2010? “I think so,” Biden responded, according to Newsweek’s Holly Bailey.
So perhaps he will. Or perhaps not. We’ll see.
Biden continued: “But, look, what the president said is that this is going to be hard. It’s like opening Pandora’s Box. We don’t know what’s inside the box.”
He also said that “to the best of my knowledge” the number of prisoners “who are a real danger who are not able to returned or tried” has “not been established” by the Obama administration.
So he basically just confirmed his predecessor Dick Cheney’s analysis that the decision was taken “with little deliberation, and no plan”.
BWAHAHAHA! I have to wonder if he is doing this on purpose… I did happen to hear that there is quite a bit of tension between POTUS and VPOTUS.
As another example, it would seem that Biden likes Palin more than Obama or at least he is definitely smitten by her:
After noting that the Alaska National Guard gave him a copy of its patch, the Veep moved on to Gov. Sarah Palin.
“Where the hell were you when I was debating Sarah Palin?” Biden said. “I could have used this patch. When she said, ‘Can I call you Joe?’ I’d say, ‘Sure, if you wear your patch.’ By the way, she’s quite a lady — and I mean that sincerely.”
Sarah Palin Honored by NRA
Ain’t she “purdy?”
From the NY Daily News:
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was bashed for her pricey wardrobe, but now she’s getting a lethal accessory.
The National Rifle Association Foundation will present Sen. John McCain’s ill-fated running mate with a military-style assault weapon next week.
The all-white “Alaskan Hunter” – fashionable until Labor Day – is the civilian version of a modified M-4 rifle carried by U.S. troops overseas.
Alaska’s feisty Republican governor, who is weighing a potential 2012 presidential bid, will receive the rifle made by Templar Consulting at a May 14 NRA banquet.
It’s engraved with Palin’s name and adorned with a map of the state on the collapsible stock – made legal after the expiration of the assault weapons ban in 2004. The Big Dipper from the state flag is etched on the magazine well behind a vented barrel guard.
The rifle is chambered in .50-caliber “Beowulf.” It’s the same caliber used by heavy machine guns, which can take down big game, and in war zones “can disable both motor vehicles and assailants with body armor,” according to ammo manufacturer Alexander Arms’ Web site.
Templar gun designer Bob Reynolds told the NRA’s magazine that Palin had stood up for Second Amendment gun rights and “I just wanted to do something to give back.”
Tune Into TLC @9pm for Orange County Choppers to Catch Some of Governor Palin and Alaska!
So cool – I love people that are just so down to earth!
