Cap and Tax Craters

That sound you heard earlier today was the sound of a million liberal skulls exploding in unison. They got a watered down (yet still horrific) healthcare bill, Gitmo is still open, Obama increased troops in Afghanistan instead of bringing them home and now the Dems are selling them out on their long-held and most desired wet dream:

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Senate is shelving efforts to pass legislation that would limit emissions of heat-trapping gases linked to climate change, dealing a major blow to one of President Barack Obama's top priorities.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) said Thursday that neither he nor the White House had persuaded 60 senators to support even a limited proposal seeking to restrict emission from electric-power companies. Mr. Reid offered no timetable for action on such a bill, but said Democrats would continue trying to build support for such legislation.

Mr. Reid said the party's leadership will push instead for more limited legislation, aimed at holding oil giant BP PLC "accountable" for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Specifically, he said the measure would include a provision to remove the cap on economic damages paid to residents and small businesses by oil companies after oil spills. Mr. Reid said the bill would also include incentives to encourage the production and purchase of vehicles fueled by natural gas, and to fund various land and water-conservation programs.

It's all bullshit as anyone with a brain knows. The public has no patience for a new law that will increase energy prices potentially 30-50%, will cause a drastic rise in consumer prices, destroy what ever profits small business makes and, in light of the Climategate scandal, will probably serve no good purpose.

Reid knew full-well that this bill would have been used like a club to beat incumbent Dems with and would have ensured the loss of both chambers.

Sorry libs, greens and watermelons (green on the outside and red on the inside) but your dream of forcing us to pay exorbitant prices for energy have taken a backseat in the name of politics.

Obama Ranks 10th Out of Last 12 Presidents in Poll

The party is over.

My apologies to Journey:

In the survey, taken Friday through Sunday, Americans by 49%-47% disapprove of his handling of the economy, and by 44%-50% disapprove of his handling of health care.

His overall approval rating was 55%, the lowest of his young presidency. That puts Obama 10th among the 12 post-World War II presidents at this point in their tenures. When he took office, he ranked 7th.

"His ratings have certainly come back to earth in a very short time," says Republican pollster Whit Ayre.

I can hear liberals now: "but, but he has a mandate!" Er, no he sure as hell doesn't.

Obama has done more to damage this country in six-months than liberals thought Bush did in eight-years. People are hurting and he's tried to help them by passing a stimulus that helps his cronies, bolsters unions and raises costs for small business who employ the majority of the people in this country.

The GOP better sure as hell hear this loud and clear and push back against cap and trade and health care reform harder than they've been thus far. Their anemic effort was caused in part by the fact that they perceived The One as invulnerable. That's not the case.

Take it to him with one voice and offer an alternative or just point out the folly and cost of both bills. Easy money now that the one is on a steady decline.

The Real Cost of Global Warming & Deficits

It's all out in the open now. Obama's Treasury Secretary has now let the cat out of the bag with regard to the administration's thinking on China, global warming and what responsibility they believe the American people have in the alleged environmental ailments our planet is suffering:

But yesterday, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke said something amazing—U.S. consumers should pay for part of Chinese greenhouse-gas emissions. From Reuters:

“It’s important that those who consume the products being made all around the world to the benefit of America — and it’s our own consumption activity that’s causing the emission of greenhouse gases, then quite frankly Americans need to pay for that,” Commerce Secretary Gary Locke told the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai.

And there it is; America is a huge consumer of energy and thus a major polluter in their eyes. That means we have to pay to help clean up the nations we import products from. Forget the fact that China would be an oozing cesspool of chemical and biological waste even if we didn't import a single product from them. Just as the former Soviet Union raped and pillaged the planet from the former Czechoslavakia to the Ukraine, the Chinese are doing the same. Communism and environmentalism are not compatible in the least.

But the real key here is that China holds enormous amounts of our debt. Obama knows that they and the rest of the world are a bit edgy about the state of our economy and we needed to assuage some of their weariness. What better way then to say we'd pay for their pollution? It's a win-win for the Peoples Republic. But truth be told, Obama knows that we will need China to but our paper to pay for socialized medicine and he is flat out bribing them by taking this tack.

The idea that rich-country consumers should pick up the tab for some of China’s industrial emissions has been gaining currency lately—but not from within the Obama administration. The argument is that many of China’s factories churn out cheap stuff for the West, not for domestic consumption, so those consumers are actually responsible for the emissions. China, of course, loves the idea.

When is the Obama administration going to get it? China is a rich country and they got rich by industrial production. They made their own mess and now we're offering to clean it up for them.

I have a shirt made in Vietnam, pants made in El Salvador and numerous product made in Taiwan; are we going to pay for their emissions as well?

This could just be another area for trade tensions with China over the environment. The House climate bill includes a provision for mandatory “carbon tariffs” on dirty imports from countries such as China, which might be illegal under international trade law and which have riled up Beijing. President Obama and Senate leaders have frowned on hardline trade measures.

Of course they have, why should we pressure China to clean up their own mess when the decreasingly affluent Americans can do it for them.

Watch how quickly this sputters out as Obama puts pressure on Nancy Pelosi to strike the provision and essentially gives China the right to pollute at will. The American public has reached a breaking point with Obama and this would be enough to put us over the edge. The Chinese want more latitude in the region and want to control the area from their northern border to Singapore. They have built up their naval forces to do just that and our leadership is cow-towing to them at every turn.

Obama's deficits are going to cost us more than we ever imagined. We need China to support his agenda and if we have to pay for their emissions, it's but a small price in the long run to implement his policies and plans.

Welcome to the new America, welcome to Obamanation.

More here.

Spending Our Way Into Oblivion

Those of us who were paying attention knew that an Obama win would equate to massive increases in spending and huge deficits and that was based on the watered down promises he made on the campaign stump. But none of us in our wildest nightmares foresaw what has actually transpired to date and what is now on the verge of being passed.

We have a record deficit of $1-trillion and haven't even taken into account the massive increases in social security yet to come. The stimulus was a sop to Obama's cronies and has decreased jobs since it was passed while the administration is floating the trial balloon of Stimulus: The Sequel. How bad are things? Worse than this graph shows as it's based on things returning to some semblance of normal with regard to the job and housing markets; a not altogether sure thing:


Add to that that there has been no effective decrease in spending elsewhere (with the exception of the military) and you're looking at an IOU that is frighteningly enormous in scope. In just six-months The One has spent us into a hole we'll never get out of. With health care on the horizon and Cap and Tax being rammed through, we haven't seen the end of just what a liberal leader with a perceived mandate can do when he has a compliant Congress and adoring media.

Congressional liberals were mostly held in check under Bush and even Clinton but now they are acting like a scorned wife who has gotten hold of her husbands Visa, Mastercard, Amex and every other card and is spending like crazy and leaving him with the debt load. Every agency has the go-ahead to spend and spend and don't worry, the American people will pay for it whether they want to or not.

Thankfully we're seeing signs the American people are paying attention and saying "enough" even though they've bought into the class warfare rhetoric espoused by the Dems.. Obama's poll numbers are in free-fall and the nation trusts the GOP with the purse strings more than the Dems at this point, a major turn-around (not that the GOP deserves any trust as they were quite reckless themselves when they controlled the cash)

The only way out is taxes and not just soaking the "rich" but taxes on every single American are coming. It may be stealth like increases in gasoline, food or energy but they are definitely coming. That's when the opportunity to expose this massive spending will arise.

The problem is that there's no Republican who has stood up and stated these concerns in a clear, concise manner that will appeal to the fickle middle. Palin may be that person in a few months when Obama's numbers really plummet while the unemployment rate goes up. She can be the neo-Reagan fighting the battles from the far right and exposing every single proposal for the expensive boondoggle it is. Other then her, we don't have anyone with the charisma to hammer the Dems and get the people to not on hear hear her but listen as well.

Friday Morning News & Notes

Good morning. TGIF and enjoy the weekend.

Here's what's new:

--The Constitution seems more a set of guidelines and less protected rights in Obamanation. Here's example one and here's example two. Didn't the left criticize Bush incessantly for every perceived trampling of rights while they seem amazingly quite on this...

--Ahmadinejad: The ACORN of Iran. Neither care how legally or morally they get votes.

--Americans taking a look at the cap and trade scam scheme and increasingly saying "screw that".

--Even Ralph Nader thing the "Government Motors" plan is a bad one.

--Terri has thoughts on Sotomayor.

--Bush may be gone but BDS lives on and on and on...