NY Times (Unwittingly) Makes Case For McCain-Palin
Now they’ve decided to get involved by criticizing Gov. Palin’s building the natural gas pipeline:
When Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska took center stage at the Republican convention last week, she sought to burnish her executive credentials by telling how she had engineered the deal that jump-started a long-delayed gas pipeline project.
Stretching more than 1,700 miles, it would deliver natural gas from the North Slope of Alaska to the lower 48 states and be the largest private-sector infrastructure project on the continent.
“And when that deal was struck, we began a nearly $40 billion natural gas pipeline to help lead America to energy independence,” said Ms. Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee. “That pipeline, when the last section is laid and its valves are opened, will lead America one step farther away from dependence on dangerous foreign powers that do not have our interests at heart.”
Does the NY Times think that building a 1,700 mile pipeline is an overnight project? Or is it that they think that we’re too stupid to figure that out? Her point in highlighting the project was to highlight her ability to affect change despite entrenched powers opposed her. That’s what we’re hiring her to do.
The NY Times isn’t satisfied in throwing cold water on Gov. Palin’s pushing back against the entrenched powers. Next they hint that Gov. Palin really hasn’t accomplished anything:
The pipeline exists only on paper. The first section has yet to be laid, federal approvals are years away and the pipeline will not be completed for at least a decade. In fact, although it is the centerpiece of Ms. Palin’s relatively brief record as governor, the pipeline might never be built, and under a worst-case scenario, the state could lose up to $500 million it committed to defray regulatory and other costs.
Frankly, the paragraph highlights the need to streamline regulations so energy infrastructure can get built. It’s insulting to think that legislators and bureaucrats make industries jump through one hoop after another. It’s insulting to think that these legislators and bureaucrats think we won’t mind their heavy-handed ways.
What’s most insulting, though, is that these legislators and bureaucrats think that once a regulation is put into place, then it’s treated like it was etched on stone tablets and brought down from Mount Sinai. When America’s families are hurting, it’s time for action. That isn’t the time to worry whether control freak regulators ar happy. It’s times like those when we need to remind the legislators and bureaucrats know that they work for us, that it’s their job to make us more prosperous or more secure.
If anything, this NY Times articles show how difficult it is for government to do the right thing in a timely manner. That’s what Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin are promising to change if they’re elected.
Based on this NY Times article, we can’t afford to keep them from fulfilling that promise.
Technorati Tags: Gas Crisis, Regulations, Bureaucrats, Legislators, Pipeline, Natural Gas, John McCain, Sarah Palin, We The People, Election 2008
Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog