It’s the Priorities Stupid
President Obama wants to pass massive changes in his time in office. Topping his agenda are signing universal health care and cap and trade into law, as is his signing a bill that gives the Treasury secretary authority to take over companies as he sees fit. Meanwhile, to put it charitably, the economy is struggling. When President Clinton took office, he focused his attention on getting the economy humming. President Obama? Not so much.
All of this leads to these questions: Why won’t President Obama focus on the American people’s top priority? Why does President Obama insist on focusing on passing his radical agenda? Why does President Obama insist on structurally weakening America’s economy?
Passing Cap And Trade will necessarily send energy prices skyrocketing. President Obama said so on the campaign trail. Rep. John Dingell said so at last week’s hearing. This is really, really stupid. It also shows how out-of-touch Democrats are.
The environmental extremist lobby slobber over themselves thinking about C And T. Main Street America finds out about it and is horrified at the thought of having their home heating bills and their gas prices skyrocket. If given a choice between saving the planet and saving money on their heating bills, I’d bet all but a few environmental extremists would pick saving money on their heating bills.
It isn’t stretching a thing to say that Presiodent Obama’s policies are hurting people. The Cap And Trade tax increase is incredibly hurtful to everyone living in the northern tier of states. Why would a man who claims to want to get the economy jumpstarted push such a tax increase now?
Simply put, that’s insanity. It’s also counterproductive. Shame on President Obama for pushing such destructive tax and environmental policies.
Shame on us if we give the Democratic leadership another term after this. It’s time we voted these enemies of working people everywhere out of office. It’s time we told them that we won’t tolerate their anti-middle class policies.
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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog
April 27th, 2009 at 11:56 am
Why can’t Obama just make everyone on this right happy by reversing his stance on everything he campaigned on and was elected to do?
April 27th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
Obama has filled his cabinet with environmental Marxists. His Energy secretary is as bad as they come, wanting to find a way to get America’s gas prices to equal that of Europe’s.
He’s also got an honest to goodness eco-Marxist on his staff. Carol Browner, Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change, was a member of Socialist International, a group dedicated to “the worldwide organisation of social democratic, socialist and labour parties.”
This isn’t about saving the planet from global warming. It never has been. It’s about leveling the playing field economically.