More Of Morris’ Insights
This column by Dick Morris is quite harsh on Sen. Obama. Here’s another Morris observation of Sen. Obama regarding energy:
Suddenly, everything is on the table. Offshore drilling, Alaska drilling, nuclear power, wind, solar, flex-fuel cars, plug-in cars are all increasingly attractive options and John McCain seems alive to the need to go there while Obama is strangely passive. During the Democratic primary, he opposed a gas tax holiday and continues to be against offshore and Alaska drilling and squishy on nuclear power. That leaves turning down your thermostat and walking to work as the Democratic policies.
That’s pretty harsh if you ask me. It’s also accurate in my opinion. If Democrats want to see gas prices drop, then they’ll need to either increase production or do alot more conservation than is happening now. I don’t think the Democrats ‘wear more sweaters plan’ will play well with American voters. Here’s another instance in which Morris nails Democrats hard:
The Democratic ambivalence stems from liberal concerns about climate change. The Party basically doesn’t believe in carbon based energy and, therefore, opposes oil exploration. That’s why Obama pushes the windfall profits tax on oil companies, a step that tells them “you drill, you find oil, and we’ll take away your profits.” But Americans have their priorities in order: more oil, more drilling AND alternative energy sources, flex-fuel cars, plug in vehicles and nuclear power.
TRANSLATION: We stand on the opposite side of the American people because it’s more important to push the environmental extremists’ agenda than to make life affordable for working people.
This should be the voters’ response:
Screw the environmental extremists’ agenda. We need cheaper gas ASAP. If you won’t get it done, we’ll vote for the Republican that will get it done.
BTW, Rep. Hinchey must’ve gotten lectured pretty good. He’s now saying his statement about nationalizing oil refineries was simply meant to “put national pressure” on oil refineries. What part of this statement suggests that he was just pressuring oil companies:
“Our Republican friends also talk about the need to set up ways in which the material can be refined, refineries. Well, do we own refineries? No. The oil companies own refineries. Should the people of the United States own refineries? Maybe so. “Frankly, I think that’s a good idea.”
Rep. Hinchey is lying through his teeth. He wasn’t trying to drum up national pressure on oil companies when he said that. He was letting his inner socialist out. He was letting his true feelings be known.
Let’s remember that Rep. Hinchey is as far out there as any of the bombthrowing loons of the extremist left. Let’s remember that Maxine Waters threatened John Hofmeister during the House hearings on energy:
“This liberal will be all about socializing…[long, awkward pause]…will be about…basically taking over and basically running your companies.”
The more they talk, the more votes they lose for this November’s election. It’s time to give them a bigger megaphone.
Technorati Tags: Gas Crisis, Oil Exploration, Maurice Hinchey, Offshore Drilling, Obama, Democrats, Global Warming, Environmental Extremism, Maxine Waters, Election 2008
Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog
June 21st, 2008 at 2:06 pm
Obama’s in a tight spot. As oil prices rise throughout the summer, he’ll be pressured to flip-flop once again on his position. Then, as oil prices begin to drop again after Labor Day, as they usually do, Obama will start to back pedal, telling everyone that what he said during the summer wasn’t exactly what he meant, that what he really meant was bla bla bla. It’s aoout the Obama Two-Step. This guys’ definitely got two left feet.