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As other conservatives and conservative sites have done, we
believe we can sincerely appreciate the historical significance of Barack
Obama
being the first black man to be elected President, yet we also believe
that the historical significance does not preclude our continued stand,
and speaking out against the ultra liberal policies Obama promised during the campaign to implement
if elected.
We prepared a blog post scheduled for the morning of
the election late last year but decided to hold off and file it. We
still believe the blog post was accurate in saying that the media protected Obama
from, that is, ignored what were relevant questions
throughout the campaign.
For example, we think that Obama's idea for a stimulus package
and his additional taxation of energy use is not a sound solution and
avoids one of the greatest challenges of our times in its lack of vision, and should remind and worry the people that, underneath
the excellent communication skills, a left-wing community organizer now runs the
country.
As Pat Buchanan pointed out, the stimulus package is
one third stimulus and two thirds spending on the expansion of liberal
programs and government bureaucracies.
A massive infusion of money into roadway and bridge
infrastructure across the country, shovel-ready projects as they are
called, along with money for research and development of alternative
energy sources are mere practical steps under the circumstances.
But when compared to a real vision for the kind of
energy development America has been capable of while being handcuffed by
regulations and environmental paranoia for decades now, a vision America needs to get started right away in order to reach energy independence
and security, the Cap & Trade foundation of the Obama administration's
so-called energy vision is severely disappointing.
Elsewhere on the site we have posted numerous
references to Cap & Trade because we believe that when Cap & Trade is
compared to the kind of energy vision America really needs, Cap & Trade
represents a
paramount failure.
Cap & Trade is a congressional bartering
game with consumer's taxes, presented as a necessary punishment for the very energy companies who
are creating the backbone of our energy while simultaneously and
constantly improving the technology that controls CO2 emissions. The
liberals behind Cap & Trade also miss their target on that retrogressive
mission of punishment as well because it will be the already suffering
American taxpayer who will be punished the most via increased electric
bills.
If you are a normal American out there paying
monthly energy bills and you think, as the liberal Democrats will tell
you, that Cap & Trade is going to provide the pathway to energy clean
enough and abundant enough to satisfy the radical environmentalists (who
control the Democrats) and therefore suggest that your increase in energy
costs per month is only temporary, we suggest you think again.
Since we started this January blog post during our
work on redesigning the site, it appears now we were right.
And Obama seems hell-bent on repealing the 1993 "Don't
Ask, Don't tell" policy while nearly 60% of the military are against the
policy. Now you know why the military was suspicious of former
President Clinton, who, for some unimaginable reason, tried to implement
an open gay policy for the Armed Services. As we already knew, it's
not just us homophobes and intolerant bigots, as they like to call us, who
know that it would be a disaster for the military, it is also the military
itself. And why mess with the military anyway, nothing is perfect
but the military is the one government entity that seems to be doing its
job really well right now. And it is certainly the government entity
that is most capable of doing its job, especially if it were allowed to use
all its power.
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