President Obama pressed ahead last week with his climate
change agenda, calling for new regulations on coal-fired power plants and
setting a new condition for the approval of the controversial Keystone
pipeline.
"We need to act," Obama said, in an address at
Georgetown University.
Obama claimed climate change is having "profound
impacts" on the planet and must be addressed. He called for the U.S. to
lead the world in a "coordinated assault" on the issue.
Of course, our fearless alien leader cannot provide any
details on what those “profound impacts” are….even Al Gore came up with a
video!
But, America, still enamored with the Man From Kenya, kisses
his butt and eats his doo-doo up, so Barry O unveiled his controversial platform
plank and said he was ordering the Environmental Protection Agency to create
the first-ever carbon emissions limits for existing power plants.
An adviser's comment ahead of the speech caused additional
turbulence for the administration, as critics seized on it to claim the
administration was unfairly targeting the coal industry. Ahead of the speech,
White House climate adviser Daniel P. Schrag reportedly told The New York Times
that a "war on coal" is needed.
"The one thing the president really needs to do now is
to begin the process of shutting down the conventional coal plants.
Politically, the White House is hesitant to say they're having a war on coal.
On the other hand, a war on coal is exactly what's needed," he said.
Obama took a confrontational tone during part of the speech.
Toward the end, he said: "We don't have time for a meeting of the
flat-earth society."
He listed a string of proposals. Among them, he said he is
directing his administration to allow enough renewables on public lands to
power 6 million homes by 2020, effectively doubling the capacity from solar,
wind and geothermal projects on federal property.
Apparently, the billions he’s already wasted on such
projects is now forgotten.
Obama also called for $8 billion in federal loan guarantees
to spur investment in technologies that can keep carbon dioxide produced by
power plants from being released into the atmosphere.
In taking action on his own, Obama is also signaling he will
no longer wait for lawmakers to act on climate change, and instead will seek
ways to work around them. As Emporer, Obama obviously feels that the separation
of powers and checks and balances imposed by that silly little Constitutiton are
an annoyance, and so once again will usurp authority as he sees fit.
And Americans, too busy wondering who will win Dancing With The Stars, will let him.
And Americans, too busy wondering who will win Dancing With The Stars, will let him.
So let's review!
(1) Obama ridicules people who challenge his green agenda, even though there is just as much evidence refuting global warming as supporting it.
(2) Obama has declared a "war" on fossil fuels.
(3) Knowing he cannot get the approval of Congress and the Senate, Obama is going to "get around' them through misuse of executive orders.
(4) Obama's American citizenship is still in dispute.
(5) Obama is a horse's rear end who somehow fooled most of the people some of the time not once, but twice.
