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Obama might be biting off more than he (we) can chew!

Posted on 02. Jul, 2009 by scott in Social commentary, economic daydreaming, political munglings

Holy mackeral, now I am starting to get worried.

President Obama is biting off way more than he can chew and I have stopped worrying and started becoming frightened.

Yep, BHO has begun to believe all the press releases (the ones he approved anyway) and he is starting to think that we need a whole lot more change than one President should reasonably expect (at least this quickly).

Turn the economy around?  Yes, we gotta see you do that.

Health care?  Of course, we need good health care that is affordable (or subsidized) for everyone!

Energy change?  Well, yeah, but not the kind you are pushing Mr. President.

Here is the bottom line.

We can afford to spend $3Trillion on turning the economy around because we have to.  This is the worst recession since the depression so we expect it and need this government intervention.

We ought to afford a trillion $ or so for decent healthcare.  This is America and if you can’t be healthy enough to vote then something is wrong and a bunch of us fit in that unfortunate and big bucket.

That’s not all there is to it though.  These ‘programs’ have to be financed.

Where does the money for all this stuff come from? They have got to be paid for somehow and there is only one way: taxes.   Come on, who ever heard of government cutting costs? So the ‘wealthy’ pay (as defined by the democrats this is anyone who already pays taxes–and the rest are those who ‘vote’ for democrats).

So, our taxes are going up because we have to pay for the bailouts.  Truth is they are going to be awful for the few that actually pay them.  They rest, well ya’all can just sit back and collect your entitlements because that is the way Pelosi and her pups want it and they are in the majority (at least today).

But this energy thing the House just passed is nuts!   It passed without anyone reading it –how could they it is nearly 1500 pages long!

The Prez and his lapdogs in Congress are over-reaching.  By a lot.  They have enough votes (they think–though even some intelligent democrats see this for what it is) to pass anything . . . to blow it right by the ‘mindless’ and ‘preoccupied’ general public.  Yikes!!

Worse, Obama is cruising along thinking he is superman (politically anyway).  He is feeling enobled (a lot more than enabled) by his submissive and agreeable cohorts in the legislative branch.

Dang, on top of that his lovely wife and wonderful kids have turned the Whitehouse into an ‘09 version of the famous Kennedy ‘Camelot.’  A PeterPan place where no wrong can be done or even attempted  . . . until it is too late.

Ahh, that dang energy bill, a disaster of epic proportions that Pelosi and Reid are trying to push through without listening to the loyal opposition (which really should be anyone who pays electric utility bills associated with any kind of coal generation).

This is bad legislation.  From the first word to the three millionth (remember 1500 pages).  It will increase the cost of electricity incredibly, it will decrease consumer spending by ‘taxing’ the hard earned $$ of all Americans (not just those that pay income taxes).  It could deepen and extend the recession.

All for climate change?  Climate change–heck yeah, our homes will have thermostats set to 85 in summer and 55 in winter — that’s really climate change!

I have been fully behind the President until now.  And I am ready to go fully against his ‘reign’ if this bill even comes close to passing as it now stands.

The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009.

Yechh.  You can’t even read it–let alone understand it–let alone try and implement it!

Shoot.  There ought to be a law against any law that is more than two pages long!!

Yes, we need energy legislation but not this kind.  Anything ‘we’ do right now relative to energy needs to be couched in terms of energy independence.  In today’s economy anything that has the words ‘carbon capturing’ or ‘cap and trade’ is folly.

BHO needs to get his Democratic compatriots under control and ditch this bill as it now stands.  America and Americans are in NO position to pay increased taxes further than already necessary for economic recovery and probably universal healthcare.

I believe I stand with the majority of Americans on this:  ‘We’ will pay for just about anything to do with energy independence, but ‘we’ will NOT pay for forcing green energy down our throats . . . and that goes double in the middle of a deep recession.

Do what we must and can, not what a few knuckleheads in Washington, D.C. think is ‘cool.’

And, by the way, President Obama, stop trying to control the media and the polls by dictating who and what is going to be asked of you in press conferences.  Nixon was proof of how bad that can turn out.

Mr. President, stop thinking like a lawyer and start thinking like a school teacher or an economic blogger! Now, THAT would be ‘cool.’

thanks for the pic to teamstickergiant

Tags: congress, enrgy bill, harry reid, higher taxes, nancy pelosi, President Obama, taxes