Posted by
Patrick Henry on Friday, June 11, 2010 11:39:39 AM
Actually this post has nothing to do with sex or videotape. But it sucked you in,
didn't it? What it does concern is an alarming patchwork of lies from the Obama
administration that clearly begin with the Liar-In-Chief himself.
That the "report" from the petroleum engineers was doctored to imply that they
approved a six-month moratorium on all offshore drilling is yesterday's news. But
that it was done with malice aforethought, intentionally by a presidential cabinet
member is intolerable. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar sheepishly admitted
to congress, after submitting the doctored report, that the moratorium was his and
Obama's idea, not that of the engineers. Yet another instance of an Obama official
caught red-handed lying to congress and the public.
This is disqueting at two levels. At the factual level Salazar and the president tried
to claim that the experts recommended something that is actually the diametrical
opposite of what they actually think. After writing a letter calling Salazar out and
divorcing themselves from his conclusions, they explained that a six-month drilling
moratorium is actually a very BAD idea. First, they say, shutting down a producing
well is far more dangerous to the environment than continuing to operate it. Second,
deepwater drilling rigs like the Horizon are in very high international demand. Their
owners will never allow them to sit idle in the Gulf for six months, and so they will
likely end up in the North Sea or off the coast of Africa. Once that happens, it is
highly unlikely we will be able to get them back. So third, it could be years before
real drilling can resume and in the meanwhile we will have to make do with the
older and far less safe rigs that remain. So the experts are saying that not only is the
Salazar/Obama idea a bad idea, it is a STUPID idea.
The second and even more profound level of discomfort concerns an administration
that (a) continues to manipulate data, misrepresent facts and outright lie to justify its
one-sided partisan policies, and (b) willfully spits in the faces of Americans, a clear
majority of whom oppose them. Though egregious, what Salazar did with the experts'
report was no different than what Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and Obama did in
fabricating the financial data upon which they based the healthcare reform debacle.
A child could have seen that they were phonying up numbers because they didn't
want Americans to know the truth that they were driving up the deficit, not reducing
it, that their bill would NOT contain costs and that Medicare recipients would suffer.
It was a pack of lies then, just as Ken Salazar and Obama are lying now. It's wrong,
it's corrupt, and America shouldn't put up with it.
Also, it further illustrates how Obama continues to double down in pushing the
very opposite of what Americans say they want. They didn't want the healthcare
bill, so he pushed it to the top of his agenda, bought, bribed and badgered the votes
in congress to pass it and rammed it through anyway. They don't want a cap-and-
trade energy policy, so he's trying to push it through as fast as he can. They reject
amnesty for illegal aliens and so now Obama is pushing for comprehensive reform
(amnesty) as hard as he can. Americans overhwelmingly support continued, safe,
regulated drilling, so what does Obama do? He declares a six-month moratorium
that will diminish America's energy supply and put thousands of people out of
work in an already tanking economy and in an already devastated region. See the
pattern?
But let's not play games here. We all know what this is about. Obama has cynically
seized upon the BP spill catastrophe to take actions that will advance his energy
agenda, drive up energy prices and force Americans into reduced consumption. That's
what the lying is really about. Well, Mr. President, I think South Carolina's Joe
Wilson said it best: "YOU LIE! YOU LIE! YOU LIE!" So, along with going down
in history as the White House's weakest president, you'll also probably be remembered
as its most disingenuous. In a group that includes Nixon and Clinton that is truly a
badge of dishonor. You've earned it, and you can wear it!