Krauthammer says of Delaware's senate election that GOP members voting for Christine O'Donnell is "capricious" "self indulgent" and irresponsible".
On the other hand, I say voting for entrenched incumbent RINOs like Mike Castle that support abortion on demand, mandate cap and tax, oil drilling bans, and gun bans is irresponsible, unpatriotic, and anti-constitutional.
Krauthammer is not alone in his advice - many weak-kneed Republican leaner types agree with him. But Krauthammer is the biggest of the bunch to come out hard for Castle, so he gets my attention.
Krauthammer invokes the Buckley Rule: vote for the most electable conservative candidate. I see this rule as having a precondition and then an effect. The precondition is that an election need two or more conservative candidates running for the same office. If there are two or more, then choose the most electable one.
In Delaware, the precondition is not met. Mike Castle is a RINO with a mere 52% lifetime ACU rating. He has the lowest rating among the GOP every year as measured by the Club for Growth - even worse than Arlen Specter. Mike Castel is NOT conservative. The best that can be said for Mike Castle is he is reasonably popular in Delaware and he is not a ideological liberal. But he is a liberal, and he is not a conservative at all.
Krauthammer distorts the rule by trying to determine at the outset which candidate is more electable, and them try to convince himself that Castle is "conservative". He's not. Castle is merely a registered Republican from a liberal state.
So, there is only one conservative in the race - Christine O'Donnell. Buckley's rule, correctly applied, says vote for O'Donnell, not Castle.
In short: those who support voting for Castle are playing party politics, not engaging in a discussion regarding what governing philosophy is best for the country. Preferring party to country is not admirable -- in fact, it is wrong.
Krauthammer is also wrong that Obamacare is "irreversible." Don't take your victory plans from defeatists.
No matter what happens in this off year election, Barak Hussein Obama is going to still be president of the United States. There will be liberals in the Senate and conservatives in the Senate. In my opinion, it is best to isolate the liberals to the Democrats so that in the general election two years, the parties can have an ideologically-driven election from top to bottom, without outliers, exceptions, and -INOs between them.
Showing posts with label energy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label energy. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
The Devil Is In the Details
B. Hussein Obama has a plan to lease more offshore oil exploration in the East and Southeast along with Alaska. If that is as far as the plan went, fantastic.
But this is a socialist president, and his plan with come with strings attached. Let's see how he intends to nationalize the oil companies with his plan, because you know that is what he wants to do.
Also, this idea that the U.S. military is going to start using more vehicles using biofuel is a BAD IDEA. Military vehicles need to be able to use the most commonly available fuels appropriate to their use. That is not biofuel in any way, shape, or form.
But this is a socialist president, and his plan with come with strings attached. Let's see how he intends to nationalize the oil companies with his plan, because you know that is what he wants to do.
Also, this idea that the U.S. military is going to start using more vehicles using biofuel is a BAD IDEA. Military vehicles need to be able to use the most commonly available fuels appropriate to their use. That is not biofuel in any way, shape, or form.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Conor Clarke Does Not Understand English
Conor Clarke, confirmed eco-Statist and blog poster on Andrew Sullivan's Daily Dish banner, has a disingenuous headline today regarding Sarah Palin's critique of the Obama energy policy and the Mandate, Cap, and Tax bill.
Clarke's disingenuous headline reads "Sarah Palin Does Not Understand Cap and Trade". From an eco-Statist like Clarke, that really means "Sarah Palin Understands the Cap and Trade Bill Perfectly", but I digress.
As evidence of Palin's ignorance, Clarke holds up the following Palin quote: There is no denying that as the world becomes more industrialized, we need to reform our energy policy and become less dependent on foreign energy sources."
To which Clarke responds: "I don't think cap and trade has many supporters who think it's the best way to become 'less dependent on foreign energy sources.'"
Of course, that was not Palin's point, and anyone who can read plain English can understand that. Fact will not get in the way of eco-Statists like Conor Clarke trying to smear Sarah Palin.
I have posted a considerable amount about the damage Mandate, Cap, and Tax will visit upon the economy of the United States, and it has been made clear by the EPA that Mandate, Cap, and Tax will not change their projected air temperatures one degree. Mandate, Cap, and Tax is about government control of the economy and nothing else. Communists, Socialists, Fascists, and Statists support Mandate, Cap, and Tax. Anyone who values freedom, ordered liberty, and a strong economy must opposed this bill at all costs.
Clarke's disingenuous headline reads "Sarah Palin Does Not Understand Cap and Trade". From an eco-Statist like Clarke, that really means "Sarah Palin Understands the Cap and Trade Bill Perfectly", but I digress.
As evidence of Palin's ignorance, Clarke holds up the following Palin quote: There is no denying that as the world becomes more industrialized, we need to reform our energy policy and become less dependent on foreign energy sources."
To which Clarke responds: "I don't think cap and trade has many supporters who think it's the best way to become 'less dependent on foreign energy sources.'"
Of course, that was not Palin's point, and anyone who can read plain English can understand that. Fact will not get in the way of eco-Statists like Conor Clarke trying to smear Sarah Palin.
I have posted a considerable amount about the damage Mandate, Cap, and Tax will visit upon the economy of the United States, and it has been made clear by the EPA that Mandate, Cap, and Tax will not change their projected air temperatures one degree. Mandate, Cap, and Tax is about government control of the economy and nothing else. Communists, Socialists, Fascists, and Statists support Mandate, Cap, and Tax. Anyone who values freedom, ordered liberty, and a strong economy must opposed this bill at all costs.
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Undeniable Economic Truths and Waxman/Markley
The “cap” in B. Hussein Obama's Mandate, Cap, and Tax scheme is a cap on American economic growth.
The fact is that burning carbon-laden fuel sources feeds our economy. It is the very lifeblood of the American way of life. It is the lifeblood, capital is the food, transportation is the circulatory system, the free market is the brain, and labor is the hands and feet.
You can rail against carbon-based energy, spit on it, regret it, curse it -- it still remains a fact. It is also a fact that the same eco-Orwellians opposed to carbon-based energy also march on down the street to the No Nukes protest. Later, a fair number of them bust out the windows as the Starbucks and McDonalds to protest "globalism." What they oppose is human achievement and success. But I digress (only a little).
The Obama/Waxman/Markey Mandate, Cap, and Tax scheme will destroy our economy, and a reasonable understanding of economic truths will bear out my analysis.
The first undeniable economic truth is if you want to have less of something, tax it. Cap and tax will cause energy production will drop, because energy production in this country is primarily carbon-based. If you liked the “energy crises” of the 1970s, you will love Cap and Tax. Welcome back, Carter! Let’s keep an eye on the misery index.
The second undeniable economic truth is that corporations do not pay taxes – people do. To corporations, a tax is merely a cost to be passed along to its consumers. Want proof? Look at your phone bill or cable bill. They don’t even bury the various taxes in their rates; they just add tax line items. The full cost of these carbon “credits” will be passed on to consumers. The average family will see their power and natural gas bills skyrocket (between 45 to 90%, depending on the production mix in your area). Add to that the 70% or so increase in cost for your gas or diesel fuel. American families start losing real money to an ever-growing federal government far faster than their wages will ever match. Domestic consumption will sink like a stone.
Which leads me to my first undeniable law of government; government lies to you. There is not going to be an carbon tax rebate to consumers, in the same way there is not going to be a payback of the recent automobile industry “loans” or a return on the bank rescue “investments” made on the behalf of taxpayers. The LAST thing this government wants to do is put money back in the hands of taxpaying consumers because we are too stupid to spend it correctly.
The third undeniable economic truth is that increases in basic costs compound down the supply chain. Put another way, not only will your power bill increase, but so will everything else you buy, because the costs to the producers of everything else you buy are going up, and those costs will be passed on to you, the consumer. This is the indirect taxation effect, and
The fourth undeniable economic truth is that the more money the federal government takes from the economy, the less capital exists to fund jobs. The Cap and Tax will deprive consumers of disposable income, causing massive decline in demand (and job losses related to) in the manufacturing and luxury services sectors, particularly durable goods. Declines in demand for durable goods ripples through the markets for basic materials, mining, milling, and transportation. Conservatively speaking, our Gross Domestic Production (GDP) will drop between 13-19%. Unemployment skyrockets, and hello, Great Depression II.
The dramatic costs increases (both direct and indirect) will lower the standard of living for every American. Let that sink in. The Tax and Cap Plan will lower our standard of living. In what Alice Goes to Wonderland world is Congress living in when they intentionally hobble the economy and lower our standard of living even more than the $1,900,000,000,000,000.00 budget deficit they just hung on the nation?
Those are the costs of the federal government plan. What are the benefits? Even if you fully accepting the argument that CO2 emissions related to energy product contribute to “global warming”, the best tree-hugger estimated net result would be a difference of less than 0.01°C over the next century.
So, the Obama Waxman Markey Mandate, Cap, and Tax plan will cripple our economy, reduce our standard of living, put millions out of work, and cause a decades-long depression to change the air temperature less than a human can differentiate with his natural senses.
That is one horrible cost/benefit analysis, unless you wish to tear the United States asunder.
The fact is that burning carbon-laden fuel sources feeds our economy. It is the very lifeblood of the American way of life. It is the lifeblood, capital is the food, transportation is the circulatory system, the free market is the brain, and labor is the hands and feet.
You can rail against carbon-based energy, spit on it, regret it, curse it -- it still remains a fact. It is also a fact that the same eco-Orwellians opposed to carbon-based energy also march on down the street to the No Nukes protest. Later, a fair number of them bust out the windows as the Starbucks and McDonalds to protest "globalism." What they oppose is human achievement and success. But I digress (only a little).
The Obama/Waxman/Markey Mandate, Cap, and Tax scheme will destroy our economy, and a reasonable understanding of economic truths will bear out my analysis.
The first undeniable economic truth is if you want to have less of something, tax it. Cap and tax will cause energy production will drop, because energy production in this country is primarily carbon-based. If you liked the “energy crises” of the 1970s, you will love Cap and Tax. Welcome back, Carter! Let’s keep an eye on the misery index.
The second undeniable economic truth is that corporations do not pay taxes – people do. To corporations, a tax is merely a cost to be passed along to its consumers. Want proof? Look at your phone bill or cable bill. They don’t even bury the various taxes in their rates; they just add tax line items. The full cost of these carbon “credits” will be passed on to consumers. The average family will see their power and natural gas bills skyrocket (between 45 to 90%, depending on the production mix in your area). Add to that the 70% or so increase in cost for your gas or diesel fuel. American families start losing real money to an ever-growing federal government far faster than their wages will ever match. Domestic consumption will sink like a stone.
Which leads me to my first undeniable law of government; government lies to you. There is not going to be an carbon tax rebate to consumers, in the same way there is not going to be a payback of the recent automobile industry “loans” or a return on the bank rescue “investments” made on the behalf of taxpayers. The LAST thing this government wants to do is put money back in the hands of taxpaying consumers because we are too stupid to spend it correctly.
The third undeniable economic truth is that increases in basic costs compound down the supply chain. Put another way, not only will your power bill increase, but so will everything else you buy, because the costs to the producers of everything else you buy are going up, and those costs will be passed on to you, the consumer. This is the indirect taxation effect, and
The fourth undeniable economic truth is that the more money the federal government takes from the economy, the less capital exists to fund jobs. The Cap and Tax will deprive consumers of disposable income, causing massive decline in demand (and job losses related to) in the manufacturing and luxury services sectors, particularly durable goods. Declines in demand for durable goods ripples through the markets for basic materials, mining, milling, and transportation. Conservatively speaking, our Gross Domestic Production (GDP) will drop between 13-19%. Unemployment skyrockets, and hello, Great Depression II.
The dramatic costs increases (both direct and indirect) will lower the standard of living for every American. Let that sink in. The Tax and Cap Plan will lower our standard of living. In what Alice Goes to Wonderland world is Congress living in when they intentionally hobble the economy and lower our standard of living even more than the $1,900,000,000,000,000.00 budget deficit they just hung on the nation?
Those are the costs of the federal government plan. What are the benefits? Even if you fully accepting the argument that CO2 emissions related to energy product contribute to “global warming”, the best tree-hugger estimated net result would be a difference of less than 0.01°C over the next century.
So, the Obama Waxman Markey Mandate, Cap, and Tax plan will cripple our economy, reduce our standard of living, put millions out of work, and cause a decades-long depression to change the air temperature less than a human can differentiate with his natural senses.
That is one horrible cost/benefit analysis, unless you wish to tear the United States asunder.
Monday, May 18, 2009
Today's Stalinist Ukase
Cars shall be made less safe now because of an inference of an unproven speculation about the future made by my Luddite supporters. -- Barak Hussein Obama, May 18th, 2009
Big Brother has spoken. So it is written, and so it shall pass.
UPDATE: Actually, the decree turns out to be Hitleresque. Hitler was the last glorious leader to dictate the creation of a car with greater than 30 m.p.g. You might remember the VW Bug, a car deemed too unsafe to stay on American roads.
Big Brother has spoken. So it is written, and so it shall pass.
UPDATE: Actually, the decree turns out to be Hitleresque. Hitler was the last glorious leader to dictate the creation of a car with greater than 30 m.p.g. You might remember the VW Bug, a car deemed too unsafe to stay on American roads.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Here Comes Cap and Tax
Over the weekend, the fruits, nuts, watermelons, Socialists, and good old fashioned Statists masquerading as the “environmental” movement issued a new lexicon of marketing words to try to convince a wary American public that their plans will not destroy the economy in the midst of a recession. They need these new marketing works because the existing marketing words were not adequate to convince the American public to drink the toxic plans the Statists have for driving the American economy back to the pre-industrial revolution.Believing the current terms like “global warming” and “cap and trade” engender honest images of shaggy tree-huggers, bad science, and high societal costs on flimsy evidence, the eco-Statists believe they need a marketing makeover, beginning with new buzz words.
The new Orwellian eco-terms for the economy crushing cap and trade scheme are “cap and cash back” or “pollution reduction refund.” These terms are so entirely laughable that I hope these eco-communists proceed with this farce.
The correct revised term for cap and trade is “cap and tax.” The cap and trade legislation before Congress now will increase costs dramatically for power producers, and this will generate a tax on all consumers of power, not only at the power meter, but also increased consumer prices due to increased power costs to manufacturers and food producers. The fact that the proposal includes tax credits to low income persons (who don’t pay taxes anyway) indicates that they know for a fact that they know it will increase prices nationwide on everything.
However, these scheming eco-Orewellians have a powerful friend in the radical leftist Barak Obama, and what Obama wants, Obama will demand he gets. In Obama’s effort to destroy and “remake” the United States, all vestiges of free markets must be destroyed via government control. In the midst of the bank and car industry crises, Obama even sent Timothy “Timmah!” Geithner up to Congress with a budget document proposing their Cap and Tax scheme.
Beware America. The anti-success, anti-wealth eco-campaigners have a bevy of proposals to lower your standard of living and increase the expense of everything you need.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Communists Foist Earth Day on Us
Today is euphemistically called Earth Day, but it would be better called “Watermelon Day”. Like today’s environmentalists, watermelons are green on the outside, but red on the inside. Fittingly, Earth Day is held on Vladimir Lenin’s birthday. The birthright of murderous Communism runs from Lenin straight through to the Earth Day sycophants begging for their own destruction on this very day.
Earth Day was founded on a policy of zero growth. Every year, the heirs to Thomas Robert Malthus predict man is utilizing natural resources at a rate that the earth cannot support. Starting in 1798, the Malthusian dilemma has been suggested as some kind of natural law, and every year since then facts have proven that man’s capability to improve the science of resource production disproves the theories of Malthus and his ilk.
The latest version of Earth Day environmental nonsense is B. Hussein Obama’s “Cap and Trade” plan set forth in his 4.5 Trillion Dollar budget plan. The Cap in Cap and Trade is a cap on economic growth. The Trade part is simply more taxes on energy consumers passed along as higher costs.
Abundant affordable energy is the lynchpin of economic growth. Any effort to cap the growth of energy production, or tax the production of new energy, only hurts the economy, and thus, the people and the nation. Not even Jimmy Carter has sought to weaken the United States as quickly or dramatically as B. Hussein Obama.
Earth Day should be a reminder to all those who love liberty and progress that poorly educated fools and useful idiots desire to rot the nation from the inside out.
On April 22, I will celebrate human achievement, technological progress, and redouble my efforts to combat those who wish to damage this nation’s economy.
Earth Day was founded on a policy of zero growth. Every year, the heirs to Thomas Robert Malthus predict man is utilizing natural resources at a rate that the earth cannot support. Starting in 1798, the Malthusian dilemma has been suggested as some kind of natural law, and every year since then facts have proven that man’s capability to improve the science of resource production disproves the theories of Malthus and his ilk.
The latest version of Earth Day environmental nonsense is B. Hussein Obama’s “Cap and Trade” plan set forth in his 4.5 Trillion Dollar budget plan. The Cap in Cap and Trade is a cap on economic growth. The Trade part is simply more taxes on energy consumers passed along as higher costs.
Abundant affordable energy is the lynchpin of economic growth. Any effort to cap the growth of energy production, or tax the production of new energy, only hurts the economy, and thus, the people and the nation. Not even Jimmy Carter has sought to weaken the United States as quickly or dramatically as B. Hussein Obama.
Earth Day should be a reminder to all those who love liberty and progress that poorly educated fools and useful idiots desire to rot the nation from the inside out.
On April 22, I will celebrate human achievement, technological progress, and redouble my efforts to combat those who wish to damage this nation’s economy.
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Fight the Luddites Today
Today, thousands of people around the world will participate in “Earth Hour” an event conceived by the World Wildlife Fund and foisted upon us by a sycophantic media that asks people to turn off the lights for an hour and think about the consequences of their energy use.
This hour in the dark—to take place between 8:30pm and 9:30pm local time — is NOT something to be celebrated. Its organizers are using the event as a way to convince those in power to restrict our ability to use energy as we see fit. In short, this is a world-wide call for energy rationing, taxing, and the destructive tax known as “cap and trade.”
I will be celebrating Human Achievement Hour today. All my lights, floodlights, A/C, and both big screen TVs will be up and running.I may blast my stereo out into the backyard while I fire up my BBQ.
Celebrate the quality of life improvements things like power have brought to the human race. Don't be North Korea, sitting all night in the dark. Celebrate Human Achievement!
This hour in the dark—to take place between 8:30pm and 9:30pm local time — is NOT something to be celebrated. Its organizers are using the event as a way to convince those in power to restrict our ability to use energy as we see fit. In short, this is a world-wide call for energy rationing, taxing, and the destructive tax known as “cap and trade.”
I will be celebrating Human Achievement Hour today. All my lights, floodlights, A/C, and both big screen TVs will be up and running.I may blast my stereo out into the backyard while I fire up my BBQ.
Celebrate the quality of life improvements things like power have brought to the human race. Don't be North Korea, sitting all night in the dark. Celebrate Human Achievement!
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