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Thursday, June 19, 2008
Outrage
Get some.
There comes a point where consternation and disapproval just aren't enough any more. There comes a point where there's more than just some minor inconveniences on the line -- where the survival of the nation as a reasonably free country is threatened. Our Founding Fathers called it the "our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor" point.
It's here, folks. It's torches-and-pitchforks time. Time to take the musket down from the mantel and put it to use -- the use your great-great-great-grandfather put it to.
You doubt it, you say? Things can't possibly be that bad, you say? Allow me to cite you a couple of recent news stories. First, an exchange from May 23rd of this year, on the floor of the House of Representatives:
REP. MAXINE WATERS, D-CALIF.: What guarantees are you going to give this liberal about how that will reduce the cost of gasoline at the pump if we let you drill where you say you want to drill?JOHN HOFMEISTER, SHELL OIL PRESIDENT: I can guarantee to the American people because of the inaction of the United States Congress ever increasing prices unless the demand comes down, and the $5 will look like a very low price in the years to come if we are prohibited from finding new reserves, new opportunities to increase supplies.
WATERS: And guess what this liberal will be all about? This liberal will be about socializing--would be about, basically, taking over and the government running all of your companies.
Maxine Waters is as scurrilous a figure as there is in public life. She's an outright socialist and an admirer of Fidel Castro. She doesn't trouble to hide any of that. Now she's openly talking about a Hugo-Chavez-style seizure of the entire petrochemicals industry.
Your Curmudgeon has only one question: What is this socialist lunatic doing in Congress?
A second news story, from just yesterday, again on the floor of the House of Representatives:
Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY), member of the House Appropriations Committee and one of the most-ardent opponents of off-shore drilling:We (the government) should own the refineries. Then we can control how much gets out into the market.
It has never been clearer that the current price-squeeze on our energy supply is the preference of the Democrats in Congress and the Senate. Add the above two statements to Barack Obama's admission that he's in favor of continued price increases. Consider the absolute Democratic opposition to expanded oil exploration and exploitation in places where we already know oil is cheaply accessible in significant quantity: the Bakken formation, ANWR, and the outer continental shelf. Consider the absolute Democratic opposition to liquefied coal and to nuclear power. Consider the absolute Democratic opposition to offshore wind farms -- the only places where the wind is strong enough, and blows steadily enough, to make a wind farm economically feasible.
They want us to run shorter and shorter of energy.
Why?
Quite simply, because it's the linchpin of their drive for totalitarian control of the American economy. Democrats are power-worshippers and power-junkies. They can never have enough. They see a massive shortfall of energy -- electricity, heating oil, gasoline, and so forth -- as the necessary precondition for a scheme of nationalization, followed by rationing boards that would have the power of life and death over every enterprise in America.
Do you like the idea that a gaggle of politicians -- men who produce nothing but gaseous talk and insane legislation -- might acquire that power over you? Over the firm you work for? Over the setting on your thermostat? Over the length of your commute or the speed at which you drive? Over the availability of fresh fruits and vegetables at your grocery store? (How do you think the cabbage and kumquats get there, hey?)
That an elected official should say things as anti-American as Maxine Waters and Maurice Hinchey have said is anathema to this Curmudgeon. Nor is such grandstanding and demagoguery confined to federal legislators. Just yesterday, immediately after President Bush's speech, a Connecticut State Assemblyman -- a Democrat, of course -- was quoted on WCBS_AM preaching against coastal oil exploration, calling it "a horrible idea." In his eyes, it most certainly is: he runs a Task Force on preparing Connecticut for long-term energy scarcity. More than coincidence, perhaps?
These are the same people who brought you the trillion-dollar Department of Health and Human Services, the Ponzi scheme called Social Security, and the notion that birds, fish, and insects have more right to your property than you do. They're the same people for whom there's no reason to fence the southern border or to stabilize Iraq or Afghanistan. They're the same people who dispute your right to school your own children, or to select their school according to your own best judgment. They're the same people who've argued that an expanding polar bear population is a reason to deem that creature "endangered" -- by global warming.
Outraged yet? If not, what do you suppose it would take? More to the point, what do you propose to do about it?
Don't look to the Republicans to save you. They've already surrendered on principle; the rest is just a mopping-up operation, however extended. Voting in Tweedledumb to protect us from Tweedledumber will only buy us a breathing spell.
The end of the Republic is drawing nigh. Brace yourselves. Or grab your musket. The choice is yours.
Comments
A hearty “Amen!” to that!
All this ominous talk about nationalizing the energy industry is a thinly-veiled power grab that will guarantee shortages in the future.
Posted by Bloodthirsty Warmonger on 06/20/2008 at 01:11 AMWhen “Where’s the outrage?” became Bob Dole’s sorry legacy, I fear he took the fizz out of your title.
Americans think a majority of their neighbors accept outrageous things BECAUSE the PC governors stifle the voices of the most angry who are not from a pet interest group.
As long as conservatives dominate the Right and think that they must speak in muffled tones whilst the pets of the Left get to engage their outrage, you cannnot see outrage of the Right ever again.
Posted by Pascal on 06/20/2008 at 09:45 AM
