A few days ago, we posted Freedom & Liberty at the pump: We are being denied the use of our natural resources….

At the end of that piece, we asked:

The only question is: When will the ‘peasants’ pick up the ‘pitch-forks’…

If the eventual GOP nominee reminds the electorate of these facts (linked within the source piece at BigGovernment), that time may be closer than anyone believes, and if folks think it can’t happen…They haven’t read their history, and certainly aren’t paying attention.

Here’s the text from the linked piece:

7 Gas Facts Obama Cannot Escape
by Wynton Hall

President Barack Obama cannot escape the following seven gas-related facts:

1. In September 2008, Barack Obama’s”Nobel-prize winning physicist” of an Energy Secretary, Steven Chu, told the Wall Street Journal: “Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.”

2. In 2008, then-candidate Barack Obama admitted that, like his future Energy Secretary Mr. Chu, he believed that high gas prices would be a good thing because they would force Americans to ween themselves off of oil, but that he would have “prefered a gradual adjustment.”

3. On January 19, 2009, the day before Barack Obama was sworn in as President of the United States, gas prices were $1.84 a gallon. As of February 20, 2012 a gallon of gas cost $3.59.

4. As Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson points out, “Offshore drilling permits are being issued at less than half the rate of the previous administration. The average number of leases issued on public lands is less than half than during President Clinton’s term.”

5. In 2008, Barack Obama seemed perfectly comfortable with soaring energy prices if they meant curbing green house gas emissions. As Mr. Obama confessed: “Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.”

6. As seen in the video below, Obama’s own 2008 campaign rallies actually cheered higher gas prices because they would “force us to think about changing the culture to create more emphasis on mass transportation.” Following the sustained applause, then candidate-Obama proceeded to laud Europe (not unlike his future Energy Secretary Steven Chu) for its rail system.

7. Try as he might, President Obama’s campaign will try to distance themselves from the fact that a central pillar of Mr. Obama’s 2008 campaign was a pledge to reduce the “pain at the pump” caused by high gas prices. However, videos such as the one below reveal the extent to which Mr. Obama promised that, if elected, he would bring down the cost of gas for “everyday Americans.”

Missing no opportunity to invoke class warfare, Mr. Obama said: “For the well-off in this country, high gas prices are mostly an annoyance. But to most Americans, they are a huge problem, bordering on a crisis. Here in Indiana, gas costs $3.60 a gallon.”

There are MANY embedded source links and video clips within this piece, over at BigGovernment. Each video clip shows obama, in his own words, telling YOU, and me, and everyone else, exactly what his plans are.

Will we pay attention and, come November, legally take back our country from the obama regime, or…Will obama be re-elected, by default, due to:

– Those who vow to “sit out” the election, effectively throwing a political hissy-fit because ‘their guy’ wasn’t nominated.
– Those willing to “stay the course” because they cannot make up their minds, even though they’ve had nearly 2 years to think about it.
– Those willing to give obama ‘one more chance’, which is much like putting the spoiled milk back in the fridge hoping for something better next time.
– Those who are influenced by the media, (and possibly other ‘outside’ obama aparatchik’s,) to give up, because (supposedly) no one can beat him. (PS – this ‘spin’ has already begun).

One must also consider, when it comes to the upcoming elections, whether or not obama will pull out all the stops and call in his ‘friends’ from the black panthers, (famous for their 2008 voter-intimidation campaign), SEIU, AFLCIO and other “brownshirt” outfits, to intimdate voters once again?

In the end, when it comes to choosing a nominee to go up against obama in November…Yes, some may believe we are between a ‘rock and a hard place’. But, we’ve been continually backed into a corner for the past 3+ years, constantly bullied and chastized, by a man who’s supposed to provide leadership and ultimately move the country forward, to the benefit of EVERY citizen, not just a select ‘chosen’ few, hand-picked by obama and his minions.

A step in the right direction is all we need, and as bad as things are, we can take ‘one giant leap’ by simply getting behind the eventual nominee and voting obama out of office.

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You couldn’t make this up if you tried. This administration’s “let them eat cake” mentality is getting more blatant as the days go by. That shouldn’t shock you.

Link: Geithner: Rich Need to Pay for “Privilege of Being an American”
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Geithner: Rich Need to Pay for “Privilege of Being an American”
Posted by Brad Jackson
Friday, February 24th at 10:00AM EST

(…)

…if you don’t ask, you know, the most fortunate americans to bear a slightly larger burden of the privilege of being an american,

(…)

Video clip is available here.

And here we have Mz Michelle…Mz “I’m jetting off on yet another vacation, and eating whatever I want”. She thinks folks should ‘share the wealth’. She must have a few more vacations she’d like to plan…
Link: Michelle Obama’s pitch: Share the wealth
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First lady Michelle Obama has joined her husband’s bandwagon to hit the rich and spread the wealth, questioning how well-off families can feel good if others are struggling.

To about 300 supporters wealthy enough to pay $300-$10,000 to attend the mid-day event, the first lady said, “If a family in this country is struggling, we cannot be satisfied with our own families’ good fortune.”

She also rapped the rich, as has her husband. “Who do we want to be?” Obama asked. “Will we be a country where success is limited to the few at the top? This country is strongest when we are all better off.”

Fundraising in Cincinnati, Ohio as her husband raised cash in Florida, she also said that the change President Obama offered in 2008 “does not come easy.” And she added, “change is slow, but we will get there,” according to a pool report of the event.

(Read the whole thing at the link).

…”We will get there” — Uh huh — And even if the American people don’t want to ‘go there’, they’ll make sure they drag us ‘there’ — kicking and screaming. It’s for our own good. Now shut up and eat your peas!

In reality, the ‘spin’ coming from the White House is (as always) nothing more than smoke and mirrors. Take a gander at this…
Link: The recovery Chart of the Day
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The recovery Chart of the Day
posted at 3:05 pm on February 24, 2012 by Ed Morrissey

Earlier today, on our post about the warning from a Democratic pollster about trying to use an “America is Back” slogan for Barack Obama’s re-election, commenter TopDog linked to a chart that explains very clearly why that strategy won’t work. Stanley Greenberg wants Obama to argue instead for a less-specific declaration that America is now headed in the right direction, and that Obama has gotten job creation kick-started already:

In 2009, we were losing 750,000 jobs a month. Our biggest banks and auto companies were on the brink of pulling down the whole economy. But we righted the ship. We did not tip into a Great Depression. And over the last 22 months, businesses have created more than 3 million jobs, the most since 2005 and more manufacturing jobs than since the 1990s. We still have a long way to go but we have restored hope and possibility to the economy.

This chart from the Bureau of Labor Statistics utterly destroys that argument. The BLS measures the percentage of working-age adults currently employed in the population — and as can easily be seen, three years of Barack Obama has not made any dent in the trough created by the recession:

Click the link above to see the chart from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. And…Brace yourself. You’ve been warned.

One look at that chart, and it should be clear that obama and his minions are doing their best to play the distraction game. But, even the BLS cannot hide these numbers.

Let’s hope the eventual GOP nominee isn’t afraid to use these numbers in their fight against Obama. John McCain didn’t want to ‘upset the apple cart’, for fear of being labeled a ‘racist’ — which WILL come into play once again, no matter who the nominee is. It’s the only card this administration has left to play.

Too bad it’s the race card.

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You know, at times, I find myself wondering just what we did wrong, as a society, that makes Barack Obama want to punish us so. Under his administration, we’ve lost jobs, we’ve lost countless sums of money, we’ve lost the ability to make our own healthcare decisions, and most recently, it’s become clear that we’ve lost the Freedom and Liberty to aquire and make useful our own natural resources.

The ‘pain at the pump‘ is proof enough of that:
(snip)

Almost $6 a gallon for gas in tourism area

Updated: Thursday, 23 Feb 2012, 2:14 PM EST
Published : Thursday, 23 Feb 2012, 12:14 PM EST

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35) – Some gas stations are charging big bucks to fill up and they’re not the ones located near Orlando International Airport. With gas prices close to $6.00 a gallon, some tourists are feeling the pinch near Disney.

As fast as they come in, they quickly get out. This is what’s driving them away, gas at $5.89 a gallon at the Shell Station off Vineland Avenue. Tourist David Montgomery says, “It’s crazy. I just went to pump it and saw the prices and not going to get it.”

Obama continues to deny any of this is his fault, and wants everyone to understand that there’s really nothing he can do to lower the price of gas:
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Obama doesn’t accept responsibility for gas prices
by Joel Gehrke Commentary Staff Writer

February 22, 2012 1:19pm

President Obama does not “accept responsibility” for high gas prices, his spokesman indicated today, arguing that Obama has done everything he could to bring down the price of oil and blaming the high gas prices on oil price increases caused by global factors.

“The president accepts the responsibility that he identified the next president should accept, which is the need for comprehensive energy policy,” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said today when asked if Obama “accepts responsibility” for the high price of oil and gas. “If you’re suggesting that there is responsibility for a rise in the price of oil, it’s certainly not because of anything he hasn’t done to expand oil production,” Carney added.

Isn’t that sweet? A tried and true tactic of the left: Simply deny facts, and people will be stupid enough to accept their “truth” over the real truth.

I wonder if he remembers members of his own party, including himself, lambasting Bush about high gas prices? What’s good for the goose, isn’t apparently good for the punky little gander from Chicago, huh?

So, what are we left with? An urgent need to tap into our own natural resources, for ourselves and our posterity. It’s been that way for a few decades now, and in the wake of 9/11, things were all too clear…We needed to become energy independent, as soon as possible. Back then, there were folks with great ideas about expanding drilling and exploration to find yet undiscovered pools of oil, able to sustain us for hundreds, if not thousands of years. Still, the same voices and ideologies that rob We The People of the Freedom and Liberty to use our own natural resources today, were whining back then:
(snip)

Ten Years Ago . . .

By Jim Geraghty
February 21, 2012 7:00 A.M. Comments 2
“If drilling were approved today, it would be ten years before oil arrived in refineries.” — Sierra Magazine, January-February issue, 2002.

“Oil extracted from the Wildlife Refuge would not reach refineries for seven to ten years and would never satisfy more than two percent of our nation’s oil demands at any one time.” — Senator Maria Cantwell (D., Wash.), April 17, 2002.

“It would take years and years of development” to generate any supply. — Vice President Al Gore, September 30, 2000. He preferred releasing oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve instead.

The Bush plan to drill in ANWR offers “no real action to bring oil prices down now, no real prospect of freeing ourselves from dependence on big oil and foreign oil.” — Al Gore, Sept. 30, 2000.

UPDATE: A little more recently . . . “We could start drilling in ANWR today, and at its peak, which would be more than a decade from now, it would give us enough oil to take care of our transportation needs for about a month.” — Senator Barack Obama, February 28, 2006.

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by Jim Geraghty

Folks in the gulf states know full well that when oil rigs leave the Gulf for better money-making opportunities elsewhere, that translates into yet another loss of jobs down south.

That’s why the Gulf Economic Survival Team, “a group of energy and business interests based largely in Louisiana, had IHS Global Insight and IHS CERA study the impact of faster permitting of oil leases on offshore oil production and the economies of the United States and affected states. <ii > They determined that increased exploration and permitting approval in 2012 would”:

*Create 230,000 U.S. jobs
*Increase U.S. GDP by more than $44 billion
*Increase tax and royalty revenues for state and federal treasuries by almost $12 billion
*Increase oil production by more than 400,000 barrels per day (150 million barrels per year)
*Reduce U.S. payments for oil imports by about $15 billion.

Other findings are:

*Almost twice the number of exploration and development plans are pending from the Department of Interior compared to pre-moratorium levels
*Approvals of exploration plans have decreased by 85 percent.
*The median number of days for approving an exploration plan has increased from 36 days to 131 days.

Further, ten oil rigs have left the Gulf of Mexico since the moratorium for more lucrative areas offshore in Egypt, Congo, French Guiana, Liberia, Nigeria, and Brazil. <iii > Although federal officials announced they were lifting the restrictions last October on a moratorium put in place in May 2011, a “de-facto moratorium” remains in effect that lowers oil and natural gas production and impacts businesses in the Gulf region.

Imagine that…The Obama administration slowing down this kind of thing. All the while, We The People are made to suffer at the pump. Now, granted…Part of that pain comes from the falling dollar. It now requires more dollars to buy a gallon of gas. But, the Obama administration continues to hold us as economic hostages, with EPA regulations, forcing many within yet another industry within the American economy to suffer a loss during an already financially down-turned environment.

The only question is: When will the ‘peasants’ pick up the ‘pitch-forks’…

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The so-called ‘controversy’ surrounding the eliminiation of several qurans, which were being used as a communication tool between taliban prisoners, has engulfed the airwaves.

Here are the facts (as CNN notes):

- The Qurans were among religious materials removed from a detainee facility at Bagram Airfield. The materials were gathered for disposal and were inadvertently given to troops for burning, Gen. John Allen, commander of NATO’s International Security Assistance Force, said Tuesday.

- A military official said the materials were removed from the detainee center’s library because they had “extremist inscriptions” on them and there was “an appearance that these documents were being used to facilitate extremist communications.”

Now, let’s remember that according to islamic law (*spit) — writing on pages in the quran is considered desecration, even for a muslim. Let us also remember that the apparent proper way to dispose of a quran, even for a muslim, is burning. But I digress….

U.S. officials were the ones to initially apologize for the slight, saying it was inadvertant. Since the days following the burnings, two United States service members were killed by uniformed Afghan army members, as retribution for the burnings.

So, we have two initial things going on here that need to be rectified…
1. The taliban prisoners who wrote on the pages of the quran should be identified, and let loose on the streets, so that their muslim brothers and sisters can deal with them as they see fit for desecrating their holy book (*spit).

2. The subsequent killing of two United States service members, by uniformed Afghan army members, is not only unacceptable, it is inexcusable. Karzai should be made to apologize, now, quickly, before his unapologetic tone ‘offends’ Americans at home, and abroad, which could lead to riots and violence. (Oh wait,…That’s right, Americans don’t do that. Why? Because we’re not backwards jihadi racists who believe, among other things, that buring the quran as a proper means of disposal is ok, as long as you’re a muslim).

That brings us to yesterday, when our dear leader, Barack Obama (*spit) offered a direct apology to Karzai. I guess he must’ve felt bowing just wouldn’t cut it this time, ay?

Then, offering up some much-needed perspective, Sarah Palin noted:
(snip)

Obama apologizes for the inadvertent Koran burning this week; now the U.S. trained and protected Afghan Army can apologize for killing two of our soldiers yesterday.

Will it happen? Don’t hold your breath.
Should it happen? Absolutely.

But, here’s the thing…And I’ve come to this conclusion in the past decade since the 9/11 attacks…
These people — these rioting, murdering, decapitating, back-assward jihadi pigs — will never, ever, deserve the sacrifices of our loved ones in the military.

They don’t appreciate it.
They don’t use it to better themselves.
…And when something happens, such as a quran being burned as a means of proper disposal, they use it as a fire-starter, stirring themselves up into a tizzy, and once again calling for ‘the great satan’ (that would be us) to be killed, removed from the face of the earth. (Nevermind the fact that jihadis don’t need a reason to engage in such actions. Their faith commands them to do such things).

They don’t fool me, and they shouldn’t fool you. And to be honest, I cannot say that there aren’t some muslims in the middle east who aren’t appreciative of our efforts. But, from everything I’ve studied, I do not believe those folks to be practicing the true islamic “faith” (*spit). One need only take a cursory look into the “faith” to realize that if a muslim is to be a “good muslim”, practicing their faith as they should, they are required to be part faithful, part violent jihadi, in the very least.

I realize we went to Afghanistan in the wake of the September 11th attacks, and I agreed with that and still do. However, after many instances like this one, I am simply spent. I am tired of our troops sacrificing for these pigs.
I’m tired of our troops losing precious time with their families, losing limbs, losing abilities, and too many times, losing their lives…All in the name of trying to provide a better world for these assclowns.

Our troops shouldn’t have to sacrifice one more drop of blood for these unappreciative low-lifes. Not now. Not ever. Sorry Karzai…But as far as I’m concerned, your ass can hang high from a flag-pole. You should be on your own after this one, left to fend off the jihadi ‘wolves’ at your door. And good luck with that.

I hear they’ll run, if you throw a pound of bacon at ‘em.

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I’ll be watching the debate tonight, but not live-blogging or live-tweeting. Here’s a link to CNN, where you can apparently stream the event online:

http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/

I predict most of the night will be spent talking about satan, birth control, the proper use for sexual relations, and other crap that has nothing to do with what is REALLY wrong with the country right now, which is OBAMA & HIS SOCIALIST POLICIES!!

Anyway…Enjoy.

02/23/12 UPDATE:
If I had to rank how each of the contenders did lastnight, I would put them in this order:

Romney
Gingrich
Paul
Santorum

Santorum did not have a good night, for someone who has ascended to front-runner status. Now, granted, I’ve made no secret of the fact that he’s not my first choice for a nominee. Still, in past debates, when he’s made a good point, I’ve given him credit for it. So lastnight I expected him to act Presidential, and not come out onto that stage with an “I’m entitled” cockiness about him.

Romney held his own.
Gingrich proved once again why he is my first choice, campaign blunders aside.
Ron Paul reminded me, once again, why I wish he shared his son’s stances on foreign policy, because that is the major drawback I have with him. Yes, his “kooky-ness” can be found in some of his other stances on things, but, foreign policy is the one with which I have the most trouble.

And much thanks go to John King from CNN for being as predictable as the sunrise, with no questions being asked regarding rocketing gas prices, and Obama’s responsibility in driving up that price. No on Keystone…Lower land leases, lower deep water drilling leases, lower off-shore drilling leases, lower fracking leases. And yet Obama’s attempting to ‘ride the tide’ of rising oil production on mainland USA, which IS up, thanks to the leasing and permits granted DURING THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION.

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