Ben Wetmore

Bankruptcy Week: No Oil to see here, keep moving on

This article at Business Week, "There may be oil offshore, but..." is testament to a strange phenomenon where business types barf back DNC talking points. Reading the article, one can clearly see that there are a great deal of natural resources yet to be developed, but this article goes out of its way to dispute the possibility of any possible development, even going so far as to say that no business will take a risk without clear "profitability" as though there were only sure-things in the business world. Has environmentalism so thoroughly taken over and infected the minds of rational human beings that they can no longer accept obvious statements? Are our eyes so blinded that we cannot see? We face an energy crisis and no one wants to create more energy! I found article author Moira Herbst's personal blog, which had one slightly negative thing to say about conservative Hugh Hewitt, though overall nothing too damning of her. She seems a recent j-school grad, and though we shouldn't hold that against her, it occurs to me that this article was probably out of her league, and she had to rely on the DNC talking points because precious didn't know better. So, again, liberal bias caused not by a conspiracy but most likely from laziness, immaturity and inaccuracy. And the journalists can't understand why no one is reading their tortured constructions.

Labels: energy, media, messaging, policy, politics

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Energy policies worthy of the Soviets

Bush is apparently removing some executive order prohibiting the development of energy resources off the coast. Now, thankfully all the Bush sycophants have been shamed into silence, but shouldn't we right of center people ask why it took this administration eight years to take such a simple action? Wasn't it Paul Begala that regaled at how easy it was for Clinton to make policy, "at the stroke of a pen" and yet, one wonders, how many thousands, millions, of missed opportunities has Bush fumbled. There was such hope and promise to bring this country back from Clinton's reign of terror, and instead we got a lazy, out to lunch administration that was so busy with global war that it forgot even the most basic conservative principles while governing. I realize it's cliche to pick on Bush, and all too easy, but the more that time goes on I find no reason to defend him and no redeeming qualities to the administration. A few years ago Richard Viguerie was on the Daily Show and he said that in 64 conservatives figured out how to nominate the President, in 80 figured out to win, but we're still really trying to figure out how to govern.

Labels: Bush, energy

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