Making 55,000 people pay for going against the obama agenda: Koch Industries

How have some of the big corporations fared from the attacks of the obama administration? Good question to be asking. Those that drink from the well poisoned with koolaid, 'dope' and change have done quite well, thanks for asking! One only has to look at GE for the perfect example. Television has been flooded with GE commercials, especially ones touting the green energy agenda. Can you say GE and cap and trade? or as I call it tax and stagnate. This is from the Western Center For Journalism.

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Corporate Pawns for Obama
By Floyd and Mary Beth Brown, Floyd Reports

Obama officials leaked confidential tax information about Koch Industries, one of America’s top privately held firms. Currently there is an ongoing investigation inside the Treasury Department concerning which laws were violated by Obama officials for the disclosure.


Koch Industries is the latest whipping boy of Obama’s political hit squad. The real violation of Koch is having the temerity to give contributions to organizations against the Obama political agenda. Damn the 55,000 people that work for Koch. Someone inside the Obama machine has given orders to make the owners of Koch Industries pay.


It is amazing we still have corporate leaders who have the guts to stand up for free enterprise and put their money into the cause of protecting freedom. Sadly, most of corporate America has gone the other direction. Many corporate titans have signed onto Obama’s team in exchange for a warm teat to suckle.


General Electric seems to be a chief beneficiary of stimulus funds, with federal taxpayer’s money being given to many of its businesses. As noted in a 2009 Wall Street Journal story, “General Electric Pursues Pot of Stimulus Gold,” GE CEO Jeff Immelt geared up his lobbying army to exploit President Obama’s economic stimulus package. And it paid off.


A new report from the National Center for Public Policy Research tells the sad tale:


“It’s alarming that many of the remaining corporate members of the United States Climate Action Partnership – a cap-and-trade lobbying group – such as General Electric, Duke Energy, NextEra Energy, Exelon, and Honeywell all received economic stimulus funds. It seems pushing Obama’s agenda has financial rewards. The coordinated effort between big government and big business threatens our free enterprise system,” said Tom Borelli, Ph.D., director of the National Center’s Free Enterprise Project.


“Immelt hit the jackpot with Obama’s stimulus funds…GE is the recipient of over $49 million in grants and contracts from a wide range of government departments including Energy, Defense, Justice, and Health and Human Services. Not only did GE get direct support, the company will likely benefit from the hundreds of millions of dollars that went to GE’s utility customers – Duke Energy, NextEra Energy and Exelon. Looting public funds for profit appears to be a primary business strategy adopted by Immelt,” added Tom Borelli.


So here we have a study in contrasts. Support Obama, and the millions flow to your bottom line from the US taxpayer. Fat profits for GE and the cozy friends of Obama are assured. But if you cross Obama, watch out. Treasury will audit you, the EPA will harass you, and if you are lucky enough to survive the Obama economic chaos, you just might find yourself being sued by the Justice Department.


These are the same tactics employed by facist, Communist, and despotic governments for decades. But we have mostly been able to avoid this type of unpleasant behavior on the part of the bureaucracy because of the unique protections of the U.S. Constitution.


When Obama promised a change in the partisanship of the last decade, we doubt this is what most Americans had in mind. Opponents excoriated and supporters coddled is the new modes operandi in Washington. The pillorying of Koch Industries is being done to send a message to others who might oppose the Obama juggernaut


Original article is here.

Demosocialistacrats are getting ready to push the United States over a leftarded cliff

Here is great summary of what the Obama wrecking crew and the demosocialistacrats are planning next:


"Democrats in the House and Senate are gearing up for a major push to advance their radical agenda while they still have an overwhelming advantage on Capitol Hill. Last week, Roll Call reported that House Democrats plan to pass a major homosexual rights bill called ENDA by May. Reuters notes that cap and trade legislation will be unveiled in the Senate by the end of month, and Politico reports that Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democrat Leader Harry Reid met late yesterday and agreed to bring up an amnesty bill for illegal immigrants this year. Each issue is a priority of the far Left."

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Remember, this was not too long ago
Democrats Ready Radical Agenda


By Gary Bauer, Contributing Author: Democrats in the House and Senate are gearing up for a major push to advance their radical agenda while they still have an overwhelming advantage on Capitol Hill. Last week, Roll Call reported that House Democrats plan to pass a major homosexual rights bill called ENDA by May. Reuters notes that cap and trade legislation will be unveiled in the Senate by the end of month, and Politico reports that Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democrat Leader Harry Reid met late yesterday and agreed to bring up an amnesty bill for illegal immigrants this year. Each issue is a priority of the far Left.

The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) elevates homosexual behavior to the same protected legal status as race and religion. Business owners and institutions that adhere to Judeo-Christian values will be forced to compromise their beliefs if this legislation passes. And this year, Democrats have taken their extremism to a new level by including special protections for transgenderism and gender identity – whatever those are. With unemployment hovering near 10% and out-of-control deficit spending, why is appeasing the militant homosexual movement so high on the Democrats’ “to do” list?

If that radical assault on our values wasn’t bad enough, Obama’s allies in the Senate, led by Massachusetts liberal John Kerry, are pushing legislation to tax and regulate carbon. We live in a carbon-based economy, so when you hear “carbon,” think energy. Democrats want to tax and regulate energy production.

Think about everything you do in the course of a day that requires energy in any form. How many of you flip a light switch first thing in the morning? Do you drive to work? Use a computer or other machines? Do you like air condition in the summer? All of it will be taxed more if the Left gets its way. If you thought unemployment was bad now, wait until this massive job-killing tax hike leads to $7.00 a gallon gas.

And then there’s “immigration reform.” With this leftwing president and this liberal Congress, it can only mean one thing: amnesty. Reports indicate that President Obama has already started calling members of the Senate to push the issue. But I don’t think the public is in any mood for amnesty. In fact, the Arizona legislature just passed one of the toughest anti-illegal immigration laws in the country. A new Rasmussen poll finds that 70% of likely voters support the law, including 69% of Independent voters and even 51% of Democrats. Moreover, 73% say that securing the border is more important than legalizing “undocumented workers.”

With unemployment so high, there’s no shortage of workers – there’s a shortage of jobs. This is not the time to legalize millions of illegal aliens. But Obama and his allies may well need millions of new voters as the country turns against their radical agenda.

Gary Bauer is is a conservative family values advocate and serves as president of American Values and chairman of the Campaign for Working Families. He submitted the above in an email to the ARRA News Service Editor. Bauer was a former Republican presidential candidate and served as President Ronald Reagan’s domestic policy adviser.

Hat tip: ARRA News Service

Obama now wants to open offshore areas to oil drilling? There is a catch.....

How about this for a switch a roo?









Here is a trip back in time to 2008 when Obama was staunchly against drilling
offshore for oil and natrual gas.

Now all of sudden, he is for offshore drilling?

The Obama administration is proposing to open vast expanses of water along the Atlantic coastline, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the north coast of Alaska to oil and natural gas drilling, much of it for the first time, officials said Tuesday.

"The proposal — a compromise that will please oil companies and domestic drilling advocates but anger some residents of affected states and many environmental organizations — would end a longstanding moratorium on oil exploration along the East Coast from the northern tip of Delaware to the central coast of Florida, covering 167 million acres of ocean." Source

Here is the catch:  Remember, there is always a catch.
“One major flashpoint in the negotiations has been whether to share drilling revenue with states and to allow states to opt in or out of drilling along their coastlines. It was unclear late Tuesday whether Obama endorses revenue-sharing for states. “It appears the Northern Atlantic and entire Pacific Coast will now be under a de facto ban” for drilling, said Patrick Creighton, a spokesman for the Institute for Energy Research. Even if drilling is ultimately allowed in part of the Atlantic, Creighton said, revenue sharing is an essential incentive for states. The administration’s plans could meet resistance from at least 10 Senate Democrats representing coastal and Great Lakes states who last week raised concerns about “unfettered access to oil and gas drilling” that could jeopardize fishing, tourism and military exercises. The Interior Department retooled the current schedule of offshore leases governing 2007 through 2012 after a federal appeals court last April ruled that the second Bush administration had not done a sufficient environmental review of expanded drilling off the Alaskan coast."

Mike Pence of the GOP added this:
“As usual the devil is in the details. Only in Washington, D.C., can you ban more areas to oil and gas exploration than you open up, delay the date of your new leases and claim you’re going to increase production. “The President’s announcement today is a smokescreen. It will almost certainly delay any new offshore exploration until at least 2012 and include only a fraction of the offshore resources that the previous Administration included in its plan. Unfortunately, this is yet another feeble attempt to gain votes for the President’s national energy tax bill that is languishing in the Senate. At the end of the day this Administration’s energy plan is simple: increase the cost of energy on every family in America and trade American jobs oversees at a time when millions of Americans are looking for work.”


Hat tip: Michelle Malkin

In support of coal and domestic energy. Obama is out to destroy the best way out of the energy crisis we are in.

The energy policy of the Obama administration is nothing but a fool's errand to make us slaves to our enemies even worse than we are now. Obama is out to KILL our domestic energy sources. We have more than enough coal here in the United States to supply us with power for many, many years. Couple coal with what we have in natural gas, oil, building new nuclear power plants, stop tearing down damns that ARE producing energy, and allowing time for 'green sources of energy' to come online and help supplement our energy needs. One only has to look to Europe to see how badly many countries have fared going hog wild for 'green energy'. Cap and trade is nothing but a plan to deepen our dependence on the government and Obama's nanny state.

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What Liberals Don't Get About Obama Green Power

China Confidential. What liberals, enamored of Barack Obama's green energy rhetoric, don't get about the President is that he is effectively acting as a tool of powerful, political and economic elites who in turn serve even more powerful interests--international Big Oil and Saudi Arabia.

Emphasizing nonexistent and inefficient sources and solutions, Obama's energy policy does not threaten Big Oil and Saudi Arabia. On the contrary, Obama's green energy nonsense plays into the hands of the very forces he claims to oppose because there are no viable substitutes for the oil and gas on which our entire civilization was built and depends on--and will depend on for at least the next 20 years.

None ... except for coal ... which Obama is out to kill ... and domestic oil and gas ... which he is determined to cripple (like Jimmy Carter during the first big energy crisis, when he made every effort possible to destroy the independent oil industry).

Understand, as Obama likes to say, that green energy and energy independence are often confused and conflated in ways that benefit Big Oil and Saudi Arabia. Whereas wind, solar, and biofuels are incapable of significantly reducing U.S. dependence on foreign oil and producing meaningful numbers of well paying, permanent jobs for American workers, development of the nation's awesome coal reserves (the United States is the Saudi Arabia of coal, which is the source of more than half the electricity that is produced in the U.S.) and massive, untapped oil and gas resources could make the dream of energy independence a reality.

Hence, Obama's obsession with the myth of manmade global warming--a red herring that is crucial to keeping the U.S. addicted to foreign oil. Branding carbon dioxide--the dreaded "carbon" that conjures up images of choking soot and smog--as a pollutant that is supposedly heating up the planet is central to the goals of crushing cleaner coal before it has a chance to succeed, and crippling domestic oil and gas. The principal beneficiaries of this strategy are (a) Big Oil, which has historically ignored and downplayed domestic U.S. energy resources in favor of seeking and maintaining preferential energy access agreements with foreign tyrannies and despotisms, and (b) Saudi Arabia, which sits astride the world's largest conventional oil reserves.


Sabotaging Energy Independence

Sabotaging energy independence in the name of "saving the planet" also explains another Obama diversion--endorsement of carbon-free nuclear energy. The President knows that nobody wants to live near a nuclear power plant, especially in the age of terrorism (which is likely to become more threatening as a result of his deliberate downgrading of the war on Islamist terror to the level of a mere law enforcement challenge), and that the incredibly costly and complex, conventional nuclear power plants, which take many years to permit and build, are fundamentally uneconomical--especially, when decommissioning and radioactive waste disposal are taken into consideration. But touting nuclear power--a non-starter for all practical purposes--balances Obama's anti-industrial image and gives his adoring, mainstream media pundits something new and interesting to discuss. Diversion and deception rule. Facts and common sense get in the way of the media's almighty "narrative."
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Hat tip: China Confidential

Surprise, surprise. No offshore drilling for 3 years according to Obama.

Whew! I am so glad the waiting for another Obama lie is finally over. What was once a 6 month wait to start drilling for new offshore oil and gas has now evolved into a three year ban. I am not laughing. With Gasoline over $3.00 a gallon in California already, this does not look good and wow, this upward surge in gasoline prices will really help out the economy. Just another way Obama is pissing on all of us.

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The Obama Moratorium: No offshore drilling while he’s in office
By: Barbara Hollingsworth
Washington Examiner

The Obama administration’s six-month delay in approving new offshore drilling leases in federal waters will become a new three-year ban, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar quietly told reporters last Friday. Which means that no new oil and gas leases will be approved during President Obama’s term even though two –thirds of the American public supports such activity, according to a December 2009 Rasmussen poll.

Sixty percent also believe that gas and oil prices will drop if the government allows offshore drilling, opening up an estimate 14 billion barrels of oil and 55 trillion cubic feet of natural gas

On July 14, 2008 President George W. Bush lifted an executive ban on Outer Continental Shelf leasing. On October 1, 2008, in a bipartisan agreement, Congress lifted another longstanding ban on new oil and gas leasing in the OCS.

Drilling was supposed to begin this July. But Salazar said he intends to discard the 2010-2015 lease plan developed by the Bush administration in favor of a new plan that won’t even go into effect until 2012.

“Secretary Salazar has finally confirmed what had long been feared – that the Obama Administration has no intention of opening up new areas for offshore drilling during his four-years in office,” said Rep. Doc Hastings, the ranking Republican on the House Natural Resources Committee.

So for the next three years and probably more, trillions of dollars in domestic energy assets will remain untouched while billions of dollars more are spent on foreign oil.

Hat tip: Weasel Zippers

Alternative Energy, Obama and cap and Trade. It has not gone away

Alternative or renewable energy is quite popular right now. Even with the focus on Obamacare, Cap and Trade is still very much on the radar. Do not think for one minute this has gone away or been scrapped by Obama. His desire to force 'his' new world order upon the American people is still very much alive. The funds wasted by this administration on such technology, could have gone to much better use. Increasing the output of our own resources, until wind, solar and other 'alternative or renewable' resource technologies become less expensive and much more reliable, would have made more sense.

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Blowing Wind Up Your Skirt
By Alan Caruba




One of the keystones of the Obama administration’s energy policies has been a very expensive emphasis on “clean energy”, sometimes called “renewable energy”, allocating billions to the wind and solar energy producers. Like much of the “stimulus” bill, that money is a waste.

The wind power trade group, the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), has been pouring big bucks into a public relations effort to convince Americans that wind is the energy source of the future and that acres of wind turbines should be installed to replace the proven sources, primarily coal-fired, natural gas, and nuclear plants currently providing more than 80% of the nation’s electricity needs.

Thanks to Freedom of Information requests, the Chicago Tribune revealed significant collusion among Department of Energy officials and AWEA, as well as other third-party special interest groups such as the Center for American Progress, a think tank that pushes Green and other liberal agendas.

The Tribune reported that an Assistant Secretary of Energy, Cathy Zoi, who formerly held top positions at Al Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection, was charged with crafting renewable energy policy for the Obama administration and emails obtained revealed that she was working closely with AWEA to rebut and discredit a ground-breaking study by Dr. Gabriel Calzada of Madrid’s King Juan Carlos University.

Dr. Calzada’s research concluded that, for every “green job” the Spanish government created, 2.2 jobs were destroyed and that nine out of ten government-created “green jobs” were temporary at a time when Spain’s unemployment rate is at an all-time high, not unlike the situation in the U.S.

At the time that Dr. Calzada’s study was reported, the Obama administration was pushing “Cap-and-Trade” legislation through the House. This legislation would set up a system for the sale, auction, and trade of “carbon credits” based on the totally discredited assertion that “greenhouse gases”, primarily carbon dioxide, were “causing” global warming. The bill remains in the Senate awaiting a vote.

Back in January AWEA was ecstatic over an Obama administration award of $2.3 billion in “clean energy manufacturing tax credits and the President’s call for an additional $5 billion.” There is no economic or scientific justification for the waste of taxpayer dollars in this fashion.

Also in January, a Boston Herald article by Jay Fitzgerald revealed that “National Grid customers will experience sticker shock after the giant utility negotiates a long-term electric contract with Cape Wind developers, energy experts warn.”

“The Rhode Island deal calls for National Grid to pay an eye-popping 24 cents per kilowatt hour for electricity from Deepwater Wind’s proposed wind farm off Block Island for 20 years. That’s three times higher than the current price of natural-gas generated electricity—and the Rhode Island deal includes a 3.5 percent annual increase over the life of the contract.” Continue reading

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Hat tip ARRA News Service

Through the backdoor: Obamacare and a National Energy tax. Say what?

Reconciliation, the nuclear option, whatever you want to call this asshat move by Obama and the Democrats, it shows how desperate they are to 'rahm' this horrible health care bill through. It makse no difference to these demosocialistacrats that so many Americans in poll after poll, do not want this health care bill. When Nancy Pelosi demands that her constituents vote for this bill even at the risk of ruining their political careers, damaging the party of social re-engineering for 2010 and possibly 2012 elections, something smells really foul

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Today in Washington, D.C. - Mar 2, 2010 - Dems Promote Obamacare; Backdoor National Energy

In the House, besides the below topic of Obamacare, currently 84 House Republicans the EPA’s Backdoor National Energy Tax and are on a resolution of disapproval that would prevent the EPA from implementing these job-killing regulations. You may recall that late last year, Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) head Lisa Jackson signed an “endangerment finding” stating that greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, “threaten the public health and welfare of current and future generations.” These findings pave the way for EPA regulation of emissions even though the EPA has admitted that it has not evaluated possible job losses or shifts in employment that may occur due to its rules and regulation.

it is clear that the Obama Administration is moving ahead on another front using the EPA regulations to pressure Congress into passing cap-and-tax legislation—if the Democrat Congress does not force a job-killing cap-and-tax scheme on the American people, the EPA will. The EPA endangerment finding and resulting regulation is just another massive intrusion of government into the U.S. economy. This action will stifle economic growth and kill jobs, especially in the manufacturing and agricultural sectors. The EPA regulation is simply a national energy tax that will raise costs for consumers and ship jobs overseas during a recession. If implemented, the new EPA permitting processes and rules will cost billions of dollars to implement and could potentially affect millions of small emitters such as hotels, hospitals, churches, farms, and various small businesses. The rules will inject uncertainty into the economy, delay or halt new construction, and deter investment.

Several States’ governors, attorneys general, environmental agencies, and agricultural agencies have weighed in to oppose the EPA finding, citing negative impacts for their State. In addition to House Republicans opposing efforts to implement the EPA’s job-killing regulations, they have offered a better plan to clean up the environment without a backdoor national energy tax. The American Energy Act is an all-of-the-above plan that would provide energy independence, more jobs here at home and a cleaner environment at the same time.

On the continuing saga of ramming through nationalized heath care (Obamacare), both CNN and New York Times identify that President Obama is preparing to give "a speech on Wednesday to outline ‘the way forward’ and to flesh out the substance of his proposed compromise based on the bills passed by the House and Senate . . . .” There’s been some speculation that Obama will put forward a new, smaller health care bill tomorrow, mostly based on a comment from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi yesterday.

But House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer clarified for The Hill today what Democrats are actually planning on doing: “Hoyer affirmed that Democratic leaders intend to press ahead with their plan for the House to take up the Senate bill and for both chambers to consider a package based on Obama’s proposal via budget reconciliation rules that would allow the smaller bill to pass the Senate on a simple majority vote.”

In other words, in order to provide political cover for House Democrats to vote for the 2,700 page $2.5 trillion monstrosity of a Senate health care bill, Democrats want to pass another bill and jam it through the Senate on a partisan basis. Why do House Democrats feel they need political cover? The Senate bill still features such gems as the Cornhusker Kickback, the Louisiana Purchase, a new tax on “Cadillac” health care plans, and other troublesome provisions. Continue reading

 Hat tip: arranewsservice

"It's a Great Big Tax."Democratic Congressman John Dingell (D-MI) on Cap and Trade

Dem's Cap and Trade Bill Is a 3.6 Trillion Dollar Gas Tax Too - Columns - American Issues Project

Here is some more good news on
Cap and Trade from the democrats.
It just keeps on getting better. At
this rate we will not even have any
change left in our pockets. I am
feeling so warm and fuzzy from all
this 'hope and change' Obama has
ushered in for us Americans

http://www.americanissuesproject.org/blogs/columns/archive/2009/10/27/dem-s-cap-and-trade-bill-is-a-3-6-trillion-dollar-gas-tax-too.aspx