A temporary moment of good news: A U.S. district court judge has ruled in favor of ending a six-month moratorium on drilling for oil in deepwater. The ruling just came down in New Orleans a few hours ago. Moments later, the White House said they would appeal it.
Do you remember when the president had this to say at the State of the Union address?
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: With all due deference to separation of powers, last week the Supreme Court reversed a century of law that I believe will open the floodgates for special interest, including foreign corporations to spend without limit in our election. I'd urge Democrats and Republicans to pass a bill that helps correct some of these problems.
When I heard that, it kind of reminded me of FDR. When the Supreme Court started striking down the new deal, he targeted four senior members of the court, and tried to add four new ones to "pack" it and circumvent the efforts of those that opposed the new deal.
This is nothing new for progressives. They jam things down your throat, cut deals, and if that doesn't work, they jam it through the court system. Watch him dismantle the court system, but celebrate while you can.
Yesterday I showed you this. It's like a circle of organized crime, but it's also something more. It's a death sentence for two reasons:
1. Energy
2. Corruption
Let's start with energy. Why did the U.S. prosper after World War II? For a number of reasons; no one worked harder than Americans.
While the Frenchy Frenchmen were working 11 hours a week and retiring at 38, we were grinding it out. We had the biggest dreamers and the brightest entrepreneurs, and we had a country that gave them the best possible platform to let their ideas and their imaginations reach their potential: the free market system.
The other important key was cheap energy. We had the technology and we used it —by 1957 the first nuke plant was created. Compare that with today — do we still have the hardest workers? Yup. The best dreamers? Yup. Entrepreneurs? Yes. Is the free market engine still running? No. Companies are beholden to the almighty unions, and when the unions drag a company down to its knees, the government steps in and takes control, micromanaging and crippling the company even more. And what about energy? Not only is it expensive, but we have an administration who is actively trying to make it more expensive! Not my words, his:
Who thinks that's a good idea? They're going to shove us into alternative energies that aren't ready yet. It's like being forced to drive over a bridge before it's been completed; it'll be great when it's done, but try to cross it now and you'll plummet to certain death.
Look at the destruction this six-month moratorium on drilling is and will continue to cause if the court doesn't stop it. Drilling suspension alone will result in a loss of 3,000 to 6,000 Louisiana jobs in the first two to three weeks and possibly over 10,000 in a few months; when the entire country is only creating about 40,000 non-government jobs. How could this president do something to cripple us further?
The state risks losing more than 20,000 jobs over the next year and a half. Tighter supply leads to higher prices, some say $150 a barrel and $4 gallon gas are on the way and Harvard is saying $7 a gallon with cap-and-trade. Thirty-three oil rigs are now being fought over for anyone to use but us.
No politician is listening to you. Let them know you want the madness to stop. Block this attempt. Mr. President, you have your out, you fought and the court decided. This cannot be dragged out, if they do that it's over anyway. It needs to be decided now.
Given the extremely negative effect this drilling ban will have, is it any wonder that the people of Louisiana are upset with the way this president has handled the crisis? Polls show they believe Bush would handle this better, and only 32 percent think Obama's doing a good job.
That's partly because they want the drilling to continue by a narrow 77 percent to 12 percent margin. Even 60 percent of Louisiana Obama supporters want the drilling to continue, and the facts back up the sentiment.
There have been over 50,000 wells drilled in the Gulf of Mexico, over 4,000 of them deepwater wells and 700 ultra-deepwater wells; all this with no major incidents until now. That is a 99.998 percent success ratio. But they are going to punish Louisiana anyway. They have invested over $150 million for its fleet of vessels that are now being shut down for six months. When in the history of the country has an entire industry been shut down for six months? Why do it now? It doesn't make any sense. But this isn't the first time the administration has defied logic and public will.
Over 60 percent opposed health care; 63 percent support the Arizona immigration law that the president is about to sue the state over. And now this. Why?
That brings me to corruption. With 33 rigs about to be put out of commission, one company that contracts their oil rig vessels (Laborde Marine) received a call. And it didn't take long till the call came in; only 48 hours after Obama issued the drilling moratorium. One guess who that call came from: Petrobras. Yes, that's right, the George Soros heavily-backed Brazilian state run oil company Petrobras wants to lease the unused rigs. Here's how Governor Jindal responded to the 6-month ban:
GOVERNOR BOBBY JINDAL, R-LA.: This isn't about the multinational companies. They're going to pick up and they're going to move those rigs. They're going to move those rigs to Brazil. They'll move those rigs to Africa. They'll move those rigs to other countries and they won't come back for years. Once they're gone, once they're contracted somewhere else, they're not coming back.
It costs at least $10 million to move the rigs, so it's unlikely they'd find their way back if they are leased. The jobs won't ever come back. How about that. The same company that the administration was willing to loan $2 billion dollars to, a company with vast resources, $15 billion in profits a year at least, will make off with our rigs. They are planning to invest 95 percent of $224 billion they plan to spend on exploration back into Brazil. So what's in it for us? Nothing!
But there's something in it for the players in Crime Inc. George Soros had at one time $900 million invested in Petrobras. And before you dismiss the connection, look at how much influence Soros' Center for American Progress (CAP) has on this administration.
Soros wants wind and solar: Obama uses CAP to spin against damaging facts.
Soros wants a smart grid: Obama (through GE) wants it too, and California passed a bill that requires the Public Utilities Commission to develop a plan for Smart Grid use
Soros has suggested the president should have nationalized the banks. In the House bill, "Regulators would have the power to stop banks on a case-by-case basis from risky activities."
They want to ban corporate influence on campaign commercials? What about the influence one guy is having through Media Matters (smear campaigns), CAP (public policy), Tides (indoctrination).
Forget God, it's in George we trust. He's gonna get his. This isn't about saving the planet. They tell us global warming is a moral issue; well how can he justify drilling in Brazil? The same people who claim to be the earth's saviors are raping the earth, so please, spare me the lecture on my SUV and filling up the air in my tires. I'm sick of the Al Gore's of the world telling me to drive a crappy 'Smart' car (doesn't look all that smart, or safe, to drive one). And I'm sick of them telling me to inflate my tires before every time I drive, when they have multiple mansions and fleets of SUVs. Stop telling me what to do and who to be like.
Hillary Clinton said we need to be like Brazil:
SECRETARY OF STATE HILLARY CLINTON: Brazil has the highest tax-to-GDP rate in the Western Hemisphere. And guess what? It's growing like crazy. And the rich are getting richer, but they're pulling people out of poverty. There is a certain formula there that used to work for us until we abandoned it; to our regret, in my opinion.
Here's a news flash, Hillary: I don't want to be like Brazil! Why the hell would we want to be Brazil? Yeah, I know they have the beaches, the bikinis, and the statue of Jesus, but what's life there really like? One in four live below the poverty line. And believe me, their poverty line ain't your poverty line. Our poverty line is no HD or no DVR. Theirs is going to the bathroom in a ditch. And what about crime? It's rapidly rising, and the murder rates are four times that of the United States. A human rights expert from the U.N. writes:
"Many Brazilians, especially inhabitants of shanty towns, continue to be subject to murder and other forms of brutal violence by various gangs, militias, death squads and the police, despite efforts by the government to end the crimes…There were at least 11,000 so-called resistance killings in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro between 2003 and 2009….many of these killings were actually executions."
I've got a friend who does business in Brazil and spends a lot of time there. He's had to hire a security team because cars like his down there are riddled with bullet holes. Here's what happens on a regular basis in the cities:
Wow, Hillary, when can we be like Brazil? It looks great. And that's where we are 'investing' our money while people here on our own shores are suffering. And the spill is bad enough, but the drill ban is the nail in the coffin.
We used to inspire the world with our pursuits of the unknown and our exploration. It's in our blood. America was discovered on an amazing, daring exploration. We led the global space race, the searching of the seas, the quest for energy and oil. Americans don't want to sit around and wait for others to do it. That's not who we are, but apparently that's who the president wants you to be.
Does anyone really believe the world will like us better by chopping America down to size? Do you think the people we are supposedly 'lifting up' out of poverty will care about the rain forest? We care because we are blessed and fortunate enough to have vast resources; our bellies are full, our kids are fed. So we can spend time caring about distant forests. Do you think Brazil will care about it? China? They'll cut the rain forest and they'll eat every spotted owl for lunch and import polar bear for dinner if they have to, because they're hungry.
You aren't saving a rain forest or the earth with this ban. All you are doing is making a rich progressive even richer, and punishing Americans at the same time.
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Thursday, June 17, 2010 
By Glenn Beck
President Obama declares war
We're entering a new phase, gang, and you're seeing it played out in the media right now. We are no longer being nudged to get in line. You are getting shoved.
There's a war being fought and it isn't against the oil spill, it's a war on your very way of life. The words I'm hearing in the media right now are some of the most shocking words I've ever heard. And they call me crazy? I'm going to play some of the clips for you tonight — you won't believe it — but first I want to look at the president's address on the BP spill.
They're comparing it to Jimmy Carter's "crisis of confidence" speech, where Carter was his usual inept, wimpy self. No, Obama didn't blow it; he did exactly what he wanted to. This speech was a declaration of war — listen to the language:
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: The one approach I will not accept is inaction. The one answer I will not settle for is the idea that this challenge is somehow too big and too difficult to meet. You know, the same thing was said about our ability to produce enough planes and tanks in World War II.
And this one:
OBAMA: I've returned from a trip to the Gulf Coast to speak with you about the battle we're waging against an oil spill that is assaulting our shores and our citizens…. Tonight I'd like to lay out for you what our battle plan is going forward.
Battle plan; assault on our shores; World War II — George Stephanopolous described it as "martial language":
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS, ABC: Those Oval Office addresses are often used when the nation is at war and tonight the president used martial language. He talked about a "siege," the "assault on our shores" and his "battle plan" to fix it. And he said we have to "rally together." And I think what the White House was reaching for tonight is the feel of Franklin Roosevelt during World War II and those fireside chats. And the president even said that during World War II they said we couldn't build enough planes and tanks, but we did. We can beat this as well.
It was Obama's first speech from the Oval Office as president. Presidents usually only give an address from the Oval Office for extremely unusual events, like major economic news, addressing a tragedy or an announcement of war.
Don't get me wrong: This oil spill is a disaster. It's an actual crisis, not a manufactured one like health care. But remember, it's Obama who went on national TV to plead for the passage of the stimulus bill, because America may not make it if it doesn't pass and he didn't use the Oval Office for that one.
So the complete and total collapse of America doesn't warrant a speech from the Oval Office, but an oil spill that the president has waited months to address (and golfed six times and went to McCartney concerts in the meantime) suddenly does?
Why is Obama declaring war on the oil spill? As usual, the answer is found in history. This speech may as well have been given by Woodrow Wilson or FDR. Progressives need a crisis with the moral equivalent to war to pass unpopular bills. That's not my theory — remember, it was Woodrow Wilson propaganda specialist Edward Bernays who was so excited about how well their war propaganda worked that he wanted to expand the idea:
"It was, of course, the astounding success of propaganda during the war that opened the eyes of the intelligent few in all departments of life to the possibilities of regimenting the public mind. It was only natural after the war ended that intelligent persons should ask themselves whether it was not possible to apply a similar technique to the problems of peace."
Bernays was an incredibly influential man. He was mentioned in diaries of Goebbels. The Nazis learned propaganda from us. It was the emergency propaganda that led Jews to the ovens: Jews were causing problems, they'd take over banks according to them. Some of the worst villains in all of history have used the idea of propaganda the way the American Bernays (under Woodrow Wilson) intended it to be used. It's a progressive tactic and it works on both manufactured and real crisis. Because if there is a crisis, people will say "you've got to do something!"
George W. Bush, a progressive, put the massive Patriot Act through after Sept. 11. It was easy; we had to do something against a foreign enemy. And so we created the Department of Homeland Security and we took off our shoes and our belts and we believed it. We believed Bush was going to keep us safe. Until we didn't fix our borders, then we realized it wasn't really about protecting us, it was about something else. It was about big government and control. It didn't feel right.
As president, one of the first things Obama did was change the name "War on Terror" to an "overseas contingency operation." He said there is no War on Terror or Islamic extremism. But now he's announcing a war on an oil slick. Again, it doesn't feel right.
We saw on the border, if the government really wanted to protect us, they would stop the flood of illegal immigrants first. And if this were really about stopping the oil spill, before talking about energy taxes and cap-and-trade and solar panels, you'd stop the oil. It's called a tourniquet!
Obama says this is a war, yet he's only meeting with the CEO of BP for 20 minutes? The people on his "commission" know almost nothing about oil wells, except for the fact that they are activists who want to stop offshore drilling.
Fran Beinecke, the head of the White House National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, has no oil experience, but she is the president of the Natural Resources Defense Council and has publicly voiced opposition to traditional energy sources.
The president is using this to gain power, to take advantage of crisis and use it to jam through legislation that otherwise would never have a chance. And right now, the things progressives want have no chance. Leading Democrats are saying there is no political will to pass the climate bill. Obama wants to do what he believes is right: Pass the climate bill. But he can't. If he just had some people to help force him do what he believes is right. Wait, where have I heard that before? Oh yes, from the communists and the socialists.
Remember the video we showed you from the progressive America's Future Now conference? They were throwing stuff at Nancy Pelosi because they are upset. Van Jones told the crowd that the president is on your side, he really wants to do things — but he needs the will of the people behind him! So you have to start from the bottom up
VAN JONES, FORMER WHITE HOUSE GREEN JOBS "CZAR": This week will mark an historic inflection point when progressives decided to be progressive again in this country.
So now your challenge, as you leave here — our challenge — is to take care of that bottom-up part and that inside-out part: the heart part. That's where we're weak now.
He can't go it alone. He needs an atmosphere that allows the president to know what he is doing is right. Got it? And Van Jones said at that conference that something has changed. Even the people at CNBC are noticing something's wrong:
MATT NESTO, CNBC: But I'm very troubled by the fact that the president has once again created his own sense of, of a legal system…. It's not his job to create laws. It's his job to enforce laws.
That's CNBC noticing something is wrong. But the president couldn't get that to happen unless those who want fundamental transformation to start creating the conditions where president can do what he knows is right.
Rosie O'Donnell is out there calling for government to seize BP:
ROSIE O'DONNELL: I say seize their assets… right now. Seize their assets today. Take over the country, I don't care. Issue an executive order and say, BP, guess what? Call it socialism. Call it communism. Call it anything you want. Let's watch Rush Limbaugh explode on TV. Seize the assets, take over BP.
MSNBC, the same network who has called me crazy for suggesting that we are heading down a big government road that could eventually lead to a dictator — maybe the next president, maybe not Obama, but down the road — well, listen to this:
ED SCHULTZ, MSNBC: Mr. President, I want to see the boot on the neck of BP tonight. I want to see some finger-pointing whether it's in your personality or not. And it's OK tonight to act kind of like a dictator and call the shots, saying this is the way it's going to be.
Don't you think this is a moment where President Obama has to make sure that he lets everybody know that he's calling the shots, and almost in words of maybe a dictator, that this is the way we're going to do it?
They are calling for him to act like a dictator? I get in hot water for showing how we are expanding government so much that if the wrong guy gets in there we'll have a dictator. But MSNBC can literally demand that the president start being a dictator and there's crickets?
Everyone is saying that the president is in trouble because he's lost MSNBC, the thrill up the leg network. Yes, this is exactly as designed by Van Jones and other progressives at the America's Future Now conference. They're working from the bottom up and creating an environment where fundamental transformation can take place. And they are using every device they can.
Time Magazine and everyone else ridiculed me as Howard Beale. They said he was dangerous, crazy. But now MSNBC is now touting Dylan Ratigan as Howard Beale. In a profile interview, Ratigan was asked about being an "angry anchorman" like Beale — and the interviewer said the host was "happy to acknowledge" that: "We need that guy from 'Network.' At some point somebody has to walk in the room and be like, 'None of you are solving the problem!'"
Isn't it amazing that the media is now calling for an angry, forceful Howard Beale-like character from the president, just to get things done? One host is actually calling for a dictator. The media doesn't seem to have a problem with the president making up his own laws. As it always is in history with progressives, they're never responsible for their own problems.
