Snarky, But Balanced

A Whip Before You Go, Cicero?

Why certainly, my Dear!

Mark Steyn: Obama an Appeaser? How Dare You!

Twilight of the Goddesses: Aging, Bitter Feminists Enter the Twilight Stage.  My favorite will always be Fred Reed's Feminist Tarantulas.

Speaking of Sighing Husks, A Subdued Hillary Continues the Death Dance.  McCain: Is She Feeling Sorry for Herself?

'Those People on TV'  One Tarantella Too Many

Some of Clinton's supporters seem to be cultivating, for a purpose, a permutation of the entitlement mentality that many voters thought they discerned in her candidacy and found off-putting. She seemed to feel entitled to the Democrats' nomination, and having been denied it she may feel really entitled to be Obama's running mate. But for him, choosing her would be even more dangerous than Bosnian sniper fire. She would solve none of his problems and would create others.

What Clinton Isn't Owed

A portent of your future: Obama Blames Fox News for his Loss.

The GOP: Democrats in Starched Shirts

The British View of Conservatism: What do you do if you are a conservative in a party whose brand has become synonymous with nastiness, xenophobia, homo-phobia, narcissism and incompetence?

Judicial Activism: Constitutional Sodomy in California

Congress is to Blame for Insanity at the Pump  Like Kreiz says

Comments

[kreiz]

Tully at Stubborn Facts says it much better than I can:

"Yes, I blame the Democrats for our energy problems. ALL fuel/energy alternatives can be useful and usable--as they become economically and technologically viable. What the Dems have done is to try to make their preferred dream solutions more economically viable by governmental dictate, an approach that has a long history of poor results. Our addiction to oil has been based on it being cheap. As it becomes uncheap, plenty of alternatives come into play. But much of the large-scale infrastructure required to utilize such alternatives (such as more nuclear energy) has also been continually stymied by the Dems."

[Irish Cicero]

A post, I say.

[kreiz]

Tully's exactly right on this. Dems have blocked ANWR drilling, off shore drililng and nuclear production- all the while arguing that America needs to be energy independent. It's griping me that McCain isn't forcing Obama's hand on this issue- that is, what exactly is Obama's energy independence recipe? Because it appears to me that the Dem solution is to follow GWB to Saudia Arabia and beg the Kingdom for more oil production, as we've done precious little to advance energy independence ourselves. The reality is that our ever-increasing energy needs demand new energy solutions, and we should be in a problem-solving mode toward this end. It's beyond me why McCain hasn't confronted Dems and capitalized on this issue.

[Irish Cicero]

No one wants to tell the adolescent Left the truth: American Oil Companies need to make MASSIVE profit.

Yeah, your buddy Tully got it right.

By the way, "Tully" is how Cicero was referred to for several centuries. When the Founding Fathers said "Tully", they meant Cicero!

Didja know that?

[kreiz]

I had no idea what 'Tully' meant or that it was a psuedonym for Cicero. All I know about this guy is that he's brilliant, lives in Wichita, and is a mystery wrapped in an enigma. Incredible depth of knowledge on many subjects- he's great.

[Irish Cicero]

Hmmm.

[kreiz]

Sadly, Dems have been worshipping at the altar of the new and irrefutable religion- environmentalism.

[kreiz]

And, as I suspected, here's Obama's energy campaign- recycled Jimmy Carter circa 1977:

"We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen."

[Irish Cicero]

Well . . . .

I don't always know what to think.

For America to do well, entering the 21st Century, we need to be confident about our right to improve matters. As you well know, Kreiz, saving the caribou, et cetera, is not necessarily improvement.

I don't know how we're going to do, but the portents don't look good.

[kreiz]

Understand, IC. My belief is that maintaining a forward-looking, technology-driven outlook is crucial. In fairness, I don't know if ANWR + offshore + shale + nuclear will result in energy independence; it may not. But fostering can-do pragmatism is as important as the technology itself. Retreating to a zero-growth, zero-sum mindset doesn't portend well for us in the long run.

[Irish Cicero]

I'm always haunted by Asimov's Foundation Series (which was a trilogy when I read it!): One of his central themes was that when a civilization started to regress, or fail to improve, technologically, it meant it was starting to decline, i.e., dying.

Very much the Spenglarian version of, "If there are cars and washer machines in the front yard, no amount of income redistribution will make those folks rich."

[kreiz]

Guess my gut matches Asimov's. Makes perfect sense to me.