MY VIEW -In 2011 We Should Stand Up to the Left and Push for Energy Independence

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'Cowboy up' Congress

MY VIEW -In 2011 We Should Stand Up to the Left and Push for Energy Independence

 By Jerry McConnell  Saturday, January 15, 2011

A friend named David who reads my Canada Free Press columns sent me a very enlightened and insightful reply to one I recently wrote on the potential candidacies of Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin for the Office of President in 2012.

As I read his message it struck me how eerily similar his words were with what was tumbling over and over again in my own mind; some of which I have already posted in columns over the past months on Canada Free Press.

He began by telling me that he viewed the candidacy of Newt Gingrich “with alarm as he is not what he represents himself to be.”  While I have never actually written those words before it struck me that those thoughts have been in my mind for some time.  Gingrich is the type of person that makes you feel comfortable and also makes you want to believe him.

But after listening and absorbing what he says combined with numerous actions that are counter to what he has said, you have to begin to reconsider his sincerity.  For instance, his insistence on being a conservative when put to the test is often lacking in credence.  Example: Endorsing New York 23rd District Congress woman DeDe Scozzafaza after she was defeated in the primary by a conservative candidate in spite of her far less than conservative positions in Congress before the election.

David was a lobbyist in Washington, DC in the early ‘90s and worked with a “number of organizations to fight the tyranny of the environmental left, especially the Endangered Species Act, (ESA) which those environmental lefties used to steal land and shut down ranching and industry.”  He tells the story of how the organizations that he was working with “had an excellent bill introduced by conservative Rep. John Shadegg (R-AZ) to revise the ESA and get its boot off the neck of land owners and actually recover needed species, when Gingrich, a tool of the environmental left, stopped the effort dead in its tracks.”

David also reminded me of Gingrich’s “embrace of global warming” in the years before this hoax was finally debunked to the embarrassment of its sponsors who were growing wealthy on the backs of the country’s taxpayers by enticing grant monies from the federal government for their “studies.” Gingrich at times has displayed a fondness for the catastrophic Cap and Trade legislation, Al Gore’s answer to global warming.  As David says, these kinds of treasonous loyalties in the Republican Party are killing the country as surely as Obama’s Marxist agenda.

Gingrich’s addiction to environmental tyrants and legislation may have been nurtured by another RINO Republican, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) along with his hand-picked VP partner Sarah Palin.  According to Grist.org, an online information provider by Daniel J. Weiss, Oct. 22, 2010 ‘The GOP changes its tune on cap-and-trade’

“Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) introduced several global warming pollution reductions bills during the previous decade. While running for president in 2008, McCain proposed to reduce global warming pollution via a cap-and-trade program.

“Then-Gov. Palin also supported a cap-and-trade system to reduce global warming pollution as the GOP nominee for vice president. She reiterated that support during the vice presidential debate.  But her biggest non-conservative offering currently is her strong desire to grant immediate citizenship to all of the 20 or more million illegal aliens who broke our laws to get here.  That is support for larger government, more spending, more taxes and perpetuation of joblessness in America.

“Former He railed against the “cap-and-trade energy tax” in 2009.” 

My friend David adds, “To me, the most important issue facing the country is energy independence.  Both parties have failed miserably on this.  Actually both parties have been whores of the environmental left while they put more and more land off limits to oil and coal development, stop construction of refineries, and prevented construction of nuclear and hydroelectric plants. We have 8800 dams, but few are used to generate power devoid of pollution or waste.”

I couldn’t agree more with that assessment; and I firmly believe that Obama is deliberately stopping offshore oil drilling in order to KEEP us dependent on the many Islamic countries that control much of the world’s oil deposits. Our Congress should develop a rigid backbone and stand up to the socialist-liberals who would have us give up our independence and become chattels of the corrupt United Nations and the evil Bilderberg Group.

My advice to new House Speaker John Boehner would be to ignore Obama’s wishes and push legislation to IMMEDIATELY BEGIN oil drilling in our offshore areas that we KNOW have significant supplies of oil.  Just the threat of our doing that will see oil prices plummet; the OPEC and other oil cartels will fold if we ever begin to produce oil from our own resources. 

Stopping the rise in oil and gas prices now is a ticket to the White House and conservative control of Congress in 2012. 

‘Cowboy up’, Congress.

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