A Long Train of Abuses and Usurpations: Towards a New Revolution

Every time I turn on the news, I wonder how bad it can get. In fact, the new administration and Congress is so imperial, so indifferent to ordinary Americans, so disdainful, so awful, it makes me want to turn away, to take up painting seascapes in Baja California, armed to the teeth, of course. Sort of like Sara Conner in the early Terminator movies.

As attractive as that prospect is (and Sarah Conner, for that matter), this would be the coward’s way out.

Yet the fact remains: the country is not being run for, by, or of the People. In fact, the evidence shows that this government is doing it to the People.

Here’s a partial list of the long train of abuses and usurpations of this most contemptible government.

John Kerry and the slow kids in the global warming/climate change movements are positively giddy that the economy contracted.

“Let me emphasize something very strongly as we begin this discussion. The United States has already this year alone achieved a 6 percent reduction in emissions simply because of the downturn in the economy, so we are effectively saying we need to go another 14 percent.”


The druids in this Administration, led by the pathetic Ken Salazar, with his western affectations, continues to place our energy resources out of reach. Remember folks, cheap energy would make our goods (manufactured goods, that is) very competitive in the world economy.

The faux cowboy, Salazar, continues to trot out ancient myths such as: "We sit on 3% of the world's oil reserves,” which completely ignores 1.5 trillion barrels of oil locked up in shale deposits in the “17 oil-shale zones in the Eocene Green River Formation in the Piceance Basin, which is located in northwestern Colorado.” These are estimates from the U.S. Geological Survey.*

Barron’s lays out this useless idiot in green lavender.

And, oil shale isn’t the only thing this poser is obstructing. He's also slowing "proposed lease sales in Cook Inlet, in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas, and in the North Aleutian Basin north of the Alaska Peninsula on the edge of Bristol Bay. It does not affect several billion dollars worth of leases already issued off Alaska's coast."

More from the Anchorage Daily News: "That means means more extensive consideration for areas of the Pacific and Atlantic coasts that were off-limits to drilling until last summer, when record energy prices led Bush to lift a ban on offshore drilling. In the face of crippling gasoline prices, Congress followed suit by allowing a drilling moratorium to lapse."

We now have 8 months of evidence that the petrified remains of Keynesianism, dusted off from 1932 and re-animated as the Obama Porkulus/Stimulus plan is failing miserably. This was predicted four years earlier by a pair of economists at UCLA, Harold L. Cole and Lee E. Ohanian warned of the damage an ill-conceived stimulus could do to the economy. In their study of the Great Depression, they concluded that FDR’s policies prolonged the misery by 7 years.*


"Why the Great Depression lasted so long has always been a great mystery , and because we never really knew the reason, we have always worried whether we would have another 10- to 15-year economic slump," said Ohanian, vice chair of UCLA's Department of Economics. "We found that a relapse isn't likely unless lawmakers gum up a recovery with ill-conceived stimulus policies."(emphasis mine)

The Congress and the President show an almost imperial disdain for the American middle class. The President and the First Lady jet off to New York for a date night at enormous expense. The Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Democrat Charlie Rangel, is knee deep in a putrid swamp of ethics violations. Our very own Marie Antoinette, Nancy Pelosi is cheerleader of a headlong shift towards Marxism, a confiscation of property, and redistribution while crushing the spirit of America’s entrepreneurial class.

*Not all of that shale oil can be extracted using current technology. Experts tell me that today's drillers might be able to get at 500 billion to 700 billion barrels. Still, when you consider that Saudi Arabia's known reserves are an estimated 250 billion barrels, that is a lot of black gold.

More to Come