May 26, 2010
DAY 38
While oil is choking to death once-sustainable fishing in the Gulf, the President of the United States flees Washington in taxpayer-funded Air Force One (airfare $1500/minute) and flies across country to raise money chatting about the need for sustainable energy.
Here’s a snippet of barry’s remarks at SEN BOXER’S FUNDRAISER (the first of two). He mentions the Gulf coast only when he reaches the “energy” section of TOTUS.
So the first is energy.
What third person emotion do you get from him this time?
Now, there’s not a person who has just felt that sense of despair in watching the broadcasts about the oil spill down in the Gulf.
Take note of the intonation of “me”.
Nobody is more upset than me. Because, ultimately, like any President, when this happens on your watch, and every day you are thinking, how does this get solved?
Clearly reading it for the first time.
And so we’ve sent over a thousand people down to the Gulf, boom, equipment, legal advisors, helping fishermen who have lost their livelihoods as a consequence of this. And we are now having to do a thoroughgoing review to see how it is that oil companies can say that they know how to handle these problems when it turns out actually that they don’t.
And that’s a responsibility of government.
Energy first, felt the sense, watching, upset, me, ultimately, like any president, your watch, thinking, rhetorical question, having to do, to see, abstract government. No emotion, no acceptance of responsibility, no mention of the 11 men who were killed or the despair of their family members.
Politicizes it and then gives a shout out to his bud Sen Corker.
But we also have to face a broader fact. There’s a reason why those folks are out there drilling a mile down in the water, and then when they hit ground a mile down, they have to go another mile down to get oil. That’s an expensive proposition, it’s a dangerous proposition, it’s a risky proposition. Why are we doing it? Well, we’re doing it because we have not made a transition to a new energy future.
And we’ve been putting it off for decade after decade after decade. And it is about time that we said to ourselves that we’re ready to make a change on behalf of the future of our children and our grandchildren. And it won’t happen overnight. It won’t happen tomorrow. It won’t happen next week. But if we start investing in clean energy technology and solar and wind and biodiesel, if we invest in hybrid plug-ins that can get 150 miles a gallon, if we start making our buildings more efficient and if we start finally saying to ourselves we can’t just let everybody pollute for free if we follow science and we follow some common-sense principles, then, look, oil is still going to be in the energy mix.
We’re not going to eliminate that completely. But we are going to over time transition to ourselves and we will become more energy efficient, which will be good for our national security, it will be good for our economy, it will be good for our environment, it will be good for our future. And by the way, we can create millions of jobs right here in the United States of America investing in a new clean energy future.
And I told the Republicans, I am ready to work with you right now to get this done.
Who are the mindless fools still enraptured by these same empty words?
