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Gen Stanley McChrystal To Resign

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Joe Klein, ahead of others, says he has information indicating General McChrystal has submitted papers of resignation following the publication of an article in Rolling Stone (article here):

[Updated at 6:04 p.m.] Gen. Stanley McChrystal has “offered to resign,” according to a Twitter post from Time magazine’s Joe Klein on Tuesday. Earlier, Klein, citing “a very reliable source,” told CNN that McChrystal had already submitted his resignation.

Gen McChrystal made a very poor decision in terms of allowing anyone from Rolling Stone access to he and his staff, first and foremost.

In terms of ROEs, that is an issue that should have been screamed from the highest towers for some time.

I submit this: Gen McChrystal was wrong to engage the media, and was wrong to speak out of school. I believe Mr Obama will accept McChrystal’s resignation and that, also, is wrong.

This is a situation that will result in more American deaths in Afghanistan particularly in light of the specified announcement of a withdrawal timetable.

Taking McChrystal off the military chart will indicate immaturity on Mr Obama’s part, as well as his thin skin and his listening to advice from his hyper-political staff. Even U.S. Grant was retained. Even Patton was retained. Even MacArthur was retained for some time.
On the other hand, Mr Obama is no Lincoln, no FDR, no Truman. He makes Carter look cogent.

BZ
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Obama Unmasked, Part I: Amnesty

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There is almost too much news to comprehend.

– It is egregious
– It has to do with Obama
– It will impact your freedoms
– It will impact your taxes
– It will impact your children for generations
– It will impact our very Constitution

Where shall I begin?

How about the real reason for Obama’s desperate search for amnesty for illegal invaders?

From the above video:

SEN. JON KYL: I met with the president in the Oval Office, just the two of us. Here’s what the president said.

“The problem is,” he said, “If we secure the border, then you all won’t have any reason to support comprehensive immigration reform.”

[gasps from the audience]

KYL: In other words they’re holding it hostage. They don’t want to secure the border unless and until it is combined with comprehensive immigration reform.

I explained, “You and I have an obligation to secure the border. That’s an obligation. It also has some potentially positive benefits. You don’t have to have comprehensive immigration to secure the border, but you have to have a secure border to get comprehensive immigration reform. You may be surprised, maybe you don’t think that there’d be any more incentive, but I’m not so sure that that’s true. In any event, it doesn’t matter we’re supposed to secure the border.”

That’s why this is being done. They want to get something in return for doing their duty. And that’s—

AUDIENCE MEMBER: Chicago politics.

KYL: Yeah.

Ladies and gentlemen, it’s all done for votes. Period. In order to keep the Democrats in power forever. Period.

Mr Obama is “ruling by decree.”

BZ

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Your Federal Government: Cooperating To Its FULLEST In The Gulf

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Government obstructionism? Red tape? Cross every “t” and dot every “i”? In a time of extreme peril? No one has the power to set anything aside?

Yes, that’s your federal government at work.

From Reuters:

Bureaucracy frustrates U.S. Gulf oil spill efforts
19 Jun 2010 20:16:24 GMT

Source: Reuters

* Local officials frustrated by delays, red tape
* Barges halted for 24 hours for safety inspections
* Military-type chain of command urged
By Jeffrey Jones
GRAND ISLE, Louisiana, June 19 (Reuters) – Those on the front lines of the U.S. Gulf Coast oil spill say they are forced to fight two battles — one against the crude washing into lush wetlands and another against needless bureaucracy.

Sixty-one days after the BP Plc well began spewing crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico, angry local officials blame dozens of federal agencies involved in approving response plans, a maze of regulations and poor coordination for their struggles beating back the slick.

“My experience has been frustration, too much red tape, no a sense of urgency. For the state and the coastal parishes that are directly affected to put forth a plan, you have to kick and scream every step of the way to get it approved,” said John Young, council chairman for Jefferson Parish in Louisiana.

“The president said it’s a war. I agree we’re under siege, but if it was a war, we’d be occupied territory now.”

“. . . we’d be occupied territory by now.”

There’s no refuting BP’s role in the initial catastrophe chain resulting in the spill. None whatsoever. There is no refuting the federal government’s role insisting on BP and others drilling in waters over a mile deep because it was “bad” to drill either close to shore or our own sovereign soil. Resulting, of course, in these wells being geometrically-major problems at those depths.

Yes, there is no refuting the fact that the government has taken a laissez-faire attitude towards one of the greatest recent threats to our shores.

Anyone remember General Russel L. Honore and Katrina? “Stuck on stupid“? Where’s the gulf’s Gen Honore?

Just remember this, my dearest readers: if you are not affected now, what happens in the future when your area is struck with catastrophe? And what if politics or agendas are somehow involved? Do you think your area or your community is any more “special” than an entire series of coastal states as are currently affected in the gulf region?

Because, after all, one person really does have the power in this current administration to grab the bully pulpit and get things moving — if they want to.

Do you think Mr Obama will gallantly stride his federal government into your area and cast aside red tape in consideration of your plight?

Do you?

BZ

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Obama: Energy Prices Will “Necessarily Skyrocket” — AFFIRMED

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Ben Lieberman writes the Truth. Finally, someone in the written MSM “gets it.”

From the New York Post:

President Obama has a solution to the Gulf oil spill: $7-a-gallon gas.

That’s a Harvard University study’s estimate of the per-gallon price of the president’s global-warming agenda. And Obama made clear this week that this agenda is a part of his plan for addressing the Gulf mess.

So what does global-warming legislation have to do with the oil spill?

Good question, because such measures wouldn’t do a thing to clean up the oil or fix the problems that led to the leak.

The answer can be found in Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel’s now-famous words, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste — and what I mean by that is it’s an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.”

But, as I keep hammering home, that is precisely the point of the current crisis and the point of Mr Obama’s under-reaction. It’s time to sacrifice our southern coasts on behalf of an agenda.

Continuing, from Mr Lieberman:

Now the president is repackaging cap-and-trade — again — as a long-term solution to the oil spill. But it’s the same old agenda, a huge energy tax that will raise the cost of gasoline and electricity high enough so that we’re forced to use less.

The logic linking cap-and-trade to the spill in the Gulf should frighten anyone who owns a car or truck. Such measures force up the price at the pump — Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs thinks it “may require gas prices greater than $7 a gallon by 2020” to meet Obama’s stated goal of reducing emissions 14 percent from the transportation sector.

Of course, doing so would reduce gasoline use and also raise market share for hugely expensive alternative fuels and vehicles that could never compete otherwise. Less gasoline demand means less need for drilling and thus a slightly reduced chance of a repeat of the Deepwater Horizon spill — but only slightly. Oil will still be a vital part of America’s energy mix.

Oil must be a major part of American energy. There is no viable alternative. There are smaller chunks of the plan but any one of those parts — or even the conglomerate — isn’t remotely sufficient to step in as a fossil fuel replacement.

Sadly, the bulk of Americans and youth think of oil solely in association with cars and trucks on the freeway. They are told they “want” electric cars. We are not equipped to handle the demand of electric vehicles. You remember, don’t you, when a barrel of oil peaked at $147 in July of 2008?

When was the last time we built a refinery? When was the last time we built an electrical generation station?

To the Obama Administration:

If you really want to bring America to a complete standstill, you just bring on the $7 a gallon gas.

I dare you.

BZ

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