Obama's energy jobs destroyed number

Obama: Frigging with Rigging

According to the Department of Energy, U.S. offshore oil production is going to drop by 11% in 2011.  The reason is the Obama administration's ban on deep water drilling that came about, conveniently, as a result of the Gulf Oil Spill.  What the President wants is green energy self-sufficiency - in other words energy self-sufficiency on his terms.  Setting aside the  President's hypocrisy on energy self sufficiency in the United States, there's the issue of the President once again, putting an agenda ahead of the needs of the American people.  In a time of economic trouble, shouldn't the President be doing as much as he can to mitigate the economic circumstances faced by the nation?

Jobs NOT Saved

Remember President Obama said that we had to pass his stimulus in order to save jobs?  Sure you do.  He promised unemployment would go above 8% unless government acted.  Remember when the unemployment rate went over 10% following the stimulus bill passing?  Oops.  I've got a number for you - the number of jobs the President didn't save.

Coming Soon: An Obama Agenda

I've had time to digest the Obama State of the Union, unfortunately not enough time to organize my notes an put together a detailed analysis. That's coming soon, although I think the title really encapsulates the State of the Union address, which seemed a lot like a rudderless ship.


A few other possible titles I'm mulling over for my analysis;

-Stand Pat and Don't Deliver
-Obama Repacked, Not Rebranded
-Not New, Not Improved - Same Old Obama
-Not A Pivot As Much As A Shotgun Approach
-All Over The Map? Obama Doesn't Need No Stinkin' Map!

Do you have any title preferences or suggestions? How about a theme for the post? Post them in the comments section. There's a lot of material to work with. So changing the slant of the post should be simple enough.

For example as I noted last night on Twitter, when President Obama mentioned America must lead the clean energy future;

America will lead with windmills. Way to go Don Quixote.

As I said, The analysis will be coming soon. I haven't had a chance to work on it today - thankfully, I have a job - so the post might be a bit late. And for the record Mr. President - you didn't save my job, and no it's not your place to do so. Just stay out of the way and I'll take care of it myself, along with my employer.

Janet Napolitano, otherwise unemployable

Talk about jobs saved or created - certainly the White House's continued employment of Janet Napolitano counts as one job definitely, though inexplicably, saved.

Janet Napolitano, throwing the entire Obama administration under the proverbial bus by saying everything worked as it was supposed to work during this crisis - apparently explaining away the lack of response from the President himself.



The problem is that the country wasn't buying it and the administration had to come back with the "systemic failure" talking points to prove that they are serious about threats to Americans. even if the President is in Hawaii.



The President's CYA response - blame the system, the agencies and the people.  In other words, throw someone else under the bus.  After all, it's all about nursing the approval rating through 2012, isn't it?

The real systemic failure is the employment of bad personnel in senior positions who think the important part of the job is to re-name terrorist acts 'man-caused disasters' instead of calling them what they are.  The real systemic failure is the new system that ignores the reality of the world and tries to paint rainbows on the enemies of freedom and democracy.  The real systemic failure is that even now, no reasonable recall mechanism exists for those in charge of national security.