THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume XII, Issue # 153, August 11, 2010
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
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OBAMA DID SHAKEDOWN BP & AMERICA
By Christopher G. Adamo
AMERICA'S CURRENT NATIONAL LEADERSHIP: THE ABJECT HYPOCRISY, INEPTITUDE, & COMPLETELY SELF-SERVING
MINDSET OF THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION & THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, AS WELL AS THEIR FLAGRANT DISREGARD FOR
THE PLIGHT OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE -- POLITICAL EXPLOITATION OF THE CURRENT RECESSION & THE GULF OF MEXICO
OIL SPILL TO BUTTRESS THE DRIVE TO ADOPT & IMPLEMENT THE STATIST & SOCIALIST POLICY AGENDA OF BARACK
OBAMA & HIS MINIONS -- REDISTRIBUTING WEALTH, THAT IS, EXTORTING MONEY FROM CITIZENS & PRIVATE COMPANIES
IN ORDER TO BENEFIT LIBERAL LEFTIST GROUPS & THEIR RADICAL CAUSES -- TREACHEROUS DEVOTION OF THE OBAMA
WHITE HOUSE TO INCREASING ITS POWER & FURTHERING ITS OWN INTERESTS, AT THE EXPENSE OF THE FREEDOM &
GENERAL WELFARE OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
FULL STORY:
Congressman Joe Barton (Republican - Texas) is one of the few people from either major political party in Washington,
D.C., who should have any credibility left with the American public. On June 17, 2010, Barton infuriated Liberals on
Capitol Hill, and throughout the national media, by asserting that Barack Obama’s demand for twenty billion dollars
from BP, ostensibly as reparation for its massive oil spill, amounted to a “shakedown” of the company.
Immediately on the heels of feigned Liberal hysterics and outrage over Barton’s remarks, prominent members of his own
party, including U.S. House Minority Leader John Boehner (Republican - Ohio) and Minority Whip Eric Cantor
(Republican - Virginia) renounced Barton, insisting that he apologize or face punitive action, including removal from his
position as ranking minority member of the House Energy Committee. The only problem, amid all of the overblown
sanctimony from across the political spectrum, is that, in retrospect, Barton was proven to be absolutely right.
His real sin was to highlight the abject hypocrisy, ineptitude, and completely self-serving mindset of the current
administration, as well as its flagrant disregard for the plight of the people who make up real America. Barack Obama and
his minions have an agenda. If properly managed and exploited, an oil spill would greatly buttress their purpose. And the
untold hardship of hundreds of thousands of people living along the Gulf Coast, harmed not by any massive oil slick,
but by the ham-fisted indifference of a government regulating their lives and fortunes out of existence, was only so much
“collateral damage” that would barely make a ripple on the Liberal nightly news.
In the past week, much coverage has been given to the lavish manner in which Michelle Obama has indulged herself and
her cadre of friends while on “vacation” in Spain. Yet, this sorry episode is merely another indicator of the callous disdain
of the Obamas and their kind towards real America. Whether raiding the public coffers of “stimulus” funds to finance
their favorite activist “charities,” traipsing off to a luxury resort to play golf or engage in some other diversion (Michelle’s
copious trip was certainly not the first), or throwing lavish White House bashes, the Obamas clearly see their situation as
an opportunity to live it up at taxpayer expense.
Meanwhile, average workers (those who still are working) suffer under the escalating burden placed on them by the
mounting directives and regulatory excesses of a meddlesome and bloated government. More tragic still is the hardship
of those whose jobs have been lost, possibly forever, as a result of the abominable economic situation, itself a byproduct
of unfettered profligate government spending and interference in the private sector.
Of course, the proper response, were the federal government actually interested in improving things, would be to get out
of the way and unleash the strength and resourcefulness of the American people. From the reclamation of the Gulf Coast,
to the refurbishment of the economy, the fervent and impassioned participation of “Main Street” would provide the
necessary manpower and expertise to rectify things.
Just as Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal exhibited far more concern for and understanding of the oil spill crisis, and a
vastly more effective approach to dealing with it, so could “We the People” address healthcare and jobs with a far greater
effectiveness, and without the increased intrusions of the federal government or its exorbitant costs. Unfortunately, to
Obama and his cohorts, that is exactly the problem. Given his statist aspirations, along with his co-conspirators in the
Democratic Party-controlled Congress, such a course would be absolutely unacceptable.
The economic downturn of the past few years is only a negative to those who believe they should rightfully be in control
of the money they earn through their own sweat and toil. For the Socialists who now populate the Democratic Party in
Washington, the current recession was, as Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel so heartlessly asserted, “the
opportunity for us to do things that we could not do before.”
Ditto for the oil spill. Not only did it initially portend an environmental panic that could be exploited in the effort to pass
“cap and trade” (a ruse to seize more taxes in the name of saving the planet), but it provided justification for Obama to
illegally confiscate a stimulus sized chunk of cash from another source, this time an evil, wealthy oil company.
Of course, we were all reassured that the money would be properly and objectively dispersed by an “independent” third
party, Kenneth Feinberg, who also just happens to be Barack Obama’s “Pay Czar.” Empanelling Jack Ruby on the Warren
Commission would have constituted a less outrageous conflict of interest. Possessing about as much independence and
objectivity as any of the other Obama “czars,” Feinberg can be counted upon to line the pockets of preferred White
House causes, while those rubes down south are assuredly going to be left to fend for themselves.
Money equals power, and, therefore, control of money equals control of the people. It is for this reason, and not any faux
concern over the possibility of damage done by wayward oil slicks, that the Obama White House was finally motivated to
take action on the Gulf disaster. And, by the very nature of that action, looking for all possible means of enriching its
coffers, while thwarting any real effort by Governor Jindal to improve the lot of his state’s citizens, the current
Administration revealed a treacherous devotion to its advancement at the ultimate expense of the American people.
The monies extorted from BP are merely a reflection of the monies being extorted from the hard working and productive
people across America. Contrary to any flowery rhetoric appearing on the teleprompters, the real purpose of this theft was
never to build a better America, but to further empower its increasingly dictatorial and self-serving government. Until the
people wake up to this government’s craven ugliness, and refuse to soft-peddle the magnitude of threat it represents, it
will continue unabated in its efforts to subjugate them and their posterity to its insatiable appetite.
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Christopher G. Adamo has been active in Wyoming politics for many years. Contact information for Chris Adamo and his
archives can be found at www.chrisadamo.com.
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