WHAT'S HAPPENING TO AMERICA?

What is it that's happened to America? That a guy like Henry Waxman, winner of every Phantom of the Opera lookalike contest he’s ever entered, can be the top Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and from his lofty position say something as insanely stupid as America does not need "dirty oil." Why is he not being dragged home by his constituents and taken out behind the woodshed for a good ass whoppin, politically speaking of course. This clown, in talking about the Keyston XL pipeline, said we just don't need the oil that would be imported through the pipeline from Canada, that same pipeline, by the way, which finally received long-awaited favorable environmental review from the U.S. government.

Speaking as the true 'climate change' zealot that he is, he said, "We don’t need this dirty oil. To stop climate change and the destructive storms, droughts, floods, and wildfires that we are already experiencing, we should be investing in clean energy, not building a pipeline that will speed the exploitation of Canada’s highly polluting tar sands." Waxman was none too pleased with the recent analysis of the project by the government. In its draft environmental review released Friday, the State Department said the construction of the pipeline through much of the Midwest would not have a meaningful impact on climate change. Gee, ya think? How exactly could it have an imapct on something that doesn't even exist in the first place?

In other words, State concluded that building the Keystone XL pipeline would not have any real effect on global warming because even if the U.S. blocked the importation of Canadian oil, that oil would find buyers elsewhere. It also found that even if the pipeline is blocked, the oil would find a different route to Gulf Coast refineries as global oil market conditions changed. The report comes after years of governmental delays for the project, proposed by the Canadian firm TransCanada and rejected by Barry "Almighty" back in 2011. The company reapplied for a State Department permit in 2012. A federal permit is required because the project crosses state and international boundaries.

The bottom line here is that the more we, the American people, demonstrate a willingness to tolerate such intolerable behavior as that most recently demonstrated by Waxman, the more we can expect our political leaders to perceive us all as being simply too stupid to see what's really going on. For whatever reason we seem to have forgotten who it is that's in charge here. And it most certainly IS Not clowns like Waxman. And yet we continue to find ourselves on the receiving end of some of the most idiotic policies imaginable. Things that simply don't make sense unless you look at them from the perspective of those who share in Waxman's vision. There is now a serious effort underway to destroy our country, and yet people just don't seem to care.