By Neil McCabe
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
While you have never met a fan of the WNBA, the women’s
professional basketball league, leading sports media outlets continue to
bombard us with scores, highlights and even live games.
So it is, too, with global warming, which after 10 to 15
years of not-so-much warming is now referred to as “climate change.” After
nearly two decades of media consensus, it is impossible to find a regular
American not part of the Global-Warming-Industrial-Political-Complex who is all
spun up over the environmental calamities foretold.
More than any other reason, the WNBA falters because it's
a winter sport played in the summer. In the summer we do not want to be cooped
up in a sweaty sports arena, nor do we want to watch it on TV. We want outdoors
and fresh air, and they keep trying to change the subject.
In the same way, as Americans living outside the Beltway
demand action to free up the economy and break our dependence on Middle Eastern
oil — and all that comes with it — President Barack Obama is trying to change
the subject through his Obama for America organization, renamed Organizing for
America. The subject changer will be “Action August,” a production of the OFA
cadre manifesting Aug. 13 with rallies, full-court coverage in the media and in
its volunteer-created “blizzards.”
As a son of central Massachusetts, I know that blizzards
mean snow days out of school, hours of shoveling out the driveway, walks and
stairs and missing paper boys.
According the OFA training manual, blizzarding is the
strategic use of flyers and postcards, especially during "Action
August" when lawmakers are home for the August recess. The manual advises:
“You can blizzard by yourself, or with a group of friends or local supporters
that you help recruit.”
Lost in the blizzard are the facts about the job-killing
Obama environmental agenda.
The centerpiece of the agenda is Obama’s war on
coal-fired electricity. Suppressing coal drives up fuel prices as demand slides
to other sources. This is not only true for residential living, but most
importantly, it increases the economic burden on whatever is left of our
industrial base, at a time when our Asian competitors are enjoying cheap coal
as we had for the last 150 years. The Keystone XL pipeline is too easy an
answer, but somehow the President only wants jobs he creates with money
borrowed from China, and the 20,000 jobs from KXL mean nothing to him.
Here Obama is playing the corrupt referee -- calling
phantom penalties on coal and crude oil, while giving out to his natural gas
and solar, wind and battery cronies free throws.
Just as the WNBA is a sport and league nobody asked for,
the time, space and energy wasted on global warming remedies take us further
from the adult conversation necessary for reviving our economy.
After five years of economic malaise, the President
should reach out to conservatives to fashion policies that free up our markets.
There is no government program to produce sustained job growth compared to the
next Microsoft or Federal Express.
Instead, Obama has us bracing for OFA blizzards instead
of jobs and a recovering economy.
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