By Thomas Miller
Friday, September 17, 2014
Some new numbers out this week from Gallup show the tide
is turning politically to the right. By a widening margin over the same poll
taken in the spring, Americans say they now feel the GOP would do a better job
than the Democrats in the top key voting areas: The economy, jobs, the
situation with ISIS, Iraq and Syria, reducing the federal deficit and how the
government is working overall. The Dems seem to have the upper hand on those
social areas like climate change, abortion and equal pay for women.
I’m wondering out loud how much of this is really trust
in the Republican Party, or the 7-year itch with President Obama. (We are
hitting that mark, you know)
From our perspective at Powering America, we really do
try to stay politically agnostic. What’s good for America is good, regardless
of which side of the aisle it comes from. And vice-versa. As we’ve become more
politically involved, and have had various congressmen, senators and state
leaders on our show, one thing is clear: There is NO leadership. Harry Reid has
a choke-hold on the United States Senate, and should be removed from office for
political tactical treason. Barack Obama has done more damage by what he hasn’t
done than what he has.
But there’s also something ominously off kilter on the
other side as well. Granted, House Republicans have been strangled because any
bill they conjure up goes to Harry Reid’s trash can. That’s frustrating for all
of us. Our 238-year process of democratic government has been paralyzed since
2009. Think about it: You’re an elected official and all you can do is sit idly
by and watch Executive Order after Executive Order to the extent that you can’t
govern as you were elected to, wow. We don’t have words for that level of
frustration. And voters are tired of it as well.
On the energy front, the biggest faux pas domestically is
the Keystone XL pipeline. Not only that, but we have the chance, as a country,
to restore our position in the world as the dominant world player in
manufacturing, jobs, education, GDP, exports, everything. We need North
American energy independence first, and that means strengthening our ties with
Canada and Mexico. They don’t get it.
I wonder what Ronald Reagan would have done with the gift
of the shale energy revolution. He would have loved it. I guarantee he would
have used it to further strengthen America in ways he had no idea would have
been possible. He would have seen it for what it was – and would have created
that shining City on a Hill, powered by natural gas that was cheap and abundant
for all Americans.
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