Well, the announcement did light up the news wires and feeds around the world.
One must admit, He and His are experts at letting us believe one thing, when the reality is something else entirely.
It's that inconvenient words have meaning thing! We, poor schlubs, live in a world where words have meaning. We have to, otherwise we starve alone in the dark and cold. In their world words are noises one makes to manipulate the listener on the path to one's true objectives.
But, in a two-fer for April 1, 2010, Heritage Foundation reminds us: If His lips are moving, he's misinforming us.
In fact, if anything, the policies announced by President Obama yesterday will actually decrease and delay future U.S. oil production. The President actually canceled four lease sales off the Alaska coast that were planned to begin producing oil within the next two years, delayed a planned lease off Virginia until at least 2012, and placed some areas off limits for at least seven years. Go back and look at President Obama’s actual announcement again: he only promised new exploration off the Atlantic coast. There is absolutely no guarantee that any new drilling will ever occur. Secretary Ken Salazar’s Interior Department still has full discretion to never allow a single drop of oil to be harvested from these waters. And that doesn’t even begin to address the court challenges the enviro-left will employ to attack and delay the entire process.
And it's not just Heritage Foundation saying it. The essay pulls from a lot of sources, normally sympathetic to Himself, who agree that Himself is blowing smoke.
Sort of like that 'Executive Order' he promised to Bart Stupak, not worth the paper it's written on, and still no word as to whether he got around to signing it, anyway.
Just words....ya'll go back to sleep now, watch another basketball game, another episode of 'The Biggest Loser'. Nothing to bother about here...
