Why did Obama interrupt our TV shows yesterday?
All Obama did was tell us there was a spill and it needs to be cleaned up. Apparently we should probably have a long-term energy plan too but he doesn’t seem to have one but I think he said he knows a guy who knows a guy who has an idea that might help our children’s children at some point or another. The saddest thing about Obama’s speech to me is he points out how America has done great things in the past:
I will not accept is inaction. The one answer I will not settle for is the idea that this challenge is too big and too difficult to meet. You see, the same thing was said about our ability to produce enough planes and tanks in World War II. The same thing was said about our ability to harness the science and technology to land a man safely on the surface of the moon. And yet, time and again, we have refused to settle for the paltry limits of conventional wisdom.
I guess that’s like the conventional wisdom that says you can’t run $1Tn a year deficit for 10 years and lower taxes and fight a $1Tn war and not expect it all to come back and bite you in the ass. Or maybe he was talking about the conventional wisdom that says that 5% of the people in the world should learn not to consume 20% of it’s fuel or maybe the conventional wisdom that spending 100 times more on military research than we do on energy research when we’re fighting wars for energy is just about the stupidest decision made by any society in human history…
Conventional wisdom aside, what I find disturbing in this statement is that America has only done two great things in the last 100 years: We finally woke up and helped our allies win a war (but only after we were attacked) and we finally woke up (again out of fear of Russia) and decided to use our great national resources to make a lasting scientific accomplishment (and it’s ironic that Obama has cut further moon funding). I guess we can say that Al Gore inventing the Internet was a big deal too, so that’s 3 things in 100 years so I guess we’re about due for another.
But what is the plan? There is no plan! That right there is total BS. First…
