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Obama’s statements about the coal industry, and the effect his planned CO2 emissions cap and trade policies will have:

So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it’s just that it will bankrupt them because they’re going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that’s being emitted.

Here is change you can believe in.

Better start chopping up the furniture. It’s gonna be a COLD winter.

If McCain had discussed bankrupting a major industry, one producing a product everyone needs, whose loss would be a major burden to the poorest of us, you can be assured that the major media would have been out with the long knives.

OBAMA 2012: FOUR YEARS LATER – New York Post

OBAMA 2012: FOUR YEARS LATER
A LOOK BACK AT HIS PRESIDENCY

H/T: Hugh Hewitt

Power Line – Professor Busse’s lesson

Phil Busse is a visiting professor at the college. In his spare time he pulls down McCain-Palin lawn signs posted on homes up and down Highway 19, the east-west road that runs through Northfield. He brags about it at what James Taranto calls the Puffington Host in “Confessions of a lawn sign stealer.”

Derbyshire has a great idea that doesn’t go far enough. Media Blog on National Review Online

Take away their vote. If you let public employees vote, what do you think they are going to vote for? For more public spending, more government jobs, higher government wages. Can you vote yourself a pay raise? No, and neither can I. Bill Bureaucrat and Pam Paperpusher can, though, and they do. Bill and Pam have no problem at all with ever-swelling public budgets, with ever-expanding public services, with the creeping socialism that is slowly throttling our liberties out of existence.

He should include public school teachers, who are essentially government employees, and, as a group, always vote for more government.

If my aunt was an illegal alien living in a slum and I was running for president as the candidate of hope and change, I’d want her kicked out of the country, too.

Better get used to this. For at least the next four years, if Tuesday climaxes in the big O being elected, we can expect a steady patter of “I didn’t know” and “I don’t know” and “I was not informed” and “That was done without my knowledge” and “I will have my staff look into that” and “The President has been informed and will have a statement later” (much, much, much later) and “Don’t you think you should verify the credibility of your source before asking me about it?” and “That is not reflective of the person I knew” and on and on and on and on and on.

“I didn’t know” will become the new version of “I don’t recall, Senator”, or its other variant, “Senator, I don’t recall.”

Just to account for the campaign period, we’re starting the “I didn’t know” counter at 100, and counting.

Obama says he didn’t know aunt’s illegal status – Yahoo! News

Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama said Saturday he didn’t know his aunt was living in the United States illegally and believes that laws covering the situation should be followed.

The Associated Press found that Obama’s aunt had been instructed to leave the country four years ago by an immigration judge who rejected her request for asylum from her native Kenya. The woman, Zeituni Onyango (zay-TUHN on-YANG-oh), is living in public housing in Boston and is the half-sister of Obama’s late father.

A statement given to the AP by Obama’s campaign said, “Senator Obama has no knowledge of her status but obviously believes that any and all appropriate laws be followed.”

The campaign said it was returning $260 that Onyango had contributed in small increments to Obama’s presidential bid over several months. Federal election law prohibits foreigners from making political donations. Onyango listed her employer as the Boston Housing Authority and last gave $5 on Sept. 19.