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Ignorance

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Or hypocrisy, you pick ’em.

The House passed, with a significant majority (and so, on the whole, a bipartisan majority), a bill that would repeal the oil export ban that’s long outlived its usefulness, and especially so in the last several years.

I’ve already noted how the head Progressive, President Barack Obama, has threatened to veto this bill out of his own timidity.

Congresswoman Kathy Castor (D, FL) decried the bill during debate, saying this:

This bill is an unconscionable giveaway to Big Oil at the expense of American consumers[.]

Because lower energy costs, including lower gasoline costs, for American consumers from the increased global oil supply is such an unconscionable expense.

Castor either is hugely ignorant about basic high school economics or she’s breathtakingly hypocritical in demanding that oil supplies continue to be limited, so energy and gasoline prices can continue to be elevated, so Castor and her fellow Progressives in Congress can continue to maintain the dependency of their constituents through these Progressives’ welfare programs.

Lower energy costs means less need for welfare payouts, which mean less dependency on government, which means more freedom for an American to make his own choices. Progressives—Democrats—can’t have that.

White House Timidity

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President Barack Obama says he’ll veto a bill making its way through the House of Representatives that would repeal the oil export ban in place since Gerald Ford’s administration. Obama thinks he’s acting from a position of strength in saying “No” to anything Republican.

He’s actually acting from weakness and timidity. Leaving aside the destruction of potential American jobs such a veto, if carried through, would represent, there are a couple of foreign policy/national security aspects to lifting the oil.

The free flow of oil to Europe that lifting the ban would facilitate would go a long way toward weaning Europe in general and Ukraine, Poland, and Germany in particular from their current dependence on Russian oil exports.

Freely flowing oil will hold down the cost of energy and of materials industries: plastics are made from oil. Those lower costs strength the economies of all of the nations that use energy in their industries or that import other nations’ production—which is to say the economies of nearly every nation on the planer.

Both Russia and Iran need oil prices above $100/barrel in order to balance their national budgets and so to better fund their attacks on their neighbors, in Russia’s case, and to fund their terrorist clients and attacks on Israel, in Iran’s case. Freely flowing oil would keep oil prices in their current $50-ish range, if not push those prices lower.

But neither Putin nor Khamenei would like that.

Clinton and TPP

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Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has decided she doesn’t like the TransPacific Partnership free trade pact just agreed and now before the Senate for acceptance or rejection.

As of today, I am not in favor of what I have learned about it[.]

Just what is it she thinks she’s learned about it that the rest of us aren’t allowed to know—since the text of the agreement hasn’t been published, yet? Or is she just another Know Better Democrat?

Oh, wait….

If Obama Had an Uncle

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University of Pennsylvania Religious Studies Professor Anthea Butler (Religious Studies, yet) says Republican Presidential candidate Dr Ben Carson is a coon.

Carson committed the crime of saying some things should be left to the people involved with the things to decide. On the recent controversy over the Confederate flag, he said,

Swastikas are a symbol of hate for some people too…and yet they still exist in our museums and places like that,” Carson said during an event with Richard Petty in North Carolina last Monday. “If it’s a majority of people in that area who want it to fly, I certainly wouldn’t take it down.

In response to which Butler tweeted

If only there was a “coon of the year” award…

Her boss and the University condone Butler’s racist behavior. UPenn’s Religious Studies Chairman, Professor Justin McDaniel, defended her:

She is a valued colleague and faculty member

If President Barack Obama had an uncle, would he look like Carson?  Oh, wait–this is the Left.  Obama is carefully silent on this one.

Can’t Prepare?

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Joe Olson, who retired in June as president of the Umpqua Community College told the Associated Press the school had three training exercises with local law agencies in the past two years, “but you can never be prepared for something like this.”

I won’t comment on the “training exercise” rate. This sort of preemptive giving up, though, ranks right up there with gun free zones as a major contributor to mass killings. Of course it’s possible to prepare for “something like this.” It just takes a willingness to conceive the possibilities from not waiting for the police who are only minutes away. Interminable minutes, during which the killing proceeds apace. Unless the true first responders—those who are already on scene—are allowed to defend themselves and allowed to exercise initiative.

We need, too, a society that knows better than to wait for government to do for them rather than the meek, professional victim, Big Daddy Government society Progressives are pushing.

As President Barack Obama said in all his crocodile tear fulsomeness the day of Umpqua’s mass killing, we do need sensible gun laws. The gun control foolishness needs to get out of the way so we can have them.