Good news for those of you suckers who could actually afford, even after the government subsidy, to actually buy a Chevy Volt. It appears as though your ridiculously over priced car, will remain a true collector’s item, a very rare make and model indeed. Chevrolet has announced suspension in the manufacture of these spontaneously combustive automobiles. Who really cares if the U.S. taxpayers actually paid about $200,000 per unit sold so far, so that only the very wealthiest among us could have a car that runs on the more efficient, but woefully impractical electricity. It makes you feel good and confident in your smug, to know that the very dimmest among us will believe that you are actually doing some good for the environment. As long as you have the appearance of someone who cares about the little people who are being taxed to death in order to subsidize your pompous lifestyle, that’s really the important thing here isn’t it.
Fear not America, our President and his Administration full of dolts have a plan to bring back the unwanted Volt and inflict this very dangerous car upon us. While running for President, those of us who actually listened to Barack Obama heard him tell us that he felt that sending the price signal of $4.00 per gallon for gasoline would be sufficient for us all to switch to a more acceptable behavior, of buying a massively expensive hybrid vehicle or utilizing the not yet built high speed rail. As it turns out, $4.00 per gallon gasoline hasn’t worked to do that just yet. So Steven Chu, our Secretary of Energy, has announced that he intends to use his bureaucracy to insure that gas prices climb even higher. Welcome to the new purpose for the Department of Energy. When Jimmy Carter, the last Marxist to be elected President, established this monstrous Federal Agency, he told us the purpose was to insure that there would always be plenty of energy for our economy to consume, and to build what ever we needed in order to maintain our economic well being. Today, the Department of Energy is there to insure that we have no energy to use.
As is always the case with these well intentioned government interventions, there is an unintended consequence. Besides the destruction of our economic well being based on a world wide hoax, besides the havoc created by eliminating our capacity to produce an affordable source of energy based on the myth that we would be able to replace it with fairy dust, we have done something that even the staunchest Socialist among us would never support or even defend. We have instituted a regressive form of wealth redistribution. This scheme of producing hybrid cars which cost the taxpayers $200,000 plus to produce and then sell them only to the very wealthiest members of our society at a $200,000 loss is stealing from the poor to give to the rich. How does it feel my fellow citizens to know that you in fact own a Chevy Volt, or at least part of one, but will never be allowed to drive it. That privilege is reserved for the Obama Supporters well above the marginal tax rate where the majority of Americans reside. But have no fear, when you have the temerity to balk at the unnecessarily inflated gas prices, our President will smugly tell you that you should go out and participate in one of his approved behaviors. It is simply astounding to me that some on our side believe that we will not be able to defeat this man.
Cross Posted at Musings of a Mad Conservative.
Hat tip to Huckfunn
Tags: Steven Chu
Well, some three-named guy over at TPM is certainly trying to stretch the gas mileage of FlukeGate.
Since it’s slow, I’ll repost a worry of mine from backthread.
2012 European Car of the Year… (it’s the Opel Ampera over there.)
@ Bumr50:
I am convince Santorum is a straw man for Romney. He is testing the theory of voting again, than for. Most of the people voting for Romney, are really voting Santorum because of his Culture warrior attitude.
They want to see if Romney can win against Obama as a vot against.
@ Bumr50:
They are honest that these issues are traps.
Mike C. wrote:
Is that supposed to be a plus?
I made the mistake of buying Motor Trend’s Car of the Year once.
Worst car I ever owned.
@ Rodan:
Why aren’t they seen as traps for the Democrats? The Democrat position on Abortion is the one that is truly extreme. Hell, some Democrats want to be able to kill the kid after it is born. Barack Obama is one of those. Why don’t we turn that into the issue? Obama has attacked the very underpinnings of religious liberty in the United States, and yet we are the ones on the defensive! One of the things Andrew Breitbart was good at was going on the offensive. Politics is War. We need to take the inititive away from our enemies. The first step in that is to acknowledge that they are enemies. Not people of good will with whom we disagree. They are enemies. Our goal should be to politically destroy them.
@ Rodan:
Santorum is in no way working with Romney, IMHO.
The same argument, only MORE convincing, could be made against Newt.
I don’t think either of them are.
If blame is to be placed anywhere, it’s at the feet of the GOP.
Of course, the Volt wasn’t the first POS Motor Trend picked as it’s Car of the Year.
The Chrysler K-Car comes to mind, along with the Chevy Citation and the AMC/Renault Alliance.
Mike C. wrote:
Besides, it isn’t the Volts which kill you. It’s the Amperage!
@ Iron Fist:
I will tell you why they are traps. The GOP fights them the wrong way. Too many on our side get preachy and all holier than thou. This turns people off. The best way to approach it, is the Government should not pay for people’s behavior. Once you make it a moral argument, it gets muddles and turns people off. You may not like it, but truth is people don’t like to preached too. All people understand is their wallets. If the argument is framed, I don’t care what they do but I should not pay for it because I oppose it, that’s a winner.
On the religious freedom fight, our side was winning. Then Santorunm started preaching about morality and the evils of contraceptives. That turned people off and the Democrats turned it into, Republicans want to take away birth control. If our side stuck to, the government and religious institutions Don’t want to pay for it, that’s a winner.
Adults don’t liked to be lectured and preached.
@ Bumr50:
I don’t think he’s being a straw man on purpose. I think the Establishment has goaded him into being a straw man. He can’t help himself. He’s preachy and holier than thou. That turns people off. Adults don’t like to be lectured.
@ Rodan:
The Dems pushed that argument well before Santorum opened his mouth about it.
@ Rodan:
It looks increasingly like we are going to be stuck with Romney. Newt didn’t do well at all last night. Santorum didn’t do well enough. From here on out, it is a math problem. Romney, though, is weak. I don’t think he can beat Obama. I am just hoping that he doesn’t do so poorly that we aren’t able to get the Senate. He’ll be a real drag downticket, I am afraid.
@ Iron Fist:
He has to pick a solid VP to shore up the base.
@ lobo91:
From Stephanopolous to Fluke, that whole thing was orchestrated with the intent of deploying no matter who happened do be doing well in the GOP primary.
It was dumb luck for them that Santorum happened to be in the path. His reputation has hurt him on this far more than anything he’s actually said.
It puts healthcare on the table in a favorable way for the Left. The media did the heavy lifting.
Diabolical.
lobo91 wrote:
Or a minus. Gotta have one of each, you know.
@ lobo91:
They pushed it because they know Santorum would walk right into it.
@ Rodan:
He’ll never “shore me up” unless he chooses Allen West and promises to kill himself.
I’ll vote for him, but I can’t support or defend him.
@ Bumr50:
Had our side stuck to, we should NOT pay for it. That’s a winning argument. But Santorum couldn’t help himself and has to feed into the narrative.
@ Bumr50:
Same here. I am voting against Obama. I will give Romney 6 months. If he governs like the Bushes, I will aim my fire at him and call for primary challenge in 2016.
@ Mike C.:
@ lobo91:
I have a question about the award winner. How can they have tested the battery for 45 years (395,000 some odd hours?) Then you read about the battery life being 5-10 years. Say huh?
Everytime I hear that commercial it makes me wonder.
@ Rodan:
I disagree.
They needed to get ahead of the Obamacare albatross, and this was all planned before the Santorum surge.
Now, to the general mooching public, ANY Republican wants to steal their birth control.
Come the summer and fall, they won’t have to worry about it because Romney can’t say sh*t without looking like a hypocrite.
They’ve turned a sure loser into a debatable issue.
@ lobo91:
That was planned from the very first debate. That much is clear. Stephanopolous asked his question no-doubt on the direction of the White House.
@ Rodan:
Agreed.
The primary challenge should come from outside the GOP, and should come regardless of what Romney does unless he pulls a Sybil and turns into the second coming of Barry Goldwater.
Just a quick driveby and then I’ve gotta hit the road. The American taxpayer is being whipsawed by the Department of Energy and the EPA. EPA’s new CAFE goal of 54.5 mpg by 2025 is what they hope will enable DOE’s Chevy Volt. The “un-intended” consequences of all this happy horseshit are down right scary.
Also, New CAFE standards will result in $65B in lost revenue for road projects.
The EPA and the DOE have been totally taken over by radical environmental extremists. They both need to dismantled from the top down.
@ Bumr50:
The GOP should have stuck to, the government should not pay for it.
@ doriangrey:
Can’t they wait until after the election? This gives Obama a weapon to paint the GOP as war mongers. McCain is already calling for strikes on Syria. The public is war weary and the GOP has a bad reputation on this. They should save this bomb Iran until after the election.
@ Bumr50:
And remember, Romney has pledged not to say mean things about Obama, because that would be pandering to the wicked, awful base (who should suck it up and vote for him because!). Romney isn’t doing himself any favors. I have a feeling that he’ll be just like McCain. Ruthless to get the nod, then a walk-over in the main event. Personally, after the way Sarah Palin was treated by McCain, I wouldn’t blame West or Rubio either one if they told Romney that they wished him luck, but weren’t going to join his team…
@ huckfunn:
The EPA and DOE should be the first two governmental entities to go, so long as we can get Обама out of there!
Rodan wrote:
If as it has been suggested, Iran did in fact detonate a nuclear device in North Korea, then it isn’t a matter of can’t the GOP wait, but can the GOP afford to wait.
@ Iron Fist:
Being in the number two spot on a losing ticket isn’t much of a resume enhancer, either.
@ Iron Fist:
I’m beginning to think that this will be a Brokered Convention in Tampa…and the conservative wing of the party will revolt there.
@ doriangrey:
We should not give Obama a weapon to club our side over the head with. Americans are war weary and associate Republicans with war. Whether you like it or not, most Americans don’t want another war. This plays right into Obama’s hand.
You have McCain pushing for bombing Syria. So that in conjunction with this is bad politics. The goal is to remove Obama and this doesn’t help.
As for Iran detonating a device in NK, its a report from a German newspaper with uncredited sources.
Get rid of Obama first, then deal with Iran.
@ Iron Fist:
I think Susanna Martinez will be the VP candidate.
Rodan wrote:
Well, that’s OUR goal…
Rodan wrote:
Well, since you are the guy trying to convince everyone that Israel can’t take out the Iranian nuclear facilities by themselves perhaps you should be the one to convince them what a really good idea it is fore the US to wait until after the Nov elections.
Letter from Rodan to Israel’s PM:
Dear Israel,
The US really does have your back, however right now is a very inconvenient time for the US to keep it’s promise of not allowing Iran to acquire nuclear weapons, so we will be praying that Iran does not nuke you before our November elections. Good Luck.
Sincerely, The United States.
@ Rodan:
Could be. I still don’t think Romney will be able to win. I am pretty depressed about it.
@ Iron Fist:
If you had to hand pick a candidate uniquely DISqualified to run against Obama, you’d be hard-pressed to find one worse than Mittens, IMHO.
@ Bumr50:
I agree, but that is who the Establishment intends to have, and they have just about got it won for their boy. If he loses, I hope we put away this notion of running the most “Moderate” candidate for good. It should be a “Goldwater” moment for the moderates…
Good morning. Chicago Bears Coach Lovie Smith
has just put out a radio endorsement of Obama.
Among other things the African American Coach
praises Obama on the economy & foreign policy. Then he gets down to the heart of the matter,
“As African Americans, we need to have the Presidents
back”
Imagine another coach saying ‘As Whites we need to
have —-- back.”
‘spinmore’s book club’
. . . third person speak (ala Bob Dole)
presently i have begun reading “The Devil We Know” by Robert Baer (c)2008 sub-title “Dealing With The New Iranian Superpower”
very insightful -- will perhaps thumbnail it when finished
RIX wrote:
You can imagine it happening about 70 years ago, but Strom Thurmond crashed and burned with his Dixiecrat run for the President. Nowadays, I remember Trent Lott torpedoing his career by saying something nice about Strom Thurmond on his birthday. No way a white coach could say such a thing. Not and expect to have a job the next day. The world really has turned on its head, hasn’t it? Instead of a post-racial society, Obama has brought racial discrimination into the mainstream again, it is just a different race that is doing the discriminating.
@ Iron Fist:
It’s all about the color of skin- screw the content of character.
:-/
O/T but I thought Iron Fist and others might be interested in the thoughts how the politicians in DC are so against law abiding citizens exorcising their 2nd Amendment rights or defending themselves, they advise appealing for mercy to violent criminals.
MILLER: D.C.’s crime solution: Be a victim
City official insists residents shouldn’t defend themselves
@ doriangrey:
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Not just me. But most military analysts and many Israelis themselves. I guess all the Israeli militarily people who say they can’t do it are all lying.
Let me know when Israel gets B-1s, B-52s, B-2s and Tomahawk Crusie missiles.
Since you’re a great military expert, lay out for me how Israel takes out Iran’s nuclear facility. Give me a plan.
@ doriangrey:
ns.
They don’t have nukes.
@ citizen_q:
Now I have one more reason to not live in DC. If someone comes into my home to try and take something, he will realize his mistake about a millisecond before the hollow point enters his chest.
Seeing as how I’m currently about 35 miles from Iran, I hope someone gives me a heads-up before the missiles start flying…
Rodan wrote:
You hope. Israel doe not have the option of hoping.
@ citizen_q:
They are on the criminal’s side. Why, then, should you obey the law, and not have a gun? Break the law, and at least be able to take care of yourself.
@ MikeA:
. . . careful there cowboy -- Big Sis has a webcrawler 4 that
Rodan wrote:
Like I showed you the other night. Don’t get it fucked up Rodan, Israel has the ability to take the Iranian nuclear facilities out.
MikeA wrote:
The problem seems to be on the streets, not the home.
I’m with IF on this one. I’d break the damn law to protect what’s mine.
Tanker wrote:
The problem isn’t on the streets, it’s in the damned courts.
@ Iron Fist:
@ Tanker:
. . . can you get a carry permit 4 this in D.C. ?
http://s1153.photobucket.com/albums/p512/spinmore/?action=view¤t=432239_263184177095511_252039504876645_573388_2008634951_n.jpg
lifted this off facebook Monday (it’s the baby at Benning)
@ doriangrey:
Damn, we really need statesmen to rise again in this Nation!
@ doriangrey:
06,07,08,09, 10, and now 12. I hear this BS every year. I read all these unrealistic fanciful plans.
Keep waiting for those Israeli air strikes on Iran. Your beer will get old and rotten. 6 years same BS every year.
@ Iron Fist:
Obama has shamelessly used racial division.
He has revived old animosities
Hey Michelle Malkin’s doing something:
I guess it’s a sort of Twitter filter, for those inclined to tweet.
Just thought I’d share…
@ RIX:
to be expected from Black Liberation Theology i guess.
. . . but whose vetting?
@ Tanker:
Trouble is Maryland has the same attitude as was seen in the recent court ruling that the law requiring citizen’s to show a need for concealed carry. No one except the well connected ever had a great enough need. Even people being stalked by violent criminals, who have made threats and made good on those threats were deemed to have a need and were turned down.
spinmore wrote:
He was palmed off as the post racial President,
but he is anything but that.
Rodan wrote:
6 years of the US putting enormous pressure on Israel to not take action, sooner or later Israel is going to come to the inescapable conclusion that if they do not take action to protect themselves, nobody else will and they will die. You forget, GW had Israel convinced that he was genuinely on their side and genuinely had their back. That America would not allow Iran to acquire nuclear weapons. Israel is running out of time waiting on an American solution to the Iranian problem. When Israel finally realizes that they cannot count on America, they will act in their own defense.
@ spinmore:
Everybody needs a Ma Duece! Keeps the neighbors civilized…
Iron Fist wrote:
And if it don’t keep them civilized, at least it keeps them off yer damned lawn…
@ citizen_q:
That Maryland law was just struck down
@ RIX:
. . . this president has been very ‘consistent’
He has from the beginning -- been all things to all people.
We should recall the joke that he would be the first president to offer up the rebuttal at his first State of the Union address.
in short -- you’ll know he’s lying when you see his lips moving (IMHO)
@ spinmore:
Are those lips moving up and down or in and out? 8)
Macker wrote:
@ eaglesoars:
And in the due course of things it may make it to the Supreme Court in the next five years. The courts have proven to be a most unsatisfactory guarantor of our Second Amendment Rights. 70 years the NFA has been on our backs, and the Supreme Court chose to only tersely consider the right. I will not be satisfied until the Right recognized in the Second Amendment is as securely guarded as the “right” from the penumbra to abortion.
@ eaglesoars:
I know,there is hope, but I fully expect Maryland to fight it tooth and nail.
Even if they lose in the end I expect them to throw every roadblock they can think of in the way.
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