Logic question for the left

Chick-fil-A and gay marriage.  Our economy is falling apart, Syria's chemical weapons may fall into the hands of Al-Qaida, but the statements of a conservative business owner take top spot in the news cycle.

From Moonbattery comes this logic question:

Well??

The New Deniers

From Steven Hayward at Powerline:

John has already noted what ought to have been above-the-fold news in every newspaper last week—the testimony of the GAO’s head of natural resources that the U.S. has recoverable oil shale “about equal to the entire world’s proven oil reserves.”  It wasn’t front-page news, however, because it doesn’t fit the liberal narrative and favorite talking point that the U.S. only has “2 percent” of proven global oil reserves.

I suggest we start calling such people “hydrocarbon deniers,” since only a puritanical fixation prevents the sensible exploitation of our own energy resources.  (Maybe we should call them “Energy Prohibitionists” as well as “hydrocarbon deniers,” since China and everyone else is going to make use of their hydrocarbon energy.)  And anyone who persists in using the “2 percent” talking point again (that would include President Obama) deserves to be labeled an anti-science ignoramus.

For all the blather about conservative "talking points", it is progressives who have to stick to their narrative.  So much is dependent upon the consistent application of that rigid mantra.  Even notice what happens when facts get in the way of dogma for a progressive?  Yep, the discussion shifts from facts to intentions and ideology.

Most transparent

Most transparent in hiding something.  From Jonathan Adler at The Volokh Conspiracy:

The New Orleans Times Picayune reports the White House denied the Department of Interior’s Office of Inspector General access to e-mails and communications about White House revisions to a report Interior Secretary Ken Salazar relied upon to justify a moratorium in oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. The story begins:

A senior federal investigator says he was denied access to a White House official and full email records as he tried to determine whether a BP oil spill report was intentionally edited to erroneously suggest outside experts supported the Obama administration’s deepwater drilling moratorium. The experts, in fact, did not endorse the moratorium the administration ordered after the 2010 spill. The White House and Department of Interior later said the mistake was inadvertent, a result of an early-morning edit that moved some material from the body of the report to the executive summary.

Although some e-mails were provided eventually, the IG’s office was never able to validate their authenticity or completeness, the investigator claims. He also alleges the White House did not allow the IG to interview a White House official involved in editing the report. An official in the IG’s office told the Times Picayune that his office “does not have authority to compel” White House cooperation with its investigation.

Of course we're for oil drilling

That's what the Obama administration wants you to believe.  But the facts are a bit different.  Drilling, sure.  Drilling in America, well, that's another matter.  From Breitbart:

Yesterday the Obama administration announced a delaying tactic which will put off the possibility of new offshore oil drilling on the Atlantic coast for at least five years:

The announcement by the Interior Department sets into motion what will be at least a five year environmental survey to determine whether and where oil production might occur.

Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell notes that a planned lease sale, which the administration cancelled last year, will now be put off until at least 2018.

Remember that every time you fill up between now and November.

Quote of the Day

If they wanted him (Obama) to close Gitmo they should have put a factory there, or an oil rig.

-- Dan McLaughlin


Hat tip to Proof Positive.