The EPA plans to add new ‘rules’ that will further hamstring the oil-&-gas industry.

Obama is committed to crony-partnering with Big Green interests, and he will do anything to force more ‘investments’ into their pockets, at the expense of us all.

When such rules drive our gas-pump and electricity bills sky-high, it affects everyone, and especially the low- and middle-income families hit hardest by such crony scams.

Obama’s new EPA rules will dampen the recovery made possible by the very industry he wants to destroy, in the process hurting millions of Americans…for the 1% he favors.

Congress has the power to defund a great amount of the extraneous programs of any agency that abuses its power without legislative mandate, and it should be done now.

Stripping funds and mandating priorities for what’s left will go a long way in checking Obama’s over-reach…Congress-created agencies like the EPA can be reined in.

A Byron York piece about stopping Obama’s immigration policy explains one way it can be done. You can bet funding language for the EPA has much of the same verbiage.

Republicans need to man up, and effectively fund the agencies Congress created.

Tax-dollar funded entities like the EPA must be for the benefit of Americans…

…not to cripple them financially, while funneling millions to green-energy cronies.

Liberal apologist Hillary N. bemoans our previous blog blaming Democrats for oil prices.

For her (and Liberal ilk in general), it’s much better to blame greedy oil companies.

But free-market fracking did create an energy boom in America, and that technology is repositioning the USA as the top energy resource in the world, despite all Democrat efforts to stifle those technological accomplishments with needless regulatory policy.

For all the Democrats rush to claim that ‘Republicans are in the pocket of Big Oil’, reality shows the very opposite to be the case…it’s Democrat policy that hikes oil prices.

The GOP ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’ policy increases the supply, destroying artificial high costs.

And, lest we forget Hillary, it’s the so-called ‘greedy’ oil companies doing the fracking that’s driving unnecessarily high prices down, making Americans happy at the pump.

Greedy? Take a look in the mirror.

Taxation, Regulation, and Anti-Drilling policies reduces the supply, driving prices up.

By far, Democrat policy favors oil company profitability, plain and simple.

Economics 101, Hillary…did you sleep through that class?

Democrat policies restrict drilling, creating artificial shortages. Now, in their latest act of idiocy, the California Democrat legislature has passed a hidden tax that hits soon.

Gas prices are dropping due to the free-market fracking on non-federal land in America, and despite all of the Democrat attempts to halt fracking and maintain high oil prices.

Fracking forced the Saudi-controlled OPEC to keep pumping, driving oil prices down. That’s good for our economy, and bad for oil-rich terror-states who finance evil deeds.

But, with over-regulation, anti-drilling, and taxation policy, Democrats drive prices up. It’s a natural result of making business more costly, and creating supply shortages.

Bumper-sticker suggestion for 2016…

If you LOVE higher gasoline prices…Keep Voting ‘Democrat’

The proof is in California.

History is replete with examples of nations where big government fails.

Put simply – big government has never worked well, and fails miserably often.

Governments can only grow by taxing the free-market sector. When was the last time  your financial situation improved by giving Uncle Sam more of your income in taxes?

Short answer – never.

For gov’t to spend, it first must take…more gov’t spending means more gov’t taking.

So why, then, do the political elites continue to push big-government programs?

Because those programs work great…for the top 1%.

Big-government politicians aren’t dumb…they’re greedy…and they get their kickbacks.

Obamacare architect Gruber wrote a policy paper in 2009 admitting that costs couldn’t be controlled, and the only way to try controlling costs was to deny treatments.

(Page 19) “The real substance of cost control is all about a single thing: telling patients they can’t have something they want.” (bold emphasis added)

(Page 22) “…the bills that will come out of this (Obamacare) process in the end won’t do a whole lot about cost control…” (bold emphasis added)

The ‘Affordable Care Act’ is not affordable…and was never meant to be.

Surprised?

When an industry’s tagline is ‘if it bleeds it leads’, is it any surprise there will be blood?

Responsible journalism is sacrificed on the altar of ratings and agenda; that section of American society, wanting to be misled and seething to be enflamed, fall for the result.

Tragically, so do the police fall, killed in the line of duty…in rising numbers.

Increasingly, agenda-edited news reports hide the complete story, to drive emotions.

Proposed ‘truth in advertising’ laws criminalize image-altering techniques. In a ‘Nation of Laws’, shouldn’t there be one in effect, that penalizes a manipulating news media…

…when their image-altering lies result in increased violence against our police?

Or has America devolved to the point where it’s okay cops die, so ratings thrive?

Just asking…

Already the articles begin about the 2016 presidential hopefuls in the GOP.

Some want fewer primary candidates, some say the more the merrier.

The good news is there are a lot of serious people who can help with the weighty issues of the day, if they engage in debate with intelligence, candor, brevity, and good will…

…and begin by declaring they will support our U. S. Constitution…not trample it.

The Weekly Standard has a thoughtful article by its boss Bill Kristol, who writes of the nineteen men and one woman seemingly poised for a presidential run in 2016.

One woman?

Carly Fiorina is a very capable woman, and, let’s face it, compared to Obama, a woman sent from Kelly Girls as a filing-clerk temp would probably do a better job than he has.

There are other women who deserve mention, such as New Mexico’s governor Susana Martinez, and Arizona’s governor Jan Brewer…extremely capable women in leadership.

Yet, when it comes to enraging the Left, one name stands head-and-shoulders above.

So, why exclude Sarah Palin from the list? If one judges who opponents fear most by the attacks against them, nobody sends Democrats into a frenzy like Sarah Palin.

Though many would try to invoke ‘baggage’ as a slam against her, can anyone really say such construct slams are in any way more damning than Obama’s relationships with domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, or “God damn America” Rev. Jeremiah Wright?

Palin is a fighter, and her conservative stand in defense of our Constitution is admirable.

She was the 2008 Vice Presidential candidate, before that serving as a mayor, then governor…certainly more qualifying than a neurosurgeon, or business executive?

If Sarah Palin has a background that withstands the Left’s severe scrutiny, we urge her to throw her hat into the ring, gather her beloved family into a defensive ‘kill circle’…

…and break out the brass knuckles.

Because, if it’s time for a woman president, America needs a fighter…

…Sarah Palin has proven she qualifies.

(Update adds links to Ayers and Wright)

The Washington Examiner advises Zogby gives Obama’s report card an ‘A’ this week…

…as a Gallup poll says only 23% of Americans are happy with the way things are going.

Race demagoguery fueled by Obama has incited anti-cop sentiment throughout the Nation, arguably causing several police officers their lives while he vacations Hawaii.

In the shadow of this disgrace, one good GDP report has sent Zogby swooning.

Considering the Obama administration’s penchant for cooking the economic books, we suggest this pollster may be spending way too much money in Colorado pothouses…

…because only a marijuana-high could make one say Obama “had a great week”.

When over 6200 blacks are killed every year, and the 200 that die at the hands of police become the big story, it begs the question…why focus on 3%, rather than the 97%?

If ‘black lives matter’, why don’t Sharpton and Obama address the real problem within?

Is it because there’s no money or satisfaction in marching against the REAL problem?