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Michelle Malkin: The Land of Obama Make-Believe
Where did President Barack Obama go after killing off thousands of Keystone XL pipeline construction and manufacturing jobs? Why, Disney World, of course. Sabotaging work is hard work for Goofy and his pals.
And where did he head after that? Why, up to Manhattan for more high-priced campaign fundraisers charging up to $38,500 per partier. The business of wining and dining politically connected donors ain’t child’s play, you know.
Obama touted a White House foreign tourism initiative Thursday with Cinderella’s castle as his backdrop. “America is open for business,” he proclaimed chirpily to the rest of the globe.
Tell that to the Keystone managers in Canada whom Obama and his State Department rebuffed — after years of planning and review — to appease militant environmentalists and Hollywood celebs. The Animatronic Divider robotically lambasted Republicans for pushing him to make a decision last week. But Senate and House Democrats issued the sharpest rebukes to White House obstructionism:
“President Obama’s decision on the Keystone XL pipeline is a major setback for the American economy, American workers and America’s energy independence,” said Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.V.
“The rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline permit is a missed opportunity to drastically turn this economy around. This pipeline would have created thousands of new jobs and helped to ensure our energy independence,” lamented Rep. Jason Altmire, D-Pa.
“This delay is just playing politics with American jobs and American energy security,” pointed out Rep. Jim Matheson, D-Utah.
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle scratched their heads as the job-snuffer-in-chief bolted to Orlando’s fantasyland to promote economic growth. But there’s no more fitting place on Earth for the man whose escapist administration occupies the land of make-believe and no consequences. (Bonus moment: Obama got to shake hands with Mickey Mouse, who infamously turned up on a Florida ACORN voter registration form in 2008. Constituent outreach at its most surreal.)
On the very same day he quashed Keystone, Obama released his first campaign ad of 2012 — hyping his stellar record on energy jobs. It’s Opposite Day at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., 365 days a year. Even more comically, the ad touted his exemplary ethics record by quoting a moldy 3-year-old endorsement from left-leaning PolitiFact. And as bipartisan Capitol Hill outrage over the half-billion-dollar Solyndra solar stimulus bust mounts, Obama had the nerve to sprinkle his inaugural campaign spot with — wait for it — solar panels.
Instead of supporting new infrastructure jobs in America through an energy independence-enhancing project that has bipartisan legislative support on Capitol Hill, Obama flew to Disney World to peddle looser visa restrictions in China and Brazil by executive order. He also will expand the Visa Waiver Program (a security loophole-ridden program that was suspended temporarily after the 9/11 terrorist attacks) to speed foreign travel.
In case anyone needs reminding, it was the relentless drive of the tourism industry and kowtowing State Department bureaucrats that led to the Bush-era Visa Express Program, which relaxed visa policies, eliminated in-person consulate interviews and opened the door to the 9/11 hijackers. Brazil is just the latest base for al-Qaeda and other Islamic jihadi groups. It does not consider Hezbollah or Hamas terrorist groups, and it disbanded its anti-terrorism force in 2009.
The Visa Waiver Program and other efforts to expedite the tourist visa process also pose continuing security risks because — as the Government Accountability Office itself admitted last year — there is still no comprehensive, systematic way to track the 70 million-plus foreign visitors who enter the country on tourist and other short-term visas. Indeed, half of the nation’s estimated 20 million illegal aliens are visa overstayers.
How many of the new Disney foreign tourists whom Obama is touting as America’s economic salvation will fail to return to their home countries after their Obama World visas expire? We’ll likely never know. And Team Obama doesn’t care.
In his opening campaign ad salvo, Obama accuses his opponents of being “untethered to facts.” But this is an administration that believes lowering visa standards and risking homeland security to pump up Disney foreign tourism is a better path to economic recovery than supporting direct American job creation and enhancing energy security. Like the Disney characters he posed with last week, our cartoonish president is wholly untethered to reality.
— Michelle Malkin is author of Culture of Corruption: Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks & Cronies. Click here for more information. She can be contacted at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). Follow her on Twitter: @michellemalkin.
» wrote on 01.23.12 @ 03:28 PM
Now that Perry and Huntsman have left the race, perhaps Malkin should jump in,
either an an independent conservative candidate, or as a Gingrich or Santorum
running mate.
She certainly has all the answers (at least in her own mind).
A recent, more objective economic analysis of the Keystone XL Pipeline project shows a much more mixed-bag of benefits and detriments than Malkin does.
As Malkin knows, the president had asked for more time to review all key data.
When congressional Republicans forced him to make a quick-decision, in order
to extend Unemployment benefits, he decided to err on the side of caution.
Had Boehner and McConnell not played these infantile, election-year games, an
extensive White House analysis might have turned out differently.
» wrote on 01.23.12 @ 05:45 PM
Excuse me P? He had three years to review the damned pipeline, plenty of time in my book. If anyone is guilty of playing politics its your man BO. He is just playing to these idiot AGW religious fanatics who won’t accept any energy projects that involve carbon fuel, that in spite of their continued consumption of such fuels.
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