American Tradition Partnership Executive Director Donald Ferguson released the following statement Friday:
The
last 12 hours have perfectly crystallized the failure of Obama's
decision to gamble taxpayer money on bailouts for the wind and solar
corporate executive who are funding his campaign.
Speaking last
night on the first anniversary of the Solyndra bankruptcy, Obama offered
more of the same failed policies, demanding more taxpayer cash to bail
out the failing wind and solar companies that are pumping their
taxpayer-provided profits into his campaign.
Obama praised the
decline in foreign oil imports since he was inaugurated, but failed to
point out it was only because the Obama recession has eviscerated demand
for energy. Under Obama's oppressive regulatory regime, hydrocarbon
development on federal lands has plunged. While development on private
lands is growing thanks to the clean, safe, 60-year-old technology of
hydraulic fracturing, Obama has vowed to target "fracking" for
eradication if re-elected, killing what little economic growth we have
seen under his presidency.
Obama also failed to voice support for
the Keystone jobs pipeline, a project supported by the vast majority of
Americans. American Tradition Partnership delivered 150,000 signatures
to Obama's State Department last month in support of the project, but
Obama has chosen a path that kills American jobs and benefits Communist
China.
And this morning we receive news that for the 43rd straight
month of Obama's 43-month presidency, our United States have failed to
create enough jobs to restore American prosperity. This is a direct
result of Obama's virulent demonization of capitalism and his reckless
EPA's use of regulatory declarations to lash out at and attack American
employers. Job creators will not invest in a nation where the head of
state attacks employment activity and uses his unilateral power to
invent law on his own to enact needless and punitive regulations
intended to fulfill a radical leftist agenda.
American Tradition Partnership has a better idea and a better plan.
Remove
taxpayer bailout for failing wind and solar corporations and have them
compete on the same terms as traditional, proven energy sources.
Allow
Americans, and job creators, access to affordable, reliable energy by
repealing Expensive Energy Mandates requiring utilities to purchase more
expensive, but politically-connected, wind and solar experimental
energy.
Allow the development of hydrocarbon and other resources
on federal lands, and stop the anti-science, anti-progress attacks on
safe, clean hydraulic fracturing that had states like North Dakota and
Texas creating jobs while other states plunge into recession.
And,
working with Senator Rand Paul, pass the REINS Act, which requires any
major federal regulation costing more than $100 million to be approved
by Congress before it may be enacted -- stopping the dangerous practice
of radical politicians and unaccountable bureaucrats using the power of
regulatory fiat to enact laws that could not pass in an elected,
democratic body because they are too dangerous and destructive to our
nation. Laws should be made by elected lawmakers, not political
activists with a government employee badge.
Barack Obama's radical
leftist assault on our energy economy has left behind a damaged and
broken nation. America cannot create jobs and families struggle to pay
the utility bills while Obama's cronies in corporations like Solyndra
pocket billions of taxpayer dollars.
Economic peace and prosperity
will not come until we end Obama's war on the United States must end
and we stop Gang Green's hostile occupation of our lawmaking bodies.
American Tradition Partnership is leading that fight, and we will win.
