If ever there was a phrase that perfectly encapsulates liberal environmentalists’ backwards priorities and regressive ideology of restriction and scarcity, it is the one now displayed on a government sign in Arcadia, California: “It’s ‘green’ to go brown.”…. Visit http://j.mp/1M8kIay to learn more about what Congress is doing to end President Obama’s man-made water shortage in the West and allow water resources to be managed in a way that actually makes sense.
If ever there was a phrase that perfectly encapsulates the Right’s willingness to blame The Black Guy in the White House © for anything and everything in the hope that something- ANYTHING- might stick, it’s “smug arrogance.” The above quote is from House Speaker John Boehner’s (R-OH) Facebook page…and it’s about the most arrogant, self-serving bit of propaganda I’ve seen in quite some time. That it comes from the leader of a Republican House of Representatives unfailingly quick to assess blame but excruciatingly short of solutions is distressing, if unsurprising. Rep. Boehner, along with other Republicans in the House, have blamed the President for everything from the 2008 recession to the Lindbergh kidnapping. I’m kidding about the latter, but neither happened on this President’s watch. In their eyes, George W. Bush was a virtual saint who walked on water, but The Black Guy in the White House © is The. Worst. President. EVER!!! ©.
The hit piece on Speaker Boehner’s website is masterful in its willingness to overlook the real history of California’s current water crisis. The one point not in dispute is that there was a collective dereliction of duty and failure to recognize the potential (and thus plan for) for a massive drought. That’s where Boehner’s argument falls apart, though. He attempts to hang responsibility for the water crisis on “liberal environmentalists’ backwards priorities and regressive ideology of restriction and scarcity.” Right…as if caring for the environment is the purview of wooly-headed Libruls who care more for snail darters and trees than people. California’s current crisis is the result of inattention and denial extending back many years, through both Democratic AND Republicans governors. It’s a problem that developed over time and worsened through neglect and lack of leadership…from both sides of the ideological divide. For Boehner to default to blaming the problem on The Black Guy in the White House © is as disingenuous as it is factually inaccurate. And therein lies the problem. Republicans like Boehner prefer throwing stones at The Black Guy in the White House ©…because they have no ideas or workable solutions of their own to offer. They’d rather work to destroy a President they despise (it has NOTHING to do with race, of course), though Presidents from their own party were unqualified disasters in their own right.
Republicans want to pretend the environment is an infinitely renewable resource subservient to the interests of man and whose very existence opens it to exploitation and being squeezed for profit. They’ve forgotten that Richard Nixon, a Republican President, gave birth to the Environmental Protection Agency. Today Republicans view concern for the environment as misguided and evidence of disdain for the capitalist system which makes this country great. Even better (for them), it’s just one more thing they can blame on The Black Guy in the White House ©. Hey, it beats actually having to come up with solutions, knowhutimean??
