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December 13, 2006
Moonbattery Is a Death Wish
Posted by Dave Blount at December 13, 2006 4:57 PM
Wouldn't it be wonderful if we had our own supply of oil, so that we wouldn't have to buy it from Muslims who hate our guts, giving them both a firm grip on our throats and the financial resources they need to pursue weapons of mass destruction and terrorist activities? It's hard to imagine anything nicer. But it's not to be — thanks only to moonbattery.
Joseph Farah says we must have a death wish. He notes that geologists now believe there may be oil reserves in the Gulf of Mexico greater than those in the Middle East. But the House just postponed a vote on opening 8 million acres of it to oil and gas drilling. Needing a two-thirds majority, Republicans knew they couldn't overcome opposition from loony-tunes Dems who would rather buy the oil from our bitterest enemies than gather it up from our own backyard.
The Republicans may try again before the end of the year. If they don't succeed, a Dem-controlled Congress would put exploiting these reserves as far out of the question as drilling in the oil-rich but otherwise useless wasteland called ANWR.
Farah is well within his rights to be leaking steam from his ears:
There are precious few things the federal government is supposed to do under our Constitution. One of them — the most important — is to provide for the defense of the country. In times like these, that means ensuring that we as a nation are not reliant on our enemies for the necessities of life. Oil is the lifeblood of an industrial society and even more critical to a war machine.
Yet, our elected officials can't even agree that offshore oil drilling is preferable to the destruction of our very way of life.
That's what it comes down to — either that or they just don't believe the people who brought down the World Trade Center and attacked the Pentagon are not through with us.
I wonder if it were put to a vote of the general population whether Americans at large would be equally flummoxed. It's hard to know. I truly believe Americans are losing their ability to discern right from wrong. When people stop believing in God, they start believing in anything. When they stop believing in truth, they start believing in any lie that comes their way.
That's why I suggest America has a death wish. It's not just the Congress. It's not just the president. It's not just the Supreme Court. It's not just the government. It's corporate America. It's consumer America, too.
One of these days, we're going to wake up and everything will be changed — everything will be different. It will be like Sept. 11 again, but permanent. We won't be able to go back to the way we were.
And then, maybe, Americans will rue the day their Congress couldn't agree to make America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, energy independent. Maybe then we will regret giving our enemies the rope they use to hang us.
The phenomenon Farah describes is of course moonbattery. He's right: it's a death wish.
