Obama finally produced his “long form birth certificate,” and Ann Coulter crowed she was right all along about the birth certificate, but she really proved herself a crack shot when she said the birther controversy distracts from what a terrible presidency the Obama administration is. Quite well said, but did his [...]

Read More and Comment: “Natural Born” Does Not Equal “Loyal Citizen”]]> Carlos Calwianka, FloydReports.com

Obama finally produced his “long form birth certificate,” and Ann Coulter crowed she was right all along about the birth certificate, but she really proved herself a crack shot when she said the birther controversy distracts from what a terrible presidency the Obama administration is. Quite well said, but did his parents have the qualifications to confer on Barack Obama Jr. undivided loyalty to his nation of birth? You know a tree by its fruit, and you know the loyalty of a president to his nation by his leadership.

Nowhere is this more evident than in current White House energy policy. Recently, the president recounted speaking to OPEC about opening its oil spigots: “We are in a lot of conversations with the major oil producers like Saudi Arabia to let them know that it’s not going to be good for them if our economy is hobbled because of high oil prices.”

This is all pretty strange when you consider what Obama’s prime offshore oil drilling official, Michael Bromwich — who heads the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement — stated last week: “You can’t drill your way to lower oil prices. It’s a world market. We have a very limited impact on that.”

Does Obama understand supply and demand? The past year has seen the administration virtually halt nearly all offshore oil drilling permitting, costing the U.S. approximately 400,000 barrels of oil production per day.

The average price of crude (Dated Brent, West Texas Intermediate, and the Dubai Fateh) over the October 2010-March 2011 time period of $92/barrel means that this restriction has cost the U.S. economy more than $36 million a day. The impact on our trade deficit during that six month time frame surpasses….

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How does $8-a-gallon gas sound? Few Americans would want to see that happen. Unfortunately, President-elect Barack Obama’s choices for the governments two highest energy posts have expressed a surprising level of comfort with sky-high gas prices.

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Read More and Comment: Obama’s Coming Oil Crackdown]]> Ben Lieberman, The Washington Times

How does $8-a-gallon gas sound? Few Americans would want to see that happen. Unfortunately, President-elect Barack Obama’s choices for the governments two highest energy posts have expressed a surprising level of comfort with sky-high gas prices.

As if that weren’t bad enough, the incoming Obama administration and new Congress have suggested they may reverse the pro-domestic oil drilling measures enacted since last summer. It is starting to look as though the change coming to Washington will bring bad news at the pump in the years ahead.