Reckless

I read an article this morning that is extremely disturbing and at the same time very revealing of Barack Obama's zealotry in pushing his ideas for renewable energy and green jobs.  It seems that despite his campaign promises to be more transparent and to ban lobbyists from his White House, both promises are being violated with absolute abandon.

Remember Spain?  Remember how President Obama held them up as a shining example of green jobs and an economy flourishing under green empowerment?  Turns out it's all hooey.  Spanish academics and economists familiar with their country's green policies begged to differ, and offered up their own studies that showed just the opposite.  An embarrassed Obama administration quickly substituted Denmark, for Spain, in all their propaganda and went after the Spanish reprobates for spilling the beans.  When some in Congress got wind of all this, it was found that the attack was coordinated by members of the Obama administration's Energy Department, "Big Wind" lobbyists, and George Soros' Center for American Progress.  Apparently a number of people are still giving congressional inquiries the runaround.

What I found most disturbing in the article in the Washington Post, by Chris Horner of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, is the fact that in just one year, from 2008 to 2009, the Obama administration increased the budget of just one program in the Department of Energy from $1.7 billion to over $18 billion!  I don't care how much you adore unproven energy technologies, especially on this scale, but this is a perfect  example of faulty priorities and out-of-control spending.