Winded

By Mr. Curmudgeon

President Obama’s wind Czar, or whatever he calls himself, must be livid that good liberal Massachusetts isn’t playing ball with the administration…again. First, they send Republican Scott Brown to fill Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat. Now they brazenly file delaying lawsuits to stall the construction of a lame-brained wind farm that will scar 25-miles of scenic coastline with 130 spinning propellers. Once built, it will produce negligible amounts of energy, but it makes Obama look heroic as he tilts at Al Gore’s invisible friend global warming. The feds then added insult to injury by paying Siemens Energy Inc. a half billion dollars for wind turbines. With the Euro dropping in value due to the bankruptcy of Europe’s crumbling nanny-states, Siemens appreciates the generosity of U.S. taxpayers. You see, Siemens is a German company.

In order to head-off possibly harmful publicity, Siemens announced it will open a Boston sales office. Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick said the Siemens’ gesture would “create jobs in Massachusetts.” The sales office will employ 5, maybe 10 people. When completed, the wind farm boondoggle will cost an estimated $1.6 billion dollars.

Remember those television commercials with oilman T. Boon Pickens hawking the benefits of wind power? It seems odd that Democrats would embrace the brainchild of the man who contributed cash to the Swift Boat veterans, whose ads did so much to scuttle Sen. John Kerry’s presidential ambitions. But his words make clear why Nancy Pelosi once asked Pickens to speak before Washington’s Democratic Caucus. “We have to have the right leadership and everybody in this country has to cooperate," said Pickens, "...we have to march in the same direction…”

Recently, we saw a clear example of what Pelosi and Obama see as leadership. Over the objection of a majority of the Americans, they bribed, threatened and employed parliamentary tricks to force ObamaCare down the throat of a nation. Obama and Pelosi identify with Pickens’ idea that America must “march in the same direction.” That is why the November election is so important. It’s our chance to change that direction and rein-in Obama and Pelosi’s need to dictate marching orders. If Obama could harness the power generated by the upcoming winds of change, he could power America for the rest of this century.