Obama appoints powerless debt commission so he doesn't have to do anything

Whenever Obama doesn't want to deal with a problem, he signs an executive order appointing a commission to "examine" it. Last week he created a commission to tackle the $14.3 trillion national debt racked up by his massive spending spree. The commission will spend eight months talking about the debt before making recommendations. The president then may or may not hand these recommendations to Congress who then may or may not do something.

When Obama wanted to socialize the health care sector or create a cap-and-tax energy system, he didn't create a useless commission. He told Congress to ram legislation through immediately. If Obama actually cared about reducing his debt, he could start by cutting up his proposed budget of more than $3 trillion. But instead he'll create a commission, allowing him to ignore the issue for another year.

GE: We bring evil to life!

Remember those commercials from the 1980s that showed average Americans using General Electric products while a singer crooned in the background, "GE: We bring good things to life"? They've come a long, long way.

Yesterday we reported on Obama's incestuous relationship with GE which gets kickbacks from BHO by supporting his agenda. Today brings news that Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and crazed Climate Change Czar Carol Browner are hunkered down in a meeting with lobbyists. The subject is how to bring the president's failing cap-and-tax bill back to life. Only two CEOs attended the meeting, and one was GE's Jeffrey Immelt.

Yes, the most transparent administration in American history is holding closed-door meetings with powerful CEOs to discuss how to screw over the rest of it. Immelt has good reason to support the cap-and-tax nonsense. GE's so-called "green business" made the company $17 billion in 2008, a 21% increase over the previous year. (Numbers for 2009 are not yet available.) Most recently, GE secured a $1.4 billion contract to build a 30 square mile wind farm in Oregon, the largest on the planet.

Meanwhile GE continues stroking Obama's back. Last night, MSNBC talking head Keith Olbermann nearly lost his cookies attacking conservatives who disagree with Obama on global warming.

It's all about money. Follow it, and you'll usually find Barack Hussein Obama lurking somewhere in the shadows. Now, thanks to his administration, GE has gone from being a company as American as apple pie to a rotten apple carrying out the will of the state.

Cap and trade back from the dead

A nice little surprise from last night's State of the Union address.

"But to create more of these clean energy jobs, we need more production, more efficiency, more incentives. And that means building a new generation of safe, clean nuclear power plants in this country. It means making tough decisions about opening new offshore areas for oil and gas development. It means continued investment in advanced biofuels and clean coal technologies. And, yes, it means passing a comprehensive energy and climate bill with incentives that will finally make clean energy the profitable kind of energy in America."

So Obama still hasn't given up on the cap and trade bill that would take a sledgehammer to the economy.