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Wind, Solar Energy Built On Temporary Tax Breaks

Posted by Always To The Right on Sunday, August 31, 2008 3:01:43 PM
Congress is putting the short-term future of renewable energy companies in jeopardy even as the presidential candidates and most lawmakers hail windmills, solar panels and biofuels as long-term solutions to high gasoline prices and global warming.

Some $500 million in investment and production tax credits will expire Dec. 31 unless Congress renews them. Without that help, solar and wind power companies say they will reverse planned expansions and, in many cases, cut payrolls and capital investment.

Congress let the credit expire in 2000, 2002 and 2004. In those three years, wind capacity installation dropped 93 percent, 73 percent and 77 percent, respectively, from the previous year.

Schott Solar has visions of quadrupling its operation in Albuquerque, N.M., to reach 1,500 jobs and $500 million in investment. But the investment tax credit, company spokesman Brian Lynch said, is what makes solar power cost-competitive. Without it, expansion plans must be reconsidered.



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Cafferty Insults Alaska: 'State That Has 13 People And Some Caribou'

Posted by Always To The Right on Saturday, August 30, 2008 6:36:22 PM
In an effort to run down Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska, a snarling Jack Cafferty managed to insult the entire state of Alaska on CNN's Situation Room: "Sarah Palin is in her first term as governor of Alaska, that's a state that has 13 people and some caribou." This was one small part of an acid-laced harangue by Cafferty on the subject of Sarah Palin,

Really Jack? And which of the people you mentioned has the most actual executive experience? It turns out that it is none other than Sarah Palin. And Cafferty might have to use the line about "ballgame over" when a certain Joe Biden meltdown video is made available to the public. But about that, your humble correspondent is keeping his mouth zipped...for now.

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Networks Skip Liberal Labels For Dem Convention

Posted by Always To The Right on Saturday, August 30, 2008 6:22:11 PM
While NBC's Matt Lauer took pains to label John McCain's vice presidential nominee a "staunch" and "stalwart" conservative on Friday, all three network morning shows almost entirely avoided any ideological descriptors for Senators Obama, Biden and the major liberal speakers during the just completed August 25 to 28 Democratic National Convention.

Some of the individuals at the convention included Al Gore, Senator Ted Kennedy and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, all politicians with an obvious leftward tilt. The only exception to the liberal label blackout included references by NBC's "Today" and CBS's "Early Show" on Tuesday when various reporters affectionately referred to Kennedy as the "liberal lion," of the Senate, a clear term on endearment. (ABC's "Good Morning America" used the word "lion" in regards to Kennedy, but not "liberal.") This foreshadows a Republican National Convention, September 1 to the 4, a period where John McCain and Sarah Palin will very likely be labeled "conservative" many times. 

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ABC Anchor Impugns Sarah Palin As A Neglectful Mother

Posted by Always To The Right on Saturday, August 30, 2008 6:15:10 PM
On ABC’s Good Morning America on Saturday, co-anchor Bill Weir bristled with hostility during an interview with a McCain campaign spokesman about the choice of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as the Republican vice presidential candidate, suggesting she was unqualified and too conservative. At one point, Weir even suggested that by running for Vice President, the Governor would be jeopardizing her four-month old daughter, who has Down’s Syndrome.

Weir confronted McCain political director Mike DuHaime: “Adding to the brutality of a national campaign, the Palin family also has an infant with special needs. What leads you, the Senator, and the Governor to believe that one won't affect the other in the next couple of months?” When DuHaime offered a general answer about Palin’s “incredible life story,” an obviously irritated Weir jumped in, exclaiming “She has an infant -- she has an infant with special needs. Will that affect her campaigning?”

Just a few moments later, that line of questioning was quickly criticized by ABC’s Cokie Roberts as sexist. Without mentioning Weir, Roberts said questions “about who’s taking care of the children...traditionally has very much angered women voters when women candidates are asked those questions and male candidates never are.”

Earlier, reporter David Wright sarcastically noted that McCain and Palin campaigning “looked a little like father and daughter out for an ice cream.” Wright, Weir and co-host Kate Snow all found ways to tag Palin as conservative, with Snow calling her “quite conservative,” but a week earlier, nobody on the same program thought it worth mentioning that Democratic VP candidate Joe Biden was liberal.

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No Labels For Liberal Joe Biden, But For Sarah Palin...

Posted by Always To The Right on Saturday, August 30, 2008 4:51:59 PM
. . . the big broadcast networks on Saturday morning showed no shyness about labeling Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin a “conservative,” with NBC Today co-host Amy Robach calling her “a staunch conservative,” CBS’s Chip Reid tagging her “reliably conservative,” and ABC’s Kate Snow finding Palin to be “quite conservative.”

But seven days earlier, as those same programs reacted to the Obama campaign’s text message heralding Joe Biden as the Democratic vice presidential candidate, none of those broadcast found a moment to call him “liberal,” in spite of Biden’s lengthy record of liberal votes [1] as determined by the nonpartisan National Journal.

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Why The Left Is Scared To Death Of McCain's Running mate.

Posted by Always To The Right on Saturday, August 30, 2008 3:29:53 PM

Let Palin Be Palin
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She May Be The One Conservatives Have Been Waiting For

Posted by Always To The Right on Saturday, August 30, 2008 3:25:39 PM

Providential Palin
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How John McCain's Running Mate Shakes Up The Presidential Race

Posted by Always To The Right on Saturday, August 30, 2008 3:19:13 PM

What Palin Does
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Zing!

Posted by Always To The Right on Saturday, August 30, 2008 3:06:00 PM

Video: Huckabee on Palin’s readiness

I have always liked Mike Huckabee, even though in the end I didn’t support him in the run for the Presidency. He has a disarming manner that belies real steel underneath, and last night he proved his value to the GOP in a debate with Alan Colmes. Colmes asked Huckabee whether he really thought Sarah Palin was ready to be President on Day 1, and Huckabee gave the answer of the day:

AC: Do you believe that Sarah Palin is ready, Day One, if God forbid something happens to John McCain?

MH: I think she’s far more ready to be President if something happens to McCain than Barack Obama would be if something doesn’t happen to McCain.

Colmes tried to make the argument that McCain didn’t show leadership by making this “reactive” pick of Palin.  Huckabee laughed this off, saying that Colmes must have been invited inside McCain’s head.  However, it’s worthwhile to ask, as I did in my previous post, who really had the reacticve pick.  Obama picked Joe Biden after the Caucasus blew up and he floundered in his response, while McCain looked prepared, informed, and ready to lead.  Suddenly, Biden went from “I’m not the guy” to the running mate within 96 hours.


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The Weak And The Despicable

Posted by Always To The Right on Saturday, August 30, 2008 2:57:44 PM

Desperation from Democrats

Now that almost a full day has passed since John McCain has named Sarah Palin as his running mate, we can already see the themes his political opponents will take in criticizing her.  Irony runs through a number of these arguments, as most of them apply more to their own ticket than to the Republicans, and one in particular is just so despicable as to drop the jaw to the ground.  Let’s take a tour of these, shall we?

It’s a desperation pick — he didn’t make up his mind until Thursday!

Why would he put a small-town mayor a heartbeat away from the presidency?

McCain can’t talk about experience any more — he’s shot himself in the foot!

Troopergate!

Palin’s pick insults more qualified Republican women like Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, Elizabeth Dole, Kay Bailey Hutchinson, etc etc etc.

Sarah Palin wasn’t REALLY pregnant — it’s her daughter’s child.

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Will It?

Posted by Always To The Right on Saturday, August 30, 2008 2:23:11 AM
McCain VP Choice Is Gov. Sarah Palin, Transforming Race
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Crowning Obama

Posted by Always To The Right on Saturday, August 30, 2008 2:18:08 AM
The biggest surprise of the Democratic convention? The spectacle of journalists applauding Barack Obama's acceptance speech. OK, maybe not the biggest surprise. But certainly one of the biggest disgraces.

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Andy Barr reported on The Hill's blog that "several members of the media were seen cheering and clapping for" Obama as he accepted the Democratic nomination Thursday.

"Dozens of men and women wearing green media floor passes chanted along with the crowd," Barr also noted, adding that "two members of the foreign press exchanged opportunities to take each other's picture while wearing an Obama hat and waving a flag" while "several others nearby screamed 'woo' during some of Obama's biggest applause lines."

Barr did not name names, but he didn't have to. Who can forget MSNBC's Chris Matthews gushing about "this thrill going up my leg" and the "feeling most people get when they hear Barack Obama's speech"?

On Thursday night, Keith Olbermann, also of MSNBC, lashed out at an Associated Press reporter because he wasn't pleased with his coverage of Obama's speech. According to the trade journal Editor & Publisher, Olbermann "was outraged that the AP's (Charles) Babington had written, in his analysis of the speech, just off the wire, that Obama had tried nothing new and that his speech was lacking in specifics."

Olbermann finished his tirade by insisting that Babington "find a new line of work."

The we-must-get-Obama-elected agenda isn't limited to a couple of TV personalities. The bias runs the media gamut.

So the response to Thursday's historic speech really comes as no surprise. It's quite clear the national media are focused singularly on ensuring that Barack Obama is coronated on Jan. 20, 2009.

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Cirque De Obama

Posted by Always To The Right on Saturday, August 30, 2008 2:13:51 AM
Barack Obama says we can't afford four more years like the last eight. What, exactly, is bad about winning a war on terror, keeping Americans alive and free, and letting us keep more of what we earn?

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On the economy, he said: "Unlike John McCain, I will stop giving tax breaks to corporations that ship our jobs overseas, and I will start giving them to companies that create good jobs right here in America." Yet he once proposed doubling the capital gains tax to punish the very risk-takers he now purports to champion.

When it was pointed out during a primary debate that higher capital gains taxes can generate less revenue and discourage economic activity, Obama mumbled something about "fairness." Thursday night, the code words were "mutual responsibility." But it's all about redistributing income.

We need more, not fewer, tax breaks. The average combined federal and state tax rate on corporations is now 50% higher than the average of our international competitors. At 39.3%, it's second only to Japan's. In some states, including California and Pennsylvania, it's the highest in the world.

The average European nation has tax rates on corporate income some 10 percentage points lower than ours. Ireland has a corporate rate of 12.5%. If you were a businessman, where would you locate?

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Pondering The Consequences If Obama Loses

Posted by Always To The Right on Saturday, August 30, 2008 2:09:08 AM

After the phony roll call vote was taken here to formally nominate Barack Obama -- a roll call that did not remotely reflect the true delegate...

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Questions arise. With this immense moral and emotional investment in a Barack victory — one poll shows black America is behind him by 94-to-1 — what happens if the nation decides he is too radical, too inexperienced, too callow, too risky to be president?

What happens if the American people reject their marching orders and say no to Barack and black America? What happens if all the hopes and dreams, hype and hoopla, end in disillusionment?

Would the defeat of Barack Obama be taken as an affront to black America? Could we be in for a time of deepening racial division rather than healing? Could we be in for a long, hot autumn like the long, hot summers some of us recall from 40 years ago?

No candidate has ever been nominated by a major party with fewer credentials or a weaker claim to the presidency, or more doubts as to his core beliefs.

If Obama wins, the country could be in real trouble. And if he loses, the country could be in real trouble.

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McCain Swings For The Fences, Picking Alaska's Palin For Veep

Posted by Always To The Right on Saturday, August 30, 2008 2:05:35 AM

No one knows how this presidential election will turn out. There are still thousands of miles of road to travel, dozens of speeches to be made, scores of hands to be shaken, millions of voters to be swayed.

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