Obama: Traitor to Environmentalism?

With the global economy now spiraling down to the depths of severe recession, and with manufacturing and other industrial activity declining, surely the West is now on the right track to meet our Kyoto goals and permanently reduce our national carbon footprints! Environmentalists rejoice!

After all, it was Obama himself who once decried the criminal fact that although Americans constitute only 4% of the global population, we consume 25% of the earth's resources. Well voila! We're now finally on the path to correcting that abomination!

But what is this? Obama is now spending trillions of dollars with the hope of stimulating economic growth? Doesn't he realize that by doing so, we'll only reverse our environmental gains and return to our previous evil ways of mass consumption?

Don't worry. Even if our economy rebounds to pre-September 2008 levels, Obama will institute his promised carbon cap and trade system. That should steer us toward a greener future. However, it'll raise your utility bills by 15-30%. It will cost the federal government up to $1.9 trillion, just for the programs first 8 years (tax increase, anyone?). Lastly, cap and trade will cost up to 2.3 million jobs by 2015.

I suppose this is the change we all wanted...

What does this mean? Honestly!

The Obama Pentagon has decided to drop the phrase "War on Terror" as a moniker to describe our ongoing and deadly global conflict against Islamic radicalism. In its place, the president has decided on a new name: the "Overseas Contingency Operation."

Just what the hell does that mean? I certainly hope that name doesn't confuse Pentagon planners, who no doubt deal with myriad other "overseas contingency operations" (i.e. possible future conflicts with China, Russia, North Korea, etc). Couldn't our president have picked something easier to remember, and more to the point, like "Operation Pacify," or "Operation Appeasement?"