Newt Gingrich: Fire Steven Chu!
posted at 5:30 pm on March 1, 2012 by Tina Korbe
Newt Gingrich, never shy.
“President Obama must announce today in his Nashua address that he is firing Secretary Chu and replacing him with a pro-American-energy appointment,” said a statement from Gingrich, who cited a POLITICO story about Chu’s appearance before a House Appropriations subcommittee.
“If he doesn’t, then the American people will know the president is still committed to his radical ideology, which wants to artificially raise the cost of energy,” Gingrich added.
“Yesterday [Obama’s] secretary of anti-energy Dr. Chu literally testified in Congress that he did not favor lowering the price of gasoline, that they had no alternative policy to lower the price of gasoline and that his goal was to get us on to other things,” Gingrich said.
“Dr. Chu is apparently a brilliant scientist,” the Republican presidential hopeful said. “I’m for allowing him to go back to science as rapidly as possible. In fact I suspect the American people would chip in to buy the airplane ticket later on today.”
Still, good for him for outright saying what he surely can’t be alone in desiring. Plenty of folks who heard or read Steven Chu’s straight-faced, stunning congressional testimony about gas prices — all to the effect that the administration is just not particularly interested to lower the high price of gas — had to wonder why this guy is Energy Secretary, Nobel Prize in physics aside. Couple that testimony with his surreal assessment of himself as a steward of taxpayer money today and it’s hard not to be sympathetic toward Newt Gingrich’s latest crusade.
Chu might have been on more solid ground with his remarks if this administration had done more to actually move toward energy independence than it has. Other than sinking money in losing solar enterprises, the administration has taken no major steps toward that goal, neither boosting domestic production (production is up, but it takes years for oil and other fuels to come online, so O can’t take credit for the increase that has occurred under his administration) nor encouraging innovation through regulatory rollback.
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Obama is the biggest azzhole the US ever had as president.
Schadenfreude on April 24, 2013 at 8:42 PM
JugEars: …tough shit!…eat shit!
KOOLAID2 on April 24, 2013 at 8:43 PM
…we have other things to do… like pay for welfare…disabilities…etc. so we can blow ourselfs up!
KOOLAID2 on April 24, 2013 at 8:46 PM
and the downside for Idi Hussein is ?????
burrata on April 24, 2013 at 8:46 PM
Well, my Canadian friends, across the lake…it is your oil…do with it what you will.
Our current government is hell-bent on shutting down oil, coal and any other fossil fuel here in the States.
Can’t upset the Saudis, you know.
But do for Canada what is best for Canada.
Most of us rational Americans will understand.
Besides, there are a few countries who will pay you in cash…not promises.
coldwarrior on April 24, 2013 at 8:48 PM
In the not so distant future..
Ever seen that satellite photo of North/South Korea at night?
Just rotate that photo 180 degrees..
Electrongod on April 24, 2013 at 8:51 PM
Whatever. We will soon have wind-powered
submarinesships that go under water.Bishop on April 24, 2013 at 8:52 PM
Ahuh. Sure. Right. I’m sure you’d be sooo mad at your fellow socialist…
Only if we’re very, very, fortunate.
MelonCollie on April 24, 2013 at 8:56 PM
He’ll do anything to hurt the economy. Obamaphones and food stamps. The new norm…and all to plan.
CW on April 24, 2013 at 8:57 PM
nobar on April 24, 2013 at 9:01 PM
I didn’t mean that.
I was implying a satellite photo of a future North America compared to the photo of the Korea’s today but rotated.
Canada has an abundance of light..
U.S. not so much..
Electrongod on April 24, 2013 at 9:01 PM
Canadians (Canadiens for Quebecers) have gotten more feisty since their NHL teams are playing better.
bw222 on April 24, 2013 at 9:02 PM
Oh. Thank you for clarifying.
MelonCollie on April 24, 2013 at 9:03 PM
Who let Richard Windsor off the hook, huh? You morons hold the purse strings, don’t just do something, stand there. At least the Canucks understand how energy affects the economy.
antipc on April 24, 2013 at 9:04 PM
If it causes embarrassment or detriment to our great nation, Barry definitely will do it. It’s his mission to destroy our economy and turn our allies into foes. What part of this does Canada not understand?
Philly on April 24, 2013 at 9:04 PM
No prob
Electrongod on April 24, 2013 at 9:06 PM
Then it’s a sure thing.
vityas on April 24, 2013 at 9:08 PM
Every ship can go under water. The really cool ones can come back up.
BobMbx on April 24, 2013 at 9:13 PM
Boehner and Cantor…MIA on this?
BobMbx on April 24, 2013 at 9:15 PM
Annoying our allies is Dear Liar’s intent.
rbj on April 24, 2013 at 9:16 PM
Someone needs to tell our Canadian friends in very easy and clear language that Hussein will never ever do anything to financially hurt any of the 57 states of the OIC .
burrata on April 24, 2013 at 9:19 PM
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We are still in the various stages of beat-down.
By the end of President Downgrades reign of terror they will be telling us to be cheering for Dear Leader because when we flip the light switch, the one, cold, flickering bulb in the house lights up.
NoKo has got nothing on BO
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cntrlfrk on April 24, 2013 at 9:20 PM
Which is precisely why Teh SCOAMT is going to ultimately reject Keystone XL.
Steve Eggleston on April 24, 2013 at 9:22 PM
Ok, seriously, how do we stop these damn eco-Marxists who have been successfully crippling our energy economy for years and have only accelerated their destruction under Obama?
It would be a start if the GOP would cut the EPA budget in half. I’ve read multiple sources that say that 50% of EPA’s budget goes to environmental groups as grants.
It would also be nice if environmental groups coud be stripped of standing so they’re unable to sue on behalf of the public.
GOP, pease stop complaining about the EPA and do something.
Charlemagne on April 24, 2013 at 9:46 PM
I keep coming back to the same old question (as do others)… Why hasn’t the House cut off funding to the EPA…?
fabrexe on April 24, 2013 at 9:48 PM
When will Congress finally have enough of the EPA and DEFUND them?
Let’s see the eco-freaks work for “free”.
GarandFan on April 24, 2013 at 9:51 PM
just licking my chops waiting for EPA/State to become the domestic Sunni/Shi’a…
affenhauer on April 24, 2013 at 10:00 PM
I see the slob Warren Buffett cackling demonically, flat on his hairy back in a garden of $100 bills.
slickwillie2001 on April 24, 2013 at 10:25 PM
Thread winner!!..:)
Dire Straits on April 24, 2013 at 10:26 PM
I don’t understand why this pipeline is such a big deal, it’s not like we don’t have a ton of them.
Cindy Munford on April 24, 2013 at 10:32 PM
Maybe I’m wrong, but I seem to remember at least one report here some months ago that said the Keystone was a “go”? But it’s not…?
Nineteen Eighty-Four to be sure.
Dr. ZhivBlago on April 25, 2013 at 12:17 AM
It’s designed to pump the oil down to the refineries here in the US which are equipped to handle it.
Right now, that crude is being hauled by train to the refinery. A train owned by Warren Buffet.
Canada intends to sell this crude. It can either come here and create jobs in the USA, or it can be put onto supertankers and taken to China where it will make jobs for them.
The supertanker route is far more apt to cause problems in the long run. The environmentalists have problems with spills in the 50,000 barrel range, but a supertanker hauls 3,000,000 barrels, and those would be sailing off our coast on the way to China.
unclesmrgol on April 25, 2013 at 1:47 AM
If they start digging a pipeline straight to China, straight down…will be a pretty deep hole, of course…but it should pop out in China, if my recollection of those old Saturday morning Looney Tunes cartoons is correct. And oil spills? No problem, they’ll just run down to China, right?
Problem solved.
coldwarrior on April 25, 2013 at 7:29 AM
Reversal? By telling Obama that, it might just make his day. This president is tearing everything else to pieces so why not our long standing relationship with Canada also.
Pardonme on April 25, 2013 at 10:27 AM
Just Canadian PR prepping the way to build a pipeline to BC and sea-ship all that crude to China.
Marcola on April 25, 2013 at 12:21 PM