An instructive study in the contrast between the president’s rhetoric and results.<\/p>\n
Rhetoric:<\/p>\n
“We can\u2019t have an energy strategy for the last century that traps us in the past. We need an energy strategy for the future \u2013 an all-of-the-above strategy for the 21st century that develops every source of American-made energy.\u201d — President Obama, March 15, 2012<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Results:<\/p>\n
Pennsylvania\u2019s PBS Coals Inc. and the affiliated RoxCoal Inc. announced that they would idle some of their deep and surface mines, laying off 225 employees in the process.<\/p>\n
…\u00a0 According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette<\/em>, which first reported the layoff, the company employs 795 workers.<\/p>\n
In Alledonia, Ohio, Murray Energy Corp. announced Friday it would lay off 29 union coal mining jobs at The Ohio Valley Coal Co.\u2019s Powhatan No. 6 Mine.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe failed energy policies of the Obama administration and the \u2018war on coal\u2019 that the president and his Democrat supporters have unleashed are the direct causes of this layoff,\u201d said Powhatan mine general manager Ronald Koontz, according to The Wheeling Intelligencer<\/em>. \u201cUnfortunately, for us, this is just the beginning [of] the work force reductions.\u201d — The Daily Caller<\/a>, July 23, 2012<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
There comes a point at which the cognitive dissonance that underpins grandiose pronouncements with no relationship to reality simply make the speaker look buffoonish. Looking for that line, Mr. President? It’s behind you.<\/div>\n
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