{"id":5959,"date":"2010-07-01T13:19:42","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T17:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=5959"},"modified":"2010-07-08T16:09:11","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T20:09:11","slug":"biggovernment-com-runs-cfif-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/5959\/biggovernment-com-runs-cfif-commentary\/","title":{"rendered":"BP and the Obama Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s BigGovernment.com queue includes our commentary on the disturbingly cozy marriage of convenience between BP and the Obama Administration.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h1><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">BP and the Obama Agenda<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">By Timothy H. Lee<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For years, liberals in Washington have tirelessly thwarted America from tapping its domestic sources of energy, while hypocritically lamenting our \u201caddiction to foreign oil.\u201d They have forsworn abundant energy supplies just off our coasts and erected boundaries against drilling and energy development right here at home. The unfortunate effect of their effort is to unnecessarily drive exploration further and further offshore, to deeper and deeper depths.<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly, those same forces are forging a marriage of convenience with BP to scapegoat the entire energy industry for BP\u2019s individualized failures. In his Oval Office speech to the nation, for instance, President Obama resorted to sloppy slurs against \u201coil industry lobbyists\u201d and \u201can entire way of life being threatened by a menacing cloud of black crude.\u201d &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the entire piece <a href=\"http:\/\/biggovernment.com\/tlee\/2010\/07\/01\/bp-and-the-obama-agenda\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s BigGovernment.com queue includes our commentary on the disturbingly cozy marriage of convenience between BP and the Obama Administration. BP and the Obama Agenda By Timothy H. Lee For years, liberals in Washington have tirelessly thwarted America from tapping its domestic sources of energy, while hypocritically lamenting our \u201caddiction to foreign oil.\u201d They have forsworn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1507,1215,1505,195,1506,1217,24,1216,1504],"class_list":["post-5959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-addiction","tag-bp","tag-domestic","tag-energy","tag-foreign","tag-gulf","tag-obama","tag-oil","tag-spill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5959"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5961,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5959\/revisions\/5961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}