At Least One Obama Supporter Is Willing To Tell It Like It Is -- Energy Policy Screwed Up

A reader alerted me to this article in the LA Times. Wow, this op-ed piece plus the hard news article that man-made global warming is a bunch of bunk, and we (maybe) got a real newspaper. All of this, and Obama's #1 fan, Chris Matthews, turning on the president -- talk about seismic shifts. 

Let me say upfront that I have always been a Democrat. However, I also vote my conscience and have supported independent candidates. Today, energy policy is one area where I think my party is wrong.

I wasn't always a disillusioned Democrat. For decades, the party's policies ensured that the United States had adequate supplies of domestic oil, natural gas, coal, hydroelectric power and uranium to fuel our growing economy while providing good-paying jobs to the men and women who produced our energy and transported it. These policies helped create America's affluence of the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s.

Even before then, it was a Democratic president — Franklin D. Roosevelt — who transformed the lives of many of our poorest citizens by creating the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Bonneville Power Administration. These projects brought electricity and industrialization to areas that lagged the rest of the country economically. It was Lyndon B. Johnson and not a "free-market" Republican who transformed East Texas through electrification, setting off an economic boom responsible for the economic success of Texas to this day.

Oh, back to CM. I assume the host of Screwball looked at his ratings, and knew he had to get on a new horse. He's still looking for that horse. I doubt it will be Mitt. I think the Gecko and CM would make a good pair; they're starting to look alike as CM ages a bit.