Honcho
is Romney's Chief of Staff
A
first look at Mr. Gerard's Agenda
The“Daily Caller” is a lucrative on-line shopper tabloid thatattracts readers through the politics of anger and resentment.(click here for a look at the "Caller")
For
instance, two stories topping the lead today are bright little
numbers. First we have a breezy report about the Department of
State's “Chief of Diversity” counseling his staff not to use
racist and hateful terms such as “holding down the fort.”
Another
regards a Secret Service Agent who left his sidearm in the head on
Mitt Romney's chartered jet as it winged its way toward Indianapolis
from Tampa for an overnight speaking engagement. A news
correspondent had to let someone
know about the abandoned firearm, prompting the crew of the aircraft
to send the chastened Secret Serviceman back to get his pistol.
Soit's not surprising that the American Petroleum Institute chose toinsert an eighth-page interactive advertisement targeting the 9 mostliberal eastern seaboard states, starting with D.C. in the south andranging to the Canadian border at Vermont and New Hampshire.(click here to see the ad campaign)
After
all, King Oil has replaced gold and silver bullion as the unit of
worth backing the full faith and credit fiat currency of the lofty
Federal Reserve system's puppet, the United States Treasury. Since
the early 70's, a dollar is worth some particle of a barrel of crude,
no matter where on the globe it may be produced.
The
President and CEO of the American Petroleum Institute, Jack Gerard, a
Mormon from Idaho, is said to be the top pick as Chief of Staff in a
Romney Administration.
His
organization has inserted the interactive internet ads in various
on-line publications, and they are a study in the thunderbolts and
lightning politics of the energy sector.
One
is invited to pick a state – any state on the list, click on it -
and the screen opens up to a factoid list about all the leverage an
energy-focused White House can bring to bear on the poor denizens of
these tiny states.
Take
Massachusetts.
Unlike
Delaware, which state's page diplomatically fails to mention that
Wilmington is the chemical plant capital of the Atlantic coast, the
ad boldly reminds the folks from Mass that about 250,000 of their
number are unemployed. They are taxed at the rate of $.42 per gallon
for gasoline.
And
so forth.
The
unspoken message, the one that Mr. Gerard is working hard to get
across, is that obstructionism in the permit process for fracturing
technology in the Marcellus Shale Fields of New England, or EPA hard
nosing on giving the green light to refinement plants and offshore
platforms will only make the plight of working men and women worse.
Prominently
displayed in every page is the gap between the median income level
for an energy sector employee and the entire mix of workers lucky
enough to be employed in other types of industries.
It's
about fifteen to twenty thousand dollars in every state.
An
array of YouTube videos hammers home the “comprehensive
conversation” Mr. Gerard is seeking with the honchos of both
parties.
He
told a reporter from the “Globe and Mail” yesterday, “We're
going to have the same type of events and conversations in Charlotte
to move the debate forward.”
In
the reports API made to the platform committees of both the Democrats
and the Republicans, he pointed out that the oil and gas industry
pays $86 million a day to the U.S. Treasury; that the energy sector's
need to produce petroleum and gas from domestic sources will generate
1.4 million new jobs by the year 2030, one million of them within 7
years; and that “persons, party and political philosophy” have
not a whole lot to do with the dialogue big oil is looking to
establish in a D.C. that has turned largely deaf ears on his
colleagues.
“I
don't disagree that there is a polarization between the parties on
energy issues. We see our role as trying to bring some rationality to
the discussion,” Mr. Gerard told the newspaper.
The
question no one is asking Mr. Big Oil: Is it really for sale, this
Big Enchilada gig on Pennsylvania Avenue?
But,
then, I guess you don't have to ask. He's telling.
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