Newt Gingrich: Today’s “Ass-Kisser” Award Winner

 

• Were asking citizens about the content of their prayers
• Investigating breakfast conversations hosted by an 83-year-old grandmother

1. How else to explain the Fish and Wildlife Service’s threats last year to halt oil production in Texas to protect a Sand Dune Lizard which it claimed might be endangered.
2. How else to explain the criminal charges the Justice Department filed in 2011 against seven North Dakota oil companies over the deaths of a tiny handful of birds found near oil pits?
3. And how else to explain the administration's continued shut-out of Alaskan energy development despite the enormous amount of land available, vast enough to accommodate both broad conservation and safe production?

• The Alaska shut-out hasn’t elicited much of a response from people in the lower 48, maybe because many wrongly assume that the tight oil and gas boom means the U.S. no longer needs Alaskan energy.
• Offshore Alaska could generate $193 billion in new revenue and create 55,000 jobs nationally.
• The bureaucratic obstruction in Alaska and throughout the country, designed solely to advance the Left’s ideological agenda, is a scandal of its own, and it’s one that has played out openly.

• “The American people should remember that when it comes to their government, it doesn’t have to be bribery or outright deception to be an outrageous abuse of power.”