The Flanking Maneuver

By Semperpapa

For someone who despises anything military, Obama is sure becoming an expert at flanking maneuvers.
Just as he will be reversing Eric Holder decision to hold terror trials in New York only to assure the cooperation of Sen. Lindsey Graham on amnesty for illegal immigrants and Gitmo closing, Obama is now going to allow oil drilling off the coast of Virginia. The move is certainly designed to insure that some of the liberal Republicans in Congress will in turn support the Cap and Trade Bill that appears to be dead at this time.

The official justification from the ever truthful White House is that the move is aimed at moving America toward independence from foreign oil and to create jobs, two of the most pressing issues for the American people.

What the Administration is hoping, and has reason for such hope, is that the Media will do the bidding for this openly conniving move on the part of Obama, by just giving the American people the catchy headline, leaving some of the interesting details out.
As I am writing this, the local radio station I listen to, just had a News spot in which the only information given was that Obama is allowing off shore oil drilling.

The details that the Media will most likely ignore is that while the President is making a big production off the opening of few drilling sites off of the Virginia coast, he is also shutting down several new sites that were planned for Alaska Bristol Bay, where the presence of large oil reserves have already been located.
Moreover, the President has charged his Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to reverse last year decision to develop oil drilling in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas. Salazar will task scientists to the areas to study the possibility for future development. I bet my bottom dollar that these are the same “scientists” who have supported the Global Warming fiasco.

The flanking maneuver Obama is making is, I must admit, pretty clever. While the American people hear that finally something seems to be happening in making America less dependent from foreign oil, Obama is also appealing to his fringe environmentalist supporters by shutting down more sites than he opened and by maintaining a moratorium on off shore drilling off the West Coast and killing drilling where we already know oil is present.

The goal is fairly clear: give an opening to those RINOs in Congress that are chomping at the bit to get Cap and Trade legislature moving again. I would be willing to wager that the American people will be greeted this morning by news of Graham or McCain or Grassley or Hatch praising the President for this move and that it will not be long that we will start hearing about the energy bill making the headlines.
And I would be willing also to wager that somewhere in this whole pile of excrements we will hear that George Soros is somewhat involved, as it appears that the subversive billionaire is always lurking in the darkness of Obama sewer pipes.

President Obama can come out and promise anything he wants. Nuclear power plants? Sure. New oil drilling? Absolutely! But is it really going to happen? Do not count on it. Just as he reversed oil drilling in Alaska, he can do the same everywhere else soon after the spineless Congress gives him what he wants.

And the flanking maneuver continues. So while the American people are barely watching, Obama will use every mean at his disposal, and even some means the Constitution does not allow him to have, to circumvent the will of the people and the interests of the country.
And while the ignorant masses may celebrate the some ill perceived moderate move, they will be led toward disaster like good, obedient sheep.

Just my thoughts!