Rahm Emanuel not letting a serious crisis go to waste

EDITOR’S CHOICE: The Democrats used the Katrina disaster to castigate the Bush administration, and with the Gulf oil spill now putting the shoe on the other foot, the politicization of natural disasters has become an art form. Obama’s regime is bent on not letting “ a serious crisis go to waste.”

TACTICS: Barbara Hollingsworth of the Washington Examiner sites Stu Tarlowe in a provocative post at the American Thinker blog: “If you think the Gulf oil spill spells trouble for Obama, you’re just not looking at as big a picture as he’s looking at, and you just don’t realize how much trouble we’re all in.”

“Don’t be fooled by Obama’s ‘incompetence’,” she says, again pointing to the Cloward-Piven Strategy, which was developed by two Columbia University sociology professors as a way to use political and economic chaos to achieve their radical ends. When viewed through this lens, what the rest of the nation views as a political disaster for Obama could be an opportunity instead.

“If the oil spill in the Gulf manages to destroy the fishing and tourist industries in that region, shut down oil drilling, raise the price of oil and of food all over the country, and brings more and more Americans to a financial breaking point and thus dependent on food stamps and other government programs, Obama and Co. will smile and nod at one another,” Tarlowe predicts.

SPREAD PANIC: Obama’s own behavior indicates that Tarlowe may be right. The president reiterated his cap-and-trade case yesterday, amid another pitch for ending tax breaks for Big Oil and giving them to Big Environmentalists doing Alternative Energy Projects to push America back into the 19th century.

“The only way the transition to clean energy will ultimately succeed is if the private sector is fully invested in this future — if capital comes off the sidelines and the ingenuity of our entrepreneurs is unleashed.  And the only way to do that is by finally putting a price on carbon pollution,” Obama said during a recent address at Carnegie Mellon University.

MORE BIG GOVERNMENT: “The House of Representatives has already passed a comprehensive energy and climate bill, and there is currently a plan in the Senate – a plan that was developed with ideas from Democrats and Republicans – that would achieve the same goal.  And, Pittsburgh, I want you to know, the votes may not be there right now, but I intend to find them in the coming months,” the president added.

If Obama is indeed following the Cloward-Piven game plan, he will use the BP oil spill crisis to his advantage by forcing the passage of the ruinous cap and trade bill through the Senate before the November elections.