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Another bad day for our president and his favored nation, Iran. Despite all the meddling by the administration in attempts to sway the Israeli election against Bibi Netanyahu, Netanyahu still prevailed.

 

FoxNews.com reports that, “Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu began working Wednesday to form a coalition government with nationalist and ultra-Orthodox Jewish parties after his conservative Likud scored a resounding and surprising victory following a fractious election campaign.”

 

Official results reported in Israeli media show that Likud “won at least 29 seats in the 120-member Knesset, five more than Herzog's centrist Zionist Union. No other party had more than 14 seats, and a party or coalition must have at least 61 seats to form a government. A key bloc that could sew up Netanyahu's premiership is Kulanu, another centrist party lead by former government minister Moshe Kahlon that was projected to earn 10 seats in the latest figures.”

 

An interesting result of the election, however, is that the results caused White House spokesman Josh Earnest to finally say something that’s absolutely true for once. He said “Obama was confident strong U.S.-Israeli ties would endure far beyond the election regardless of the victor.” The only question remaining is which election he was referring to, yesterday’s in Israel or 2016 in the U.S., because his comment applies to both.

 

Next, former Vice President, Dick Cheney, in an interview for the April issue of Playboy, repeatedly tore into the president on a wide array of issues, including the racially charged riots in Ferguson, Missouri, and foreign policy.

 

Throughout Mr. Cheney’s comments a very clear picture emerges of how the nation’s lost ground economically, militarily and especially in it’s standing with just about all other nations around the world over the past six years.

 

However, aside from foreign policy, Mr. Cheney’s expertise lies in the energy area, as former CEO of oil giant Halliburton.

 

In that regard, he said, “We’ve had enormous success, a lot of it due to the private sector, in terms of becoming self-sufficient on energy. That is a huge development for the United States, affecting our situation globally. Yet Obama is doing everything he can to shut down the coal industry. Unilaterally, Congress rejected the carbon caps, so he is doing it through the Environmental Protection Agency by executive authority. We will not build the Keystone Pipeline. We ought to develop our capacity, support the European gas market for U.S. exports. The Baltics should not have to get 100 percent of their gas from Russia. You can put a real cramp in Vladimir Putin’s economy and activities, and his eagerness to create problems for us in Europe, if we would take advantage of what we’ve got by way of our capacity to produce gas.”

 

What the preceding illustrates is something frequently addressed here. Because, one doesn’t have to be a highly successful oil magnate to understand the benefits to the nation of increased oil production, energy independence and assistance to allies in need. Any dunce can see that clearly. But when the nation’s security, welfare and economic strength mean less than political ideology, you wind up with the Obama administration.  

 

That’s it for today folks.

 

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