Krauthammer On Obama's Algae Policy: "I Think He's On To Something"

◼ "Tongue out of cheek," host Bret Baier joked. - Real Clear Politics

"I'm sorry that I brought the level of discussion so low," Krauthammer joked back.

◼ Obama: Use 'algae' as substitute for oil - Joel Gehrke/Washington Examiner

Obama affirmed the need to protect the planet by developing clean energy alternatives, but The Washington Examiner's Michael Barone argues that he hasn't been consistent even on that front. "We’ve prohibited a pipeline, the safest way to transport oil, from Canada, but we’re aiding Mexico in offshore drilling, which is riskier, and by a firm that lacks the experience of the U.S. firms we have been trying to prevent drilling in the same body of water," Barone wrote yesterday. "Does this make any sense at all?"

◼ Obama's sour spot on energy - Michael Barone/Washington Examiner

The Obama administration has been slow-walking oil drilling permits in the Gulf of Mexico, has continued the longstanding opposition of most Democrats and some Republicans to the common sense policy of oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska and has blocked the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada, apparently at the behest of wealthy campaign contributors—and seems to realize the political idiocy of this policy, as witness the totally-without-credibility denial by Press Secretary Jay Carney that the president did what he did....