Obama has been fiddling while Colorado has been burning according to Michelle Malkin

[JohnCraven]

Michelle Malkin once again has written a brilliant expose of Nero Plutarcho Obama's all-encompassing ruthless ignorance which has fueled the flames of deadly wildfires throughout the west this year.

Please read her column below but be forewarned it will make you sick.

JohnCraven
New Orleans



Mark 9:27-28 “Why could we not cast him out?”
asked his disciples as to why they couldn’t cast out an evil spirit,
and Jesus said to them, “This kind can go out by nothing,
but prayer and fasting.”


How Obama Bureaucrats Fueled Western Wildfires


By Michelle Malkin • June 20, 2012 01:12 AM

High Park Fire, image via InciWeb

My fellow Coloradans have endured a terrifying and miserable summer so far. Wildfires have ravaged the state. Thousands have been evacuated. Open burning has been banned. Air quality is oppressive. Dry weather and strong winds aren’t helping the front-line personnel trying to contain the blazes. And the season has only just begun here and in across the West. Sean Paige, who runs the invaluable MonkeyWrenchingAmerica.com site, first alerted me to the fateful decisions made by the Obama administration last year that effectively poured fuel on the 2012 Western wildfires. Read my column below and weep. And then make sure you do all you can to 1) help the victims; 2) press the feds for answers about the government’s shrinking aerial tanker fleet, and 3) replace the negligent bureaucrats and their bosses with competent officials who put the core public safety duties of government first instead of last.

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How Obama Bureaucrats Fueled Western Wildfires
by Michelle Malkin

Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2012

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The smell of singed air here is inescapable. Less than 50 miles west of my neighborhood, the latest wildfire has spread across 1,100 acres. It’s the fifth active blaze to erupt in our state over the past month. But ashes aren’t the only things smoldering.

The Obama administration’s neglect of the federal government’s aerial tanker fleet raises acrid questions about its core public safety priorities. Bipartisan complaints goaded the White House into signing a Band-Aid fix last week. But it smacks more of election-year gesture politics: Too little, too late, too fake.

Ten years ago, the feds had a fleet of 44 firefighting planes. Today, the number is down to nine for the entire country. Last summer, Obama’s U.S. Forest Service canceled a key federal contract with Sacramento-based Aero Union just as last season’s wildfires were raging. Aero Union had supplied eight vital air tankers to Washington’s dwindling aerial firefighting fleet. Two weeks later, the company closed down, and 60 employees lost their jobs. Aero Union had been a leader in the business for a half-century.

Why were they grounded? U.S. Forest Service bureaucrats and some media accounts cite “safety” concerns. But as California GOP Rep. Dan Lungren noted in a letter obtained by reporter Audrey Hudson of the conservative D.C. newspaper Human Events last year, a Federal Aviation Administration representative said it was a contractual/compliance matter, not safety, that doomed Aero Union’s fleet.

“I am deeply troubled by the Forest Service’s sudden action,” Lungren warned, “particularly as California enters into the fire season. Our aerial firefighting fleet is already seriously undercapitalized.” Both the U.S. Government Accountability Office and the Department of Agriculture’s Inspector General have been critical of the Forest Service’s handling of the matter. All of this has been known to the Obama administration since it took the reins in 2009.

Nine months after Lungren’s warning, the deadly High Park fire in Larimer County, Colo., claimed a grandmother’s life, destroyed 189 homes and scorched nearly 60,000 acres. Arizona, New Mexico, Washington and Wyoming also have battled infernos this summer.

After months of dire red flags from a diverse group of politicians ranging from Texas GOP Gov. Rick Perry and Arizona GOP Sen. Jon Kyl to Oregon Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden and New Mexico Democratic Sen. Jeff Bingaman, President Obama finally signed emergency legislation last week to expedite the contracting process. Obama will borrow planes from Canada and provide $24 million for new aerial tanker contracts.

But the money won’t come until next year, and the dog-and-pony rescue moves will not result in any immediate relief. “It’s nice, but this problem isn’t fixed with a stroke of the pen,” former Forest Service official and bomber pilot Tony Kern told the Denver Post this week. “You need to have the airplanes available now.” Veteran wildland firefighter and blogger Bill Gabbert of WildfireToday.com adds: “The USFS should have awarded contracts for at least 20 additional air tankers, not 7.”

Imagine if Obama’s Forest Service had been a private company. White House eco-radicals would be rushing to place their “boots on the necks” of the bureaucrats who made the fateful decision to put an experienced aerial tanker firm out of business as wildfires raged and the available rescue fleet shrunk.

“The Obama administration is scrambling now to help ensure the Forest Service has the air assets it needs to fight the ongoing inferno,” Colorado free-market environmental watchdog Sean Paige reported at MonkeyWrenchingAmerica.com last week. “But the crisis is bound to raise questions not just about whether the cancelled contract created additional weaknesses and vulnerabilities, but about what the administration has been doing over the past three summers to shore-up the service’s air fleet.”

Where there’s smoke swirling over Team Obama, there are usually flames of incompetence, cronyism and ideological zealotry at the source. The ultimate rescue mission? Evacuating Obama’s wrecking crew from the White House permanently. November can’t come soon enough.

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From commenter McRidge:

Michelle, Another option that the U.S. Forest Service is ignoring is the Evergreen Aviation Supertanker Service. This is a huge 747 developed just to fight fires. It has been used in firefighting tasks around the world, but not in the U.S. It is available and is extremely cost effective compared to the current Forest Service fleet. Evergreen is located in McMinville, Oregon, so this would be buying American, in addition to the other advantages. More information is available at the Evergreen Aviation website at http://www.evergreenaviation.com/supertanker/index.html.

From commenter Backwoods Conservative:

Unfortunately, the current administration would rather throw money at “green” energy projects that are not economically viable than to spend it on things that are actually useful and needed.

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[JohnCraven]

Michelle Malkin is one of my heroes for her courageous reporting on the absolute corruption of the Nero Obama regime and now for the courage that she and her family has exhibited in the face of the wildfires in her Colorado neighborhood.

We know what it is like to have to evacuate and live elsewhere for a long stretch of time when a natural disaster happens and so I sympathize with the plight of her family and those of her neighbors whose lives have been disrupted by these wildfires which didn't need to be so devastating had Nero Obama put into service tankers which could have been used to quench the fires sooner.

Miss Malkin and her family and her neighbors are in my prayers.

JohnCraven
New Orleans



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