<p>What is <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/planet-gore/230514/obama-spill-schmill-wheres-my-energy-tax/chris-horner">Obama's real focus </a>- the oil spill or the resulting legislation from the oil spill?</p>
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<p>Roll Call reports (subscription required) that during today&rsquo;s White House meeting &mdash; called by the president to try and advance his global-warming agenda by using the Gulf spill as the tail to wag that otherwise dead dog &mdash; Obama accused Tennessee senator Lamar Alexander of raising a &ldquo;talking point&rdquo; by seeking to discuss response measures the government might employ in the Gulf, and went on to say that the oil spill was not the topic of the meeting.<br />
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<p>Remember, the point of the meeting was supposed to be how to pass a spill-response bill, though the substance was revealed to be how to use the Gulf spill to pass a global-warming bill calling it a spill-response bill.</p>
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<p>Now we connect the Obama energy policy (which is to fuel our economy on good wishes and faerie dust) and the energy policy here in Michigan. As Rahm Emmanuel said, never let a crisis go to waste, a sentiment shared by <a href="http://mlui.org/blogs/?p=1363">State Representative Dan Scripps</a>:</p>
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<p>&ldquo;I never want to see our beaches, water or wildlife covered with oil like we&rsquo;ve seen down South,&rdquo; Representative Scripps said.&nbsp; &ldquo;We simply cannot risk oil drilling in our Great Lakes.&nbsp; An oil spill would decimate our fishing, boating, and tourism industries that so many residents rely on for their livelihood.&nbsp; Our waters are an integral part of our economy and our heritage, and we must take every precaution to protect them.&rdquo;</p>
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<p>No one wants to see an oil spill in the Great Lakes. I would say that no one wants double-digit unemployment here in Michigan, but that's not true - the environmentalists do -&nbsp; as the paragraph above&nbsp; shows.</p>
<p>Drilling in the lakes would certainly bring money and jobs to Michigan. But that will never happen, so Rep. Scripps is simply grandstanding. He knows there is no chance of the Michigan legislature voting to allow drilling, but he wants the good press with his fellow leftists. Michigan is on its way to be a &quot;green jobs state&quot;, which means high unemployment because these technologies cannot survive without being heavily subsidized by government (i.e. taxpayers.)</p>
<p>I was in Chicago recently and saw a bus touting a &quot;Pure Michigan&quot; ad. And I finally understand the Democrats economic policy for Michigan. Force as many people to leave as possible by making a hostile place to conduct business, thus having a pristine environment, and bring in tourists to enjoy it.</p>