Oops, Charlotte Democrat Law Maker Becky Carney Mistaken Vote Overrides North Carolina Gov. Perdue’s Veto and Passes Fracking Law

WANNA GET AWAY? LOOKS LIKE NC DEMOCRAT LAW MAKER WILL SOON BE MAKING A SOUTHWEST AIRLINE AD … Becky Carney accidentally pushes the wrong button and makes an energy exploration bill a law.

File this one under, she was against it, before she mistakenly voted for it … North Carolina Democrat law maker Becky Carney mistakenly voted to override NC Democrat Gov. Bev Perdue’s veto on a bill to advance natural gas exploration with the use of  fracking. The only problem is, she is against the bill. Just days earlier Carney voted against the bill, now her deciding vote approved the bill into law. She actually pushed the wrong button OOOPS … Wanna get away? The interesting aspect of her erroneous fracking vote is that it will be a benefit to many North Carolinians for jobs and energy.

The look on her face said it all.

Charlotte Democrat Becky Carney stood on the House floor Monday night with her mouth agape. She looked horrified. Embarrassed. Sick to her stomach.

Moments earlier, she cast the deciding vote to override Gov. Bev Perdue’s veto on a bill to advance natural gas exploration. The problem? She opposed the bill. Voted against it days earlier. And now she made it law.

Yes, the state of North Carolina approved fracking, one of the most controversial pieces of legislation this year, by accident.

Upon realizing her mistakes she tried to change her vote; however, North Carolina House rules prevent such a change from being made when the change of a vote affects the outcome. Sorry, but if a law maker cannot differentiate red for green, I would hate to be at a traffic intersection with them.

Abound Solar Inc, Another DOE Company Awarded a $400 Million US Loan Guarantee Ceases Operations & Files Bankruptcy

Green energy solar company bankruptcies abound …

Add Abound Solar Inc, a Colorado based company, to the long list of so-called “green” company that made solar panels and had received Department of Energy loans has ceased operations and is filing bankruptcy. As President Barack Obama criticizes Mitt Romney for his work with Bain Capital, one might also want to ask Obama about his job creation skills with “belly up” companies like Abound Solar.

Abound Solar Inc., a U.S. solar manufacturer that was awarded a $400 million U.S. loan guarantee, will suspend operations and file for bankruptcy because its panels were too expensive to compete.

Abound borrowed about $70 million against the guarantee, the Loveland, Colorado-based company said today in a statement. It plans to file for bankruptcy protection in Wilmington, Delaware, next week.

The failure will follow that of Solyndra LLC, which shut down in August after receiving a $535 million loan guarantee from the same U.S. Energy Department program. Abound stopped production in February to focus on reducing costs after a global oversupply and increasing competition from China drove down the price of solar panels by half last year.

Great point made by the American Thinker with regards to these failed American solar panel companies.

I really wish these companies – and the government – would stop blaming China for their failures. China may be subsidizing their solar companies but in case you didn’t notice, so are we. The fact that we gave this loan guarantee to a sure fire loser of a company keeps proving the point about this idiotic energy department program; trying to pick winners in the alternative energy business is too risky for taxpayers to foot the bill if the bureaucrats are wrong.

Just more wasted tax payer money down the Obama “green” rabbit hole.

Barack Obama Green Jobs … Bus Driver of Hybrid Bus, Any School Bus Driver, Sweeper of Floor at Solar Plant, Bicycle Shop Clerks & Porta-Potty Cleaners Considered Green Jobs (VIDEO)

What a joke … under Barack Obama and his so-called “Green” job agenda,  the Labor Department “has jeopardized the integrity of employment data in some cases for clearly political reasons.” Bus drivers and bicycle shop clerks are considered “green” jobs. Far be it from the Obama administration to actually report green jobs appropriately. What, Obama inflate job numbers, say it isn’t so! As Bill Clinton would say, it all depends on what “green”, is.

The Obama administration on Wednesday acknowledged a wide-ranging definition of  “green jobs” that includes bus driver, bicycle-shop clerk and other unexpected lines of employment, which the chairman of the GOP-led House oversight committee said is being done for “clearly political purposes.”

GOP Rep. Darrell Issa, chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, made the assertion during a hearing on how the administration counts so-called green jobs and the Labor Department’s recent change to how reporters can access key unemployment reports and other information.

Rep Darrell Issa (R-CA ) Questions BLS Director John Galvin on “Green Jobs” Numbers Reporting

check out 3:15 where Issa asks what is an Obama green job

The Labor Department “has jeopardized the integrity of employment data in some cases for clearly political reasons,” he said.

Issa suggested the administration is reclassifying such jobs to prove that billions of taxpayer dollars, through the federal stimulus program, have created green, or environmentally-focused jobs – a major initiative for President Obama.

YUP … The most transparent Presidency, EVAH!!!

ABC/WAPO Poll Uses Questionable Sample to Have Obama Lead Romney 49% to 46% … Under Samples GOP by 10% … NBC/WSJ Skewed Sample as Well

All polls are not created equal … in fact some are just plain disingenuous. 

The most recent ABC/Washington Post poll has President Barack Obama ahead of GOP challenger Mitt Romney, 49% to 46%. Good news for Obama, right? Well, if you like faux polls it is. When will the liberal MSM ever learn that falsifying poll results serves no purpose on election day? The WAPO goes on to say that Obama and Romney are in a dead heat on the economy, Really?

The parity on economic issues foreshadows what probably will continue to be a tough and negative campaign. Overall, voters would be split 49 percent for Obama and 46 percent for Romney if the November election were held now. On handling the economy, they are tied at 47 percent.

Despite flare-ups over issues including contraception and same-sex marriage, more than half of all Americans cite the economy as the one concern that will decide their vote in the fall, relegating others — such as health care, taxes and the federal deficit — to single-digit status.

Voters are evenly divided between Obama and Romney on the question of who could kick-start the economy and also are split on job creation, with 46 percent siding with the president and 45 percent with Romney.

OK, let’s go inside the sampling polling numbers. The full results of the poll can be seen HERE.

The ABC/WAPO poll used the following model sampling: Democrat 32%, Republican 22% and Independents 38%. The exit polling in the 2008 Presidential election was Democrat 39%, Republican 32% and Independents 29%. However, there was a huge change in the 2010 election as Democrats and Obama took a shellacking. Interestingly enough, 2010 exit polling had those voting at Democrat 35%, Republican 35% and Independents 29%.  So the trend is moving to be even rather than Democrats with a large sampling lead. However, that did not stop the WAPO and ABC to use an overinflated Democrat sample to give Obama a more than questionable poll results. The poll over-sampled Democrats to Republicans by 10%, yet Obama only leads Romney by 3%.

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Mitt Romney Releases First Official Ad, What Would A Romney Presidency Look Like …“Day One”

ON DAY ONE …

Mitt Romney has released his first Presidential campaign video ad that very much separates himself from Barack Obama.  In the campaign ad there is no class warfare, no blame Bush, no continued, failed Obama policies … On Day One Romney states he would approve the XL-Keystone pipeline creating 1000′s of jobs that Obama has blocked, introduce pro-growth tax reforms that would reward job creators not punish them, and repeal Obamacare and replace it with common sense health care reform.

Sounds like a much better plan of action than we are presently on. Barack Obama will never be able to defend his last four years, Romney offers a welcome and much necessary change.