June 03, 2011 - With the dramatic elimination of Osama bin Laden came an important psychological boost to the American people. There is a collective sense that there's nothing we cannot do if we set our minds to it.
Along with that boost came an important upswing in President Obama's approval ratings. At 51 percent approval rating in his 10th quarter as president, he is a full 7 percentage points ahead of Ronald Reagan's approval rating in his 10th quarter. With that upswing comes the responsibility to use his recharged political capital to tackle our greatest national (and international) threat — climate change — and to take advantage of this opportunity to fuel a new green economy.
Clearly feeling optimistic, President Obama made an important speech about our energy future. Clean energy, he said, will help us out-compete and out-innovate the rest of the world.
"Clean-energy jobs are the jobs of the future. I don't want other countries to win the competition for these technologies and jobs. I want America to win that competition. I want America to win the future."
So do we. That's why the president needs to use his replenished political capital and increased approval ratings to push Congress for comprehensive climate and energy legislation that holds oil companies accountable and reduces our dependence on oil while protecting the environment. {continued}
The new meme's to lock the brakes on innovation, expansion, advancement of economic growth come now from the deniers of 'climate change', who used other excuses over the past three to four decades to lock economic advancement in alternative energy sources, and more, as the innovators developed them and fought to market and expand.
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