At this point, you'd have to be blind not to see President Obama's war on coal, and the devastating impact it is already having on coal mining communities and will, sooner rather than later, have on everyone who pays an electric bill. Does this administration care at all about saving American jobs? The latest announcement came from Alpha Natural Resources, which is laying off 1,200 coal miners, citing "a regulatory environment that's aggressively aimed at constraining the use of coal."

We shouldn't be surprised by what's happening.  Obama told us his disastrous plan for the coal industry and affordable electricity on the campaign trail in 2008. "If someone wants to build a new coal-fired power plant they can, but it will bankrupt them," candidate Obama said then. "Electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket," he added.

First he tried a massive cap-and-trade plan. It  failed.