Mike Brown gets a heckuva job.
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Let’s start off open thread with a recap of Moonbat Economic Theory:
Government exists to make private wealth possible.
Commentby Belltowner— 3/12/06@ 4:15 pm
I like Castro’s system better. He confiscates the employer’s property, shoots the employer, and the workers get quality health care for free. We need something like that in America.
Commentby Roger Rabbit— 3/19/06@ 3:42 pm
Don’t talk to me about “core beliefs…”
Commentby headless lucy— 3/25/06@ 7:07 pm
…the oil industry is a zero sum game ( like checkers )
Commentby headless lucy— 4/9/06@ 2:56 pm
“…higher PRODUCTIVITY means fewer jobs…”
Commentby Donnageddon— 4/9/06@ 4:06 pm
“Most wealthy people inherited their wealth and haven’t worked a day in their lives…”
Commentby headless lucy— 4/13/06@ 5:14 pm
..Corporate profits are driven by the cheap labor binge. Corporate executives, board members and their lackeys have rewarded themselves hugely.
Commentby For the Clueless— 4/15/06@ 12:12 pm
America has been reduced to an oil for paper trade.
Commentby For the Clueless— 4/15/06@ 1:05 pm
…The only way to battle the oil-paper-land casino is to opt out of it through micro-capitalism, localized production and consumption…
Commentby For the Clueless— 4/15/06@ 4:21 pm
The rich people who get all these tax breaks lend us that money back in the form of government bonds that they buy and that we have to repay them at interest.
This is not investing in the economy. It’s a double jeopardy rip-off!
Commentby harry poon— 4/18/06@ 8:21 pm
…I said the revenue was the result of deficit SPENDING DO YOU SEE THE WORD “SPENDING” SPENDING SPENDING SPENDING…
Commentby dlaw— 4/18/06@ 10:17 pm
“This most recent round of tax cuts will continue to explode the deficit by giving away over $900 Billion to the super-rich over the next ten years. [4/5/06 NYTimes]
Commentby Harry Tuttle aka Voter Advocate— 4/24/06@ 5:17 pm
How about redistributing the wealth so the top 1% don’t own 60% of all the property in theU.S.?
Commentby harry poon— 4/24/06@ 5:54 pm
If 1% of the population of the US gets the same amount of dollars yearly as the bottom 50%, why is it unfair to tax them at a higher rate?
Commentby harry poon— 4/24/06@ 7:51 pm
Hey Goldy – How’s the project coming to shut down the Evergreen Point floating bridge based on your amateur engineering analysis from last summer? You were raising money… did you get any? I’ll contribute $100….. LMAO……
You’re an irrelevant dumb shit, a liar and a FRAUD.
Not to mention a welcher.
Mr Mental Midget@3 is up and whining again.
jax – Don’t forget “chilling” and “morally repugnant” too.
Hey Puddy – Interesting how 30 years of moonbat economics and mindless environmentalism has put us in the situation where the least little disruption of oil value chain ends up in price spikes. And they got the nerve to blame us !
30+ years of obstructionism in exploring, drilling, transporting, and refining has put us in a place where a nutcase on the other side of the world or a little wind causes global panic.
As I’ve said before, the only time society moves ahead is when libruls and their kooky ideas are defeated. The real and sustainable cure to the current energy problem is massive investment in existing technologies. And if the moonbats don’t like it, they are free anytime to drop off the grid.
Mark the Redneck – if you haven’t established yourself as a backwards racist, people might actually take some of your liberal critiques seriously. Shame.
Anyway – I finally got my chance to post this on an open thread:
Tony Snow may have started his punditry career filling in for Rush Limbaugh, and obsessing over bizarre Bill Clinton / Vince Foster conspiracy theories (which ultimately cost us taxpayers $100 million, and rendered only one conclusion: Bill lied about sex). But, it would appear Snow is actually a REAL conservative, who has called Bush out on some obvious contradictions in his so-called “values” and his leadership abilities (or lack thereof) over the years.
Tony Snow on George W Bush:
– Bush has “lost control of the federal budget and cannot resist the temptation to stop raiding the public fisc. George W. Bush and his colleagues have become not merely the custodians of the largest government in the history of humankind, but also exponents of its vigorous expansion.” [3/17/06]
– “George W. Bush and his colleagues have become not merely the custodians of the largest government in the history of humankind, but also exponents of its vigorous expansion.” [3/17/06]
– “President Bush distilled the essence of his presidency in this year’s State of the Union Address: brilliant foreign policy and listless domestic policy.” [2/3/06]
– “George Bush has become something of an embarrassment.” [11/11/05]
– Bush “has a habit of singing from the Political Correctness hymnal.” [10/7/05]
– “No president has looked this impotent this long when it comes to defending presidential powers and prerogatives.” [9/30/05]
– Bush “has given the impression that [he] is more eager to please than lead, and that political opponents can get their way if they simply dig in their heels and behave like petulant trust-fund brats, demanding money and favor — now!” [9/30/05]
– “When it comes to federal spending, George W. Bush is the boy who can’t say no. In each of his three years at the helm, the president has warned Congress to restrain its spending appetites, but so far nobody has pushed away from the table mainly because the president doesn’t seem to mean what he says.” [The Detroit News, 12/28/03]
– “The president doesn’t seem to give a rip about spending restraint.” [The Detroit News, 12/28/03]
– “Bush, for all his personal appeal, ultimately bolstered his detractors’ claims that he didn’t have the drive and work ethic to succeed.” [11/16/00]
– “Little in the character of demeanor of Al Gore or George Bush makes us say to ourselves: Now, this man is truly special! Little in our present peace and prosperity impels us to say: Give us a great man!” [8/25/00]
– “George W. Bush, meanwhile, talks of a pillowy America, full of niceness and goodwill. Bush has inherited his mother’s attractive feistiness, but he also got his father’s syntax. At one point last week, he stunned a friendly audience by barking out absurd and inappropriate words, like a soul tortured with Tourette’s.” [8/25/00]
– “He recently tried to dazzle reporters by discussing the vagaries of Congressional Budget Office economic forecasts, but his recitation of numbers proved so bewildering that not even his aides could produce a comprehensible translation. The English Language has become a minefield for the man, whose malaprops make him the political heir not of Ronald Reagan, but Norm Crosby.” [8/25/00]
– “On the policy side, he has become a classical dime-store Democrat. He gladly will shovel money into programs that enjoy undeserved prestige, such as Head Start. He seems to consider it mean-spirited to shut down programs that rip-off taxpayers and mislead supposed beneficiaries.” [8/25/00]
Boy these last six years have just been a SCREAMING success.
I hope you’re in the 1% that gets to benefit from all this economic mismanagement and outright theft.
But you’re probably NOT…you’re probably a liar and a most likely a fraud and we KNOW you’re a welcher.
You know…the reign of the BananaReppublicans is grinding to an ignominous end. The contempt and disgrace will be a real tonic to those of us who REALLY CARE about our Nation, our fellow Citizens and the special place we used to hold in the World Community…we’ll RE-EARN that standing, after thewse theives and traitors are gone.
I sincerely hope you and your ilk go with them.
redneck, your talking points have alreadybeen debunked as partisan taken out of context BS you libs are so famous for. Do a little research, sweetcheeks.
Hey mark the fuckhead-
I heard your parents might get married. Good show!
Rugrat… look “at the economy, stupid!”… Dow at 6 year high, unemployment at its lowest, consumer confidence at its highest.
Sucks to be a liberal these days huh?
Mark the Redneck: since you seem to be a proponent of unregulated capitalism (just about as anti-Bush of a position any of us libs could take) I am interested in why you disagree with this “moonbat” statement.
-..Corporate profits are driven by the cheap labor binge. Corporate executives, board members and their lackeys have rewarded themselves hugely.-
Seems pretty basic to me – and an important part of the capitalist playbook. What did you find wrong with it?
And don’t worry, MTR, I won’t ask whether you agree with all Tony Snow’s critiques of W’s policies I listed off. You’re way to much of an echo chamber pussy / GOP talking points sheep to venture into that territory…
Poor little redneck, not cashing in on the capitalism, huh?
Pity poor you, sweetcheeks, but envy is an ugly thing.
Try getting up off your horsesass and doing soemthing…capitalistic!
Speaking of disenfranchising voters in Florida…..
Commentby LiberalRedneck— 4/26/06@ 6:10 pm
Donk 101
The following is code for democratic voter fraud:
“voter intimidation”
“voter rights”
“Disenfranchised voters”
“Right to vote”
If a donk says any of the above phrases, they really
mean they didn’t cheat enough.
Oh geez, you ARE digging in the bottom of the barrel… Florida!!! get over it.
And that is just so perfectly indicative of the losing liberals… nothing to offer for the future but they sure can mine the past…. even when proven to donkey wrongs!
HowCanYouBePROUDtobeAnASS – really? That’s funny, because I read most all of the column’s those quotes were taken from, and the rest of Snow’s comments were almost worse than the snippets I provided.
For instance, read the first one http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/ 2006/03/welfare_state_prevents_our_pur.html and tell me how Snow was taken out of context.
Should be simple for a smart guy like you, right?
And don’t go running off like a little girl again this time, Proudass.
try this
http://www.realclearpolitics.c.....r_pur.html
I didn’t go running asshole, had you paid any attention at all ADD boy, you would read about the death in my family that left me little time or energy for the tripe you post.
Only a lying piece of shit cowardly republican can say the economy is good. GOP creates 3 million jobs. Big fucking deal. They lost 6 million so their only 3 million in the hole. DOW is at a six year high which is LOWER than when they took office. Consumer confidence is at same levels as when Clinton left office. Where’s the beef? Up your ass no doubt.
Hey – thanks for the cue, RUFUS! Lotsa (or one) you silly trolls out tonight!
Katherine Harris Takes Responsibility For Not Paying For Dinner
ORLANDO, Fla. — U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris took responsibility Friday for her campaign not reimbursing her share of a meal with a disgraced defense contractor at an exclusive Washington restaurant that reportedly cost $2,800.
The report was the latest trouble in the Republican’s campaign to unseat Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson. The woman best known for her role in the 2000 presidential recount is trailing far behind Nelson in polls.
In a statement, Harris said that she gave a charity $100, “which will more than adequately compensate for the cost of my beverage and appetizers” from the meal with Mitchell Wade. He has pleaded guilty to bribing former U.S. Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham, R-Calif., who was sent to prison earlier this month for bribery.
Ed Rollins, Harris’ former chief political strategist in her Senate campaign, told the Orlando Sentinel that he found out that the meal cost $2,800, although he said he didn’t see a bill and wasn’t at the restaurant, Citronelle. He confirmed that account to The Associated Press on Friday.
Harris spokesman Chris Ingram told the paper that the donation was made Thursday to Global Dominion Impact Center. He declined to comment on the cost.
On its Web site, the Jacksonville-based organization says it was founded by Bishop Lewes Jones.
“From this city in Jacksonville they would be able to touch the world with a greater outreach than ever possible,” the Web site said.
The Web site also describes a pastor’s encounter with “Satan” after the birth of her son.
Harris said she met the charity’s operators for the first time during a campaign stop in Jacksonville on Thursday, when they told her about their work helping battered women and orphans.
“I knew they had some financial needs and wanted to do something special for them,” Harris said. “I met them. I knew I wanted to write a check. I was anxious to write a check and their stories were so touching.”
She said the campaign had discussed donating to Habitat For Humanity, but she changed her mind after meeting the operators of Global Dominion Impact Center. Harris said she did not check into the organization’s background other than asking if it was a registered charity.
In his plea agreement, Wade said he asked Harris at the dinner for her support in getting $10 million in federal money for a Navy counterintelligence program involving his company. The plan called for a location in Harris’ Sarasota district.
House members aren’t allowed to accept gifts worth $50 or more and shouldn’t accepting “favors or benefits in circumstances that might create the appearance of influencing the performance of official duties,” according to the House’s Committee on Standards of Official Conduct.
The rules also state that members “must never accept a gift that is linked to any official action that the individual has taken, or is being asked to take.”
Wade, the former president of MZM Inc., previously said he gave Harris $32,000 in illegal contributions to her 2004 campaign for the House. Harris has said she did not knowingly do anything illegal and said she donated the money to charity.
Your impressive command of the English language certainly says loads about you, sweetcheeks.
-I didn’t go running asshole, had you paid any attention at all ADD boy, you would read about the death in my family that left me little time or energy for the tripe you post. –
Fair enough, Proudass. Now read the article I provided a link to, and tell me how I took Snow’s comments “out of context.”
You can also run away again like the stunted manchild you really are, if you like.
-Your impressive command of the English language certainly says loads about you, sweetcheeks. –
Proudass: I see you are still dodging the simple question I asked. Since you seem to have forgotten your claim, I’ll remind you what you plainly stated a couple minutes ago:
-redneck, your talking points have alreadybeen debunked as partisan taken out of context BS you libs are so famous for. Do a little research, sweetcheeks.-
Now, I provided the link to Snow’s most recent column.
Show me how Snow’s comments were taken out of context, Proudass.
Oh yeah – I forgot to mention – the homoerotic kisses you’re blowing at the end of your posts are kinda creepy.
BlueNeck – The cheap labor thing is a stoopid statement which illustrates how little you know.
Successful corporations make money because they have good products and valuablew resources which give them competitive advantage. The truly valuable resources are the ones that are tough to imitate, can’t be bought in factor markets and can’t be substituted. Well run corporations work both the “product” side and the “resource” side to achieve and maintain competitive advantage. Touch labor is usually a small fraction of the total value chain.
Dumasses like you who only see the world through your own tiny pathetic knothole don’t even understand how the system works, yet you feel fully qualified to stand back and throw stones.
The executives who run the big corporations deserve every fucking penny they get because they are able to do big things for millions of people. You hate them because it only serves to remind you what a miserable failure you are.
What “talking points”? The direct quotes from the moonbats here on economic theory? Those ain’t mine pal… all moonbats…
Taking a while to read that L O N G Snow column, are we, Proudass?
I see Mark the Redneck had a “death in the family,” too, and ran away when I asked him to explain a simple aspect of his “moonbat” claims. For the record, you did a pisspoor job of defending MTR @ 15 yerself, Proudass.
Maybe you’ve had too much to drink tonight?
Oh, I get it, MTR. Successful corporations never use outsourcing, cheap overseas labor to boost profits and stay competitive. Nor do they try to keep labor costs low. Good point. Good thing you got all those OnlineU degrees under your belt, so we can learn what a smart racist you are!
You know, I stayed away after our family tragedy, but I came in every so often to see what’s up… and not one single thing has changed with you kiddies. A thread starts off well enough but invariably about 5-6 posts into it the children escape their playpens and foul the comments. Who needs it? You aren’t accomplishing anything except to verify what folks already know about the offer nothing liberals. The best you seem to have to offer is name-calling and a really good grasp of the ugliest language available. Terrific.
Come carry on a conversation when you’ve grown up. Until then concentrate on your homework and most importantly, improving your English, because I have a news flash for you… employers aren’t going to be impressed with what your exhibiting now.
Still reading that Snow column, are we, Proudass? You danced around it for a couple minutes. Now the cat seems to have got your tongue.
Since MTR is such a smart Master Race type, maybe he can step in for you.
C’mon, Mark the Redneck – tell us how Snow’s previous comments about Bush were taken out of context.
And while you’re at it, does that smart brain of yours think Snow was right – or wrong – in his pretty harsh treatment of Bush?
-Come carry on a conversation when you’ve grown up.-
Proudass: you made a direct statement that Snow’s comments were taken “out of context.” You said my quotes have been debunked.
I asked you to prove it, like a grown up.
You couldn’t – and instead, you rolled over like a puppy and danced around with some silly broken record slogans….and even played the victim’s complex card to boot.
That’s pathetic.
A real man wouldn’t give up so easily.
Did YOU read your own source?? I saw Bush mentioned exactly ONCE, but an awful lot of ‘mentions’ of one Charles Murray, his book “Losing Ground” and the “profound failures of the welfare state”.
Proudass: since you really seem to be struggling with this, I’ll remind you of your original claim AGAIN:
-redneck, your talking points have alreadybeen debunked as partisan taken out of context BS you libs are so famous for. Do a little research, sweetcheeks. –
Now, back it up.
Or, are you trying to get on MTR’s Moonbat list tomorrow?
Bush Critic Becomes Spokesman
President Bush introduced the new White House press secretary this morning. “As a professional journalist, Tony Snow understands the importance of the relationship between government and those whose job it is to cover the government,” the president said. “He’s going to work hard to provide you with timely information about my philosophy, my priorities, and the actions we’re taking to implement our agenda.”
We met Snow once–at the July 2001 funeral of our friend Ken Smith, deputy editor of the Washington Times, where Snow had hired him 13 years earlier. After the funeral, a bunch of us, including Tony, gathered in the yard of another friend and hoisted beers in Ken’s honor.
A few days later, Snow published a column paying a lovely tribute to Ken, who was only 44 when he died of cancer:
As his death drew near, [Ken] became the caretaker for those gathered around. He acquired a dying man’s sense of perspective and calm, and shared the wisdom he was collecting. He talked openly about life and death his conversation quickened by curiosity about his future and solicitude for those grieving at his side.
On his final night, he sat with his family. Everybody talked but Ken. He was too weak by then to speak, but he communicated with waves and smiles and squeezes of the hand. He even spilled a few tears, despite severe dehydration. Then, having taken care of that business, he slipped to sleep and walked through the veil of light beyond.
If there is redemption in pain, Ken was long ago redeemed. If there is glory in the love one inspires, Ken has achieved glory worthy of a king. I find myself in the odd position of mourning less than I ought to because I feel so grateful that I got to know him at all. The world doesn’t produce as many nice guys as it should. Ditto for people who possess exemplary courage, strength, decency and faith. Ken got 44 years to show the rest of us how to brighten a life and a world.
Tony Snow is also a nice guy, and smart and candid and cheerful as well. The president is fortunate to have him on the team.
One of the oddest responses to the Snow appointment comes from the Center for American Progress, Clintonite John Podesta’s think tank. The center’s ThinkProgress.org site has a chronicle of Snow quotes critical of George W. Bush. It’s not a terribly impressive list: Of 14 quotes, five are from before Bush even became president. Others are taken out of context, for example:
“George Bush has become something of an embarrassment.” [11/11/05]
The quote comes from a column on the Virginia governor’s election, in which Democrat Tim Kaine beat Republican Jerry Kilgore. Here it is in context:
And don’t forget about the Swagger Factor: A party that projects confidence and good cheer will thrash a Chicken Little party any day. Kilgore looked scared. Kaine acted like the cool kid on prom night.
The Swagger Factor has national repercussions because George W. Bush has lost his. His wavering conservatism has become an active concern among Republicans, who wish he would stop cowering under the bed and start fighting back against the likes of Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and Joe Wilson. The newly passive George Bush has become something of an embarrassment. At the nadir of his campaign, Jerry Kilgore actively dodged having to share a stage with the commander in chief.
Two quotes (shown in boldface below) come from this March 17, 2006, column:
American conservatives have discovered the will-and-morale-sapping properties of political power. A Republican president and a Republican Congress have lost control of the federal budget and cannot resist the temptation to stop raiding the public fisc.
George W. Bush and his colleagues have become not merely the custodians of the largest government in the history of humankind, but also exponents of its vigorous expansion. The president has taken lately to crowing that the Medicare prescription drug benefit will cover 95 percent of all drug expenditures for some of the nation’s old and poor, and is telling younger Americans they have a duty to enroll their parents in the new regime of socialized pharmaceuticals.
These are fairly common criticisms on the right, and many of the president’s admirers would agree with them. In his role as a pundit–a role he obviously must relinquish until his current assignment ends–Snow has been a thoughtful, friendly critic of the president. It’s not as if Bush has hired Helen Thomas, Andrew Sullivan or that crazy former Enron adviser.
Snow’s appointment suggests that President Bush is not afraid of constructive criticism. Perhaps he has begun taking to heart Peggy Noonan’s advice:
In the end it doesn’t matter if White House staffers suddenly listen to critics, to non-pre-vetted policy intellectuals, to questioners, complainers, whiners, Wise Men, if you can find them, and people who actually have something to say. But it does matter if George Bush does.
It matters that he becomes his broadest self and comes to tolerate dissent, argument, ambiguity. That actually would be daring. It would mark not the appearance of change but change, not the appearance of progress but the thing itself.
Somehow we don’t think the ThinkProgress guys meant to make a pro-Bush argument when they rehearsed the critical Snow quotes. What point exactly they were trying to make is beyond us.
Just admit it redneck, you read your talking points and now you’re regurgitating them like the good little liberal you are.
Oh, so that’s your definition of “out of context,” huh Proudass? The column didn’t mention Bush enough times?
Good way to throw in the towel early.
Here are the OPENING TWO SENTENCES of the column:
Bush has “lost control of the federal budget and cannot resist the temptation to stop raiding the public fisc. George W. Bush and his colleagues have become not merely the custodians of the largest government in the history of humankind, but also exponents of its vigorous expansion.”
Now, tell us how Snow’s comments – directly aimed at the President and the GOP congress – were taken “out of context.”
If you need me to provide the definition for “out of context” I can.
DOW is at a six year high which is LOWER than when they took office.
Commentby LeftTurn— 4/26/06@ 8:52 pm
Just another example that donks can’t count. Left turn do you work at KCRE?
How’s Joe Six doing at the big business greed trough?
The last year that the U.S. standard of living improved was 1971.
In 2005, U.S. household savings dipped to the lowest amount since 1933.
At the same time home, car, and food prices wnet through the ceiling, along with gasoline and air travel.
All this occurred while working wages lagged far behind the Republican “economic miracle”.
More people are working at McDonald’s and WalMart, whoop dee do.
The stock market is doing great. Double whoop.
211,000 jobs in March, only 339, 000 lower than what’s needed to keep up with 2001 estimates.
In California 10,800 payroll jobs were lost in March, while the number of unemployed people looking for work fell by 119,000 compared to the same month last year. That’s an indication of severe long-term unemployment.
Jeez Proudass…
You really ARE stupid.
Sorry, kiddo, I didn’t take those from ThinkProgress – in fact I have no idea what that site even is. Nice try using your GOP talking points to try and claim I got mine from some liberal website.
Snow himself admitted today he has been harsh on the President. It’s called “conservative values.” You should look into it sometime, Proudass.
At least that shows Snow’s got some guts, and proves he might actually be a REAL conservative, unlike the cult-like Republican Party sheep you seem to alway mimic.
EYMAN’S ANTI-GAY REFERENDUM FLATLINES
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported today that “Initiative King” Tim Eyman has collected only 8,718 of the 112,440 valid signatures he needs by June 7 to get Referendum 65 on the November ballot.
According to the P-I, Rep. Ed Murray and other supporters of the gay-rights bill that became law this year suspect the signature count revealed by Eyman in an e-mail to his supporters may be a trick intended to deceive R-65 opponents. But Eyman retorted, “They assume we’re smarter than we are. That’s not the case.”
In other words, Timmy says he’s not smart enough to deceive his opponents. He might be right.
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Don’t forget this one!!!
“Ummm…. if the President says it… it’s not a ‘leak’. A ‘leak’ is disclosing information without authorization. Since the President is the boss, it is by definition not a leak since he can authorize whatever the fuck he wants. That’s how things work when you’re boss.’ Commentby Mark The Redneck— 4/10/06@ 3:06 pm
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“I’ll contribute $100….. ” Commentby Mark The Redneck Welsher— 4/26/06@ 7:44 pm
First pay your gambling debt, then let’s talk.
HEY REDNECK IF THE RICH HAVE 50% OF THE INCOME WHY SHOULDN’T THEY PAY 50% OF THE TAXES?
Rabbit – ‘Cause it’s OUR fucking money you loser. Just because you CHOSE to serve humanity and gave up $200/hour in a cushy gummint job isn’t my fucking problem. You CHOSE a job where there were no performance expectations and 100% job security in return for loser wages. You made the choice. Live with it.
There’s the Reagan legacy right there, Rabbit.
“I got mine…fuck everybody else.” Randian philosophy at it’s best.
That MtR…a welcher, AND a great American!
Q: You want to know where Dinosaurs go to die a long whiny death?
A: HA.org
And Goldy, I am kinda tired of hearing their death wails.
It is just the same old BS wingnut garbage.
When can we vote them off the planet and get some classy, intelligent Trolls?
GOP approach. Tell everyone that down is up and up is down and dark is light and light is dark and hope they’re stupid enough to forget that the rethugs have been in control of most of the federal government for 12 years and all of it for six. Tell me again how it’s the Dem’s fault that you asswipes tanked our country?
I think Mark the Redneck comes here in hopes of hooking up with Puddybud’s virgin sons. Or maybe it’s the other way around.
LMAO … Exactly donniegetsnone! The liberal offer nothing dinosaurs that can’t STEAL an election let alone win one!
How perfect!!
Thanks for verifying Donnie!
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WTF- How did you come up with that? Are you one of those sicko public school teachers.
You want classy intelligent liberals (I know, it’s an oxymoron and actually they are neither … until they are compared to this lot) go to the PI blogs.. at least they exhibit a modicum of restraint, a scintilla of intelligence and they can actually carry on a semi-coherent conversation without devolving into crass language.
Heads and tails above this dump.
Is America getting enough of the sleezeball left????????????
In a word, YES!
The liberal offer nothing dinosaurs that can’t STEAL an election let alone win one!
How perfect!!
Thanks for verifying Donnie!
Comment by HowCanYouBePROUDtobeAnASS — 4/26/06 @ 10:36 pm
Read that again in the morning when you sober up “HowProud”
MAn are you gonna have a headache in the morning.
LOL!!!
Goldy, this is a case in point. We need more intelligent Trolls!
The oil company profits are not obscene. As of September of last year the total take for local, state and federal governments for each gallon of gas sold was 46 cents. In New York that figure is 63 cents. At the same time gasoline retailers were making about 12 cents on the sale of a gallon of gas. Right now the government take is approaching an average of 50 cents a gallon. Retailers are making about 14 cents. so … who is making the obscene profit? The local gasoline retailer invests in the community, buys a plot of ground, builds a gas station, hires the employees, pays the local taxes, deals with the local regulatory agencies, and makes a big screaming 14 cents on each gallon sold. Meanwhile, the government steps in without having invested one dime in that facility and takes about 50 cents per gallon. Some obscene profits, right?
As for profit margins … the amount of money earned for each dollar of sales … oil companies are nowhere near the top of the list. In 2005 pharmaceutical companies made about 17.6 cents for every dollar of revenue. That, for those of you educated in government schools, that works out to a 17.6% profit margin for the drug makers. How about your local bank? They made about 19.1 cents for every dollar of revenue. Almost a 20% profit! Not too shabby. And what about your household goods and cosmetics? Those companies earned 11 cents on the dollar. A lot of competition there. Now, the oil companies. What did they make? In 2005 the average was 8.5 cents per dollar of revenue. That works out to an 8.5% profit margin.
Maybe President Bush could have said something yesterday about MTBE. Congress recently refused to protect the MTBE makers from liability from frivolous lawsuits. MTBE is a component in gasoline … and the makers are bailing. MTBE is to be replaced by ethanol .. .but the ethanol producers just can’t keep up! This affects supply, and reduced supply in the face of increased demand means what? Higher gas prices? Could we get the ethanol we need from overseas? Why yes! We could! But the Bush administration has a 54 cent-per-gallon import duty on imported ethanol! There’s your price gouging! Drop that import duty and I wonder what would happen to gas prices.
It’s enough of a problem when Americans suffer from a tragic level of ignorance on issues of basic economics due to generations of state-run education. It’s even more tragic when politicians pander to that ignorance for political gain.
Goldy, this is a case in point. We need more intelligent Trolls!
Commentby Donnageddon— 4/26/06@ 11:17 pm […………………………………………………………….Ok, Read number 53, dumbass lib!!!]
@54: Hawaii-Die-O [JCH]: Much as you may want to divert the discussion, we are not talking about retail outlets. The first paragraph is a waste of space. Which copy of the National Review did you cut and paste it from? Another Donald Luskin masterpiece?
As for the second paragraph, please open you intro business book and refresh your knowledge of (1.) leverage, and (2.) return on equity. Perhaps then you will find out how banks make out very well on 2% margins.
Or not.
LeftTurd@19:
“The Dow Jones industrial average ended up 71.24 points, or 0.63 percent, at 11,354.49, its highest close since January 19, 2000. The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index closed up 3.67 points, or 0.28 percent, at 1,305.41. The Nasdaq Composite Index finished up 3.33 points, or 0.14 percent, at 2,333.63.”
From the net you donk kool-aid drinker.
Lets see January 19, 2000… hmmm… I thnk cigar man was still in the White House!
Ahh statistics…
apples and oranges again. There are some really humorous graphs out there in wingnut land.
State and fed gas tax is always levied as a cents per gallon. Profits are expressed as a percentage of price per gallon. Sometimes the price is wholesale and sometimes retail.
If we change state taxes to a percentage of retail then it will mean the taxes go up as the price goes up.
Seems fair to me.
I doubt the oil companies would think so.
BTW the gas tax in most states is used to pay for those highways and bridges you repubs never use.
Harry Tuttle Mummified Brain Voter Advocate wrote this that caught my eye:
The last year that the U.S. standard of living improved was 1971. – But you donk claim the economy was the best ever during the Clinton years and the standard of living dropped then too. HA HA HA HA HA HA! Yes, out of the fingers of donk comes the truth!!
In 2005, U.S. household savings dipped to the lowest amount since 1933. – Why is that Harry? Because donk shows on TV say we need to have it now!!!!! People see the “beautiful people” advertise the latest and they say “I have to have that too.”
At the same time home, car, and food prices wnet through the ceiling, along with gasoline and air travel. – And gasoline price elevation is due to what Harry? China and India using more oil than ever! Supply and demand?
All this occurred while working wages lagged far behind the Republican “economic miracle”. – You forgot what happened to the economy during the dot bomb that Clinton left for Bush.
More people are working at McDonald’s and WalMart, whoop dee do. – Go to Monster.Com and Jobs.Com and look at the list of great paying technical jobs. Oh, that’s right donk want handouts!!!!!
The stock market is doing great. Double whoop. – Best since January 19, 2000.
211,000 jobs in March, only 339, 000 lower than what’s needed to keep up with 2001 estimates. _ Is that from Paul Krugman, debunked librul economist proven wrong time and time again?
In California 10,800 payroll jobs were lost in March, while the number of unemployed people looking for work fell by 119,000 compared to the same month last year. That’s an indication of severe long-term unemployment. – No that’s donkofornia and their welfare state where companies are moving to other states to leave the oppressive tax burden!!!!!
Thanks Harry for these pearls of lunatic moonbat librulisms!
Damn Rabbit Pellet: “HEY REDNECK IF THE RICH HAVE 50% OF THE INCOME WHY SHOULDN’T THEY PAY 50% OF THE TAXES?
Commentby Roger Rabbit— 4/26/06@ 9:35 pm”
Gee Pellet, the IRS says they do!
http://www.ntu.org/main/page.php?PageID=6
I think Mark the Redneck comes here in hopes of hooking up with Puddybud’s virgin sons. Or maybe it’s the other way around.
Commentby Anonymous— 4/26/06@ 10:26 pm
Does this mean your little daughters are whores?
Nuff SAID!!!!
If you mean Cigar Man as in Bush smoked a cigar with his asshole buddy Osama then yes you’re right. I know you righties are really stupid but yes, Bush occupied the White House on the date in your non-referenced quote you fucking dick sucking moron. Did your parents have children who lived? And does it hurt to be that stupid? No wonder you inbred fucks vote GOP. You don’t know any different.
FOX NEWS-WHITE HOUSE MERGER COMPLETED
Bill O’Reilly Named Secretary of Defense
One day after being named the new White House spokesman, former Fox News pundit Tony Snow announced that a deal merging Fox News and the Bush White House had been successfully completed.
“The merger between Fox News and the White House can be summed up in one word: synergy,” Mr. Snow said. “The two entities have been working in lockstep for five years now and this merger is a formal acknowledgment of that fact.”
While many Beltway observers had long assumed that a merger between the White House and Fox News was inevitable, not until reporters saw workmen hanging a “Fair and Balanced” sign from the White House portico this morning did they know a deal had finally been struck.
According to those familiar with the deal, the final sticking point in the negotiations was ironed out late last night when President George W. Bush agreed to report to Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch.
Moments after the merger was announced, Mr. Snow introduced the latest member of the Bush Cabinet, Secretary of Defense Bill O’Reilly.
In his first official act as Defense Secretary, Mr. O’Reilly called CNN “a gathering threat” and added the cable news network to the Axis of Evil.
Mr. O’Reilly’s comments drew sharp criticism from Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Del), who told reporters, “I don’t see how CNN can be considered a threat when their biggest weapon is Larry King.”
I keep sayin’ all you have to do to see what the BananaRepublican wack-jobs want to do to us is WATCH TEXAS:
“Houston Hospital Votes To End Woman’s Life With Bush Law”
http://www.northcountrygazette.....nLife.html (from RawStory.com)
Gotta love the “Family Values Freak Show”
What makes Utah, Idaho, Wyoming and Nebraska different than the other 46 states?
They are the *only* states where Bush has a net-positive approval ranking!
See http://surveyusa.com/50State20.....USNet.html
MarkTheFuckhead got some GREAT news about his E-xxx-on shares today…
“Exxon Mobil profit rises on soaring prices”
http://today.reuters.com/news/.....038;rpc=23
(from RawStory.com)
…too bad it’s all coming from OUR wallets.
That’s BananaRepublican “Re-distribution of Wealth”…from the poor and middle class to the RICH.
From Your pocket to MINE…SUCKERS!
Thanks, MtR (liar, fraud, cheat)…you’re a real gas, man!
Hey ProudAss-
Don’t let the door hit your “humungous hump” on the way out!
It is amazing how the right-wing propaganda machine never lets up. The trouble with propaganda is that it can start fooling those who spew it — they can begin to mistake their carefully spun fantasy from reality. That can lead to big mistakes. Live by the sword, die by the sword.
Hey HowCanYouBePROUDtobeAnASS – EXCELLENT LINK!!!!!!
‘PROGRESSIVE’ MEDIA STALLS: ‘AIR AMERICA’ IN AUDIENCE PLUNGE NYC, ‘DAILY KOS’ BOOK SELLS ONLY 3,600 COPIES
Wed Apr 26 2006 11:39:51 ET
Yet Goldy trumpeted the Daily Kurse Boys on his web site as the best thing since the toaster!
http://www.horsesass.org/wp-trackback.php/1544
http://www.horsesass.org/wp-trackback.php/1525
Yeeeeeaaaaaahhhhhggggg!
The hypocrisy of the Democrat Party shines through again.
The latest installment of this is the secret “back door” deal that Senator Kennedy has been making to kill an alternative energy project in his backyard (I thought the Kennedys were environmentalists?).
http://www.boston.com/news/nat.....cape_wind/
LeftTurd really said a whopper here.
“If you mean Cigar Man as in Bush smoked a cigar with his asshole buddy Osama then yes you’re right. I know you righties are really stupid but yes, Bush occupied the White House on the date in your non-referenced quote you fucking dick sucking moron. Did your parents have children who lived? And does it hurt to be that stupid? No wonder you inbred fucks vote GOP. You don’t know any different.
Commentby LeftTurn— 4/27/06@ 6:36 am
I made a mistake once on dates. I don’t plan on it again!!!
Al Gore did a lawsuit. When was it LeftTurd?
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/.....& – CONTESTING THE VOTE: CONTESTING THE VOTE; Florida Judge Is Asked to Declare Gore the Winner November 28, 2000, Tuesday By DAVID FIRESTONE (NYT); National Desk Late Edition – Final, Section A, Page 1, Column 3, 1655 words
But GWB’s inauguration was January 20, 2001. A whole day and a year later. Now LeftTurd who’s the moron again…
I guess it hurts to be stupid right LeftTurd? Was yo daddy packing a full load upon your conception?
And LEftTurd: The only cigar man was Billy Clinton!!!!
A great story for “Auntie-Goldy” and the rest of the yellow-elephants/chickenhawks and cheap-labor wingnuts:
I went to the 12:21 AM showing of Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith last night. I got there about 11:00 PM and stood in a long line with people of varying ages and walks of life. I met up with a friend who is on mid-tour leave from Iraq, and we hung out together while waiting for the film to begin. The movie was mostly excellent. There were some uneven moments, but I did enjoy it. To my story, then. I was wearing one of my unit t-shirts for the simple reason that I had slept in it earlier and I didn’t care to change–it smelled clean enough anyway.
While waiting in line with my fellow moviegoers, We listened absentmindedly to snippets of some of the conversations taking place around me in the three lines for the various showings as we shot the shit ourselves. The conversations were mostly centered around Star Wars, of course, but also current events and occasionally various personal issues.
One conversation in particular caught our attention, and we listened to it intently. A gentleman of about mid-twenties or so was holding forth on the ‘war on terror,’ democrats, Jane Fonda, and so on. His listeners appeared to be the same age range as he. “We need to kick these raghead murderers out of the country…kill them wherever we find them…expand Israel all the way to the persian gulf and make Saudi Arabia a subsidiary of Exxon…”
His listeners, two of whom were wearing ‘OU Young Republicans’ t-shirts, were nodding their heads and making generally approving comments.
My friend just shook his head and muttered, loud enough for them to hear “fucking ignorant assholes.”
About my friend, Richard–he volunteered to join a unit from another state because he couldn’t find work with he shiny new college degree for almost a year. He accepted a direct commission as a 2nd Liutenant of Infantry as part of the mission. He and I had been together as NCOs during the ground offensive into Iraq, and he’s as good a man and a combat leader as they come.
The guy turned to us and said “I suppose you ‘liberals’ think we ought to just let the Arabs take over our country and kill all the adults and convert our children to muslim (sic) huh?”
Richie–“Not likely in any event, but we don’t have an army worth the name anymore, thanks your lord Bush. I’m halfway through a tour over there and I don’t see any way we can prevent a civil war, let alone win anything but what do I know? Back here in the land of SUVs and roses, you have a clearer picture don’t you?” (I had always thought Richie was a republican–what’s up with this?)
One of the others said something to the effect that Richie was full of shit, which he countered by producing his leave form and ID card from his wallet.
“We’re winning. Why else would the insurgents do these large attacks that they know they can’t win? It’s frustration, or make sure they stay in the news. Things are getting better there all the time, but you probably can’t see it at your level.”
“If we’re winning, how come the insurgents are even able to stage these large attacks? If we had that level of control, they wouldn’t have any safe assembly areas from which to attack us in any numbers. All we can do is react to them, which means they have the initiative. That’s bad,” I said.
“They’re attacking mainly Iraqis now,” said one. “They’re afraid to come out and fight us” she said.
“Three things,” said Richie, “one, attacking Iraqis is a great way to start a civil war-that’s a lovely thought-a three-way civil war with us in the middle, and two,” he said, “they’re attacking us more than enough as it is, thank you, and three,” he asked, “are you in the military?”
“No, but I support the troops and our Commander in Chief,” she replied.
“Then what’s this ‘WE’ shit? It’s not your ass over there getting IED’ed and RPG’ed and shot at and mortared, so who the fuck are you to talk about ‘we’?”
“Come on, I’m sure the young republicans here all have yellow ribbon magnets on the SUVs their daddies bought them-go easy, man. They support us,” I said. (One could, in fact, hear the italics in my voice.)
“He’s been there, and got the t-shirt,” Richie said, making a twirling motion with his finger to me. I turned around so they could see the image on the back of my shirt.
“Well, with attitudes like yours, we won’t win,” one of them said.
“Then why don’t you join up so you can go over there and show us how it’s done?” asked Richie. They looked away. “That’s what I thought,” he said, “so why don’t you all shut your fucking yaps since you don’t even believe in your own shit enough to stand up for it?”
And yes LeftTurd: I have many siblings from the same parents. What say you? Are you an only child? Did you whine your way through childhood? Were you a spoiled brat? Seems like it the way you post here on ASSes!
Waaaaaaaaaahhhhh, here is LeftTurd as a baby:
http://politicalhumor.about.co.....emseal.htm
Here is the new donkcraptic terror alert system
http://politicalhumor.about.co.....ralert.htm
Now here is an interesting book:
http://politicalhumor.about.co.....dyboys.htm
The faces of the Party!
http://politicalhumor.about.co.....yseuss.htm
A lively comparison:
http://politicalhumor.about.co.....ygitmo.htm
Now this is funny:
http://politicalhumor.about.co.....tecity.htm
Anyone need a box of chocolates?
http://politicalhumor.about.co.....tnagin.htm
Jeez-
Pee-Dookie’s diarrhea is comong from his FINGERS now.
Yyyyuuuuuuuccccckkkkkkkkkk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
58.
Couldn’t refute any of it, could you PunyLiar.
Hey Goldy, you love to decry Doc Hastings and the House Ethics Panel. How about the top donkocrapt who finally answered the call by the NYT and WaPo to step down?
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04.....38;emc=rss
Tho hours of postin absolute nonsense. Go back to yard work, it suits you better.
Harry_the_Mummified_Brain@81. I didn’t need to refute it. I corrected the record!
Yard work? Yard Work? YARD WORK? Sheeeeeeeeeit! I don’t do yard work for a living. I only work a half a year and party the rest. Et tu Harry the Mummified Brain?
Goldy Rep Mollohan ex-donko leader of the House Ethics Committee has acknowledged that he may have made “inadvertent” mistakes in financial disclosure forms.
Yes, if a donk does it it’s an “inadvertent” mistake!!!
86.
I don’t do yard work for a living. I only work a half a year and party the rest.
So, you have finally admitted that you’re a paid shill posting here.
Overpaid, Btw.
No Harry Mummified brain I have my own bidness and it doesn’t involve politics. My bidness take me all over the place. I get them frequent flyer miles and those frequent hotel points so me and da family can fly and stay free while your sorry ass pays for it!!!
Goldy are these friends of yours?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworl.....rld/125569
re 1: Great collection of quotes, MTR! I notice you do not attempt to refute them, only list them as if their “moonbattiness” were self-evident. However, MTR, here are a few additional quotes that you may find of interest:
Adam Smith said: “… the annual labor of a nation is the fund which supplies the necessaries and conveniences of life that a nation annually consumes.” Wow! Whouda thunk it? The people who make things are the actual producers of wealth, not the people who supply symbolic pieces of paper! Adam Smith thought labor was pretty important.
What a MOONBAT! What an absolute NUTBOY Adam Smith was , huh, MTR?
Abraham Lincoln said: ” Labor is the superior of capital and ought to be given much the greater consideration.”
Wow! What a NUT Lincoln was, huh, MTR? …..a real moonbat!
MTR, you are a lame dope!
You tell him, Lucy!
Fuck him.
But listen, you have to remember that Mary the Redneck doesn’t really read, he only claims to have read. You see?
He doesn’t know or care what Adam Smith actually said. He knows what he’s been tild by people superior to him in his pathetic little herarchy of “producers” and he repeats it.
If you want to have some fun, ask him to explain the Laffer curve. It’s great. Ask him to explain to you how as taxes go to zero government revenues go to infinity.
It’s a scream. The guy is all talk and no algebra.
Iran has received a first shipment of missiles from North Korea that are capable of reaching Europe, Israel’s military intelligence chief was quoted on Thursday as saying./break/ In February, a German diplomat, citing his country’s intelligence data, confirmed a German newspaper report that said Iran had purchased 18 disassembled BM-25s from North Korea.
If you want to have some fun, ask him to explain the Laffer curve. It’s great. Ask him to explain to you how as taxes go to zero government revenues go to infinity.
It’s a scream. The guy is all talk and no algebra.
Commentby dlaw— 4/27/06@ 10:02 am [Er…………………………………..Dlaw, The Laffer curve compares the relationship of MAGINAL TAX RATES to TOTAL REVENUE. Your comment “Ask him to explain” shows YOUR lack of understanding. Repeat ECON 101, dumbass!!!!!]
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“30+ years of obstructionism in exploring, drilling, transporting, and refining has put us in a place where a nutcase on the other side of the world or a little wind causes global panic.” Commentby Mark The Redneck— 4/26/06@ 8:29 pm
Well, this blows to SHIT all of Redneck’s claims of having four degrees and being an economic know-it-all! Yes, no doubt about it, those pesky environmentalists have brought the richest and most powerful industry in world history to its knees! That explains why world oil production fell from 16 billon barrels per year in 1975 to 30+ billion barrels per year in 2005!
Now let’s check some U.S. Energy Information Agency official data to see what has happened to U.S. refinery output under the Clinton and Bush administrations.
From January 1993 until January 2001 — the span of the Clinton administration — U.S. refinery output grew 14.3%.
From January 2001 to January 2006 — the first five years of the Bush administration — U.S. refinery output grew 1/10th of 1%.
In other words, domestic refining capacity increased almost 150 times as fast under Clinton as it has under Bush.
Yep, those pro-environmentalist policies of the Democrats under Clinton really hurt the fuel supply, didn’t they? By Gawd, what we really need is more of the pro-industry policies of the enlightened Republicans under Bush!
http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/dnav/.....rius1m.htm
Now let’s look at the real causes of tight fuel supplies. In addition to gains in domestic refining capacity coming to a virtual halt under the REPUBLICAN regime, there’s nothing like a big war (e.g., Iraq) to soak up a lot of fuel supplies, not to mention disruption of oil production in the country with the world’s second largest oil reserves (Iraq).
Other causes of the supply-demand crunch:
– Running up gargantuan deficits and selling the paper to China, which uses the interest paid by U.S. taxpayers to buy cars and oil.
– Tax policies that reward employers for sending U.S. jobs to India, which uses the American money paid to Indian workers to buy oil.
Hey Redneck, where did you go to school? Aruba Community College?
Once again Rabbit Pellet only writes that which makes his argument look half way intelligent.
Like WalMart in the 90s doing their bidness in China, when did outsourcing start taking off Pellet? Perform some DD!
Why don’t you nimnull righties take your “guvmint” and “bidness” crap and shove it!
After all, you have accurately noted that it’s us Lefties in all the x-pensive cars, lattes in hand and pinkies in the air.
“Hey, bud, ya got some freakin’ grey mustard , man?” That’s my motto!
And people wonder why prices for energy are high………..
Dem energy policy [ex Kerry and Kennedy’s private jets, 110 ft Chris Crafts, mansions, water craft, and SUVs]
– tax as many parties as possible
– don’t drill anywhere
– blame Bush
– don’t pursue nuclear power
– blame Bush
– don’t allow new hydro
– blame oil companies
– tear down old hydro
– blame Republicans
– don’t allow wind mills if they spoil a view
– blame people that drive to work alone
– don’t use coal
– blame businesses that use energy to produce products or generate jobs
– don’t give incentives to anyone, anywhere to find and develop hydrocarbons
– blame capitalists
Not that I expect anyone to get past 97 other doses of bullshit to read this, but….
Today a proposal to aboloish FEMA was announced by a “bipartisan” (well, if you can stomach calling Lieberman a Democrat) group of Senators. They’re saying that since FEMA has been shown to be so incompetent, they want to toss it and create a new organization from scratch, supposedly still to be under Homeland Security.
I’ll betcha the administration takes this as a cue to do something a little different. It so happens that there’s been a substantial amount of activity at the Pentagon recently, “preparing for hurricane season”. Sounds sorta like the military’s expecting to take over the gig, doesn’t it?
ArtFart: I thought it was Lieberman who led the FEMA charge in 2002 to put the agency into DHS. Your compatriots reminded this to us whom think right last year when Goldy ridiculed Mike Brown, remember?
Roger,
You forgot to mention staging a coup against and generally irritating and undercutting the successful, twice-elected president of one of the world’s largest oil producers (and one of our most important suppliers), Venezuela.
HowCanYouBePROUDtobeAnASS— 4/26/06@ 8:43 pm
“Dow at 6 year high”
Yep, that’s why they call this the slowest economic recovery in our nation’s history. Every jobs prediction this administration ever made was WAY too high. But then, why let reality get in the way of rosy preditions?
“unemployment at its lowest”
“…lowest in six years…” I imagine you mean. But it’s still no true. Seasonally ajusted unemployment was 4.6% in July 2001, and is 4.7% now.
http://data.bls.gov/PDQ/servle.....NS14000000
But there is evidence that the number of discouraged workers is much higher now than then.
“consumer confidence at its highest”
Again, just flat wrong. Consumer confidence in March 2006 was 107.7 (http://www.nasdaq.com/econoday.....index.html ). It was 108 in April 2002 and 110 in March and May 2002 (http://www.econstats.com/rt_cconf.htm ). What the hell happened in the prime years of Bushco? Things were in the crapper, that’s what. Good thing that even these idiots can shitcan the US economy for only so long.
Sucks to be a liar and idiot these days huh?
Laffer curve debunked:
http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/2/13/8171/42456
re 97: You poor, poor victim! I feel your pain! Right in my a**!!!
I heard several Seattle teachers discussing how Jimmy Carter was actually responsible for 9/11. I reminded them that it happened on Bush’s watch — to which they replied like little children: ” Oh, sure! Blame Bush! Everything’s Bush’s fault! You guys are idiots. I would support taking the right to vote away from any person who is still a Republican. Loooosers!!!
Mark The Redneck @ 6
— 4/26/06@ 8:29 pm
You’re an “interesting” guy, Mark. Do you think that US environmental groups have kept Russia, Indonesia, Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, and other PECs from exploiting their natural resources? That (well, that and Bush’s genius destruction of Iraq) is the limiting factor on excess supply that will cushion spikes. The reality, hard as it is for you to think about it, is that there is virtually NO excess supply. The world’s largest producers canot add more than about 1M BPD or so to the world’s supply.
Do you think that the US has oil reserves that will dent our 20M BPD habit any time in the near future?
And do you REALLY think that “massive investment” in oil is a “sustainable cure” to the current energy problem? How so? I’d love to hear that one.
In a report from US Army Corps of Engineers we can read the following statement:
“Peak oil is at hand with low availability growth for the next 5 to 10 years. Once worldwide petroleum production peaks, geopolitics and market economics will result in even more significant price increases and security risks. To guess where this is all going to take us is would be too speculative. Oil wars are certainly not out of the question.”
http://peakoil.net/Articles200.....ds__TN.pdf
Really, though, the Oil Wars have begun. And we started them.
The question isn’t “is there oil available?” or coal, or uranium, or wind/tide/geothermal. The question is, “AT WHAT COST is the energy we desire available?”
For examle, if we make the “massive investment in existing technologies” that MTR advocates, what will that cost be. To wht levels will it drive the spot prices of energy sources? How do we cope as a nation with the massive outflow of capital our addiction to foreign oil causes us, impoverishing our nation as it enriches others? Watch our trade deficit and see if it doesn’t balloon with these prices spikes.
it seems that the amount of oil available at $75/BBL is at present about the same as the amount available at $50/BL. How high will the price get before tar sands become feasible?
And so it goes.
Uhh, Daddy-poo…the real question is “how much PROFIT are the purveyors of the energy we desire going to bleed from us?”
Re: #99….Puddy, I might be better able to respond to what you wrote if it were translated into some sort of recognizable English grammar. If you’re making the observation that old Joe tries on occasion to **sound** like a Democrat, you’re right.
FEMA is just one of the more glaringly obvious examples of this administration following in the footsteps of Nixon and Reagan by putting incompetent hacks in charge of federal agencies they don’t like, with the objective of screwing them up so badly as to provide an excuse to shut them down. This time around, they’re going for the added bonus of funnelling vast amounts of money from the public treasury into the hands of their corporate pals.
PUDDYBUD @76 ILL BET LEWENSKI WOULD LOVE TO SIT ON BILLS FACE IF HIS NOSE WAS THAT LONG.