World oil producers quake at prospect of Newt
Rick Perry, now consigned to spinning on behalf of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, this week demonstrated the energy-industry expertise he has gained during his service as Texas governor:
“As a matter of fact, perception is everything in this world we live in, and if the perception is Newt Gingrich could be the next president of the United States, that will have a worldwide effect, I will suggest to you, on the price of oil. And people who watch these markets and people who deal with these markets understand, that when you see the type of approach that he’s talking about — opening up federal lands and waters, opening up that pipeline from Canada, clearly giving incentives to drill in America for domestic energy, and then an all of the above policy, whether it’s wind or nuclear or whatever it might be — that will have a dampening effect on the cost of oil in particular and the other energy prices as well.”
That’s right, just the mere perception that Gingrich could be president would be enough to cause global oil prices to fall. But of course, in the extremely unlikely event that it did so, a lot of the higher-priced drilling operations in Perry’s home state of Texas would become uneconomical and cease operation.
Because, you know, that’s what happens. If oil drops to $70 a barrel, the incentive to look for it and drill for it falls as well, which drives the price of oil back up.
And as already documented, oil production in the United States has jumped by more than 20 percent in the last five years, while domestic consumption has fallen by more than 2 million barrels a day. Yet despite America pushing on both sides of the supply/demand equation, global oil prices have continued to rise.
Then again, those global oil prices have yet to experience the power of the Newt.
– Jay Bookman
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Brosephus™ - Some things simply make you think WTF??
February 24th, 2012
12:51 pm
Normal @ 13:33
Even though I don’t type it, he gets a few “Bless his heart” comments from me daily.
Peadawg
February 24th, 2012
12:52 pm
“Pay attention, Pea…” – I did. I see 1300 @ your 12:40.
Did you mean 13,000? I think it’s YOU who needs to pay attention.
Joe Hussein Mama
February 24th, 2012
12:53 pm
Adam — “Fred: Hmm, I may have to try that. When is Boortz on?”
8:30 AM on WSB AM (750). Not sure what time his show ends each day.
Towncrier
February 24th, 2012
12:54 pm
“FNC blurs that distinction, and editorial comments/slanted reporting often make it into ostensibly ’straight’ news reportage.”
I think a lot of people would say that this sort of interjection of opinion into news is everywhere. There seems to be no purely objective news reporting these days. And if you know anything about journalism (such as the decisions that lie behind the selection of one story over another and what text is used in headlines), it’s arguable there never was. My point stands.
Normal
February 24th, 2012
12:54 pm
Hey, Pea…I always said I can’t type a lick….
Get Real
February 24th, 2012
12:55 pm
Oil drilling permits up LOL……
Adam go check your facts libby boy; drilling has been shut down in the Gulf and Atlantic
Normal
February 24th, 2012
12:55 pm
When is Boortz on?”
I dunno, but I write his name on my toilet paper every morning…
Fred ™
February 24th, 2012
12:55 pm
Oh crap, look at the time. I have a date in 18 minutes and I haven’t showered……….. Later.
Adam: If you click the link below, you can stream Boortz but more importantly you can stream Clark Howard. He’s a consumer advocate who is pretty good. Of course if you’ve listened to him for a million years like I have he can get repetitive. He’ll be on after the 1:00PM news break.
http://www.wsbradio.com/news/entertainment/newstalk-wsb-program-schedule/ncjn/
Thulsa Doom
February 24th, 2012
12:56 pm
“Wait wait wait wait…. hahahahahaha… Are you saying that Bush can take credit for the economy while Obama is in office?”
Adam,
Only if the economy improves of course. Heck I figure if we’ve blamed W for the last 3 years why not give him credit for the 4th as well.
Seriously though on oil permits there is of course usually a significant lag time between when a permit is granted and when oil is actually being brought out. How do we know this? We know this from the ANWAR debate when liberals told us there was no sense in granting drilling in ANWAR because we wouldn’t see the first drop of oil for 10 years. With logic like that it do make you wonder how we ever got the first ever well drilled to begin with.
JOE COOL
February 24th, 2012
12:56 pm
Everytime i turn around ole Jeb say something that I agree with….whats the world coming to.
Jeb Bush says 2012ers are ‘appealing to people’s fears’
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0212/73242.html#ixzz1nK6CPCC4
Simple Truths
February 24th, 2012
12:56 pm
I should score the number of blog postings this month Jay has made about Republicans versus Obama. That would be an interesting chart..
Jay, why are you reluctant to blog about Obama?
Mick
February 24th, 2012
12:57 pm
**drilling has been shut down in the Gulf and Atlantic**
I don’t think that’s true but how fast we forget that nasty bp oil spill?
ragnar danneskjold
February 24th, 2012
12:57 pm
I think we can agree that the world perception is that the US is presently controlled by an anti-drilling regime, and that perception allows the producers the luxury or not worrying about new competition. Further the current US regime is inclined to waste taxpayer monies on inefficient and hopelessly unpromising companies run by FOO, technologies generally discarded by people investing their own monies.
I suspect if a peanut butter sandwich were to get the republican nomination and thereafter cruise to election, the prospect of unleashed oil speculators would drive the cost down. Just like it did in 1984. Uncontrolled capitalism works miracles, and one ideology cannot tolerate miracles not attributable to overlord genius.
ragnar danneskjold
February 24th, 2012
12:59 pm
US gasoline prices are a fair gauge of the level of economic freedom, or alternatively the level of constrictive control of the economy.
ragnar danneskjold
February 24th, 2012
12:59 pm
FOO – Friends of Obama
YOUR party SUCKS! But MINE is GRRRRRREAT! (formerly That Black Guy)
February 24th, 2012
1:00 pm
Adam
February 24th, 2012
11:27 am
godless: I thought Dems were the champions of the working man and the poor, but here they seem to be downright gleeful about high gas prices
Please PLEASE tell me how you got that impression. Do you not realize that Butch, for example, is making fun of the usual con arguments now that they seem to be in support of governmental takeover as cost control?
__________________________________________________________________________
Do you not see Eat the Rich’s nearly orgasmic joy about rising prices?
Mick
February 24th, 2012
1:01 pm
joe
Jeb is smart enough to know that his brother chained a permanent anchor to him as far as him ever becoming president. Ain’t gonna happen and he knows it…
mm
February 24th, 2012
1:01 pm
“Adam go check your facts libby boy; drilling has been shut down in the Gulf and Atlantic”
Not this crap again.
RB from Gwinnett
February 24th, 2012
1:01 pm
Adam (the tough guy) challenge’s me…
“Find a single comment that I ever said anything remotely like that. Go ahead. I’m waiting….”
My reply…
“Hey Adam. I’ll look up your big oil comments as soon as you tell us all what name you were posting under on this blog during Bush’s term. ”
Adam…
“I wasn’t here then.”
So, Adam, what’s with the challenge? Did you think I didn’t know you weren’t here then or if you were you were posting under a different name? That weak crap might work down at the bong store, Adam, but it doesn’t work here. Go waste somebody else’s time.
Towncrier
February 24th, 2012
1:02 pm
“Conservatives DO argue against media, they just blanket ALL of media as being “liberal” because that is what they have been told to think.”
I happen to think that there is a liberal bias to most of the mainstream media and it’s not because that is what I have been told to think. I believe there is clear evidence to support that idea. Is it an overwhelming bias? I think not. Would it be were the appearance of objectivity not so necessary? I can’t say.
Stevie Ray
February 24th, 2012
1:02 pm
JAY,
Pathetic…NEWT is all that is wrong with politics and stands no chance.
I read where BO’s strategy is to tell us to grin and bear it, green technology, and DEFLECT blame per WH staff. Please enlighten me as to how DEFLECTING the blame and relying on technology that is at least 10 years from mainstream is a plan? How are “betrodden middle class” going to get to vacation and get the the jobs BO is so adept at producing?
Your guy is a joke…he is the one only concerned about screwing us to get elected in favor of irrelevant unions, cash tossing banks, cronies getting out tax dollars in form of green grants…they are winners and we are losers.
Get Real
February 24th, 2012
1:02 pm
Mick…you know as well as I that Obama does not like the oil inductry and will do whatever he can to force alternative energy. Alternative energy is a very good thing and should be supported but not at the expense of the oil industry through excessive governmental regulation, delays……all to keep his tree hugger support base happy
Mick
February 24th, 2012
1:02 pm
ragnar
Surely you jest with such an inane hypothesis?
Joe Hussein Mama
February 24th, 2012
1:03 pm
Towncrier — “I think a lot of people would say that this sort of interjection of opinion into news is everywhere.”
FNCs been caught several times misrepresenting ‘misbehaving’ Republicans as Democrats (Congressman Mark Foley and Governor Mark Sanford were prime examples); FNC rarely, if ever, issues corrections or retractions. Unintentional and accidental mistakes of that nature are certainly possible, but IMO refusing or failing to *correct* such mistakes is willful.
“There seems to be no purely objective news reporting these days. And if you know anything about journalism (such as the decisions that lie behind the selection of one story over another and what text is used in headlines),”
I do.
“it’s arguable there never was.”
Fatalism isn’t a very good excuse for not bothering to even *try* to be objective.
“My point stands.”
I see your point as mere apologetics, but I can certainly understand what might motivate you to engage in it.
YOUR party SUCKS! But MINE is GRRRRRREAT! (formerly That Black Guy)
February 24th, 2012
1:03 pm
Eat the Rich
February 24th, 2012
11:30 am
Working man can always take the bus if he can’t afford a Prius.
Suppose you are not on a bus route or your area does not have mass transit?
Stevie Ray
February 24th, 2012
1:03 pm
JAY,
My bad, BO is not the only one concered about screwing us……the entire electorate and GOP contestants are no different..
Get Real
February 24th, 2012
1:03 pm
make that “industry”
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
February 24th, 2012
1:03 pm
Well, when we get a good Republican in the White House then pretty soon we’ll have a oil well every couple miles and we’ll be able to use pocket change to fill up our pickups. Right now I need to use one of my paydays each month to fill up my Ford F-450. I say drill here, drill now, and execute anybody that objects. Besides, my buddy Jim Earl claims a little oil in drinking water gives it a certain piquant taste that people find refreshing. I don’t know what that means but it sounds awful good.
Anyhow, I been busting my hump to get you ready to guzzle beer and swap weird music tonight. Whoever Bookman puts on to lead off is bound to be somebody most of us never heard of but there’ll always be a couple a-holes that will claim they went to see them in concert and liked them, tho their memory is kinda fuzzy on account of the buzz from the marijuana and cocaine and meth and the group sex they had in the audience while they was listening.
Have a good Friday everybody.
RB from Gwinnett
February 24th, 2012
1:04 pm
Butch, I’m ignoring you because your comments are stupid and not worthy of my time.
Stevie Ray
February 24th, 2012
1:04 pm
JOE,
Agreed. Half truths to the left of me, half-truths to the right so I’m stuck in the middle with you…don’t know what it is I should do……
Peadawg
February 24th, 2012
1:06 pm
“Butch, I’m ignoring you because your comments are stupid and not worthy of my time.”
Yet you just responded to him with that comment.
RB from Gwinnett
February 24th, 2012
1:07 pm
Joe, I believe he had WMD’s and so did most of the worlds intel groups. And bill Clinton too.
Do you think the Kurds he gassed with WMD’s thought he had them too?
Adam
February 24th, 2012
1:08 pm
8:30-1:00 EST
CHRIST!
I hope he’s salaried.
Jerome Horwitz
February 24th, 2012
1:08 pm
If we could harness all the bluster of Newt and Rickie we’d have enough wind power to supply electircity for the whole nation.
JOE COOL
February 24th, 2012
1:09 pm
Mick
February 24th, 2012
1:01 pm
Agreed… a BUSH couldnt win Dancing With The Starts against Stephan Hawkins,but its funny that he actually speaks to the center, and not to that base.
Amvet
February 24th, 2012
1:09 pm
…opening up federal lands and waters…
Tell, the corporate parasites and their flunkies like Rick Perry, et al, to keep their stinking freeloading hands off of OUR – as in we the people, the former sovereigns of this nation – natural resources and assets.
That land and everything therein belongs to US.
No more free rides, give aways and hand outs to these mooches…
Towncrier
February 24th, 2012
1:09 pm
“Jeb is smart enough to know that his brother chained a permanent anchor to him as far as him ever becoming president. Ain’t gonna happen and he knows it…”
I tend to agree. I find it odd, however, that the same is not true of the Kennedys. It still amazes me how Edward was able to escape the consequences of Chappaquiddick like he did. What is it about the American voter that finds electing members of the same family over years and years appealing? Is it a vestige of royalty in days past?
Adam
February 24th, 2012
1:09 pm
drilling has been shut down in the Gulf and Atlantic
Not Intended To Be a Factual Statement.
Mick
February 24th, 2012
1:09 pm
rb
Too bad he didn’t have them though….over 4k soldiers dead, over 30,000k soldiers seriously wounded, over 100k innocent iraqi’s dead – there are no do overs or oops my bad with war…
willydoit?
February 24th, 2012
1:09 pm
“Hopefully, electric cars will be all the rage…”
Too bad we can’t build more power plants to supply affordable electricity to charge those electric cars.
RB from Gwinnett
February 24th, 2012
1:10 pm
Granny, still buying that myth all this oil came from “fossils” I see. What exactly is fossilized under all that barren middle east sand?
Mick
February 24th, 2012
1:10 pm
willy
Solar power, the whole vehicle should be a solar panel…
YOUR party SUCKS! But MINE is GRRRRRREAT! (formerly That Black Guy)
February 24th, 2012
1:11 pm
Adam
February 24th, 2012
11:36 am
It’s like if Texas suddenly decided they needed tons of oil for the new awesome heavy duty truck with a Confederate flag on it
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Was that part necessary?:roll:
Are you saying the only people who would want a really big truck are rednecks or such?
I know PLENTY of Black people (men and women) who like big trucks. Do you think they would buy one with a confederate flag on it?
Adam, your arguements are sooooo much better when you don’t resort to this type of stereotyping.
Adam
February 24th, 2012
1:11 pm
That Black Guy: Do you not see Eat the Rich’s nearly orgasmic joy about rising prices?
Yes, but did you see any of his OTHER comments? He’s doing it as bait. He’s not serious.
Doggone/GA
February 24th, 2012
1:13 pm
“Jay, why are you reluctant to blog about Obama?”
blogspot.com is ready when you are
willydoit?
February 24th, 2012
1:13 pm
“I tend to agree. I find it odd, however, that the same is not true of the Kennedys. It still amazes me how Edward was able to escape the consequences of Chappaquiddick like he did. What is it about the American voter that finds electing members of the same family over years and years appealing? Is it a vestige of royalty in days past?”
Most democrat voters don’t have morals when it comes to their elected officials…now if Edward would have cut down a tree in a national forest! Maybe then he would have been voted out.
Adam
February 24th, 2012
1:14 pm
RB: Did you think I didn’t know you weren’t here then or if you were you were posting under a different name?
No I thought you were making a point that you were wrong about. You apply your original challenge to ALL liberals, and you are simply incorrect. I called you out on it, as did JHM. I’m sure there are others. But hey, if you want to prove your point I’m sure you can, it just takes a little effort.
Doggone/GA
February 24th, 2012
1:14 pm
“I happen to think that there is a liberal bias to most of the mainstream media”
Ok, fair enough…then do what no one else has ever been able to do: collect a representative sample of STRAIGHT NEWS stories that contain “liberal bias” and post them here.
Everytime we ask that, we get opinion pieces or nothing. Maybe you can do better.
Normal
February 24th, 2012
1:14 pm
RB,
From Wiki…not just dinosaurs…
Petroleum and natural gas are formed by the anaerobic decomposition of remains of organisms including phytoplankton and zooplankton that settled to the sea (or lake) bottom in large quantities under anoxic conditions, millions of years ago. Over geological time, this organic matter, mixed with mud, got buried under heavy layers of sediment. The resulting high levels of heat and pressure caused the organic matter to chemically alter, first into a waxy material known as kerogen which is found in oil shales, and then with more heat into liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons in a process known as catagenesis.
There is a wide range of organic, or hydrocarbon, compounds in any given fuel mixture. The specific mixture of hydrocarbons gives a fuel its characteristic properties, such as boiling point, melting point, density, viscosity, etc. Some fuels like natural gas, for instance, contain only very low boiling, gaseous components. Others such as gasoline or diesel contain much higher boiling components.
Terrestrial plants, on the other hand, tend to form coal and methane. Many of the coal fields date to the Carboniferous period of Earth’s history. Terrestrial plants also form type III kerogen, a source of natural gas.
Adam
February 24th, 2012
1:15 pm
Towncrier: I happen to think that there is a liberal bias to most of the mainstream media and it’s not because that is what I have been told to think. I believe there is clear evidence to support that idea.
There’s actually evidence to support the opposite.
Butch Cassidy
February 24th, 2012
1:15 pm
RB from Gwinnett – “Butch, I’m ignoring you because your comments are stupid and not worthy of my time.”
Freely translated: I endorse socialism when it serves my purposes.
Thanks for clearing that up RB.
willydoit?
February 24th, 2012
1:15 pm
“Solar power, the whole vehicle should be a solar panel…”
…and should run on rainbows and dreams too!
They BOTH suck
February 24th, 2012
1:16 pm
“Most democrat voters don’t have morals when it comes to their elected officials…”
WOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
Let’s see if this stands up as one of the most partisan, one sided posts of the day………
Adam
February 24th, 2012
1:16 pm
Stevie: I read where BO’s strategy is to tell us to grin and bear it, green technology, and DEFLECT blame per WH staff. Please enlighten me as to how DEFLECTING the blame and relying on technology that is at least 10 years from mainstream is a plan?
First, explain to me how he deflected blame. To deflect blame first one has to be legitimately blamed.
Fred ™
February 24th, 2012
1:18 pm
Uncontrolled capitalism works miracles, and one ideology cannot tolerate miracles not attributable to overlord genius.
Another untested theory by the fictional character that spang from the drug induced haze of an amped up methhead’s troubled mind.
Pray tell Rags, where is there now an “Uncontrolled capitalism.” When was the LAST example of one? But then you do seem to support slavery and forced/coerced child labor………..
Towncrier
February 24th, 2012
1:18 pm
Fatalism isn’t a very good excuse for not bothering to even *try* to be objective.”
Let me get this straight: some instances of malfeasance (even if true) means therefore one is not even trying to be objective. Funny, that strikes me as being ironically fatalistic. And are you hereby going on record saying that none of the other networks have not deliberately misrepresented the truth at times?
“I see your point as mere apologetics, but I can certainly understand what might motivate you to engage in it.”
Immaterial.
Doggone/GA
February 24th, 2012
1:18 pm
“What exactly is fossilized under all that barren middle east sand?”
all those ancient forests. The deserts of today were not always deserts.
Butch Cassidy
February 24th, 2012
1:18 pm
Normal – “RB,
From Wiki…not just dinosaurs…”
Don’t confuse him. In RB’s world the earth is only 6,000 years old, Pangea never existed, and the most arid parts of our planet at no time whatsoever held vegitation or moisture.
ragnar danneskjold
February 24th, 2012
1:18 pm
Dear Mick @ 1:02, good afternoon, truth burns, doesn’t it?
John Birch
February 24th, 2012
1:18 pm
Mick – There have never been 110k innoicent Iraqi’a in recent history.
willydoit?
February 24th, 2012
1:19 pm
“Let’s see if this stands up as one of the most partisan, one sided posts of the day………”
Not only was I “FIRST” on this blog…but I have the most partisan, one sided posts of the day!!
Willydoit? is on a roll!!
ragnar danneskjold
February 24th, 2012
1:19 pm
Dear Fred @ 1:18, good afternoon, Hong Kong is pretty close to the equivalent of US 1880-1900, the fastest growth period in the US prior to Reagan.
JOE COOL
February 24th, 2012
1:20 pm
“Most democrat voters don’t have morals when it comes to their elected officials”
Funny, coming from a party hack that thinks Newt and his 6 years side-piece can make it to the WH.
Brosephus™ - Some things simply make you think WTF??
February 24th, 2012
1:20 pm
I suspect if a peanut butter sandwich were to get the republican nomination and thereafter cruise to election, the prospect of unleashed oil speculators would drive the cost down.
While I’d agree that a peanut butter sandwich looks much better as a prospect as opposed to the way the GOP candidates have presented themselves, I don’t think a peanut butter sandwich would get the nod from the Electoral College. There is also the whole Constitutional requirements and such. That, however, is a truly laughable idea.
Uncontrolled capitalism works miracles
And so does ExLax. It seems like both end up leaving people hurting and having to clean up piles and piles of sh*t.
Fred ™
February 24th, 2012
1:21 pm
RB from Gwinnett
February 24th, 2012
1:10 pm
Granny, still buying that myth all this oil came from “fossils” I see. What exactly is fossilized under all that barren middle east sand?
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Your brain? I mean it has to be SOMEWHERE……
Butch Cassidy
February 24th, 2012
1:21 pm
Doggone/GA – “The deserts of today were not always deserts.”
Don’t argue with RB, he still belives people rode dinosaurs and nationalizing the oil industry is a good thing.
Adam
February 24th, 2012
1:22 pm
That Black Guy: Adam, your arguements are sooooo much better when you don’t resort to this type of stereotyping.
Fair enough. I was over-the-top satirically trying to make the point as relate-able to the common man who can’t seem to understand anything that lies outside of the borders of the U.S. as affected us at all.
Fred ™
February 24th, 2012
1:22 pm
ragnar danneskjold
February 24th, 2012
1:19 pm
Dear Fred @ 1:18, good afternoon, Hong Kong is pretty close to the equivalent of US 1880-1900, the fastest growth period in the US prior to Reagan.
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Like I said, you love’s you some slavery and forced/coerced child labor don’t you? Unsafe work conditions, uncontrolled pollution, rape of natural resources, exploitation of the lower class (there being NO middle class) ect………. yup, the good old days…..
AmVet
February 24th, 2012
1:23 pm
Mick, to people like Birch they are all guilty. Of being Muslims.
He’s just bummed that he and his pals can’t figure out a way to slaughter an equal number of them in this country…
They BOTH suck
February 24th, 2012
1:23 pm
Congrat Willy at least you do realize that what you said pertains to both sides of the aisle even if you portray it as one sided…….
willydoit?
February 24th, 2012
1:23 pm
“Funny, coming from a party hack that thinks Newt and his 6 years side-piece can make it to the WH.”
Messing around on your old lady and letting a chick drown in your car while you sleep off a hangover are two different things. An everyday JOE COOL would have spent time in prison for what Kennedy did!
Butch Cassidy
February 24th, 2012
1:24 pm
Fred – “yup, the good old days…..”
What, you missed rags in the last blog? He thinks that employers should be able to discriminate against anyone they want to.
Doomy solves the energy crisis
February 24th, 2012
1:24 pm
I think we should dramatically reduce our reliance on cars and go to building bicycle paths all over the cities and highways. My solution would be the rickshaw. You know- them man pulled carts where I plop my ass on a rickshaw with a cooler of beer and let some little ole man half my size run his ass off. Its good for numerous reasons.
1-Number one is that there are no fossil fuel emissions.
2- We can give all the unemployed jobs as rickshaw pullers and thatta way they can earn that $250 a week in unemployment. Plus they either gonna have a new sense of self esteem from working or they gonna be so sick and damn tired of toting Doomy around that they gonna get a real job.
3- Lotta damn fat people people on food stamps. Doomy gonna promote rickshaws as a fat burning mechanism. All them fat folks are gonna be marathon fit and trim after running folks around the perimeter 6,000 times.
4- Obamacare costs are going to drop immensely. How can health care costs not plummet when so many people are fit and trim from pulling they rickshaws?
5- Even prisoners could be gainfully employed.We would save billions in prison costs. We just chain or handcuff them to the rickshaws so they can’t attack us or get away. And if they shiftless well we get a buggy whip to crack on their backs when they loafin.
Adam
February 24th, 2012
1:24 pm
Towncrier: And are you hereby going on record saying that none of the other networks have not deliberately misrepresented the truth at times?
Dont’ apologize for Fox News. They deliberately misrepresent the truth on a regular basis ON PURPOSE. It’s a well established pattern. Other networks do not even come close to that kind of thing, even if you can find the occasional deliberate lie.
ragnar danneskjold
February 24th, 2012
1:25 pm
Dear Brosephus @ 1:20, we would agree with your analogy insofar as it describes the problem with the policies of the current regime, and what will be necessary to Correctol.
Dear Fred @ 1:22, you really ought to take Econ 101, you would sound less ridiculous,
willydoit?
February 24th, 2012
1:26 pm
“Congrat Willy at least you do realize that what you said pertains to both sides of the aisle even if you portray it as one sided…….”
You are correct…They BOTH suck!
ragnar danneskjold
February 24th, 2012
1:27 pm
Dear Fred @ 1:22, I did not mean to suggest that struggling through Econ 101 would make you less ridiculous, just that you would sound less ridiculous.
Keep Up--Te gusta losing woofinpoofs?
February 24th, 2012
1:28 pm
Is there seriously questions about where the oil below the sand appeared? Seriously? Oh wait, I remember, the world was “create” just a few years back exactly like it is today.
Towncrier
February 24th, 2012
1:28 pm
“Ok, fair enough…then do what no one else has ever been able to do: collect a representative sample of STRAIGHT NEWS stories that contain “liberal bias” and post them here.”
The evidence I speak of is less direct – things like political party allegiances and contributions, off mike comments caught on the air, interviews with very accomplished liberal journalists (who have acknowledged the bias) and personal experience (I have a relative who was a junior editor of a major newspaper; he was, and still is, very liberal). No one purporting to be objective is going to flaunt his or her personal views and beliefs in plain view. To the extent there is bias, it will therefore tend to be subtle (except in unguarded moments).
JohnnyReb
February 24th, 2012
1:30 pm
SEVEN states attorney generals filed suit today on Obama’s mandate that insurance companies provide contraceptives free of charge.
I told you the contraceptive thing was not over. Obama cannot do what he stood and stated was the solution to the Catholic birth control issue. He is not a king, not a dicatator. He can’t simply tell a publically held company what to do. And, his right hand girl can’t run and write it into Obamacare afterward and get away with it. That in itself is a problem with Obamacare, it gives to much control to the secretary.
Thomas
February 24th, 2012
1:30 pm
Silly little micro blog.
Govts around the world flooded the various economies with money. The US economy under W becuase he and his staff ignorantly thought housing was not a bubble while the US ramped up costs with 2 wars. Commodity inflation super cycle started in 2006/2007 and only took a breather during the initial recovery of the global economy. We, the US taxpayers, continue to be fools run over by a Fed that convinces us that one should only be concerned about CPI ex food and energy.
Well, unless you can eat plastic sh*t and put plastic sh*t from China we are about to need a lot of economic vaseline because the food and energy inflation is going to hurt.
Good luck President and economic advisors-
Butch Cassidy
February 24th, 2012
1:30 pm
Keep – “Is there seriously questions about where the oil below the sand appeared? Seriously?”
Yes, RB asked it. I believe it was right after he accused me of being foolish. Ironic isn’t it?
Generation$crewed
February 24th, 2012
1:31 pm
http://www.politicususa.com/en/Dem-radio-4-26
“Republicans won’t break with the status quo easily. The grip of Big Oil and energy companies is strong. That’s why we need you to help us keep the pressure on President Bush and the Republicans who are intent on rewarding their oil friends while they stick the American people with the bill. The stakes are too high for that kind of cronyism and cynical politics. Democrats reject them. And together, I know we can solve this crisis.”–Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) while delivering the Democratic weekly radio address
http://weaselzippers.us/2012/02/24/2007-pelosi-blames-bush-for-high-gas-prices-2012-pelosi-blames-wall-street-gop-for-high-gas-prices/
“Drivers are paying a heavy price for the Bush Administration’s failure to enact a comprehensive energy policy.”-Nancy Pelosi,
is she still a democrat?
But I am just sure all those claiming that President Obama is not to blame for gas prices as I do, were also not blaming Bush for high gas prices back then either.
Yep you sound just like the people who say now that they were against Bush spending just like they are against Obama spending now.
Tom Middleton
February 24th, 2012
1:31 pm
Ahhhhh Newt. He may make it all the way to the convention, but that’s one hot-air balloon that ain’t gettin’ very far off the ground!
Brosephus™ - Some things simply make you think WTF??
February 24th, 2012
1:31 pm
rags
I said nothing about the current administration. As a matter of fact, that would run counter to the current administration if one is to believe popular GOP rhetoric as fact. Popular rhetoric says that this current administration is anti-business and anti-capitalism. Therefore, any attempt to compare them with unregulated capitalism would fail as the administration would be the complete opposite. Instead of ExLax, the current administration would be Immodium AD.
You really, really need to brush up on your rhetoric. You’re beginning to sound like one of those Obama lovin’ libruls.
Adam
February 24th, 2012
1:32 pm
Towncrier: To the extent there is bias, it will therefore tend to be subtle (except in unguarded moments).
Are you trying to say all these journalists are either trained or smart enough to figure out how to work in subliminals without being seen as biased, except by maybe the smart people over at Fox News who have it all figured out that everyone ELSE is liberal media?
If there is bias, my bet is that most of those trying to be objective are genuine, and do not introduce bias on purpose.
John Birch
February 24th, 2012
1:34 pm
Amvet – I don’t ascribe to mysticism so their religion means nothing to me. I believe that, at the very least, they are guilty of failure to follow the New Hampshire state motto!
Joe Hussein Mama
February 24th, 2012
1:34 pm
RB — “Joe, I believe he had WMD’s”
And you were wrong.
“and so did most of the worlds intel groups.”
And yet some of those nations refrained from joining us in our adventure. Could it be because the intel wasn’t as persuasive as was claimed? After all, we predicated the invasion on *knowing where the weapons were,* yet after the invasion, we were treated to the excuse of ‘we’ve got an awful lot of places to search.’
Any of those places pan out? No? Guess that intel was wrong, then.
“And bill Clinton too.”
Once again, I didn’t vote for Bill Clinton either time.
“Do you think the Kurds he gassed with WMD’s thought he had them too?”
If you’re going to predicate an invasion in 2003 on weapons Saddam Hussein used in the mid-1980s and that we had already policed up during Desert Storm, then you’re more desperate than I thought. (laughing)
JOE COOL
February 24th, 2012
1:35 pm
“SEVEN states attorney generals filed suit today on Obama’s mandate that insurance companies provide contraceptives free of charge.”
Worthless taxpayers money spent…….
Adam
February 24th, 2012
1:36 pm
GS: You know what? You’re right. Obama is to blame for high gas prices. It’s all his fault and because of this one thing, I will now vote for whoever the Republican is. Hallelujah! I have SEEEEEEEEEN the liiiight!
Joe Hussein Mama
February 24th, 2012
1:36 pm
willydoit — “Most democrat voters don’t have morals when it comes to their elected officials…”
Which explains how David Vitter got reelected.
Towncrier
February 24th, 2012
1:36 pm
“Dont’ apologize for Fox News. They deliberately misrepresent the truth on a regular basis ON PURPOSE. It’s a well established pattern.”
I don’t get cable, so I no longer watch Fox News. How does calling attention to rants (such as yours now) about Fox News translate into apologizing for it? You want to know why I generally couldn’t stomach watching it – because of the incessant redundancy of its news coverage. It was like were playing this looping reel of coverage – the same 8 to 10 stories every hour. I almost would rather be waterboarded. To me, that’s a legitimate criticism of Fox News. But these other complaints strike me as little more than not liking an opposing view of things (as in their opinion shows like Hannity’s).
deegee
February 24th, 2012
1:36 pm
I think that the petroleum companies have already started moving away from oil production and are moving ahead with natural gas exploration and renewable energy. Where have Rick and Newt been?
JOE COOL
February 24th, 2012
1:36 pm
“He is not a king, not a dicatator.”
No, he is “The One” “Messiah”
Joseph
February 24th, 2012
1:36 pm
Thats exactly what Bush did. Threaten.. That’s all it takes not saying we will start using algae to make fuel… I bet that really scared the hell out of those evil oil companies…
Doggone/GA
February 24th, 2012
1:36 pm
“The evidence I speak of is less direct”
Or in other words, you can’t provide any examples either. Why am I not surprised?
Keep Up--Te gusta losing woofinpoofs?
February 24th, 2012
1:36 pm
Butch — dang it man…. you told him about the oil fairy right?
(ir)Rational
February 24th, 2012
1:40 pm
JHM – Come on now, let’s not bring him into this. I mean, what did he do besides visit a poor, misguided girl and try to save her soul? … You mean he was having relations with those girls? Well, they must have gotten married first, maybe he became one of them Mormons or something? … No? But there has to be some explanation. He stands for truth, and family values, and Christian morals. He wouldn’t visit hookers to do what hookers do.
Adam
February 24th, 2012
1:40 pm
Towncrier: But these other complaints strike me as little more than not liking an opposing view of things (as in their opinion shows like Hannity’s).
Correct. I do not like being lied to. This applies to every show everywhere. But it is much more of an established pattern on these shows. I could watch ANY of Hannity’s shows and find at least one lie about Democrats or Obama in it. I cannot say the same of ANY liberal or non-conservative show.
There is a legitimate point to be made here: Fox News presents false information on purpose. Pretending that my saying that is “just a rant” is being an apologist for them.
Joe Hussein Mama
February 24th, 2012
1:40 pm
Towncrier — “Let me get this straight: some instances of malfeasance (even if true) means therefore one is not even trying to be objective.”
No, you don’t have that straight. *Giving up* on trying to be objective, either because it’s difficult, it’s not historically supported or for whatever reason means that one’s not even trying.
“Funny, that strikes me as being ironically fatalistic.”
Good, because that’s neither what I said or thought.
“And are you hereby going on record saying that none of the other networks have not deliberately misrepresented the truth at times?”
Didn’t say it, didn’t think it, didn’t defend the practice. However, FNC has a problem with *correcting* and or *retracting* its own errors. Other networks and news operations correct themselves *much* more readily than does FNC.
“Immaterial.”
Unsurprising.