SOTU Deja Vu
SOTU Deja Vu
According to speech excerpts released by the White House, tonight President Bush will take the bold stand that America needs to be less dependent on foreign oil:
America is addicted to oil, which is often imported from unstable parts of the world. The best way to break this addiction is through technology.
Sound familiar?
2002: “This Congress must act to encourage conservation, promote technology, build infrastructure, and it must act to increase energy production at home so America is less dependent on foreign oil.”
2003: “Our third goal is to promote energy independence for our country, while dramatically improving the environment. … [We should be] much less dependent on foreign sources of energy.”
2004: “I urge you to pass legislation to modernize our electricity system, promote conservation, and make America less dependent on foreign sources of energy.”
2005: “I urge Congress to pass legislation that makes America more secure and less dependent on foreign energy.”
Meanwhile, our dependence on foreign oil has increased from 58 percent in 2000 to 66 percent today. If America is addicted to oil, George W. Bush is our dealer.
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Harry Reid's Orwellian "Double Speak" comparison is obviously bogus.
January 31st, 2006 at 5:45 pmMaybe he'll propose his new idea of a Manhattan Project for New Energy.
Or maybe just another bunch of coal, oil, and gas subsidies.
Doesn't matter what he promises. It will cost a trillion dollars and will never get off the ground.
January 31st, 2006 at 5:50 pmWell, if the Dems finally let us do some domestic oil exploration.....................
January 31st, 2006 at 5:55 pmYada - Yada
Blah - Blah
Have you seen this?
Now, the BushCo may fret over the instabilities that they create (read Iraq, Iran, Israel, ARAB NATIONS) and claim they(sic) are the problem.
But I would rather harken back to a Great President who said,
January 31st, 2006 at 5:57 pm"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
He did not invision that it would be another
U.S. president that which we need to fear.
Were going to Mars for our new fuel.
January 31st, 2006 at 5:58 pmAMERICA WAKE UP
This American Dream
That is the BushCo
IS OUR NIGHTMARE
AMERICA WAKE UP
January 31st, 2006 at 6:00 pm#3 Well, if the Dems finally let us do some domestic oil exploration…………………
Comment by Dems, quit bitching and be constructive
So wait, how does this help the addiction? Maybe spending millions on crazy ideas like photovoltaic energy, or geothermal, wind or bio-fuel might be the answer. But I'm guessing you worked your "Thinking Bone" just like Bush for that comment.
January 31st, 2006 at 6:04 pmSo, now Bush is pushing the Democratic agenda? Interesting.
January 31st, 2006 at 6:06 pmPlease, Please Mr. Bush may I have some oil that I can mainline? I'm gettin the ssshhhaaakkkeesss.
January 31st, 2006 at 6:06 pmThis is what Bush means: let me ruin Alaska, cuz we're too dependent on foreign oil.
Hell, Alaska can supply America's oil demand for a whole six months!!!! What's a whole fucking species of caribou when we're talking six whole months of oil? Think short term with me people!
January 31st, 2006 at 6:07 pm"MR.PRESIDENT!!!! YOUR PANTS ARE ON FIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
January 31st, 2006 at 6:07 pmHow about some REAL fuel economy measures? Oh shit, GM and Ford are already going tits up. Wait, how about some tax cuts for those guys? That's right up Bushes backside alley.
January 31st, 2006 at 6:08 pm[...] When it comes to American dependence on foreign oil, apparently “President” Bush is going to continue to blow smoke up America’s collective butt in the State of the Union Address tonight. ThinkProgress has a great post right now where they pull quotes from the last FOUR State of the Union’s in which Bush makes the same pledge. It’s a crock. These people, Bush and co., have an IV hook-up right to the oil barrons who are posting record profits right now. We’re breaking the grip of foreign oil, we’re also going to Mars, we’re all going to have flying cars, and monkeys are going to fly out of my butt. An hour of lies, scheduled to begin in about an hour and a half. [...]
January 31st, 2006 at 6:12 pmHell, Alaska can supply America’s oil demand for a whole six months!!!!
And that's if, and only if, there really are the oil reserves there that the oil companies have predicted. And that's if, and only if, those reserves can actually be refined in this country - which I've heard they can't because the sulfur content is too high. The buzz on ANWR reserves is that the oil companies are planning to sell the oil to Asia. Not only would we still be dependent on foreign oil, but we would waste millions of taxpayer dollars on corporate handouts to those same oil companies who are posting record profits.
Drilling in ANWR only helps the oil companies.
January 31st, 2006 at 6:13 pmIf you keep refering to The administration as it was some sort of corporation it won't do any good. They are the Executive Office and the more quantifable power they posses and justify legally, the more there is for the next leader, regardless of party. Allow them to step up to the highest threshold possible to grab the ring and they can have all the power they need, as long as Some one else knows what they are doing with it. I would bet that the President in the future will rely on the phrase , " I was told it was legal". Bush is the epitome of plausable denilability.He trusts too many of the same people.
January 31st, 2006 at 6:13 pmBush is going for the tactic he has kept the entire time. Say the OPPOSITE of what is actually happening. Hope that what you are saying will replace the bad news people are currently thinking. They work off of American's ADD. If they tell you something good and sound like they mean it, they hope most Americans will forget all the bad news that had BEEN hearing.
But Bush and Co haven't been able to fight against the ever-growing population of websites and people who are countering Bush's message, and getting the truth out there.
January 31st, 2006 at 6:13 pmI'm genuinely afraid with the way things are going. If he keeps putting Alitos on there (you never know who else is going down), he can do whatever he damn well pleases and never have to face any consequences. Well, more so than now.
Meanwhile he keeps feeding us the same drivel and no one seems to pick up on it. I've had people tell me that since Bush said it, it must be true. Scott McClellan says whatever he does and that's the end of the argument. If the White House says it, they must be right.
I'm honestly not sure which is scarier: the way this administration is acting, or the way the people never catch on.
January 31st, 2006 at 6:15 pmHEY REPUBLICAN ASSHOLES
****************************
IF THE GOVERNMENT REGULATED MUCH BETTER MPG CARS, GM AND FORD WOULD HAVE SOLD MORE, AND OUR OIL IMPORTING WOULD HAVE DECREASED..
WIN / WIN
IS IT THAT HARD TO UNDERSTAND ??
PEOPLE IN CONGRESS CANT UNDERSTAND THAT SIMPLE AN IDEA ??
January 31st, 2006 at 6:16 pmSo what is the answer to breaking our dependence on foreign oil, TPers? Go back to candles (wait, they pollute too!)? Just tell the evil corporations to stop using so much fuel (and crater the economy)? Force citizens to buy only hybrid cars (to hell with freedom of choice)?
I'm waiting to hear some practical solutions. Or is this site just about bashing Bush?
January 31st, 2006 at 6:20 pmTonight I was cooking dinner and sort of watching Whore Blitzer interview some new chick on CNN outside the White House and she was talking about Bush's comment about our "addiction". She then went on in the next breath to say that this president also has a record (at this point, my beer spewed onto the TV screen, wasting precious Celebration Ale) and that he's spent billions on research for alternate fuel resources. Tonight will be a dark comedy.
January 31st, 2006 at 6:25 pmI am currently trying to start a people's movement in my home state so that I can take over the Alabama affiliation of the Democratic Party. I'm already geared up for the 2006 elections. The Election of 2006 started the morning after the election of 2004 ended. It's time to stop our bitching and start working. I'm doing all I can on my end to stop George Bush. How about all my fellow Liberals on this blog pull your fingers out of your asses and start doing the same. It's the only way we are ever going to get our country back.
January 31st, 2006 at 6:28 pmYou are all hereby drafted into Matthew "The Populist" Price's Progressive Liberal militia. Your first orders are "GET OFF YOUR SORRY ASSES AND GET BUSY! IT'S A DAMN ELECTION YEAR FOR CHRIST'S SAKE! SHEESH!
January 31st, 2006 at 6:31 pmAs your new civilian commanding officer and organizer, I hereby bestow upon you my fellow Leftist footsoilders my mailing address:
Rt2 Box 202E
Goodwater, AL 35072
Please us this address to send me suggestions on how to better my own Populist Leftist movement in my own homestate of Alabama.
January 31st, 2006 at 6:34 pm#19, CC - OK, I'll rise to that - a sensible answer for a sensible question.
First ANWR - leave it where it is for now. Right now 60% of oil refined in the US is burned in combustion engines. What a waste. The ANWR oil should be reserved to make the chemicals that the current society can't live without, advanced materials, plastics, drugs etc. Climate change will probably shaft the caribou long before ANWR becomes an essential source of supply for chemicals.
Second - raise the required mileage requirements for new cars each and every year until Detroit gets it or goes bankrupt - try to sell Detroit to Toyota before it becomes obvious though.
Third - carbon tax - make energy usage/wastage be reflected in the price of energy - phase it in along with the mileage lift to ease the pain.
Fourth - implement a 'net zero' electricty metering policy - anyone right down to one-family house can generate power and sell it back to the grid
Fifth - windfall tax on the oil industry - use it to launch a new Apollo Project - find out about that here - the rest of a fairly progressive agenda can be found on the Apollo site.
January 31st, 2006 at 6:36 pmLet's Roll Party People!
January 31st, 2006 at 6:36 pmOkay, Bush has identified our addiction. Surely he can propose a 12 step program to get us off this high. Everyone make sure he isn't crossing his fingers when he says this and I hope there will be a doctor sitting next to Cheney. I have no faith in Pres. Bush on this issue. ThinkProgress provides the reason.
January 31st, 2006 at 6:36 pmHow is he going to do that. Bush never went through a 12 step program for his alcohol or cocaine habits.
January 31st, 2006 at 6:38 pmOMFG I GOT HAX'd
CONGRESS ~ CARPE DIEM
January 31st, 2006 at 6:41 pmThis just in:
Electronic Frontier Foundation
January 31, 2006
EFF Sues AT&T to Stop Illegal Surveillance
January 31st, 2006 at 6:41 pm
#19) Is it THAT hard to do a google search? There are many solutions and NONE have anything to do with your stupid idiotic idea about candles.
Lookup pebble bed reactors. With a pebble bed reactor all engineers could just walk out of the power station and never come back and no melt down would occur EVER. The laws of physics would have to change for a pebble bed reactor to melt down. That is step 1…. Now imagine if we built several of those pebble bed reactors and used them to create the electricty needed to split hydrogen away from water in mass. Then we would have unlimited portable fuel in the form of hydrogen and unlimited electricity coming from pebble bed nuclear reactors….
No more need for coal, oil, gas. No need for old style nuclear reactors. No need for windmills all over the freakin place. No need for Exxon Mobile.
Wouldnt the republicans be surprised if the democrats started making nuclear energy the center of their drive to replace oil?
http://www.google.com/ search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=RNWE,RNWE:2005-28,RNWE:en&q=pebble+bed+reactor
January 31st, 2006 at 6:48 pm#20, Say it isn't so. You squandered your celebration ale like it was a T-Bill? That is a travesty. Have you tried the Sam adams double bock? Right up there with St. Sebastian's. Like Homer said while eating a jelly donut, MMMMM Purple.
January 31st, 2006 at 6:59 pmI'm amused by conservatives who demand we put forward "solutions" like they give a flying flip about our suggestion anyway. Bush/Cheney/Rove sure doesn't. Sometimes NOT doing something is a solution as well (Funny - that used to be the default CONSERVATIVE position in politics). Bush/Cheney/Rove is the definition of insanity - keep doing/saying the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.
January 31st, 2006 at 6:59 pmTerry #24,
Excellent list, thank you. I hope it doesn't fall on deaf ears.
Humans are excellent problem solvers and the answers to how we kick our dependency on oil are available, we just need leadership that's willing to apply the answers. We know that this administration isn't interested in moving away from fossil fuels, they have too much personally at stake, in fact they exacerbate the problem by subsidizing an industry that's turning record breaking profits each new quarter as Big Oil returns the favors by loading up the GOP campaign coffers.
Adding to your list:
Invest federal funds in building better, faster more efficient rail system (a la Europe). Hub and spoke high speed rail for major American cities so that it's an attractive alternative for suburbanites to commute this way (wireless internet access, roomy cars, etc.)
Stop with the tax breaks for gas guzzlers and make it more attractive for people to purchase hybrids.
January 31st, 2006 at 7:00 pmUpon hearing that Bush will emphasize US addiction to oil,
January 31st, 2006 at 7:07 pmmy first thought was, "Well, then you and your buds are the pushers,
the dealers, and the kingpins." Frankly, it concerns me that he will do
an incredible flip-flop, after playing it for the industry these years for the sake of industry
friends -- in his worrying about legacy and how history will regard
his presidency -- he will do what many of us have been begging for for years:
an all-out "Manhattan Project" or "man-on-the-moon before the close of this decade"
brain trust focus on creating alternative, renewable, afforable energy sources.
#'s 26 and 27,
That's why Stuart Smalley "showed up" on Al Franken's show and called for a national INTERVENTION of Pres. Bush!
It was great. Compared him to the Wizard of Oz. ("Just a fraud behind the curtain of his addiction." in your best Stuart voice...)
January 31st, 2006 at 7:07 pmIf he wouldn't go, we threaten him with impeachment, Stuart advocated.
It was good listening!
#34, Bonita, there is already a name for it: the Apollo Alliance. It is mainly backed by Democratic lawmakers, small businesses and trades unions.
January 31st, 2006 at 7:10 pmIf Bush had actually decided to change his life, not just his idea of religious practice, we would probably not be in such a mess right now. The true 12 step program requires that you turn your will and your life over to the care of God, "As you understand him" it can be anything, as long as it represents a power greater than yourself. He truly is a classic "Dry drunk" I should know, I was one for 17 years.
January 31st, 2006 at 7:10 pmHe really does need a program, and although very very hard, I do have compassion for his suffering.
From the BBC.
"President George W Bush is to warn in his State of the Union address that the US has become addicted to oil often imported from unstable nations."
In a related story, heroin dealers around American are set to lecture junkies on the evils of drug addiction.
Get me off this planet.
-GSD
January 31st, 2006 at 7:13 pmHave all the wing-nut minions posted their reviews
January 31st, 2006 at 7:14 pmof the speech and reply yet?
I figure they will want to get the "approved
message" out early so they can be first in line
at the GOP cocktail weenie buffet.
Just wondering.
#37, DejaVu,
January 31st, 2006 at 7:15 pmYou're a better person than I, and I commend your hard work.
Thank you.
Hi GSD,
Maybe we should stop giving all of our money to Exxon/Mobil and only buy gas and petroleum products from co's that get oil from Venezula or Canada....
But that actually flies in the face of Bush's REAL agenda.
January 31st, 2006 at 7:19 pmWhat a moronic fake.
I would like to point out on the "third aniversery of the famous 16 word speech" that bush is not as incompetent as most of us think he is. Dishonest yes, in spades. If you ignore everything he has said and just look at what he would consider accomplishments, he is very succesful. bush accomplishment: record profits for the oil industry, $60 a barrel oil (that has got to help his fellow texans), increased cash flow for war profiteers, and haliburtons continued profitability. Past performance proves that whatever he says has nothing to do with what says he hopes to acheive, it is only a front for what he really wants to acheive. And unlessyou are a millionaire, it will have no benefit for you.
January 31st, 2006 at 7:19 pmThere will be fire extinguisher hidden behind the speaker's chair tonight - he will need it to put out the fire on the liar's pants.
January 31st, 2006 at 7:20 pm"Yawn".
All talk no action; no plan; no timeline; no nothing.
If there is action it is PR, propaganda, photo-ops, talking points, lies to promote their agenda, or a Karl Rove tactic to further gain them power and a first-class ticket to H_E_DoubleToothpick.
January 31st, 2006 at 7:20 pmI'm thinking there won't be much actual
January 31st, 2006 at 7:21 pmaction of fuel independence until we
get the oil men out of the WH.
Just saying to expect more talk no
action as usual.
I hope the President shows the proper deference to Msr. Kennedy and Kerry's recent bitch slapping over Justice Alito and.....
Drops trousers and engages in a Presidential Moon!
Followed by a well said, "Kiss my Presidential Ass Senator Kennedy" and the horse you rode in on.
Makes SoreLoserman seem trivial.
January 31st, 2006 at 7:21 pmThanks for the heads-up about the Apollo Alliance!
January 31st, 2006 at 7:22 pmAnd thank the gods and goddesses for such a movement.
My initial look at the website and those behind the alliance gives me
a breath of hope I will hold to be able to endure the Bush 2006 rendition of
SOTU promises, refashioning of facts, and empty prose.
Something to put a smile on your face when Bush is making you frown.
Click here
January 31st, 2006 at 7:22 pmHOW COULD PEOPLE VOTE FOR THAT PINHEAD! JEEZE!
January 31st, 2006 at 7:23 pmTerry #24
I'm with you except for point number five ... while the oil industry has certainly reaped a large amount of profit and revenue ... their margins are not particularly astounding (the S&P has a better "return"). Also, any windfall tax would likely be passed on to the consumer in the form of higher prices (although, the gov't could prevent this, I guess)
Instead, I submit number five could be adding more nuclear power ... the area I live is supplied by nuclear and it's affordable and clean (from what I've heard) ... i
January 31st, 2006 at 7:23 pmThey've capped oil imports to make us "less dependent on foreign oil" forever.
Since the spindletop boom-to-bust days.
Clinton got around this by expanding the strategic reserve capacity, which put downard pressure on retail price.
The market set the price high but the ease on demand, a result of the policy, helped fuel an economic boom. It was not just about the tech boom that fueled CLinton's growth era. The fundamentals of the market were eased with Bill Clinton's end run around the traditional Congressional oligarch-oil ties.
Eisenhower's Military Industrial Complex statement had the word Petroleum removed from it. They've dictated policy and terms of debate for decades.
January 31st, 2006 at 7:23 pmJust put the pres on ice and go cold turkey. End of all our problems.
January 31st, 2006 at 7:23 pmHEY! I BET HE BLOWS LIEBERMAN A KISS.
January 31st, 2006 at 7:23 pm#36 TtT,
Great link! I just bookmarked it.
January 31st, 2006 at 7:26 pmThank you!
...wow... someone is ACTUALLY thinking about our future...!
#53,
I bet Joe runs up for a french kiss afterwards.
January 31st, 2006 at 7:27 pmA friend just called to tell me that a vet who lobbied to get her dog back from Iraq is going to share the box with Laura.
January 31st, 2006 at 7:27 pm#56,
How sweet!
January 31st, 2006 at 7:30 pmAre they going to work that in after Ms. Alito
(Yes, I know she would hate "Ms.") crys about
the mean democrats?
I’m thinking there won’t be much actual action of fuel independence until we
get the oil men out of the WH.
Maybe ... while I'm no conspiracy theorist, it seems to me that if you wanted to motivate an entire nation of people to change from a legacy technology to an alternative (and sometimes more expensive, at least for the automobile itself) one ... you don't appeal to their conscience ... you appeal to their pocketbook. I wouldn't be surprised that the recent swell in prices at the pump (and the maintaining of said higher prices) is a slow (bi-partisan ??) effort to move the populace slowly into an alternate fuel ... it's not like most Americans would just up and buy hybrids if gasoline was still .99 cents a gallon. But ... if it was 3.50 ... 4.50 ... you'd see a sudden swell of "environmentalism" ... of course, I could be full of crap. If I was asked to change public opinion on hybrids (and had the power that the Congress and President do) ... that's how I'd do it. (Not to mention the amount of money that "big oil" has been sinking into alternative fuel research ...)
January 31st, 2006 at 7:31 pmI really have trouble watching that jerk for more than 10 minutes.
January 31st, 2006 at 7:32 pmHEY! I BET HE BLOWS LIEBERMAN A KISS.
Comment by BUSH BITES — January 31, 2006 @ 7:23 pm
Did you see that the actual vote HAD enough to sustain the filibuster, except for those COWARDLY Dem's who stood for stopping discussion?
January 31st, 2006 at 7:36 pmWhat lowly cowards! They should be voted out, as well as EVERY Repub there.
We had it within our grasp........
#29 Comment by Spudge_Boy
Good Job.
GO FIGURE.
Congress is powerless to congress for WE THE PEOPLE.
So WE THE PEOPLE move the issue into the courts.
Pray, hope, do what it takes, or whatever you do.
January 31st, 2006 at 7:40 pmThat the Democratic process ACTUALL can happen.
True Blue, I dumped my Exxon/Mobil card and bought Citgo a while back.
Exxon/Mobil doesn't get my money, period.
-GSD
January 31st, 2006 at 7:40 pm#58 ... The Europeans have been calling on the US to do exactly that for years. Their suggestion was taxing fuel like they do until it was too expensive to keep using old technology. Though why would anybody want to be so stupid and backwards as not to want to work towards a dream like we did with the Apollo missions? Why do Americans need to be tricked into doing what is in their own best interests? If anybody is tricking anybody it is probably for self gain.
January 31st, 2006 at 7:41 pm#58,
That has been suggested for a long time, but in terms
January 31st, 2006 at 7:41 pmof a tax to use for alternative research. People hate
anything called a "tax" so that idea never flew, but
maybe this just does the same thing while giving
exxon/mobil huge profits? It would be better to
use the money for research, and maybe "big oil"
does some (after all they KNOW the oil is running out),
but if we get people out of gigantic SUVs by choice
I suppose we should all be happy.
I don't know if I'll watch the whole dog and pony show. Probably just a repeat of the first four. I wasn't impressed. Still, I get to wondering. You know, about what color panties Laura will have on and such.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but if Chris Matthews had a pair, he could speculate about them (her panties, I mean) between the constant standing ovations and Bush's lame-assed winking at some dipstick off camera. I say she'll be wearing white myself. She'll want to look enthralled and pure while casting her adoring looks in response to junior's thin crap.
Still, I'm ready for something serious to come out of junior's speech. I wonder if he'll dwell long on all those service sector jobs he says he created with his two college-educated, but still unemployed party-brats in attendence? Evidently, even they can't find a job that pays worth a shit and has any benefits.
January 31st, 2006 at 7:44 pmGiacomo,
January 31st, 2006 at 7:45 pmI needed to buy a car in late 2003.
I wanted the Prius.
Too expensive. So I stuck with a Corolla; the same brand I've had for 12 years. Great gas mileage, low maintainence.
I could have gotten the Matrix, but the gas mileage wasn't the same; and being poor and frugal, Corolla won.
If the price was right, I think more people would opt for the Hybrids.
(And I DON'T need to hear from Trolls re: Corolla. It was built in Vermont, and American cars are WAY behind with Hybrids. Plus, the repair rate is FAR greater with an American car than Japanese STYLED.)
My 2 cents...
Does anyone keep statistics such as a lie to word ratio. If they do I would like to know the death toll from medicare part D. The exxon yearly profit to years of bush in office ratio is currently 6 billion to 1. I expect the lie to truth ratio to be similar.
January 31st, 2006 at 7:46 pmSomebody get that motherfooker to fess up on how much american oil the oil giants are selling to foreign nations. I've not heard a straight answer on this since bush took office.
I know that's not a 'fix' of what is/will be a problem eventually, but if they can still sell substantial amounts of our own natural resources to someone else . . . I'm just sayin'.
January 31st, 2006 at 7:48 pm63 & 64
Yes, but TAX is a four letter word in the USA. The way I pose it, no one party looks like a bad guy and the American public thinks that the entire shift was initiated by them ... when the internal combustion engine was invented we still drilled holes in peoples heads to let the "demons" out ... seems to me that we've progressed a tad in EVERY other technology ... we all need to move on ... the impending oil "crisis" may be a manipulation ... either way, it looks to be working.
January 31st, 2006 at 7:52 pmHey Joe6-
Nice to see you!
I'm bettin' white myself. (Again, NOT that I think of women's underwear...)
January 31st, 2006 at 7:53 pmI don't think they even KNOW about "COLORED" underwear in that family..... talk about uptight!!!!
You bein' a right-winger and all, it's funny to hear that even YOU can't stomach Jr.
There may be hope for you afterall! ;-)
CNN just anounced this blog as the place where Liberals meet. Oh oh. Has this happened before?
January 31st, 2006 at 7:54 pmWith all of the partisan brains involved in the SOTU, doesn't it really stand for State Of The Undead? Zombies beware, policies are designed to scare! ;)
January 31st, 2006 at 7:55 pm#42 you are right. We should not underestimate this person, this President. I have been told by many in discussions that he has an "act". Clinton always said people should not underestimate him, he's a good politician; people pleaser. The other week when he was giving his speech, in Kansas I believe, he said our children should learn Arabic because of how it will look and feel to the people in the middle east. He then made a joke comparing that to south and about how he knows people in Texas feel when he speaks. I've always wonder why an Ivy League blue blood from a wealthy Connecticut family would have a southern accent, especially when you consider his brother, who also now lives in the south, does not. Is this part of his "act"; could the people in Texas be that gullible...
http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/presidents/george-w-bush/
January 31st, 2006 at 7:56 pmCNN just anounced this blog as the place where Liberals meet. Oh oh. Has this happened before?
Comment by Solitaire — January 31,
January 31st, 2006 at 7:58 pm...I feel there's a song in there somewhere.....
I would like to see someone ask bush about a windfall profit tax while he is sipping on coffee. It would result in a classic spit take.
January 31st, 2006 at 7:59 pmSomebody's going to figure out fusion power sooner or later.
Conservative trolls may want to ponder whether they're comfortable letting the Chinese, for example, develop it before us.
(I know, Consrrvatives don't think. They fall for the simple lie over complex truth EVERY TIME.)
January 31st, 2006 at 8:00 pmBush poll numbers pre speech: 39%
Bush poll numbers after speech: 38$
should have skipped the SOTU this year.
January 31st, 2006 at 8:03 pmGotta go. My kid wants me to watch "The Corpse Bride" with her.
January 31st, 2006 at 8:05 pmI'll be back when she's in bed.
Keep up the good fight.
(Will that mean I actually MISS Dubya's speech? Awwwwww..!)
Hey True Blue, how do you do? Saw your pitch on buying a Corolla and how you expected the trolls to step in and trash you for not buying American.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Ford and GM just laid off thousands of Americans and shutting down plants nation wide, in spite of many of their plants already being in Canada and Mexico. Meanwhile, GM is opening a second huge plant in Shanghai, China. Not to be outdone, Ford is expanding is operations in Chongquin, China and opening a huge factory at Nanjing.
Toyota since 1986 has been moving its operations here. They have over 21,000 workers in plants from California to West Virginia and have over 500 American suppliers.
Tell the ill-informed trolls that Joe said they can kiss your ass if they say accuse you of not buying American. I mean, I know you are too polite to say it yourself so let me do it for you.
Say, do you think Bush will mention any of this about Ford or GM and our growing world-wide trade deficit? Naw, he'll want to dwell on the positives, like how democracy is spreading throughout the Middle East and even converting Hamas to the ballot box, don't you?
January 31st, 2006 at 8:16 pm#77, I think the Japanese will beat everyone to it. They have most to lose from peak oil and/or Chimpy pissing off the Iranians. However, the technology is still a long way away.
January 31st, 2006 at 8:21 pmNumerous posts here mention nuclear (as in fission) as a near-term solution for our energy/global warming crisis. One problem with that is that the engineers in charge of the technology have decided to use disposal rather than recycling of the waste in the process. The net result of this decision is that the cost of waste processing is moved from supporting the process to the insurance industry and the ABA. This is the same effect that you see when you buy a step ladder that cost but $14.00 to make, but cost $90.00 at the store. About $30.00 goes to an attorney who composes a warning label which tells one what cannot be done with the product and another $20.00 goes to an insurer who fills the gap should you find a means of obeying the warning label in its entirety and still getting killed or injured. Nuclear reactors are a bit more complex than step ladders and the legal and insurance cost escalate as a result. We need a program equivalent to FICA in the investment industry for the nuclear power industry. That will not happen until the petroleum industry loses its grip on the pillars of power.
February 1st, 2006 at 11:24 am[...] Here’s that post at ThinkProgress on SOTU Deja Vu. [...]
February 1st, 2006 at 4:51 pm[...] And thanks to the major tax breaks Big Oil got as part of Bush’s “Energy Plan” of 2005, in addition to exhorbitant gas prices, oil companies such as Exxon and Shell are boasting profits ranging from $25B-$50B for the last year. His proposal that we can only get out of our current energy crisis through technology rings hollow and with a big thud at the same time. Impossible? Not in Bush’s world. Let’s see. His recommendation we cut our oil imports by 75% in twenty years is misleading at best, and deceitful at worst. In truth, we only import 60% of our oil from the Persian Gulf, and if we reduce that by 75%, it only amount to about 10%. And that’s only talking about importing — not using. I, like a lot of others misunderstood President Bush’s words and thought he was talking about reducing 75% of our dependence on oil in twenty years. But that is laughable considering even T. Boone Pickens , thinks we will deplete world oil reserves in less than half that time. [...]
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