ThinkFast: April 24, 2006
ThinkFast: April 24, 2006
With little more than a month left until hurricane season begins, the levees in New Orleans remain “flawed.” “Flood walls are too weak in some places; earthen levees are too short in others. Locals say the only thing that will save the low-lying region from more flooding this summer is not getting hit with a strong storm.”
A review of “at least six joint U.S.-Iraqi inspections of detention centers, most of them run by Iraq’s Shiite Muslim-dominated Interior Ministry,” found evidence of prisoner abuse at all of them. Some of the abuse was “severe,” including cigarette burns and missing toenails, but unlike in the past, abused detainees were not removed from the centers, “prompting concerns that they could be victims again.”
$2.91: The national average gas price for self-serve regular. Gas prices have shot up nearly 25 cents per gallon over the past two weeks.
As crude oil hovers around $75 per barrel, Saudi Oil Minister Ali al-Nuaimi said, “You know and I know that the reason for the price being where it is is not shortages of supply.†Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) explained that oil companies “get together, reduce the supply of oil, and that drives up prices.”
“House Republican leaders have stripped out language” from the ethics bill “forcing lobbyists to provide detailed disclosure of fundraising activities and contacts with lawmakers,” Roll Call reports.
2,000. Estimated number of Iraqi women who have been victims of sex trafficking since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003.
Arthur Schlesinger Jr., noted presidential historian and former adviser to President John F. Kennedy, warns of the final thousand days of Bush’s presidency – “days filled with ominous preparations for and dark rumors of a preventive war against Iran.â€
No excuse for media’s failure to cover genocidal violence in Chad. NYT’s Nicholas Kristof: “[Unlike in Sudan,] we can get visas to Chad, and now there are more than 200,000 people who have fled Darfur and are in Chad and are telling their stories to anybody who will talk to them. I must say that newspapers and magazines, I think, have done a better job in covering this. The people who have really dropped the ball, frankly, is television.”
After almost two years of reports of human-trafficking by contractors of foreign workers on U.S. bases, the U.S. military has ordered changes. Among other reforms, contractors can no longer confiscate worker passports and must provide workers with a signed copy of their employment contract.
A medical services company headed by former Bush Veteran Affairs Secretary Anthony Principi “could receive fees exceeding $1 billion from the Veterans Administration, much of it on contracts approved and amended while he ran the government agency.”
And finally: Political polarization seeps into the last bastion of “bipartisan civility” – the Congressional Softball League. Conservative teams have accused the league commissioner “of running a socialist year-end playoff system that gives below-average teams an unfair chance to win the championship,” and have started their own league. Teams include the “traditional Republican powerhouse Fat, Drunk & Awesome from the House Homeland Security Committee” and Moderately Sober from Rep. Sherwood Boehlert’s (R-NY) office.
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In regard to Katrina and the morons who keep telling the residents to move, let me comment as someone who has moved a lot. It costs money to move. A lot. And when you have none, you are sorta stuck with where you live. So, unless you’d like to take up a collection, then quit offering your two cents. It’s worthless.
April 24th, 2006 at 9:14 amapparently rolling stones is doing a piece on Bush being the worst president ever.
April 24th, 2006 at 9:16 amBush has no credibility on Iran. The American people learned that lesson the hard way from the debacle in Iraq. It’s really bizarre that the White House just doesn’t get it. They’re living in a fantasy world.
That’s why they didn’t bring in anyone new from outside. They don’t want their insulated bubble burst.
April 24th, 2006 at 9:19 amArlen Spector:…..no shit!…we knew this in the 70’s!!! Where were you when the gas lines formed?????….you must live in a vaccume somewhere.
April 24th, 2006 at 9:20 am#4 #
Arlen Spector:…..no shit!…we knew this in the 70’s!!! Where were you when the gas lines formed?????….you must live in a vaccume somewhere.
Gas lines formed because the Feds set price controls so supply outstripped demand.
April 24th, 2006 at 9:21 amapparently rolling stones is doing a piece on Bush being the worst president ever.
Comment by squegeeboo — April 24, 2006 @ 9:16 am
Because it still isn’t obvious?
I heard the Dixie Chicks and Neil Young have some the same.
April 24th, 2006 at 9:25 am#6 At least I can say truthfully hes the best president since Clinton. Once you go past that it’s all open to interpretation.
April 24th, 2006 at 9:26 amOK, I am willing to gripe as much as the next guy, but there comes a time when you just have to put your money where your mouth, or blog is. We can complain as long as we want about the evils of the White House and the Bush administration, but until we are willing to take to the streets with our feet and open our wallets to prorgessive causes we will loose the next election.
March for Peace April 29 in New York, and support this and other progressive organizations. And make a point to get at least one friend to do the same each week.
Just had to put in my 2 cents, because I am tired of feeling powerless in the face of the well organized and funded Reich Wing Machine.
April 24th, 2006 at 9:27 am“In regard to Katrina and the morons who keep telling the residents to move … It costs money to move.”
The people who say this have either never owned property or they are dolts. I own property here in New Orleans, and the liklikhood of selling it right now is very, very low. So, do I just walk away from the biggest investment in my life, and just move into a tent in another town? Because I can’t buy another house unless I sell my property here, and I can’t afford rent + mortgage.
Really, anybody who implies that we should all just move is a simpleton.
April 24th, 2006 at 9:28 amsquegee – you are historically challenged today.
The gas crisis of the 70’s was because the OPEC countries embargoed oil shipments, thus forcing the price to skyrocket.
Next time, try Wikipedia before you pronounce some history that didn’t actually occur.
April 24th, 2006 at 10:22 amso supply outstripped demand.
Don’t you mean so demand outstripped supply?
Otherwise, well put kindness.
April 24th, 2006 at 10:27 am#10 Kindness, I’m aware of why the prices skyrocketed, however skyrocketing prices wouldn’t cause lines, they would cause lack of customers as prices went to high, but the feds set price controls, which stopped the prices from going as high as they would have otherwise, which screwed up the supply/demand curve, and thats why there was lines.
April 24th, 2006 at 10:27 amThis oil thing is a story that has long been ignored by the media. A memo was leaked and it stated specifically that. Oil supply was at a surplus in the 90s and oil companies were worried the pr9ice would drop accordingly and they didn’t want that. So they started closing refineries…they are still closing refineries. Yet NEVER does the media ask why they are doing this. Or if they do, then they simply let the weakest answer (we can’t build more because of laws….when nobody asked about building more the question is why they are closing existing facilities).
The fact is the oil companies are controlling the supply by bottlenecking the refining process. No matter how much oil OPEC pumps out, it won’t matter one bit because the supply is being restricted by the companies who are magically making record profits every quarter…completely unrelated to what we pay of course.
April 24th, 2006 at 10:32 am#7
I think its open to interpretation now. I think he is the worst president since Clinton.
And what is this statement:
April 24th, 2006 at 10:38 am“days filled with ominous preparations for and dark rumors of a preventive war against Iran.â€
Why use the word preventive? Does he mean preemptive? Does he mean it would be preventing a peaceful solution?
At least I can say truthfully hes the best president since Clinton. Once you go past that it’s all open to interpretation.
Comment by squegeeboo
Correct me if I’m wrong, squeezetoy, but as one winger to another, you
need to get a clue. I mean, even that pipsqueak, Sean Hannity, stopped suggesting that junior’s face would be carved on Mt. Rushmore.
Still, I think Bush’s greatness will be rated right up there with the likes of Presidents Martin Van Buren, Benjamin Harrison, and Warren Harding, but somewhat behind the beloved and well known president Rutherford Hayes.
April 24th, 2006 at 10:40 amRemember all the elected Republicans that had major hissy fits over Pres. Clinton and the rising gas prices in the 90s?
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/top10/242
Rep. Terry Everett: “The Clinton Administration has failed in its duty to develop a policy to deal with our national energy supply and is therefore directly accountable for the higher prices Americans are now paying at the gas pumps.”
Dennis Hastert: “House Speaker Dennis Hastert accused the Clinton administration Friday of misleading members of Congress about the causes of skyrocketing gas prices in the Midwest.”
Rep. Wally Herger: “Congressman Wally Herger recently denounced the Clinton-Gore Administration’s complacency during the current gas price crisis. ‘Northern Californians are being held hostage at the gas pump,’ Herger said. ‘The Clinton-Gore Administration has demonstrated a complete and total lack of leadership in preventing this problem. It is a clear failure of domestic and foreign policy.’”
Larry Kudlow: “The Clinton-Gore administration’s hapless and incoherent management of foreign policy is nowhere as evident as in their bungling on OPEC’s oil-price hike. … While crude oil prices could drop to $25 per barrel, they will stay well above the average $20 real price of oil registered over the past ten years. And way above the $10 worldwide average marginal cost of producing new oil. Meanwhile gas prices at the pump are likely to be upwards of $2 per gallon well into the summer.”
Glenn Spencer: “In recent weeks, gas prices have surged to their highest level in a decade. Prices for home heating oil and natural gas are expected to rise by about 30 percent this winter. … With the Clinton-Gore administration’s policies largely to blame for the pain being felt by consumers, Vice President Gore’s camp has pulled out all the stops to shift blame away from his own administration.”
Various Repubs: “Representatives Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Menomonee Falls), Tom Petri (R-Fond du Lac), Paul Ryan (R-Janesville), and Mark Green (R-Green Bay) today blasted Energy Secretary Bill Richardson and the Clinton-Gore Administration for their failure to implement a comprehensive energy policy to deal with staggering gas prices Wisconsin consumers continue to face at the pumps.”
Interesting how they’ve decided to just shut up about this now that they’re the ones in the White House. I guess the party of “personal responsibility” refuses to take responsibility for their past statements.
April 24th, 2006 at 10:42 amPrice controls when implemented wrongly do create shortages. Suppliers shift their sales to other regions where price controls are not in place and thus dry up supply. This happened in Hawaii once.
What needs to happen is a windfall profits tax that would encourage the Oil Tycoons to bring prices down on their own. They shouldn’t be making billions in profits every quarter at the expense of the American people. Small businesses all over the country are being squeezed very hard by this and these small businesses are the backbone of our economy.
The president needs to ratchet down the rhetoric over Iran so oil traders will get their panties un-wadded and stop hitting the panic button. That would actually be doing something instead of talking about it like he usually does.
April 24th, 2006 at 10:44 amDemocrat Soldier
If we had opened ANWR back when Bush had first wanted to, in 2001-2002, it would either have just come on line, or would be about to come online, and would help deal with rising gas prices, instead the democrats blocked it. We have an oil policy, you guys just won’t let us implement it.
#14 I think its open to interpretation now. I think he is the worst president since Clinton.
Touche
April 24th, 2006 at 10:46 am#15 – As one winger to another (maybe different sides on some issues) I agree with your interpretation.
I tend to see eye-to-eye on a number of subjects with Squegeeboo, but his assumption that Pres. “Widowmaker” Bush is a better President than Pres. “Slick Willy” Clinton isn’t one of those subjects.
April 24th, 2006 at 10:51 am#18
April 24th, 2006 at 10:53 amANWR would be a thumb in one hole in a dike with fifty leaks. The point is letting oil companies to dictate the energy policies of the US has to stop. Either it stops through a forward looking administration, which there has never been…yes including Clinton, or it stops when the oil goes poof and there is no back-up plan and then all heck breaks loose.
George W. Bush is the worst president in our generation. None of his policies have worked as promised. None. He continues to ignore the wishes of the American people while funneling money to his rich friends through tax cuts. The economy stinks, job growth stinks. The deficit has skyrocketed as has government spending. Bush will be viewed historically as an incompetent president who surrounded himself with cronies. His polices are outright failures.
April 24th, 2006 at 10:59 am#18 – You do have a point. ANWR drilling would be just about on-line right about now. And, if the extent of the oil reserve estimate is accurate, then they’d be dry by August or September of this year.
The amount of oil available in ANWR would satisfy about 3 months of American demand. While I’m all for exploiting the available oil reserves, I live in Texas and have seen the “footprint” of oil exploitation. It’s not as minimal as the “experts” have claimed.
I’d suggest that if we had pushed for more oil used in alternative fuels (bio-diesel, hybrid engines) then we’d be in a much better place than if we had opened ANWR to oil development. We’d also be in a better situation to steer the developing nations towards more rational oil consumption, thereby reducing the “hydraulic despotism” that the Middle East and OPEC have over us.
April 24th, 2006 at 10:59 amI was reviewing a log I have of a trip I drove in 1998, and the average price I paid was $1.20. From then to now, 8 years, that is an annualized increase of 12%.
I was watching a speech Bush gave recently. When it came to gas and energy to run our country, I bascially felt Bush was shrugging his shoulders saying, what do you what me to do about it. Why did he run for President of this country if he has no vision, no leadership! He doesn’t even pretend to find a solution the majority of the people can live with in this country. He just doesn’t care. Could he energize this Nation to work on alternative energy, alternative transportation.
April 24th, 2006 at 11:02 am#19 – …but his assumption that Pres. “Widowmaker†Bush is a better President than Pres. “Slick Willy†Clinton isn’t one of those subjects.
Comment by Democrat Soldier
That’s just Squeegy jumping into his “kid in a propeller hat act” first thing on a Monday morning. Since Incurious George is the ONLY “president” since Clinton, he is both the best (ouch) and worst.
April 24th, 2006 at 11:15 amOsama Bin Laden’s latest rant is an opportunity for us to turn the tables on him. Here’s my take on a better approach.
April 24th, 2006 at 11:20 am#23 – Jack you have a point about GWB. I think he really, REALLY wanted the job and is quite happy he has the job, even in the current shitstorm, but that’s as far as it ever went with him. He’s a lazy person who got the prize (2nd term) that would make him better than his daddy (in his own eyes) and I believe that was quite literally the end of his thinking. He wanted the job, but he doesn’t want to DO the job.
April 24th, 2006 at 11:20 amGood catch Zookeeper, if you had not said it I would have. Bush is also the tallest president since Clinton, the shortest president since Clinton, Etc
he is the only president since Clinton as well.
April 24th, 2006 at 11:24 am#23 – Jack,
You hit the nail on the head: the President has NO vision or, rather, he has tunnel vision. His little “I am the decider…” tantrum last week proved beyond the shadow of a doubt that we have a spoiled, petulant child running the country. I come from a diverse political background (1 liberal parent, 1 conservative parent) and have always tried to see the good in the other side of the aisle (I have always leaned to the left – about the only thing my mother and I have in common). It has become painfully obvious that this group in power has an incredible singularity of purpose: wring as much money out of the populace as quickly as possible and destroy every social program in the process so their faith-based buddies and cronies can step in and “fill the void”. It’s been a major con-job from the beginning. As Texas Dolly said, “If you can’t spot the sucker in your first 30 minutes at the table, you are the sucker.” These crooks have been taking the American people for a ride from the minute they took office but most of America is too stupid to see it. If the American public had half an idea as to what is really going on inside the beltway there would be rioting in the streets. Sadly, however, it’s not cool or ‘Merkan enough to be interested in how your government actually works. We wouldn’t want to have to think about something other than who to vote for on American Idol would we? Depressing!
April 24th, 2006 at 11:26 amSince IRI has hijacked the thread on the 60 Minutes show last night, I’m not going to post there.
I watched the 60 minutes segment with CIA guy Tyler Drumheller last night. I thought it was the clearest run down I have seen yet of how we got into this war, i.e. the 16 words, the intel, who knew what and when, etc. I was riveted.
April 24th, 2006 at 11:28 amSo Veterans should have to pay a higher deductible, still wait far to long for care, and lack the Doctors who will be essential in helping returning soldiers to cope with the mental trauma they will have to face. Senator Patty Murray(D-WaState) had to threaten Congress with public humiliation, if they didn’t pass emergency funding, just to keep the VA solvent for 2005. How much money was needed? 1.3 Billion dollars. We spend that in one week in Iraq. Why was the VA so under-funded? Because BushCo had neglected to update their estimates of approximately how many Vets would be needing VA services. Their figures were based on 2002 estimates, and DID NOT INCLUDE IRAQ WAR VETERANS…AND IT WAS 2005!!!!! But we have a BILLION DOLLARS to give to this scam artist? Veterans footing the tab for a Bush Buddy, who clearly used his previous position to set himself up in the private sector, to make ALOT of money, benefitting from the job he had before, gearing it all towards maximum earning potential in the near future, since he knew where he was going already. Way to work it!!! Thief.
April 24th, 2006 at 11:33 amPost 29 Zookeeper > I-R-I is paid to try to disrupt TP threads, so best to ignore him! He is most likely a young cyber nerd at a computer terminal in the White House basement! Probably about age 21 or 22, but acts more like 16 > lol.
April 24th, 2006 at 11:40 amSen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) explained that oil companies “get together, reduce the supply of oil, and that drives up prices.â€
I hope he actually plans on following through with any posible solutions. He talks about possibly having a windfall profit tax and eliminating the antitrust exemption. Actions speak louder than words, Sen Specter.
And couldn’t our dear leader go on the teevee and ask Americans to conserve? Too much?
April 24th, 2006 at 12:19 pmWith little more than a month left until hurricane season begins, the levees in New Orleans remain “flawed.â€
I hope they’re feeling lucky, because they are SOL if they get hit again. Maybe Georgie could have another photo-op looking out of the window of his jet.
April 24th, 2006 at 12:22 pm2,000. Estimated number of Iraqi women who have been victims of sex trafficking since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003.
This is what happens when women are viewed as property. But the people are better off since the fall of Hussein, right? Shit.
April 24th, 2006 at 12:25 pmI believe that it is possible that big oil has abused the trust that we the people have given them and that this needs to be investigated – under oath. It may be time to revoke their privileges, nationalize their assets, and redirect their cause back to the common good. This may not result in lower gas prices but I am fairly confident that it wouldn’t result in obscene executive compensation either.
April 24th, 2006 at 12:27 pmAt least profits from a nationlazied oil company, would help pay for the war in Iraq.
April 24th, 2006 at 12:34 pmSen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) explained that oil companies “get together, reduce the supply of oil, and that drives up prices.â€
I hope he actually plans on following through with any posible solutions. He talks about possibly having a windfall profit tax and eliminating the antitrust exemption. Actions speak louder than words, Sen Specter. (Zookeeper)
When has Spector done anything more than talk out of his ass. I used to like him but I have noticed he talks a good game but there is no follow through. Kind of like when he said he would never vote for a supreme court justice who was anti-abortion, or he promsised to hold hearings for the NSA wiretapping. the a**hole would not even put Gonzales under oath. What the hell kind of a hearing is that?
April 24th, 2006 at 12:35 pmNo excuse for media’s failure to cover genocidal violence in Chad.
As soon as there’s a white girl missing in Chad, television will be all over that story, and oh yeah, the genocide — maybe.
News as entertainment. Does everyone know about the Tom Cruise baby? The Nick and Jessica breakup? Oprah getting fat again?
April 24th, 2006 at 12:38 pmthe Congressional Softball League.
This puts a picture in my mind that I would prefer not to have.
Fat cats in bermuda shorts with varicose veins, and black socks & garters.
Red, white & blue sweat bands.
Floppy toupees.
Oxygen tanks.
Bouncing guts & jowls.
Feel free to add to the list, I have to go puke.
April 24th, 2006 at 12:44 pm#36 – I would prefer that instead of paying for the Iraq war that the habit of spending profits on something responsible be started – say alternative energy research grants to help solve the problem.
April 24th, 2006 at 12:46 pmBush’s Iraq war is costing $100,000 per minute, But who’s counting?
Well folks, it’s really getting a little old in Washington.
Now The White House plans to ask Congress for an additional $70 billion to pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, driving the cost of military operations in the two countries to $120 billion this year, the highest ever. I read these fact recently, while reading an article in the Los Angeles Times. In the article, it was said that “most of the new money would pay for the war in Iraq, which has cost an estimated $250 billion since the U.S. invasion in March 2003.â€
The article also noted “The additional spending, along with other war funding the Bush administration will seek separately in its regular budget next week, would push the price tag for combat and nation-building since Sept. 11, 2001, to nearly a half-trillion dollars, approaching the inflation-adjusted cost of the 13-year Vietnam War.â€
Ok folks, this means that current Defense Department spending is about $4.5 billion a month on the conflict in Iraq, or about $100,000 per minute.
Yes, $100,000 per minute.
This is crazy folks.
Ok Folks, like many African-American voters I’m culturally conservative, with strongly held faith values, especially on issues such as same-sex marriage and school vouchers. Yet on the issues of Iraq as a public policy I’m on the polar opposite side from the GOP. I visited the pentagon’s Web site for casualty numbers in Iraq. It looks bad America.
Bush will be in office for another thousand days. In politics that a life time. In war it could mean the death of hundreds or thousands of men, women and children, and billions more U.S. tax payer dollars.
Enter Arthur Schlesinger Jr. who today wrote an article in the Washington Post about Bush’s Thousand Days. Schlesinger a writer, a historian, who served as an adviser to President John F. Kennedy, writes, “ a thousand days remain of President Bush’s last term — days filled with ominous preparations for and dark rumors of a preventive war against Iran.
The issue of preventive war as a presidential prerogative is hardly new. In February 1848 Rep. Abraham Lincoln explained his opposition to the Mexican War: “Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose — and you allow him to make war at pleasure [emphasis added]. . . . If, today, he should choose to say he thinks it necessary to invade Canada to prevent the British from invading us, how could you stop him? You may say to him, ‘I see no probability of the British invading us’; but he will say to you, ‘Be silent; I see it, if you don’t.’ ”
This is precisely how George W. Bush sees his presidential prerogative: Be silent; I see it, if you don’t . However, both Presidents Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower, veterans of the First World War, explicitly ruled out preventive war against Joseph Stalin’s attempt to dominate Europe. And in the Cuban missile crisis of October 1962, President Kennedy, himself a hero of the Second World War, rejected the recommendations of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for a preventive strike against the Soviet Union in Cuba.
It was lucky that JFK was determined to get the missiles out peacefully, because only decades later did we discover that the Soviet forces in Cuba had tactical nuclear weapons and orders to use them to repel a U.S. invasion. This would have meant a nuclear exchange. Instead, JFK used his own thousand days to give the American University speech, a powerful plea to Americans as well as to Russians to reexamine “our own attitude — as individuals and as a nation — for our attitude is as essential as theirs.” This was followed by the limited test ban treaty. It was compatible with the George Kennan formula — containment plus deterrence — that worked effectively to avoid a nuclear clash.
The Cuban missile crisis was not only the most dangerous moment of the Cold War. It was the most dangerous moment in all human history. Never before had two contending powers possessed between them the technical capacity to destroy the planet. Had there been exponents of preventive war in the White House, there probably would have been nuclear war. It is certain that nuclear weapons will be used again. Henry Adams, the most brilliant of American historians, wrote during our Civil War, “Some day science shall have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race shall commit suicide by blowing up the world.”
But our Cold War presidents kept to the Kennan formula of containment plus deterrence, and we won the Cold War without escalating it into a nuclear war. Enter George W. Bush as the great exponent of preventive war. In 2003, owing to the collapse of the Democratic opposition, Bush shifted the base of American foreign policy from containment-deterrence to presidential preventive war: Be silent; I see it, if you don’t. Observers describe Bush as “messianic” in his conviction that he is fulfilling the divine purpose. But, as Lincoln observed in his second inaugural address, “The Almighty has His own purposes.”
There stretch ahead for Bush a thousand days of his own. He might use them to start the third Bush war: the Afghan war (justified), the Iraq war (based on fantasy, deception and self-deception), the Iran war (also fantasy, deception and self-deception). There is no more dangerous thing for a democracy than a foreign policy based on presidential preventive war.
Maybe President Bush, who seems a humane man, might be moved by daily sorrows of death and destruction to forgo solo preventive war and return to cooperation with other countries in the interest of collective security.
Abraham Lincoln would rejoice.”
I agree with Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
Bush’s Iraq war is costing $100,000 per minute. How much money was spent in Iraq as you read this? But who’s counting?
L. Nathaniel Rock
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L. Nathaniel Rock, is a freelance writer, community-building consultant, blogger, and publisher of African-American Political Opinion.com he can be contacted at 240-472-8501 or by email at: LNathanielRock@Gmail.com
April 24th, 2006 at 12:49 pmWelcome, L. Nathaniel Rock!
April 24th, 2006 at 12:57 pmWe disagree on the cultural/social issues, but on Iraq, we’re good.
If we had opened ANWR back when Bush had first wanted to, in 2001-2002, it would either have just come on line, or would be about to come online, and would help deal with rising gas prices, instead the democrats blocked it. We have an oil policy, you guys just won’t let us implement it.
Comment by squegeeboo
Wrong again, squeeze. In 1994, the ban on exporting Alaskan oil was lifted and since that time, 10 billion barrels of oil has been pumped from the North Slope and much of that is exported to Japan and the far east. In 2004 only 27 million dollars of Alaskan oil went to China. You can bet your ass that once we open ANWR that will certainly go way up. Why should we make it easier for the oil companies to send more oil to the Far East when it has already been stated that the existing US refineries cannot handle the ANWR oil. And the oil companies have already stated they are not going to build any new ones—-ANWR or no ANWR.
You need to get your facts straight, pal, before you open your mouth, instead of echoing the “facts” that lame-assed imbecile in the White House puts out.
April 24th, 2006 at 1:07 pmDemocrat Soldier
I tend to see eye-to-eye on a number of subjects with Squegeeboo, but his assumption that Pres. “Widowmaker†Bush is a better President than Pres. “Slick Willy†Clinton isn’t one of those subjects.
Never said he was better then clinton, said he was the best since clinton, so from the people after clinton up to and including Bush.
“With little more than a month left until hurricane season begins, the levees in New Orleans remain “flawed.†”
Heres an idea, don’t rebuild your city where its gonna get screwed again, especially if global warming raises the oceans, and you become even more under sea level.
April 24th, 2006 at 1:09 pm#44 – Squeegy, give it up, you’ve already been outed at #24.
April 24th, 2006 at 1:18 pmYes Ma’am, sorry ma’am.
April 24th, 2006 at 1:35 pm#44 – My pardon. I was too quick in my reading of your post, and should have remembered that you’re about as fond of the “Failure in Chief” as I am.
April 24th, 2006 at 2:38 pmSpongehead…Bush is the most criminal since Clinton….Nixon….Harding…..Grant…..Washington…………..J Christ…………………….hell, ever!
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