Comments on: After Failed ‘Contract With America,’ Gingrich Rallies The Right Behind New Contract With Energy Industry

By: denizerdogan

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By: Robt

Robt — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 02:58:16 +0000

By the way, If there was no oil on the pre leased land the oil companis have been holding leases on. They do pay for these leases. Then oil companies are wasting company money and robbing shareholders ? Because if the company is leasing this land with no profit in future mind. They are stealing from shareholders.

By: Robt

Robt — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 02:54:22 +0000

shoeless Says: ———-

Robt Says:
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Back to oil, Why doesn’t anyone ask Newt Questions?
You know like is their any way that this oil you tout drilling will be sold to Americans. At a lower price?

What, are you some kinda commie?
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Actually,
I’m sort of a liberal American that served and fought for not only country, but for Americans themselves.

Corporations believe they have the right to remove precious resources from the United States and sell them to other countries for private profit. Those U.S. resources belong to America, and America (last I knew) belonged to Americans.
Is that commie enough for you…?

By: kuvasz

kuvasz — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:44:44 +0000

on edit…”Howard Dean”

By: kuvasz

kuvasz — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:42:30 +0000

Gingrich is a dangerous man who should not have been let outside of his box. Something should be done about him. If Democrats gain control of both the White House and Congress next year, there is no one better than him to rally the Right over the next decade. We have to go after this guy now, and hard.

This is a cry to John Dean and the DNC, please put a shadow on Gringrich to record everything the man says so that his craziness can get deseminated so we can undercut the man’s ability to function as a leader. We need to force people to remember how corrupt this man is and why he left politics.

By: MapleStreet

MapleStreet — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:14:18 +0000

Howz it that the path to success with the Repubs is to fail miserably. Contract on america now a contract on energy.

Not to mention, Newtie wasn’t exactly very family values.

By: RUCerious

RUCerious — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:37:08 +0000

What about the FIVE YEAR backlog of deep water drilling equipment. Lease now and wait five years for the drilling equipment to be delivered???
WTF?

By: Zimzone

Zimzone — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:21:38 +0000

Drill a Republican. Here. Now.

By: 666lattes

666lattes — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:12:49 +0000

shoeless Says:

“The entire mainstream news media have taken a blood oath to never, under any circumstances, mention the unused 68 million acres of land and offshore oil drilling leases currently owned by the oil companies.”

Oh, yeah. Laura Flanders was debating some d-bag on Hardball the other night and she brought this up and his response was “well, there’s actually no oil on that land”, then they quickly cut the debate off.

Simply stunning, really… or not.

By: Doc Rock

Doc Rock — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:04:53 +0000

Thought Dark Lord Cheney made that contract behind closed doors years ago!

By: TripleKick 9

TripleKick 9 — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:45:10 +0000

Hate to break it to you Faiz, but Newt’s “Contract With America” was not a failure, as you asserted. The Contract was positive and very ambitious, and was considered a triumph for the American Conservative movement. The Republican Revolution was quite real and quite successful, thanks in part to the Contract. If only the republicans today would dust off the Contract and return to conservative basics. However, if you want to talk about congressional failures, I would think less about the Contract and more about the current congress’ pathetic 9% approval rating.

By: Marie

Marie — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:08:24 +0000

Oil companies have acres of undrilled land.
Oil companies have not built refineries in decades.
Oil companies cannot process any additional crude because they can’t refine any more.
Drilling today will produce oil years from now.
Our domestic demand for oil far exceeds any oil we hope to pull from all of our domestic sources. Drilling will not reduce our dependency on foreigh oil.
A multi-facted approach encompassing all renewable sources, perhaps additional LIMITED drilling, combined with conservation in households and industry is the only practical solution. Additionally, the creation of new “green” jobs would be a super bonus.

By: Mugsy

Mugsy — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:54:11 +0000

Gingrich was on CSPAN early this morning and lied like a rug.

To a Democratic caller that asked about the need to drill offshore/ANWR before their leases were used, Gingrich answered that “there’s *already* a 1-year use-it-or-lose-it” provision on those leases, and we need these additional sites because “we *know* there is oil in these sites”.

Excuse me? Not only am I *sure* the Democratic Congress did not issue 79 million acres in drilling leases in the last 12 months, I’m also certain the (imaginary) technology to *know for certain* where oil exists didn’t come into existence in the past 12 months when oil companies agreed to purchase leases where they would have *known* no oil exists.

By: vat694848

vat694848 — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:48:00 +0000

What a gas-bag!!!!!

By: Xisithrus

Xisithrus — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:47:11 +0000

Drill Drill Drilling is like saying “If I eat more food I will spend less on food”

By: stateofthedivision

stateofthedivision — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:45:10 +0000

I take it tomorrow Newt will show up at the Capital with his solutions to health care costs. Using the same economic theory, he could offer:

“Build Now (hospitals), Train More (doctors), Pay Less”

Newt’s expert economist is a Princeton junior who found an unpublished economic paper. If it’s good enough for energy, it should work for healthcare.

By: kasinca

kasinca — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:42:26 +0000

How has that contract worked out for the country, Newt? Did you get re-married, again?

By: gitrdone

gitrdone — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:41:58 +0000

Okay Newt, well sign a contract, no problem. But in return you have to tell the oil companies that they will only sell to Americans and that they must guarantee a price drop in our gas bill. Your fine with that?

By: Above the Clouds

Above the Clouds — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:36:31 +0000

It should read: “Disgraced, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich . . . “

By: Blame Canada

Blame Canada — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:28:42 +0000

Well guess what ladies and gentlemen, it will work. Americans will always take what they believe is a quick fix (even though it’s not) over long term solutions that will actually work.

Americans are stupid. Look at the last 8 years as proof.