In 2001, Democrats Told Us The Drilling In Anwr Was Not Viable To Our Needs Because It Would Take 5 Years To Benefit
Seven years later, where are we?
As angry truckers encircled the Capitol in a horn-blaring caravan and consumers across the country agonized over $60 fill-ups, the issue of high fuel prices flared on the campaign trail on Monday, sharply dividing the two Democratic candidates.
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton lined up with Senator John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, in endorsing a plan to suspend the federal excise tax on gasoline, 18.4 cents a gallon, for the summer travel season. But Senator Barack Obama, Mrs. Clinton’s Democratic rival, spoke out firmly against the proposal, saying it would save consumers little and do nothing to curtail oil consumption and imports.
While Mr. Obama’s view is shared by environmentalists and many independent energy analysts, his position allowed Mrs. Clinton to draw a contrast with her opponent in appealing to the hard-hit middle-class families and older Americans who have proven to be the bedrock of her support. She has accused Mr. Obama of being out of touch with ordinary Americans who are struggling to meet their mortgages and gas up their cars and trucks.
Mrs. Clinton said at a rally on Monday morning in Graham, N.C., that she would introduce legislation to impose a windfall-profits tax on oil companies and use the revenue to suspend the gasoline tax temporarily.
Ed has much more
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April 29, 2008 - 07:54 AM on April 29th, 2008
As gasoline approaches $4 I have been waiting for the backlash to start against the bungholes who have stopped us from developing domestic energy resources. Why is it taking so long? Are the sheeple truly that mind-numbed? Is the majority no longer capable of originating a thought in their own minds, or are they now capable of only parroting what they see on the six o’clock MSM news?
What will it take? $5/gallon?
Democrites = $4/5/6 gasoline.
April 29, 2008 - 08:04 AM on April 29th, 2008
Robert, was that your line I used in the title? I couldn’t find the thread I read it in?
April 29, 2008 - 08:32 AM on April 29th, 2008
Its about time those worthless political hacks oked drilling in the ANWR and told the greens to go take a hike and feed themselves to the polar bears killer wahles and skuas
April 29, 2008 - 10:39 AM on April 29th, 2008
No, that wasn’t mine. But really, I wonder where is the pain threshhold at which Americans en masse rise up and say enough is enough?
$5? $6? $7? Donde esta?
April 29, 2008 - 10:40 AM on April 29th, 2008
BTW love the graphics! They say in humor there is a core of painful truth. There sure is!
April 29, 2008 - 10:44 AM on April 29th, 2008
I am beyond it! I won’t waste gas anymore..I used to, I admit that, but not anymore. I only go where I need to. Hence, I don’t need to go to Starbucks or the mall. I get groceries just once a week…Enough is enough!
April 29, 2008 - 11:07 AM on April 29th, 2008
Dallas CBS Affiliate Buries Negative Jeremiah Wrig
It would appear that although most of the national news media and pundits both left and right have labeled Wright’s latest comments as egocentric and harmful to Obama, CBS 11 Dallas has chosen sides and Wright has won this battle. This is not a good …
April 29, 2008 - 12:27 PM on April 29th, 2008
The problem is ignorance, as Obama turns tail and denies Rev. Wright and his church
As I type this, Barack Obama is on television denouncing his ‘old uncle’, his 20 year spiritual adviser and mentor. Seems Obama’s political advisers got through to him, advised him his campaign was in the crapper thanks to Rev. Jeremiah
April 29, 2008 - 04:16 PM on April 29th, 2008
Never Understood a Single Word He Said
JEREMIAH WAS A BULLFROGSUCH A GOOD FRIEND OF MINE?Did a Clinton supporter help Jeremiah Wright sell out Barack Obama?Barack Obama wants us to believe this is not the same man he knew, as he denounced Jeremiah Wright. Granted the man isn’t flying…
April 29, 2008 - 05:01 PM on April 29th, 2008
Those cartoons are funny, I have to admit. Maybe that’s because I refuse to buy another car until the price of gas comes back down again, but I even the price to take the bus has gone up! Oh well. I stay within walking distance. No biggie for me. I know, I know. It is for some people! I know this.
So what are you saying? Are you suggesting we TAKE the oil from Iraq? Wouldn’t that be Blood for Oil? I don’t understand these liberals. Really…lol
April 29, 2008 - 05:07 PM on April 29th, 2008
On the ground: Inside Iraq
Matt (www.Blackfive.net) has an incredible video that takes a look at the situation in Iraq by interviewing Bill Roggio (www.LongWarJournal.org) and another man who is also with the Long War Journal. It is 22:54 minutes long, and it is very insightfu…
April 29, 2008 - 06:37 PM on April 29th, 2008
Iraq can repay its debt to us in oil. Here’s what I would do as part of that program: I would give $2M to the family of every U.S. soldier who was killed and $1M for every severely injured soldier. $500k or $250k for other levels of injury or disability. That would cost probably $50B. Chump change in the world of oil…
April 29, 2008 - 08:01 PM on April 29th, 2008
Obama Shocked, Shocked About Jeremiah Wright
OBAMA THROWS HIMSELF FROM THE TRAINThe great irony here is Barack Obama’s less than honorable behavior isn’t going to matter a bit to his supporters. They want change. Well, they got it. This adult (I don’t think he’s a ‘rea…
April 29, 2008 - 08:42 PM on April 29th, 2008
Pink’s Get Punked
…via Gateway PunditBand of Mothers protests Code Pink; Medea gets indignant…”I have a message for you, Medea, get out of our country,” said Perlson, who carried a sign that said “The original Med…
April 29, 2008 - 09:11 PM on April 29th, 2008
I’m a courier. This BS is making my life tough. Even with my four cylinder truck, my gas bills have gone from around $500 a month to almost $800.
President Bush FINALLY found enough of a pair to stand up and let the world know that the DEMS are responsible for the high gas prices. Of Course Harry Reid said the President was wrong and that the Dems’ energy conservation plans would make it all better. He’s an idiot. Hillary got out and claimed that she was going to demand that OPEC increase production if she becomes President. My thought on that was, “Or WHAT?” They don’t have to do a damn thing you say whether you’re the President or not. I still remember the OPEC oil embargo of the early 70s. She must have had her brain too adled by Bill’s non inhaled pot smoke to remember it. Until and Unless we produce our own oil and refine it, we can’t demand anything from OPEC. It’d more like the paddle scene from “Animal House” where Kevin Bacon is being paddled and responds with “Please Sir May I have another?” Stupid damn Dem.
April 29, 2008 - 09:15 PM on April 29th, 2008
Wicker on the KC-45 Contract and Boeing’s Challenge
A while back I sent Sen. Roger Wicker (the replacement for Trent Lott) a note telling him my opinion on the Northrop-Grumman/EADS KC-45 tanker contract for the new USAF aerial refueling tanker. I got a letter back from the Senator the other day concern…
April 29, 2008 - 10:42 PM on April 29th, 2008
Why Reverend Wright is Un-American
What is it to be an American? Certainly it isn’t race.
Instead, being American requires one to subscribe to our founding political traditions.
• a benevolent creator who endows each individual with certain basic rights. The beauty and genius of…
April 29, 2008 - 11:26 PM on April 29th, 2008
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April 29, 2008 - 11:41 PM on April 29th, 2008
next Time you get one of those stupid letters from GREENPEACE or the SEIRRA CLUB uring you to oppose drill in the ANWR and saying how its a ecologictly fragile area tell them greens to GO TAKE A HIKE that you have more important things to spend that $500 on then their bank accounts lawyer fees and ship fuel TELL THE GREENS TO GO TAKE A JUMP IN A LAKE
April 29, 2008 - 11:52 PM on April 29th, 2008
Blast from the Past: Bill Buckley on the Trojan Horse of American Public Education
All the way back in 1952, before the days of Student Loans and Grants for every ordinary college student at public or private universities, Bill Buckley wrote about the plan to transform all private universities from independent entities into clients o…
April 29, 2008 - 11:57 PM on April 29th, 2008
Ann Coulter and the Wright Stuff
I have always seen Barack Obama as a basically decent guy who simply lacks the experience to be effective going toe-to-toe with this nation’s enemies. There is, however, another Obama out there, the soft-spoken paranoid lunatic described by Ann Coulte…
April 30, 2008 - 12:06 AM on April 30th, 2008
The Rise of Hillary and the Fall of Obama?
Podcast Show Notes
The fall out from Obama’s former pastor’s latest tirade has created problems and despite Obama’s unbelievable denials and attempts to disassociate himself have left many on the left concerned (see here.) while R…
April 30, 2008 - 12:06 AM on April 30th, 2008
The Rise of Hillary and the Fall of Obama?
Podcast Show Notes
The fall out from Obama’s former pastor’s latest tirade has created problems and despite Obama’s unbelievable denials and attempts to disassociate himself have left many on the left concerned (see here.) while R…
April 30, 2008 - 06:54 AM on April 30th, 2008
Black Racism as an Employment Opportunity
The next time you hear someone put forth a candidate for a job, a political office or even for hearing out in argument _because_ of their race, sex, or other divisive and irrelevant characteristic as part of a particular tribe of grievance whiners, jus…