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I know, I know, Bush bashing but he deserves it.
My plan was to add this commentary to my Tax Hoax thread but the topic has moved to assault weapons, shooting defenseless rabbits, locus swarms, large snakes and erotic pole dancing (that's Lucy) along with something about drugs and militia types.
I took notes as fast as possible but could not capture Bush word-for-word, but enough to convey what was said during an interview for MSNBC.
Bush was asked point blank, close paraphrase,
"Many are saying you (Bush) do not care about high oil prices because this helps your oil friends. What would you say to the public in response?"
(Bush nervous laugh, typical shoulder rolling)
"Of course I worry about high gasoline prices. I've been talking to congress for three or four years to get an energy bill on my desk."
That was it. No other worthy comments from Bush.
He does not address the question asked and flaunts what an incompetent president he is.
A competent president would develop his own energy policy, lobby for it, and push it through congress. Bush has no energy policy and he is in his second term of office.
Best he has done is attempt to destroy Alaska with new drilling which will not produce any results for ten years and even then, only three to four percent of our total supply, in _today's_ demand level numbers, less than one percent of supply for future demand. Alaska is a hoax.
Bush has no energy policy and he blames congress for high oil prices. He will not speak about his oil friends pocketing millions of public money.
That pisses me off.
Bush is completely out-of-touch. He does not have a clue about literally anything. He truly knows nothing about America, the world nor does he know why "things" are.
Big Hat, No Cattle.
I will write this again. It is Bush and his cronies who created circumstances which led to our recent severe market crash and failing world economies.
We have four more years of Bush to suffer, and when he and his cronies are finished destroying world economies and creating abject poverty, it will take a decade or more, after he leaves office, to recover from his ruination.
Most know I cashed out our family stock investments early last year, moved it into real estate, and now have cash in only a few very select stocks.
If you are come away from the Bush years with money, you simply must put all your skills to perfect use and maintain a strong defensive position. If you do not, Bush and friends will pocket your money.
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An added note, Bush indicated his cure for social security is two fold.
The first is, of course, simply to have young folks write a check to the Wallstreet mafia. Nothing will be returned to them but Bush's friends will profit.
This is absolutely cruel. Bush's second cure for social security woes is to raise retirement age well over seventy years of age. Bush actually indicated "...over seventy years old."
How nice, elderly out of a job for a decade, cannot collect their social security and, when those elderly become of age for social security, they are dead.
Bush's plan is to push the "legal" retirement age to one when a majority of retired people will either be dead or within a few years of death. Bush is pushing social security retirement age to one when the elderly already have massive medical bills for a decade mostly because of high prescription costs thanks to Bush protecting the drug companies. The elderly, when they really need social security help, during that period we all face, that period when daily pill taking is required to stay alive, Bush will deny assistance.
Bush's plan is to make sure a majority of the elderly are dead before they qualify for their social security benefits.
He represents the moral majority?
Bush also added it would be, "...a disaster to raise taxes." He did not comment the middle class is moving into the poverty class and paying more taxes than ever.
I'm telling you, Bush is absolutely oblivious to everything except his Ipod.
You had better switch to defensive investment tactics.
I know you are not Molly Ivans, because Molly is blunty honest. And Molly would never claim to be from California. (Actually, Molly is mostly blunt about anything involving any one of the Bushes, i.e., the Maine Royal family.) Still, I think I see enough dedication to purpose and similarity of logic and argument that I have to ask: are you possibly some wayward lost relative of this great lady of comentary? I've no doubt she would be thrilled to know her lost cousin's genetic foundation causes the same take as her's on the subject.
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Molly Ivins writes from the Creators Syndicate based in Los Angeles, not far from our home. Yes, she is based in California, although you will find her anywhere and everywhere.
Yours is quite the compliment. She is a rather talented writer and enjoyable read although often blacklisted by those who fear her, such as that obese doper, Rush Limbaugh who, incidently, is the de facto mouthpiece for the Bushie Political Party.
I subscribe to the Fort Worth Star Telegram (online) and read her without fail, with delight.
Here are some links for readers here who wish to be entertained by a woman who makes King George piddle his pants and makes Rush pop a handful,
Molly Ivins and I do have a similar style, more evidenced when I am not so intense. However, my humor is more subtle and of a hidden nature, not to discount this high level humor of Ivins.
I am surprised I did not get a rise out of you boys with my comment about levying a special tax on Viagra. Perhaps it is none want to acknowledge a need.
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This is a must read! Molly Ivins and some truth about Bush, oil and illegal insider trading, most certainly a must read for those who did not catch my Harkin Energy (HEC) reference,
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Alaska crude has been sold to foreign countries for years. It is not normally shipped to U.S. destionations. I have fished for pink and silver salmon at Valdez. Those tankers are not headed for the U.S. under normal circumstances. In case anyone does not know, Alaska has had a third political party for years (Independence Party)which consists of approximately 25% of registered voters. Their position is that if Uncle Sam won't let the state use their natural resources, cut them loose from the U.S.. They can handle their own affairs. Alaska is a unique state with unique problems and potentials.
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Ok, Bushies rather than Bushes. I was trying to signify the collection or arrangement within which one finds a Bush........even more generally and in the sense that Molly calls dubya a shrub, I like to think of the set of all of them and their hangers on and the methods they employ as the shrubbery. It sort of forms a barrier to hide the reality and their activity from view.
Thus, by arranging the voting machines in Ohio so that predominately and historically democratic areas (and black areas) had so few machines that, consequently, the lines were so long on voting day, would be voters had to give up and go to work, while in the well off republican districts, voting machines stood idle. They counted ALL the votes they GOT. Then loudly challenge anyone to find any vote casts that was uncounted!!!
By the way, I want to point out that they are a clan of carpet baggers, not Texans. dubya went to school and grew up way up yonder in New England, not here. The only one of our schools he ever attended (after political pressure from daddy got him him in when he was first rejected on academic grounds) tossed him out.....not at the end of the year or the end of the semester, but a month into the term! I went to that school and had the habit of failing to attend classes, sometimes for months at a time. No one, even mean old Dean Kenimer, who hated me fundamentally and tried more than one creative way to have me removed from the student body, ever suggested it was possible to boot me out before the end of the term! The gentleman's grades dubya was used to and that are traditional at fancy English and New England schools aren't traditional here (if you are an academic, you'll know what I'm talking about, unless you are one of them or are part of the shrubbery and want to change the subject again).
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One would think from reading this(from CNN) that Bush were trying to pass an energy policy for some time. But i suppose bush bashing is better then facts...
Bush pushes his energy policy Saturday, April 16, 2005 Posted: 2:21 PM EDT (1821 GMT)
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush prodded Congress on Saturday to pass a long-stalled national energy strategy, saying American families and small businesses are feeling the pinch from rising gasoline prices.
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I saw Ayn Rand working as a waitress. She was serving Hillary and Rush Limbaugh in a quiet little resturant...Elvis was playing quitar..Hillary was telling Rush she was secretly in love with George W...She also told Ayn she was a Bush basher because Teresa Heinz was black mailing her..
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(p)AYN would never wait tables. nazi. supremacist. can't *believe* i enjoyed the 1st book of hers i ever read.. i was young and impressionable (nazi. supremacist.)
PG, "big hat, no cattle." you kill me. re: my pole dancing, please forgive. i'm not well. molly ivans rocks. i don't know what she looks like but on the radio she sounds bountiful and big-hatted.
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while your constant ranting about bush and all things bush are incredibly annoying raising the retirement age is 50 forms of bull**** and bush's prescription health plan has backfired in the form of 20-30% higher drug costs for the drugs that are most commonly used by people over 70 that act/bill/law whatever it was needs to be repealed simply cause the drug companies renigged on thier promise not to raise the drug prices when they got thier monopoly
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I agree 100% with jason10....Yicks, now I am going to have to run like hell!!!!!!! jason watch out or you will wind up starless like me !! Let the starless rule!
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Glassman, How was the Iraq war part of the Bush energy policy. People have been saying that since the first gulf war. But i didnt see it then nor now?? Thats like Gurl saying digging for oil in Alaska will destoy the whole state. Or being better educated will make you a better leader.
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charger, i don't have all week to draw the little flow charts again...
it's really just common sense...go to the New American Century website for starters...these guys did't make any big secret about their plans...they were planning this before George even announced he was running....and Cheney was a signatory on it...
it's all the voters/supporters that just don't want to look at the facts....
tell me that we would have invaded Iraq if it had no oil...
from his latest speech in South Carolina
I don't believe freedom is America's gift to the world. I believe freedom is the Almighty God's gift to each man and woman in this world. (Applause.)
-------------------- Don't envy the happiness of those who live in a fool's paradise.
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Charger, you once would receive a two-thousand dollar tax credit for buying a hybrid car, which gets about fifty to sixty miles per gallon and produces very little pollution.
Bush put an end to that. No more tax credit for buying a very efficient low pollution vehicle.
Bush has, however, put in place a very attractive twenty-five-thousand dollar tax write-off for buying a Hum-V which gets about eight to ten miles per gallon and produces high levels of pollution.
No reward for buying a high gas milage low pollution car.
Big reward for buying a low gas milage high pollution car.
That is an energy policy of worth? That is not an energy policy. That is corporate sleaze rancid corruption, and Bush is corporate sleaze.
Bush is trying to force congress to give big oil major tax exemptions and rewards at a time when big oil is pulling in literally billions of dollars in pure profit by ripping off America.
Bush has no energy policy. Bush has his hands in the pockets of America for the benefit of his filthy rich big oil friends (Cheney).
Get this, Bush is driving America into bankruptcy via his war mongering, via his false war on terror, yet rewards terrorists by encouraging people to drive and companies to make gas guzzling high pollution vehicles.
He wastes our money and young lives on war and funds the "enemy" through high gas prices, money from which flows directly to terrorists over in the Mid-east.
Bush has no energy policy. Bush is funding the Military-Industrial complex and killing people in the process.
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OK, note the date here...this is pre 9-11...
nothing has changed------ did you look at the New American Century web site? Wolfowitz and Rumsfeld and Cheney all sent a letter to Clinton telling him to invade Iraq in '98...nothing changed there either... this has all just kept on going the way they wanted it to from the start....9-11 or not...
05/01/2001 - Updated 07:35 AM ET
Cheney's energy plan focuses on production
By Richard Benedetto, USA TODAY
Richard Drew, AP Vice President Dick Cheney's image looms over him as he warned Monday of California-style blackouts.
Vice President Cheney offered a preview Monday of a Bush administration energy plan that will be long on increased development of domestic oil, natural gas and nuclear power, but short on conservation.
Also missing will be what he called "quick fixes which never fix anything": price controls, use of strategic reserves and new federal agencies.
Among Cheney's proposals:
Increased domestic production of crude oil.
Stepped-up construction of natural gas pipelines.
Massive expansion of the electrical power grid.
Renewed construction of nuclear, hydroelectric, oil- and coal-fired power plants.
Cheney, a former oil services company executive, called alternative fuels such as ethanol or solar power promising but still "years down the road."
He said the administration will push for oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. He said advances in technology drastically reduce the risks of harming the environment. But getting that oil to market will likely be years down the road as well.
"As a country, we have demanded more and more energy. But we have not brought on line the supplies needed to meet that demand," the vice president said.
The plan was called "shortsighted" and "leaning too heavily to the oil side" by Rep. Jerry Costello, D-Ill., a member of the House subcommittee on energy. "We need to conserve energy and explore alternative fuels such as ethanol and clean-coal technology."....
.....Reps. John Dingell of Michigan and Henry Waxman of California have asked federal Comptroller General David Walker to investigate whether private interests are influencing Cheney's Energy Task Force, which has been meeting in secret.
Similar Republican criticism was leveled at the Health Care Reform panel that first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton headed in 1994.
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To be truthful about it, Enrons dirty deeds happened under Clinton. They were exposed shortly after Bush took office. javascript:openWindow('http://www.time.com/time/2002/enron/collapse/','enron','width=620,height=450,status=no,scrollbars=yes')
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yes, Clinton was part of the problem too...
i am not a liberal...i am just a citizen concerned that we need some change....
why can't we get the heck off oil? it's possible to do, but everybody is just messing around( rakin' in the dough) instead of rolling up their sleeves...
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They dirty deeds of Enron weren't exposed by any act or effort by the shrubery. Indeed, what we have learned was that it was in spite of them. You Bush backers need to admit that the central purpose of the Enron cadre of leadership was funding gorgious George and the Republican party. And don't give me any crap about them also giving money to the democrats....the gave just a tiny amount in comparison, clearly with the intent of claiming fairness. A hand full to democrats, billions to republicans directly and a hell of a lot to "causes" that sponcer republican efforts.
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in my infinite travels across the vast planes of the internet, i hardly ever come across a person who is satisfied with bush or who like him at all, or dont think he is plundering iraq for his adminstrations finacial gain, but i never come across any of the 51% who voted for him. where are all these jokers ?
-------------------- "Gentleman, you have come sixty days too late. The depression is over." Herbert Hoover 1930
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A. MY taxes went down and are going down (FACT) for me. Not to mention Mortgage rate nice and low(not attributable to him, but neither are some of the complaingts)
B. IMO he reacted well in Afghanistan and I was for Iraq. Unlike previous pres who didn't react well to africa and cole bombings.
C. I'm from Mass, and Kerry is a joke.
D. No I didn't vote Bush first time around, not hard core republican.
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