Many of you may be aware that gas prices are rising about 20 cents a week, causing much despair among Average Americans. John McCain found the perfect anti-solution for this energy Depression, in which the price of crude oil is reaching $120 a barrel, in his hilarious tax plan (the other aspects of which include slashing corporate taxes from 35% to 25%, eliminating the alternative minimum tax entirely thus re-opening old loopholes for the wealthy, and making the Bush tax cuts permanent — all of which will be balanced by the elimination of like $200 million in earmarks). McCain proposes a "gas tax holiday" — a break from the current 18.4-cent gas tax between Memorial Day and Labor Day — and Hillary Clinton has announced she is all for it as well. Barack Obama isn't. Every. Single. Economist. Agrees with Barack Obama — even the conservatives and Hillary's favorite Paul Krugman!
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This is Barack Obama's new ad for North Carolina, and it's about gas money. It's titled "Nothing's Changed." He discusses the Big Oil companies, concluding with "I won't let them block Change anymore." What's the deal here — are he and "Hope" breaking up or something? [YouTube]
Hillary Clinton added to the humiliation of Bush’s recent unsuccessful attempt to get the Saudis to give us more oil during the debate last night, telling the 5 people watching “President Bush is over in the Gulf now begging the Saudis and others to drop the price of oil. How pathetic.” Her plans, by contrast, would be to reform the American economy to be more green; get workers into “green collar jobs,” by which she probably doesn’t mean landscaping; and to move us “towards energy independence” which would do absolutely nothing about oil prices in the short- to medium-term but sounds really good at the debate. And, naturally, she’ll never go make nice with the Saudis when she’s President, because that’s just pathetic. [AFP via Breitbart]
Latest by Nuck-n-Futs: The thing is with the prices being as they are for supply costs (fertilizer, equipment, fuel) the farmers are finding themselves right back at two dollar corn, at least thats what they say standing around here. The profits aren't being more »
If you’re freaked out over oil topping $90 a barrel for the first time in history, maybe this will add some depressing historical perspective: Oil topped $100 per barrel at another grim point in U.S. history when George Bush was first running for president and America’s imperial troubles in Iran and Iraq threatened our precious oil supply from the Persian Gulf — in 1980!
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Okay, anti-war peaceniks, whine all you like about the trillion-dollar occupation of Iraq. But do you know how big the Iraq oil reserves are, according to the latest and bestest estimates based on the latest record-high oil prices?Eighteen trillion dollars worth, that’s how big. Here is a math lesson for you communists: This means the invasion and occupation has ultimately been a total bargain, because there’s enough oil socked away in Iraq to pay for eighteen more invasions and occupations of Iraq.
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Latest by Freedumb: I wish we were smart enough for it to have been about oil. Really the rednecks just wanted to kill some brown people, and by that measure, the war's been a complete success. Keeping the oil afterward is just more »
Hey Mexico, WTF? Today is supposed to be the magical day of Expecto Petraeus! And tomorrow’s the big 9/11 celebration, okay? What is with you people having some kind of Star Wars-esque rebellion attacking the gas pipelines and crazy semi-trucks full of dynamite blowing up on the highways and killing 34 people?
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Here’s the latest from Rudy Giuliani’s beloved viral-video guy — not his finest moment, but on Petraeus Day we’ll post anything about Petraeus except for anything substantive about his bullshit “My Summer Vacation” report, which is, of course, complete bullshit that should be utterly ignored. And how did we return to the mid-1800s, when we had to wait for months for someone to travel from overseas and give a presentation, anyway? Last we heard, our society had airplanes and satellites and video conferencing — not to mention the fact that Petraeus has been flying back and forth to D.C. all freaking summer. And when did presidents start taking orders from a freaking army officer? Last we heard, the president told the army what to do, not the other way around. Anyway, let’s all remember this holy day when the eighth or ninth army commander in Iraq said some crap on Capitol Hill that he was told to say by the White House.
Our worst enemy of the moment is, apparently, the Evil Nation of Iran.* But the business of America is business and Mitt Romney is a gazillionaire businessman, so of course he’s been doing business in Iran forever. But to run for president these days, you need to act like you’re very concerned about the great enemy that is Iran. Romney went so far as to demand state pension funds divest from any companies doing any work in Iran.
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Canada’s prime minister today ordered a half-dozen naval ships to protect the melting Northwest Passage from the United States, which is plotting to seize the shipping routes and oil and fish supplies being revealed by the rapid Arctic melt. Wait, what?
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Lifelong Bush girlfriend and Saudi King Abdullah is now calling Bush’s Iraq disaster an “illegitimate foreign occupation.” Abdullah says the Americans need to get lost, now. Looks like Bandar Bush just lost his private room at the Crawford mansion!
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Venezuelan oil giant Citgo has paid between $100,000 and $200,000 to Rudy Giuliani’s law firm so the opera-loving Manhattan dandy can plot against America’s freedoms.
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Dick Cheney’s trail of death and destruction has now moved from Afghanistan — where up to 23 people including several U.S. troops were killed in this morning’s bomb attack — to Wall Street. CNN reports on the global stock market collapse currently battering U.S. stocks and blames it on Cheney:
“News that Vice President Dick Cheney was the apparent target in a Taliban suicide bombing attack in Afghanistan added to the morning concerns.”
The “vice” president’s weird secret trip around the world to meet with terrorist leaders has now taken him to Oman, where he’ll somehow destroy the world’s oil production and hurtle the entire Earth into darkness.
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We obviously need more and better attempts.
In a just world his parts would be strewn all over the place.
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While liberal webtards continue to call the Iraq Occupation a “failure” due to the hundreds of thousands of blown-up Iraqis, civil war and endless U.S. casualties, optimists point out that Iraq’s most precious resource will soon be available to all the western energy companies so cruelly kept away from the oilfields during Saddam Hussein’s reign.
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To a certain crowd, the Council on Foreign Relations is part of the all-powerful Illuminati/Trilateral Commission/Bohemian Grove/Bilderberg/Skull & Bones conspiracy that runs the Western World. And while that’s all true, we shouldn’t overestimate the power of these secret societies. In other words, Bush & Cheney don’t listen to the CFR, either.
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Latest by FunNaturalFun:
This administration doesn't do "timetables".
--POTUS
Im going to start using that line at my work and seeing how long it flies- "Sorry boss, those reports will be done in a week or so. I just can't be held down to 'timetables.'" more »
In his new job as op-ed columnist for the Khaleej Times (?!), America’s greatest diplomat explains that while we utterly destroyed a country that was at least stable before 2003, there’s just too much damned oil to leave.
But under present conditions, withdrawal is not an option. American forces are indispensable. They are in Iraq not as a favour to its government or as a reward for its conduct. They are there as an expression of the American national interest to prevent the Iranian combination of imperialism and fundamentalist ideology from dominating a region on which the energy supplies of the industrial democracies depend.
So, we toppled Saddam because our former ally held a grudge about the last Gulf War, and now we’re staying forever because our other former ally (Iran) still holds a grudge. Grudge = No western companies taking all the oil. Stick your purple finger in that, bitch!
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Many of you may be aware that gas prices are rising about 20 cents a week, causing much despair among Average Americans. John McCain found the perfect anti-solution for this energy Depression, in which the price of crude oil is reaching $120 a barrel, in his hilarious tax plan (the other aspects of which include slashing corporate taxes from 35% to 25%, eliminating the alternative minimum tax entirely thus re-opening old loopholes for the wealthy, and making the Bush tax cuts permanent — all of which will be balanced by the elimination of like $200 million in earmarks). McCain proposes a "gas tax holiday" — a break from the current 18.4-cent gas tax between Memorial Day and Labor Day — and Hillary Clinton has announced she is all for it as well. Barack Obama isn't. Every. Single. Economist. Agrees with Barack Obama — even the conservatives and Hillary's favorite Paul Krugman!
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