Whistle-ass administration is PERSONALLY responsible for surging gas price

Please follow this for a moment. At a time when the price of oil is quite high, what is Whistle-ass doing?

Do you remember what Bill Clinton did when gas prices went up? I do. He released oil from the strategic reserve and opened inquiries into gouging. With those actions, the prices soon dropped down to more managable levels.

Of course, Whistle-ass will not look into price gouging. That is a given.

But what about the Strategic Reserve? Will he release oil?

Hell, no!

He is FILLING the reserve!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2003/08/31/ccecag31.xml&sSheet=/money/2003/08/31/ixcoms.html

And Carl Levin opposed it!

http://www.detnews.com/2003/business/0308/07/b04-238453.htm

Holy SHIT!

There is the explanation. These fuckers!!!!!

:grr: :grr: :grr:

Their energy policy, their foreign policy, their economic policy, all straight from the boardrooms of Big Oil.

:puke:

DTH

is causing pump prices to skyrocket that these INCOMPETENT BOOBS would choose this time above all others to fill the Strategic Reserves!

Our candidates should be HOWLING about this.

:grr:

They SHOULD be. But no one seems to care, it's maddening.

DTH

yep he is on the road touting the recovery (with net job losses!) that has been spawned (yes that is a carefully chosen word) by his most recent tax cuts.

If we really wanted to see bush get cranky (and be a little more prone to go off "message") we would be able to get reporters to push stories about how BushSr's presidency was superior in major policy than BushJr. (Drop the Clinton comparison - as it doesn't get his ego/goat the same way). Think about it, his handlers appear to use two hooks to prod his ego on.... that he is Reagan's Heir apparent (thus recycle the few things that worked for Reagan)... and that if he doesn't make the mistakes of his father that he will win again and be the most beloved president of all time - even more than Reagan.

So lets do it.

BushSr - finally to reign in spiraling deficits of his early presidency and of his vicepresidency years - concedes that some taxes are needed. And his "read his lips" line kills him politically. BUT when the recovery finally began (well - not really as much a recovery as a halt to the recession)... it was considered a "Jobless" recovery. At the tme that was a negative (people scratched their heads... how can a recovery bring no new jobs???). But compared to BushJrs INCREASING the deficits... reigning over a recession and a quasi recovery (or again more accurately a halt to the recession) Bush Junior's recovery includes monthly net JobLosses. In comparison - his failure father (failure to be reelected).... Did a better job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lets then turn to Iraq.

BushSr - realized with the advice of his advisors that to topple Saddam would leave a power vaccuum within Iraq that could lead to quagmire, an extremist government ala Iran, and would escalate problems in the already troubled I/P Mideast area. So declares "Victory" (since the mission was to pull Iraq out of Kuwait, and to prevent Saddam from acting aggresively against other neighbors) - and pulls back. Much to the chagrin of the by then bloodthirsty GOP voter base who had been spoon fed comparisons of Sadam to Hitler - and false images of babies thrown out of incubators - who were initially indifferent to the idea of an invasion - but after media manipulation were HUNGRY for revenge. As a result (along with that Jobless recovery), Bushsrs positive pollnumbers dove and he lost the election. BUT his reasoning for pulling back - was absolutely correct. So on this front, too, looks like BushSr out performs BushJr.

Pass it on. And pass it to the pundits. If that meme picked up - I think we would see some 'breaking point' behavior from candidate...er.. pResident Bush(jr).

It is not possible for these goons to have done this by mistake. Levin saw through it and warned them yet they persisted in filling the reserve and further restricting an already diminished supply.

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It HAS to be to drive up prices.

Of course, the real tale will be told when the oil companies have to release their quarterly earning reports. Remember, if they are merely passing along increased costs, there should not be a substantial increase in their profits. I suspect that the increase in their profits for this quarter will be obscene.

And the impact on the economy!?!?!?!?!?!

What in the hell are these fools thinking? The sort of energy cost increases we are seeing could well send the economy over the brink into ...

Who knows what. I can't even guess what the effect will be.

but it is to do as you say - give direct govt subsidized sales to the buds, AND to drive up cost through diminishing supply.

Of course Levin saw it.

But note the silence in the press.

Big looming question and story floating in and out of the news for the past three months has been a possible natural gas shortage that could make this winter even worse than the past two winters in terms of cost.

If this were an administration that cared about policy, or even knew the importance of policy (as in studying possible actions, likely results and unintended consequences of each - and then deciding on action after weighing the possibilities) - they would already be dealing with this impending crisis.

Why? Because it will slow (end) any recovery.

There are those who make a strong case that what tipped a slowing economy into recession was the huge costs incurred in the business sector (esp agriculture and manufacturing) in California due to a near year long period of sky-rocketing energy costs (that we know now was industry manipulated). That the economic impact in California (the seventh largest economy in the world), spread to the country due to the interdependency of our economies.

So now - take that scenario - with steep increases in overhead for every enterprise in the country (from public services, health care to manufacturing, service industry etc.) - and imagine the impact on our economy. The increases would not have to be as severe as they were in California to have an even greater impact.

Sadly I am growing so incredibly cynical, that as I type this, I think back to that short energy shortage/blackout out east. So a case has been made and demonstrated about the "poor infrastructure" for electricity. How big of a stretch would it be to make a similar claim about natural gas as an explanation for increased shortages and spikes in costs next winter?

But why would they cut their own political throats in such away - unless through incredible arrogance they believe that they can continue to manipulate voters (and all that money being raised daily by teambush does make it easier) that it doesn't matter if the economy keeps teetering while their energy industry buddies get rich...

I hate that I have grown so cynical to even think those lines of thought.

1) There are many unflattering names you can call George "Poppy" Bush. "Stupid" is not one of them, unfortunately. (though clueless on the economy proved to be his undoing)

2) Because he's not stupid, Poppy rejected the first draft of the PNAC agenda, which now controls his Idiot Son's fraudministration.

And they aren't reserving it for us little people. For heaven sakes, do you really think this administration would think about our needs?

Only those in the upper 2% tax bracket will have access to those reserves.

...or would they?

In '99, Bill Clinton released much oil from the reserves directly into the market and coupled it with an investigation into gouging. The result? The prices tumbled.

Whistle-ass is doing exactly the OPPOSITE and it is having exactly the OPPOSITE effect.

Hmmmmm ... it is almost as though he has an interest in causing prices of oil to skyrocket.

He is a drunken fuckwittage. All drunken, stupid, ill mannered, spoilt, crude, hostile, imbecilic, sneering, lurching, arrogant, thieving, and lying incompetent fuckwittages want the price of oil to skyrocket.

Baby Bush is the head cheerleader.

End O' rant.

Please feel free to suppy more adjectives. :evilgrin: