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Energy Will Be Obama’s Waterloo

By William Tucker on 3.2.12 @ 6:09AM

And it will all be his doing — blaming Bush won’t cut it anymore.

When President Obama suggested last week that we might eventually be replacing oil with algae, Mark Whittington of Yahoo suggested that the President had reached his “lunar base moment.” It was an apt analogy. Just as Newt Gingrich’s musings about a moon colony finally made the public cock its head a little when listening to him, so the moment may have arrived when the environmentalism fantasies that inhabit the President’s brain will finally be exposed to the light of day.

As things stand now, $5 gas may shift the entire focus of the election onto energy and what the Administration’s faculty-lounge policies have been doing to America’s industrial base. To the public, “clean, green energy” will no longer be a dreamy vision of windmills and solar collectors but the hard reality of spending $100 to fill your tank. There’s one more thing as well. This will be the first issue in four years where President Obama won’t be able to cast reflexive blame on George Bush.

The President began his term with an Inaugural Address promise that “We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories.” He has kept that promise. Using the crowbar of the $1 trillion “stimulus,” the Administration has shoehorned much of the country’s energy investment into a Rube-Goldberg sector of the economy made up of the half-baked projects of armchair entrepreneurs plus the off-the-charts dreams of those wanting see the entire planet transformed into an environmental utopia.

Prompted by various federal and state government tax incentives plus market-obliterating “renewable mandates,” hundreds of square miles of mountain and prairie have been covered with 45-story windmills that look like the archaeological remnants of a previous race of 80-foot giants. These “wind farms” generally produce electricity that is essentially useless. When the wind blows, windmills can force other forms of generation out of the market because they are free of fuel costs. But those other forms of generation have to be kept running just in case the wind dies down. Last year when temperatures rose to 110 degrees in Texas, that state’s 7 percent “wind capacity” proved absolutely useless in the heat-induced doldrums.

And wind “farms,” it should be noted, always talk in terms of “capacity” rather than output. That’s because they only operate about 30 percent of the time. Nobody has yet invented a way to store commercial quantities of electricity and it may be impossible without building facilities of equally gargantuan dimensions — say an entire city block of rechargeable batteries. Without any means of storage, wind power is essentially a nuisance.

Then there is solar electricity, which, in order to access, California is now planning to cover dozens of square miles of pristine desert (yes, there is already environmental opposition) in order to prove the world can run on sunshine. Solar energy is a bit more concentrated than wind so that it only takes about five square miles of highly polished collectors to produce 100 megawatts — when the sun shines. In the desert environment, these solar panels will require constant cleaning and polishing to keep them from getting covered with dust and therefore becoming dysfunctional. It’s a labor-intensive task that will require lots of water coming from who-knows-where.

And how about the electric car? Caught in the headlock of a government bailout, GM was forced to push its Volt out the door — where it has sat on dealer lots ever since. Sales are miserable, except for the occasional government agency that drops by to place an order. Government patronage of the electric car industry has also produced the $104,000 Fisker Karma, made in Denmark but shipped to our shores so that Leonardo DiCaprio and a few others could buy first editions. Then there was the Bright, which went bankrupt last month, and the Asperta, which failed before that.

Now all this wouldn’t be so bad if the Administration hadn’t spent the other half of its time trying to put the fossil fuel industry out of business in order to clear the path for the Green Age. After spending a year failing to pass cap-and-trade, the Administration has doubled down with the Environmental Protection Agency, turning it loose on the nation’s coal plants. The Sierra Club just celebrated the closing of the 100th coal boiler, with more to come. Just what this will mean for the reliability of the electric grid will be revealed this summer when electrical demand peaks. Last August, with temperatures at 110 degrees, Texas consumed a record 68,000 megawatts of electricity with only 76,000 MW of generating capacity on hand. Since then, the EPA has demanded the closure of 10,000 MW of Texas coal. The state has dodged the bullet only by going to court. Industrial states from Pennsylvania to Wisconsin are facing the same dilemma. If the region starts suffering power shortages this summer, will George Bush be there to take the blame?

Not that the President hasn’t been playing both sides of the fence. With extraordinary chutzpah, Obama has claimed credit for the increase in oil and gas production through fracking technology. As Newt Gingrich pointed out last week (chronicled on this site by Peter Ferrara), the only reason fracking has succeeded is that all the new deposits are east of the Rockies and therefore beneath private land. In the Far West, where the federal government still owns up to 80 percent of the territory, the pace of exploration is slower than ever. The Institute for Energy Research has shown that drilling on land owned by the Bureau of Land Management is at an all-time low, only half what it was during the Clinton Administration.

How about offshore development? For a few brief months, the Administration actually talked about opening up new areas for exploration. Then came the BP oil spill and since then the Gulf of Mexico is becoming a backwater. Of 51 rig platforms stationed in the Gulf, only 21 are under contract and 15 actually drilling, a utilization of only 41 percent. The rate in rest of the world is 83 percent and in Europe and the Mediterranean 96 percent so there’s plenty of demand out there. Fourteen rigs have left the Gulf over the last two years and the pace is accelerating. Since the Gulf provides 30 percent of our domestic production, this is bound to have an impact.

This bureaucratic foot-dragging is recognized all over the oil industry. “These have been the most difficult three years from a policy standpoint that I’ve ever seen in my career,” Bruce Vincent, president of Swift Energy, told the annual meeting of the National Association of Petroleum Engineers last week. “They’ve done nothing but restrict access and delay permitting.” And that doesn’t even include the Keystone Pipeline, where the Administration kicked away 700,000 barrels a day, 4 percent of our total consumption. And all this isn’t supposed to have an effect on gas prices?

In truth, though, all these considerations are long-range. What is having a more immediate impact is probably the easy money policies of the Fed. Oil isn’t climbing so much as the dollar is depreciating. As the Wall Street Journal notes, if President Obama is ready to reap the reward of rising housing and stock prices, it’s only fair that he accept rising commodity prices as well. This is treacherous territory. Every major downturn since the Arab Oil Boycott of 1973 has been preceded by a run-up in oil prices. It seems to signal an inflationary bubble in the economy that is about to pop.

So what can the Administration do between now and November? To be frank, they haven’t a clue. President Obama is a lawyer, not an economist or a scientist. His knowledge of energy is drawn from the chitchat in the faculty lounge.

In any case, wherever supply and demand are concerned, Democrats are rarely willing to concede to reality anyway. Bernie Sanders is already yammering about “speculators” and the apologists in the press are lamenting that “the President isn’t to blame for gas prices.” There are even off-the-wall stories claiming that drilling and pipelines will only make things worse. “The Canadian plan [for building Keystone] was to use their market power to raise prices in the United States and get more money from consumers,” proclaimed Bloomberg breathlessly — just as every entrepreneur plans to acquire “market power” to “get more money from customers.” Only to end up have the market end up claiming power over them. When defending something like the Obama Administration’s energy policies, it’s always important to make simple things sound complicated.

At bottom, the real problem is what Charles Murray describes in his new book, Coming Apart —the growing gap between college-educated people schooled in the wish fulfillment of “green energy” and the hard-won, hard-nosed wisdom of blue-collar America. To the elite in New York, Washington and San Francisco, energy generation is something we’re trying to put behind us. It’s déclassé. Only in blue-collar regions like Pennsylvania, Ohio and North Dakota do the realities of energy become visible, tangible, and audible — and taxable.

The good news for Republicans is that the battle lines are drawn. After a summer of $5 gas plus power shortages in industrial regions, the results of four years of Obama energy policies will be hard to avoid. And there won’t be any George Bushes around to take the blame.

About the Author

William Tucker is news editor for RealClearEnergy.org.

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POST American| 3.2.12 @ 6:38AM

"AS the UN 'Agenda 21' kicks into high
gear and 'AWE---stare--'IT'--he' is
rolled in --NOTICE-- energy is starting
to be soft programmed as a 'privilege'.
Meanwhile, Warren Buffet's X-port
of 80% of our Alaskan oil to RED China
---isn't even mentioned."

"---AGAIN, NOTICE, as the REAL
campaign approaches ---the REAL
issues 'disappear'."

------------------------------------WE ARE

Consider the word--------'AWE--stare--'IT'---he'

and, even better,

-----------------------'SSSSSSSSSS-----------------------
----------------------------US------------------------------
--------------------------STAIN---------------------------
----------------------------Abel----------------------------
----------------------------'IT'------------------------------
-----------------------------he'------------------------------

BE AWARE that word and ALLLLL it implies.

Aside from the fact the entire thing was contrived
by teh Club of Rome 4 decades ago

BE aware just what's been 'sustainable' in recent history
(death camnps/ prostitution/mafia core-ruption/the North Korean 'die-nasty'
etc. etc)

BE AWARE, the USSR was NEVER
overthrown, or even thrown off by the Russians
themselves.

BE AWARE there was NEVER even much of
a plot against Stalin even during the heyday
of the state terror of the 20's and 30's

BE AWARE, it was ONLY a massive military
defeat that brought down Hitler ---and the
conspiracy that DID attempt to do him in
only arose after serious military reverses

BE AWARE, Mao's image is STILL exalted

"Understand, during the rise of Hitler
there were STILL sovereign nations
existing to resist and fight against that
tyranny. When the NWO gets installed,
there will be NOTHING to stand in the
way of its hellish 'age-enda'."
-ENDAME
(over 10 MILLION views online)

-------------------BE VERY AWARE--------------------

Timothy L. Pennell| 3.2.12 @ 8:42AM

For starters, Pharaoh does not possess any "Environmentalism Fantasies" in his brain. He could give a sh*t about all that. Remember. This is the guy who turned a Blind Eye to BP's Deep water Oil Rig. The guy who gave that Rig an Environmental Impact Study WAIVER, and a SAFETY AWARD, in exchange for bags full of money. You don't get to be the #1 recipient of BP Money, by doing nothing. (Does anybody know where that $20 BILLION went?)

As a great man has said, many times over the years: "The Environmental Movement is where all the Communistas gravitated to, after The Wall came down." (Paraphrasing) That's what he is. He's a Watermelon. Green on the outside. RED on the inside.

Everything he does, he does for him. Like any good Chicago Crime Boss, the Muslim wants his Cut. Everybody pays.

He wants high Energy Prices. He's said it many times over the course of his Political Life. He wants to get to a price comparable to what the Europeans pay. (Can you say $10 a Gallon?) He wants a Health Care System that is comparable to what the Europeans have. He wants Carbon Taxes and Cradle to Grave ENTITLEMENTS comparable to what Europeans have. He wants us to be like Europe.

Have you SEEN what Europe looks like, lately?

Another reason he wants those Gas Prices jumping, is the TAX MONEY he received from every gallon of Gasoline. 7%? Is that what I heard? So, with every increase in the Price, the Chicago Crime Boss gets a bigger Cut. Money that can be used to keep his Street Gangs (ACORN/SEIU/AFL-CIO/La Raza) fat and happy.

1st rule of Dictatorship: Don't talk about Dictatorship. (Wait. That's Fight Club)

The 1st Rule of Dictatorship is: Keep your Brown Shirts well paid. Like any good Muslim Despot, Abu Hussain has his people, that he can send to Dissident's Homes, to Terrorize their Families. These things cost money.

Wind Mills and Solar Panels? GE. Boone Pickens. The Fat Liar in Omaha. They don't work. They're unreliable. And nobody wants them anywhere near where they live. The only thing that they seem to be good for, is serving as a Money Laundering Operation for Hussein's biggest Campaign Bundlers. Think Solyndra. Global Crossing. All the other "Green" Companies that Barry has doled out OUR Money to. (Of which he gets a Cut) And, of course, all of his Millionaire and Billionaire Buddies, who's love of Money makes them easier for the Dictator to Control.

Everything he's done, has been an effort to make things cost more. He had his Energy Secretary, and his Interior Secretary (That POS Salazar) FORGE DOCUMENTS that were drawn up by a Study Group that they hired. They CHANGED the findings of the Group, so as to show Cause, for a Drilling Moratorium. They were willing to Break The Law. "By any means necessary." That's what MARX would have wanted. The Keystone XL Pipeline was "looked at" for 3 YEARS. I believe that the State Department had already given it a Green Light.

Will this be his Waterloo? I don't know. The Country looks nothing like the Country I grew up in. Everything is different, now. It's like, Bizzaro Amerika.

Up is Down. Black is White. Minorities are the Majority. Gay is good, and "GOD SUCKS". It's okay to smuggle guns to another Country's Drug Cartels. It's okay to play 90 rounds of Golf, and take 16 Million Dollar plus, Vacations, while you push everybody else to SHARE in the SACRIFICE. The President decides what is Constitutional, which Laws he feels like Enforcing, and when the Senate is in Recess.

The Boy Scouts are considered a Radical group of Religious Fanatic Homophobes. SHAME has become a 5 letter word. Fathers are going the way of the Rotary Phone. Sluts and Whores are now called: Women's Health Care Spokespersons. Having a Baby is akin to having a Disease. And, the only channel that comes in on the Television, is the Sodom and Gomorrah Channel.

What was the question: Will Gas Prices be his Waterloo? 20 years ago I would have said: Yes. 10 years ago I would have said: Yes. 4 YEARS AGO. But, that was when we still lived in America.

I don't know what will happen here. This is not MY America. These are not my Stars. This is not my President. The Muslim Boy, supposedly Born in Hawaii, who has a Connecticut Social Security Number that doesn't register with E-Verify.

This is Bizzaro Amerika, now.

Anything could happen.

Linda| 3.2.12 @ 9:20AM

I totally agree. But I have heard military boys atalkin', and they dont like it either. So he doesnt have as much control as he thinks he does, me thinks. But all we can do it wait & see!

joanne| 3.2.12 @ 10:04AM

I don't believe one word this arrogant KING has to say. I hope that there are many like me.....waiting to lower the boom against him and vote against him. May he lose in a landslide. He is a liar, a muslim,who doesn't give a rats behind for anyone or anything but himself!!!!!

MWK | 3.2.12 @ 11:31AM

This must be the most paranoid group I have ever seen. Disagree, fine. Shout and rant, fine. Call for military overthrow of the US government and you have lost me and 99.999% of real US citizens. Thank God for democracy so the majority gets their way.

JUST WONDERING| 3.2.12 @ 2:53PM

"Purp", is that you?

RAMIII| 3.2.12 @ 4:39PM

So you are in favor of mob rule?

Dmac | 3.2.12 @ 5:16PM

We are a republic, that means the majority only gets its way on a vote, not on law or policy. It was set up that way so the majority can not trample the rights of the minority.
As for the military doing anyhting, forget it. Those guys still honor the Constitution, thats what they work for. The president is only Command and Chief when he is acting legally and issuing legal orders. The military does not have to obey any illegal orders.
The grumblings you are hearing from groups like Oath Keepers is that they will obey the Constitution and stand down when "We the People" rise up. They're already ready, they're waiting on us to do what our forefathers told us we would have to do. Why do you think our forefathers wrote the Bill of Rights the way they did? They knew that one day we would have to over throw our own version of King George.

Dennis| 3.2.12 @ 6:08PM

Thank God and the Founders that we do not live in a democracy. We used to live in a constitutional republic, but are rapidly losing that.

jcrew| 3.2.12 @ 11:49AM

There are many like you Joanne. Only problem is the inbreeding capital of the world is Arizona, are you close. Oh, and your missing an apostrophe on "rats", it shows ownership. So the behind belongs to the rat. You wrote it as a pluralized form of rat. Just thought I'd let you know for your next Mountain Dew and meth fueled rant. Go get 'em, tiger!

Norman Conquest| 3.2.12 @ 12:23PM

Dear jcrew,
One who misuses punctuation as you do and who seems to be incapable of expressing a coherent thought really shouldn't criticize other people's minor mistake with an apostrophe. Your post was good for a laugh though. You are just another smug liberal too stupid to know how stupid you truly are.

Fa-Qu Ediyot| 3.2.12 @ 12:54PM

Hey Normal Ediyot,
Have you even read a handful of the posts on this site? And you call him stupid?!

Norman Conquest| 3.2.12 @ 2:36PM

No, but I read yours and you're absolutely right, I should call you stupid.

JUST WONDERING| 3.2.12 @ 2:55PM

"Jack London", is that you?

jcrew| 3.2.12 @ 3:13PM

Believe me, I know how stupid I am. That's why I wallow in self-pity practically every once in awhile. That's what causes me to lash out with antisocial comments. At least I have still been able to contribute to mankind.

Dmac | 3.2.12 @ 5:18PM

Please tell us how you contribute to mankind?

jcrew| 3.3.12 @ 5:49PM

By converting miscreants such as yourself into someone who can contribute to society through my reasoning and soundness of mind. You'll do a lot of good as the guy who cleans the food court at the mall. It's a small step but it beats sniffing urinal cakes in the janitor's closet.

afterthought| 3.2.12 @ 1:28PM

Hi crew. Where did you ever get such an inventive name? Catalogue sophistication. Oh gees Crew, did I spell that wrong? The whole will never be greater than the sum of the parts on your watch! No sir....

carnot| 3.4.12 @ 1:36PM

now that's funny! a wholesome thought!

JUST WONDERING| 3.2.12 @ 2:53PM

"jharp", is that you?

jcrew| 3.2.12 @ 11:41AM

Oh are you talking about a military coup? Is this from the soldiers down at the pool hall by the base you frequent? You know, in a way my tax dollars are paying for all the drinks they buy you so you're welcome. Get a job and stop leeching of those military boys!

JUST WONDERING| 3.2.12 @ 2:53PM

"Purp", is that you?

Purp| 3.2.12 @ 6:59PM

Good Grief, no, I can do better than that.

From the Desk of Media Matters| 3.2.12 @ 10:42PM

Pierre "Purp" Pelosi,

Please see comment below re your deductions 'alternative lifestyle anal exploration research and development' expenses.

And please stop embarrassing us.

- MM staff

Anthony| 3.2.12 @ 4:59PM

I'd rather be spending my hard earned tax dollars on drinks for soldiers than on Obozo's golf carts, and Rapper Nite at the White House.

Dmac | 3.2.12 @ 5:21PM

jcrew,
Shut your face you twink bitch. You have never paid for a service man or woman's drink. They've earned every damn penny they were ever PAID. You aren't worth the dog shit on the bottom of they're boots. And any one of them could shove their hand up your ass and pull out your tonsils.

Anthony| 3.2.12 @ 7:27PM

Well said Dmac. Bravo!!! The problem with your suggestion is that jcrew would like it way too much, hence, it would become a right demanded by the left to have their tonsils extracted from their asses!!!

jcrew| 3.3.12 @ 4:35PM

Actually, dummy, it would be their boots not they're boots. That would come out as they are boots if you took out the contraction. So you are implying that our soldiers are boots. Go ahead and join the Taliban. I pay for their drinks through my taxes just like you support illegal aliens with yours Einstein. With the repeal of DADT we do have a lot more boys into fisting. You should try it, it might loosen you up a bit. Or stick to acting like you're attracted to girls.

beebop2| 3.3.12 @ 5:10PM

I can only imagine what a delight you are to live with.

jcrew| 3.3.12 @ 5:51PM

I know, that Anthony guy is so feeble. Glad you're on my side. I bet he's the roommate who scares off all the girls because his mom never loved him and he can't relate.

jspew| 3.3.12 @ 6:33PM

Actually, is this one of your many comments on 3/3 that you have posted - while strangely remaining mute on the RELEVANT FACT QUIZES below.

jcrew| 3.3.12 @ 8:00PM

Not sure what quizes is? You don't get to make up your own words. At least not in this space outside of your Mongoloid head that some of us call reality.

jbigot| 3.4.12 @ 11:59AM

Not sure what the limit of your bigotry is. Bigoted against Mongolians. Bigoted against all central Asians or just Mongolians? Or bigoted against the mentally retarded? Can you be bigoted against yourself?

jcrew| 3.4.12 @ 2:55PM

I think you are kind of stuck on the bigot thing. It is a neat word and it is does mean you seem really smart when you use it but there are other words out there. Careful, it's a big word so I'll type slowly - thesaurus. You are welcome, I know it's like Christmas in March!

mike flynn| 3.2.12 @ 10:16AM

very colorful and entertaining screed. really. agree with much of its meaning. only i do not give obama the credit of being that smart to mastermind such a racket. just like bush jr, his administration was usurped the day before inaguration, with POTUS going along for the ride, or else.

Timothy L. Pennell| 3.2.12 @ 11:13AM

You still don't get it.

It's ALL him.

He went from the Muslim Schools and Mosques of Indonesia, to the Halls of Harvard, to the Streets of Chicago, to the Floor of the Senate, to the most Powerful Man in the World, in the Historical Blink of an eye. And you don't give him any CREDIT? You don't think he's SMART enough.

You better wake up, son.

I never heard anyone call Hitler, Smart. Never heard anyone say that about Lenin, Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao, Castro, Mugabe, or Chavez, niether.

There's more to getting things done, than being SMART.

Besides. Whoever said that YOU, are the Official Arbiter of who's Smart and who is not.

Sometimes all a man needs, is to be Devious. Devious, and Single Minded.
That can get a lot of BAD done, in a short period of time.

DRed| 3.2.12 @ 11:47AM

I do admire the way you keep lying about the muslim schools in Indonesia that Obama went to. St. Francis of Assisi was a muslim? It's almost like you refuse to accept facts that get in the way of your paranoid world view. Weird.

DLiar| 3.2.12 @ 12:49PM

DLiar:
"But reporting by CNN in Jakarta Indonesia and Washington D.C., shows the allegations that Obama attended a madrassa to be false. CNN dispatched Senior International Correspondent John Vause to Jakarta to investigate."
"How deeply stupid do you have to be to read that article and conclude that Obama went to a madrassa?"

Reprobate Charlatan DReadful:
"It is notable that the notable liar emotionally prattles it is extremely stupid to doubt the reporting of CNN and of CNN correspondent John Vause on the Muslim school the liar in chief attended."
"It is notable that the CNN correspondent John Vause is the CNN correspondent who in late July last year reported on the U.S. debt, and showed through bar charts how Bush was responsible for $5.070 trillion of this debt, while Obama was responsible for $1.440 trillion of this debt."

DLiar:
"derp derp derp"
"You are clearly wrong, you idiot, and you refuse to admit it."

carnot| 3.4.12 @ 1:41PM

attending or not attending a madrassa doesn't exhaust all the options knucklehead.

DLiar| 3.2.12 @ 1:36PM

DLiar:
"First off, Obama never said that he wanted everyone in America to go to college."

DLiar In Chief:
"That is why it will be the goal of this administration to ensure that every child has access to a complete and competitive education - from the day they are born to the day they begin their career."

DLiar:
"It's less radical sounding when you include all the words."

Jones | 3.2.12 @ 9:54PM

Obama's election is proof that 54% of American voters are stupid

jcrew| 3.2.12 @ 11:31AM

You have way too much time on your hands. At least the internet has provided a way for you to keep yourself busy. Better than you setting fires in people's trash cans and shooting cats. Seriously, get out some more, enjoy the sunshine and smile. Don't spend your life creating things to be outraged about it's such a waste of time.

Annette | 3.2.12 @ 1:05PM

Funny comment coming from a person with 15 comments on this article alone. Looks like you have nothing but the internet yourself.

jcrew| 3.2.12 @ 3:17PM

Ever hear of multitasking? I was totally balancing my checkbook, clipping coupons, playing Farmville and listening to Peter, Paul & Mary when I left all those. Oh yeah I watched some Rachel Ray too.

stiltskin| 3.2.12 @ 9:34PM

probably scratching your butt at the same time... boy are you just wonderful!!

KellyinBoston| 3.2.12 @ 2:54PM

LOL

JUST WONDERING| 3.2.12 @ 2:54PM

"jharp", is that you?

carnot| 3.4.12 @ 1:42PM

Internet is spelled with a capital I you Idiot... :-) ....

Von Mises Jr.| 3.2.12 @ 4:29PM

Timothy is spot on. ObamaCare is not about health care. Dodd Frank is not about fixing the financial markets. Taking over the studen loan program is not to advance education. And oil drilling is not about oil.
They are all about fundamentally transforming the country into a Marxist dictatorship. And for Purp in disguise, and you other liberal trolls; this is not about Democrat and Republican. Chris Christie, the hero of the GOP, is passing Agenda21 in New Jersey under the guise of "Sustainable Jersey." This will crash the housing market further and destroy property rights.
For you lefties, guess who Fannie, Freddie, HUD and GMAC are foreclosing on? The low end home owners. Nice little house you have there. Be a shame if something happened to it.
Well what's happening is that your benevolent government is going to let you stay there and rent from them. Even half-bright liberals should be able to figure this out.

SCPOret| 3.2.12 @ 5:01PM

Everyone keeps saying he wants ust to be more European - but that is not his aim - Read the book "The Roots of Obama's Rage" and you'll find his agenda goes much farther than turning us into Europe. After you read it you will find that you can see what his next move will be.

Purp| 3.2.12 @ 7:13PM

" The Country looks nothing like the Country I grew up in. Everything is different, now. It's like, Bizzaro Amerika." - and when did you grow up Timmy? What planet do you live on? Your rants are so way off the mark, it's just amazing your head doesn't explode. I'm actually concerned you might hurt yourself you're so full of hate and bigotry... In any case, you can't, shouldn't and it won't work to lay all that you see ails America at President Obama's door.
I might also add that some of what you see ails America is not an ailment in my book. For example, banning gay scout leaders from the Boy Scouts IS Homophobia. They don't ban straight men from being girl scout leaders or Den Mothers from the Cub Scouts. Why the ban?
Rush Loudmouth calling anyone names guarantees they were standing up for someone's rights that he doesn't agree with. Him using slut and whore might even get his fat a* fired.
Anyone with 1/2 a brain can figure out with more oil being produced now that under Bush and America exporting gasoline overseas, it isn't lack of supply in America that is raising prices. Follow the money - who or what is making money off the price rise? http://www.usatoday.com/money/.....52298812/1
The American economy has been in decline since the days of Ronald Reagan deregulating whatever he could and finished with GW Bush and his policies that led to the 2008 economic crash. the decline of unions and the middle class track in unison Reagan's his time. 'They are connected and as the 1% climbs, the 99% declines. The trickle-down theory has been tried and doesn't work and we today are living proof of the results.
All the Republicants have to offer is the same old tired trickle down voodoo economics that Papa Bush called Reagan's policies.
A new is dawning with the success of Barack Obama and his next 4 years to come. Get used to it, embrace it, love it, it's our time.

Kultursmog| 3.2.12 @ 8:53PM

Purp, could you possibly find a way to be any more stupid? The Boy Scouts is a private organization, and they can let in whoever or rule out whoever they want. They won that fight, now get over it and move on.

That Georgetown chick, Fluke, really is a whore as well as a parasite if she thinks it's the taxpayers' duty to subsidize or outright finance her sex life. So, in this case, Rush was quite right. I found his analysis spot-on as well as entertaining, as did most of the people who understand his illustration of absurdity by being absurd.

The unions are NOT declining. Ask the governors where the public sector unions are bankrupting the states. The TRADE unions are on the downhill slide, and, in fact, have been thrown under the bus by the muslim-in-chief himself with the Keystone XL pipeline stall.

Also, for all you 1% haters out there I have a simple question. Do any of you have any first-hand knowledge of a single poor person creating jobs in the private sector or employing anyone???

Purp| 3.2.12 @ 9:20PM

What a typical duma** right wing dittohead. Not that the truth matters to any of you, but the girl was testifying on behalf of women who use contraceptive medication for ovarian cystosis syndrome and other medical conditions relieved by the hormones in the contraceptives. And, she doesn't have any of those conditions. She has a friend with the condition.
The sex angle was completely fabricated by fat a** windbag Rush Loudmouth and hopefully people of sense with shut him up.
And yes, the # of union members are declining, from 30% 30 years ago to 8% today,which is why all you duma**es make less money than your fathers, because the rich have convinced you to vote against your own best interests and support the rich man's party. Not unlike the poor white boys in the South that never owned a slave that fought for the rich plantation owning slaveowners in the Civil War. It really is sad how y'all could not see this.
Oh, and the Keystone Pipeline boondoggle - Ask the Canadians why they don't build it across their own land to the Pacific? The Canadians don't want the dirty, nasty stuff invading their clean country - better to dump on the stupid Americans that will fall for the rich man's manipulation. http://www.energybulletin.net/.....ern-canada
To your 1% question - Since the Bush Tax Cuts gave the lion's share of the tax cuts to the 1%, where are all THOSE jobs, hmmmm? It's BullExcrement and you know it. They created jobs alright - any jobs created in the last 10 years where in China, in India, in Brazil, Mexico, VietNam, Poland, Czech Republic - but not here, and you know that too.

Kultursmog| 3.2.12 @ 9:42PM

Now I feel better. I've gained entry into the club!!! It seems you're nobody on here until you've been flamed by one of the liberal mouthpieces.

Until the housing bubble burst there were LOTS of jobs. The RV industry(campers, boats, bikes, quads and other assorted toys) was booming, as was the construction industry, the auto industry, consulting, and the service industry booming as a result of all of the above. Do I need to add the the housing bubble was blown into fruiting by the democratic policies of forcing banks to loan to people who couldn't pay, meanwhile the whole bubble was being blown larger by the same loose money policies that are now eroding our dollar?

Timothy L. Pennell| 3.3.12 @ 10:11AM

Welcome. Now you can wallow though the mindless Scribblings of Purp, and Vtwin, and Dred, and Doctor Dumb*ss, and even the Girlish whimsicalities (Is that a word?) of Alan Brooks. Soon to be Alana. (He wishes)

I forgot jcrew.

Gee. That NEVER happens.

Kultursmog| 3.2.12 @ 9:43PM

And as far as the Bush tax cuts hitting the 1% disproportionately, that's fair since they pay a disproportionate share of the taxes to begin with. Almost half of the U.S. population pays NO income tax whatsover. Those are stats right out of the IRS itself

Kultursmog| 3.2.12 @ 8:54PM

By the way, I've watched these posts for a long time until I could hold back no longer. TLP and VonMises, you guys rock by the way. I'm a big fan.

Bobby | 3.2.12 @ 9:04PM

Can I get the government to give me $1000 a year for recreational sports too? That is the point of Rush's tirade. Stupid girl is not denied access, she just doesn't think she should pay for it. Furthermore, she chose to go to that school knowing that she would demand they change their policy for her. She should have gone somewhere else. Kind of makes her a C*nt (the word used by Bill Mahr about Palin).

Purp| 3.2.12 @ 9:24PM

She wasn't talking about what she needed or wanted - that's how stupid Rush Loudmouth is. The bigger question is why any of you believe the entertainer as if he's bringing you news - he's not. He lies to amuse himself and laugh at you while he banks another million.
Oh, and Bill Maher shouldn't have used the C**T word - Dunce would have been more appropriate for Sarah "I can see Russia from my House " Palin. Getting divorced I hear - good ol' fashioned down to earth conservative woman, that one is.

From the Desk of Media Matters| 3.2.12 @ 10:44PM

Piere "Purp" Pelosi,

Please see comment below re claims deductions for 'alternative lifestyle anal exploration research and development' expenses.

And please stop embarrassing us.

- MM staff

SUBVET| 3.2.12 @ 7:31PM

Hey brother I wouldn't be walking outside late at night.

flynlownslo| 3.3.12 @ 11:44AM

Just a factual correction Timothy...Gas tax is currently fixed at 18.4 cents per gallon, diesel fuel at 24.4 cents per gallon. The tax doesn't vary with the pump price. An interesting side effect is that when EPA institutes higher Cafe standards requiring auto makers to produce cars that get higher mileage, gas taxes provide LESS revenue.
On the production side, fewer drilling permits and less production means lower royalty payments and permit fees to the treasury.
Since oil royalty payments are the second largest income steam to the federal govt. (second only to income taxes) the Obama administration is reducing the funding available for his welfare state. To continue paying for the entitlements he'll either have to borrow more from China or have the FED buy more Treasuries with money hot off the printing press further devaluing the dollar.

Controse| 3.3.12 @ 7:01PM

Don't forget we overthrew a king once before. We didn't talk him out of controlling our lives. We gave him no choice. Never forget the military value honor above life itself. They swore an oath to defend the Constitution not the pretender-in-chief. I am sure once push comes to shove they will.

Alan Brooks| 3.2.12 @ 1:50PM

"-----------------------'SSSSSSSSSS-----------------------
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Has PostAmerican been taking dilaudid again? SusCainandAbel energy!
Fact is, you guys just don't want Green to succeed
-- don't you think you are taking opposition a bit too far? No one can say you aren't spoilers- you are the contrarians of all contrarians.

carnot| 3.4.12 @ 1:50PM

yawn. you're missing the point of the thread: Obama doesn't care either. It's simply a mechanism toward his real objectives.

Carbonicus| 3.2.12 @ 10:21PM

"Sustainability" = sustainabilchemy.

BP was the 6th largest holding on the "Dow Sustainability" Index on the day the Macondo well blew in the gulf. They had won a stack of awards from "sustainabilchemy" NGOs in the previous 8 years since the start of the "Beyond Petroleum" campaign.

This isn't about "the environment" (for many/most of them). Pay attention people: they've figured out that collectivism won't be easy at the polls, but the way you wrest control of capitalism, free markets, industrialization, consumerism, prosperity, etc. is through CONTROL OVER ENERGY. That's what this is all about.

As to the prospect that energy could be His waterloo, we should only be so lucky.

Good article, Bill

Alan Brooks| 3.4.12 @ 9:22PM

"blaming Bush won't cut it anymore."

Bush is not to blame for an entire decade; but the Derb said it best: Bush hadn't a conservative bone in his body.

Bush conserved nothing; not fiscally, militarily- nothing. And now you want us to vote for a Romney or someone else who will do no better than Bush? That is EXTREMELY optimistic of you.

wodiej| 3.2.12 @ 6:47AM

Gingrich is the only candidate talking about energy and has a plan for it. Game over.

Bobloblaw| 3.2.12 @ 8:33AM

what does that mean game over???? That Gingrich is going to win both the nomination and the Presidency??? Dont count on it. Count on a corrupt media and an increasingly leftist electorate to return Obama to the WH along with a Dem Senate and House. Then you can say game over.....for America

Linda| 3.2.12 @ 9:22AM

They are all blowing smoke right now. Why not, we let Obiwan get away with it, so it seems now, who can tell the bigger lie to get in the WH. I say let Ron Paul blow them all out of the water, and hes a Rep. on top of it..lol

Dmac | 3.2.12 @ 5:29PM

Elect Ron Paul and the world will be in a nuclear war within a week. While he may be correct on his points about the Constitution he doesn't seem to understand the world of today is not the world of 1789. It no longer takes 3-4 weeks to cross the Atlantic. The United States left the Monroe Doctrin a long time ago.
Ron Paul also doesn't understand what standing by an ally means. There's a reason we have bases in Europe, Asia and the Middle East. It's so if a war does break out we can confront it and contain it in someone else's backyard and not ours. One thing our politicians got right after WWII was to have bases overseas. Does anyone really want to see a war fought in the streets of America? No, so forget about Ron Paul. Pick one of the other three.

Alan Brooks| 3.2.12 @ 1:52PM

"what does that mean game over???? That Gingrich is going to win both the nomination and the Presidency???"

No, Wodiej is no 'tard, he knows Gingrich never had a prayer..

JUST WONDERING| 3.2.12 @ 2:56PM

"Vance Jones", is that you?

Kelly Staples| 3.2.12 @ 7:04AM

How long will it be until a pinko or compassionate conservative comes up with the bright idea of "fuel stamps?"

WRTolkas| 3.2.12 @ 8:11AM

We sort of had to use "fuel stamps" while I was stationed in Germany in the early 1970s; except we paid for a ration book for liters of gasoline. This was so we did not pay the German tax on the stuff. The idea of a ration card in some instances controlled our travel somewhat. I had a motorcycle so I was literally awash in gas.

Everyone have a safe weekend.

theo | 3.2.12 @ 3:23PM

It's a good thing, I am here in Germany. Used the stamps back then getting that tax break

TommyS| 3.2.12 @ 10:10AM

You may have just given the libs and Tornadobama a new idea as to how to buy some votes. They (the moochers) would then have all needs for cash covered by we the (working) people.

jcrew| 3.2.12 @ 11:44AM

Oh yeah that's a good one, thanks guys. You are so smart. Stickers for everybody! Oh TommyS, I just got my tax return and bought some new sneakers and a Playstation 3. That new Mortal Kombat game is tight. Thanks for working so hard, all I had to do was have three kids now I'm set.

Bob Grant| 3.2.12 @ 12:59PM

Why don't you take a hike.

I can handle comments from the other side by a certain few because they are original and make me laugh - I won't indulge who for fear that I'll encourage them - but yours sir/maam are just insipid.

Just move along and don't waste any of your or our time.

jcrew| 3.2.12 @ 3:21PM

Sorry you find me hard to handle. On the other hand I totally used insipid on Words With Friends, so thanks a lot. I'd forgotten about that word, it was in a movie or something wasn't it?

JUST WONDERING| 3.2.12 @ 2:57PM

"jharp", is that you?

mike flynn| 3.2.12 @ 10:20AM

well carter had them printed up in late 70's. surely they are sitting in a warehouse somewhere waiting to be used.

Al Adab| 3.2.12 @ 10:32AM

Once the pump price hits the right amount, maybe around five dollars, the government will decide to instigate rationing in order that everyone get their "fair share".

Drake| 3.2.12 @ 11:54AM

Once gas hits $5, rationing will be redundant. I will be working at home 4 days a week.

SC Mike| 3.2.12 @ 7:13AM

DOE Secretary Chu’s testimony before the House Appropriations Committee will be played over and over again this election cycle. The poor knucklehead (a Nobel Prize does not imply or confer common sense) told the truth: the Obami want high conventional energy prices so they can foist unreliable alternatives on us. But they have to know that even that won’t happen, because the Greenies will soon start raising a stink about the lead. Lead? Yes, lead for lead-acid batteries so that the output of wind and solar can be stored until needed.

So how much lead do we need to make solar and wind a viable baseline load contributor? More than exists on Gaia, Mother Earth:
http://www.thegwpf.org/energy-.....usion.html

John Daniel| 3.2.12 @ 7:24AM

There is no good news. Two generations of college students have been programed to believe that nuclear and fossil fuels are evil and all we need do is plant enough fans about the countryside (and offshore) and energy nirvanna will appear. Our educrats have turned this nation into one large insane asylum.

MWK | 3.2.12 @ 11:33AM

Then give credit to this administration that licensed the first nuclear plants in decades.

Al Adab| 3.2.12 @ 11:45AM

Which they did to bribe Georgia to drop its lawsuit.

Nonetheless, yes, we need many more Nuke power plants. Another half dozen refineries wouldn't hurt either.

MWK | 3.2.12 @ 12:03PM

Wow, give them what they want and they'll find a way to turn it around. What is wrong with you all. No president is or can be 100% right 100% of the time and get agreement from everyone. Wake up. If this was a compromise, so what? That is what we need. Extremism, either left or right is a waste of time. Fun to read about, though

JUST WONDERING| 3.2.12 @ 2:57PM

"Purp", is that you?

Dmac | 3.2.12 @ 5:35PM

Thats all we've done for the last 40 years is compromise. We've compromised away our rights, our border, our education system and even our morality. Figure it out, there are those of us who have dug in our heels and will not compromise anymore. The liberals are like a spoiled child. Enough is never enough and they always want more. It's the liberals who need to compromise, and they need to do it now before a civil war or revolution breaks out.

jcrew| 3.3.12 @ 4:39PM

So you're saying you've been losing to spoiled little children for the last 40 years? That's big of you to admit, maybe you have a bit more man in you than just the way I was thinking about. Kudos, dufus.

jspew| 3.3.12 @ 6:36PM

So, this is one of your many comments on 3/3 you have posted - while strangely remaining mute on the RELEVANT FACT QUIZES below.

Melvin| 3.2.12 @ 7:36AM

As it has turned out the Global Warming initiative has been basically a tax, fee, or whatever a person wants to call it. So at least to me this, "Green Energy," that is being foisted upon the taxpayer is Plan "B." Since we can't get em with carbon tax credits, we'll get them with Green Energy, Renewable Energy, Sustainable Energy, this Green Scheme takes on the guise of all things to many people.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I have lost count of how many Green Companies have gone under after immediately receiving Stimulus funds. These, "Front" Companies as I like to call them have taken the stimulus money that is in the many hundreds of thousands of billions and quietly disappeared back into the woodwork.
People, there appears to be a ongoing fraud here that is looking to make Fannie May and Freddy Mac look like chump change, and Steven Chu is dead center in the middle of this stink-pile.
There are so many Obama Fraud Grenades going off, that Congress doesn't have the time or maybe even the will to investigate them all.
Hmm it appears my good citizens that we are being ripped off.

Dr. X| 3.2.12 @ 7:41AM

This article makes a lot of good points, but I'm not so sure energy will be Obama's undoing. It WILL be America's undoing, though.

It's entirely possible that Obama can hold off the "heat" from rising gas prices through the election by bribing his 50%-of-the-public-who-pay-no-taxes constituency with more government hand-outs and freebies. And, as the article so aptly points out, this is a lot bigger than Obama: there's an entire class of fools in the "Blue State bubble" who are behind it. It's just that now they've got a front man in the White House.

One way or the other, Obama won't lose on energy unless we ALL lose, which is exactly what's going to happen.

usagoingbroke| 3.2.12 @ 12:52PM

Dr. X, your comment is about as accurate as can be. When the house of cards collapse and we all lose our nation and our freedoms, that's when people will finally wake up and realize we've all be lied to by the progressives. At that point, unfortunately, it will be too late. This nation will turn on itself and anarchy will reign. Just look at the Occupy movement; that's a precursor to what lies ahead for all of us to deal with if Obama gets another 4 years.
Keep the faith and vote out Obama in November 2012!

KellyinBoston| 3.2.12 @ 2:22PM

usagoingbroke, your comment is asinine. Other than expressing that you don't like Obama, you make no rational point. For myself, I'm giving substantial amounts of money to Obama's reelection, since he managed to save the country from the failures of GWB and the repugs that controlled both houses of Congress for 6 of the 8 years before Obama came along. Do the math, genius.

Dr. X| 3.2.12 @ 2:51PM

Well, Kelly, you can give your money to Obama but just remember that when his plan to turn algae into gasoline doesn't quite pan out and the Iranians get a nuclear bomb and shut down the Strait of Hormuz and gasoline for your little Subaru with the "Free Tibet" sticker on it is $20 a gallon -- IF you can get it -- your friends from Roxbury will be coming into your neighborhood to cut your throat for a gallon or two. Your neighborhood will be VERY diverse then! Have fun!

jcrew| 3.2.12 @ 3:27PM

Wow, way to look on the dark side. Tell you what if they start looting I'm going to make out like a bandit. Can you say 60" TV? WootWoot.And you won't have to work anymore, you'll just have to survive like in Mad Max. Guess what I'm going to be alright cause I have a bunker. Well at least plans for one. It's gonna have a turret.

Anthony| 3.2.12 @ 4:27PM

Dr.X,
Don't forget Kelly's Red Sox sticker next to her "Free Tibet" and "My Shitsu is smarter than your honor student" sticker.
I love the smell of Roxbury burning in the morning, it smells like......victory.

Al Adab| 3.2.12 @ 6:20PM

Doesn't little Kellikins like her former Governor?

Al Adab| 3.2.12 @ 4:52PM

Ummmm Kelly,
You do realize that the collapse only came after the DEMS took control of Congress in 2006 don't you?

Dmac | 3.2.12 @ 5:44PM

Whats sad, but also amusing is that we all know the libs are few in numbers but loud in voice. They think that if the country collapses, and our government collapses it will be the free for all they've wanted all along. No one to tell them anything, no laws to stop their perverted ways.
They fail to understand a couple of simple but very important things.
One, yes their will be a time of anarchy. During that time more liberals will be put to death in one day than Texas has executed murders in the last 150 years. Yep, there will be anarchy and those of us with a plan to restore the nation will, and we'll take every liberal out that we can.
Second, we have a miltary that is second to none. That military will do its job. They will do what they can to keep us together as a nation and protect us as best they can. They will gain control of the streets and they will work with the sane people to restore a government.
Moral of the story is, tkae out all the liberals you can as fast as you can. We wouldn't want our collapse to be any different than that of Germany in the 20's, or China's in the 40's or Russia in 1917. Thats the natural way when a country re-discovers itself. It purges those who they feel brought it down.

Valerie Kaiser| 3.2.12 @ 7:52PM

This fact seems to elude the main stream media,
liberal professors, occupiers, brain dead democrats...

Kultursmog| 3.2.12 @ 8:58PM

How is that Romneycare working out over by you Kelly??

Wordmonger| 3.2.12 @ 7:43AM

The dollar is not depreciating, the valuet is deteriorating. Depreciation is the cost allocation of an asset.

JP| 3.2.12 @ 7:48AM

Just 3 years ago a gallon of gas sold for $1.85. The demise of King Dollar only sets the table for speculation. And who can blame investors. If an investor in 2009 held $1 million in a simple savings account, his $1 million today would actually be closer $980,000. He loses money just by holding it. Hence hedging. And there are big bucks to be made in commodities during international crisis. Speculators are making a bet and putting thier money where thier mouth is.

This is by no means a supply problem. Oil inventories are bigger than any time since 2002, and demand is much weaker. And we haven't even talked about our soveriegn debt.

Dmac | 3.2.12 @ 5:47PM

A speculator is not an investor. An investor would take delivery of the product he bought. Thats what makes them different and thats why speculation of oil should be outlawed. That or force the speculators to take delivery of the oil they by. Force them to make the investments Exxon, Chevron or any other of the majors has had to do.

jcrew| 3.3.12 @ 4:41PM

Way to go against free markets you socialist, marxist, community organizer! Guess you want to regulate us until we're like France. Enjoy your crepe pinko!

jspew| 3.3.12 @ 6:37PM

Way to comment, this comment being one of your many comments on 3/3 you have posted - while strangely remaining mute on the RELEVANT FACT QUIZES below.

Moe Blotz| 3.2.12 @ 7:49AM

When the EPA kept writing rules making emissions from diesel engines more strict, I thought the agency must be trying to force big trucks off our national highways. After I read and digested Mr Tyrrel's item from yesterday, I concluded that the end game is a wee bit different. Barry and his minions are in favour of converting all those dirty diesels to LNG/CNG power. Perhaps the EPA is working with the Tyrant in Chief to force an industry wide change-over to natural gas by implementing strict rules on particulate emissions. Ever higher diesel fuel prices plays a big role as well.

Drake| 3.2.12 @ 11:57AM

The crazy diesel standards also keep the ultra-efficient European diesel cares out of the U.S. market.

Part protection of GM, part protection of the ethanol industry, part stupidity.

MWK | 3.2.12 @ 12:04PM

Not true. I drive a VW diesel.

Al Adab| 3.2.12 @ 1:06PM

Taureg or Jetta TDi? Both good cars. Free choice on your part I gather?

Drake| 3.2.12 @ 1:28PM

Yes true. The German manufacturers manage to get some diesel models in with that crazy urea system (which makes the cars more expensive). But most manufacturers don't even bother trying to sell their diesel models here in the U.S.

Look at the UK - you can buy diesel Mazda's, Honda's, Subaru's, etc...

JUST WONDERING| 3.2.12 @ 2:58PM

"Purp", is that you?

Mike Hawk| 3.2.12 @ 1:16PM

Hey Drake, GM is owned by the UAW and Obozo now. They aren't a pulblicly held corporation any more. They take their orders from Oborg central.

KellyinBoston| 3.2.12 @ 2:30PM

Wow. The dumb comments keep adding up. Actually, GM is publically traded today, as it has been for nearly 100 years. Pick up one of those things they call "newspapers" and you can check the price. BTW, the stock is doing really well on the free market.

BTW| 3.2.12 @ 3:16PM

Some of these things you can pick up and check explain taxpayers are out as much as $40 billion dollars for as little as 4,000 saved jobs.

That is, taxpayers have paid as much as $10 million dollars for each job saved. Thanks for bringing that to our attention. Wow. You should keep posting here. Please.

jcrew| 3.2.12 @ 3:28PM

Let me guess, American Spectator is your source?

BTW| 3.2.12 @ 4:33PM

Let me guess, American Spectator readers are supposed to read your comments and realize how stupid they all are. Even worse how they have all been not just stupid but stupidly lying too.

Let me guess, you are going to prove how stupid American Spectator readers are and point out the lies starting with giving us your source that you know is right that you will use to show just how stupid and what a lie it is that anyone could possibly claim that it cost taxpayers as much as 10 million dollars for each and every job that has been saved so far. Even though GM can't sell a Volt even when they try to bribe buyers with another 10 thousand dollars of taxpayer money to buy it.

I'll have to guess why KellyinBoston didn't already do that herself.

jcrew| 3.2.12 @ 5:01PM

Well that what I was going to do until you called me out on it there Geronimo, now I'm going to have to come up with another game plan. Hey if I could ever ruin a secret plan you've been working on for years just let me know and I'll gladly return the favor.

BTW| 3.2.12 @ 5:25PM

Got it kemosabe.

You were going to show American Spectator readers what stupid people they are to believe all their lies with an actual real fact with a source and everything, but now you are not going to because I ruined it for you.

jcrew| 3.3.12 @ 5:56PM

Yes, exactly. Thanks for rubbing it in. Now I have to pick another website to infiltrate. Maybe a Cat Lover's site, they're a bit smarter but at least they put up a fight. Good luck Chief Dognuts.

jspew| 3.3.12 @ 6:39PM

Yes, this comment being exactly one of your many comments 0n 3/3 you have posted - while strangely remaining mute on the RELEVANT FACT QUIZES below.

Anthony| 3.2.12 @ 4:31PM

Tell that to the G.M bond holder who got F'd by Obozo.
When E.F. Hutton Kelly talks......nobody cares.

Al Adab| 3.2.12 @ 4:48PM

Anthony,
I can tell you what became of my GM common stock.

Anthony| 3.2.12 @ 5:08PM

Don't tell me Al, tell it to Kelly (when do I vote D next) in Boston.
Ah yes Boston, the home of Democrats, Drunks, and Da Red Sox!!!

Al Adab| 3.2.12 @ 6:17PM

Wait Anthony,
Didn't the Red Sox have to get that Schilling fellow from - are you ready - Arizona in order to win their World Series?

Anthony| 3.2.12 @ 7:34PM

Yes,but Shilling, despite being a Red Sox, was a CONSERVATIVE, hence, despite all he did to my beloved Yankees, being a conservative trumps baseball!!!
I love Curt Shilling.

killerman| 3.2.12 @ 6:12PM

The $26 it is trading at today is a bit lower than the $40 it was issued at after the rescue..... and you define that as doing "really well on the free market"... I would suspect you are not especially strong at math. Take care who you call dumb....those who live in glass houses and all that.

TrueBlue | 3.2.12 @ 7:09PM

Don't forget they shipped a substantial part of the company overseas to escape the regulations and taxes of the government that used OUR money to save their ass.

Kultursmog| 3.2.12 @ 9:00PM

You're just as stupid as purp. Among the largest shareholders of GM are the US government and the UAW.

MachiasPrivateer| 3.2.12 @ 7:58AM

Did you hear Chicago is going to build the Chumbulone Biomass Generating Station where Gallery 37 is currently located? It is a manure to energy plant located across the street from the largest source of cow manure in the State of Illinois, Daley Plaza!

jcrew| 3.2.12 @ 5:04PM

Did you hear that jokes that start with "Did you hear..." are unfunny, bland and corny? Oops I'm guessing not. You'll bounce back don't worry.

From the Desk of Media Matters| 3.2.12 @ 10:48PM

Pierre "Purp" Pelosi,

Is it "jcrew" now?

Seek help immediately.

And we are not just referring to your 'alternative lifestyle anal exploration research and development' expenses.

- MM staff

Mimi| 3.2.12 @ 8:00AM

Why did they change their name to..."CLIMATE CHANGE" from global warming? That was a tip off...rain changes to snow, summer changes to fall etc. on and on all natural events!
The Left's theories have never been proven by Science. It has not been "SETTLED" , But the Chu's of the world insist that we scramble and destroy what has been built by hard work and hard to come by money from our past..just Rip it apart on their say so. They never took in the facts that they could be WRONG!...Nothing has been settled!.....sure dittle around with wind, solar whatever but not on our nickle, until you prove it!
Newts the one who is on this with all of the facts.
My concern is tomorrow when I go fill up the tank.
OBAMA owns this one...BIG TIME ! He has literally been caught with his pants down....and the genius Sec. Chu should check the current info from scientists from both sides and especially recent polls on the warming issue before they go through more trillions of spending ...The public is getting livid out here in the country!

Al Adab| 3.2.12 @ 10:29AM

Global warming only came along after new ice age. Sky is falling fear mongering is just a useful too for the centralizers, the wannabe tyrants, to use in controling our options. No free markets, only "the right thing to do".

KellyinBoston| 3.2.12 @ 2:32PM

Yawn.

Mimi| 3.2.12 @ 5:12PM

MY, MY Did the above post bother you dearie?
Thanks for the attention... effective? must have been..to catch your fancy!

Dmac | 3.2.12 @ 5:55PM

The eruption of Mt Saint Helens put more gas and heat into the atmosphere than all of the heat man has ever created in his history. The volcanoes of Hawaii have been continuosly warming the Pacific for millions of years. Solar flares can change our climate in minutes.
And the liberals are so amzed at themselves that they think the few years of mans existance on earth since he could control fire has made a major differnce? Only the liberal would such a high opinion of himself.
Our climate does change, but it isn't because of what man does, it's a natural event.

oldfart| 3.2.12 @ 8:14AM

Putting up windmills has put a lot of money in GE's pocket. Gee a friend of BO!! Perish the thought.
Commerical wind farms do not work. The author left out the point that in the winter the electricity the heaters use to keep the gear oil from turning to tar is more than the windmill can generate at max output!!!!
Where is the savings there? You need coal generated electricity to keep the wind mills turning so you can you are 'green'?
I think I am going to loose my breakfast.

Claypoole| 3.2.12 @ 8:58AM

GE, Solyndra, and other recipients of millions in stimulus money, donate heavily to the Obama campaign. Green energy is nothing but a money-laundering operation for BO's reelection.

jcrew| 3.2.12 @ 11:38AM

Oh well, there's an issue with gear oil freezing, let's all give up on clean energy altogether. We don't collaborate, we criticize. That's how we became great, at the first sign of a challenge a portion of the population refused to get out of the past and spread hatred. What is it with Conservatives and vomiting, is that some sort of religious rite I missed out on? Anyways, you're welcome for the enlightenment.

Al Adab| 3.2.12 @ 11:47AM

No we don't just "give up" we let the free market decide what is and is not cost effective and plausible. The marketplace, not the central planners. That is called Freedom.

Drake| 3.2.12 @ 11:58AM

Yes! Freedom, I've heard good things and would love to try it.

jcrew| 3.2.12 @ 12:15PM

Here's a few other things to try:

Read a book.
Take a hike.
Watercolors.
Bake a pie.
Clean up litter.
Find a penpal.

Hope that helps!

JUST WONDERING| 3.2.12 @ 2:58PM

"jharp", is that you?

Anthony| 3.2.12 @ 4:36PM

"Hope that helps"
Is that kinda like " I'm hop'n you'll give me free contraceptives to help me get laid"? Just asking.

jcrew| 3.2.12 @ 12:12PM

Actually, that's called an economic theory. Freedom means something else. Nice try though, you'll be a campaign speechwriter one of these days.

Al Adab| 3.2.12 @ 1:02PM

My dear penpal jcrew:
read a book: Road to Serfdom
take a hike: to hear a voice in the wilderness
watercolors: ??
bake a pie: Jack Daniels chocolate peacn
clean up litter: OWS outside my office littering

Freedom and free market economics coexist (ha, ha, how's that for a bumper sticker?) Have great day.

Nancy in NC| 3.2.12 @ 12:21PM

jcrew: you are a Obama zombie. Tell me one avenue that government is in charge of that works efficiently and could actually make money. There's lots of brilliant minds working on green energy and how to make it efficient and affordable. When the government gets involved, it costs about 10 times as much as it should and is about one percent as efficient as it could be.

A simple question: if you needed to mail a package to California (or wherever) which do you choose: USPS or Fed Ex or UPS? If you're honest, I know you will choose one of the latter two.

Al Adab| 3.2.12 @ 1:08PM

Nancy:
jcrew is not all bad. Perhaps he and I could bet a bottle of Scotch on the election.

jcrew| 3.2.12 @ 4:37PM

Wow you have some firmly held beliefs on green energy and the mail, congratulations. A little over half of the costs made up a slight majority and 7 out of ten dollars made up 70% of spending. Woohoo now I'm a math whiz too.

From the Desk of Media Matters| 3.2.12 @ 10:51PM

Pierre "jcrew" Pelosi,

"Purp" - whoever you are today - did you not receive the list of topics to choose from? Why are you straying off topic?

We have your notarized agreement.

Stop embarrassing us.

- MM staff

gatorfan4545| 3.2.12 @ 1:35PM

where do you think all that metal for those wind mills come from thats right strip mining and how is wind mills going to work when we dont have the battery's developed to store the energy when there is no wind and for the kilowatt hour of energy produced by wind to be affordable the gov has to subsidize it at ridiculous rates it is not a viable energy source so why spend money we dont have building them if wind was such a good investment then private company's would invest in them but science is not there this argument is a mute point

jcrew| 3.2.12 @ 5:07PM

You are a Gator fan therefore you are completely clueless. Get a job.

From the Desk of Media Matters| 3.2.12 @ 10:56PM

Pierre "jcrew" Pelosi,

"Purp", take your own advice. We have contacted our legal department. You will be on your own re teabagged jaw dislocation and gerbil expenses and it will be your fault.

And save the indignation. That fault-free unalienable right to unaccountability is just business. No one - even at MM - believes that crap.

We have had it with you're embarrassing us. We hope for your sake you are listed as a dependent of "fckewe". You only have crapped in your own nest too many times (current gerbil related issues notwithstanding).

- MM staff

KellyinBoston| 3.2.12 @ 2:34PM

Actually, your comments are patently untrue (whether disingenuously or through ignorance). Windfarms (especially those in North Dakota) have generated huge profits for their investors, unrelated to tax benefits. Check your facts.

jcrew`| 3.2.12 @ 4:03PM

Actually, KellyinBoston, if you provide the facts of these huge profits for investors, as well as the source of the facts of these huge profits, then you can credibly prove how assine these people are here definitively. That's what I've been doing on this page. Don't give them any reason to think what we're saying is untrue.

jcrew| 3.2.12 @ 4:40PM

Wow you put a lot of energy into posting under my name. You all are just too easy to stir up. At least spell asinine correctly there is a spellchecker genius.

jcrew`| 3.2.12 @ 5:35PM

Actually, jcrew, if you provide the facts of these huge profits for investors, as well as the source of the facts of these huge profits, then you can credibly prove how asinine these people are here definitively. That's what I've been doing on this page. Don't give them any reason to think what we're saying is untrue.

Mimi| 3.2.12 @ 4:03PM

Honey, with all that energy their diggin-up out there...they don't need them windmills.

ON THEIR OWN LAND TOO...No OBAMA !

killerman| 3.2.12 @ 6:20PM

KellyinBoston.... check your facts on performance of GM stock

Kultursmog| 3.2.12 @ 9:05PM

The windfarms have only generated profits because the capital costs were heavily subsidized. If not for the subsidies available, no one would ever put up their OWN money to build one.

jaytrain| 3.2.12 @ 8:33AM

The ellection needs to be framed in one simple truth . Obama : He made it worse . On every street corner , in every TV ad , SIMPLE . Obama : He made it worse .

sub| 3.2.12 @ 8:34AM

barack obama is an arrogant, delusional, narcissistic pompous ass. that's it, there's nothing else. in his fantasy world, algae powers automobile engines, because he says it does. the physical world works by his decree. what a joke, what a jerk.

KellyinBoston| 3.2.12 @ 2:35PM

Name-calling and absolutely no comments of substance. Did you make it through 8th grade?

killerman| 3.2.12 @ 6:22PM

They can probably handle math better than you.

Nite| 3.2.12 @ 7:28PM

Love the adjectives and boy how true.

R. L. Hails Sr. P. E.| 3.2.12 @ 8:58AM

I am concluding forty years of engineering practice, a score of nukes, two score of fossil fueled power plants, and assessing advance technologies, mostly in energy. I think Mr. Tucker is an optimist. At one of my low points, I asked my boss, who had much more experience, what was coming. He said that some people have to learn the hard way. Americans will pay more and more for energy until the entire system will collapse. As is popular today, I have considered when the tipping point will come, a time after which there is no real fix. For reasons too complex to state here, I fear America may have already passed that date. If I am correct the most complex segments of our society, the urban areas, will be first impacted. Consider the Big Apple with no toilets, heat, or food.
Our entire energy/ environmental debate can be reduced to unavoidable cost per person, similar to death and taxes. The "green" technologies all cost too much to support our nation.

This election will define our future. We have made too many bad decisions and are out of time.

Frank Natoli| 3.2.12 @ 10:12AM

As for people learning the hard way, the problem is that very few people, even and perhaps especially the "well educated", who if you haven't noticed typically vote Democratic, have little or no concept of causality. As a fellow engineer, we live every second of our professional lives trying to get causality right, understanding from the word "go" that we have to comply with reality and not vice versa. People cannot "learn" if all their thinking is wishful. They simply move from one wish to another.

National Academy of Sciences| 3.2.12 @ 10:48AM

The council of the National Academy of Sciences is concerned about the confusion caused by the concept of causality.

In particular, the relationship of cause and effect asks scientists to emphasize analysis on causes of effects.

The NAS Council would like to make clear it is preferrable to manipulate effects of causes in the manner the Council deems proper for the good of society.

jcrew| 3.2.12 @ 4:42PM

Nothing good ever came from science. Except LSD, that was pretty good.

President Obama | 3.2.12 @ 10:50AM

I'd like higher gas prices.

Mimi| 3.2.12 @ 4:09PM

Yes.....We all know you do ! Lots of LUCK getting elected by everyone who agrees!

Secretary of Energy Chu| 3.2.12 @ 10:52AM

Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.

Al Adab| 3.2.12 @ 11:49AM

Actually, Chu said something like that when he suggested the price should be in the 8 to 10 dollar range. Gotta love these guys who know so much what is best for us poor plebs.

(full disclosure)| 3.2.12 @ 12:53PM

(NAS and IPCC are paraphrased from actual statements. Nobel Prize winner Obama and Nobel Prize winner are quoted verbatim.)

(full fair share disclosure)| 3.2.12 @ 12:56PM

(Nobel Prize winner Obama and Nobel Prize winner Chu are quoted verbatim.)

KellyinBoston| 3.2.12 @ 2:38PM

You do understand that price is a function of supply and demand, RIGHT? Its an economic thing, not a political thing.

Frank Natoli| 3.2.12 @ 3:17PM

"price is a function of supply and demand"

And when Obama, the Democrats in Congress, the judges appointed by Democrats who rule on matters of fossil fuel extraction, transportation and refining, altogether keep the "supply" in excess of one trillion barrels of oil in the ground in Alaska, offshore and in the Bakken and Rocky Mountain areas, then by your own statement the price is substantively effected, for the worse.

Thanks for the clarification!

Tommy Frisco| 3.2.12 @ 4:10PM

Kelly,
You do understand that none of our domestic gasoline refineries are operating at 100% capacity which means that domestic gasoline demand is still lower than domestic crude oil supply, which is why no one is (yet) having to wait in line for gasoline to fill their cars, RIGHT? You do understand that Govt. mandates and regulations increase the cost of doing business, RIGHT? You do understand that many coal-fired power plants and gasoline refineries are closing down because they can't make a profit, RIGHT? You do understand that businesses exist to make a profit, RIGHT? You do understand that commodity prices are affected by the value of the dollar, RIGHT?

You read Mr. Tucker's article before you started posting your comments, RIGHT? Exactly which parts did you not understand or agree with?

Int'l Panel on Climate Change| 3.2.12 @ 10:58AM

The United Nations International Panel on Climate Change is concerned about the confusion caused by the concept of causality.

In particular, the relationship of cause and effect asks scientists to emphasize analysis on causes of effects.

The UN Panel would like to make clear it is preferrable to manipulate effects of causes in the manner of not permitting the power of approval a review nor conforming to the review instead building support for taxation and rationing for the good of society.

jcrew| 3.2.12 @ 12:21PM

Quitter.

JUST WONDERING| 3.2.12 @ 2:59PM

"Alan Brooks", is that you?

Anthony| 3.2.12 @ 9:07AM

The Muslim Marxist is apparently seeding his staged rallies with phony fainters in order to keep the illusion of "The One" up.
However there appears to be no shortage of lefties with their propeller hats ready to produce whatever amout of alge Obozo needs to fuel America.
I suggest vtwin and Purp volunteer as phony Obozo fainters for the rallies to come; they'll be plenty of alge to feast on as they ride to the next staged event.

jcrew| 3.2.12 @ 12:18PM

I bet you're a real hoot at parties. Keep on shining rainbow! With your positive vibes we shall truly find enlightenment and love in our time.

Anthony| 3.2.12 @ 1:52PM

Well, judging from your posts today, it would be easy to spot you at any party, however, not one that I would attend.
You'd be the one sitting in the corner, with stains on your shirt, toking on a number, talking shit about Camus and self fulfillment.
That said, your search for "enlightenment and love in our time" is destroying America.
When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty,
There arises the recognition of ugliness.
When they all know the good as good,
There arises the recognition of evil.
Keep us posted on your quest for enlightenment, you've a long way to go.

jcrew| 3.2.12 @ 4:45PM

You forgot the part about the awesome hippy chicks hanging out. They are the best to have around and will take good care of you. Ah, Mother Earth.

Anthony| 3.2.12 @ 5:15PM

Naw, I haven't forgotten the '60s hippie chicks, who'd love to have a need for free contraceptives, and would love to burn their bras, but the consequences would be rather disasterous.

jcrew| 3.3.12 @ 5:59PM

We don't need contraceptives, that's what abortions are for. Thank goodness we live in Massachusetts where the state has to pay. Thank you ORomney!

jspew| 3.3.12 @ 6:41PM

Thank goodness, that this is one of your many comments on 3/3 you have posted - while strangely remaining mute on the RELEVANT FACT QUIZES below?

KellyinBoston| 3.2.12 @ 2:40PM

I agree, jcrew. Funny. I saw Anthony's description of you at a party. 10-1 he's never seen a J Crew catalog, eh?

Anthony| 3.2.12 @ 3:26PM

Yeah smarty, Not only have I seen J Crew catalogs, I've many of those items scattered around the house as I speak, more than you can buy, I suspect.
Still, it doesn't mean jcrew is any less a low life than I've described, no matter how nice a shirt he manages to stain and burn weed holes in.
How bout them Red Sox and their new loser of a manager!!

jcrew| 3.2.12 @ 12:18PM

I bet you're a real hoot at parties. Keep on shining rainbow! With your positive vibes we shall truly find enlightenment and love in our time.

JUST WONDERING| 3.2.12 @ 2:59PM

"jharp", is that you?

Purp| 3.2.12 @ 8:55PM

You don't even know what algae is do you twit?

From the Desk of Media Matters| 3.2.12 @ 10:39PM

Pierre "Purp" Pelosi,

You are embarrassing us.

We are suspending the $5 per post payments until there is an improvement on your part.

We sympathize with your teabagged jaw dislocation and realize it is both painful and expensive. We will continue to provide loans for your medical expenses -- for your health care that is.

We regret to inform you we will no longer accept gerbil pet food as a legitimate business expense. Aside from legitimacy issues $85 per month seems a bit much to us. As far as the legitimacy issue, the IRS is resisting the expense being categorized as 'alternative lifestyle anal exploration research and development'.

While you have our best convalescent wishes we must insist you stop embarrassing us.

- MM staff

Jodi | 3.2.12 @ 9:11AM

Check out this new fact checking website:

www.VoteFacts.org

hardcard| 3.2.12 @ 9:13AM

Thanks Mr. Pennell. Stay strong and stay in the fight.

jcrew| 3.2.12 @ 12:05PM

I bet you're fighting for air with your head shoved so far up his butt. Boom!

hint: 8th grade| 3.2.12 @ 2:21PM

I bet know one can tell your current status in life. Derp!

jcrew| 3.2.12 @ 4:52PM

Yeah, it's all about attaining status to you. What kind of separatist libertarian are you? Here's a clue: they don't care much for status out there in the militia training camps in Wyoming.

hint: no Indian beauty mark| 3.2.12 @ 5:59PM

I bet any citizen of Wyoming, or any member of any militia training camp in any of the 57 states for that matter, know why you have never set foot in either Wyoming or any militia training camp. Boom!

PattyMor| 3.2.12 @ 9:15AM

Bizzaro World had it correct. Everything good is labeled bad. Slutty women who want someone else to pay for their birth control are celebrated. Everyone is a victim; no one has responsibility.
Everyone has their hand out. People live in nice houses and want you to pay down their mortgage because they made bad deals. The OWS is filled with upper class, college educated kids who want you to pay for their education. Businesses who just want to provide you with energy are demonized. Real energy providers are excoriated.
And while Obummer goes around the country trashing millionaires and billionaires, he shoveling
billions of dollars to his millionaire and billionaire fund raisers, including Kennedy.

KellyinBoston| 3.2.12 @ 2:42PM

Ummmhhhh--Kennedy? Which Kennedy? You do know that Ted Kennedy died two years ago, right? You might want to adjust the antennae on the top of the trailer.

You're a Doof| 3.2.12 @ 3:30PM

You do know that there are other Kennedys in the world, right? One even sits on the SCOTUS. I'm not sure which one he's talking about, but to assume he was talking of Teddy is asinine.

Anthony| 3.2.12 @ 3:44PM

No smart ass, Patty Mor is not referring to Ted Kennedy, who's hopefully burning in Hell. She is probably refering to the other Kennedy fraud, Robert Kennedy Jr., who has a phony green energy company, the recipient of American taxpayer money under Obozo's crony capitalist plan.
Are you and jcrew dating?? Judging by the level of your intelligence, clearly you're both Red Sox fans!! Ha HA

jcrew| 3.2.12 @ 4:55PM

Anthony, Anthony. Oh Anthony. Wow.

Anthony| 3.2.12 @ 5:22PM

I know, I know, jcrew, you're wondering how can one man be so precient and spot on.
You should be awed, my friend.
Stay amazed..... there really are those of us so far beyond your pay grade!!!

Anthony| 3.2.12 @ 8:10PM

jcrew, you sound like my wife last night. Is this reallly you dear, in disguise?
We'll talk later.........

jcrew| 3.3.12 @ 4:48PM

Yes it is me dear. Do you really think it's OK not to wash the strap on between uses? I know you like the smell and taste of the buildup but it seems unclean. If you need me I'll be beating the children and watching QVC..........

jspew| 3.3.12 @ 6:42PM

Dear me, this is one of your many comments on 3/3 you have posted - while strangely remaining mute on the RELEVANT FACT QUIZES below.

EarthtoKelly| 3.3.12 @ 12:40AM

Ummmhhhh--Coexist bumper stickers? 13 of them? You do know every single human being that gazes upon them knows--knows--you are an idiot, right? You might want to adjust the antennae on the top of the tin foil hat.

johnadamsxii| 3.2.12 @ 9:27AM

We would be much better off investing in technology to help Canada extract oil from its oil sands.

Louis Jenkins| 3.2.12 @ 12:44PM

The problem with investing in technology, particularly windblown technology, is it keeps going bankrupt. Read today that another windmill company has laid off 200 of its three hundred workers. Has anyone thought of Obama as jousting with windmills? He's losing.

KellyinBoston| 3.2.12 @ 2:42PM

Agree with you on this one.

Louis Jenkins| 3.2.12 @ 9:28AM

Algea. Those little green plants that grow in tepid water. Next there will be mold, mildew, spores as an energy source. Even dirty socks and drawers will be viewed as an energy source. What's next Obama? The problem you have, mr. president, is that algea has more common sense than you. If this latest trend continues you will not be re-elected, so don't let the spore stained screen door bump you on your way out.

Anthony| 3.2.12 @ 9:48AM

Obozo to Mr. Jenkins: "Shut up and eat your alga".

Mike 3/505| 3.2.12 @ 9:55AM

anybody remember the episode in "Married with Children," where the aliens come to earth to steal Al's dirty sox to use as rocket fuel?

Michelle McCaughey| 3.2.12 @ 9:29AM

Well said!

cowgirl| 3.2.12 @ 9:51AM

So riddle me this... I have driven past the old Solyndra plant in Fremont, CA a couple of times over the past year. Why does a plant that produces solar energy need Pacific Gas & Electric power in order to produce solar energy?????

Al Adab| 3.2.12 @ 10:26AM

Could be it's a fraud, but that would be speculating.

cicero| 3.2.12 @ 10:06AM

"The President is a lawyer . . . ". No, the President has a law degree. He has never practiced law, and has no idea how to run a law practice - which is a business just like any other. The basic purpose of lawyers is to usher the citizenry through the intricacies of a society based on laws, rather than might. This president coulldn't solve a problem for citizenry on his best day. That is not his stated purpose. He told us when he ran for the office that his purpose was going to be to change the society as we knew it. We are being changedd from a nation of laws, to a natikon of favors, and a platform for the politically powerful to accumulate more. Something like rape and pillage out of the dark ages, but in a suit, and using a computer.
This will all end when either the people wake up, or the society collapses. I hope it is the former.

jcrew| 3.2.12 @ 12:07PM

A law practice is a business like any other? Way to simplify things so they fit in that enormous brain of yours. The only thing you need to worry about collapsing is your computer chair tons of fun.

JUST WONDERING| 3.2.12 @ 3:00PM

"fckewe", it IS you!

KellyinBoston| 3.2.12 @ 2:44PM

Huh?

Paul from SA| 3.2.12 @ 10:07AM

Are the American people blaming Obama for high gas prices?

rjh| 3.2.12 @ 10:18AM

The smart ones are. But that may not be enough.

Al Adab| 3.2.12 @ 10:23AM

One would hope so. It is the policy of this administration to make energy more expensive, make our daily lives more expensive, so that we benighted plebs turn to our betters and invest (under their direction) billions of our dollars in the chimeras favored by the rulers who know so much more than we. After all, "it's the right thing to do".

W| 3.2.12 @ 10:16AM

Obama is not incompetent. He knows exactly what he is doing with energy as part of his plan to radically transform the USA to his vision.

He is doing all he can to limit production of oil and gas which will drive up the price of gasoline. He is and will blame the "greedy oil companies and speculators" for the price increase.

Thus, after creating the "problem" of high gas prices Obama will popose a solution. The solution will be similar to Obamacare in that it will increase the federal regulation of the oil companies to the point that they do what the government wants.

The Energy Dept will then issue regulations like for energy and use of gas like HEW is now issuing regulations for health care and health insurance. There will probably be some rationing of gasoline.

Do we still want to argue who is more conservative of the four candidates, and daily tear down each candidate, and then boast about staying home if our guy isn't the nominee? Or do we want to win in November?

Al Adab| 3.2.12 @ 10:25AM

After three years now W we have a pretty clear picture of just what, "fundamentally transform America" looks like. The question is why anyone, let alone 40%, thinks this is a viable model.

Will H| 3.2.12 @ 10:26AM

When the right has to constantly shift their positions on what will sink Obama (jobs, the economy, "attack on religion," Lybia, and now gas prices, you know you're on the losing end of the election. And you know it.

Al Adab| 3.2.12 @ 12:53PM

I can't say it's a matter of shifting positions as much as keeping up with the never ending plethora of wrong decisions and mandates coming from this administration. All of us, left, right and center, need to be grateful that we collectivly still believe we can settle this at the ballot box. If that should fail us, the options are not pretty.

kwan| 3.2.12 @ 10:41AM

This so-called struggle of the left to bring us "clean" energy to protect the environment is nothing but a cover for their real intention which is to collapse our economy and in the ensuing chaos and confusion establish a Totalitarian Socialist State in order to bring "fairness" and "equality" to us all.

mwk| 3.2.12 @ 11:26AM

?????? .... paranoid

kwan| 3.2.12 @ 1:10PM

mwk...?????? .... paranoid. Da Obamabot speaks..."Don't believe your lying eyes sez he for Obama is" winning the future" for the American People."

Mimi| 3.2.12 @ 4:25PM

Start reading Saul Alinsky ....O's Bible

Kultursmog| 3.2.12 @ 9:10PM

Just because someone is paranoid doesn't mean someone isn't out to get them.

Tommy Frisco| 3.2.12 @ 12:19PM

kwan,
I agree. It would be idiotic to cut off our existing energy sources before the alternative sources are capable of replacing them at equivalent costs. These people are extremely misguided, but they are not idiots. They're certainly adept at outsmarting the folks on our side of the aisle.

Chaos must be created before radical change can be implemented. The stage is being set. Chaos is not far away.

KellyinBoston| 3.2.12 @ 2:45PM

Oh, yeah, that sounds like the reason. Because, if you collapse the economy and cause confusion is....Wait...Does that really make sense to you?

JUST WONDERING| 3.2.12 @ 3:02PM

"fckewe", you got me good! it IS you!

Kultursmog| 3.2.12 @ 9:13PM

That depends one where one sits, Kelly. If you're at the reins of power and would like to amass more power, one good way to do that is to get as many of the populace dependent on you one way or another as you can. Economic collapse followed by new government programs to "help" the people and other government programs to "solve" the problems would suit the Muslim perfectly.

kwan| 3.3.12 @ 12:18AM

Kelly don't expect any sense to be made of the plans concocted in the fevered brain of leftist psychopaths. Bill Ayers claimed after he and the Weather Underground took over the United States they would have to eliminate (murder) 25,000,000 American citizens ( no doubt following in the footsteps of his Marxist heroes Mao and Stalin) who they feared would participate in a counter revolution in an effort to bring down the new Marxist Utopia that they were going to create.

Theo Prinse| 3.2.12 @ 10:45AM

Thanks for this great article mr. William Tucker !!
I have put it immediately on my Facebook for my friends in Dutch Parliament and South Africa. I told my Democratic Alliance South African friends that in Holland we built 2.5 Gw for 6 USD where the corrupt SA Zuma regime wants to pay 9 USD !!
I am very in favor of US Thorium reactors equaling 100 conventional nuclear reactors and a substantial Electric Automobile Industry. I also support James Dewar Nerva-Rover Nuclear Thermal Rocketry although this is slightly off topic.

Don L| 3.2.12 @ 10:51AM

Thre will be no Obama Waterloo. The man could wear horns and a red suit and devour little children live for lunch and the freeloaders, the sex addicts, and the power mongers in the media and in politics will re-elect him - with many of those votes coming from corrupted churched folks, who have long ago confused salvation with social justice administered by the Marxist state.

Nancy in NC| 3.2.12 @ 12:28PM

And jcrew, purp, etc. will vote for their Messiah come hell or high water. One thing: keep your powder dry and handy. And don't come to take my stuff or I will give it to you one bullet at a time...and I've got plenty.

KellyinBoston| 3.2.12 @ 2:46PM

Crazy much?

JUST WONDERING| 3.2.12 @ 3:05PM

"jharp", you dawg, shudda known you'da be from the land of kennedy, kerry, and frank.

Birthplace of independence!!! Crazy MUCH dude!

You rock "fckewe"! I mean "jharp" ;)

jcrew| 3.2.12 @ 3:50PM

Nancy I don't believe in Messiahs or hell but yes, I do believe in high water. You said "One thing" but then you said keep your powder dry AND handy. See that's two things Nancy. That makes you a bit of a liar, which according to your incredibly sound logic makes you just as bad as your President Barack Obama. If I really wanted your stuff I'd come in my helicopter Commando style with bulletproof vests and a Rambo knife with the compass on the end. Yeah that's right I go to the flea market too. That's Commando style like the movie, get your mind out of the gutters. Sheesh.

Contrite in USA| 3.2.12 @ 4:14PM

jcrew,

I was beginning to see the light, you know, like, maybe Obama should get another 4 years, what the heck no one will know who I pull the lever for in that booth, know what I mean? But then I read this comment, and I gotta say, man, you lost me on this one. I mean, you sound like a stupid douchebag punk kid. A douchebag punk kid other kids KNOW is a douchebag punk kid. I'm just being real dude. I'm on your side. I mean, you were doing so good and all. Ya almost had me convinced and all. Just FWIW ya know? I just thought hey WTF. No matter what they say Obama rocks. Can't we do a better job showing them why? Peace.

jcrew| 3.3.12 @ 8:09PM

You have several issues going on here. First, you're come off as kind of a jerk. Well I guess that was it. Oh yeah, WTF HYR OKM HEW VRT.

jgibberish| 3.4.12 @ 12:21PM

Winning The Future
Homosexuals Yelling Righteously
Obama's Knowledgeable Morality
Homosexuals Equals Winners
Voter Revenue Theft

What, no Obama Means God?

Anthony| 3.2.12 @ 4:50PM

Admit it jcrew, you do believe in Messiahs, especially the Muslim Marxist a.k.a. "The One" who lowered the oceans upon his immaculation.
Of course, he lowered a lot more than just the oceans; the American economy, the value of the American dollar, job opportunities, the GDP, America's image around the world, and.......... his golf handicap!!!

jcrew| 3.3.12 @ 4:51PM

Oh man I bet you kill it at open mic down at the American Legion hall. Hate to break it to you but they only laugh because they think you're mildly retarded and they feel sorry for you. Even drunks have a heart.

jspew| 3.3.12 @ 6:44PM

Oh man, this is yet another one of your many comments on 3/3 you have posted - while strangely remaining mute on the RELEVANT FACT QUIZES below.

Robbie| 3.2.12 @ 10:56AM

"..This will be the first issue in four years where President Obama won't be able to cast reflexive blame on George Bush."
No, he won't. But as soon as Israel attacks Iran, he will be able to place all the blame on that. The effect of his policies will be obscured, and a major liability for the president will taken off the table, just in time for the election.
The luck of this incompetent boob is unbelievable.

MWK | 3.2.12 @ 11:37AM

And every Republican nominee, especially Santorum and Gingrich, want to attack Iran. How do you gibe that with your assertion?

Al Adab| 3.2.12 @ 11:53AM

All the US needs to do is load up the B-52 fleet with all the surplus pork bellies and drop them on Natanz. That ends the Iranian nuclear program. Perhaps however, you have a better idea how to stop that program or is it simply not something with which you concern yourself.

MWK | 3.2.12 @ 12:13PM

Not an easy question. I acknowledge that. Iran is nuts, but then so is the concept of nuclear weapons. I think that countries that get the weapon realize that they cannot use it. Israel can never use their bomb, but it (strangely) might stabilize a region when several countries have it. North Korea just decided to give up total control of their program, who knew? So is Iran a sovereign nation or not and how much should we remake the world in our own image? Very hard questions that belie the simplistic answers we get in this strange political season. And we sure don't know about all of the national tools and alliances and secret teams and secret negotiations and, and, so we are really limited in the debate over a proper course of action. At least keep an open mind.

NKOREA LYING| 3.2.12 @ 3:40PM

North Korea only agreed to give up their nukes so that we will send them food and such. As soon as we do, they will go take the nukes out of mothballs. That's what they did to Clinton to get the nuclear power technology in the first place. Will they never learn?

Robbie| 3.2.12 @ 12:35PM

What do you mean? I am simply saying that Obama will benefit politically when Israel unilaterally strikes Iran's nuke sites. Oil prices will soar, and Obama is off the hook for his ludicrous energy policies. Nothing to do with what the republican nominees do or do not want.

Stan Redmond| 3.2.12 @ 12:33PM

It won't stop Obama from blaming Bush. And sadly, it won't stop his apostles and idiot army of followers from believing it is Bush's fault.

jcrew| 3.2.12 @ 3:59PM

We don't call ourselves an army, that's a bit much. It's a bit more stealth than that, give us some credit. See, our method is to just sort of slowly take over society. Not just for him but for his followers who will rule this land while my Messiah goes on to head up the U.N. That's right; we work beside you, teach your kids, nurse your family members, invest your money it just goes on and on. You might as well move to the moon if you don't like it.

Stan Redmond| 3.2.12 @ 5:07PM

I already knew the stealth methods. it's been common knowledge from the old Soviet Union days. Something you and the idiot army should keep in mind is that the table is set for a republican president to run the country as a dictator just like obama. Unconstitutional mandates will not always be what you dream will accomplish a utopia. Why you support such a huge power grab by any one person is bwyond scary.

Stan Redmond| 3.2.12 @ 5:23PM

P.S. You don't work next to me. I own my own business. I do not tolerate frauds or lazy OWS types. I would never hire a lazy liberal. That's how I stay succesful. Unlike liberal failure companies that rely on government handouts I actually produce products people buy and enjoy.

U.S. Business| 3.2.12 @ 6:23PM

Son, as you will find out when you either successfully complete your community college courses, get kick out of community college, or get kicked out of your parents basement, we don't care what the government says who we hire.

With our investment in our capital we use to maximize our shareholder's wealth, we will hire who we want to hire. We will not hire militant muslims. We will not hire overt homosexuals. We will not hire even worse scum like occupiers. This goes for rental properties as well.

Our Constitutional rights allow us to protect our property as we see fit regardless what scum such as politicians dictate.

U.S. business has just provided you with something that can help you prosper at no charge.

And here's a bonus at no charge, the golden rule of economics:

'There Is No Such Thing As A Free Lunch'

The rest is up to you. Freedom baby.

jcrew| 3.3.12 @ 4:58PM

Yay, Freedom to discriminate. Freedom to get sued for violating actual laws. Freedom to mutter "Constitution blah blah blah" as you get laughed out of the courthouse. Freedom to escape in a fantasy world where everyone looks, acts and believes exactly like you do. Freedom to act like you know economics just because you took a Home Economics course to brush up on your sewing abilities. Freedom to fool yourself into thinking a majority of people think like you. Freedom to spend your money on MRE's, throwing stars and vegetable peelers at the gun shows with all your mouth breathing friends. You're a peach, bless your heart.

jspew| 3.3.12 @ 6:45PM

Yay, one of your many comments on 3/3 you have posted - while remaining strangely mute on the RELEVANT FACT QUIZES below.

jbigot| 3.3.12 @ 7:12PM

Your bigotry against those anti-socialist militia sympathizing tailoring aficionados who believe the protection of their own private property is synonymous with th protection of their own personal rights is appalling. You're despicable, curse your tyrannical oppression.

jcrew| 3.3.12 @ 8:13PM

Yeah well oppressing you gives me such joy. It's my mission in life to hold back trailer park dwelling, Mountain Dew drinking, meth smoking, bible thumping, gay porn watching gems such as yourself. Have fun tossing off to Guns & Ammo extremist!

jbigot| 3.4.12 @ 9:33AM

Yay, you admit your bigotry. But if good little Obama socialist homosexuals are openly bigoted against trailer park residents, and if good little Obama socialist homsexuals are openly bigoted against meth smokers, and good little Obama socialist homosexuals are openly bigoted against homosexual porn lovers sporting homosexual jcrew clothing geting homosexual joy by using homosexual expressions such as 'tossing off' whatever that homosexual expression means, just who exactly is left to actually vote to reelect the Obama socialist homosexuals other than you?

jcrew| 3.4.12 @ 3:02PM

Let's get back to my original point here Cletus. You are completely devoid of any sign of critical thinking. The drivel that kind of just flops out of your mouth is about as sensible as your love for Romney. Just stay uneducated and afraid of the outside world, us liberals are running things just fine without you.

jbigot| 3.8.12 @ 11:19AM

It is critical to think and remember that your original point is that you are a bigoted Obama socialist homosexual and you and the other bigoted Obama socialist homosexuals are ruining things just fine without the ones you Obama socialist homosexuals are bigoted against.

Rocker| 3.2.12 @ 11:15AM

Obama is not responsible for oil prices. Its that little thing called supply and demand. Iran is also part of the problem. But that wont prevent the wing-nuts from hyper-ventilating.

Frank Natoli| 3.2.12 @ 11:32AM

"Its that little thing called supply and demand"

Thanks for the clarification!

jcrew| 3.2.12 @ 12:23PM

Actually, he had it right with the supply and demand thing. You just don't know anything.

Stan Redmond| 3.2.12 @ 12:31PM

Obama has manipulated supply with his energy policies. He has also manipulated the US dollar with his rediculous Keynesian policies.

There are no natural market forces at work here. Only top down dictated central planning

jspew| 3.3.12 @ 12:53AM

Actually every single one of your posts is truly really honest to God idiotic. But this one is truly really honest to God words fail to adequately describe the most idiotic one of them all. This one is frameable. Like your first dollar bill earned. Oops, bad example, you can't possibly have any idea what the significance of that is. Occupy on dude.

jspew| 3.3.12 @ 6:47PM

Actually, this is one instance on 3/3 where you commented many times yet are strangely mute - like your strange muteness on the RELEVANT FACT QUIZES below.

jcrew| 3.3.12 @ 8:15PM

Wow, pretty harsh on Stan there. Lover's quarrel?

Frank Natoli| 3.4.12 @ 7:06AM

@jspew: you are wasting your time. The moment someone resorts to ad hominem he is announcing that he is unwilling or more likely incapable of making instead a reasoned argument to the contrary, and the only appropriate treatment for him is to ignore him.

If I were mistaken, the object of your replies would prove me wrong by himself replying with a reasoned argument, omitting all ad hominem. But he will not, for two reasons. One, the abovementioned he is unwilling or more likely incapable. Two, Obama's actions are actually perfectly rational and proceeding as planned. He and his religious environmental zealots do not want fossil fuels burned even if God Almightly gave them a guarantee that those fuels could be extracted, transported and refined without any consequences to the environment. Hence their deliberate interference, with malice aforethought, in keeping those fossil fuels in the ground satisfy both the "need" to avoid eventually burning them and raise prices enormously to "discourage" Joe Sixpack from filling up.

It's business, Sonny, not personal.

jspew| 3.4.12 @ 9:47AM

Words of wisdom Mister Natoli, words of wisdom. I couldn't resist kicking an average ordinary run of the mill typical Obama supporter - albeit one with above average intelligence than usually encountered - when he is down because his gerbil died and he decided he had nothing better to do than to post here while he's waiting for the dead rodent to pass out of his alimentary canal.

jcrew| 3.4.12 @ 3:05PM

Ah it's alimentary my dear spew. Outta here like Richard Gere, with gerbils in my rear.

Tommy Frisco| 3.2.12 @ 12:26PM

Rocker,
What has Obama done to help keep oil prices lower? If Iran is part of the problem, what is Obama doing to minimize or eliminate the problem?

Did you read Mr. Tucker's article? What part(s) do you not understand? What part(s) do you disagree with?

Stan Redmond| 3.2.12 @ 12:29PM

Obama can write them a polite 3 page letter and send Ahneedajihad an IPOD with his speeches. Maybe some bowing will help.

Mike Hawk| 3.2.12 @ 1:31PM

Hey dummy, the supply is there. Your hero Obozo won't let us get, refine it or transport it on our own land.

mwk| 3.2.12 @ 11:24AM

Wow, where to begin. How about the author of a book on Nuclear power acknowledge the licensing of the first new plants in 30 years in this administration, including funding support? Is that wrong?

Solar and wind have always been sold as long-term bets. It will take 20 years to replace a fossil fueled infrastructure that we have, so how could this guy ever compare apples to oranges.

More importantly, gasoline prices have almost nothing to do with domestic energy policies in anything less than 10 years. Takes that long to get a new field up to speed, and even then the price is set globally. We are exporting more gasoline than we are importing, what better evidence to show that the price is global? The only path to control of our own prices is to find our own local, non-exportable sources. Guess we are back to solar and wind, huh?

Al Adab| 3.2.12 @ 12:02PM

mwk:
Your own argument proves the point that central planning is not as efficient or cost effective as the free market. This administration licensed ( why do they have that power in the first place?) those plants to get Georgia to drop their suit. I think that's called a bribe.

Wind is hot air and doesn't fuel trucks or cars unless the central planners mandate something. Solar is best used individually rather than on a cammercial scale and of course onlty certain parts of the country have the climate for it.

Right about one thing. Domestic production should remain in the domestic market as a matter of national security. Why should the US assist the Chinese to pay less as an example?

What you posit in an increase in central planning for government distribution. That plan is no plan at all and is anathema to freedom which I always thought was our first priority.

MWK | 3.2.12 @ 12:21PM

I did not posit anything like central planning, just pointed out that global market forces overwhelm domestic supply when prices are set. Oil and nuclear fuel are transportable and are priced on the world market. Keystone pipeline would, by their own acknowledgement, only change prices by 1 or 2 cents a barrel, and moving it all the way to the gulf coast makes it available to the world. As it is now, this oil must be refined in Canada or the midwest, which actually lowers pricing for those that live near these refineries.

Solar and wind produce electricity cannot be exported beyond adjacent countries. As you point out solar is a dispersed, local energy source. Natural gas prices are falling on supply only because the cost of export is high, but if enough investment is made in liquifaction plants, then the price will rise.

What I do posit is that if you want the cost of energy to fall, choose a local source that is not easily transported.

Tommy Frisco| 3.2.12 @ 12:39PM

MWK,
So, what are our "local source" choices? Solar and wind cannot produe gasoline. There is not a distribution system for natural gas to power our vehicles and our vehicles are not equipped for natural gas. When that's in place, maybe then natural gas can compete with gasoline.

Please understand that we do not yet have a supply problem with gasoline. Demand is very low. We WILL have a supply problem as more and more gasoline refineries close down because they can't make a profit due to the Federal Government's taxes, regulations, and mandates. Coal-fired power plants are closing down all over the country just as Obama predicted they would.

MWK | 3.2.12 @ 1:49PM

That is why this is a multi-decades long problem, as I said in the first posting. It will take a decade to get part of the fossil fueled infrastructure replaced, with the exception of electricity, though the current grid cannot replace the oil pipeline.

Coal plants are closing because 1) they are mostly old and also not very efficient and 2) natural gas is cheap and combined cycle plants are 80-85% efficient in converting thermal to electric energy so utilities are starting a conversion. GE makes some good units.

Refineries are not closing down, actually they have begun modest product expansion to export gasoline outside of the US. Demand is low here, but climbing rapidly in China, India, and SE Asia.

Indiana Alex| 3.2.12 @ 2:27PM

You are most likely aware that the EPA has declared carbon dioxide a pollutant, but you are a propagandist, so you must spin and massage the truth, because Liberalism is despised by such a majority that your principles must remain hidden in orde to advance your policy prescriptions.

Either that or you are just plain ignorant, but that is mostly a subtle difference at best.

Tommy Frisco| 3.2.12 @ 4:28PM

MWK,
We don't have multi-decades to wait. Our country is broke and drowning in debt. We don't have time for foolish ideas like windmills, solar panels and battery-powered cars. The oil/gas, gasoline, and coal industries are the lifelblood of our economy and the best chance we have in achieving true economic recovery.

Al Adab| 3.2.12 @ 4:39PM

Tommy:
What we need is to discover a couple new gold mines and sell some federal lands to redeem foreign held bonds.

Stan Redmond| 3.2.12 @ 12:28PM

Tired old excuses.

Wind power has been gambled on with tax dollars for nearly 40 years. WE TAXPAYERS LOST. Solar has been a losing gamble for as long as wind. Aside from tiny stand alone applications it is completely useless as an industrial large scale supply. So the typical "long term investment" again is complete fabricated USDA choice bovine excriment. Politicians gambled on it a failed for the past 4 decades and it continues to fail now.

Oil is a world commodity. Oil suplies from stable countries like the USA, Canada, Mexico (sort of) and Norway show the market there is a vast supply of oil not subject to the whims of lunatic regimes. Price shocks will not be nearly as bad whenever the suicidal Mullahs start preparing for the Mahdi. Obama has personally shut down huge regions to oil production. Of course he is taking credit for what should rightfully be blamed on Bush to makeup for his idiocy. BUSH approved many leases before obama could stop them. And the technology and drilling on private land is happening despite Obama.

Frank Natoli| 3.2.12 @ 3:25PM

"gasoline prices have almost nothing to do with domestic energy policies in anything less than 10 years"

http://m.youtube.com/index?des.....jfssrKGsBU

martin j smith| 3.2.12 @ 11:27AM

Fuel prices are one of many Waterloos--the question is does the Republican Leadershit have to goal to win this election. You know I hear George Will has given up on the Presidency. ? If this is [the Leadershit's idea of running a campaign the Newt or Santorum should call the Leadershit on it and nail Romney as a loser and that Romney and his supporters do not run to WIN> Is that the kind of candidate you want ?

Paul in Colorado| 3.2.12 @ 11:52AM

Our so-called Department of Energy should be renamed to reflect its true purpose under the leadership of Mr. Chu. It is actually the Department of Energy Shortages.

Here's a great example of how this administration is encouraging energy production in America, simultaneously harassing private producers with ridiculous prosecutions and then claiming credit for their production.

Wall Street Journal - 1/25/2012
Good news: It is not a felony if a bird happens to land on your property and dies. At least not yet. That's the ruling out of North Dakota, where a federal court last week dismissed a complaint by the Obama Justice Department against three oil companies under the Migratory Bird Act ("A Bird-Brained Prosecution," Sept. 29, 2011).

Continental Resources, Brigham Oil & Gas and Newfield Production Company were accused of causing the deaths of six Mallard ducks and one Say's Phoebe, which had waded in oil pits. The criminal charges carried fines and potential prison sentences.

In a ruling that can only be called withering, district Judge Daniel Hovland contrasted "incidental and unintended" deaths during "legal, commercially-useful activity" with "hunting and poaching." The court rejected U.S. Attorney Timothy Purdon's "expansive interpretation of the law" because it "would yield absurd results": If the government's case carried the day, "many everyday activities become unlawful—and subject to criminal sanctions—when they cause the death of pigeons, starlings, and other common birds."

The court wrote that among the potential felonious bird-killing habits are cutting brush and trees, planting and harvesting crops, driving a vehicle, owning a building with windows and . . . "owning a cat." The court noted that cats kill "hundreds of millions" of birds each year and cars kill 60 million, while windows kill 97 million to 976 million. In short, every American could be an unwitting criminal bird killer.

Even the Obama Administration isn't this "crazy"—to borrow White House spokesman Jay Carney's favorite word—so this selective prosecution was probably an expression of its political hostility to oil and gas companies. By the way, Judge Hovland also noted that windmills kill "roughly 39,000 birds annually," yet the Justice Department has indicted no wind power company under the Migratory Bird Act. Mr. Purdon takes the prize for dodo prosecutor of the year.

jcrew| 3.2.12 @ 11:58AM

Waterloo? Really, that's what you're going with? How very creative and original, you should definitely be in the running for the Adam Wheeler Originality Award. You're tops, pops.

Bill| 3.2.12 @ 12:08PM

$5/gallon gas price! Obama is doomed!

Fa-Qu Ediyot| 3.2.12 @ 12:49PM

You do realize that $ 5 per gallon is incredibly cheap for most people all around the world. You live in a bubble of you're own stupidity...

JUST WONDERING| 3.2.12 @ 3:06PM

"Jack London", your to funny!

Al Adab| 3.2.12 @ 3:07PM

Excuse me, but so what about the rest of the world. We can prosper ourselves if we chose to do so. Who cares what Europeans, or Indians, or Chinese pay for their gasoline?

Tommy Frisco| 3.2.12 @ 4:33PM

Al Adab,
Are you really exchanging comments with someone named Fa-Qu Ediyot? I realize we all need to do what we can to get the truth out, but how low are you willing to go? :-)

Al Adab| 3.2.12 @ 4:38PM

Good point there Tommy. In my faith in mankind and rational thought I must have suffered a brain lapse. Have a great weekend.

Theme Song From 'Jaws'| 3.2.12 @ 5:44PM

Any idea what Marcus Aurelius might have to offer on the subject?

Al Adab| 3.2.12 @ 6:28PM

:) ah yes, "bantering..."

TommyFrisco| 3.3.12 @ 12:03AM

Al Adab,
Keep the faith, my friend. I don't mean to discourage you.

Stan Redmond| 3.2.12 @ 5:17PM

We aren't the rest of the world. So move somewhere else if you want high gasoline prices.

martin j smith| 3.2.12 @ 12:12PM

jcrew=obama ?

jcrew| 3.2.12 @ 12:29PM

Yeah, thought I'd take a break from rescuing your country to jump on here and school you chumps on what's really going on. Then I realized it was a waste of time and the rest of the nation would be better off if you and all your nutty friends just continued to sit glued to your computer screen like sheep. Just try not to hurt yourself, the rest of us will be busy rebuilding America. Peace, Chief.

Fa-Qu Ediyot| 3.2.12 @ 12:47PM

I couldn't agree more. I was so appalled reading these comments I had to bang my head against the wall. But in the end, I realized no amount of education will cure the sheer stupidity of the people reading this article and haning on this site. I now understand a bit better how complete freaks like Bachmann and Santorum could be entertained as Presidential candidates. Only in America do people tolerate and even desire such clear idiocy in their leaders. Thank God for level-headed and reality-oriented Democrats, eh?

JUST WONDERING| 3.2.12 @ 2:55PM

"Jack London", is that you?

Al Adab| 3.2.12 @ 3:05PM

Wondering:
He's joking. there is no such thing as a relality oriented Democrat.

NO WONDERING ABOUT THAT| 3.2.12 @ 6:28PM

There has never been cause to wonder about that.

Honest Liberals like flying pigs just don't exist.

Stan Redmond| 3.2.12 @ 12:20PM

In my frequent travels to Europe I always enjoy the Autrian's protesting the importation of Czech produced clean nuclear energy. The common joke is, "We don't need nuclear electricity, we get electricity from the plug in our walls."

That's about the anti-energy liberal solution. There's no problem closing down coal plants. Electricity comes from the plug in the wall.

Mike Hawk| 3.2.12 @ 1:34PM

Same for those dimbulbs in California.

Matt| 3.2.12 @ 12:20PM

This article seems like a lot of wishful thinking about how things will play out.

Fa-Qu Ediyot| 3.2.12 @ 12:43PM

Wow, rarely have I read such a partisan pile of BS. Your analysis is totally one-sided and esceedingly weak. The comments I have read on this site are sooo far out from reality that I actually shivered when I read them.

But I guess what can one expect from uneducated Idiyots who are used to only following preaching and wouldn't recognize a critial thought if it hit them upside those tiny heads above their rednecks.

Indiana Alex| 3.2.12 @ 2:33PM

Are you suggesting that Obama has not openly declared that "energy prices should necessarily skyrocket", or are you just another propagandist who tries as hard as possible to hide the realities of Liberalism because an overwhelming majority of people are repulsed by by such policies?

JUST WONDERING| 3.2.12 @ 3:08PM

"Jack London" U R esceedingly AWsome dude!

These idiyots dont know what hit em. Rock on.

Stan Redmond| 3.2.12 @ 5:16PM

Please explain. This could have been copied and pasted from anything.

Captain Obvious| 3.3.12 @ 1:02AM

Wow, Fa-Qu Ediyot, you actually shivered from the reality of our preaching partisan totally one-sided exceedingly weak uneducated BS, but you present absolutely nothing that we would be forced to recognize as fact and truth and reality, and that might actually cause us to critically think for a change, and maybe even stop fighting you in working for the good of society?

Doesn't that make you even worse than we are to know better but do nothing about it?

Why won't you help?

Tommy Frisco| 3.2.12 @ 12:52PM

The only way energy will be Obama's waterloo is if the American people become informed on the issues and fuly understand what the problems are and what/who is causing them. It will be up to the GOP, our candidate(s) and the conservative media to get the true message out to the American people. Otherwise, the Dems/MSM will successfully place all the blame on the oil companies.

Peter| 3.2.12 @ 1:26PM

In the end it's just sad. That we have a POTUS so ingrained with beliefs in this nonesense--like a religion really--that he is incapable of rational analysis and the policies that would naturally flow from it. As the article says, this is not so complicated. We have the technology to find and exploit energy resources that would decrease our dependence on foreign sources and generally improve our economy.

Of course we must regulate the activities required to produce it, be good stewards of the environment and also fund, to some extent, basic research--not private companies--that might lead to discoveries for better alternative energy sources and solutions.

There are so many things this president could do and could have done to serve both his base--which ain't going anywhere anyway--and do the right thing for the nation, from structuring the stimulus program with real GOP input to actually stimulate the economy, to accepting the Simpson/Bowles recommendations as a basis to begin addressing our debts and fiscal issues.

All this, and more, would have attracted independents and moderate Republicans--perhaps even some not so moderate. Instead, one can only conclude, like some of his harshest critics, that the POTUS is a far left-of-center idealogue who will refuse every time to let reality get in the way of his views.

Sad, as I said.

doug liser | 3.2.12 @ 1:47PM

The Right's argument against Obama would make a lot of sense if the earth actually produced oil. As far as we know, it doesn't which makes all this bickering merely about the timing of extraction. Literally burning up one of the country's most important assets so future generations have nothing makes no sense. If you account for depletion on the national balance sheet, you would see that it would be impossible to create prosperity by burning oil. Sure alternatives aren't perfect but they do work a lot better than this article leads one to believe and they can do a lot better in the future if we focus on engineering instead of politics. I'm driving 1,000 miles/month on a few solar panels and my car is sucking up some of that "useless" wind energy while it charges at night.

Shawn | 3.2.12 @ 1:49PM

Lunar base moment? Obama uses the phrase "might eventually replace," which is hardly equivalent to Newt's promise (yes, promise, not "musings" as the author suggests) that we'd build a lunar base by the end of his second term as president. Obama isn't saying anything new, merely repeating what the more bullish energy pundits and scientists are saying.

Al Adab| 3.2.12 @ 1:54PM

Why do so many ridicule the lunar base? Like the bases in the Antarctic such a station holds great promise for research. Since the ultimate future of mankind lies beyond only this planet should not that future speak English and hold those liberal (classic sense) values rather than speak Chinese and hold to the autocratic values?

Ego Nemo| 3.2.12 @ 1:53PM

The column above is surprisingly devoid of facts.

Even in its swishy metaphors, it is unconnected to any solid reality.

Take the applause line about the 'hard reality' of high fuel prices hitting consumers when they have to pay "$100" to fill of their tanks with $5 a gallon gasoline.

This miniature of fantasy grievance actual speculates that the 'typical' or 'average' American drives an automobile with a 20-gallon tank.

The fact is the average American, increasingly, drives an automobile that gets 35-40 miles to the gallon and possesses a 13.5-gallon tank.

It's not the point that the shock that the pump will cost less in reality, but there is, and will, be less shock at the pump.

Had our ax-grinding author actually viewed the nation as it is, he would have seen the remarkable transformation of the American motor vehicle fleet over the last 10 years, particularly the last three. Higher fuel efficiency is making higher-price gasoline -- which is inevitable because of the immutable laws of supply and demand (no matter who is president) -- more bearable in the U.S.

And this is due to current national policy, aligned with economic trends.

Great fuel efficiency has in fact led to increasing domestic gasoline stocks. Which haven't brought prices down, because that gasoline can be shipped abroad to other markets where it will fetch an even higher price.

The article presents no case, other than a base emotional one, for energy being the President's 'Waterloo.'

Rather, if anything, it exemplifies the deficit of insight among persons who share the author's blinding biases that shall lead, inevitably, to that dogma's defeat on the battlefield of ideas.

David| 3.2.12 @ 2:06PM

Bam Bam and the dems will not pay a price for high gas prices. The average voter is too dumbed-down from public education to understand what damage he has done.

It will be blamed on the oil companies and the same 52% of voters who put the Boy in office will believe it.

John Nail| 3.2.12 @ 2:16PM

Gosh, I thought healthcare reform was going to be his Waterloo?

We import less oil today than in 2006, 49% vs. 60% and domestic production is the gap highest in 20 years.

I lovebthesevarticles with twisted facts like on XL where ZERO,of that oil is for the US. None.

Or let's omit the world competition from India, China et al as they grow. I wonder if the 10 million NEW cars China put on the road last year has an impact on demand and price?

How about mentioning the CAFE standards of 55mpg by 2022 and the trillions that will save us all, much more than any XL or ANWR could on a world oil market.

And of course amnesia over the Iran nuke problem and the uncertainty it is fueling and speculation has nothing to do with it either.

Indiana Alex| 3.2.12 @ 2:41PM

Whenever I read posts like yours I am actually frightened that people could actually believe that the government can simply order 55 mpg and make it so.

You know that this administration is entirely against increases in any carbon based energy reform yet you insist on repeating nonsense statistics to suggest that they are champions of oil production.

You really can't have it both ways in the real world, but of course nothing in the Liberal realm makes much sense at all to thoughtful people.

Mrs. Vito| 3.2.12 @ 2:45PM

Boy, its the Carter Administration deja vu!!
I was a teenager during the four years of Carter, and the cicumstances our country has been placed in are eerily similar: high unemployment, high gas prices/rationing, and troubles in Iran, and a clueless prez at the helm of all the mess.
Anyone who thinks Obama will be re-elected is out of their gourd!

jcrew| 3.2.12 @ 4:07PM

OK just because you were there doesn't mean your lingo has to be from the Carter years. "Out of their gourd", last time I heard that was on a rerun of Hee Haw when I was a kid.

jspew| 3.3.12 @ 1:55PM

Wrap your gourd around the gloom, despair and agony on the U.S., the deep, dark depression, the excessive misery, that was not bad luck, but a rerun of liberalism, a rerun of productions by Wilson and FDR, a rerun of an episode produced by Carter:

21.5% interest rate
13.6% inflation rate
7.6% unemployment rate

Hee Haw we can all look back fondly on the Wislon and FDR and Carter productions when the episode produced by Obama is in the syndication stage.

jcrew| 3.3.12 @ 5:00PM

Alright I get it you're old. Get a job and stop leeching off Social Security and Medicare gramps.

jspew| 3.3.12 @ 6:51PM

Hee Haw, one of many of your comments on 3/3 you have posted - while strangely remaining mute on the RELEVANT FACT QUIZES below - in additon to remaining strangely mute on the lingo of Carter's legacy.

robert derrick| 3.2.12 @ 2:47PM

"So what can the Administration do between now and November? To be frank, they haven't a clue. President Obama is a lawyer, not an economist or a scientist. His knowledge of energy is drawn from the chitchat in the faculty lounge."
The error on our side once again is the unwillingness to acknowledge the true intent of liberals and soicialist dictators: they don't WANT economic success, nor industrial power: Politically they want personal power over others, and ideologically they want the absence of industrial power for others. Their dark ideology REQUIRES a return to the more 'pristine' days of fire and smoke and dirt and filth: AKA Occupoopers.

jcrew| 3.2.12 @ 4:16PM

Occupoopers? Seriously, just say that out loud there robert. Are you a kindergarten teacher? You are throwing your life away, get a new hobby.

jspew| 3.2.12 @ 5:54PM

True or false:

An American university held a televised debate between the Tea Party and the Occupy movement (couldn't resist the urge) recently.

One of the debate team for the Occupy movement (no grunting) said during the televised debate that the government could improve the economy by raising the capital gains tax rate on the wealthy, because, quote:

"We should tax that money. They don't need it, and the rest of us do."

True or false?

jspew| 3.3.12 @ 6:54PM

No urge for an occupy movement moment where you could have left an aromatic pile of occupy movement commentary as one of your many 3/3 comments you have posted - while strangely remaining mute on the RELEVANT FACT QUIZES below.

glenny| 3.2.12 @ 2:53PM

Criminality, thy name is Obama!
glenny

kwan| 3.2.12 @ 2:57PM

As gasoline prices hit $8.00 ( Energy Secretary Chu's announced price goal) per gallon and higher Obamavilles (tent cities) will begin popping-up across the nation as minimum wage workers (especially those with long commutes) must make a choice between fuel, food, and shelter and are forced to bail-out of their homes and apartments. Obama's lies will then fall on deaf ears and he will be defeated in a landslide not seen since the 1984 defeat of Mondale by Reagan.

Stan Redmond| 3.2.12 @ 5:21PM

Or he will will just blame Bush and they unwashed ignorant masses will come out in droves. And don't forget, the dead and illegals get to vote in this election too.

martin j smith| 3.2.12 @ 3:03PM

Right now the one goal to focus on is this: Keep your voting skills in shape and vote against Obama.
That is the one and only goal to be concerned about. Even if the nominee is a bad choice having Obama as President would be a catastrophe of proportions that one cannot calculate. The only person where I would not vote would be -----Ron Paul--for now.

theo | 3.2.12 @ 3:30PM

Martin with the dumb words exiting their mouth, none has a chance to win anything. America has reasonable thinking people and will never vote for these fools. They has now loosed the women vote except the hateful ones against and President of color.

jcrew| 3.2.12 @ 4:11PM

Thanks for telling me how to vote. What shampoo should I use? Should I switch to Geico? Lease or buy?

martin j smith| 3.2.12 @ 3:05PM

It is really important to teach the Socialists a lesson and vote in droves. I have gotten to the point that I give up on the Establishment Republicans but not on the voters. Repeat 2010 in 2012 but even more so.

theo | 3.2.12 @ 3:12PM

I just ran across this site and I tell you, I have never ran across so many hateful people in a lifetime. Anyone saying anything good about Obama is a ass on here. Get over it people, he is in for another four years, not everyone hates life as you do.

Mike Hawk| 3.2.12 @ 9:34PM

You are a troll.

Indiana Alex| 3.2.12 @ 3:12PM

It's not at all curious to me that message boards such as this are now all abuzz with children repeating exact same liberal daily faxed talking points.

It would be quite a reach to suggest that all of these mother's basement dwellers have suddenly been driven to express their own unique opinion (which all happen to contain the same rhetoric) out of a legitimate sense of civic engagement.

I am not left to wonder why the minions of the lost are out in full force.

I don't think this latest attempt of spreading mish mash will be anymore effective than their previous attempt of discourse. It smells just as bad as their public deification, but at least, for the moment, they aren't raping each other in public.

Mimi| 3.2.12 @ 5:01PM

They must have hired a lot more Trolls!
Take it as a compliment that they took the time to attack on TAS and its BLOGGERS...and especially this article on Obama's WATERLOO... they only go where the action is and its messeges effective! Good JOB everyone!!!

martin j smith| 3.2.12 @ 4:49PM

Theo-lets see how actual voters decide not posters from France or Cuba or Caracas, Venezuela.

martin j smith| 3.2.12 @ 4:53PM

The paid Obama bots are out--we know who you are and you need mental health counseling as well as debriefing from your cult that inculcates you with lies. I can tell in a nano second who sthe BOTS are only a CAVE MAN could miss it and even the Cave man might get angry with me because I was just advised by the Caveman that jcrew is such a BOT>

jcrew| 3.3.12 @ 8:29PM

Ok is it CAVE MAN, Cave man or Caveman? You are a very smart person for a complete simpleton. No really. I'm a BOT, if that stands for Bodacious Omniscient Tough! Kapow!

jgibberish| 3.4.12 @ 12:38PM

Just one more of Barry's Orificial Turds. Free abortions! Free condoms! Free Butt Plugs! Free clothing of labels preferred by homosexual Barry's Orificial Turds members! KaHope! KaChange! KaYesWeCan!

Tom C| 3.2.12 @ 7:13PM

This article is so littered with irrelevant facts while leaving out several 'relevant' facts. 1) U.S. exports more oil than it imports (and thats the truth) therefore it is PROVEN to not be a supply & demand issue for rising gas prices. 2) Sarah Palin said the exact same thing about using biofuels in an 'all of the above' approach, yet her comments were seen as visionary coming from the oil queen herself. 3) Obama has been vigorously pushing higher MPG standards on the auto industry (automatic clout from saving the industry) and better gas mileage is a backdoor way (and more controllable) to squeeze the negative impacts of oil prices. Speculators and geopolitical concerns have the highest impact on gas prices, dont let anyone tell you otherwise.

Marc Jeric| 3.3.12 @ 1:16PM

What communist/eco-nazi garbage!

RELEVANT FACT QUIZ| 3.3.12 @ 3:23PM

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

Nobel Prize winner and United States President Barry Obama:

"I'd like higher gas prices"

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

Nobel Prize winner and Secretary of Energy Stevie Chu:

"Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe"

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

true or false:

1) Obama stated the above quote
2) Chu stated the above quote
3) Obama won a Nobel Prize
4) Chu won a Nobel Prize
5) Obama is President of the United States
6) Chu is Secretary of Energy of the United States
7) Chu was appointed Secretary of Energy by Obama
8) Gas prices are higher since Obama made the quoted statement above
9) Gas prices are at levels in Europe since Chu made the quoted statement above
10) true or false questions 1) through 9) are relevant facts

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

RELEVANT FACT QUIZ II| 3.3.12 @ 4:14PM

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Disposable Income:
Per Capita
(All Americans)

$32,446

Federal Government Spending:
Per Recipient
(Health and Welfare, College Education, Housing, Retirement, Agricultural Outlays)

$32,748

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

true or false:

1) Per capita disposable income of all americans is thirty-two thousand four hundred forty six dollars

2) Per recipient federal government spending of health and welfare and college education and housing and retirement and agricultural outlays is thirty-two thousand seven hundred forty eight dollars

3) thirty-two thousand seven hundred forty eight dollars is more than thirty-two thousand four hundred forty six dollars.

4) Every recipient of federal government spending receives on average more money than the amount of the disposable income on average of every American.

5) true or false questions 1) through 4) are relevant facts

proreason| 3.2.12 @ 7:27PM

The Saudis and other foreign governments that control the price of oil will be voting for Obama in November by driving the price of oil (and hence gasoline) down to acceptable levels by election day.

The did it in 2008 and they will do it in 2012 as well.

This is so obvious, it's amazing that it is never mentioned. Does anybody really think that our enemies want anybody other than Obama to be president for the next four years.

richm| 3.2.12 @ 7:30PM

Obama administration and the drive-by Obama media endlessly lecture us that increasing domestic oil supplies will NOT lower gas prices. So, as the Nov election approaches, we learn Obama plans to release 50-100 million barrels of our strategic oil reserves. WHY? To REDUCE gas prices by INCREASING the domestic oil supply. Unbelievable!

Garfield| 3.2.12 @ 7:53PM

Newt Gingrich has already torpedoed Obama's argument on this.

ablingcain| 3.2.12 @ 8:17PM

3/2/12=GM announced today, the layoff of 1300 employees on the VOLT car line, to match production to demand.

GM major stockholder, Fiat of Italy, waste no time or money, on a bad product.
, volt, useless and wasteful wind farma
bankrupt About Solar and Solyndra. That is a large number of FAILED Obama 'future in energy' programs.
This must be his level of pay grade; POTUSis above his proven pay grade

POST American| 3.2.12 @ 9:36PM

-------------------BOTTOMLESS LINE---------------------

Putting aside, for a moment, the media-buried
handover of 80% of our oil, by Buffett, to the
RED Chinese ---and that chillingly avant garde
item out of Britain where crematoriums are now
being enlisted to heat swimming pools-----

We now look back on LAST century's world
history. From the Bolshevik state terror, to the
Ukranian genocide, to the gulags, Nazi
death camps and Mao's aptly named
'Cultural Revolution' ----a common justification
was ALWAYS brought in

-------------------YES! the term

---------'SSS--US---STAIN----Abel---'IT'----he'-------

From our research, we find it FIRST being
launched, in a high profile, highly promoted way,
around 1900 by the industrialist and EUGENIST
----------------------King Gillette------------------------
the inventor of the ---DISPOSABLE--- razor.

"Understand folks,
GOVERNMENT is --the -- leading
cause of unnatural death throughout
history. 260 MILLION were killed by
government last century ----in 'peacetime."
-ALEX JONES

They were indeed.

AS we sift through the details, such as they
are, of Andrew Breitbart's 'natural death'
--------------------------------ANY QUESTIONS?

stmichrick| 3.2.12 @ 11:21PM

Never has the Left had such license to create their Altenative Universe than the first two years of the Obama regime.

The task before us is to not just label Obama and his followers as radical, but to deconstruct and demonstrate piece by piece the fallacy of their thinking. The folly of liberal intellectual prowess has to be fracked into the mainstream of America.

It's happening slowly; today Sec of Energy Chu has flipped overnight by denying his desire for gradually increasing oil prices.

Robert Thayer | 3.2.12 @ 11:25PM

This is absurd. Don't you know the only subject the American people care about is that the nasty Republicans are trying to kill all women by outlawing contraception?

POST American| 3.3.12 @ 2:47AM

-----------------BOTTOMLESS LINE-------------------

--NDAA 1021

-------Pelosi's call for MORE police state

----------6 MILLION(!) US incarcerated
(a world record)

--------------Ginzburg's diss of the Constitution

----------------'Agenda 21'

--------------------'AWE----STARE--'IT'--HE'

------------------------TOTAL EUGENICS

--------------------------Globalist TREASON

------------------------------'FINAL' EUGENICS

REMEMBERING the GENUINE voice
of Andrew Breitbart.

"He was murdered. OF COURSE
he was murdered. ---OF COURSE he was!"
-ALEX JONES

OF COURSE-----------------------------------------------

-----------------------------------------------OF COURSE

----------------------OF COURSE-------------------------

ALEX JONES --is-- the PRESS.

dan kimble| 3.3.12 @ 9:37AM

211 trillion debt and unfunded liabilities.
This is what we face, and I just don't see how it is solved. It amounts to over $600,000 per man, woman and child in the US.

An economic collapse has to come, and it will be within a few years, maybe five to ten, is what one ex marine author writes.

The marxists don't care. I assume that they will view it as another "Crises which is too good to waste".

I did appreciate the observation here that when an economic collapse occurs, it will be the cities that are effected most.

Are we really going to face a total collapse of society? I never thought I would be thinking along these lines, and certainly not posting a reference to it, as it makes one look like a far out kook.

But, I have always been a good predictor of future events, one who can look at the probabilities, and now I am beginning to look at the inevitability of an economic collapse, possibly on a scale greater than the depression.

Remember, when we entered the depression, we essentially had NO accumulated government debt. We were able, in WWII, to borrow our ass off to quickly transform the nation into the arsenal of democracy. This got us out of the depression, NOT Roosevelt and his socialism.

Then, after WWII, with the amassed savings of the American workers during the war, and the unfulfilled economic needs of the American public, we went on a buying spree of new homes, from the GI's returning home and getting married, buying autos, furniture, etc. We built the interstate highway system, and much more. The economy exploded, and we paid off the huge gov't debt built up in WWII.

We have nothing like that scenario today.

Even worse, at the end of WWII we had, what even Tom Brokaw called the Greatest Generation, a citizenry comprised of, I'm estimating here, maybe 85% native born Americans. They were raised with traditional American values and to work incredibly hard. They were spartan in their frugality. They were humble in their expectations. They were respectful, god fearing people. They had simple tastes and were true to teir communities, close to their families. And the immigrant groups we did have, had zero expectations of any welfare or gov't goodies. They were the same as the native born portion of the population, and they tried hard to Americanize themselves as fast as they could.

Today we have a gazillion immigrants (thanks to the dems who planned this in order to replace the rural rooted, conservative leaning, tradition loving, native born Americans, who could not be relied upon to embrace leftist utopian ideas), most of which come from impoverished 3rd world nations, who get tons of welfare assistance, and who came to this country not to struggle for a few generations as they worked their way up, but to immediately have a huge increase in their living standards just by immigrating.

Instead of this Greatest Generation we had after WWII, today we have a bunch of 3rd world immigrants who seem to just care about "Where's mine?" (gov't hand out), and a bunch of foolish white people who either can't be bothered beyond their daily existence, their sports and computer games, or who are actively engaged acting out on their democrat socialist propaganda trained sentiments - the Obamabots...the indoctrinated populists who reflexively spew political correctness, and think themselves brilliant.

There may be a number of conservative realists out there. But, they are mainly old and white. And, as we see in these blogs, liberals regale in the fact that these people will be dead soon.

So, I am just beginning to change my focus. I am so disturbed by the vanishing of the nation I grew up in. It has been a relentless attack by the democrats, which morphed into this virulent, radical leftist force, this army to transform the nation into a totalitarian, marxist type state, which has transformed this nation during my lifetime into something completely different.

The facts, the debt, the all pervasive propaganda, the lack of substance in the young people, all of this, makes me wonder where is there a ray of hope for this country?

The reelection of Obama will just seal the coming collapse.

If a republican can get elected, and there certainly is a reasonable chance, will it make any difference? The amount of gutting of the government needed to try to turn the debt fiasco around will be so massive, and the level of horror movie screaming which would come from the left and their collaborators in the media, will make any such gutting of the government undoable.

No one is even talking about the humongous debt we are facing. It is the biggest story of our lives, but from the liberal media we get not a peep on the biggest story of the century (just the sound of crickets).

So, the only way, I wonder, may be that the whole thing collapses, scores of millions of people die, the United States breaks up as a political entity, just as did the Soviet Union (we didn't think that was possible, either, did we?), and individual states (red states, essentially) which are economically viable, just secede, and let the welfare fraud blue states rot in their own political graft excesses.

The whole shootin' match comes down. The demise of the American nation.

I don't know how else to look at the future. Remember what happened to Germany in the interwar years, when they had imposed upon them a debt for war reparations which was untenable, combined with the world wide depression.

I am going to think about this, and what to do. Personally, I may move to a red state which I feel might be able to survive a cataclysm, and to be viable as an independent state.

Or, I just die. I'm one of those old dispensable white guys, anyway.

This is crazy that I'm posting this......but, the total national debt and unfunded liabilities REALLY IS 211 trillion! $600,000 for every man, woman, and child. That is what is really crazy. How did this ever get this way?

Simple, it was the liberals. They did this. They transformed the nation over the past 80 to 40 years, depending on how you look at when the rot really started.

Obama is just the finale.

dan kimble| 3.3.12 @ 9:44AM

Here is an article which references the 211 trillion debt:

We’re Already Europe
By Michael Tanner
http://www.nationalreview.com/.....ael-tanner

And, in the comments attached to this article a retired Marine officer has written an 80 page book detailing this nightmare of government debt and obligations.

Book: The Coming Collapse of the American Republic
By Robert A. Hall
For a free PDF of the book, write tartanmarine(at)gmail.com

martin j smith| 3.3.12 @ 10:18AM

Waterloo shmorterloo--there is so much stuff that Obama has done that can be "the issue" or just multiple issues if the Republican Leadershit had the will--but the likes of George Lack of Will is a sign of real danger from these currupt and false leaders.
As a voter I advise the following: Vote the Republican Line except for Clint--he or she I would not vote for. And create a petition addressed to the Republican Leadershit and Romney ( in case he is the nominee ) which says: We vote AGAINST OBAMA not for you. You do not have any mandate.

martin j smith| 3.3.12 @ 12:12PM

On the trolls the Obama paid operatives that have posted or are simply stupid cult members who voice the script given them. You like jcrew,jspew ( same as crew ? ) theo same as spew and crew who knows.
These idiots think we don't know have your number and we know you have nothing,you offer lies we know them because our leader has taught us well( that is the greatest liar Obama ) Obama will be defeated no matter who the nominee is and that is in spite of our Republican Leadershit and Obama's Media lies. The people know what is going. Power to the People--the American Voters who care about this country not the ones to love Greece or Italy or Spain or where ever else.

jcrew| 3.3.12 @ 8:23PM

Oh yeah well just for the record, you are a really bad writer. I'm not sure what you are trying to get across so I'll just take it as an endorsement for President Obama. Thanks for your support and from what I can tell you have a very enlightened world view. Congratulations on that, see you at headquarters. Socialists Unite!

Stuttering Dyslexics| 3.4.12 @ 12:43PM

Stuttering Dyslexics Untie!

jcrew| 3.3.12 @ 8:23PM

Stuttering Dyslexics| 3.4.12 @ 12:43PM

Stuttering Dyslexics Untie!

Garfield| 3.3.12 @ 12:40PM

Remember folks, Obama felt threatened enough by Gingrich's energy proposal that he tried to attack it, only to end up looking like an idiot when Gingrich destroyed Obama's talking points.

If Obama felt this threatened by Gingrich dragging up the energy issue, imagine how he'll panic when Gingrich goes after the other Obama issues.

Marc Jeric| 3.3.12 @ 1:09PM

I find Mullah Obama's fascination with "green energy" very encouraging - you see, it does not exist. It is contrary to the immutable laws of thermodynamics. Obama reminds me of those medieval princes paying their alchemists to find a way to transform lead into gold.

jcrew| 3.3.12 @ 8:25PM

If green energy doesn't exist then why are you encouraged. It's ok to act like you know something about thermodynamics, just act like you have a brain. Have a nice day there Rainman.

Stuttering Dyslexics| 3.4.12 @ 12:44PM

Stuttering Dyslexics Untie!

truzak| 3.3.12 @ 3:20PM

Never underestimate the power of propaganda. Just as the media savaged Bush for $4 gas - while giving him no credit for NOT trading blood for oil - they have already been promoting the argument that it's not Obama's fault.

How laughable. This is how Obama has seasoned in the White House during his three years of on-the-job training. He has matured from, "It's Bush's fault" to "It ain't my fault." Next I guess we'll be treated to, "The dog ate my policy paper."

martin j smith| 3.4.12 @ 9:21AM

hey jcrew,spew, or whatevzer--How much you being paid. ? Or are you one of the stupid bots who know nothing and will do it gratis. You know I love calling you an idiot which you are.

Tenn Slim| 3.4.12 @ 9:46AM

Energy statements AKA Obamas Environemental Agenda list, will certainly add to the Media Fury over his 2012 election prospects.
Over and above that, is the reality. OWS + ACORN + SEIU = Cloward Piven, Van Jones chaos.
THESE Aspects will tilt the election. This is what we, the Conservative US Electorate need to focus on. This year may well be the last free election ever held.
Semper Fi
The Chaldean Hand has written.

Tenn Slim| 3.4.12 @ 9:49AM

Re Trolls.
The Posters here and other NET Sites are alive and well with Operatives.
FOCUS, FOCUS, issues count, diatribes do not.
Semper FI

AVCurmudgeon| 3.4.12 @ 1:32PM

By promoting pond scum as an energy source Obama has at least finally found a productive use for the OWS crowd.

Oldefarte| 3.4.12 @ 6:29PM

Let me attempt to cut to the chase on this issue with what is my own humble opinion. Obama is not a Christian oriented individual but instead joined Jeremiah's black liberation church for a solitary political purpose [not religion]. As a lawyer/community organizer in Chicago, he was reportedly told to enlist a religious affiliation as a prerequisite for his political activities so he linked up with Wright's racist false-religion. He is instead a Muslim religion oriented individual probably from childhood. Additionally the Democratic Party has for decades promoted through their platforms the extreme protection of the environment [with Al Gore leading the charge in recent years]. If our oil/energy source needs are obtained from primarily the middle eastern-Arab countries' sources and if Democrats are pushing environmental protection over the more important energy to run our economic system of a capitalistic country, the results historically have been a decrease in our needed oil supplies due to an increase in these foreign/Arab-Muslim countries source dependence for our oil. As this country's oil needs have increased, our supply has dwindled from these Arab country sources [OPEC]. Result is the price of our oil has increased over time. I can remember gasoline priced at $.35/gallon when I was in my twenties in the late 1960's. That's a far cry from today's approching $4/gallon. Again why?.....because our oil comes from the middle east and not from our own domestic sources. Again my numerous contacts with domestic oil personnel in the Gulf Coast region told me that oil was plentiful off of our nation's coasts were were not able to be drilled/produced due to environmental restrictions. Why do we so depend upon the meddle for our supply? Could it be that the Democrats so pushing their environmental agenda do so in order to favor/enhance these Arab countries economies [whose one/only source of re venue is oil and to eliminate same would bankrupt them]? Why would Democrats promote such policies in favor of these middle eastern countries? Is this an example of an anti-American detrimental policy that is traitorest in nature? Is the current administration doing same for its favortism of these Arab countries and if so why??????????????????????????????

strumndrang| 3.5.12 @ 11:25PM

Of Obama's vast porfolio of lies, my vote for the biggest turd of duplicity that he has laid to date would be the assertion/implication that he is a pragmatist and economic Friedmanite. Somehow Sham-I-am convinced several University of Chicago economists, assuredly conservative on the whole, to endorse him in his first presidential campaign.
I guess any Bumbelita who can job out the writing of their autobiography to Bill Ayres is capable of almost any level of up-fuckitry. I wouldn't hire him to bury my dead dog.

POST American| 3.7.12 @ 3:25AM

---------------------FINAL WORD-----------------------

---------------------OF COURSE-------------------------
---------------------!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!-------------------------

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