Our favorite weirdbeard in Iraq, Mookie al-Sadr, caved to the new Iraqi government.  in the eyes of Time magazine, that act is a rousing victory for Mookie.  Heck, even the headline of the Time piece is…I swear, I’m not making this up…”Al-Sadr Wins Another Round“!

As Ed Morrissey notes:

Another round? Kukis still thinks that Sadr prevailed in Basra by not losing in the first 48 hours. Even the New York Times acknowledged Maliki’s victory in Basra, noting that the residents now enjoy a relatively normal and liberated life in the city on which Sadr imposed a Taliban-like code. The Mahdis have disappeared from the south, and Maliki’s forces control Basra after several years of Sadr’s grip on the area. How exactly did Sadr win that round?

By that logic, since the 8th seeded Atlanta Hawks took the top seeded Boston Celtics to seven games in their NBA playoff first round series, even though the Celtics won four games to three…the Hawks really won!  I mean, it wasn’t an #sskicking, so it must be a win.

Nope…no liberal media bias!

I could have just as easily labeled this post “No good deed goes unpunished”, but the impact isn’t quite the same.  From South Flori-duh!:

A man who said he thought he was just helping a woman in need is accused of running an illegal taxi service.

Miami-Dade County’s Consumer Services Department has slapped Rosco O’Neil with $2,000 worth of fines, but O’Neil claims he is falsely accused.

“I ain’t running nothing illegal,” O’Neil said.

The 78-year-old said he was walking into a Winn-Dixie to get some groceries when he was approached by a woman who said she needed a ride.

“She asked me, ‘Do I do a service?’” O’Neil said. “I told her no. She said, ‘I need help getting home.’”

O’Neil told the woman if she was still there when he finished his shopping, he would give her a ride. She was, so he did.

As it turned out, the woman was an undercover employee with the consumer services department targeting people providing illegal taxi services.

“She said the reason she targeted him (is because) she saw him sitting in his car for a few minutes,” said Ellen Novodeletsky, O’Neil’s attorney. …

Moral of the story?  Don’t give elderly women on their feet a ride.  It’s not worth the hassle.

Look at the bright side: Miami must have finally solved its well-publicized drug, rape, murder, gang, and robbery problems and is looking for more stuff to safe its citizens from…right?

This woman’s case is remarkably similar to what her little girl stepped in, don’t you think?  From CT:

A New York woman has filed a $100 claim against Norwalk, Conn. saying a family outing to the Maritime Aquarium was ruined by dog feces.

The woman claims her child’s shoes, along with the entire outing, were ruined when her 1-year-old stepped in dog feces outside the Maritime Garage.

City attorney M. Jeffry Spahr said the official response is that her claim is denied and, in his words, “poop happens.”

Kelly DeBrocky of Mahopac, N.Y., wants the city to reimburse her for $54 she spent replacing her toddler’s ruined shoes and the expenses for parking and aquarium admission on April 5.

Yet another compelling reason for tort reform.

Exit question: Even if I were to concede the woman deserved the $54 for the shoes (which I won’t concede, but follow me here), why should she be reimbursed for the parking and aquarium admission when she was going to the aquarium anyway?

Chris Matthews gets a “thrill” in his leg and Tucker Carlson notes how the MSM’s collective woodies are at full mast when it comes to Obama.  CNN has apparently joined in the orgy.  From Michelle Malkin:

You know, when I read about this CNN video via Allahpundit yesterday, I threw up a little in my mouth. The clip of female journalists on a plane moaning as they watch Barack Obama talking on a cell phone was actually filed under “breaking news video” on the CNN website with the caption, “Obama in jeans: Sen. Barack Obama surprises the press corps by wearing jeans.”

Now, the video’s on YouTube. And it really should have a content warning advising viewers to watch it only on a completely empty stomach. Several members of the press corps yell at an agent to “sit down” because she’s obstructing their view. They giggle and sigh “You’re killing us” as he straddles across a row of seats and they furiously click away on their cameras.

Kneepads, ladies?

Nope…no liberal media bias!

The good news:

The US government posted a $US159.3 billion ($A169.52 billion) surplus in April, helped by the mid-month deadline for individuals meeting 2007 tax obligations, …

The bad, yet utterly predictable, news:

But outlays also set a record at $US244.5 billion ($A260.19 billion), compared with $US205.9 billion ($A219.11 billion) in April last year.

This is what the Dems had in mind when they promised “fiscal responsbility” two years ago?  Spending all of the extra money they get on growing government?

Germany doesn’t seem to give a wet fart on a dry January Monday what the UN thinks.  From Moonbattery:

Germany’s sovereignty survived the loss of two world wars. Let’s hope it can endure the U.N.’s endless grasping for control.

With the approval of its residents, Dresden is building a bridge across the Elbe to ease traffic congestion. Bureauweenie Francesco Bandarin of the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization is enraged.

Earlier this year, UNESCO rejected a revised bridge design presented by Dresden, arguing that any bridge in the city’s famed Elbe River Valley would destroy the landscape and ruin the views of Dresden’s famous landmarks. UNESCO says the only acceptable solution is for Dresden to build a tunnel under the river.

Bandarin said unless Dresden immediately halted work on the bridge, it was impossible to seek any compromises. Bandarin also urged politicians in Dresden and the state of Saxony to hold a second referendum on the issue, even if it took two years to realize it.

If it doesn’t stop being impertinent and obey the will of the world community as decreed by U.N. chair-warmers, Dresden will lose its allegedly precious World Heritage status.

Worse things have happened to the city.

I’d love to see the Useless Nations try that crap in America to see how our leftist legislators respond.

Euros…ya gotta love ‘em!

Or not.

NYC sues a gun store owner, and its attorneys ask the Court not to let the defendant reference the Second Amendment in his defense.  In such a jackbooted thuggish request, the city is essentially asking the Court to step on the defendant’s First Amendment right to say what he needs to say in his own defense!  Hey, who needs the Constitution in this court, right?  From the NY Sun:

Lawyers for Mayor Bloomberg are asking a judge to ban any reference to the Second Amendment during the upcoming trial of a gun shop owner who was sued by the city. While trials are often tightly choreographed, with lawyers routinely instructed to not tell certain facts to a jury, a gag order on a section of the Constitution would be an oddity.

“Apparently Mayor Bloomberg has a problem with both the First and the Second amendments,” Lawrence Keane, the general counsel of a firearms industry association, the National Shooting Sports Foundation, said.

The trial, set to begin May 27, involves a Georgia gun shop, Adventure Outdoors, which the city alleges is responsible for a disproportionate number of the firearms recovered from criminals in New York City. The gun store’s owner, Jay Wallace, says his store abides by Georgia and federal regulations and takes steps to avoid selling firearms to gun traffickers. Mr. Wallace’s store is one of 27 out-of-state gun shops sued by New York City, and the first to go to trial.

City lawyers, in a motion filed Tuesday, asked the judge, Jack Weinstein of U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, to preclude the store’s lawyers from arguing that the suit infringed on any Second Amendment rights belonging to the gun store or its customers. In the motion, the lawyer for the city, Eric Proshansky, is also seeking a ban on “any references” to the amendment.

“Any references by counsel to the Second Amendment or analogous state constitutional provisions are likewise irrelevant,” the brief states. …

Bloomberg sucks.  Sorry, but that’s about as deep of an analysis I have of him as I can muster.

While Barry O accuses Juanny Mac of having “lost his bearings“, it looks like Mr. Pot has just met Mr. Kettle.  From The Atlantic (go there to see the video clip):

[video clip of the Obamessiah stating that he's visited all 57 states]

But if John McCain did this — if he mistakenly said he’d visited 57 states — the media would be all up in his grill, accusing him of a senior moment. Just saying….

And you thought Dubya wasn’t a geography bee?

What’s that, you say?

Susan E. Rice, a former State Department and National Security Council official who is a foreign policy adviser to the Democratic candidate, said that “for political purposes, Senator Obama’s opponents on the right have distorted and reframed” his views. Mr. McCain and his surrogates have repeatedly stated that Mr. Obama would be willing to meet “unconditionally” with Mr. Ahmadinejad. But Dr. Rice said that this was not the case for Iran or any other so-called “rogue” state. Mr. Obama believes “that engagement at the presidential level, at the appropriate time and with the appropriate preparation, can be used to leverage the change we need,” Dr. Rice said. “But nobody said he would initiate contacts at the presidential level; that requires due preparation and advance work.”

Speak up a little louder, in my good ear!  This is from your own campaign web site, so I’m having a little trouble understanding you here:

It must be that “nuance” thingy the left keeps yammering about.

By the way, the first time he said he’d personally meet with Iran without preconditions, the NYT covered those remarks.  Oddly enough, now that they’re in the tank for him, they conveniently omit any reference in today’s story (Dr. Rice’s comments above) to the prior remarks.  Nope…no liberal media bias!

When they’re not busy courting conspiracy nuts, anti-Semites, Aryan Nation vermin, and other miscreants, the Ronulans spend their spare time doing things like this:

Virtually all the nation’s political attention in recent weeks has focused on the compelling state-by-state presidential nomination struggle between two Democrats and the potential for party-splitting strife over there.

But in the meantime, quietly, largely under the radar of most people, the forces of Rep. Ron Paul have been organizing across the country to stage an embarrassing public revolt against Sen. John McCain when Republicans gather for their national convention in St. Paul at the beginning of September. …

“Embarrassing” is right…but only to themselves.

Democrats aren’t the only ones who are throwing a temper tantrum at their party’s convention.  Fortunately, the Paulbots are too few and too fringe to get worked up over, right?

From USA Today:

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Thursday that Republican rival John McCain tried to smear him and was “losing his bearings” with the suggestion that Hamas preferred Obama for president.
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“I think it’s very clear who Hamas wants to be the next president,” the Republican nominee-in-waiting said. “If Senator Obama is favored by Hamas, I think people can make judgments accordingly.”

Why, that’s just crazy!  Where would McCain get such an insane notion like that?  Oh, I dunno…:

During an interview on WABC radio Sunday, top Hamas political adviser Ahmed Yousef said the terrorist group supports Obama’s foreign policy vision.

“We don’t mind–actually we like Mr. Obama. We hope he will (win) the election and I do believe he is like John Kennedy, great man with great principle, and he has a vision to change America to make it in a position to lead the world community but not with domination and arrogance,” Yousef said in response to a question about the group’s willingness to meet with either of the Democratic presidential candidates. 

Only in the pea-brained world of government does this make any sense.  From Georgia:

Fulton to increase water rates 15 percent

Fulton County officials praised county water users Wednesday for their success at conservation — then socked them with a 15 percent rate increase for their effort.

The conservation penalty the County Commission adopted Wednesday 6-0 matches the increase Atlanta utility officials asked to impose earlier this year but which the City Council so far has resisted. The average water/sewer bill should increase nearly $9 per month to a total of about $68 per month, water officials said.

Why raise rates on water? Well, because the conservation has cut revenues:

Utility managers said water use has dropped by as much as 30 percent since last year when Gov. Sonny Perdue asked each county to cut usage by at least 10 percent because of the lingering drought. That has Fulton facing potential default on its bonds, said Angela Parker, public works director.

“We just can’t swallow this reduction in revenues,” Parker said.

She said Fulton one day might roll back the rates if the drought ends and revenues return to pre-drought levels.

Riiight.

This is Fulton county doing this. Apparently the city of Atlanta is trying to do the same thing but has been blocked so far.

No good deed goes unpunished, right?

Every single time, the government will expect you, not them, to do more with less.

If society hadn’t officially gone to Hell in a handbasket, this should do the trick.  From Idaho:

A man has been charged with raping a 10-year-old girl who later gave birth in eastern Idaho.

The girl gave birth less than two weeks ago by caesarian section at Madison Memorial Hospital in Rexburg, Fremont County Sheriff Ralph C. Davis and other authorities said. Officials would not disclose the gender, date of birth or paternity of the baby.

“I wouldn’t have believed a 10-year-old could conceive in the first place,” Davis said.

Buried down a bit further is this:

Guadalupe Gutierrez-Juarez, 37, of St. Anthony, was arrested the same day, Police Chief James Smith said.

“We had good information from witnesses,” Smith said.

In documents that were filed April 29 in 7th District Court and obtained by The Associated Press, Gutierrez-Juarez is charged with one count of rape. He remained in jail with bail set at $250,000 pending a preliminary hearing May 13.

Authorities said Gutierrez-Juarez did not have legal documentation to live in the United States. His home town and nationality were not immediately clear, but police said they had received no complaints about him before investigating the pregnancy.

If this is true, then I’d like to hear a certain D.C. amnesty shill tell me how my outrage at this makes me a “quacking” bigot.  If dude is guilty of boinking this girl, then it is irrefutable that had this country implemented stronger border controls, this S.O.B. wouldn’t have been here to steal this little girl’s innocence.  Then again, the aforementioned D.C. amnesty shill and her ilk might have been inconvenienced by slightly more expensive strawberries.  I mean, what good is a child’s youth if it means you gotta pay another seventy cents at Whole Foods, right?

We all knew that the Code Pinkos were b#tches, but apparently, they’re also witches.  Or so they think.  From Stop the ACLU:

…The loony left get loonier just when you were starting to think that was impossible. Know (sic) they are resorting to casting spells on the evil warmonger Marines they have been protesting. Did everyone one in this little club get dropped on their head at some point?

Just as we thought that we couldn’t take them any less seriously, they prove us wrong!

Someone tell me again how this #sshat isn’t considered anti-American.  From Ed Morrissey (video clip in link):

Jimmy Carter appeared on the Tonight Show last night to offer his view on the upcoming credentials fight at the Democratic National Convention. The world-renowned election observer, who has argued for the legitimacy of Hamas, argued against the legitimacy of seating delegates from Florida and Michigan in Denver. He told Jay Leno that those voters had “disqualified themselves” by moving their primary dates ahead of the limitation of the DNC:

[video clip]

Who knew Steve Doocy had such passion in defending Democrats in Florida and Michigan? He makes a couple of decent points in this rant, especially ridiculing the notion that the voters disqualified themselves; those decisions got made by party leaders and state legislatures, and also by Howard Dean and the DNC. The national party botched this exercise in discipline by completely negating the impact of the two states. The RNC handled it appropriately by reducing their impact but still allowing the states to seat delegates and have some impact on the results.

Carter isn’t entirely wrong here, in that the parties had to take steps to punish states that broke the rules. However, the smug dismissal of American votes as illegitimate coming just after his insistence that a terrorist group should be recognized because it won an election provides a mind-bending irony that may just be too large to contemplate all at once. Maybe if Florida and Michigan voted to endorse Hamas, Carter’s opinion would change?

What a complete fool Carter is!  No wonder he dropped 44 states to Ronaldus Magnus in 1980.

It’s come to this, my friends:

“I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on,” she said in an interview with USA TODAY. As evidence, Clinton cited an Associated Press article “that found how Sen. Obama’s support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me.”…

Exit question: Anyone else feasting on the delicious irony of watching the party of identity politics being harmed by it today?

Tucker Carlson explains the MSM’s lovefest with Obama, and how it borders on the sexual:

CARLSON: But it’s more than love. I mean, it’s the kind of love that anybody who’s been a 9th-grade boy understands this species of love. Do you know what I mean?
…
CARLSON: It’s red-in-the-face, I-think-about-you-when-I-go-to-bed, too embarrassed to stand up, it’s sealed-with-a-kiss love. I mean, it’s real, it’s palpable. 

That’s hilarious!  I mean…not that I would know what it’s like to have it “high noon on my sundial” while sitting in Mrs. Laxton’s economics class and not wanting to go to the chalkboard at that very moment to draw the supply-and-demand curve!  I mean…uh…um…OK, time to move on to the next post!

Just yesterday, I mentioned MSNBC’s shill piece for global “warming” showing penguins stranded on melted ice in the North Pole…which is impossible, since penguins live at the South Pole.  Well, the comment left by A.C. suggested that MSNBC edited out the penguins.  As it turns out, A.C. is correct.

Nothing to see here, move along, and nope…no liberal media bias!

From Ace:

Funny how the networks are quick to accede to the political desires of liberals, without worrying too much about “pandering” or subcontracting their own highly-trained sense of news-value to the lay public, so long as that lay public can be used as a pretext to do what what the liberals in the newsroom want to do anyway.

Imagine if FoxNews announced “We’re going to have Wright updates every half hour, because that’s what our viewers want.”

I imagine they’d be castigated for deferring to their bitter, gun-clinging audiences’ wishes.

Because CNN has a better audience, of course. It’s liberal, and, as such, can be trusted to help make the big news-judgment decisions.

Because ultimately it’s not a J-school credential that empowers one to decide what should and should not be in the national debate — it’s an adherence to the liberal political philosophy. …

Nope…no liberal media bias!

Nice Deb has a comprehensive roundup of all of the reds who endorse/support the Obamessiah.  But I’m sure it’s all a big coinkidink.

McAmnesty then:

TIM RUSSERT: If the Senate passed your bill, S-1433, the McCain-Kennedy immigration bill, would you as president sign it?

 

JOHN MCCAIN: Yeah, but the lesson is that it isn’t going to come, it isn’t going to come. The lesson is they want the borders secured first.

McAmnesty now:

“Unless we enact comprehensive immigration reform I don’t think you can take it piecemeal,” he explained Monday, answering a question about providing visas for skilled workers.

“In other words,” he said, “because as soon you and I start to talk about the highly skilled workers, our agricultural interest people are going to say, ‘Look we need ag workers, too.’ And then somebody’s going say, ‘We need the DREAM Act,’ and then somebody’s going to say, ‘We’ve got to enforce our border.’”

“We get in this kind of a circular firing squad on immigration reform in the Congress of the United States,” McCain said, “and the lesson I learned from it is we’ve got to have comprehensive immigration reform.”

Seriously, this is the best the GOP could come up with?

This was seen at an Obama rally, so go ahead and feel free to question their patriotism (via MKH):

Her Highness swears she’s going to battle all the way to the convention, but it’s just a formality.  After proving the polls wrong in NC (which had shown the Obamessiah’s once-huge lead evaporated) and in IN (which had shown the Hildebeast with a 5+% lead), Barry O has the nomination all but locked up.  How so?

Well, for starters, Hilldawg needed to keep close in NC and win big in IN to show the party faithful that momentum was on her side.  That didn’t happen.  Also, with popular vote totals figured in after last night, the Hillster can’t appeal to that argument.  The party isn’t going to have its superdelegates ignore the popular vote and delegate vote leads that Snob-ama has now.

Alas, Hilarity…we hardly knew ye! 

Ed Morrissey nails the b#stards on this one.  Basically, they run a story on some British teenager who goes to the North Pole to see the “disappearing” Arctic ice that’s melting as a result of global “warming”.  Harmless enough, except that in order to elicit an emotional response, they show cute little penguins floating on a piece of ice.

There’s just one problem with that photo-op: Penguins live at the South Pole, not the North Pole!  You know, the South Pole, where the Arctic ice cap is expanding and not melting?  Explains Ed:

Those, folks, are penguins — which live at the bottom of the earth, as Nigel points out. The “expanses of water that weren’t there before” were actually never there at the North Pole. All 17 species of penguins live in the southern hemisphere.

Why would penguins make the long and rather warm journey across the equator to appear in an MS-NBC story about global warming?

• Escaping the expanding ice cap at the South Pole
• Conducting their own investigation into polar-bear migration
• MS-NBC’s editors don’t know one pole from another

Something got exposed in this broadcast — scientific illiteracy at MS-NBC.

Check out the video clip he’s got (along with a reminder of MSNBC’s melodramatic-and-dishonest climate “catastrophe” reporting), and then repeat after me: Nope…no liberal media bias!

Since it occurred seven years ago, I’m gonna go out on a limb and assert that Barry O was slightly older than eight years old like he’s fond of parroting on the campaign trail.  Details:

My good friend Anne Leary of Backyard Conservative, a fabulous North Shore blogger, tipped me off to this picture, which I’ve heard rumors about, of Bill Ayers stepping on a US flag in 2001.

I believe it’s from Chicago Magazine, and it accompanied an article in which Ayers was peddling his terrorist memoir, Fugitive Days.

At the time this photograph was taken, Obama and Ayers were serving together on the board of the Woods Fund. It was in 2001 when Ayers donated $200 to Obama’s State Senate campaign fund.

“Guilty as sin, free as a bird, it’s a great country” is one of the Ayers quotes in the top clipping.

You have to love the guys at Olbermann Watch, for (a) doubling Keith Olbermann’s viewership from one viewer to two; and (b) using the power of video to chronicle what a pathetic hypocritical moonbat Blabberman is.  From OW:

Tonight the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann attacked Rush Limbaugh for a supposed racial “insult”, dutifully parroted from one of Olby’s usual blue blog “news” sources (Think Propaganda). Krazy Keith was up in arms, making Limbaugh “worst person in the world” for his heinous, racist slur against a Hispanic office holder. Oralmann seems to have forgotten his own history, like when he called the Hispanic Attorney General a “house boy”. Unfortunately for Bathtub Boy, Olbermann Watch didn’t forget

You MUST check out the hilarious video montage there!

In related news, Hell freezes over.  From the AP:

The political battle over whether state Attorney General Marc Dann should leave office has taken on the feel of a standoff.

Dann, 46, refuses to surrender to demands by an army of his own Democratic leaders that he step aside following an admitted affair and a sexual harassment scandal at his office.

Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland said Monday that Dann’s refusal to submit to the pressure — including a threat by the Ohio Democratic Party to revoke its endorsement — means Democrats will move forward to impeach him. Republican House Speaker Jon Husted said that his chamber, which takes the first step in any impeachment, was already reviewing the process.

“I think it’s important for Democrats to send a very clear message that we will clean our own house,” Strickland said. Democrats’ calls for Dann to resign were applauded by Republicans, adding a new twist to Strickland’s reputation for bipartisan cooperation. …

There’s a first time for everything, I guess.

Exit question, albeit somewhat rhetorical: If he had lied about the affair or the sexual harrassment, would Dems have rushed to his defense and claimed that it was a “private matter”, like they have in the not-so-distant past?

When it’s not busy spreading AIDS before taking a decade off from sautéeing the planet, global “warming” likes to spend its free time egging on the sharks to attack people.  From Eurotrashland:

Three decades have passed since the movie Jaws sent terrified bathers scrambling out of the ocean. But as any beach lifeguard knows, there’s still nothing like a gory shark attack to stoke public hysteria and paranoia.

Two deaths in the waters off California and Mexico last week and a spate of shark-inflicted injuries to surfers off Florida’s Atlantic coast have left beachgoers seeking an explanation for a sudden surge in the number of strikes.
…
Some experts suggest that an abundance of seals has attracted high numbers of sharks, while others believe that overfishing has hit their food chain. ‘I’m not saying it doesn’t happen, but it’s a convenient excuse,’ Burgess said. Another contributory factor to the location of shark attacks could be global warming and rising sea temperatures. ‘You’ll find that some species will begin to appear in places they didn’t in the past with some regularity,’ he said. …

Just when I thought they couldn’t blame anything else on that junk science fad known as global “warming”, I get proven wrong again.

For those of you who aren’t economic illiterates, the following probably doesn’t tell you anything new.  For those of you on the left, however, you may want to think about this.  From WSJ:

… Mr. Obama is right to oppose the gas-tax gimmick, but his idea is even worse. Neither proposal addresses the problem of energy supply, especially the lack of domestic oil and gas thanks to decades of Congressional restrictions on U.S. production. Mr. Obama supports most of those “no drilling” rules, but that hasn’t stopped him from denouncing high gas prices on the campaign trail. He is running TV ads in North Carolina that show him walking through a gas station and declaring that he’ll slap a tax on the $40 billion in “excess profits” of Exxon Mobil.
…
You may also be wondering how a higher tax on energy will lower gas prices. Normally, when you tax something, you get less of it, but Mr. Obama seems to think he can repeal the laws of economics. We tried this windfall profits scheme in 1980. It backfired. The Congressional Research Service found in a 1990 analysis that the tax reduced domestic oil production by 3% to 6% and increased oil imports from OPEC by 8% to 16%. Mr. Obama nonetheless pledges to lessen our dependence on foreign oil, which he says “costs America $800 million a day.” Someone should tell him that oil imports would soar if his tax plan becomes law. The biggest beneficiaries would be OPEC oil ministers.

There’s another policy contradiction here. Exxon is now under attack for buying back $2 billion of its own stock rather than adding to the more than $21 billion it is likely to invest in energy research and exploration this year. But hold on. If oil companies believe their earnings from exploring for new oil will be expropriated by government – and an excise tax on profits is pure expropriation – they will surely invest less, not more. A profits tax is a sure formula to keep the future price of gas higher.
…
This tiff over gas and oil taxes only highlights the intellectual policy confusion – or perhaps we should say cynicism – of our politicians. They want lower prices but don’t want more production to increase supply. They want oil “independence” but they’ve declared off limits most of the big sources of domestic oil that could replace foreign imports. They want Americans to use less oil to reduce greenhouse gases but they protest higher oil prices that reduce demand. They want more oil company investment but they want to confiscate the profits from that investment. And these folks want to be President?

Carter tried a windfall profits tax on the oil industries, and as you can see, the results were disastrous.  Only a simpleton would truly believe that if you increase taxes on the providers of a good/service, you will get more of that good/service.  The only thing that offends me more than economic ignorance is a politician that panders to that economic ignorance.

Exit question, albeit somewhat rhetorical: Do Hilldawg and the Obamessiah really want to emulate Jimmah Freakin’ Carter’s energy policies?