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House passes bill to sue OPEC

While they’re at it, why don’t they pass a bill that allows gravity to be sued if someone falls down and gets hurt?  Both are examples of stupidity.  From al-Reuters:

The House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved legislation on Tuesday allowing the Justice Department to sue OPEC members for limiting oil supplies and working together to set crude prices, but the White House threatened to veto the measure.

The bill would subject OPEC oil producers, including Saudi Arabia, Iran and Venezuela, to the same antitrust laws that U.S. companies must follow.

The measure passed in a 324-84 vote, a big enough margin to override a presidential veto.

The legislation also creates a Justice Department task force to aggressively investigate gasoline price gouging and energy market manipulation.

“This bill guarantees that oil prices will reflect supply and demand economic rules, instead of wildly speculative and perhaps illegal activities,” said Democratic Rep. Steve Kagen of Wisconsin, who sponsored the legislation. …

These morons do understand that we have no jurisdiction over OPEC, right?

If these jerks were serious about stopping the vermin speculators, they would take up Larson’s bill that would stop speculators dead in their stinking tracks.  But Congress doesn’t want to stop the speculators, and I suspect it’s because they themselves have some of their money in the hedge funds that are profiting off of the oil problems they’re causing.

May 21, 2008 Posted by | economic ignorance, oil | 14 Comments

Obama: I’m not familiar with that thing, but I voted on it anyway

Judgment and experience, my friends.  From Michelle Malkin:

… Over the weekend, Obama also took a question about Hanford. Let’s underscore here that Hanford is not some tiny municipal dump. It’s the nation’s most contaminated nuclear site. Obama’s response? …

Here’s something that you will rarely hear from a politician, and that is that I’m not familiar with the Hanford, uuuuhh, site, so I don’t know exactly what’s going on there. (Applause.) Now, having said that, I promise you I’ll learn about it by the time I leave here on the ride back to the airport.

Well, at least he was honest about his cluelessness, right?  At least he wouldn’t do something so stupid as to vote on the matter until he was familiar with the situation.  Er, not exactly:

Section 3114 -
Directs the Secretary to submit to the defense and appropriations committees any reports received from the Army Corps of Engineers evaluating costs, schedules, and technical issues associated with the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant Project at the DOE Hanford Site. 

Obama voted “aye” on the bill…but hasn’t a friggin’ clue what it means?

Barry O’s own web site even touts this vote.  Hey, why not be proud that you voted on something that you haven’t the foggiest idea about, right?  It was easy for him to do, since 94 of his colleagues voted on it.  What a startling display of political courage there, Barry O!

Exit question: How many other times has the Obamessiah voted on bills with which he was entirely unfamiliar?

May 21, 2008 Posted by | Obama, shameful | 3 Comments

Stark: What are these damned soldiers doing in my presence?

This moonbat, Fortney “Pete” Stark (D-CA), just keeps on fluttering.  From the Freepers:

Dear Secretary Gates:

Yesterday, while voting on the war supplemental spending bill in the House of Representatives, I couldn’t help but notice a contingent of approximately 20 flag rank Army officers sitting in the House Gallery watching the debate and vote for a couple of hours. I was looking from below so I thought they were Army, but there could have been other branches present.

It’s possible they were on leave time or vacation. If so, I obviously have no concern. However, if they were doing this on military time, I want an explanation of why they were there.

At a time when our nation is at war, our troops are over-extended, and the Administration is literally asking for emergency military spending, what good to the “war on terror” is having US Generals and other top ranked officers – who were likely accompanied by staff and escorted by their chauffeurs – spending hours sitting in the gallery of the House of Representatives?

Please provide for me the name, rank, branch, and duties of each of these officers, as well as the number of additional staff and drivers that were used to facilitate their attendance yesterday. I would like this information by Monday, May 19th.

If they were here on official duty, this was an abhorrent misallocation of our military resources at a time of war.

Sincerely,

Pete Stark

But hey…the left “supports the troops”, right?  What an #ssh0le.

May 21, 2008 Posted by | moonbats, shameful | 8 Comments

Poll: Americans wants smaller government, lower taxes?

From Rasmussen:

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 62% of voters would prefer fewer government services with lower taxes. Nearly a third (29%) disagrees and would rather have a bigger government with higher taxes. Ten percent (10%) are not sure.

I’m not buying the results of this poll for one minute.  I don’t think Rasmussen messed up in his polling methodology.  Instead, I think the respondents weren’t honest.  We live in the midst of the “gimme” generation  As Neal Boortz points out:

But then when you dangle in front of them (the American people – Ed.) these fancy entitlement programs and wealth envy rhetoric, they are like fat kids at McDonalds … you can’t resist temptation, because it all looks so darn good.

May 21, 2008 Posted by | big government, polls | 4 Comments

Moonbats post vile image in perverted attempt at parody

Leave it to the Kos kooks to lower the bar in political discourse.  You guys thought I could be bad sometimes?  Pffff.  I’m a rank amateur compared to these nutjobs.  From LGF:

Daily Kos: The New Improved Southern Strategy

Mon, May 19, 2008 at 11:25:14 am PST

As Barack Obama bashes the Tennessee GOP as “low class” for criticizing his wife, the Daily Kos Kidz show Tennessee what “class” really means.

They’ve since removed the image but not the post.  And to think the Dem presidential candidates actively court these mouthbreathing knuckledraggers!

May 21, 2008 Posted by | bigotry, moonbats | 3 Comments

   

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