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Dem Senator: I don’t care if gas hits $10 a gallon!

And yet Americans are seriously considering adding more of these #sshats to the ranks of Congress?  From Ed Morrissey:

How high will Democrats let the price of gas get before considering the option of drilling for more oil?  Ken Salazar (D-CO) has set the bar in today’s action in the Senate.  Gas can hit $10 per gallon and the Democrats still won’t act:

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Republicans should use a very simple message. We have enough oil to satisfy American needs for at least the next 100 years, but Democrats won’t let you have it. They’d rather you pay $10 per gallon at the pump and watch food prices increase 250% rather than agree to drilling. If you don’t want $10 per gallon gas, vote Republican.

If the RNC had any brains and stones (which I seriously doubt), the RNC will run commercials like these until the cows come home.  By the way, Ken Salazar ran in 2004 as a “moderate” Dem…my, how his true leftist colors shine through!

July 31, 2008 Posted by | environuts, hypocrisy, oil | 7 Comments

Obama’s “wear a sweater” moment

Barry O decided to borrow a page from Jimmah Carter’s energy expertise in the 1970′s.  Carter felt the best way to overcome the energy crisis was to wear a sweater.  The Obamessiah’s take?  See for yourself:

Proper Tire Inflation? Great. How About the Other Two out of Every Three Drivers?

The RNC is chuckling over Obama calling for voters to make “sure your tires are properly inflated” because “we could save all the oil that they’re talking about getting off drilling if everybody was just inflating their tires.”

RNC spokesman Alex Conant responds, “Obama’s solution to America’s energy crisis is inflating tires?! Maybe he’s been out of the country too long.”

I’ll give Obama a smidgen of credit, in that yes, having properly inflated tires can get you a few more miles per gallon.

“Running a tire 20 percent underinflated – only 5 to 7 pounds per square inch (psi) – can increase fuel consumption by 10 percent. That can easily cost motorists two or three miles per gallon. Not only that, but running underinflated also reduces the tire’s tread life,” said Bob Toth, Goodyear’s general manager, auto tires.

However, this doesn’t mean everybody can inflate their tires and get more mpg tomorrow. Survey information from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) shows that about one in every three cars has a significantly under inflated tire. …

Ooooooooooookay then.

Barry thinks this man was an underappreciated pioneer in thoughtful energy policy

July 31, 2008 Posted by | Carter, environuts, Obama, oil | 1 Comment

DC gets sued for violating Second Amendment…by the same guy…again

Those idiots in our nation’s capital (not Congress, but the D.C. Council and Mayor) are doing their best to ignore the Supreme Court’s ruling that the Second Amendment guarantees our right to keep and bear arms.  DC must be spoiling for a fight, since Dick Heller (the winner in the SCOTUS case) applied for his handgun permit in DC after the ruling, and DC denied his application. 

DC decided to comply with the SCOTUS ruling by…implementing measures that essentially ignore the ruling.  They knew this lawsuit was coming, which means that they are perfectly willing to spend millions of taxpayer dollars in legal fees fighting a battle that they know damned well they aren’t going to win.

Maybe D.C. Councilman and former mayor Marion Barry has sold some of his crack to his colleagues.  How else can one explain such lunacy?

July 31, 2008 Posted by | D.C., gun rights | 7 Comments

Obama: McCain’s criticizing of me means he’s racist

We’re used to the brain-dead leeches of the left trotting out the intellectually lazy “if you’re against The Chosen One, it’s only because you’re a bigot” mantra.  Well, add yet another brain-dead leech to the list: the Obamessiah himself.  From ABC News blog:

“John McCain right now, he’s spending an awful lot of time talking about me,” Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., said today in Rolla, Mo. “You notice that? I haven’t seen an ad yet where he talks about what he’s gonna do. And the reason is because those folks know they don’t have any good answers, they know they’ve had their turn over the last eight years and made a mess of things. They know that you’re not real happy with them.”

Obama continued: “And so the only way they figure they’re going to win this election is if they make you scared of me. So what they’re saying is, ‘Well, we know we’re not very good but you can’t risk electing Obama. You know, he’s new, he’s… doesn’t look like the other presidents on the currency, you know, he’s got a, he’s got a funny name.’ …

Correct me if I’m wrong, but does it not seem as if Obama just said McCain and his campaign — presumably the “they” in this construct — are saying that Obama shouldn’t be elected because he’s a risk because he’s black and has a foreign-sounding name?

The Obama campaign says no, no, no, certainly not, he was talking about his “opponents” in general, writ large, the talk radio hosts and smear artists and such.

Oh, those “they”!  Not McCain “they”, right?  Um, well…

Then in Union, Mo., this evening, Obama seemed to specifically accuse McCain and the GOP of peddling racism and xenophobia.

Obama said that “John McCain and the Republicans, they don’t have any new ideas, that’s why they’re spending all their time talking about me. I mean, you haven’t heard a positive thing out of that campaign in … in a month. All they do is try to run me down and you know, you know this in your own life. If somebody doesn’t have anything nice to say about anybody, that means they’ve got some problems of their own. So they know they’ve got no new ideas, they know they’re dredging up all the stale old stuff they’ve been peddling for the last eight, 10 years.

“But, since they don’t have any new ideas the only strategy they’ve got in this election is to try to scare you about me. They’re going to try to say that I’m a risky guy, they’re going to try to say, ‘Well, you know, he’s got a funny name and he doesn’t look like all the presidents on the dollar bills and the five dollar bills and, and they’re going to send out nasty emails. …

Tapper continues:

There’s a lot of racist xenophobic crap out there. But not only has McCain not peddled any of it, he’s condemned it.
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I’ve seen racism in campaigns before — I’ve seen it against Obama in this campaign (more from Democrats than Republicans, at this point, I might add) and I’ve seen it against McCain in South Carolina in 2000, when his adopted Bangladeshi daughter Bridget was alleged, by the charming friends and allies of then-Gov. George W. Bush, to have been a McCain love-child with an African-American woman.

What I have not seen is it come from McCain or his campaign in such a way to merit the language Obama used today. Pretty inflammatory. 

Pretty much the only time these days I hear any references to Barry O’s blackness, it’s from Barry O himself (or his sycophants).

“Hope and change” and stuff…or you’re bigoted.  Got it?

July 31, 2008 Posted by | bigotry, McCain, Obama, shameful | 6 Comments

That “recession” is going to have to wait

It’s not here yet.  Sorry ’bout that, libs.  From al-Reuters:

Expansion accelerated modestly in the second quarter as government stimulus payments helped consumers add more buying punch to the economy, a Commerce Department report on Thursday showed.

Gross Domestic Product or GDP grew at a 1.9 percent annual rate, up from a revised 0.9 percent rate in the first quarter that previously was reported as 1 percent. …

In order for a recession to hit us, we need at least two consecutive quarters of negative growth.  We haven’t had that yet.  Look, I’d be lying if I said the economy was in great shape, but if you’re going to use the term “recession”, my only request (nay, demand) is that you get the definition right.

July 31, 2008 Posted by | economic ignorance | 5 Comments

   

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