Posted on 08/23/2016 5:22:38 AM PDT by Kaslin
It’s not a meaningful percentage of oil usage.
Agree! After many years of watching it faithfully, it’s gotten so bad I haven’t watched it more than a few minutes in months.
LOL!!
Yeah and why did they lose? They lost because they refused to vote for the Republican nominees.
It's worth examining the case of the Republicans for Clinton, because none of the arguments make much sense.
It is not sense but principle driving this.
It is the principle of leadership.
The Republican rank and file have rejected their leadership. The rank and file have chosen an outsider over one of the leadership of the party. The rank and file have rejected the leadership and ignored their revealed wisdom and chosen as the Republican candidate a man who rejects many of their preferred donors internationalist policies.
So these LEADERS of the Republican Party are by their actions teaching the lowly rank and file Republicans a much needed lesson. Namely that they must accept the decisions of their betters and follow the LEADERSHIP no matter what rabbit hole they decide the party must go down.
Bob Dole and Mitt Romney were abject failures and did not if fact win the Presidency but they were the choice of the LEADERSHIP and were the best candidate that had a chance of winning that year.
So these Leaders of the party have decided that the rank and file are in much need of of a hard lesson. They must learn to accept the wisdom of the LEADERSHIP without question for the sake of the party.
Exactly right. They are not actually Republican or Conservative, often they are moles. At other times they are opportunists who would not be able to hold the same position if they were affiliated with the Democratic Party (Graham, Snow). If I hear about Joe Scarborough or David Gergen again, as being Republicans, I may head butt my computer.
tax credits?
When LNG, coal, and nuclear are off the table from the ‘environmentalists,’ that percentage will rise. Oil fired generation is used as a backup/demand overflow generation capability.
There is no reasonable way wind or solar can take the load and demand.
Post of the day.
True, but that’s not his issue. He’s got windy open land; if the gov’t will subsidize putting up windmills for a profitable operation, then makes sense for T. to do so.
I simply do not understand the Never Trump people. Oh, I get that Trump is not a doctrinaire conservative, and that he’s contributed to Dems in the past...but he was a businessman tending to his interests, someone who had to grease palms on both sides of the aisle to prosper.
But Illary Clinton will destroy this country’s politics. She wants ALL of the power, and will exercise as much as she can, as soon as she can, to get it. The Supreme Court will be gone - and with it the 1st and 2nd Amendments, Due Process (for conservatives), etc. She will admit so many immigrants, and give them amnesty and a path to citizenship, that no Republican will EVER be able to win the Presidency again.
There will be NO return to normalcy, NO balance, NO come-back if Hillary wins. Any Never Trumper out there needs to understand that - with Illary Clinton, there are NO RULES. She plays for keeps, and will cheat in any way possible to win. She MUST be stopped.
You say that you don’t know what you’ll get with Trump. OK, that is a reasonably fair stance - although he’s been very forthright about several things that he’ll do:
1) Appoint Constitution-respecting judges and Justices to the federal bench;
2) Rebuild our military;
3) Reduce taxes and regulations;
4) Push for energy independence, which will not only bring some sanity back to our balance of trade, but create hundreds of thousands or millions of jobs;
5) Severely cut government spending;
6) Work for better trade deals, or cancel those that don’t work for us;
7) Slow immigration, and be more selective about it, so that immigration HELPS this country;
8) Take threats to our well-being - like ISIS - seriously, and do something about them;
9) Back our allies and undercut our enemies - the opposite of Obama and Clinton; and
10) Destroy Political Correctness.
OTOH, we do have certainty with Illary - she will do the opposite of those things listed above. She is the antithesis of a conservative, so any genuine conservative MUST oppose her.
Remember William F. Buckley’s words: “I will vote for the most conservative person on the ballot who has a chance to win.” No one other than Illary or Trump can win - we face a binary decision. While Trump is no conservative, he is BY FAR the most conservative of the two of them. Follow Buckley’s advice and vote for Trump.
There are no differences in the Republican Turncoats and the Democrat Party. They are evil and march in lockstep to the DC and Wall Street Crowd. We must find a way to get the average person to realize this and come together and take their power to divide us away.
Ther scam was for him to make money! Wake up folks. It is no difference than those in Congress and Insider Trading. That is why all the power is in New York and DC. Think about it!
His “pitch” came a little before the great expansion into Shale oil production. Perhaps HIS ‘land’ reserve wasn’t shale-worthy. Also at a time when HUGE amounts were being invested in Solar and wind.
The whole key about his pitch was to get government money to ‘help’ him make money. No better than Solyndra and all the rest.
I just ain’t buying the argument anything he pushed was viable on its own commercially. GOVERNMENT MONEY!
You are on the money!
You’re damn skippy!
I suspect Charles Krauthammer will vote for the Donald in the end.
Precisely. Trump showed them to be the limited little idiots that they are, and they hate him for it. This goes for the whole ‘political establishment’, including the pundits, and all those whose ‘special stature’ in life is predicated on their involvement in American politics.
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