Posted on 04/24/2006 10:42:01 PM PDT by ncountylee
"Bush polls have fallen to a new low," shout the newspaper headlines or the news anchors on television. "President Bush and Congress have reached their lowest numbers yet," they continue, trying to speculate whether this is caused by the high gasoline prices, the current economy, or the war in Iraq.
This is strange since there is good news, mostly hidden by the media, about all three.
1. Recently, the U.S. Energy Department announced the results of a land survey: "We have more oil inside our borders, than all the other proven reserves on earth. Here are the official estimates:
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2. Our economy is at its best today with unemployment at its lowest in decades and with three million new jobs added!
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3. We are winning the war in Iraq and, as I write this, Jawad al-Maliki, an experienced political operator and advocate for Iraq's Shiite Muslims, has won the approval
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Anti-Bush information also pours into our homes from the news on NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN and even Fox News. The latter says that it is fair and balanced, implying that it gives you news from both the left and right political wings. But if TV news is to be balanced, should we not have at least one TV network that tells us only the truth about our country without two commentators spinning in two different directions? Don't we get enough opinion, generally slanted to the Left, from all the other networks?
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Polls always reflect not what people think but rather how they react to the news they see and hear every day beamed or tossed into their homes by both television and print.
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LOL........ you're right, but fear not .......... Hillary says she wants to give us a wall.
;-)
These problems don't exist. I have answered your question about 5 times by saying that local governments are not capable of preventing the Feds from arresting illegals. Stop with your simplistic argument that I did not answer that question again because I've answered it again and again. You want me to answer it again; local governments are not capable of preventing the Feds from arresting illegals. The federal government refuses to enforce its own immigration laws. I don't believe states even have laws against illegal immigrants because they don't have the jurisdiction to deport them. I will ask you a fourth time to please post your specific evidence or laws demonstrating local governments are to blame for the Feds no enforcing our borders. Please cite specific evidence or stop making that claim. Otherwise stop posting to me.
Lol. Too true. Imagine having only one thing to think about in your life. I don't even think my dog has it that easy. Food and walks vs. immigration. Hmmmm. Her life has more variables than the the anti-Bush crowd.
No surprise I guess.
"Because I am paying 3 bucks for a gallon of gas that probably costs 40 cents to produce. And the Bush family is into big oil"
40 cents to produce? Do you know what OPEC is? 50% of the cost of gas is crude, and around 15-20% for refining, another 20% for taxes. 40 cents, hahaha.
"Bush is not running again!!"
And that is why I said he would lose the REPUBLICAN PARTY those states. If you think that people do not associate the REPUBLICAN PARTY with the a two-term president, you need a reality check.
Ohhhhhh. That explains a LOT. Good grief.
Clinton never had a majority though. 43.1% of the vote to him in the 1992 election. 18.9% Perot. 37.4% Bush. Perot helped Clinton get elected. Period.
In the 1996 election, Clinton got 49.2%, with Perot getting under 9%.
Trust me, the fault lies with YOU; not with me.
Even though I have repeated the question, explained exactly what it pertained to, you are still dodging it; bobbing and weaving and doing everything in your power to avoid answering it."
Post #144: I didn't realize that the Federal Government's powers are subservient to unconstitutional Stae laws.
Post #232: I already answered that question in an earlier post. Federal law supersedes local law.
A simple answer to a simple question. Are you going to ask me again what I think about local laws obstructing the Federal Government from enforcing its own federal immigration laws? Answer the question I keep asking you. What specific examples do you have of local governments preventing The Feds from enforcing immigration laws? Those are the two previous times I answered your question
That would be a good choice. Or maybe Gitmo. Technically I think we don't really own it. Maybe we could apply Cuban laws. If all else fails, I think I remember reading about somewhere in Vermont that was trying to cede from the Union.
Yes. John Kerry, Hillary Clinton and Howard Dean all strike me as pillars of consistantcy. Sheeesh.
Look I have been voting long before you were even a gleam in you daddy's eye. I know how it works.
I know a lot of those Perot voters and thy will tell you that that they were stupid. Perot was only a useful idiot.
Time to get out the popcorn.
BUMP
We lease Gitmo from Cuba!
Here is a little on that subject.
I have run across many articles over the years about the “concept” of peak oil and the question of refinery capacity. Here is just part of one of those articles. I do not know what is the whole and true story, we all know that that whacko-enviros have been a huge hindrance to drilling and investment, but ALSO it makes sense that for oil companies, it has been easier for them to gain higher margins/profits if they close refineries. Hold the flames. ;-)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jamie-court/memos-show-oil-companies-_b_6980.html
The oil industry's own internal memos show the intentional shrinking of American refinery capacity in the 1990s was the oil companies' own idea to pump up profits.
Take this internal Texaco strategy memo: "The most critical factor facing the refining industry on the West Coast is the surplus of refining capacity, and the surplus gasoline production capacity. (The same situation exists for the entire U.S. refining industry.) Supply significantly exceeds demand year-round. This results in very poor refinery margins and very poor refinery financial results. Significant events need to occur to assist in reducing supplies and/or increasing the demand for gasoline." The memo went on to discuss a successful campaign in Washington State to shrink refined supply by removing other additives in the gasoline that filled gas volume.
Another Mobil memo shows the company promoted tough regulations in California to shut down an independent refiner. A Chevron memo acknowledged the industry wide need to shutter refineries and discussed how refiners were responding in kind.
Large oil companies have for a decade artificially shorted the gasoline market to drive up prices. Oil companies know they can make more money by making less gasoline. Katrina should be a wakeup call to America that the refiners profit widely when they keep the system running on empty.
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I omitted a few sentences of this article that may have shown a political leaning of the writer. Here is hoping these above paragraphs alone could be examined for their veracity.
When the truth about the sampling error these polls represent is mentioned, no one pays attention. I am wondering if this is the product of our education system. This mental stupor seems apparent in other areas. The DP World ports issue showed me that mental strength was replaced with knee jerk emotions. The illegal invasion issue has returned a grade of D-
It really is unthinkable having the Democrats in charge in the near future...... and that is an understatement!
Pretty much true (to greed and to the liberal/marxist/anti-American media and educational influences) .......... but we MUST still continuously emphasize what the alternative is. And that Democrat alternative is beyond belief!
You are right! If the Dems get in charge, the past 5 years will look like a sunday school party!
We won't be worring about boarders, the price of gas or anything but trying to survive.
There have been great disappointments, but it's not like this good President had any help from his "friends" in Congress and elsewhere. It's been rough for him each and every day.
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