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Rush Limbaugh Live Thread Wednesday 10-18-2006
Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | 10-18-2006 | Rush Limbaugh

Posted on 10/18/2006 9:03:11 AM PDT by MNJohnnie

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1720277/posts

Why Gas Prices Dropped money.cnn.com ^ | October 16 2006 | Nelson D. Schwartz

Posted on 10/16/2006 10:31:49 AM CDT by kellynla

(Fortune Magazine) -- If the recent plunge in gas prices is the result of a conspiracy by President George W. Bush to help the Republicans retain control of Congress, as 42 percent of Americans believe, according to one Gallup poll, a lot of Wall Streeters wish they'd been in on the plot.

So what really drove prices down - if not an Oliver Stone-worthy scenario involving the Commander-in-Chief, the House of Saud and Secretary of the Treasury Hank Paulson cajoling his cronies at Goldman Sachs to sink the crude market?

By late summer, hedge funds and other investors had poured billions into long positions in oil, gasoline, natural gas and the rest of what traders call the "energy complex," all betting on a replay of the severe 2005 hurricane season that sent prices soaring in the wake of Katrina and Rita. But one day after oil reached a monthly high of $76.98 a barrel on Aug. 7, government meteorologists downgraded their hurricane forecast and cautioned that a repeat of 2005 was "unlikely."

That announcement, combined with the end of the summer driving season and a recalibration of the Goldman Sachs (Charts) commodity index that reduced the weighting of gasoline, prompted speculators to head for the exits even faster than they'd piled in.

The switch in Goldman's basket of commodities had been previously announced by the firm, but that didn't stop the conspiracy theorists.

(Excerpt) Read more at money.cnn.com ...


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To: Ogie Oglethorpe

And...


341 posted on 10/18/2006 10:39:34 AM PDT by AliVeritas (If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.)
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To: Sensei Ern

"I believe he was one of the few Republicans who ran on term limits and kept his promise"

No, he didn't. He ran, won, and about a month later decided to resign to spend more time with family. We had to have a special election and it cost the taxpayers a lot of money. Luckily, we got Jeff Miller. He is a true conservative.


342 posted on 10/18/2006 10:39:59 AM PDT by imskylark
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To: quidnunc

Not true, quidnunc.


343 posted on 10/18/2006 10:40:17 AM PDT by American Quilter (You can't negotiate with people who are dedicated to your destruction.)
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To: TexasPatriot8

Thank you.


344 posted on 10/18/2006 10:40:19 AM PDT by AliVeritas (If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.)
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To: takeemout
George Allen is going to beat Webb. Watch it happen. Washington Post can choke on that one.
345 posted on 10/18/2006 10:40:34 AM PDT by MaestroLC ("Let him who wants peace prepare for war."--Vegetius, A.D. Fourth Century)
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To: Last Laugh
A drive by is a poster who never ever shows up in 'live threads' except to make a quick comment trying to split our side and then rarely posts again..

Some are sincere- that's fine.. they are good to debate.

Some, however, are what we call HSWs (Hillary's Secret Warriors) who are libs posing as conservatives in a viral marketing tactic to suppress the vote & split our side. The dems actually have a stated strategy in doing this..

Reading material on the subject.

http://abaraxas.blogspot.com/2006/02/viral-marketing-in-political-game.html

http://abaraxas.blogspot.com/2006/09/viral-marketing-in-politics-take-2.html
346 posted on 10/18/2006 10:40:47 AM PDT by mnehring (http://abaraxas.blogspot.com/)
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To: Clint N. Suhks

I recorded the entire Republican Convention on VHS (I'm not as technologically advanced as you . . . ).


347 posted on 10/18/2006 10:40:54 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
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hmmm...thought that was a cheap shot Rush just took at McCain.


348 posted on 10/18/2006 10:41:05 AM PDT by evad (sarcasm may be introduced at any moment of any post)
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To: AliVeritas
Don't know about that TP... but I know there are some trolls on this thread right now.

Yeah, they come out of hiding during election season, sowing the seeds of discord and dissent within the threads.

349 posted on 10/18/2006 10:41:08 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (Karl Rove you magnificent bastard!)
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To: takeemout

Payback for libs having no ideas?


350 posted on 10/18/2006 10:41:26 AM PDT by AliVeritas (If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.)
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To: roses of sharon
"Very simple, an un-American Party vs the American Party."

I am not sure that I believe that anymore. I was disgusted by the way Limbaugh and Hannity when they tried to explain away the Foley scandal, at one point even trying to blame it on the kids. I was even more disgusted with how may of the FR posters shouted down some of the subsequent commentary when some, including myself, tried to express their moral outrage. So, I guess I am deciding it is time for me to move on. I guess I no longer fit.
351 posted on 10/18/2006 10:41:51 AM PDT by spatso
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To: rodguy911

Yet... the DCCC has to borrow money, they're so mainstream. /s


352 posted on 10/18/2006 10:42:06 AM PDT by AliVeritas (If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.)
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To: angcat

Just ask 'How'?


353 posted on 10/18/2006 10:42:08 AM PDT by mnehring (http://abaraxas.blogspot.com/)
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To: angcat
my so called Republican Boss tried to get me to agree with him that BUSH sat down with Exxon executives and changed the gas prices just before the election.

BWAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!!!

Ask him if Bush first sat down with OPEC to lower crude prices?

354 posted on 10/18/2006 10:42:08 AM PDT by Clint N. Suhks (If you don't love Jesus, you can go to hell.)
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To: quidnunc

So why listen to him? Spend your time with someone who is consistant. Air America or its replacement or Michael Savage can probably use the ratinings.


355 posted on 10/18/2006 10:42:30 AM PDT by nitejohnboy (I'd say I'm leaving the country except that the whole world is screwed up.)
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To: BigSkyFreeper

Carville predicts 50 seats? He.Is.Crazy.


356 posted on 10/18/2006 10:42:41 AM PDT by MaestroLC ("Let him who wants peace prepare for war."--Vegetius, A.D. Fourth Century)
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To: A Citizen Reporter
I swear, I wish I hadn't stopped listening to Laura Ingraham over a year ago, so I could stop listening to her again!

LOL

357 posted on 10/18/2006 10:42:55 AM PDT by American Quilter (You can't negotiate with people who are dedicated to your destruction.)
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To: All

The DNC doesn't have the money and has to borrow it because most Americans don't support them. Funny how the GOP has no problem raising money. If most Americans really opposed the GOP right now, the GOP would be the ones having to borrow money. That says it all.


358 posted on 10/18/2006 10:43:01 AM PDT by TexasPatriot8 (The Democrats gave up trying to win elections on issues, they're now trying to win on fixed scandle.)
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To: MaestroLC

Allen will beat Webb like a drum. I listen to Rush on a station out of Norfolk, VA, and the ratio of Allen ads versus Webb ads per hour is like 4:1.


359 posted on 10/18/2006 10:43:09 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (Karl Rove you magnificent bastard!)
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To: Clint N. Suhks
Ask him if Bush first sat down with OPEC to lower crude prices?

It was Rove. *shhhhhhh* ;)

360 posted on 10/18/2006 10:43:58 AM PDT by MaestroLC ("Let him who wants peace prepare for war."--Vegetius, A.D. Fourth Century)
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