Posted on 05/05/2008 3:21:58 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Clinton: OPEC 'can no longer be a cartel'
Ben Smith 17 minutes ago
Clinton's attacks on oil prices as artificially inflated, Enron-style, keep escalating, and today she appeared to threaten to break up the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.
"We're going to go right at OPEC," she said. "They can no longer be a cartel, a monopoly that get together once every couple of months" at a hotel in "some plush place in the world" to set prices, she told a crowd a volunteer fire house in Merrillville.
Clinton has cast herself as a warrior for working people against the oil industry and malicious "speculators," and made that -- along with her push for a gas tax holiday -- central to her closing message in Indiana. It's a potent message, like the attack on "Wall Street money brokers," with deep roots in American politics. It' It's also very hard to figure out what exactly she means by the threat to break OPEC.
BTT
Actually I like it!! I’ve said for a long time now that the only way we’re going to be able to deal with Iran (and now OPEC courtesy of Mrs. Clinton) was for a Democrat to do it. And especially her. She would have the MSM eating out of her hand inside of a week after she gives a speech calling on international fairness... this is a threat to our way of life... ours and our allies security... yada, yada, yada. The world and US press would crucify a Republican but she could actually pull it off. How? Don’t forget that there’s a reason we have the strongest military in the world. Geez...if she turned into a female J.R. Ewing (of course you all remember “Dallas”, right?) I’d vote for her in a minute.
She will have a very hard time downplaying this overstep. She took Obama is off the hook
That's a mighty big statement to make with no cards in your hands and no money on the table.
Now if she said, "We will crush OPEC because we are going to start drilling in every hole where they might be oil."
She could say that but, Bill would be hitting the door at "drilling every hole"......
Watch Bill’s foundation get flooded with new money..
SIMMER DOWN, you two!!
And we broke it by building the Alaska pipeline. Pass new legislation to drill in Anwar and let’s see what happens!
We could start by DRILLING in our own darn country! Drill ANWR!!! The caribu don't seem to mind!
But NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. Some evil corporation might somehow make windfall profits if we did that.
We should be drilling everywhere and building nuclear plants for the power for plug-in cars coming from Germany and Japan.
Get the darn politicians out of the way and NO PROBLEM!
Hillary can’t control Bill’s zipper, why does she think OPEC will bow to her?
red cape = OPEC. Matador = Russia.
Do I need to draw pictures?
Why not? That's pretty much the theory behind gun control.
wonder woman.
next she'll be battling asteroids.
One of these days I might change my tagline to:
“If we’re saving ANWAR for Caribou breeding, how come we’re the ones getting screwed!?”
Except, we have the know it all politicians who are holding us hostage!!! Just like everything else we try to do (war) we have to play with one hand tied behind our backs.
I'll go to the back of the room now [:>)
Maybe she can send Billary in there to infiltrate their Harems. That may make them kowtow to the cankled one.
Is she going to invade them?
She does realize that OPEC is made up of countries not corporations doesn't she?
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