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You And What Army?
RedState.com ^ | 6 May 2008 | .cnI redruM

Posted on 05/06/2008 6:05:52 AM PDT by .cnI redruM

"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 in some conference room in some plush place in the world, they decide how much oil they’re going to produce and what price they’re going to put it at," she told a crowd at a firehouse in Merrillville, IN. - Hillary Rodham Clinton (5 May 2008)

From the palace of her delusional Shangri-La, Empress Clinton has decreed that OPEC can no longer exist as a cartel. It’s a good thing that the Sultan of Brunei, like washed-up Rapper, MC Hammer, insures all of his mansions and Bentleys through Nationwide.

Senator Clinton goes on to explain why the Clinton Health Security Plan of the early 1990’s represented such an execration in the domain of public policy. Like William Jennings Bryant decrying the gold standard, Hillary sounds the war-tocsin of economic populism.

“That’s not a market. That’s a monopoly," she said, saying she'd use anti-trust law and the World Trade Organization to take on OPEC.

Hillary tells us that she intends to break out the whipin’ stick against a bunch of oil-rich Middle Eastern despots and make them charge her concept of a fair price. She has yet to flesh out the detailed strategy to make a nation who elects a man who believes the 13th Imam is returning from the hereafter, to make all the infidels burn in lakes of hellfire, abide by The Sherman Anti-Trust Act. The details of this are probably as nebulous and broad as that Middle-Class Tax Cut that Bill Clinton ran for President on in 1992.

Hillary’s calls for OPEC to disband and engage the market the way a small-town farmer running a road-side fruit and vegetable stand would become even more risible in the face of her efforts to dismantle the only countervailing force we have against the JP Morgans and Cornelius Vanderbilts of South West Asia. She openly accused our oil industry of intentionally manipulating the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina for fun and for profit.

"I want to go after the oil companies and the oil speculators and the manipulators of the money, because they're the ones who I think are really behind this," Clinton told an audience in Elmira Heights on Thursday. "You have a hurricane, and all of a sudden you see prices going up like that. That has . . . everything to do with people trying to make money off the backs of this tragedy."- Washington Post (September 3, 2005)

I can assure the Senator who would be Queen that Ghadaffi, Ahmadinejad, and the rest of that region’s oil-rich supporters of international terrorism are rooting for Senator Clinton to take those profits. Racing against an opponent wearing ankle weights is not a daunting proposition. In keeping with Osama Bin Ladin’s admonishment that the people will always back the stronger horse, the ministers of OPEC cheer with glee at the prospect of the horse of American industry being saddled with the authoritarian dead weight of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Her newest bone-headed 1970’s revival involves the idea of slapping a Windfall Profits Tax on Oil companies. She claimed to Bill O’Liely they have failed to adequately perform R&D to her specifications. Apparently, their capital stocks and their industrial processes are as badly out of date as The Democratic Party’s national platform.

But once her tax policies have quenched the desire of any enterprising American to enter the oil and gas industry, she will still have to take on OPEC. Only once she’s demobilized Exxon-Mobil, it will be OPEC on Roger Clemmons Juice. At that point, OPEC would be happy to take their offensive product completely off the market and let America do without. Oh boy, would they be happy!

At that point someone could even be impolitic enough to ask her “Oh yeah, you and what Army?” Given her party’s current views of long-term military entanglements in the Middle East, that’s not a question she could laugh off or take lightly. Her answer could be both telling and apocryphal.

Then-Senator Daschle once denounced George W. Bush for following a short-sighted policy that forced the United States to war against Iraq in 2003. Hillary’s willingness to lay waste to America’s domestic oil producers for the crime of acting like businesses and making profits would put us in similar straights with either Venezuela or Iran. Perhaps the pseudo-sapients at Infowars are right to accuse her of threatening to nuke Iran. Once she’s taken those profits, she’s removed other, more rational options from the table.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: energy; hillary; oilcompanies; opec
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To: bill1952
You are living in a Fairy tale if you actually believe citing a law to OPEC will somehow cause them to increase production and receive a lesser income from a resource which is their sole source of livelihood and a finite one at that.

Citing the law would have precisely the same effect on the oil producing nations as UN resolutions have/had on Iraq and Iran.

BTW, what will the answer be when the OPEC nations say if we want more oil why don't we simply open up ANWR and drill in the Gulf and off the east and west coasts of America? Then they may ask why we don't use the allegwed uncountable billions of bbls locked in shale and oil sands right here in the continental USA? I don't think they would be so open to being told we can't do that because we want to preserve the polar bear habitat and make sure beach goers are never inconvenienced by even the though of a spill to mar the pristine beaches.

61 posted on 05/06/2008 7:58:50 AM PDT by lexusppd
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To: lexusppd
I believe that about two middle eastern oil ministers being discreetly terminated with extreme prejudice and perhaps one minor head of state (no names, but maybe someone with the initials Hugo Chavez) and the oil spigots would be opened wide!

This is, of course, only a short term solution, as oil supplies continue to dwindle, and demand continues to soar. In the mid term, we need to develop and use alternative energy sources including fission reactors and the Kennedy Memorial Wind Farm, and work on more efficient use of what we have.

Long term, we need a crash program to develop workable fusion reactors. A culture is not truly civilized until it can provide its citizens with terra-watts for nano-cents!

62 posted on 05/06/2008 10:03:52 AM PDT by night reader (NRA Life Member since 1962)
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To: bill1952
Even as far back as Grotius and Gentili it was recognized that “international law” (de jure belli ac pacis) depended on reciprocity and the threat of force. If there is not enough reciprocal threat a nation can safely ignore any treaty or international agreement. Nations sign international agreements all the time with no intention of fulfilling the obligations entailed (Kyoto Treaty, for example). Even the Court of International Justice rulings are ignored by countries powerful enough to do so when it is in their interest. A sovereign nation is still sovereign.

In the end, it still comes down to “You and what army?”
63 posted on 05/06/2008 1:48:09 PM PDT by Hiddigeigei (Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder. [Arnold Toynbee])
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