Posted on 05/24/2008 3:58:25 AM PDT by moderatewolverine
I was watching the Big Oil execs testifying before Congress. That was my first mistake. If memory serves, there was lesbian mud wrestling over on Channel 137, and on the whole that's less rigged. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz knew the routine: "I can't say that there is evidence that you are manipulating the price, but I believe that you probably are. So prove to me that you are not."
Had I been in the hapless oil man's expensive shoes, I'd have answered, "Hey, you first. I can't say that there is evidence that you're sleeping with barnyard animals, but I believe that you probably are. So prove to me that you are not. Whatever happened to the presumption of innocence and prima facie evidence, lady? Do I have to file a U.N. complaint in Geneva that the House of Representatives is in breach of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?"
But that's why I don't get asked to testify before Congress. So instead the Big Oil guy oozed as oleaginous as his product before the grand panjandrums of the House Subcommittee on Televised Posturing, and then they went off and passed 324-82 the so-called NOPEC bill. The NOPEC bill is, in effect, a suit against OPEC, which, if I recall correctly, stands for the Oil Price-Exploiting Club. "No War For Oil!," as the bumper stickers say. But a massive suit for oil – now that's the American way.
(Excerpt) Read more at ocregister.com ...
“It shall be illegal and a violation of this Act,” declared the House of Representatives, “to limit the production or distribution of oil, natural gas, or any other petroleum product ... or to otherwise take any action in restraint of trade for oil, natural gas or any petroleum product when such action, combination, or collective action has a direct, substantial, and reasonably foreseeable effect on the market, supply, price or distribution of oil, natural gas or other petroleum product in the United States.”
So, restrictions on drilling in ANWR are illegal under this act? So, restriction on off-shore drilling are illigal under this act? Hmmmm.
We don't get any good channels like that. What cable company does he have?
I suppose restrictions against building refineries are also illegal? This is a great law!
So lock up Slick Willie for making a national monument of the thousands (millions?) of acres of low sulphur coal that was taken off the market in Utah just to help his buddies at the Lippo Group. What did that cost this country (and Utah) in energy resources?
No doubt that this Debbie hypenated bimbo is a blood relation to Maxine Waters. Probably her father.
When are we going to start getting rid of these Marxist Socialists that are trying to indenture us all?
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE
Debbie is double JAP
Pingeroo.
She may be a Jewish princess, but there is nothing American about her.
there was lesbian mud wrestling over on Channel 137...
ditto...there was no mention of it on the TV schedule!!!
it does however...sound exactly like congress....except barney fagg would be the ref!!!!
there was lesbian mud wrestling over on Channel 137...
ditto...there was no mention of it on the TV schedule!!!
it does however...sound exactly like congress....except barney fagg would be the ref!!!!
This should be carved in the marble above the Speaker's Chair, but it won't be.
If anybody in the GOP wants to win the next election, he should start handing out Vote-For-Me cards containing just these words and his name.
I never really thought about it, but maybe that's why I haven't been invited either. I guess they learned their lesson when they permitted John Doggett to appear.
ML/NJ
if the House of Representatives has now declared it "illegal" for the government of Saudi Arabia to restrict oil production, why is it still legal for the government of the United States to restrict oil production? In fact, the government of the United States restricts pretty much every form of energy production other than the bizarre fetish du jour of federally mandated ethanol production.
This should be the easiest campaign issue for the GOP to exploit. Maybe we could send the party leadership to Oz so they could get brains, heart, courage, and find their way home to Reagan style conservatism. Clearly the current party leadership has no brains, no heart to fight, no courage to take a stand, and is lost is liberalland.
"See how cleverly the Senators and the CEOs advance
They are gathered at the hearing.....and they've joined hands in the dance
You really have no notion how delightful it will be
When they take us all, the public schlumps, and throw us out to sea
Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance?
Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance?"
Leni
And for all of his “America needs to get off it’s foreign oil dependencey” rhetoric, Bush is full of it too!
“Bush administration bars drilling in Arctic wetland”
http://in.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idINN1644783920080516
“No lawsuits for oil!”
- John
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