“With Congress’s approval at 12% and gas at $4, McCain’s strategy is clear”
Run against congress? Where has he been for the last 20 years? He has ONE shot; gas stays high, he hammers Obama on the drilling and refining and nuke plants. It also wouldn’t hurt if he picked a hard right VP.
Al that happens and he has a CHANCE.
Will drilling here really save any money? The oil companies are still going to try to get as much as the market will bear. Congress will want to add another energy tax to it. I’m thinking we might slow the cost down but I don’t see a drop in prices.
The writer lost me when he said it would cost the Democrats control of Congress, too.
In a year that points to increasing Dem majorities in both chambers, we would be so fortunate to limit our losses or at most gain a little here and there.
Even a McCain landslide (not predicting one, mind you) wouldn’t lead to a Republican TAKEOVER.
McCain’s strategy would be a lot clearer with some legislation. He is still a senator.
Well, maybe. But I'm not sure the distain is for the "Democratic Congress", but rather for Congress in general. Beyond Tom Coburn and James Inhofe, I can't think of very many Pubbies who have distinguished themselves lately, either.
Obama is PART OF the miserably unpopular Democrat Congress. Bring out the roll call records and make him eat his own Socialism!
Then with lower prices, it's not profitable to drill and we're right back where we were ten years ago and my SUV is cool again.
We need candidates that recognize the fact that big government is the cause of our problems not the solution. We need people willing to stand up and say that the Dept of Energy needs to be dismantled and the government needs to get out of the energy business. Sadly, there are few in the GOP that believe that.
Good luck with that one. The inner workings of most polls show that the Republicans are receiving more blame than the Democrats in congress from the sheeple who probably have no realization of who is now running both Houses.
Captain Queeg actually has to grow a pair in order for that to happen. He would need to articulate a clear conservative vision for energy independence from the Arabs. He would need to hammer Obama and the Democrats for preventing domestic drilling and nuclear power plants for 25 years. I dont see him doing that.
Liberals aren't too smart when it comes to government structure issues.
Short term:
1. remove federal taxes from gasoline.
2. pressure states to remove state taxes.
3. remove mandates on fuel blends.
4. remove ethanol requirements for gasoline.
5. remove restrictions on coal use
Medium term:
1. remove draconian taxes from oil companies.
2. open areas to drilling
3. encourage construction of refineries in US
4. encourage construction of nuclear plants in US
long term:
1. allow free market to explore alternative energy sources
2. allow free market to improve fuel mileage on its own
3. muzzle algore
4. teach Congress to restrain itself and to stick to its Constitutional roles.
The MSM was bleating about Bush's "all time low" approval rating all last week -- but no mention about the Democrat controlled Congress. Gee, I wonder why?
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What the media and the pols are ignoring is that the economy is reaching critical mass.
IF YOU BOUGHT IT, A TRUCK BROUGHT IT
Get that drilled into your heads.
No one is reporting on what's happening to the trucking industry. Truckers and trucking companies are dropping like flies.
Hundreds have folded in the last few weeks - where there was a great shortage of truckers, the industry is now flooded with out of work drivers and parked trucks.
There are -= were - some 6,000 trucking co.s in the US - now, even some of the top 100 are folding. And even JB Hunt, a giant among giants, has pulled hundreds of their solo driver off and into running team driving, like it or not. Trucking is a hard life, living on the road, their living space the size of a small bathroom.
Solo, you at least sleep in a still truck and aren't sharing your little cave 24/7 with someone else. Team driving means that truck rolls nearly 24/7 and you sleep in a rocking truck, praying the other driver doesn't get into an accident.
The big companies lease trucks to their contracted drivers - usually on a 6-month basis, and their lease yards normally have revolving trucks as drivers continually end or start a lease and choose another truck. 6 months ago, the lease yards would be relatively slim pickings for choices as the turned in trucks were leased right out again,
Now, the lease yards are choked - as more and more drivers have gone belly up with the fuel prices.
We haven't felt the results of all this too much yet in the stores - but it is coming and if something drastic isn't done NOW - we will. And it ain't gonna be pretty folks.
Most people are blissfully unaware, for example, that the stores = like the supermarkets - have ONLY about 2 days of stock on the shelves. If the trucks stop rolling - those shelves are bare in 2 days. First will come the slow down on deliveries and our stores will look like the days of Communist Russia, with sparse goods on the shelves and long lines...
And Humpty Dumpty doesn't get put back together in a hurry.
This is the first layer of consequences from an encroaching Marxist takeover orchestrated by the Marxists, aka democrats, in DC. They have even let the cat out of the bag by saying out loud that they intend to Nationalize the oil companies - that would soon follow with the trucking industry and all other major businesses.
Fasten your seat belts, folks. It ain't gonna be pretty.
Dig in a get the Marxists out now, or get ready to live under Marxism/Communism.
Anyone who spouts the foolish tripe about letting the Marxist candidate in now and then we can regain control in 2012 is either a naive fool or an outright Marxist. If they get the WH this time - the Constitution will be null and void, the Electoral College will be no more (anybody been listening for the past 8 years? They have stated, again and again, that this is their goal. To kill the EC would nullify red states voters. The Founding Fathers knew that without the protection of the EC, the big city voters would decide elections.)
I pray God protects us - altho' with the things we have allowed to happen in this country, I sometimes wonder why He would bother.
Several years ago here in CA, our state’s economic plight was so bad that we recalled the then Dem Gov. Gray Davis and replaced him with a Repub Arnold Schwartzenager. Unfortunately, we didn’t replace the state legislature also and now thisngs are actually more bleak than they were before.
Somehow, I don’t see libs leaving the farm.
With Juan out of the senate and in the White House that would be one less useful idiot in the senate.
A vote for a Democrat is a vote for Reid Regular at $8.199 a gallon, Murtha Mid-Range at $8.399 a gallon, and Pelosi Premium at $8.599 a gallon by election day 2010.
I suppose we need to start printing white on black bumper stickers: 01 * 20 * 13
Obamination's Last Day
What am I missing here???
Congress sucks, yet we're reaching in for one of its members to be our next president. Have we become a nation of losers, for losers and by losers?
Our greatest enemies are not in the deserts of the Mideast or the mountains and caves of Afghanistan. They are 536 strong, operating from bases in Washington D. C..