As Democrats call for tapping the nation's emergency oil supply to ease rising gas prices, Republicans pushed Thursday for a raft of new proposals aimed at boosting domestic energy production.
House Speaker John Boehner joined with other Republicans to promise a string of "bite-sized" energy bills, which are expected to deal with drilling, building pipelines and facilitating the development of nuclear power.
"As gas prices go up, the cost of everyday life goes up," Boehner said Thursday, warning that the increase harms the very businesses the country is depending on for a robust economic recovery.
Republicans titled their new push for domestic energy production the "American energy initiative," and vowed to introduce legislation in the coming weeks.
Boehner said the proposals would be divided into "chunks," noting that the days of comprehensive legislation should be over -- an apparent dig at the health care overhaul.
The speaker suggested one bill could deal with expanding the use of natural gas; another could encourage oil and gas exploration while devoting royalties to "green energy development;" and another could promote nuclear energy. Fuck green energy development dipshits. Work on what works NOW rather than a pie in the sky dream that hasn't proven to work for shit and let the private sector come up with a solution.
#1
Fuck green energy development dipshits. Work on what works NOW rather than a pie in the sky dream that hasn't proven to work for shit and let the private sector come up with a solution.
Shite yea, what are these Dems planning to do when theres a run on healthfood stores and all the Wild Oats and Trader Joes shelves are empty because everyone stockpiled because it costs 15 dollars to take a trip to buy sprouts and tofu, and tofu costs 6 dollars?
Posted by: Fire and Ice ||
03/10/2011 19:11 Comments ||
Top||
#2
Long as the old-guard Republicans are in charge we will always get token legislation like this. What will be telling is if they counter Obama's new energy-push tommorrow with their own "Drill now, Drill smart, Drill safe" initiative.
Posted by: Charles ||
03/10/2011 20:28 Comments ||
Top||
#3
Maybe, now that high oil prices are built into the economy, this could be a tactic to lower energy prices and bury inflation. We still can't invest those dollars into anything useful until they come back down to where they should be, about in the $20/bbl or so.
Repubs in the Wisconsin State Senate have voted to strip nearly all collective bargaining rights from public workers after discovering a way to bypass the chamber's missing Democrats. Maybe the State Senate Democrats shouldn't have moved to Illinois. My friends in the State House hinted at this possibility a couple weeks ago. The big stink (by the left) now is whether or not the vote for this action was held legally (that is, without a 24-hours notice). The Senate Republicans just amended the original Budget Bill to strip all the verbiage EXCEPT the collective bargaining portion (with unchanged wording), therefor the 'action' itself never changed.
Posted by: Mullah Richard ||
03/10/2011 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11123 views]
Top|| File under:
Clinton's probably thinking, "Damn! Why didn't I think of that!"
Newt Gingrich says his passion for his country contributed to his marital infidelity. Sounds like Hot Lips Houlihan and Frank Burns...
"There's no question at times of my life, partially driven by how passionately I felt about this country, that I worked far too hard and things happened in my life that were not appropriate," Gingrich said. Sorry, Newt. No sale...
#2
The ten-to-the-twenty-first power example of a lying politician saying what he thinks will sell. This guy is not, will not be, and has never been presidential material. He and $#@%&@@ BO are cut from the same cloth.
Good line on Clinton's "damn, why didn't I think of that!" Damned near perfect for all of these parasites.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike ||
03/10/2011 6:53 Comments ||
Top||
#3
--Michael Savage, yesterday about Newt, "Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Horniness".
#5
He loves his country so much that he tried to prove it individually.
Posted by: Eric Jablow ||
03/10/2011 8:47 Comments ||
Top||
#6
Besoeker: Gingrich just didn't have the wherewithal. He was a short term thinker, and more interested in "moral victories" than real ones. He wasn't able to keep his House in order, and this mattered because the Senate was heavily populated by RINOs.
Comparatively, the Tea Party candidates are top heavy with ideas. The first echelon of them in the House are stirring up lots of mischief, and getting experience, so that the second echelon, in 2012, is going to revitalize them, right when the Senate goes Republican.
The only question still outstanding is will the Republicans finally field a serious conservative candidate for president, or will it be another scramble to put "whoever" up as the candidate.
No matter what they say, the RINOs always hated Reagan, and truly hated those policies of his that were more conservative. They will fight tooth and nail to stop any serious conservative from becoming POTUS, preferring a liberal Democrat to a conservative.
#7
I'll have to respectfully disagree with your comment ref "short term thinker." One of the few advantages of advancing age is the massive amount of hindsight one accrues. I believe Gingrich has wisened considerably since leaving public office. Do I think he can defeat an Obama-Clinton ticket in 2012? At this stage, unfortunately I do not. Nor do I have any earthly idea who can.
#8
The two messy divorces make him unelectable. I've said it on the 'Burg before & am happy to say it again - Republican women take candidates' gross personal misbehavior very seriously and very personally. Compare this to Quislincgrat women, who've been perfectly willing to overlook rape (see Clinton, William J.) and even murder (see Kennedy, Edward M.) if they agreed with the guy's policy stands. Dunno about y'all, but come November '12, I don't want half the Republican electorate deciding to stay home.
Posted by: Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) ||
03/10/2011 10:15 Comments ||
Top||
#9
Besoeker, how can you, or any conservative, forgive this asskissing moment by Newt?
Anyone that flip flops that badly and goes head over heels for big government has no business in the GOP running for president, or even speaking out for the most part.
Posted by: No I am The Other Beldar ||
03/10/2011 10:37 Comments ||
Top||
#10
Newt would suck anyone for a political advantage. I trust the man about as far as I trust the political elite, which is to say none at all since he is one of them.
#13
The only question still outstanding is will the Republicans finally field a serious conservative candidate for president, or will it be another scramble to put "whoever" up as the candidate.
A concern of mine also.
You should post a warning on the Pelosi-Gingrich video.
Climate change? Now there's a winning campaign slogan (sarc on).
#14
Compare this to Quislincgrat women, who've been perfectly willing to overlook rape (see Clinton, William J.) and even murder (see Kennedy, Edward M.)
#2
Thats government we all know and love - especially eastern bloc nations. Those very same systems were already hacked, but the fool that buys the machines gets to play from home base. ahhh, government answers
#3
As a 30+ year bit-head this is one of the things that scares me about computers. Been there done that and got a whole closet full of tee-shirts.
The old joke about "to really screw things up you need a computer" is all too true. Whether it's faulty programming or faulty operations or faulty users the results can be catastrophic.
For a personal anecdote from just yesterday. I got a bank statement from the holder of my mortgage saying that I had $998.00 dollars in my savings account with them. Transactions of $1000 deposit and a $2.00 fee.
Only problem was that we had paid off the mortgage and closed the account 3 weeks before that AND stopped the automatic deposit.
The source of the deposits was checked and sure enough there had been no withdrawl/deposit. The offending statement was rechecked and, yep, the account had been closed. So, the computer had credited $1000 that hadn't been received and charged a $2.00 fee on a non-existing account.
How long do you think this will take for them to straighten out?
#4
I had the opportunity to attend a lecture by Grace Hooper in the early 80s. One of her observations that stuck with me was her position that the Privacy Act and ADP were mutually incompatible. Something had to give.
#5
P2k, where was that lecture? I was at DEC in the 80's and heard her speak several times. She definitely mentioned this at least once that I heard personally, along with her standard "It's easier to ask forgivness than permission."
#7
..btw, did she hand out nanoseconds too. I still have mine someplace around here. [That was a piece of wire cut to the length of what an electron could travel in that amount of time]
Five years ago, the Libyan government decided to obtain lobbying heft in Washington, D.C. They went to two organizations the Livingston Group and the Monitor Group whom they paid $5.4 million for lobbying services.
The story of the selling of Libya to the United States is a fascinating tale of how liberal academics and former members of Congress united to attempt a repackaging of Libyas Gaddafi family as human rights reformers. PJM has pieced together the story of how the dictatorial regime was shamelessly presented as reformers to Congress and to Washington policymakers.
Gaddafis government officially named the Great Socialist Peoples Libyan Arab Jamahiriya first hired the Livingston Group, founded by former House Speaker Rep. Robert Livingston. For $2.4 million a year, Livingston, a Republican, represented both Gaddafi and his (somewhat unhinged) second son Saif Al Islam Al Gaddafi. Tripoli then secured the services of the Monitor Group, a Cambridge, Massachusetts, image consulting firm founded by a group from the Harvard Business School. They tried to groom Saif as a thought leader in Europe and in the United States, and reportedly received $3 million for the attempted makeover.
With the Monitor Group in the lead, Saif was groomed as a Westernized, sophisticated new generation of young Arab leader. Monitor, which has 30 offices around the world, especially sold Saif to the British public as a new Muslim face for progressive Libya. The British political elite bought the image, especially at the London School of Economics Saif gave the school a gift of $2.5 million, and he was rewarded with a Ph.D.
Last week, news of Saifs multi-million dollar gift led to the firing of the universitys head.
From South Capitol Street a stones throw from the U.S. Capitol building former House Speaker Livingston used his Washington Rolodex to contact U.S. Defense and State Department officials, members of Congress, and defense contractors on behalf of the regime. After receiving the $2.4 million retainer, Livingston also agreed to represent Saif on a pro-bono basis. Livingston introduced Saif to human rights activists in Washington as the head of an official charity the Gaddafi International Charity and Development Foundation.
I still wonder just how much of our policies come from influence from foreign sources. More than enough to scare the hell out of me, I imagine.
Five years ago, the Libyan government decided to obtain lobbying heft in Washington, D.C. They went to two organizations -- the Livingston Group and the Monitor Group -- whom they paid $5.4 million for lobbying services.
The story of the selling of Libya to the United States is a fascinating tale of how liberal academics and former members of Congress united to attempt a repackaging of Libya's Gaddafi family as human rights reformers. PJM has pieced together the story of how the dictatorial regime was shamelessly presented as reformers to Congress and to Washington policymakers.
Gaddafi's government -- officially named the "Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya" -- first hired the Livingston Group, founded by former House Speaker Rep. Robert Livingston. For $2.4 million a year, Livingston, a Republican, represented both Gaddafi and his (somewhat unhinged) second son Saif Al Islam Al Gaddafi. Tripoli then secured the services of the Monitor Group, a Cambridge, Massachusetts, image consulting firm founded by a group from the Harvard Business School.
No mention of their political party affiliation, though they mentioned Livingston's...
They tried to groom Saif as a "thought leader" in Europe and in the United States, and reportedly received $3 million for the attempted makeover.
With the Monitor Group in the lead, Saif was groomed as a Westernized, sophisticated new generation of young Arab leader. Monitor, which has 30 offices around the world, especially sold Saif to the British public as a new Muslim face for "progressive" Libya. The British political elite bought the image, especially at the London School of Economics -- Saif gave the school a gift of $2.5 million, and he was rewarded with a Ph.D.
Last week, news of Saif's multi-million dollar gift led to the firing of the university's head.
From South Capitol Street -- a stone's throw from the U.S. Capitol building -- former House Speaker Livingston used his Washington Rolodex to contact U.S. Defense and State Department officials, members of Congress, and defense contractors on behalf of the regime. After receiving the $2.4 million retainer, Livingston also agreed to represent Saif on a pro-bono basis. Livingston introduced Saif to human rights activists in Washington as the head of an official "charity" -- the Gaddafi International Charity and Development Foundation. I still wonder just how much of our policies come from influence from foreign sources. More than enough to scare the hell out of me, I imagine.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
As Democrats call for tapping the nation's emergency oil supply to ease rising gas prices, Republicans pushed Thursday for a raft of new proposals aimed at boosting domestic energy production. 
have voted to strip nearly all collective bargaining rights from public workers after discovering a way to bypass the chamber's missing Democrats.
Five years ago, the Libyan government decided to obtain lobbying heft in Washington, D.C. They went to two organizations the Livingston Group and the Monitor Group whom they paid $5.4 million for lobbying services.
