Bush news conference: Oil, economy, war; Reporter: “Why have you not called on Americans to drive less and turn down their thermostats?”
President Bush will meet the press at 10:20am this morning to push the Dems on offshore drilling (after finally lifting the executive ban his dad signed), pressure them on spending bills, and attempt to calm world markets about the state of the US economy.
What would you ask him?
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AP reporter Mark Smith wants Bush to do an Obama and meddle in their consumption habits: “Why have you not called on Americans to drive less and turn down their thermostats?”
Bush: “People are smart enough to figure out whether they should drive less…it’s presumptuous to do so…they can decide. Of course they should conserve…let them decide.”
Ditto that!
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Allah’s clipped the vid and zings the sanctimonious press: “It’s Daddy President 101, with the added nuance of the media demanding a catalyzing call for action from a guy with an approval rating south of 30 whom they assure us no one in their right mind takes seriously.”
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englishqueen01 said (#69):
Exactly one of the people on this list is a promnant climate scientist (Linzen).
Goldwater Knight said (#70):
You guys awe so smawt and funny!
bayou22 said (#88):
It’s 7 to 8 years, not 4 to 5. Even then the extra drilling will make little difference because there’s not much oil there.
jellibean said (#93):
My post makes it clear that I mean exactly that. It’s McCain, our expert on foreign policy and defense who’s ready to lead from day one, who hasn’t heard the news. They’re talking about putting missiles in the Czech Republic, (not Slovakia), the Russians are angry and acting out, McCain should have thought about what to do but he’s too busy talking straight.
Drilling can bring oil to market in as little as a year if there is existing infastructure there. If they want to drill in the Atlantic, 7 or 8 maybe correct. Off the Florida gulf coast or in ANWR…a LOT LESS.
Missile, missile shield, to a drooling leftist they are the same. Every argument they make has been made before over the last 100 years, no oil there not much oil there the oils almost out, its warming no cooling and on and on. They are counting you might say banking on us not researching history. Without the internet we would already be locked in to a disastrous policy, saved again by the information highway. Isn’t lgm is a teacher, no wonder we have so many kids who can’t spell, doh.
“Why have you not called on Americans to drive less and turn down their thermostats?”
“Because that’s not my job. I’m leader of the free world, not the national nag.”
Thanks for the facts–not that lgm deals in facts. I’ll wager he continues to parrot the “7-8 years” line until he expires. After all, who knows more about oil production than academics and lawyers.
lgm seems to have all the “hard facts” and it is useless for us to argue.
…and by “hard facts” I mean DNC talking points.
So from where does the other 29% come?
lgm said:
Then says:
You did only ask for one, really. But that list is full of credible scientists. Just because not every single one of them is world famous doesn’t diminish their professional accompliments. If I were to compile a list of 30000 mathmatical instructors in the United States, where would you rank? Would that mean you’re just a second rate hack at your job? Does the fact you might not even be on that list, much less the fact you’re not world famous, take away from whatever educational background you have?
I didn’t think so.
A couple of other points, if you like.
There is always the approximately 260 Billion barrels of oil we CAN drill for, but dont. 5 years is a decent estimate based on our current refineries. But the price would be lowered by the supply increase, not the immediacy of fuel being brought to the pump.
I would point out that our entire society is weak on things like geography, mathmatics, and so on. I believe these men who would be President have a *much* better grasp of these subjects, but apparently not. However, at least McCain (and again, as no friend of his) knows there isnt 58 states.
And the answer is Prague, btw
lgm
#103
http://www.itopf.com/information-services/data-and-statistics/statistics/
http://oils.gpa.unep.org/facts/oilspills.htm#intelligence
believe these men who would be President should have a *much* better grasp of these subjects, but apparently not.
Corrected. and here i’m talking about education LOL
Well, suprise, suprise, Oil droped $6.15 per barrel ONE day after Pres. Bush lifts the executive ban on OCS drilling. Come on congress lift your ban and we will see how much that drops the price. Actually begin drilling and it will drop yet more.
So tell us again how it will take 7-8 years to have any effect on prices.
Actually with ANWR it’s more like 10-12 years before oil reaches the market. So if in 1995 Clinton hadn’t vetoed drilling in ANWR that oil would have hit the market no later than LAST YEAR.
I suppose you like to spout the minimum estimate of a 6 month supply of oil in ANWR. That would be if we got ALL our oil exclusively from ANWR. Even using those numbers if ANWR only replaced 5% of our total need (imported & domestic) it would last 12 years. The actual amount of oil there is most likely to be exponentially higher, meaning at that rate it would last for 30-40 years. That’s just from ANWR and doesn’t include what we could get from the Gulf and other areas.
Here is a great site with facts about ANWR
BWAAAHHHHAAAAHHHHAAAAHHAHAHAHAAA
Do your students know exactaly how dumb you are. You ask for one scientist and we provide 31,000 and you say “exactaly one”.
Hey, lgm’s students!!!
1=31,000
I weep for our species.
I don’t worry about global warming… in fact, I LIKE warm weather.
DRILL DRILL DRILL DRILL
I have to disagree, but this time on a lighter note..i HATE hot weather LOL. I would point out that right now, this is a much milder summer that i’ve seen here in TN since i moved here several years ago. Back home, same thing….
Where’s the warming?
Or is it just “climate change”?
I believe in climate change. Or, as others may know it, Spring Summer, Fall, and Winter.
But i DO agree…..Drill for everything we can get!!!!
How glad I am that I am not in a postition to meet some of these MSM talking heads. For I would have to drive less doing 5/10 years in prison, or more, for doing great bodily harm to those arrogant jerks.
That little jerk on the video would have his voice changed radically.
Jesse Jackson
Yes, and I believe most of us know of several large studies casting great doubt on it, one study involving 400 scientist and researchers.
But lgm, capons and that little jerk in the video have their minds made up, so why bother?
Drill here
Drill now
Pay less
Mock lgm
So LGM, you vetted all 31072 scientists and accept only one. Why exactly did you exclude the other 31071? Specficaly why did you exclude, from the state of utah,
Jason Abel, Terry Ahlquist, Marvin E. Allen, Merrill P. Allen, Raul C. Alva, D. Andersen, Wilbert C. Anderson, John O. Anderson, Russell Anderson, M. B. Andrus, PhD, Robert Apple, Melvin B. Armstrong, Kenny Ashby, John R. Atkinson, J. R. Atkinson, D. Austin, PhD, Lloyd H. Austin, Robert J. Baczuk, Jay M. Bagley, PhD, R. E. Bailey, Ramon Condie Baird, PhD, Roger E. Banner, PhD, Mark Owens Barlow, M. D. Barnes, PhD, Howard F. Bartlett, T. David Bastian, Joseph Clair Batty, PhD, Peggy Beatty, Ken L. Beatty, Albert I. Beazer, Boyd R. Beck, PhD, Merrill W. Beckstead, PhD, Blake D. Beckstrom, Gregory J. Bell, Alvin Benson, PhD, Wesley George Bentrude, PhD, David Alan Berges, PhD, John A. Bianucci, Kip A. Billings, Robert F. Bitner, MD, George R. Blake, Clyde Blauer, Douglas Bledsoe, Jerry C. Bommer, PhD, Blair E. Bona, PhD, Jay Frank Bonell, P. R. Borgmeier, PhD, David Borronam, John F. Boyle, MD, Bruce Bradley, Ernest T. Bramwell, William W. Brant, Kennethe Martin Brauner, PhD, Thomas O. Breitling, Lynn H. Bringhurst, H. Smith Broadbent, PhD, H. Smith Broadbent, PhD, Hyrum Smith Broadbent, PhD, Boyd C. Bronson, Billings Brown, PhD, John N. Brown, Arthur D. Bruno, Shawn P. Buchanan, Wallace Don Budge, PhD, Mark D. Bunnell, David D. Busath, MD, Clinton Bybee, Charles H. Cameron, Earl E. Castner, Norman L. Challburg, MD, Kenneth W. Chase, PhD, Norman Jerry Chatterton, PhD, Joseph A. Chenworth, Allen D. Child, Joseph G. Christensen, Jay P. Christofferson, PhD, John C. Clegg, PhD, Calvin Geary Clyde, PhD, Ralph L. Coates, PhD, Richard M. Cohen, PhD, Don J. Colton, Jack Comeford, PhD, Melvin Alonzo Cook, PhD, Vernon O. Cook, Michael L. Cosgrave, MD, Robert E. Covington, Mac Crosby, Larry D. Culberson, PhD, Gary Monroe Cupp, Lowell C. Dahl, Donald Albert Dahlstrom, PhD, Jonathan H. Daines, MD, Robert Elliott Davis, PhD, Leland P. Davis, Tom Dawson, Karl Devenport, C. Nelson Dorny, PhD, Andrew Drake, John J. Drammis, MD, Gary L. Draper, Bryan B. Drennan, William S. Dunford, MD, William R. Edgel, PhD, Allan C. Edson, George Eisenman, George L. Eitel, David A. Eldredge Jr., Robert W. English, Norman T. Erekson, PhD, Jerry A. Erickson, PhD, Creed M. Evans, Jeff Farrer, PhD, David Feller, PhD, D. Feller, PhD, David Allan Firmage, D. Allan Firmage, Thomas H. Fletcher, PhD, Paul V. Fonnesbeck, PhD, Grant Robert Fowles, PhD, Richard L. Frost, PhD, Norihiko Fukuta, PhD, Ron Fuller, Blair O. Furner, Charles O. Gale, Lynn E. Garner, PhD, S. Parkes Gay Jr., Mark G. Gessel, Thon T. Gin, PhD, George R. Glance, Fred L. Greer, MD, K. Greer, Glen Griffin, MD, Richard W. Grow, PhD, Pamela Grubaugh-Littig, Michel B. Guinn, Robert L. Haffner, Edward H. Hahne, Bill A. Hancock, Dallas Hanks, Darrell G. Hansen, Wayne R. Hansen, Larry R. Hardy, Franklin S. Harris Jr., PhD, Ellis D. Harris, Ronald L. Harris, William Joshua Haslem, Scott E. Hassett, Stuart Havenstrite, Ralph Hayes, Creed Haymond, Dale G. Heaton, Lavell Merl Henderson, PhD, Deloy G. Hendricks, PhD, R. Dahl Hendrickson, James O. Henrie, Lyle G. Hereth, Charles Selby Herrin, PhD, John C. Higgins, PhD, Archie Clyde Hill, PhD, Allen E. Hilton II, Clifford M. Hinckley, PhD, Robert L. Hobson, PhD, Grant Holdaway, David E. Holt, Ralph M. Horton, PhD, M. I. Horton, PhD, Frederick A. Hottes, Clayton Shirl Huber, PhD, J. Poulson Hunter, MD, Harvey L. Hutchinson, Kyle Jackson, Daniel J. Janney, Dan Janney, August Wilhelm Jaussi, PhD, Marcus Martin Jensen, PhD, Leland V. Jensen, Layne D. Jensen, Brian Jensen, L. Carl Jensen, Kendall B. Johnson, PhD, Arlo F. Johnson, PhD, Todd Johnson, PhD, Owen W. Johnson, PhD, Von D. Jolley, PhD, Percy C. Jonat, MD, Merrell Robert Jones, PhD, Walter V. Jones, John Jonkman, Royce A. Jorgensen, Mark Kaschmitter, Stephen Jorgensen Kelsey, PhD, Boyd M. Kitchen, PhD, Kenneth T. Klebba, Frederick Charles Kohout, PhD, David L. Kooyman, PhD, Steven K. Koski, William B. Laker, Burt Lamborn, Burton B. Lamborn, Lloyd Larsen, PhD, Robert Paul Larsen, PhD, Dale G. Larsen, Robert W. Leake, Charles Lear, Gregory L. LeClaire, James Norman Lee, PhD, David J. Lee, Lawrence Guy Lewis, PhD, Stephen Liddle, PhD, Thomas W. Lloyd, Wilburn L. Luna, Mark Wylie Lund, PhD, Charles P. Lush, Joseph L. Lyon, William E. Maddex, Robert K. Maddock, Jules J. Magda, PhD, Kenneth A. Mangelson, PhD, Brent P. Marchant, Eugene Marshall, Vern T. May, John May, D. Maynes, PhD, Robert Eli McAdams, PhD, John McDonald, PhD, Susan O. McDonald, Timothy W. McGuire, Jeffrey D. Mckay, Cyrus Milo McKell, PhD, Jefferson D. McKenzie, Hugh A. McLean, Dick N. Mechem, John Mercier, Daniel W. Miles, PhD, John G. Miles, Wade Elliott Miller II, PhD, Gene W. Miller, PhD, Paul Mills, Bryant A. Miner, PhD, Robert Alan Mole, J. Ward Moody, PhD, M. Lyman Moody, MD, Karl G. Morey, John G. Morrison, Kay S. Mortensen, PhD, William R. Mosby, Thomas C. Moseley, Loren Cameron Mosher, PhD, Alfred R. Motzkus, Glenn L. Mower, Harold W. Mulvany, Grant R. Murdoch, Donald L. Myrup, Dave Neale, Michael G. Nelson, PhD, Manfred R. Nelson, MD, Pamela Nelson, Kenneth W. Nelson, Gregg Nickel, Donald R. Nielsen, PhD, Barry C. Nielsen, Dennis M. Nielsen, Edwin Clyde Nordquist, Robert Quincy Oaks Jr., PhD, Hayward B. Oblad, PhD, David Oehler, Leonard Olds, Larry S. Olsen, Merrill H. Olson, Ted Olson, Robert E. O’Neill, Alfred M. Osborne, Robert Pack, PhD, Lowell L. Palm, Tom T. Paluso, Joseph M. Papenfuss, PhD, Robert Lynn Park, PhD, Gerald M. Park, Robert Walter Parry, PhD, Forest Parry, Ernest B. Paxson, PhD, Clifford C. Payton, Justin B. Peatross, PhD, Leslie H. Pennington, Danial L. Perry, Jay D. Peterson, Randall D. Peterson, Jay W. Phippen, PhD, Paul E. Pilgram, MD, Michael L. Pinnell, William G. Pitt, PhD, Charles H. Pitt, PhD, Steven J. Postma, Bradley M. Powell, John D. Prater, Jim S. Priskos, Frederick Dan Provenza, PhD, Ronald J. Pugmire, PhD, Samuel C. Quigley, Francis Rakow, Carole A. Ray, Jory Ty Redd, PhD, Donal J. Reed, PhD, Alvin C. Rencher, PhD, Alvin C. Reniher, PhD, Brian W. Rex, Max J. Reynolds, Michael D. Rice, PhD, Lynn S. Richards, PhD, Gary Haight Richardson, PhD, Harold W. Ritchey, PhD, Samuel P. Roberts, T. F. Robinson, PhD, Clay W. Robinson, DVM, Alden C. Robinson, Lee E. Rogers, William C. Romney, Simpson Roper, Harold L. Rosenhan, George W. Sandberg, LeRoy J. Sauter, Keith Jerome Schaiger, PhD, Ernest F. Scharkan, Edward B. Schoppe, Spencer L. Seager, PhD, W. Kenneth Sherk, Jay G. Shields, Charles W. Shoun, Richard Phil Shumway, PhD, Val E. Simmons, PhD, David Michael Sipe, PhD, Duane Sjoberg, Ross A. Smart, Hyrum M. Smith, Tracy W. Smith, Leonard W. Snellman, PhD, Richard L. Snow, PhD, Phillip T. Solomon, Carl D. Sorensen, PhD, Wesley K. Sorensen, Brent A. Sorenson, Forrest L. Staffanson, PhD, Norman E. Stauffer, PhD, K. S. Stevens, PhD, Leo M. Stevenson, MD, Kenneth J. Stracke, Glen Evan Stringham, PhD, William J. Strong, PhD, Calvin K. Sudweeks, Robert Summers, PhD, Richard Swenson, B. A. Tait, PhD, Carlos Tavares, James S. Taylor, PhD, Randall L. Taylor, Doug Taylor, Lester Taylor, Richard Tebbs, Abraham Teng, PhD, Lawrence E. Thatcher, John D. Thirkill, Don Wylie Thomas, PhD, James H. Thomas, PhD, Grant Thompson, PhD, Philip Thompson, Richard M. Thorup, PhD, Richard N. Thwaitis, PhD, Rudy W. Tietze, Kerry Tobin, David O. Topham, Anthony R. Torres, MD, Del Traveller, J. Paul Tullis, PhD, George Uhlig, PhD, Richard M. Vennett, PhD, John M. Viehweg, Charles T. Vono, John W. Vosskuhler, MD, Kathleen L. Wegener, Lewis F. Wells, Joseph C. Wells Jr., Eleroy H. West, D. R. Westenskow, PhD, Edward B. Whicker, Lowell D. White CIH, PhD, Brent L. White, Thomas G. White, Leslie Whitton, PhD, Harry E. Wickes, PhD, Clifford Lavar Wilcox, PhD, W. Vincent Wilding, PhD, David P. Wilding, Bill Beauford Wiley, PhD, Charles Ronald Willden, PhD, Arnold Wilson, PhD, Byron J. Wilson, PhD, Stephen E. Wilson, Robert J. Wise, John K. Wood, PhD, Jack L. Woods, Richard E. Wyman, Thomas B. Yeager, Gordon Young, Glen A. Zumwalt
sonofdy
LOL
AbstractMind. I really enjoy your posts. They are always educational. I must say lgm is the perfect foil, and he makes an inane comment that perfectly set up your facts. He never has a rebuttal to offer either.
Understand “environmentalists” make a stand on ANWR, not because they want to protect the wasteland, but because it is a wasteland. If you cant drill in ANWR you can not drill ANYWHERE (if fact ANWR is an abreiviation for anywhere – a little “environmentalists humor”).
Ha…funny stuff there Goldwater!!
I think I have a solution for lgm’s swoop and poop strategy…..the next time he swoops…someone toss him a Alka-Seltzer….I heard it’ll take care of the problem.
sonofdy,
A lot of PhD’s there. Too bad not a single one made lgm’s list. As you know, lgm is the keeper of lists. My favorite is the “who is better than who” list.
Aside from not meddling in people’s lives, it’s summer stupid, turn up your thermostat (not down) to save on your air conditioning.
I’m sure AP has the air conditioning off in their offices to save electricty. Oh no? It’s always do as I say, not as I do…
I certainly give it my best. I know I dont always agree with things here, and people dont agree with me all the time…but if they did, where would the fun be in that?
I’ve asked LGM for lots of things. Facts, proof, some sort of logical reasoning….i’m still sitting at 16 times i’ve asked him to say something nice about people like Tony Snow, etc…i think when he does, it will also be a balmy 32 degrees in hell at the same time.
Till next time.
Mr. President…what about that fence…how is that coming along?
How about drilling for oil and building refineries now. Export the oil until the refineries are completed. Doing this will provide jobs, increase revenues,lower the trade deficit, increase the value of the dollar, increase the supply of oil which will lower the cost of oil. Hells bells, sell the oil to our allies at $40.00 a barrell. I would bet you would see the world oil price drop rapidly.
Any of you remember at a Reagan press conference when a lib stood up with his long ponytail and implored the President to start acting more like a father to the “people”? This sounds like a recurrence of the same brain infection.
Can we start with Mark Smith publicly asking his environmentalist sensei Al Gore to turn his thermostats down then?
He was 10% higher than last year in energy consumption in his Tennessee power gobbling mansion. Where’s Mark Smith’s reporting on that?
~Dan Lee
I thought W showed that he had a couple for a change. I do not want to see him addressing us in a cardigan (ok for summer it may be a T-shirt)
The extreme environmentalists are NIMBYists with a happy face. It’s ok to drill in the Middle East or Russia or wherever but not here. They all people who do not agree with them as the problem, They would prefer we be sent to the Margaret Sanger Institute for Adult Population Reduction
The ponytail guy? I thought that was at a Debate with George Herbert Walker Bush and Clinton.
Nor do we need to hear “I enjoy a cold shower”
for
as we were told.
I guess a full grown man with a pony tail needs a father. A brutal father.
lgm, do you have a pony tail? A father?
AP=ABSOLUTELY PATHETIC
AP=APPALLINGLY PERTURBING
AP=ASSCLOWNUS PERFECTUS
AP=ANIMALS PRETENDING
I just can seem to wrap my mind around why someone would want government telling them how much to drive, when to drive, etc. I already take issue with them telling me how to drive, like 45 mph on a four lane divided highway in a rural area with little to no population.
Hopefully lgm hasn’t procreated more eroturds likle himself. He looks like Abbie Hoffman’s wet dream.
like…. fatfingered again
“Faux News Alert”
This just in….
Dumpster Muffin and LGM are one in the same, Turns out, he really could care less about the grove of trees he was trying to escape his own students whom were going to string him up.
film at 11:00
My reaction, exactly. Why would anyone want to put government incharge of one’s life?
On GWB finally pushing for something we needed done a long time ago, I shall hold my nose and say better late than never. I wish he did, on a number of things. I do not know all of the worries/responsibilities/daily must-dos of the President, but I really would have sang his praises had he retained his cowboy swagger all the way: hit all his critics hard, told wimpy detractors off, and generally whipped all the libbies to submission!
FREEDOM. It is about the freedom of choice. I do not want big brother telling me how to heat and cool my home nor how much i am ALLOWED to drive. My freedom of choice. I wonder if the reporter has cut back on his driving ?
Oh yea, i forgot
lgm is an idiot.
Good William Wallace there, GaMidnightRider! That’s what I’m talkin’ ’bout! FREEEEEDOOOOOOMM!!!!!!
All this talk about global warming has me thinking. Explain why the earth has continually gotten warm since the last ice age ? I do not think we are having as much inpact on the earth as the sun is. Explain why all the other planets are going through warming also.
Finally home from work at the local Air Force Base and can add my 2 cents to the comments made by the clueless reporter. I believe we taxpaying peons have taken one too many for the team over the last few years as it is. Since the Democrats took the reins of power in the House and Senate the only thing that has gone down is my disposable income.
I have already had the folks at Idaho Power try to bribe me into letting them control my air compressor for my homes air conditioning unit, which ain’t going to happen ever. I already bought and installed a programmable thermostat a few years ago that has reduceed our energy consumption for heat or air conditioning to barely operate except when we are at home saving big bucks even with the rate increases. Conservation can only go so far before many will finally have to decide between eating or freezing to death this winter as it is. DRILL HERE, DRILL NOW, and PAY LESS (Yes I am shouting again)!
The last thing any of us need is big daddy government sticking their noses into our energy consumption. It will not stop there until the usurpation of every God given right is under the control of our fascist leaders at all levels of government. The ball is in the Democrat led Congress’s court they can either buy a clue and pass some common sense legislation or face the music when the freezing and starving masses either throw them out of office in November or thanks to the voter fraud efforts of ACORN are strung up from the nearest trees when winter really sets in.
Then as I noted above (and you neatly ignored), you must reject Gore completely, based on his qualifications.
Really. So the infamous oil companies want to waste their money drilling for oil that isn’t there. Now, even for you, that can’t make much sense, but since you wrote it, I may have overestimated you.
And if you don’t like the estimates of offshore oil, how about oil shale? The estimates of that are very conservatively rated at 800 BILLION barrels of oil (NYTimes) with a high estimate in the trillions of barrels range (recoverable with today’s technology; more like an average of 413 billion barrels unrecoverable yet) exceeding Saudi oil reserves.
Your side of the argument will be moot when Northeast liberals start paying for heating oil.
All I need to know about saving energy I learned from good ol’ dad.
“TURN OFF THE LIGHTS – WHEN YOU PAY THE LIGHT BILL, YOU CAN LEAVE THEM ON!”
“CLOSE THE DOOR – I’M NOT PAYING TO HEAT/COOL THE OUTSIDE!”
Now that I am paying my own bills, I think I can manage what helps/hurts my electricity bill, thank you very much.
GWB should have asked Mark Smith, “Why, do YOU need someone to tell you what to do?”
You’re making the assumption that lefties want energy independence. They hate any form of independence, since it reduces their power over your lives – or if they are sheep, increases their responsibilities which they are too immature and insecure to embrace. If oil erupted into your backyard, someone would declare it a hazard to an unseen microbe, make it off limits to you, and tax you to “clean up”. They have a world view that embarces “can’t and won’t even if we could.”
Just imagine if everyone had lgm’s philosophy. College + medical school + residency takes over 7 years, therefore, there would be no doctors because why do something that doesn’t pay off right now. JFK’s “go to the moon” speech? Poppycock. It took 8 years, so it was a waste of time.
So lgm, do you have a 401k or an IRA? Why? They won’t pay off for decades, so why bother?
I know that had to be rhetorical, right? lgm is depending on big nanny government to take care of him in his later years and, maybe, a university retirement plan.
lgm is a teacher. So even if he sucks and he probably does, he’s got a 403b (teacher 401k) and a pension. You can’t fire bad teachers.
lgm will be wealthier than a lot of people who actually work for living when he retires.
Ya know we could survive quite well w/o the left wing nut jobs, but they wouldn’t make it w/o moderates and conservatives.
Who would pick up the garbage for these turds if we did not exist?
Who would build the building of academia where these turds spew their communist filth?
Who would plumb the turds from their bowl w/o working Americans?
The President also proved the Dems and Nancy Pelosi wrong about what drives the price of oil -THE FUTURES MARKET
Caught this on another site – it’s a very interesting read.
LINK TO Kudlow’s Money Politics Column
Not a single new drop of oil and yet the price plunged today. Can you imagine how far it would drop if we actually started to drill our own reserves?
Bush lifted the executive order. Good. The Congressional order expires later this year. Care to guess howe much the price of oil will drop then?
“But Mr. President!, Mr. President!,
…How does it feel to be a buffoon and a patsy for the corrupt Mexican government?”
(President pretends he didn’t hear question- yet again, and turns away.)
I see on Newsbusters that the congressional ban on drilling is set to expire September 30, 2008.
Could it be that Nancy’s plan to solve the energy crisis is literally to do nothing? We can only hope.