May 02, 2006
Is anybody else embarrassed?
from - Buck
Alan Shore says it better than I ever could have.
The power grab that our current President has engaged in since day one has been fascinating to watch. He governs as if his day in the sun will never end. His only concern with law is the affect it has on others. He sincerely believes that his position is above the law and as long as he holds that position then he too is above the law.
I do not believe he is an evil person. I believe he is a person who sincerely believes that if a President does it then it is not possible for it to be illegal. He believes that the Executive branch is the law and that the law is the Executive branch. I really believe that he has no concept of the balance of and sharing of power.
I am not so much scared by the actions of Bush the Son as I am by his ability to do the things he does with absolute impunity. He has a 33% approval rating and yet he still rattles his sword? Where is the Congress? Do they also believe that absolute power should rest with the executive branch?
Our bellicose foreign policy is exactly why gas prices are at $3.00 per gallon and I am beginning to believe that this is not an unintended consequence. If we start shooting in Iran and the price of gas goes to $6.00 per gallon or higher I am not so sure that I will believe that even that is an unintended consequence.
Sometimes I feel like I am living in an episode of The Twilight Zone.
Posted by Buck at May 2, 2006 04:46 PM
hey thar, buck, this line sez it all: "am not so much scared by the actions of Bush the Son as I am by his ability to do the things he does with absolute impunity."
are we gone sit n watch our republick be tuck frum us? butts me in mind of ben franklin who sed we had us a republick, ifn we could keep it. how ironick (in the poplar sents of the wurd) is it that them publicans is undoin our republick!
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Posted by buddy don on May 3, 2006 07:46 AM Link to comment |
Our foreign policy is the reason for $3/gal gasoline?
Petro is $75/barrel all over the earth, not just for US vendors. It's $75 if we get it from Canada, Venezuela or the ME, and trust me when I say that the violence in the ME is not something that suddenly came about in the last 4 years due to Chimpy McHalliburton (love that phrase).
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Posted by RW on May 4, 2006 12:31 PM Link to comment |
RW I figure speculators drive up the price of gas. Will we start shooting in Iran? Will the Straits of Hormuz stay open? Sabre rattling is a sure way to manipulate the market. And when you have the gun and it is your finger on the trigger you can make the ultimate decision and hedge your bets accordingly beforehand.
China and India didn't just suddenly start using oil and gas four years ago either.
The one thing that Dick Cheney and Osama Bin Laden both agree on is that the price of oil is too low. I read somewhere years ago that Bin Laden thought $300.00 per barrel should be the fair market price. Instability insures high prices.
Right now the Middle East is a river of blood and money. And as long as blood is pouring out the money will be pouring in.
Have you ever done any figuring to see how much your investments would have increased had you put your money in oil and gas and Halliburton when Chimpy took office?
That ain't no coincidence my friend.
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Posted by Buck on May 4, 2006 08:45 PM Link to comment |
Actually, the demand in India, Japan and China have indeed skyrocketed over recent years. Especially China, since that country - while still communist - adopted some capitalist policies within their economy.
***Right now the Middle East is a river of blood and money. ****
You could've said that at any point in my lifetime, Buck. Every time the Iranian leader spouts off about whacking the country of Israel (or, in Juan Cole's world, polite disagreement with the regime), the price of oil goes up.
***Have you ever done any figuring to see how much your investments would have increased had you put your money in oil and gas and Halliburton when Chimpy took office?***
I own Halliburton stock, buddy. And I've done quite well with my military tech stocks, too. Mama didn't raise no fool. :)
But, if Chimpy & company could indeed wield that much power, the logical retort would be: "why in the hell are those idiots letting oil prices go so high when it looks like it could send the Republican party over the cliff in 5 months, and possibly doom the party in '08"?
If they could control the price of oil by even one dollar, they'd have done so since it's literally dooming the GOP, Buck. Their oil buddies are already rich....given a choice of rich oil buddies and the GOP in power for some time to come or their oil buddies richer and the GOP in the gutter (and thus Bush's legacy being damaged, a-la Clinton's) for the next decade, someone choosing the latter is living in a partisan dreamworld.
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Posted by RW on May 5, 2006 09:48 PM Link to comment |
