Archive for 'Energy Independence' Category
Responding to Stupid. Republicans ‘correcting’ Democrats need a clue
REMINDER: Be sure to check out our Lists of Reasons NOT to vote for each of the GOP presidential candidates. Continually updated throughout the year. See the “ELECTION 2012″ links in the right-hand column. Special post-SotU Edition Listening to Bush’s Budget Director… Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels… lecture President Obama on the size of the deficit was like [...]
Why the economy is so bad. And why Obama should be trusted to fix it.
REMINDER: Be sure to check out our Lists of Reasons NOT to vote for each of the GOP presidential candidates. Continually updated throughout the year. See the “ELECTION 2012″ links in the right-hand column. Happy New Year. I hope all my readers had a safe and happy holiday. A friend of mine asked me recently [...]
The List II: Santorum, Huntsman, and The Rest.
REMINDER: Be sure to check out our Lists of Reasons NOT to vote for each of the GOP presidential candidates. Continually updated throughout the year. See the “ELECTION 2012″ links in the right-hand column. This week raps up our review of the remaining “also-rans” in the GOP primary… the candidates that have never polled out [...]
The List II: Rick Perry
REMINDER: Be sure to check out our Lists of Reasons NOT to vote for each of the GOP presidential candidates. Continually updated throughout the year. See the “ELECTION 2012″ links in the right-hand column. Dumb. No other word better sums up Texas Governor and “George W Bush wannabe” Gov. Rick “Good Hair” Perry. Not just ANY kind of dumb, [...]
The List II: Michele Bachmann
REMINDER: Be sure to check out our Lists of Reasons NOT to vote for each of the GOP presidential candidates. Continually updated throughout the year. See the “ELECTION 2012″ links in the right-hand column. Everybody knows someone like Michele Bachmann. The “Tall Tale” teller, the “Everyone’s out to get you” paranoid, or the Bible-thumper that [...]
The List II: Newt Gingrich
REMINDER: Be sure to check out our Lists of Reasons NOT to vote for each of the GOP presidential candidates. Continually updated throughout the year. See the “ELECTION 2012″ links in the right-hand column. This weeks “List” tackles former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. I’ve made no secret of my distaste for the former Speaker [...]
The List II: Mitt Romney
REMINDER: Be sure to check out our Lists of Reasons NOT to vote for each of the GOP presidential candidates. Continually updated throughout the year. See the “ELECTION 2012″ links in the right-hand column. Welcome to our first installment of “The List II”: An archive of links to comments, stated policies/agendas, misconduct, hypocrisy or just [...]
Was Perry’s “jobs plan” really only his “energy policy”? No one seems to know. And with good reason.
On Friday, the Perry campaign released a copy of the candidate’s “Jobs Plan”… or did he? No one seems to be able to agree on that one simple point. The Perry website (no link. You know where) still refers to it as a “plan to create 1.2 million jobs”. Fox News Sunday yesterday referred to it as his [...]
EARLY EDITION: Perry’s “Jobs” Plan by the numbers. I hope you like oil.
EARLY EDITION Rick Perry finally released his “Energizing American Jobs and Security” plan Friday (click here to download from me w/o having to give the Perry campaign your email address). 40 pages long (plus a cover page), Perry’s “jobs” plan is focused ENTIRELY on “energy” production. Ditto when it comes to “security”. In fact, Perry’s plan is SO singularly [...]
ACTION ALERT: 5,000 SIGNATURES for “Green Jobs Tomorrow Fast and Cheap”.
ACTION ALERT The White House announced on September 1st that they “will consider any petition that gets 5,000 signatures”. So I dashed off the following petition: Green jobs TOMORROW, fast & cheap. Here’s how. The fiction that “tax cuts create jobs” needs to be put to bed once and for all. After ten years of [...]
Sen. Kyl defends oil subsidies on grounds it’s preferable to extortion.
On Fox “news” Sunday yesterday, their guest, Senator Jon Kyl, was asked if he supported the Democrats’ proposal to “end oil subsidies to companies earning more than a Billion dollars in profit”? Kyl opposed the idea and defended his position on the grounds that so long as we hand over the money, nobody gets hurt. You think [...]
$4 gas: The problem is not Supply.
Before Air Force legend Chuck Yeager broke the “sound barrier” in 1947, people believed that it just couldn’t be done. Many (many) died trying, and the conclusion was that “eventually you reach a point where the air just can’t move out of the way fast enough”. The pilot, it was believed, eventually flies into a [...]
