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Democrats Fault?
Yesterday I recieved this comment:
"with all the crappy things going on I hope everyone realizes this is
what you get with democrats controling things. It all started going
south when they took over congress."
When you make a blanket statement like that I have a couple of rules:
A. Make sure the statement you are making is accurate
B. Identify yourself other than Reality Hurts so that we can have a real conversation.
Now in regards to your comment, It is way off base and obviously you are someone who follows George and your Republican base no matter what is going wrong (which is almost everything under the eyes of this administration).
The Democrats have the slimest control in the congress and senate. Everything they have tried to put through gets Vetoed by our Idiot President. So no, everything that is going wrong can not be the Democrats fault because until George W. "Idiot" Bush is out of office they don't control Jack Shit.
My question to you is quite simply this, how can you, sit there and defend this president and his administration on anything? I can't. Whether its environmental issues, education, healthcare, the war, the economy, his administration has done absolutely nothing.
Why aren't we holding him accountable for the changes he promised to make to Social Security? He is supposed to be an ultra conservative president yet he spends like a liberal.
So go ahead and blindly support the Republicans and even vote for John McCain, because once you vote for McCain and if by some remote chance he does get in office, which in a weird sort of way I hope he does, because then there will be no doubt who has tore this country a new asshole and its not the Democrats.
Bush Pushes Congress to Move on Farms, Housing
Tuesday, April 29, 2008 11:47 AM
WASHINGTON -- President Bush said Tuesday that Congress is blocking his proposals to deal with high gas prices and dragging its feet on other issues to address the nation's sagging economy. He said he was open to any idea in terms of energy, including a proposal backed by John McCain and Hillary Clinton to suspend gas and diesel taxes this summer.
But, he said, he favored longer-term fixes, such as encouraging new oil production in the United States and the building of new refineries.
"It's a tough time for our economy," Bush said at a Rose Garden news conference. "Across our country, many Americans are understandably anxious about issues affecting their pocketbook, from gas and food prices to mortgage and tuition bills. They're looking to their elected leaders in Congress for action.
"Unfortunately, on many of these issues, all they're getting is delay," he said.
Bush was asked about a proposal by Republican presidential contender John McCain, later endorsed by Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton, to suspend taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel for the summer travel season. The tax is 18.4 cents per gallon of gasoline and 24.4 cents on diesel fuel.
"I'm open to any ideas and we'll analyze anything that comes up," he said.
But Bush also said he didn't want to inject himself into the ongoing presidential race. Of the three candidates, only Democrat Barack Obama has not backed the gas tax proposal.
The average price of a gallon of gas has reached $3.60 nationwide.
Bush renewed his objection to calls that the government discontinue keeping up the nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve supply while oil prices are so high. "If I thought it would affect the price of oil significantly, I would seriously consider it," he said of an idea embraced by many Democrats and some Republicans.
Bush also said that it was important to keep filling the reserve, in underground salt domes in Texas and Louisiana, in case there is a terror attack on the nation's oil supplies. He also once again called for Congress to permit drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, a proposal he has made repeatedly since he first took office in 2001, and to pave the way for the building of new refineries.
"Another reason for high gas prices is the lack of refining capacity. It's been more than 30 years since America built its last new refinery. Yet in this area, too, Congress has repeatedly blocked efforts to expand capacity and build more refineries," Bush said.
The president revived an earlier proposal that shuttered military bases be used as sites for new refineries. In the past, oil and energy experts have expressed little interest in that, saying military bases often aren't situated where the oil pipelines are anyhow.
He sidestepped a question on whether there should be a second stimulus package. Rebates started to go out this week as part of a $168 billion stimulus package enacted in February. The checks will range to up $600 for an individual, $1,200 for a couple and an additional $300 for each eligible dependent child.
"Now, you know, after a period of time, the money is beginning to arrive. We'll see what the effects are," he said.
Bush also called on Congress to act more quickly on legislation to make more student loans available and to help homeowners facing foreclosure.
Yes I heard it, I heard the speech which if you ask me is all a big act:
1. This bit But, he said, he favored longer-term fixes, such as encouraging new oil
production in the United States and the building of new refineries.
-This statement came from a president who a few years back stated that this country was addicted to oil with promises of developing new alternatives to oil.
ANWAR is not the answer. Its a wildlife preserve, not a drilling site. More oil is not the answer. Energy alternatives are.
Not one word out of his mount consisted of conserving energy or developing alternatives. I don't want them to drill in ANWAR, that is not the answer and it is a protected WILDLIFE REFUGE, That means one day, Id like to take my kids there to see the wildlife not a bunch of oil platforms.
The tax thing is a temporary fix, even drilling for more oil is a temporary fix. New refiniries are a temporary fix because we need alternatives to a fuel that is not going to be here 100 years from now. That is the reason why prices are going up because its just not worth drilling for.
Even if they do build refineries, how long will that take? 5+ years to build a new refinery? Then we are 5 more years past peak oil and still struggling with high prices and still polluting the atmosphere instead of coming up with conservation, better and more fuel efficient cars and alternative, cleaner burning energy.
He is an oil man and predictably he was all about oil going against his previously stated we are addicted to oil. The fact is, The middle east is past its peak production, the US peaked its production of oil back in the 1970s.
The rest of his speech was to me a day late and a dollar short. He should have been leading on this stuff last year when it was all starting to rear its ugly head. To me hes as clueless as he is stupid and if he was half the leader the 28% of you who still support him say he is, He would have been on top of this from day one, He can hand out all the tax breaks and rebates he wants but he simply has not led, he has simply stood by and watched the middle class in this country struggle.