Thread: More terrible news for Gopniks

Originally Posted by Koios

Unemployment down in January, too! Mygod, the suffering!

The Right so hoped December's job numbers were seasonal and thus evaporate in January.The terrible suffering that must cause. Quick!

Pretend it's not true. CIA conspiracy. That's the ticket!

Please post a link supporting your contention "the right" hoped decembers' jub numbers were seasonal. If nothing else just admit you "want" to believe people who disagree with you politically are somehow hoping mr obama fails.

Originally Posted by Dayton3

No matter.

When gas goes to $4.50 a gallon in the summer, that will do the trick in toppling Obama.

If the republicans could have offered a decent alternative, perhaps. Right now I'm not terribly optimistic.

Originally Posted by the watchman

Please post a link supporting what you think other people want.

koioiuio made a rather dubious statement. I merely suggested he provide something to support his contention. It seems reasonable. Why would you object to such a suggestion?

Originally Posted by beatleboy

There are a lot hands in the pot of big oil, and lots of factors that raise the prices, but of course it's Obama's fault, isn't everything? This Obama did it all, is not going to work for the GOP. They keep tryin' though, gotta give em that. They are a relentless bunch.

Well, in this case......



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Written by Raven Clabough
Thursday, 02 December 2010 12:21

As predicted, the Obama administration rescinded its promise to allow domestic offshore oil drilling yesterday. The Competitive Enterprise Institute reports that the Interior Department has placed an official moratorium on offshore drilling in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, as well as in the Gulf for the next seven years at minimum. What’s the excuse? The BP oil spill, of course.

The New York Times reports, “Ken Salazar said that a moratorium on drilling would be in force in those areas for at least seven years, until stronger safety and environmental standards were in place.”
Salazar explains, “As a result of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, we learned a number of lessons, most importantly that we need to proceed with caution and focus on creating a more stringent regulatory regime.”

Ironically, many critics assert that it was federal regulations that led to the oil spill in the first place.

Art Robinson, Oregon’s GOP congressional candidate during the 2010 midterm elections, stated, “Government regulations caused the BP oil spill. There are so many regulations on the energy industry, that that’s why people have to go and drill three miles down on the ocean to find oil.”

Similarly, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin remarked that it was government kowtowing to environmentalists that brought about the Gulf oil disaster that forced oil drillers to drill in deep water as opposed to shallow water........

Originally Posted by Koios

Unemployment down in January, too! Mygod, the suffering!

The Right so hoped December's job numbers were seasonal and thus evaporate in January.

The terrible suffering that must cause. Quick! Pretend it's not true. CIA conspiracy. That's the ticket!

But some of us GOPers are also Taoists. And we accept the flow of the river and wait to see its consequences. Hand wringing is only for the timid.

Originally Posted by Dayton3

No matter.

When gas goes to $4.50 a gallon in the summer, that will do the trick in toppling Obama.

So you're admitting that Exxon-Mobil et all really runs this country.
Let's nationalize the oil industry & take back our country!