Things I’d Like to Post About Today ….. (080408, Morning)
But I Don’t Have Any Time For:
- Prayers for Bob Novak and his family.
- EU Rota reactivated about a week ago and its proprietor somehow forgot to send me a special announcement. Perhaps he was afraid I would have baked a cake or something. On Saturday, he expanded nicely on the Exxon and taxes post I put up on Thursday, showing that the other major oil companies are also paying more in taxes than they earn in profits.
- Republican Leader and Great American John Boehner live blogged from the House Floor today on the American Energy Act. We should be thankful, I suppose, that Nancy Pelosi didn’t arrange to have the locks changed over the weekend.
- John McCain’s Veep vetters are looking at Eric Cantor. That’s a really good idea.
- The only thing more inflated than the tires the presidential candidate I refer to as “Mr. BOOHOO-OUCH” (Barack O-bomba Overseas Hussein “Obambi†Obama – Objectively Unfit Coddler of Haters) thinks would eliminate the need to drill for more oil is the guy’s ego (check out the third picture at the link). This is what hopelessly underqualified people in all walks of life often do to compensate when they’re in way over their heads. Obama would be one of them.
- I suppose I could belabor the point with another longer post, but time is limited, and the overall point is short — I expect that any chance Objectively Unfit Mitt Romney had of being selected as Veep by the presidential candidate I refer to as JS3M3 (John Sidney the Mad Maverick McCain III) evaporated late last week when his gubernatorial successor in Massachusetts signed the repeal of the 1913 law Romney had used as a fig leaf to cover for how he imposed same-sex marriage in the Bay State. Now out-of-state same-sex pairs can “marry” in Massachusetts and create havoc throughout the US. Social conservatives won’t accept Romney on the ticket, and so-called social conservative leaders who up until now have been pretending that Romney is acceptable are now totally out of arguments.
Obama never said that inflating tires “would eliminate the need to drill for more oil.†And according to this article, what Obama actually said was dead on. http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1829354,00.html?cnn=yes
Comment by Tony B. — August 4, 2008 @ 11:45 pm
#1, this is the exact quote, which is at the link I provided:
Note that Time didn’t, like, actually include the quote.
Also note that Time’s attempt to get to a 7% reduction in usage (3% on tires, 4% on regular maintenance) to justify what it wouldn’t quote presupposes that absolutely no one keeps their tires properly inflated, even by accident, and that absolutely no one engages in regular maintenance.
That is stuck on stupid, and assumes that every driver in America is stuck on stupid and negligent with their cars.
Then Time calls it a smear.
Either you’re smarter than this, or you’re not the Tony B. I know.
But thanks for giving me a potential NewsBusters post. :–>
There’s more to come.
Comment by TBlumer — August 5, 2008 @ 7:45 am
You’re welcome. And if you can keep your language in check, maybe I’ll stick around.
You linked to Jake Tapper, who disingenuously compared the savings to current offshore production, rather than the incremental potential of the Bush43/McCain proposal. Time fixed that problem.
Obama’s point is that risky offshore drilling would produce but a drop in our bucket. He never suggested that saving oil precludes production. But you know that.
Comment by Tony B. — August 5, 2008 @ 8:17 am
Romney did not impose homosexual marriage, it was demanded by the citizens as is their right. Marriage and monagamy in the gay community is good for our society and should be encouraged.
Comment by CityKin — August 5, 2008 @ 8:57 am
Tom,
You hit the nail on the head. Not everyone is at the same starting line. If 75% of us already have our tires inflated then his idea has little validity. However, beyond that why wouldn’t we want to do both? Get better mileage and drill for more domestic production.
Separately, I’m not sure Devall’s action wipes out Romney’s chance of getting picked.I don’t think McCain was leaning his direction anyway. Romney won’t bring any state into the win column and McCain is apparently still irritated over primary disagreements with Romney. Only folks still pushing Romney are those at National Review who backed Romney in the primary.
Comment by largebill — August 5, 2008 @ 9:58 am
#4, CityKin, I’ll assume you’re a person of good will who will understand this (there’s more to it than this, but these are the Cliff’s Notes):
- The Goodridge lawsuit was brought by one couple.
- The MA Supreme Judicial Court declared that gay marriage should be allowed in MA, but did NOT have the power to make it so under MA’s Constitution. So it “ordered” (wrong word on their part, because they don’t have the power) the Legislature to pass a law allowing same-sex marriage.
- The legislature didn’t pass the requested law, and to this day it hasn’t.
- Without a law, Mitt Romney had no authority to do anything.
- Yet he unilaterally ordered town clerks and others to issue Partner A-Partner B “certificates” without ANY authority to do so. He was constitutionally obligated to say “I can’t do anything until the Legislature gives me a law to work with.” But he didn’t.
If the people of MA want SSM to be made legal through the legislative process, that’s their call, though I think it’s a very dangerous move not supported by thousands of years of human experience. But that has never happened.
They’ve never done it “by the book,” so to speak. Therefore, SSM still is not legal in MA, but everyone is acting as if it is. That doesn’t change the fact that it isn’t.
Mitt Romney’s unilateral and extra-constitutional actions were also based on a promise made to the Log Cabin Republicans during his gubernatorial campaign, meaning that he in essence promised to violate his oath of office before he was even elected:
HERE
The “demand by (a majority) of citizens as their right” has yet to occur.
Comment by TBlumer — August 5, 2008 @ 11:32 am
#3 and #5, comprehensive smackdown is here:
Time’s Tripe Is ‘Tired’: Writer Claims Obama Is Right, Ridicule Is ‘Smear’
Grunwald and Obama are “only” 99+% wrong.
Comment by TBlumer — August 5, 2008 @ 11:35 am
Honestly, I am voting for McCain this fall, In spite of such petty little blog rats like Blumer and the rest who cook up incessant garbage to throw at Obama. Honestly, you should check yourself a bit, you right wing phony. For all your babbling about prayer, you don’t strike me as being either spiritual or good, just another creep and his blog.
Comment by morrisminor — August 5, 2008 @ 1:01 pm
#8, no “cooking” here. Just throwing back what Obama the Babbler says back at him.
Thanks for confirming this blog’s effectiveness. :–>
Comment by TBlumer — August 5, 2008 @ 1:44 pm