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Document the Atrocities

Submitted by Conn Carroll on Tue, 05/27/2008 - 21:41

Promoted and bumped. -P

Patrick is half-right in his post Beyond Bush: "President Bush is a lame duck"... no doubt about it. But that does not mean that "the post-Bush era is already upon us." I agree that Republican candidates should act as if Bush does not even exist for this election cycle, but I hope this community does not act in a similar way.

A whole generation of Americans, the very generation we hope to engage online, has known nothing but Bush as president. They've been raised on regular Bush thrashing by the Daily Show and David Letterman's "Great Moments in Presidential Speech Making." The verdict from this generation is in: Bush is a colossal failure.

We need to have our own well developed narrative as to why Bush failed. Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) touched on many of those failures today, starting with Karl Rove and the K Street Project leading right through to the record growth in domestic spending. Coburn writes: "If the goal of the K Street Project was to earmark and fund raise our way to a filibuster-proof "governing" majority, the goal of "compassionate conservatism" was to spend our way to a governing majority. ... The fruit of these efforts is not the hoped-for Republican governing majority, but the real prospect of a filibuster-proof Democrat majority in 2009."

We also need to be ready to document the policy failures of the current Democratic Congress and the very possible Democratic control of the White House. Already Americans are feeling the pain of Democrat policies on energy. And Heath is right: we also need to be documenting the failures of liberal policies in the states. Texas' economy is booming and their state budget is in surplus. California's economy is stagnate and is facing record budget deficits. Barack Obama's America looks a lot like California and, nothing like Texas. The nation needs to know what it is getting into.

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Documenting Atrocities

Submitted by texicali on Tue, 05/27/2008 - 21:06.

Documntation is a great idea but you need to take the next step and verbalize what you've documented....the GOP needs someone or a few someones who will go out each and every day to verbalize....we need to spread that as far and wide as we can spread it....

Totally correct

Submitted by Soren Dayton on Wed, 05/28/2008 - 08:35.

These guys are going to destory our economy. We have to document t he baseline now so that we can prove just how much damage they do.

Take card-check as an example. The Democrats would pass it and shatter the low-wage job market. And blame it on the GOP. This would be another reason that an economic rebound would be good: prove the damage that the Democrats would do.

Wrong

Submitted by ohmmade on Wed, 05/28/2008 - 14:33.

In regards to the article at The Foundry:

 

Bringing up ANWR is an idiots mistake. If you don't know how extremely little oil could be gained, by raping one of the last remnants of what we could call "wilderness" in this country, then it is you that needs to go back to school.

This is not "economics 101" as The Foundry states. This is political theater played by the GOP, trying to direct the pressures of our energy snafu toward the Democratic party.

Not taking into account the amount of energy needed to find, test, extract, then move to refineries (which will easily cut this amount in half) "the EIA estimates production of 600 million barrels a year. In comparison, US daily consumption is 18.5 million barrels a day, or 6,752 million barrels a year. Thus in this scenario ANWR, once on tap, would provide less than 9% of US annual usage".

 

So, to point the finger at "the liberals" for not wanting to destroy pristine wonderlands, thousands of animal habitats, and of course the impending oil-tanker spills, all for %9 (a generous figure) of our yearly consumption, seems so outrageously ridiculous to me I can't fathom anyone seriously thinking this could ever in a million years be a good idea.

Every figure shows that we couldn't even bring any of that oil online until 2030. Do you honestly think that the Left's current policies have any bearing whatsoever on this issue, when we're still over two decades away from this complete pie-in-the-sky concept?

Here's an idea: Tax marijuana. Legalize it, then tax it. (this from a non-smoker). This would instantly erase a low estimate of $3 billion dollars from the current defecit in California, and reduce the risks of having social services slashed or ended. (stuff like Police training, fire services, public schools, etc)

You also don't take into consideration that we've had a GOP Governor here who was supposed to "sweep up" the house, but who has now worsened the economic scenario for our state.

 

Pointing blame at some conversationist and environmentalist concepts should really be stopped. The meager milestones we've met are a drop in the bucket of the reasons why our economy is in the shithouse.Maybe not spending more than half of our entire budget on defense spending could be a good start.

 

You guys really need to take a step back and take a serious look at energy independence. Funding research and new technology should be a #1 priority for every party, not just the "libs". We can't keep on the same path of destruction and think something better will ever happen from it.

No your wrong

Submitted by karasoth on Wed, 05/28/2008 - 15:21.

If the US taps into ANWR it shows a US leadership more willing to drill.

 

That message says to the folks who trade in oil that the Supply of Oil and Gasoline into the US will increase (not decrease) Oil and gas futures will short and that will apply a downward Pressure.

And if Anwar had went on line when the gop first wanted it to that 9% increase would be in the oil market today. Are you going to tell people that 27-36cents less per gallon right now isn't worth it? And thats assuming that we pushed elsewhere and that didn't push pressures lower.

 

No Your REALLY Wrong .....

Submitted by dwp4401 on Wed, 05/28/2008 - 15:44.

.......and the evidence is in your own post. If the United States upped its domestic production by 9% it would make a huge difference on the supply side of the economic equation. If we also would allow drilling along our coastal shelfs, like other countries are doing along our shores, it would have an even greater impact.

Folks are angry about gas prices and they largely believe the Democratic spin blaming the oil companies. We need to fight back. The public needs to know that Congress does not allow exploration or drilling in many areas that hold great promise, including, but not limited to ANWAR. They need to know that we have not allowed a refinery to be built since 1976 which further effects supply. They need to know that we have tied the hands of the producers and that government interference in the market place is the main reason things are the way they are.

They also need to understand that this has been the left's goal all along. They want you out of your car and living above a Dunking Donuts shop next to the light rail transit station.

blame the Dems?

Submitted by fabric on Wed, 05/28/2008 - 17:19.

Go ask the guy on the corner about the record profits of the gas companies.     Who do you think they  blame, nameless pols or the the very companies charging them $4 a gallon.   I'd rethink this strategy.

Beside, my earlier liberal friend made the point - anything we do know is simply buying us time.  We need to decrease our energy dependence on carbon.   You might buy some points in the short term, but long term it will just be more painful.    You might say we're finally paying the true price for gasoline.