Who Wants Lower Gas Prices?

Well, apparently some of our representatives in congress are pretty happy with the current situation. Just in the last week, with everybody's hair on fire over the issue, here's what they have done.

Proposed to raise taxes on oil and gas companies. Nope that doesn't lower prices.

Threaten to socialize oil companies. Wrong again. That only works if you already own the land the oil is under. And then only for a short while.

Worst of all. Investors and speculators alike have a no risk investment right now with the supply/demand imbalance. And given that these guys trade FUTURES contracts, additional oil supply IN THE FUTURE would make traders consider the possibility that prices WILL come down. That would take a lot of the froth out of the market today. But guess what.

Congress won't even open up areas in the Gulf of Mexico where CHINA and freaking CUBA are already drilling.

John Peterson (R VA) tried to lift domestic offshore drilling restrictions, which was killed by the House Subcommittee of Interior and the Environment. Let's see, all the dems voted to continue the drilling ban and all of the republicans voted to allow our companies to do what China and Cuba are doing.

Dems:

Ben Chandler (KY) voted NO
Norman D. Dicks (WA)voted NO
Maurice D. Hinchey (NY)voted NO
James P. Moran (VA)voted NO
Dave Obey (WI)voted NO
John W. Olver (MA)voted NO
Alan B. Mollohan (WV)voted NO
Tom Udall (NM)voted NO
Ed Pastor (AZ)voted NO


Rep:

Ken Calvert (CA) voted YES
Jo Ann Emerson (MO) voted YES
Virgil H. Goode, Jr. (VA)voted YES
Jerry Lewis (CA) voted YES
John E. Peterson (PA) voted YES
Todd Tiahrt (KS) voted YES

The democrats have seen the polling data: They are 15% ahead among people who have gas prices as the No.1 issue. They have no reason to help make gas get cheaper until they have been elected. This is the lowest form of politics.

And don't tell me these guys don't understand speculating in markets. Clinton made a killing in beef/cattle futures and Obama made a killing speculating in real estate with his friend Resco.

Obama Gives His "Freedom From" Speach

Today Obama pitched his version of economics to a friendly group in Flint, MI. In it we heard about freedom. Freedom from responsibility, freedom from paying your bills, and freedom from making good decisions. What we didn't hear was Freedom to...

The difference in those little prepositions couldn't be larger. The freedom from people see government as a nanny that prevents bad things from happening to you regardless of your actions. The freedom to people see government as an obstacle (more often than not) to a free people achieving their dreams in life.

Freedom from people see private enterprise as source of tax revenue while the freedom to people see private enterprise as a path to personal prosperity.

Here's a short laundry list of Obama's government-centric view of how the economy works.

Obama talked about his $1,000 tax cut for working families

Free tuition for students who pledge to teach in their communities.

A $4,000 scholarship for college students

A foreclosure prevention fund.

A crackdown on deceptive lending.

100's of billions for green energy jobs.

His vision of universal health care.

Let's start at the top. His planned tax cuts really amount to a redistribution of earnings since most of the targeted people don't pay federal taxes today.

Free tuition for teachers. How about ending a union that has kept real wages for teachers below market value for decades. That way, they can pay for their own tuition when they get one of the plentiful jobs. Let's stop subsidizing poverty wages for teachers and give them the opportunity to succeed based on their own talents.

Foreclosure prevention fund is another way of saying, "go ahead and take a loan for too much, we got your back." Subsidizing risky loans only guarantees more risky loans.

Crackdown on deceptive lending probably means that Uncle Sam will have a greater role during your loan closing - meaning you will pay more to close a home loan. Maybe we can get another subsidy for the higher costs of home loans?

Universal health care. Ugh. All I can say is the proper phrase is rationed health care - except of course if you are really famous or rich.

The "green" jobs come about after he takes 7 trillion in new taxes from private enterprise and kills millions of our old jobs via the "Climate Security Act."

When this speech is placed in context with his only piece of legislation - the Millenium Act (S 2433) - I can only call this philosophy a creeping form of Marxism.

Stop Collaborate and Listen

Obamas church is back with a brand new edition. Same blame whitey first rap with a new sweating guy ape-ing around the stage. Pfleger. Ugh. He plays Al Jolson with that Dennis-the Menace-dad hair cut (no I won't bother googling Dennis the fucking Menace) and totally pflames as a fake black preacher. Those people in the pews didn't even know they were being mocked by the fucking idiot.

This is some cringe-inducing stuff here. Obama's church plays like a wacky sitcom - just like his crypto marxist populism rap.

OK that's a bunch of cultural references. First Al Jolson



Now for a little Vanilla Ice.



And finally Pffffleger himself. You decide who the biggest clown is after comparing these pricks.



Fuck it. Here is Dennis the Menace (dad) so you guys get the hair reference.