A close look would indicate weights at the heel of her pants suit to ensure the leg does not ride up to reveal . . . . . cankles.
yitbos
Posted on 05/11/2008 1:10:37 PM PDT by an amused spectator
The public must pressure Republicans in the White House and Congress to change directions in the country's energy policies, which have pushed oil and gas prices to record highs, a Democratic lawmaker said Saturday.
Sen. Debbie Stabenow said the rising price of oil, fostered by President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney's close ties to the oil industry, is no longer just a burden.
"Now it is a crisis for every American family," the Michigan senator said in the Democrats' weekly radio address. She called the current energy situation "a crisis that doesn't just affect us at the pump, but also raises the prices of groceries, increases our home heating bills and squeezes small businesses trying to keep their heads above water." **snip**
"Republicans want more drilling, more consumption and more tax giveaways for the big oil companies," she said. "Democrats say that those are exactly the policies that got us into this mess to begin with."
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Yeah, ol' Exxon-Mobil made 10 or 11 billion in the first quarter of 2008, BUT!
Exxon-Mobil Paid $3 in Taxes for Every $1 of Profit
Apparently the tax thieves in Congress ain't satisfied with "one for you, three for me".
Maybe they want "one for you, five or six for me", while the taxpayers take it in the shorts with $4 plus gasoline and diesel...
This article brought to you by Will Lester, DNC stenographer...
>>”Republicans want more drilling, more consumption and more tax giveaways for the big oil companies,” she said. “Democrats say that those are exactly the policies that got us into this mess to begin with.”<<
Two words Debbie
“The Seventies”
liberal logic: let’s go back to the stone age.
economics 101: the day the world cuts back its oil consumption, that is the day when the real world wide depression commences.
Do I laugh? Do I cry? Or should I just pretend this is Scrappleface so that I do not have to ponder how frikin' ignorant and completey dumb that Senator appears to be? Good Lord!
But Nancy Pelosi promised to fix this problem if a majority of Democrats were elected to the house!
If you haven't had an energy policy for thirty or forty years, other than "You Shall Not Pass!", just lie about it!
*Gagging*
Don't try to confuse things with the facts. ;-)
Drill ANWR — that would be a change for the better.
And the other is Karl “The Perfesser” Lenin...
Could we just render Senator Stabenow?
Just imagine the number of whale oil lamps that could be kept burning brightly for the foreseeable future.
Debbie! How much has gas gone up since you and the Dems took over in January 2006? It your economy baby.
Unemployment was better also 16 months ago.
Its also your energy policy not to drill in ANWAR and off the coast of Florida and California.
Jeesh! Get a life Debbie.
Last time I checked, Congress was too busy stealing from the taxpayers with the AMT and various other shady Ponzi-type vehicles (and getting that scoundrel Roger Clemens!) to bother with trivial stuff like a national energy policy...
Hey Debbie....go home and take care of your cheating husband.
Stabenow is telling an outright lie, the culprit is not only Klinton for vetoing drilling in Anwar, but the 25 yr ban on offshore drilling, if we need more oil, we have to drill for it, we cannot wish for it, and the Dhimmis and a few R”’s have cut us off from acquiring more oil.
The wuss-face Republicans deserve to be the victim of these moronic lies, since they ALL lack the guts to say what must be done: DRILL!
Debbie, you idiot...the Chinese are drilling 50 miles off our southern coast......do ya think there is a REASON???
Every vote for a Dimmocrat, is a vote for higher energy prices, higher trade deficits and a less secure country.
Elections have consequences.
If Congress continues to refuse to allow drilling and refining, then let Debbie lead the way by opening her state to do it.
Let's REDUCE drilling! That'll help the consumer!
Stabencow is the single stupidest human being in America, up to and including infants born without brain stems.
My email to Sen. Stabenow:
You were quoted by Associated Press calling for the GOP to change their policy on oil, and blaming them for the current high prices. You asked the GOP to:
* Ending billions of dollars in tax breaks for big oil companies.
Why not call for the end of all corporate tax breaks, regardless of the industry? Corporations don’t need tax breaks. They either make it on their own, or they fail.
* Forcing the oil companies to do their part by investing some of their profits in clean and affordable alternative energy.
Can you, as a member of Congress, guarantee they won’t be hit by anti-trust laws when they do?
* Protecting the American people from price gougers and greedy oil traders who manipulate the market.
Congress writes the laws. The Justice Department enforces them. What’s the problem?
* Temporarily stopping the diversion of oil to the national Strategic Petroleum Reserve, which is already 97 percent full.
Congress can pass a law suspending this program, if they are willing to assume the consequences. Given the Middle East situation, wouldn’t the diversion of this oil to homeowners be risky? Wouldn’t car-pooling save more oil than diverting oil from the Strategic Reserves?
* Standing up to the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and other oil-producing nations that are working together to keep oil prices high.
Wouldn’t this be considered as meddling in other countries affairs? The Congress is trying to get the US out of the Middle East. What would you propose the President should do to Iran?
You cite the President and his cronies as getting used to the spoils of plunder. Do you have any evidence the President and his cronies have profited unduly? Have you invited the Justice Department to investigate?
Hollow rhetoric is not going to lower the price of gasoline.
Increasing the production of domestic oil will contribute to lower prices.
Adding nuclear power plants will reduce oil prices.
Adding U.S. based refineries will lower the cost of gasoline.
Forcing auto companies to cease immediately the production of gas guzzling vehicles, and requiring all consumers to drive small vehicles will reduce the price of gasoline.
Rationing gasoline will reduce the cost of gasoline.
Forcing all homeowners using fuel oil for domestic heat and hot water to convert to electric systems will reduce the cost of gasoline.
You see, there are many positive ways to reduce the cost of gasoline, all of which are under the power of the United States Congress to enact and demand enforcement.
I suggest ending the rhetoric, and start legislating will be more beneficial.
Thank you for your time.
Another economic ignorant.
Put up or shut up, and don't blame me since I voted for Mike Bouchard.
Here's my answer for Stabenow:
1) ANWR, like you said; and
2)Since a policy change was called for, my new policy would be to deny gasoline to all Democrats until they vote for more drilling and more refineries and more nuclear power plants.
A close look would indicate weights at the heel of her pants suit to ensure the leg does not ride up to reveal . . . . . cankles.
yitbos
“A close look would indicate weights at the heel of her pants suit
to ensure the leg does not ride up to reveal . . . . . cankles.”
In the alternative, I’d suspect velcro holders to keep those pants
in place.
...or as a back-up system in case there’s a “wardrobe malfuntion” with
the weights system.
(/sarc)
The problem is we have no Republicans with a set of balls who will stand up and tell the truth. They are too busy making global warming commercials with the Democrats. The environmentalist are killing this country. I see the USA as a third world country within 10 to 15 years.
two of the largest suppliers of PV technology in the world are BP and Shell. Either Stabenow is too stupid to know it, or she’s counting on her voters being too stupid to know it.
Have no fear...the spinelessrepublicans will bow down
I imagine her office will be speechless about your email... ;-)
How anyone could believe that drilling for more oil could cause the price to increase is astounding. I know this old hag Democrat doesn’t believe it but how many idiotic voters out there actually think drilling for oil, building more refineries and having more gas is going to increase the price? Unbelievable.
* Cease all ethanol production. It requires more energy to make than it yields and the unintended consequence is higher food costs. Corn production shifted from feed-corn to subsidized corn for ethanol. Just say "no" to ethanol!
* Immediately create only ONE "blend" of gasoline and cease regional "boutique" blends which are stupid, costly, and meaningless. Even if this is the "cleanest" blend, just make it ONE and be done with it. Trucking custom blends around the country is wasteful.
* Lift the restrictions in order to drill for oil in Alaska, Gulf of Mexico, and other sites in the CONUS as a matter of national security.
* Encourage the petro industry to construct state-of-the-art refineries and/or retrofit current and dormant ones and crank up production for our newly-found oil in the CONUS.
* Make all “carbon credit” scams unlawful. Discrediting Algore should have been a slam-dunk a long time ago. Stop electing Reps who buy into the Global Warming Hoax.
* Construct SEVERAL, regional Pebble-Bed Reactors (or other similar modern designs) that are not considered "breeders", are rechargeable, and cleaner than any current nuclear generator design.
* Use the residual heat from the reactors above to process motor fuel from coal and/or shale. Even though Clinton "stole" some of the best coal reserves, we still have a lot to use.
* Become independent enough to make the cartels (i.e. OPEC) inconsequential.
* Convince local taxing bodies to lift or cap the sales tax on gasoline so that as gas prices go up, the local tax collectors don’t see a windfall revenue jump at the expense of the consumer. The Federal government could compel the states (and locals) to cap the fuel taxes.
yeah, so let’s let the DemocRATS “fix” the problem when they get in the position where they HAVE to do something.
Oh man, we’re in a world of hurt with lefties in charge.
Oil taxing is the same as taxing everyone who purchases gas. Even the dumbest of dumbest knows all increases get passed on to the people. It won’t hurt the oil people at all.
Debbie Stabenow, like all moonbats, is delusional. The energy problems we face are due exclusively to the antics of the Dims and their radical environmentalist friends. It was the Dims that banned drilling in ANWAR and off the California and Florida coasts; restricted it as to be meaningless in the Gulf of Mexico; refused to allow the mining and refining of Colorado shale; have banned any new refineries and have pretty much killed the coal indusrty. On top of that, they will not allow any new nuclear power plants and they support the bankrupting fraud of ocrn processing into fuel. Finally, they embrace wind-generated power systems but not anywhere where they can see them, lest their pristine views of harbors and beaches and colorful vistas be compromised.
Foul frauds, the lot of them.
This is from the Onion, right?
Maybe her husband prefers not to be “taken care of” by that cow.Why did he cheat in the first place?
http://ewastedisposal.blogspot.com/2008/03/big-oil.html
My buddy is cringing at the thought of tanking up his truck and equipment @ $4.50 a gallon for diesel. He pays enough to the government to keep the stuff on the road and "safe" from the eagle eyes of the nitpicking DOT revenooers.
Big Oil gets a chunk of change for its product - I'm not arguing that. The media spotlight never seems to fall on Big Thug Government, though.
Why is that? ;-)
Really. Newt Gingrich. The happy-go-lucky court jester for the party that sold its soul to the devil.
Hmmmm...
Vladimir Putin has vowed to curb Russia’s growing inflation and cut oil industry taxes as he became the country’s new prime minister.
The nation’s former president, in a speech to parliament, said his administration wanted “single-digit inflation within a few years”.
He went on that it was part of a plan to make Russia one of the world’s economic leaders by 2020.
Investors have said inflation is Russia’s biggest economic problem, with price rises running at 14.3% in April on an annualised basis and growing fears of labour unrest.
Russia is in its 10th year of rapid growth and Mr Putin said it would displace Britain this year as the world’s sixth biggest economy based on purchasing power.
We ought to label Debbie Stabenow and the rest of the No-Drill Caucus as oil profiteers. They make three or four times more than the oil companies on the same product, and they do nothing to get the $$$.
Actually, there’s another word for people who sponge off other people’s money without doing anything. They’re called slackers!
What hypocrites these liberals are. Tehy tell us higher gs prices would be the nomr (after all, tehy pay $5 per gallon in Europe, yu know) and then when the price shoots up due to their own actions, they whine, cry, and blame their opponents (whom they view as enemies and probably criminals), in order to increase their own power, which is the ONLY thing liberals care about.
Do you know what I find odd?
If you Google "Exxon "40.6 billion"", you get 1,860 results, 98% of which are carping about Exxon's "outrageous" profits.
If you Google "Exxon "105.7 billion"", you get seven results, none of which are about Exxon's 2007 taxes. [I tried other varieties, like "105.6 billion" and "105 billion", pretty much the same results. I think each of those had ONE article that showed Exxon's 2007 taxes.]
The media and the government (but I repeat myself...) are hiding that information from us. I finally found it right on Exxon's website:
2007 2006
Income taxes 29,864 27,902
Sales-based taxes 31,728 30,381
All other taxes 44,091 42,393
Total taxes 105,683 100,676
=======================================================
Net Income 40,610 39,500
Apples and oranges, indeed.
The Republicrats and the Demopubs appear to be doing quite well for themselves - at our expense...
Exxon made $1.1 billion dollars more in 2007 than it did in 2006 - while the government made $5 billion more from Exxon in 2007 than it did in 2006.
Nice work, if you can get it!
And the New York Times & Wikipedia will cover for you, to boot! SWEET!
She wants the oil companies to invest billions in “alternative energy.” More “a Manhattan Project” for windmills in your car nonsense. Why actually solve a problem when you can spend even more subsidizing it? Can anyone name a Senator in either party who has actually shown leadership on this issue? I must have missed it.
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