Posted on 12/04/2008 3:23:55 PM PST by bruinbirdman
LOL!!
Boy, am I enjoying this!
The man proves over and over that he is an empty suit.
His fav expression will come to be, “Oops!”
Hey Yer Majesty, reality bites, eh?
For this, Obama is being criticized by the right? Hey, if things improve under this fella, by him listening, then I am for it. We need to make the best of what we have, while preparing for the future. If he does some important things right, then I support those actions.
Remember, the Republicans did us more damage in the last few years.. by bickering and inaction than any of the Dems in those years. These folks elected Obama.
Let us take the victories where ever we get them.
What windfall? Oil has dropped from $147 per barrel to $47 per barrel in less than 4 months. You can hear the sucking sound coming out of the Oil and Gas Industry. Bankruptcies will begin soon at these low prices because these idiots in congress have never had an intelligent energy policy—just “go after the money!” So they will create another shortage by taking away the incentive to drill. So we will increase our oil imports by another 10% in the next 2 or 3 years, and be having this same discussion.
How can the lying, lunatic, liberal left justify a “windfall” profits tax on a company with a 6% net profit (like oil companies), but not put the same tax on a company with a 60% profit margin (like retail jewelers)?
It would seem to be very easy for an oil company lawyer to argue such a left-wing scheme violates the 14th amendment. If our courts weren’t so corrupt the decision to such an argument would be obvious.
First off, what is so magic about $80 per barrel? Second, it is when prices are high that we need more supplies, and the oil companies need the profits to enable them to drill.
I bet this $80 becomes some magic number that comes up again in the future. It has come out of thin air, just like a FactChecked COLB.
True. I think they must have been talking about smugglers, pirates, and drug dealers.
Oboma will figure out a number of things as he prepares to pretend to be a real president.
“An aide explained the change by saying: “President-Elect Obama announced the policy during the campaign because oil prices were above $80 per barrel. They are below that now and expected to stay below that.”
Nobody, and I mean nobody, even OPEC can rightly predict what the price of a barrel of oil will be from day to day: this is BS and his campaign pledge was not based on economics, rather, it was based on “the environment”.
But this has GOT to be a record for a “broken campaign promise” and he ain’t even POTUS yet!
Now, let's talk about those abortion and gun control problems you've got.....
And when you're done with that, I got a few more for ya....
Oh, I just can’t WAIT to rub this in the faces of those guys at work who voted for Obama.
Things change, don’t they. I hope this continues.
I never thought he’d really go through with this. Democrats like to pick up this issue to pander, but the smarter ones (including Obama) know damn well that it’s a bad idea, which is why they never follow through on it. Only the true-blue morons like Barbara Boxer really want a windfall profits tax.
There will be no windfall profits with oil at $25/bbl.
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