Posted on 02/23/2012 6:59:38 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
“You were not following what GWB was doing?”
I was following what was happening. The general public wasn’t, and W did a poor job of getting the message out that the dem congress was preventing sound energy strategy.
W didn’t use the media effectively. Big ears does.
Could also put it on grocery carts.
Would be good also at rest stops in the restrooms because people are traveling, as well as on grocery carts, just because it would be visible.
Renewable energy don’t exist. It is a figment of the liberal mind and it’s wet dream to have us all riding horses and buggys.
We are being raped over these demented pipe dreams of the left. And all we can say is “They have good intentions”
FUBO all the left.
Actually Bush (and even clinton) did increase leases and open up more areas to drilling. It really does take time for the oil to come online which is one BIG reason along with the shale fields that the US production is up (two things that obama couldn’t stop but he is now taking credit for).
I remember when gas prices started hitting the roof in the Spring of '08. People were seriously getting nervous. President Bush invited some Saudi ruler to his ranch in Crawford, got his photo taken holding this guy's hand and took a lot of heat for it. But then gas prices started falling! By the end of his term, IIRC, I was paying right around $2/gal in Southern California.
My point? Bush didn't need to do anything. He was a lame duck who will never have to worry about the price of gas pinching his lifestyle. But he did something anyways. He held some other dude's hand!
So Barry, you gonna take one for the team?
The same fools that scream for “renewable energy” scream against “renewable construction materials.” They want renewable energy so that they can protest the use of lumber!
Do they honestly think that people have forgot that they constantly drum beated that high gas prices in 2008 were because of Bush that people will not also blame this President for much higher prices?
Cool!
Do you have a link for a source of that quote? I'm not doubting you... I'd just like to include a source if I print that quote and stick it on my car. Thanks. :-)
W went into 2007 with the attitude of
“ What can I get done WORKING with the new Democrat Congress ”
O went into 2011 with the attitude of
“ How can I make the voters view the new Republican Congress (he always calls it that) as a bunch of obstructionist special interest A-holes that want to screw them, and force them to pass what I want as their approval rating dives to 10%. ”
Few voters knew that Democrats controlled congress in 2008. They thought Republicans did.
Obama and Democrats made sure that voters think that the Republicans own congress in 2012 and hold them responsible for screwing things up.
One party fights like winning is very important to them, and they know how to do it.
The other party is STUPID!
Compare Bush's approval rating in 2008 to Obama's now.
Presidents and their policy’s effect gas prices. Carter and his policys caused gas lines to put gas in your car. Lines at most gas stations, prices of gas for home heating, the idiot went on TV and told the citizens to put on sweaters if they had cold homes......this gas problem lays right at the presidents feet.....With Reagan, prices came down for car and home......with high gas prices, everything that is transported via trucks causes higher prices...one of the reasons food prices are going up....etc...
Many people forget how it was...prosecuting the war was not a shoo-in.
To think that Bush could have successfully taken on the entire Green Lobby at the same time may seem nice with 20-20 but the reality is that the war effort would have suffered.
Stunning.
That’s really the only word we can use to describe the release of a “sensitive and confidential” 57 page memo, written by then soon-to-be U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers in December 2008, about what became President Obama’s signature economic program in the first year of his presidency: the “stimulus package”.
James Pethokoukis has summarized some of the most significant aspects of the memo, which we’ve excerpted below, and which reveals the Obama administration’s thinking behind what became an over 821 billion dollar boondoggle. The bold text represents Pethokoukis’ summary of that thinking, which is directly followed by a supporting quotation from Larry Summers’ memo:
1. The stimulus was about implementing the Obama agenda. The short-run economic imperative was to identify as many campaign promises or high priority items that would spend out quickly and be inherently temporary.... The stimulus package is a key tool for advancing clean energy goals and fulfilling a number of campaign commitments.
2. Team Obama knows these deficits are dangerous (although it has offered no long-term plan to deal with them). Closing the gap between what the campaign proposed and the estimates of the campaign offsets would require scaling back proposals by about $100 billion annually or adding new offsets totaling the same. Even this, however, would leave an average deficit over the next decade that would be worse than any post-World War II decade. This would be entirely unsustainable and could cause serious economic problems in the both the short run and the long run.
3. Obamanomics was pricier than advertised. Your campaign proposals add about $100 billion per year to the deficit largely because rescoring indicates that some of your revenue raisers do not raise as much as the campaign assumed and some of your proposals cost more than the campaign assumed.... Treasury estimates that repealing the tax cuts above $250,000 would raise about $40 billion less than the campaign assumed.... The health plan is about $10 billion more costly than the campaign estimated and the health savings are about $25 billion lower than the campaign estimated.
4. Even Washington can only spend so much money so fast. Constructing a package of this size, or even in the $500 billion range, is a major challenge. While the most effective stimulus is government investment, it is difficult to identify feasible spending projects on the scale that is needed to stabilize the macroeconomy. Moreover, there is a tension between the need to spend the money quickly and the desire to spend the money wisely. To get the package to the requisite size, and also to address other problems, we recommend combining it with substantial state fiscal relief and tax cuts for individuals and businesses.
5. Liberals can complain about the stimulus having too many tax cuts, but even Team Obama thought more spending was unrealistic.
As noted above, it is not possible to spend out much more than $225 billion in the next two years with high-priority investments and protections for the most vulnerable. This total, however, falls well short of what economists believe is needed for the economy, both in total and especially in 2009. As a result, to achieve our macroeconomic objectives—minimally the 2.5 million job goal—will require other sources of stimulus including state fiscal relief, tax cuts for individuals, or tax cuts for businesses.
6. Team Obama thought a stimulus plan of more than $1 trillion would spook financial markets and send interest rates climbing. To accomplish a more significant reduction in the output gap would require stimulus of well over $1 trillion based on purely mechanical assumptions—which would likely not accomplish the goal because of the impact it would have on markets.
In a fair accounting, President Obama is responsible (along with the then-Democratic Congress) for the $1.3 trillion in deficit spending in 2010 and the estimated $1.6 trillion in deficit spending in 2011. He [Obama] should not get credit, moreover, for the $149 billion in TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program) repayments made in 2010 and 2011 to cover most of the $154 billion in bank loans that remained unpaid at the end of the 2009 fiscal year—loans that count against President Bush’s 2009 deficit tally.
The Treasury Department says that all but $5 billion of the TARP bank loans has now been repaid. The portion of repayments that was for loans issued in 2009 should be deducted from Bush’s deficit tally, not credited to Obama as deficit savings. There is some astounding number crunching in this article, and a chart of modern day president’s “average annual deficit spending” ........a frightening conclusion of what happens if Obama has an 8 year term.
He, like the rest of the lunatics in the Democrat Party, think artificially boosting prices on oil and electricity via Govt regulation will make their "green energy" boondoggles cost competitive.
How long are the American people going to let their personal fiscal well being continue to to destroied by these fanatics "green" know nothings who run the US Democrat party? How many more yearly 40% inflation in their personal energy coast will it take to wake up the American voters? Obama and his ilk in the Democrat part are the foes, not friends, of the average persons hopes for a better tomorrow.
Leni
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GAS WAS $1.85 per gallon on the day Obama was Inaugurated! - - freeper Gaffer
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