Jules: What country are you from?
Brett: What?
Jules: What ain't no country I ever heard of. They speak English in What?
Brett: What?
Jules: English, [expletive], do you speak it?
Brett: Yes.
Jules: Then you know what I'm sayin'!
Brett: Yes.
Posted on 07/25/2008 8:53:07 AM PDT by kristinn
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's advice to reporters who don't get his energy agenda: Check your hearing.
Reid, D-Nev., may look like a mild-mannered man, but when he's backed into a corner, this former boxer comes out swinging. On Thursday, the object of his ire was the Fourth Estate as he lashed at reporters quizzing him over stalled Democratic energy proposals.
At a "pen and pad" — a more casual, off-camera chat with reporters — Reid attacked and scolded correspondents in attendance, telling them he's "really disappointed" in how they have been writing his energy plans, which include a bill to reign in speculation in the energy futures markets.
According to two Senate Democratic aides, Reid and other Democratic leaders were particularly stung by an article Thursday in The New York Times. It followed on several other reports that have highlighted Democrats' attempts to fend off defections from their ranks to GOP-sponsored amendments, measures that would permit new drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf and in the West for oil shale.
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Reporters tried to pin Reid down Thursday on the amendment issue.
In the exchange, Reid told one reporter she should "watch the [Senate] floor more often. ... You might learn something."
Another reporter explained she had watched the Senate proceedings and said it was not clear he was ... offereing separate amendments, to which Reid asked the reporter if she "spoke English."
"Turn up your Miracle Ear," Reid added.
Reid spokesman Jim Manley later told the reporter his boss's comments were a show of "frustration," not desperation.
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The House No. 2 Republican, Roy Blunt of Missouri, told reporters today, "Clearly we've built a fire on energy that they're feeling the heat from."
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
When it comes to the media, Republicans know the only way to survive is adapt and improvise. Only the arrogant Democrats think they should control what the press says, and that’s because they’ve had it their way for so long.
I’ve noticed this, for years, when arguing with libs.
They’re not used to having to provide any sort of logical defense of their ideology (well, because there IS no logical defense of liberal ideology),
and are baffled and turn to intimidation and personal attacks when challenged to defend it.
Jules: What country are you from?
Brett: What?
Jules: What ain't no country I ever heard of. They speak English in What?
Brett: What?
Jules: English, [expletive], do you speak it?
Brett: Yes.
Jules: Then you know what I'm sayin'!
Brett: Yes.
“Senator Reid, are you familiar with the term ‘9%’?”
Reid and Pelosi are cracking under the pressure.
It’s fun to watch.
Hey Reid, you piece of retarded domestic enemy shit...Those leasing rights belong to *US*...NOT *YOU*!
HOW DARE YOU REFUSE TO BRING THEM TO A VOTE IN FRONT OF THE LEGAL REPRESENTATIVES OF THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA????
HOW DARE YOU DENY US OUR LEGAL REPRESENTATION???
bttt
So would Nancy Pelosi, but California isn't in play.
Senator Reid is arrogance personified. In fact, his photo should be in the dictionary next to the word.
My thoughts exactly. When did he box - as a third grader. I can’t imagine his scrawny butt getting into a ring and making it past the opening bell.
I think I’ll spend an hour calling Reid’s office like I did yesterday. He is such a jerk!
Actually Antonio Villaraigosa is a mexican racist. He should have been kicked out of office for his closed door meetings with mexican president Felipe De Jesus Calderon Hinojosa. The mayor is also a member of la raza, an extremely virulent mexican racist cult.
T Boone Pickens is famous for thinking big. He founded his Texan oil company, Mesa Petroleum, in 1956 with just $2,500 in the bank. After a string of audacious takeovers he turned it into an independent empire that challenged the big oil companies, and today he is worth $3bn.
Now this straight-talking Southerner is launching the biggest and most audacious project of his career. This month he will make the first down payment on 500 wind turbines at a cost of $2m each. The order is the first material step towards his goal of building the world's largest wind farm.
Over the next four years he intends to erect 2,700 turbines across 200,000 acres of the Texan panhandle. The scheme is five times bigger than the world's current record-holding wind farm and when finished will supply 4,000 megawatts of electricity - enough to power about one million homes.
"Don't get the idea that I've turned green," Pickens tells the Guardian in the Dallas offices of his new venture Mesa Power. "My business is making money, and I think this is going to make a lot of money."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/apr/14/windpower.energy
That should be 'rein', unless Reid plans to personally dominate the oil speculation market like it was, oh I dunno, real estate.
How does one drill "ferviously?" Sounds like a word from a Dr. Seuss book.
Regards,
Harry POS Reid BUMP!
Ah give him a break, he soiled his diapher and it needs to be changed.
I wonder if futures trading is moved off shore how is this market going to be monitored by the regulatory agencies in the U.S.? All sorts of trades might, just might be regulated and have information gathered here but Dubai is not within the jurisdiction of some U.S. Commodity Futures Board.
Futures traders can be reined in, just raise margin requirements but whether this is a good idea is another matter.
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