Shrub press conference...high energy costs is Congress' fault...ANWR, Oil Refineries..

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

Hmmmmm if that's the problem, why have oil companies made record profits????

[DFW]

1. For the same reason that trees cause air pollution, presumably

[Ilsa]

2. Like drilling at the end of this year is going to help now.

He's asking for programs that offer only temporary help, and that won't even come for years.

He has always blamed others for his fuckups. Nothing has changed.

[bdamomma]

38. hey Ilsa,!!!

you have a strong stomach to listen to lies. Watch him blame the American people for not spending those checks wisely to, and not go out and buy big screen TV's, he has such disrespect for the American people aren't people tired for being taken as fools. sickening. :shrug:

[Ilsa]

53. G'Day, Alyce! Hugs to ya!

I'm the only one I know that can stand to listen.

Sunday we visited some old friends. Mrs. R. is an elderly, retired, widowed grandmother, retired newspaper editor with Masters in English and journalism, and she can't listen to him. She called him a fool in front of her daughter-in-law who is unfortunate to be in the Army and has been to Iraq. She has "Impeach Bush" bumperstickers all over her kitchen. She turns him off also. I invited her to log on to the internet and listen to Mike in the evenings to get some of her rage out.

[chat_noir]

118. Who'll Set Bush Straight? (on ANWR)

4/22/08

The headlne today seemed promising: "Bush Voices Concern About Record Oil Price." It'd be a step forward from a president who recently said he'd never heard a thing about $4.00-a-gallon gasoline. Then I read the whole story, twice. Bush's only idea for fixing things was to open the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge for oil drilling. The presidential candidates ought to be leaping forward to set Bush straight on the complete uselessness of his answer. Here's an EZ kit of useful responses, even aside from the obvious environmental damage:

It would take up to 10 years to get a drop of oil from ANWR to refineries.

The whole oilfield would provide 6 months to a year, tops, worth of oil for the U.S. Better auto mileage standards would save more oil for the U.S.

Alaska's permafrost is melting, so it's increasingly unlikely companies could build the needed ice roads into the coastal drilling area.

Alaska's oil pipelines are already sagging and dragging from permafrost melt, so how would Bush build new ones?

http://www.oilwatchdog.org/articles/?storyId=19859

[PCIntern]

3. what's with the green tie

and blue suit?

Looks like a clown costume...just needs the red nose.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

lol! Green is for the money his cohorts are raking up as the rest of the people are suffering.

[Jack Rabbit]

24. You mean his nose isn't red as usual?

??

[bdamomma]

44. hey didn't the Joker on Batman wear the same thing?

[SammyWinstonJack]

4. pResident Blame Game blathers on. Who listens to him?

[chat_noir]

41. even FReepers refer to it as "blame game"

Bush's blame game speech!

That was disgusting. This guy and his party held the Senate, Congress and the White House for 6 years, and they watched the whole game nose dive.

Now he's blaming who?
16 posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 9:45:54 AM by dragnet2

[SammyWinstonJack]

95. Really?

:wow:

[Ilsa]

5. He's worried about student loans NOW??? When he cut all the Student loan programs?

And he is acting defensive and belligerent.

[bdamomma]

47. he is a defiant prick, that is what he is.

spoiled little frat boy.

[vanlassie]

6. Horse's Ass With a Mouth

[L. Coyote]

9. Back at the tribe, we call him "Fell from Ass of Horse he Rides"

[librechik]

7. he's so righteously angry that Congress has done NOTHING to fix these problems

just political crap he has to veto

poor jackass

[grannylib]

8. What happened to "jawnbonin' OPEC" if oil prices got too high?

Guess the jawbonin' of an ass wouldn't do much good anyway, now would it?

[Ilsa]

10. Too bad the reporter didn't mention what he said 8 years ago.

Talking about alternative fuels NOW??? Carter talked about them 30+ years ago.

[grannylib]

64. I know *sigh* can you imagine where we might be today in regard

to real energy independence if we'd listened to that "crackpot" Carter back in the day?
Makes me ill to think of the way he was ridiculed for his views at the time...and he was so right. And we're all paying the price now, for the media and the Reich Wing putting him down then.

[Javaman]

16. his* coke jaw got in the way. LOL nt

[librechik]

11. Throwing a tantrum is not a press conference

his mommy needs to put him down for a nap

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

12. Bingo!

[Ilsa]

13. Bar-bar the Hun should slip him some gin to help him go nite-nite. nt

[SammyWinstonJack]

LOL! Bar-bar the Hun.

:spray:

[L. Coyote]

14. This is a preview of the Rs rolling out their campaign = Congress is Bush's only Problem = LOL

Global energy supplies are not the only reason prices rise. What an idiot!! Pure politics.

Meanwhile, Bush knows nothing about biofuels and their impact!

Expect more investment in ethonal, in our national interest. Let the world starve!!

[librechik]

21. "oh, now you're trying to drag me into the 08 race!" he says, to the perplexed reporter

what a snake...

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

15. Oye, ethanol, now. Our farmers "grow energy" and then who will grow food.

Oh, and now he's talking about food shortages, "that reminds me". :crazy:

[Ichingcarpenter]

43. It takes 110 barrels of oil to make 100 barrels of ethanol

A jet using biofuel would use 30 soccer fields of corn to fly across the atlantic.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

51. I heard that stat yesterday. Supposedly sugar cane is 7 times more efficient than corn.

[Lorien]

112. And sugar cane is grown in the everglades, one of the few still effective

CO2 "sinks" in the continental US.

We need entirely new technologies!

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

126. Someone posted the day before yesterday that 3 wind turbines could power 30 homes.

I find that so intriguing. I live in a condo community and after doing some research, might recommend that we erect our own wind turbines.

[Junkdrawer]

115. So Big Ag and Big Oil make a killing with taxpayer subsidies...

Same old same old - Now with Higher Food Prices!

[vanlassie]

17. "The American People..."

"Don't care what we CALL it...they want to know that we KNOW....about HIGH GAS PRICES"

IS HE FUCKING KIDDING???? AT HIS LAST PRESS CONFERENCE HE WAS "SURPRISED" TO HEAR GAS MIGHT GO TO $4.00!!!"

Oh I get it....he is remembering his lessons- the ones that his handlers had to teach him after THAT gaffe. Like a primary school student.

[vanlassie]

19. I wonder if he knows how FEW of the "American People"

he speaks for at this point?

[bdamomma]

78. he cannot relate to the American people.

he is living in his own hell hole, wishful thinking on my part.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

18. So now we're supposed to buy food from "local farmers" but he just said they're "growing energy"

Holy irony impairment, Batman.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

22. That was so frigging unbelievable!

[vanlassie]

25. He's begging for a "friendly guy" to ask him a question

Good God.

[librechik]

31. now he's going to try being The Good Cop--he's a lover, not a

mass murderer

[Ilsa]

58. iiiiiiinck. Wrong answer. He's a mass murderer. ;-) nt

[sinkingfeeling]

20. So, now the idiot-in-chief wants Congress to do about 5 things that he opposed just a month ago?

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/04/29/bush.economy/index.html

"Bush will ask Congress to focus on four areas: energy, food prices, mortgage payments and student loans, Perino said.

The president will urge Congress to pass legislation that would lead to more affordable and reliable energy at home. Bush is also expected to call for a "fiscally responsible bill" that would reform farm programs without putting new burdens on consumers, according to the statement.

In his eight minute opening remarks, Bush will also urge Congress to "pass specific legislation that will help more families stay in their homes," and give the federal government more authority to purchase federal student loans, Perino said."

When just about 6 weeks ago we had this:
http://public.cq.com/docs/cqt/news110-000002688608.html

Bush Warns Congress Against Overreacting to Credit Crunch

“The temptation is for people in their attempt to limit the number of foreclosures is to put bad law in place,” Bush said in a speech before the Economic Club of New York.

[chat_noir]

23. McCain is against drilling in ANWR*

from the rightwing Townhall site:

Then the WeeklyStandard's Michael Goldfarb tossed out a question. Here's the exchange as recorded by National Review's Jim Geragh

Mike Goldfarb: Some people are perplexed by your rhetoric on global warming. Is this one of those ‘no surrender’ issues, or is there room for discussion?

McCain: There’s always room for discussion. But I don’t know how any conservative can not support cap and trade. We did it with acid rain. The Europeans are putting it into effect. It’s a capitalist process that encourages green technologies. If we’re wrong, all we’ve done is adopt green technologies, in an effort to give our kids a greener planet.

As far as ANWR is concerned, I don’t want to drill in the Grand Canyon, and I don’t want to drill in the Everglades. This is one of the most pristine and beautiful parts of the world.

There in a sentence is another example of the dynamic that drives conservatives away from John McCain. Not only do the vast majority of Republicans support exploration in ANWR, they also deeply resent the idea that such a position is on a par with a proposal to strip mine Yellowstone. But here is John McCain comparing exploration in ANWR to drilling in the Everglades or the Grand Ganyon. It isn't just that McCain's position is opposite that of the Republican party. It is also that he uses the harshest rhetoric of the left to convey that disagreement.

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/HughHewitt/2008/01/17/anwr_drills_mccain__yet_another_slam_by_mccain_on_the_gops_base


(McCain)Voted YES on disallowing an oil leasing program in Alaska's ANWR.

To remove the establishment of an oil and gas leasing program in the Alaskan Coastal Plain. The original bill allows for an oil and gas leasing program in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). Voteing YES on this amendment would remove that section, hence barring leasing in ANWR.

http://www.ontheissues.org/2008/John_McCain_Energy_+_Oil.htm



*until he flip flops on this issue

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

26. What the hell is rambling about, the reporter is "Mr. Sunshine". Dude is LOOOSING it.

babble,babble, stream of consciousness, flight of ideas, babble babble.

DRILL in ANWR!!!

[Subdivisions]

27. He's describing the "peak oil" scenario to a T, as if we're in it.

[demmiblue]

28. Summary... it is all the fault of the Congress!

p.s....ANWR, ANWR, ANWR!

:puke:

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

29. Al Qaeda!!!!! He finally got to them!!!! They want to blow up oil facilities!!!

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

30. Not if we drill in ANWR, though! That's the MAGIC drilling place.

:eyes:

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

32. Yep! The Dark Lord Cheney will protect it with his magic fly rod!!!!

[librechik]

42. as long as he doesn't mention that all that oil will be shipped to Asia

the closest port, to be sold, not to us.

[L. Coyote]

49. I heard the Horse's Ass say it would lower prices! LOL

All it will do is pay back the BIG OIL contributors to the RNC!!

[Ilsa]

65. Yep, that supply will flow already refined straight into the

EXXON gas pump stations so the price can be cut 5 cents a gallon.

[L. Coyote]

33. But, they have not done so. No problem, Bush knows they want to. HOW?

Do tell, George, where that info came from? And, why it has not happened?

More true intelligence, or more lies from the horse's ass?

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

37. Because the person who is talking in his ear told him so. That or his god.

[Javaman]

34. this press conference is the equivalent of...

writing out a end of semester paper in crayon the morning it's due while dealing with a hang over.

"I can do this! I can do this!"

Nope, you can't. you* had the time and you* fucked it up by screwing the nation and now you* are in a rush to polish the stinky pile of a pResidency* at the last minute.

no one believes you.

[demmiblue]

35. NO FOLLOW-UPS!

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

40. He's living up to his nickname of Little Lord Pissypants.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

36. Is he actually claiming to understand the history of Afghanistan?

He's "pleased" with the "young Democracy" there.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

39. Now he's getting all hot and bothered about suicide bombers and killing innocents.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

46. Killing innocent people in order to achieve their objective? Hmmmm who else has done that?

[librechik]

61. wrong spot

[Ilsa]

45. He has to talk about "terroirsts willing to strap bombs on themselves"...

thugs and killers. We have to keep them stirred up or Halliburton won't make enough money for The Dark Lord.

He sure is getting belligerent.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

48. Now a question about Israel bombing Syria.

He's stepping gingerly here.

[chat_noir]

50. 'Jihadist' booted from government lexicon - * just used the word

'Jihadist' booted from government lexicon

WASHINGTON (AP) — Don't call them jihadists any more.

And don't call al-Qaida a movement.

The Bush administration has launched a new front in the war on terrorism, this time targeting language.

Federal agencies, including the State Department, the Department of Homeland Security and the National Counter Terrorism Center, are telling their people not to describe Islamic extremists as "jihadists" or "mujahedeen," according to documents obtained by The Associated Press. Lingo like "Islamo-fascism" is out, too.

The reason: Such words may actually boost support for radicals among Arab and Muslim audiences by giving them a veneer of religious credibility or by causing offense to moderates.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i3X6Gha4z-MCq9pU0vC4FWqDCXrwD908CUGO0

[SammyWinstonJack]

52. "Uh and uh and hmm, blah, blah, blah."

:banghead: :argh: Dumbass!

[bdamomma]

72. I will join you with that

:banghead: :argh:

I would love to see him just have a temper tantrum and have a nervous breakdown. stupid man, we have our own terrorist sitting in the WH.

[SammyWinstonJack]

83. Yes, I'd love that too! Show us the REAL Duhbya!

:evilgrin:

[Marr]

54. As if *anyone* believes this twerp anymore. Even his 28%'ers

know he's a liar-- they just happen to respect amoral idiots.

[L. Coyote]

55. The United Nations did not approve the Junta's War on Iraq!

But, now he used the name of the UN to justify keeping relations with Iran messed up!

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

56. He's now explaining how bombing Syria (he said WE bombed Syria) was to send a message

to Iran??? Did I hear this correctly?

And, he said HE made the decision to bomb.

[L. Coyote]

60. Oh BOY. The kid went off-script. Did Bush just admit to a war crime on the T-V?

[bdamomma]

90. get the transcript and send it to who Congress???

[L. Coyote]

127. Check the video against the WH script online first, I guess.

I kinda missed the precise language. Anyone?

[laststeamtrain]

57. 8am PDT: The sirens are throwing G-Dub off.

It's like a bad dream he keeps having.

The sirens...they're coming to take me away...ha ha...

[bdamomma]

59. has he mentioned Iran or Syria yet.

what a blood thirsty bastard, and the press sits there and says shit. When are going to confront this defiant little prick, the coward. Shit, worried about their jobs more than the country.

[SammyWinstonJack]

63. He mentioned Iran, sending a message to them and the World.

:shrug:

[bdamomma]

87. and the world knows we have our own dic- tator here.

we have a very big problem this man needs to be arrested, he is truly a threat to all of us.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

71. He acknowledged it and claimed he himself made the decision to bomb

the facilities, plus claimed it was supposed to be a message to Iran, among others in the ME.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

62. Dontcha just love how he talks about things being tough for the Murkin people like he had nothing to

do with it?

[demmiblue]

67. It boggles the mind!

[Ilsa]

66. Pursed lips and banging on the podium. He's a mess. nt

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

68. And that evil little hehehehe

[SammyWinstonJack]

69. Condescending and arrogant as usual.

[Ilsa]

85. Yeah, he believes he is better than everyone else and deserves to be treated better.

It's all over his behavior and body language, pushing others out of doorways, climbing on chairs like a primate, etc.

[SammyWinstonJack]

100. Low self esteem, don't you think? I think he feels inferior in the presence of most others.

[Ilsa]

111. Deep down, yeah. I think he tries to compensate emotionally

by acting like a bully, etc. He's a mental case, for sure.

If he wasn't such a bully, I would have asked my kids to befriend a little boy like that. But he is mean and self-centered. I wouldn't have wanted my kids to socialize with anyone like him.

[SammyWinstonJack]

119. Mean and self-centered and vindictive too. You're right, he is a mental case.

[bdamomma]

121. all the more reason why he is so defiant.

it's like he is trying to prove himself to someone hmmmm...like his father. He really does have a problem, I only wish the media was not in his backpocket, and tell everyone straight out what a sick SOB he really is. He is mentally unfit to hold office, we should get on the phones and say it, scream it out. HE IS MENTALLY UNFIT FOR THE OFFICE!!!

[SammyWinstonJack]

125. I'll bet at least some of those WH correspondents feel like yelling out, "Idiot!"

:evilgrin: Helen Thomas comes to mind.

[librechik]

70. Congress has left us without tools to protect us from terror (FISA)

[Ilsa]

74. More lies. Only the last changes to FISA expired, not the orginal protections.

He's always trying to sell shit and tell everyone it's chocolate mousse.

[demmiblue]

73. Strike two on that exclusive?!

What gets me even more is that several people laugh at the ass!

[L. Coyote]

75. If I had a magic wand, this press conference would be with Pres. Gore!

[demmiblue]

76. Me too!

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

77. Keeping the tax cuts will help the psychology of the country. You heard it here first.

[L. Coyote]

86. Screw the economic plight of the starving masses who need teeth for their bread and water.

The rich must be richer, and richer, and richer .....

[tishaLA]

79. omg get teh torches! Let's get Jimmy Carter!

[krabigirl]

80. How can you watch this? I just avoid this man whenever he's on TV. I bet his rating goes down again.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

84. We've been doing it for years, even back when the press would ask him how

did he manage to be such an awesome leader, overcoming the mean Democrats saying he wasn't all that.

At least now, he's getting some pseudo tough questions.

[bdamomma]

97. he loves being so UNPOPULAR

watch someone ask about Jenna's wedding, god, I hate this man, he needs to goooooooooooo!!!

[librechik]

81. Finally, time to INSINUATE the EVIL IRAN INFLUENCE into the mix--maybe not

[L. Coyote]

82. Liberty, it is all about Liberty, like black and white, forces against Liberty. LIAR!!

What a LIAR! Does he think we are this stupid??

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

88. Mr. Super Duper Diplomat says, "We gotta figure out why Hamas is lobbing rockets."

Yep, right on top of all the complexities.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

89. Yeah, respect the veterans, whatever, next question.

:mad:

[vanlassie]

91. "I'm Not Going To Interject Myself Into The Campaign."

"Unless I do, which I just did, heh heh heh." Whas an ass.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

94. Then he said "it's not fair" as if someone made him do it, delusional goof.

[bdamomma]

110. oh, he definitely has psychological and psychiatric issues.

it's not fair??? he comments,

how about all the troops he is killing? is that fair? or how many Americans are out of their homes? is that fair?

oh, let me stop now, I hate the man.

[vanlassie]

96. Horse's. Ass. nt

[vanlassie]

102. "One thing the government can do is make you more anxious or less."

MY government has done a good job of making you feel MORE anxious! Heh Heh Heh.

[bdamomma]

116. did he really say that??

he is definitely evil.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

92. He hopes the next president will resist the "temptation" to say "it's not worth it"

vis a vis the cluster fuck in the ME.

Yeah, don't give in to the temptation to quit slaughtering people for big oil. :mad:

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

93. Rambling aimlessly about liberty and peace and protectionism......

[Ilsa]

98. Shut-up and go get drunk Chucklenuts. nt

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

101. I'm sure he will right after this conference.

[bdamomma]

114. Probably he is already!!

pre medicated and ready to go to screw up some heads, he is such a frat boy!! Arrogant little shit.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

99. Right. We are all sooo afraid of those tax cuts going away. Murkans are afraid of their taxes going

up.

Right, we're shaking in our boots at the prospect. :eyes:

[SammyWinstonJack]

105. His base is. The haves and have mores certainly are.

[Ilsa]

103. He sure is using "anxious" alot. I guess that is his new word of the day.

Yeah, we're anxious about Numbnuts starting a war with Iran, robbing the American people, etc.

[librechik]

104. my husband, sitting next to me is screaming like he's being tortured

HOW CAN YOU LISTEN TO THIS ASSHOLE--

may have to change channel

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

108. lol! The torture is over. Tell your husband that he's a trooper!

[librechik]

124. saved by the bell!

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

106. More irony alert about "the people" getting their say in the Zimbabwe elections.

[demmiblue]

107. Enjoy what, asshole?

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

109. How are the markets looking now?

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

117. Answer here, piehole effect, again.

never mind, link failed. Anyway, as soon he started speaking the numbers started dropping.

[Norrin Radd]

113. Blame game.

Apparently, the buck stops...over there?

[SammyWinstonJack]

120. His whole pResidency has been a blame game. Starting with the recount in 2000.

[bdamomma]

122. is it over?

[krispos42]

123. Yeah, Pelosi stopped Big Oil from opening that new refinery a couple of months ago

She took her Flaming Sword of Greenness and personally chopped up the construction machinery just as it arrived on the scene to begin digging.

[L. Coyote]

128. Watching makes me think up new descriptions that would never otherwise enter

human consciousness. Lies really tick me off, and I realized,

Not only did this guy fall from the ass of the horse he rode in on, but someone put him in charge of the stable.

Horse-pucky in a word, albeit hyphenated!

[CBHagman]

129. Here's the new Presidential Seal.

(In case you're wondering, it's the "Not Me" character from the Family Circus comic strip.)