It seems strange to me that John McCain and the Republicans are attempting to campaign on the high price of energy by arguing that we should safeguard obscene profits for the energy companies and give them pristine coastline and wilderness to make even more obscene profits. Isn’t the normal reaction to getting raped by the utility companies and gas stations to want to rape back? I hope Obama learns to say, “They’re ripping you off.” Because that’s a much better appeal to emotion than some Young Republican undergrad appeal to the ironclad laws of supply and demand. No?
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Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
what’s so strange in that? they can try and do try whatever they think necessary to be (re)elected.
Obama’s “Big Oil Pocket TV” ad is up
I find McCain disgusting. He has no respect for his wife or women. (Via TPM)
I read that, and immediately thought of those supposed feminist Clinton supporters who are threatening to vote for McCain. Is that wrong?
Biker rallies are such great events to make an aging candidate seem presidential. Wonder why no one went there sooner.
His treatment of the first wife wasn’t a dead giveaway?
When people show you who they are, believe them.
Our fearless media, his base, is the last to get it.
Just imagine if Obama had said that about Michelle!
you think it would be aired for weeks ..like bitter?
…Obama addressed the crowds at the rough equivalent of say, Freaknic–can you imagine how the media would have been over that? You’d have gone deaf from the calls for him to condemn the raucous behavior of a small minority.
But oh no. You have John McSame at some biker rally and offering up his wife for a “beauty” contest. Just how presidential is that? Not to mention completely immoral.
Doesn’t matter–they are silent. So are the usually motormouth “religious right” figures who aren’t known for their silence.
Josh Marshall, TPM notes this item has some legs….um actually, bottom –less
They’re campaigning just as much, if not more, on the notion that those Dirty Fucking Hippies are putting environmentalist groups first and not letting us get at billions and trillions of barrels of oil because of caribou and dolphins and shit.
Oil prices haven’t gone up because of Bush, you see. Oil prices have gone up because of Democrats not letting us drill all over the goddamn place. After all the Dems are in charge of Congress, right?
Note how when Dems hold over a session, it’s a “Slumber Party.”
When the GOP does it, it’s heroic.
That is why I reiterate ExxonMobil’s continuing and recently announced record-breaking profits every chance that I get.
” Isn’t the normal reaction to getting raped by the utility companies and gas stations to want to rape back?”
Ummm. No.
The “normal” reaction is to hack the nuts off of the rapist with a rusty grapefruit spoon.
Then nail said nuts to the wall in a very public spot, as a warning to others.
Exactly. That grapefruit spoon is a nice touch.
Boo, if logic were a prerequisite to American politics, most people wouldn’t be allowed to vote, let alone run for office.
And the fact is that supply and demand apply just fine. The Republicans just don’t understand the concept of elasticity.
Nor do most Democrats, for that matter. I’ve read plenty of people at dKos bitching about gas prices, thinking the good ol’ days will come back. Unfortunately, the GOP doesn’t have a monopoly on moronic behavior.
You’re absolutely right, “They’re ripping you off” is an excellent thing for Obama to start saying.
Another one — swiped from Atrios this a.m. — would involve him being proactive about the fucking GOP fainting couch, and using the phrasing Atrios did: “They’re going to throw a hissy fit about XXXXXX.” Properly deployed, this could have prevented the troop visit smear, the smear of Wesley Clark, the “race card” smear, etc., etc.
And it has the (not so) subtle kind of gender-smear attached to give them some of that medicine; hit McCain with this kind of thing enough and he’s guaranteed to explode.
Anybody out there reading this blog?
…and dumb ones…take a gander at this:
Bob Schaffer’s Son thinks that “slavery gets shit done” and decided to post that on his Facebook page.
It also shows posters of Obama as a “Muslim,” that he’s gay, and a darling little “I respect that you’re a bit slutty” poster.
And the racist and blasphemous poster of Jesus with a rifle in front of a Confederate flag.
So. Racist? Check. Sexist? Check. Homophobic? Check. (Of course, we can ask why this junior member of Stormfront, U of Dayton chapter, is obsessing about other men’s sexuality…). Blasphemous? Check.
And his pampered ass has the nerve to whine about who doesn’t work? But of course he does.
As folks on TPM’s message board pointed out: Apples don’t fall far from the tree, nor do nuts.
By their fruit–and nuts–we shall know them.
I thought we were talking about the son of the host of Face the Nation for a moment.
With such stellar performances as those put on of late by CBS’s Bob Schieffer, the confusion is certainly understandable. He’s simply been a big whirling dervish of incomprehensible inanities lately.
LOL!
Seriously though, sorry for the confusion…that would be the sterling son of the Senate candidate. My apologies.
Of course, since the moron has such an affinity for the value of work and guns, he could pick up one and head for Iraq.
I won’t hold my breath.