Her religious beliefs are the basis of that statement, along with her record in Alaska; she didn't really stand up to big oil.George Schilling wrote:Bob Beamesderfer wrote:The other thing Moose Lady would do is ensure the current executive branch's anti-science and pro-big oil policies.
Wonderful left wing talking points, unfortunately no basis in fact.
Of course they won't drill for $75 a barrel oil when it costs $75.50 to get out of the ground or ocean bed, which is why the off shore drilling won't happen ASAP, it will happen when oil reaches a natural, non-speculation driven oil price.Sure, drilling off shore and in the ANWR can be approved, but does that mean the oil companies will actually do it? Probably not until prices go back up. If they're not going to drill on the 60 million acres of leases they hold now, why would they spend a huge amount of money on off-shore platforms?
Certainly you're smarter than this Bob. The ONLY place an oil company will and should drill is where there is a chance of making a decent profit. Of course that never enters the mind of lefties.
No, George, it is a fact that Bush did this. I know a specialist in communicable diseases who works on CDC projects, and the Bush Admin did this. A pentacostal, anti-abortion Palin, whether VP or POTUS, along with the neo cons who will be there because they run GOP, will continue this kind of anti-science policy. 100 Nancy Reagans won't be able to convince them that stem cell research needs to be expanded for the good mankind.The current administration forced the CDC to delete all language having to do with condoms as a means of preventing HIV disease. It was part of the abstinence-only policy. That kind of moralistic, anti-science stance is exactly what can be expected from President Palin, and very likely if she's only Veep.
More lefty talking points. Unfortunately, neither McCain or Palin are Bush.
George, I wrote that to point out that I'm not some elitist. Nor am I particularly angry, although it would be nice to see mid- and upper management actually pay the price for screwing up instead of just laying off those who do real income-producing work. These people are PAID to know better than to do what they did. When boards of directors kick them out, they leave with large bonuses that reward their failure. Capitalism is supposed to reward success and weed out failure, but corporate America only wants the parts of capitalism that favor them and directors and officers look only at earnings, which is good but needs to be more than quarterly view, and how they can line their pockets. They have no loyalty to their employees, and worse no loyalty to this country's economic well being.You've just summed up the difference between conservatives and lefties. The average lefty is angry. They feel they have been victimized and left out. I felt that way when affirmative action was implemented and my dream of being a union laborer after graduating high school was squashed. But I regrouped, and after paying my dues, I established a small but successful company. Your an intelligent guy. If you want to make more money, change your occupation. Start your own business. The only system in the world that allows someone like myself to emerge from poor beginnings to a relatively comfortable lifestyle is capitalism. Obama wants to destroy that. The result is everyone will be poor. It can happen faster than you than you think if we allow democrats to dominate government. I don't defend the Bush years, but I don't let that cloud the obvious fact that a democratic congress and a democratic president would be far more destructive.There are reports that she is doing her own maverick thing by resisting the control her McCain-chosen handlers are trying to impose. She's unhappy that the campaign went out and spent big dollars on high-end retail clothing without telling her, and now it becomes public through campaign spending documents and it looks bad. Some might say elitist. Even when I made a good salary, I couldn't afford to shop at Saks or Neiman-Marcus. And obviously because I believe in decent wages, a BASIC health care system that moves un- and under-insured out of emergency rooms for non-emergency care and into some kind of public or private family practice setting, I'm an elitist. Then there's my public school education, the student loans I got to go to a state university. If I'd known about those legacy admissions to Ivy League schools like W got, I might have tried going to Yale, but my dad, who graduated from the Divinity school, laughed when I brought it up.
Of course, before I went to that state university I worked such elite jobs as shipping clerk and warehouseman. After graduation, my status as an elitist led me to a job at two weekly newspapers make less than I made before college. Then I worked at a startup weekly that folded faster than the ink dried. That led to my prestigious temp position working as a construction site day laborer, sweeping floors when I wasn't pressed into doing what should have been done by higher-paid skilled workers, albeit those at the apprentice level.I also got to work for free for my ex-father-in-law's roofing company. Great gig to have in Phoenix in the summer. }:)
Just as soon as I get a job, that will mostly like pay 20-25% less than I made three years ago, I'll be sure to lord that over all the gee-shucks conservatives.
I did change my occupation. Inept managers failed to take VERY basic and WELL KNOWN steps when launching a new Web site. A year later, they can't sell ads because the site isn't even in the top 100 visited in its segment.
I plan on launching my own site, and you can be damn sure I won't make the mistakes they made.
The last portion is just more righty talking points. The same crap that was dredged up in 1992. The neo cons owe a debt of gratitude to Bill Clinton. Without him, Ann Coulter and Michelle Malkin wouldn't have their careers.
