$3.50 Gas – Bad When the GOP Is in Charge…a Good Thing Under Obama…or Just a Political Football?
- Posted on February 26, 2012 at 4:59pm by
Mike Opelka
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The rising cost of fuel wreaks havoc on the economy and touches the wallet of almost every American, putting energy prices and America’s energy strategy front and center in the 2012 Presidential campaign.
In just the past year oil prices have spiked to new seasonal highs:
From gasbuddy.com
But this is really nothing new, as fuel prices have been part of the election debates for years.
When Nancy Pelosi led the Democrats in their takeover of the House in 2006, the price of a gallon of gasoline was around $2.30. With Democrats in charge on the hill gas prices continued to climb, whereby spring 2007 Speaker Pelosi was crowing about the cost of gas as it hit $3.00/gallon. In this clip she cites $3.05/gallon as “price gouging” and places blame squarely on the Bush Administration:
Just a year after the Speaker promised a “common sense” solution, gas was still on the rise and North Carolina Rep Virginia Fox went to the floor of the House and wondered what was the plan that Pelosi talked about? Fox examined “The Pelosi Premium:”
By the summer of 2008, gas prices had spike to over $3.50/gallon and the gas prices became a campaign issue for both Democrats and Republicans, as seen in an Obama ad from that summer:
In that ad, candidate Obama made three campaign promises concerning our nation’s energy. He promised to:
- Make oil companies pay a penalty on windfall profits.
- Invest $150 billion dollars (of your money) in alternative energy
- Create 5 million jobs (and free ourselves from foreign oil)
Let’s review those promises and their success or failure:
1. Windfall profits penalties are red meat at campaign stops, but rarely show any serious effect when considered in the real world.
2. Alternative energy funding? Solyndra, National Renewable Energy, Ener1 and a host of other failures highlight the folly of this plan.
3. Five million news jobs? According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, America has a net loss of more than 1.1 MILLION seasonally-adjusted, private sector jobs since Obama took office.
John McCain also saw the high cost of gas as a campaign issue and ran this ad:
While McCain was pushing the “Drill Baby, Drill” mantra, Obama was on the 2008 campaign trail in Wisconsin, where he slammed America’s “raggety” mass transit system while promoting his agenda for a high-speed rail system connecting Milwaukee, Chicago, Detroit and all the cities along the way. (There was no mention of any study showing considerable demand for a network that would connect those cities, just a promise to spend a lot of money to build it.)
Also from 2008, candidate Obama addressed the high price of gasoline while speaking on CNBC, seeming to support the concept of higher energy prices as a good thing… He would have preferred that the cost elevation would have been managed better and not been such a shock to the consumer:
Last April as oil prices spiked again, the President lectured a man in the audience about his low-milage SUV, suggesting that the father of 10 get “a hybrid van.” At the end of the clip, President Obama tells the man to “get a trade in.”
When it comes to fuel efficiency, Obama’s Presidential limo (The Beast) is the subject of much speculation. The green-centric folks at Treehugger.org seem to think that the massive, armored limo gets single-digit gas mileage and they wondered why it was not a hybrid?
The Beast (it is not a hybrid)
In a shift from his 2008 campaign promises, Mr. Obama seems to have stopped demonizing the oil companies. In this video from last April, the President presents a three-pronged plan to lower energy costs and it all starts with INCREASING oil production.
About the time Obama was pushing hybrid SUVs and electric cars, Romney was campaigning and talking about slowing down specualtors by increasing production.
Newt Gingrich sees lower energy costs as an issue that would help his flagging campaign and this week he appeared on Fox News telling Greta Van Sustern the details of his plan to drive oil prices back down under $3.00 and closer to the $2.00 mark not seen since April of 2008.
We expect politicians to try and spin the rising cost of fuel to fit their various agendas, but the most surprising interpretation of the spike in the cost of fuel came to us courtesy of CBS News from back in 2008 when the Early Show aired a segment explaining why high gas prices can sometimes be “a good thing.”
Based on that report, high gas prices in America are a panacea for so many problems;
- Solving the obesity problem
- Saving billions in healthcare costs
- Preventing the deaths of 1000 people a month
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Comments (154)
CaseyattheBat
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 6:33pmAt what point do the lies and manipulation become Treason?
Report Post »It is time for Barrack to retire because we are tired.
ChiefGeorge
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 7:41pmOur OPEC friends agreed in 73 to take a portion of the profits from the sale of Crude in US Dollars and purchase our US Treasury notes. This formula gets upset when some decide to take it upon themselves and sell their crude in anything but US dollars which is the agreed to currency by the OPEC members to sell oil in. You must have exchange your countries currency for US dollars (banks get a profit here) and go to the OPEC countries to get your crude. Iran is the newest country trying to overturn this contract thus upsetting the whole scheme. If no purchases of US Treasury bonds occurs, then the price of gasoline must increase to offset the loss of that profit. No one is loaning the US any money right now so it is absolutely critical that this scheme stay up and running. This is why War for this reason alone will happen. Saddam tried going off the dollar, hes gone, Libya as well now Iran. Russia and China know this and are purchasing from Iran directly to support their own schemes and bank against the US hold on as the worlds reserve currency. The house of cards is about to collapse.
Report Post »WatchingAmericaDie
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 8:19pmYou’re right. Many things Obama has done are treasonous. The guy is a piece of garbage and he needs to be thrown in the dumpster where garbage belongs.
Report Post »lynskinners
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 12:25amWhat’s all this $2.50 a gallon BS? Sounds like the elite picking a “price” the idiot masses will be willing to pay. That’s just total Bull!!! If America opened up ALL its oil resources the price would drop closer to $1.00 to $1.50. We’re being suckered again by the elites in Washington. Setting us up for $2.50 – $3.50 a gallon as the norm. The government makes far to much money in taxes when gas is high. It’s like crack to them! They have tasted the good stuff and they ain’t getting off it anytime soon. Not without a total intervention and sweep of EVERY single politician in Washington. They ALL need to go NOW!!! We are being played big-time. Wake up people before it’s too late.
Report Post »WeDontNeedNoSteenkinBadges12
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 12:33am“$3.50 Gas – Bad When the GOP Is in Charge…a Good Thing Under Obama”
Seriously, you people gotta stop voting ******* (Kenyan born or otherwise) into office when you can’t find a decent black American (that is, if you’re looking to vote “color” … hmmm … that would be racist … yes?).
Report Post »WeDontNeedNoSteenkinBadges12
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 12:36amOops. Typo on “******”. It should have been “nígger”. My bad (and TheBlaze’s bad, too).
Report Post »Vechorik
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 10:01amRASMUSSEN POLL: Obama Approval at 45%, Lowest in Month—President Falls Behind Romney and Paul…
Romney 45% Obama 43%…
Paul 43% Obama 41%
Obama 45% Santorum 43%
Obama 49% Gingrich 39%… Developing…
It’s on DRUDGE :-) http://m.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll
Report Post »SamIamTwo
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 11:46amObama is laughing all the way to the bank…do you know how much revenue the FEDs are now taking in? It changed aka increased back in Feb 2011…
We have been here before folks and an honest politician will say it’s good for the feds but bad for the little people.
It’s an old tactic to allow fuel prices to sky…everything else skies and the fed / state pull in more bucks…The DEMS know how to take ya to the cleaners.
Report Post »83plus
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 1:04pmThe president and his friends want to work on lowering the gas prices just as bad as they want to cut the deficit.
Report Post »Archstone
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 6:31pm“Under my plan energy prices will necessarily skyrocket.” – Barack Hussein Obama, January 2008.
And he seemed quite proud of it. I hope the Republican running against him uses the video clip in their campaign ads against him
Report Post »BarackStalin
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 6:44pmJust one more result of our country’s transfer FROM WE THE PEOPLE
TO THE PLUTOCRATS AND CORPORATIONS
Obamas biggest campaign contributor is Goldman Sachs…Romney’s biggest campaign contributor is Goldman Sachs
WE LIVE IN AN OLIGARCHY…they win we lose
Report Post »Bigolfascist
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 12:36amYeah, right. Someone is running against him?? Pass the KY Jelly; it’s gonna be an even longer four years. Wonder if Kim Jong-un will become our Secretary of State in Barry’s second term?
Report Post »Outlaw_Josey_Wales
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 6:25pmWe have a algae shortage after Nancy Pelosi drained the swamp.
Report Post »I.Gaspar
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 7:55pmShe could always donate her underwear to the cause if algae is needed.
Report Post »Smith523
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 6:20pmThe truly sad thing is that we have oil, a lot of it but we aren’t drilling. And you know why? Because this jackwad of a president gave a lot of money to these corporations to develop green energy and hybrid cars (the Volt) and they are failing because there is no demand for that technology and for him to appease his base the gas price must go up so that people will buy start buying things like the Volt. Funny how Bush started drilling and gas prices went down and this idiot says that drilling is not the answer….then what is? Buying oil from Brazil? Hugo Chavez? FREAKING A WINDMILL? Glenn Beck is right …hard times are coming soon…be prepared. Look what happened the last time gas went over $4.50 do you think our economy can survive that again?
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 7:45pmThe real reason is above. We get a profit from the sale of crude in US dollars from the OPEC nations as per the Kissinger OPEC agreements of 73. Their is no easy profit motive from doing it here in the US as opposed to the current scheme in place. All nations must exchange their currencies for what? US Dollars to buy what? Crude oil from the OPEC nations. We get the kick back through investments in our treasury notes. If we lose as the worlds reserve currency then our cash becomes trash.
Report Post »WatchingAmericaDie
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 8:22pmThe Fed will simply continue to print money as was done in the 1970s and then $5 gasoline won’t seem so bad.
Report Post »Winedude
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 11:28pmIN 2011 the United States was a new EXPORTER of crude oil. We are part of a global market and don’t have the refinery capacity at home to produce any more gasoline. When the refinery in Washington State caught fire a month or so ago, the writing was on the wall for this year’s gasoline price run-up. For what it’s worth, when there has been a runup, the average peak price is 92 cents higher than the price of gasoline the previous Christmas. Obama can’t fix it, Neither Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney nor Ron Paul can fix it, and Newt Gingrich absolutely can’t fix it. Again, speculators are a major factor, as they were in the 2008 price run-up.
Report Post »nolefan2
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 6:20pmThe Dems screamed at Bush when gas prices rose under his administration, but it‘s perfectly okay to happen under Duh One’s watch. They simply continue to try and blame Bush. If we can’t get rid of O when the country is going down the crapper now, we’ll never be rid of him. His followers are blinded by his presence. You can’t fix stupid.
Report Post »IMAWAKENOW
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 3:33amI’m going to disagree. I don’t care how biased the media is in his favor, if the price of gas hits $6. a gallon it will wake up the useful idiots that tend not to care about politics. Play his own words about his plan to raise the price of gas about a million times and hang it around his neck like an albitross.
Report Post »pitamoncha
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 6:20pmWatch how right before the election Obama will manipulate some domestic policies to lower the price of petroleum. Just enough to get the vote. 300 years of energy and it sickens me that we shoot ourselves in the foot. We need to make noise and make politicians understand that it is vital for us to stop depending on ther nations. Drill baby drill should be every US taxpayer’s mantra.
Report Post »sb36695
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 6:33pmObama wants energy to “necessarily skyrocket”. Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. If Obama is reelected, this country is too far gone to save with politics.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 6:17pmNOW… the NEWS MEDIA can be seen for it’s EVIL: CONSERVATIVES are Bad if Gas is High; LIBERALS are Good if Gas is High!
Report Post »seeker9
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 6:14pmBHO will tap the SPR (stragecic petroleum reserve). Will be interesting to see how much affect it will have with the Middle East unrest. Bought UGA (US gasoline fund) to protect myself from gas prices.
Report Post »oldguy49
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 6:21pmin 2008 in an interview he admitted under his plan energy cost would skyrocket…….
Report Post »Fear The Voices
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 6:28pmThis will have little to no real effect on prices, and for a very short duration if they do impact prices; but it will make him look good in the eyes of the mindless idiots who’ll vote for him.
As one former industry employee commented the other day, there would likely be an almost immediate drop in price if the Resident just signed off on the EPA numerous ‘special’ blends of gasoline for the various regions of the country and just allowed them to produce one blend for the entire nation. However, this would fly in the face of his radical agenda and the crackpot appointees and their environ‘mental’ extremist ideology.
Report Post »seeker9
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 7:46pmThe lefties say Keystone pipline wouldn’t make a difference. But the tapping of the reserve would?
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 6:13pmWonder what they will say when it’s 8-10.00 this summer?
Report Post »This is just the beginning. We have not seen anything yet. Fasten your seatbelts. Its about to get real bumpy. Like nothing we have ever seen before.
doomytram
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 7:24pmWait up, what? The commie networks are saying that high gas prices are a good thing now? Really? The Commie Oblamer networks are such a joke. Yes, it’s wonderful under Oblamer, thank goodness gas prices are 5-6 dollars per gallon now, and how much more stimulative it will be this summer when prices are 8-9 amero’s per gallon. Oblamer has helped the poor so much! Wow!
Report Post »brickmoon
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 6:10pmIt’s funny how, to some, gas price spikes are just cyclical, a “good thing,” having nothing to do with oil drilling, and nothing that a little algae or subsidized solar power industry can’t cure — but a one-degree rise in average global temperature over a period of a century can only portend a runaway, man-made climate Armageddon.
Report Post »aChameleon
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 6:10pmThe high gas prices are because Bush is in bed with Big-Oil.
Report Post »kentuckypatriot
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 7:03pmwhat the hell does Bush have to do with this topic? Unless you are trying to be sarcastic, and it ain‘t workin’, you sound like a moron.
Report Post »ProudAmericanConservative.Com
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 7:53pmYea and it has nothing to do with Iran getting the Bomb and arrogant about it… Now they are cutting off access to shipping lanes (Where our oil comes to the U.S.A.) and threatening war with Isreal! Oh No it couldn’t be that?!?!?!
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 8:30pmYou signed up Feb 16 ?!?!?!?
Report Post »That kind of comment is SILLY………….
patspeak
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 6:00pmWe have plenty of oil and natural gas in America. My mantra is still “Drill Baby Drill”! Get the hell out of the way Green Energy! You are a complete failure along with all other Washington DC knows best government subsisized policies. Leave it to private industry… the ones that know how to do it, and do it right!
Report Post »pitamoncha
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 6:15pmEveryone, watch how Obama will use this to quell the gas prices for a little bit right before the election!
Report Post »Cartwheels
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 9:34pmlike that, I need a bumper sticker that says “Get the hell out of the way green energy!”
Report Post »cuinsong
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 5:59pmJust the begining of “The End Times” http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_10381143
Report Post »Micmac
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 5:56pmGas in LALALand is aready above $5.00 at some stations. This is a huge boon for the Repubs if they knew what to do with it.
NoBama 2012
Report Post »TSUNAMI-22
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 6:10pmI’m hoping for $10 by November.
In the mean time I using my disposable income to buy and target practice on Korans. Then I’m sending them through the mail to prominent Muslims. The White House got the first one.
Report Post »mbriz
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 6:22pmTSUNAMI-22, that kind of stupid talk gets soldiers killed.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 6:28pmTSUNAMI:
Report Post »You made me smile.
chips1
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 6:31pmMBRIZ:
Report Post »Obama and Hillery talk gets soldiers killed.
TSUNAMI-22
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 6:49pm@ mbriz
I think Korans should be used as chum to lure-in these stone-age twits.
I’ll take it one step further….the next a-hole that gets caught lighting an American flag on fire gets wasted by a sniper bullet. I mean, after all, the sniper is just expressing an opinion as well, right?
Freedom of speech doesn’t just apply to pacifists.
Pick a side.
Report Post »Homeschoolmama
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 7:01pm@ Tsunami- you might one to save a few to burn for heat when this country collapses.
Report Post »TSUNAMI-22
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 7:15pm@ Homeschoolmama
@ Tsunami- you might one to save a few to burn for heat when this country collapses.
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A few pages for kindling will suffice. It’s time this country starts to play for keeps, otherwise we’re finished with a capital F.
Boy Scout motto “always be prepared” comes to mind.
Report Post »Rayblue
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 7:48pmI hear korans smell just like a burning “audacity of hope” when lit up.
Report Post »Same ink I suppose.
ChiefGeorge
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 7:49pmIf your have gas prices at lets say 6.50 around Sep/Oct and then by late Oct the president manages to get prices back down to where we are right now, you’d go Thats just dandy by me and vote for the guy once again. Classic bait and switch or the Overton window.
Report Post »TSUNAMI-22
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 8:49pm@ ChiefGeorge
If your have gas prices at lets say 6.50 around Sep/Oct and then by late Oct the president manages to get prices back down to where we are right now, you’d go Thats just dandy by me and vote for the guy once again. Classic bait and switch or the Overton window.
Report Post »~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
You’re right, except people are paying attention now and they see through Obama’s method of deception.
AxelPhantom
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 10:37pmIf he waits ’till September or October to start lowering the price it won’t work.
The rest of the economy will have tanked too badly to reverse it. If you are barely making ends meet and now just to get to work (assuming you still have a job), you are spending an extra 50-$100 a month where are you going to cut?
If you haven’t done it already, the cable goes, the internet goes, the newspapers go…the last taste of Obama you will have in your mouth will be that of the guy who forced you to live in the 1930′s just so you could afford to get to work, who you going to vote for?
Report Post »Bill Rowland
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 7:34amTsunami you are mistaken if you think the average guy in the street is aware of anything except the high price of gas. They don’t even realize that most of the things they buy at the grocery store or the department store are transported by truck. The trucker pays $3.75 for diesel and he has to charge more per mile to transport those goods. The department/grocery store adds the extra transport cost to the price of the goods.. High fuel costs = higher costs on everything we use.
The republicans have to use this in their campaign against Obumbler and his Tsars.
OMG
Report Post »TSUNAMI-22
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 12:21pm@ Bill Rowland
Tsunami you are mistaken if you think the average guy in the street is aware of anything except the high price of gas.
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I have to disagree with you on that point. I have people asking me “what the heck is going on”. They are asking because they are starting to see the correlation between the Obama regime and their quality of life beginning to decay at an alarming rate.
The see that “something” is going on, and the public simply “asking” is a positive sign (to me).
Report Post »TexBork
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 5:51pmWell, why shouldn’t democrats celebrate crushingly high gas prices. It‘s what they’ve been dreaming of and what Obama promised his policies would punish this nation with by design. They’ve succeeded on delivering on that. They should point out that they have kept the promise to make that a reality for our nation. I give them full credit for making that happen as promised by them and pointed out by their opponents as promised by the lefts own agenda. The socialists have been delivering on their threats and political leverage to take the nation down with their agenda. Should we go for another 4 years of this or not? I don‘t think it’s a good idea at all to continue chasing Marxism and the destruction of the western way of life, so I won’t be voting for anyone who continues to side with Obama, Marx, Che, Lenin, Chavez, nor any progressive lurch to the left from any party.
Report Post »Unc68
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 5:58pmThanks TB, I thought I was the only one reminding people that Obama was keeping his campaign promise to destroy America by higher energy costs.
Report Post »That should be his TV ad. We need to form a Superpac and put ads out touting the kept promise and promtoing another 4 or 6 years of this. I am not sure how long he thinks his terms last.
Fear The Voices
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 6:21pmIt’s just another way he can grow his voting base. The higher the gas prices, the higher the food prices become, the more people who need assistance to feed their family while they wonder how much longer they’ll have a job. Once hooked on government, their promoted lies against real hope and change will lead these new found dependents to vote to keep them in power and the ever increasing benefits the party of dependency promotes.
Report Post »We’re at the tipping point, it cannot be much longer before this country collapses; just as the Resident and his handler (george sorass) wants.
Just look at the support this regime has lent to the enemies of the US and our allies…. Arab spring is a hoax; it’s the radical islam takover of more countries, and nothing less. All these activities have been leading the current Middle East tensions which have been driving petroleum cost upward and our economy downward.
girlnurse
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 5:49pm$4.10 at my house this morning (Ca.)…..some of the stations like Shell are $4.25!
Report Post »Mikev5
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 6:46pmThat’s because of the high and heavy Gas tax’s in California I know I lived their till of late the Gas tax in CA is crazy high don’t you read the signs on the pump it stats it in bug letters.
It’s called extortion and thievery in my book or California corruption by the politicians.
Report Post »Mikev5
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 6:52pmIf you live in California and own a car you get punished by multiple taxes’ gas tax smog fees smog tests road tax’s high auto insurance massive fees for everything under the sun its disgusting.
Report Post »Homeschoolmama
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 7:05pm$4.19 in my part of CA and that is a $0.60 increase in about 2 weeks.
Report Post »kentuckypatriot
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 7:06pmSorry you have to feel the pain in CA. It’s $3.69 here, and climbing…
Report Post »RBSWORLD
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 1:21amWhy in God’s name would anyone want to stay in the stateof Californication??
Report Post »Razorhunters
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 5:43pmconvert to “ propane and propane accessories ” …
Report Post »from $100 to $1000 depends on vehicle and who does it.
TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 5:39pmIf high gas prices were to help remove the jerk poser from the People’s House, I am happy to invest.
Report Post »hatchetjob
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 5:42pmMe too TRON, I need to buy a gas guzzler!
Report Post »Steelhead
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 5:54pmtran- high gas prices means a higher soc security COLA- when the gas prices went up under Shrub about 4-5 years ago soc. sec. recipients got over a 5% raise that year instead of the usual 1-2% a year increase. Careful what you wish for
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 6:07pmSteelhead the PINHEAH spreading liberal and obamas BS
Report Post »Steelhead
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 6:09pmajax- look it up
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 6:26pmSteelhead
Report Post »COLA is a adjustment account of the cost of living – if the the gas prices goes up these people don’t have more in there pocket because of the adjustment – the percentage never covers the real cost it just helps with what they have to pay out to live. They darn sure not being able to bank it, they have to spend it to live.
Steelhead
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 6:54pmajar- keep digging you are getting closer,shame on you for calling me a liar
Report Post »Steelhead
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 7:09pmred -is your motto ‘better red than dead’ , a kegger cup is no way to go through life son
Report Post »I.Gaspar
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 7:58pmTron,
Report Post »I’d bet anything that if steelhead has children….they tell people they are orphans.
Gonzo
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 10:06amSteelhead, now you’re all about protecting S.S. but when Obama wants another year of the payroll tax cut, you’re for that too? Must be hard remembering all the twists and turns you have to make to support Obama.
Report Post »cookcountypatriot
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 5:25pmseems like the only thing the progressives can do is lay blame…this would never work if they didnt have the lemmings in the press covering for them..anti american pigs….thank god for fox and talk radio…3.50 a gal is nothinmg..its going up more and thank god…finally we can rid ourselves of these dem rats…they stink
Report Post »Steelhead
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 5:43pmTalk radio is the opiate for the Republican party-they got to have it daily and with out it they are completely lost
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 6:12pmPINHEAD you get your talking points every day from the democrate liberals otherwise you couldn’t post. You can’t think for yourself they do your thinking for you – sad your brain washed- you might have made something of yourself other than obamas coolaid drinking water boy
Report Post »TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 6:19pmBeing in radio and fusing talk with music; I find it refreshing to converse with guests on both sides of the aisle; however, most of my guests are conservative types like Malkin, Ingraham, Levin, Limbaugh, Goldberg and others. I have very few libs on because they rarely wish to converse with a conservative. I’m sure they are worried they would lose arguments that were based on fact. And that is what I like about Levin, Limbaugh. They bring facts to the airwaves, not squishy, sugar-sweet, emotion that the pathetic Obama bootlickers tend to do. My show is small potatoes, but the big kids come on with me cuz they like to spread the good words of conservatism. God bless Conservative Talk Radio! And He is. {:
Report Post »TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 6:20pmBeautiful post!
Report Post »mbriz
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 6:26pmthat all the becky clones do here is lay blame, are you serious? This is the dumbest, most hateful group, right or left, I’ve come across in a long time.
Report Post »Steelhead
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 6:35pmajax tran-talk radio, conservative style, is like listening to a bunch of cackling hens and roosters worried that the sky is falling
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 8:32pmRush is gonna have a field day tommorow. Here’s hoping Barry has a BAD CASE OF GAS Just think on the TALK RADIO Stars on the LEFT
Chrissy Matthews, Ed Schultz, Mr Maddow, Martin Bashir,
Report Post »RBSWORLD
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 1:29amPlease don’t be so disrespectful to your Creator by not Capitalizing His name. That would be God!
Report Post »KidCharlemagne
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 5:22pmAs long as the U.S. dollar is linked to the price of a barrel of crude oil, then there’s absolutely no way for the U.S. to become “energy independent”:
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Report Post »“Of particular concern among many American politicians, academics, and pundits is America’s dependence on foreign oil. Many economists feel that the recent rise in oil prices is at least partially tied to the fall of the US dollar relative to most currencies. Since oil is priced in dollars, sellers have increased prices to compensate for the purchase of their product with a less valuable currency.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrodollar_warfare
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Posted on February 26, 2012 at 6:15pmgoobert
Report Post »Obama said in the past that he had no problem with high gas prices-
RBSWORLD
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 1:40amYou hit it right on the head. The printing press has been running at an all time rate with nothing backing up the currancy. Soon it won’t be worth the ink it takes to print it. “ANOTHER GOAL OF 0BAMA/SCROTIS’ PLAN TO BREAK THE USA!!
Report Post »goobert
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 5:16pmThanks for finally pointing this out. Its so lame when rhino republicans blame Obama for high gas prices when its the federal reserve that is at fault for printing money and inflating the currency.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wSSl0gi1uQ
Report Post »ModerationIsBest
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 5:15pmWait, you’re telling me politicians are lying, hypocritical, promise breaking machines??!?! I refuse to believe it!
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 5:21pmLying politicians?? Say it ain’t so, Joe!
Report Post »RBSWORLD
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 1:46amALL i CAN SAY IS “YOU LIE” you POTUS POS.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 5:15pmI wonder how the voters will like $4 or $5 … if Obama can keep it that “low”. ;-) Energy is something that effects EVERYTHING and everyone .. try and spin it Dems — people will see the lies at the gas pump, supermarket, buying school clothes for the kiddies.
Report Post »mbriz
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 6:29pmThe President has very little to do with gas prices. I know intellect is in short supply here, but do some research. Tell Israel to shut their mouths, and watch gas prices go down.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 8:24pmIsrael Who?? Israel Boone? Israel Putnam? Briz , you are truly a dope. We all know that only Republican Presidents are responsible foe ALL the USA’s problems. DEMOCRAT presidents are just victims of Republican Congresses whether they are a majority or minority. And those Jews,, those evil Jews.
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 5:12pmIt’s like this, even if Democrats have the majority in Congress and Democrats have the White House, and it still the fault of Republicans when the gas goes up in price. The Republican Party is and has been suicidal; they cut their own throats when they let FDR do what he did, and they finished themselves off when LBJ brought about the Great Society, and the nail was beat into the country and the Republican Party when the Community Reinvestment Act came about furthered by Bill Clinton, and all the legislation that rewarded industry by leaving the U.S.
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 5:15pmThat‘s what happens when you’re more worried about money and lavish life styles than your own country and peoples.
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 5:17pmThere is no fix when you forget your line by lines and precept after precepts.
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 5:22pmHow are you going to save a nation whereby nearly all the females in it disregard that their job is to raise up their sons to the father and therefore that’s what they search for in a husband, and a nation where half of the women 30 years and under are having children out of wedlock. The base of the nation will be completely unstable and chaotic, and will shake the entire top to the ground.
Report Post »ThankBabyJesus
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 5:06pmSomething is fishy.
Report Post »hatchetjob
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 5:38pmYou’re right, and it stinks on ice.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 8:30amI don’t really think gas costs twice as much as it did when he took office. I think the dollar is worth half of what it was when he took office. Oil is bought and sold on the world market and it’s a clear indication of how far the dollar has fallen in value. You can’t inflate the currency by printing trillions and not expect to notice a difference. Not even the Republicans are talking about that aspect of it.
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