Aug 25 2008
Nancy Pelosi is a Communist
Obama Chooses Biden
Joe Biden was the right choice for Obama. I liked him in the Democrat’s primary race. He lends experience and gravitas to the Obama ticket, while not overshadowing the top of the ticket (like Hillary would have done). Now that this is done and the hand wringing is over, it is clearly the right decision.
The question still remains, though: Can two waste-of-skin Democrat senators actually succeed at the top two executive positions of the biggest enterprise in the world? I’m still not convinced.
The Many Houses of McCain
You couldn’t turn on the news or radio this weekend without hearing the sound clip of McCain telling a reporter that he’d “Uhhh… have his staff get back to him” when the reporter asked how many houses McCain currently owns. The headline was quickly generated: “McCain Doesn’t Know How Many Houses He Owns!”
Truthfully, though, that’s not the case at all. It seems to me that a more likely scenario is that McCain didn’t want to say how many houses he owned. Clearly, a republican candidate for president bragging to a reporter about his investments in a time of economic downturn is a bad political move, and McCain could see that coming. It was in the way he stammered before dodging the question that he created a whole new problem for himself. I’m afraid such lapses and stammering might become standard fare for a 70+ year old candidate for president. So much for straight talk.
The truth is, knowing how many houses McCain owns doesn’t hurt him at all in this race. Why? Because that is the great American Dream (read: Myth), that everyone can be rich and own multiple residences! Why do you think raising taxes on the rich is so hard to do? Because everyone worries about the day when they too will become RICH! In this country, it is certainly no crime to be wealthy, and McCain is.
Nancy Pelosi is a Communist
Yesterday on Meet the Press, Tom Brokaw pressed Nancy Pelosi on the issue of energy, and how she now supports offshore drilling, which she had adamantly opposed weeks ago. Her justification? If we put offshore drilling on the table, we get to put a whole lot of other issues on the table, like tax breaks for oil companies, and even levying new taxes on oil companies for using the oil that “belongs to the American people.” She went on and on for 5 minutes talking about how these oil companies profit off of oil that “is the American people’s.”
Well, in case Nancy forgot, this country is based on ~240 years of PROPERTY OWNERSHIP, including mineral rights. In fact, property ownership is one of the most distinctly American things anyone can do in their life. There is no question that the framers were highly concerned with protecting the rights of private property owners - and oil and mineral rights are no exception. They don’t belong to the “American people” (read: government), they belong to individual Americans and companies who have made the investment in their future.
And for the record, your super-fake smile really bothers me…
August 25th, 2008 at 9:00 am
UPDATE: Clearly, land such as ANWR and NPR-A belong to the government, as they are federal lands. I wouldn’t mind the oil companies being charged HEFTY fees/leases to drill on these lands, and having stringent requirements for no-trace drilling. And yes, in this case those lease revenues would go to the government.
In my opinion, the revenue generated should get priority to be used in the National Parks system. Have you been to a National Park lately? They could use some dough… just sayin’.
August 25th, 2008 at 11:56 am
Think Jed Clampett…
August 25th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
She is a moron. I heard she was also trying to say that the Catholic church has never come out and said that abortion was wrong. Apparently she thinks what the Pope says does not qualify as doctrine. She needs to go.
August 25th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
She reminds me of Professor Umbridge, from Harry Potter. Kinda evil, not gonna lie…lol…
August 25th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
WOW!!!! 100% completely Professor Umbridge! Well done Karri.
August 25th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
Ah, Stretch Pelosi. She is also pushing wind farms replacing natural gas as a source of electricity. Then natural gas can replace some gasoline. I actually have no problem with the idea. It comes from T. Boone Pickens: http://www.thepickensplan.com. Pelosi has invested heavily in the Pickens Plan.
The one thing this depends on to be viable and attractive is high gas prices. Pelosi has lots of incentives to keep gas prices high, but she hides behind environmentalism.
August 25th, 2008 at 7:13 pm
Obama scares me. McCain scares me. And that woman’s questionable face lift scares me.
August 26th, 2008 at 11:20 am
Im lost for who I will vote for… With Hillary out of the race it’s just hard for me to decide. Obama is too Far left for me and McCain is too old school mentality. I certainly think Nancy Pelosi makes us democrats look bad at times. Her flip-flop on offshore drilling bothers me. The Republicans say ‘off shore drilling’ is the thing we need to do to bring gas prices down - sadly, it’s just a myth. Offshore drilling will be several years down the road before we see any gains from such an investment. We need solutions for now.
September 11th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
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September 29th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
I just realized myself Pelosi is Umbridge…yuck!! She pastes that smile on her face and wreaks havoc.