Democrats and ecowackos are responsible for high gas according to Blunt

[leftyladyfrommo]

according to Roy Blunt(wouldn't you know it and he's from Missouri).

These guys must be getting really desperate.

This story is over on Raw Story.

This is such total bullshit. I'm goint to try and get a link.

www.rawstory.com/news/2006/GOP_whip_blunt_says_Democrats_radical_0425.html

[LSparkle]

1. Yep, KKKarl got the talking points out to everyone

First Blackburn and now Blunt. They're all singing from the same hymn sheet. BullSHEET!

[leftyladyfrommo]

7. Where is Blackburn's stuff?

This all news to me today.

What utter bullshit. Like who is going to believe this shit?

The absolute stupidity of these people is so galling.

[LSparkle]

23. She was on the House floor today saying the same thing

Maybe in the C-Span archives.

[Avalux]

2. That is the *official* RW talking point.

I've heard it parroted by several pukes last night and today. Their twisted logic says that the problems we have now with oil were started a long time ago by the environmentalists who control the EPA and OSHA; and Democrats who have supported them. Fuel prices are high because of them and their lousy protectionism. :eyes:

[wryter2000]

3. It's Clinton's fault n/t

n/t

[maveric]

28. I actually heard that on another board.

Clinton should have initiated an Ethanol program but didnt due to his getting BJs from staffers.
GWB was too busy with the War on Terror and protecting our freedom.
Its ALL Clintons fault!

[wryter2000]

29. LOL

"Lessee...I can find an alternative fuel and save Americans billions of dollars over the next decades, or I can have a blow job. That's a toughy. Lemme think...BJ!"

[rkc3]

4. IIRC, oil refiners closed a good number of facilities in the 90's in an

effort to improve profits. Environmentalists had little to do with these closures.

Even conservatives, however, wouldn't want a refinery to be built within a 100 miles of their homes. So the argument that liberals or ecowackos are stopping new refineries from being built is a load of horseshit.

[sandnsea]

18. And, expanded existing refineries

They're the ones who adopted the "just in time" Japanese production model, they don't want excess refineries for emergencies.

Still, there's no refinery problem in this country. The problem is $70 barrel oil.

[Ganja Ninja]

5. That seems to be todays talking point.

Refresh my memory, were gas prices ever more than $2.00 a gallon under Bill Clinton?

[GDAEx2]

6. They're tryining to rationalize gutting environmental law

eom

[mtnester]

14. This exact scenario has been the oilman's wet dream for decades

and so it has arrived. Environmental laws scrapped with a sentence, oil refinery permit process literally done away with, expanding oil speculation to EVERYWHERE, and speeding up the destruction of the last of the great wildernesses in Alaska placed on the super duper fast track. THAT'S the ticket (said in traditional Jon Lovitt style)

No damn mention about infrastructure at all....nada...zip...public transit? What in the hell is that? (said the way Steve Martin and Bill Murray did it on SNL)

We don't need no steenkin public/massive transit.

[leftyladyfrommo]

17. Nightmare stuff for me.

I just hate this shit.

[mtnester]

8. I am telling everyone here, and you all better mark it down...

I am SICK unto death of the shit the Republicans try to hand you as shinola.

Henceforth, from this point forth until we get these moroons out of office, and for the next 10 years, EVERYTHING, and I mean EVERY fart, windstorm, shitfight, gas shortage, food shortage, water shortage, global warming incident, bad movie, bad haircut, bad joke, natural disaster, political fiasco, bad marriage, bad joke, wounded animal, car accident and burnt meal MUST BE BLAMED ON BUSH.

It's Bush's fault...say it with me kiddies, get used to it flowing off your tongue...IT IS BUSH'S FAULT.

Embrace it...let it become yours...

IT'S BUSH'S FAULT

[The2ndWheel]

10. Solving just as much

as the Republicans in the process.

[mtnester]

15. It works for them, so let's make it work for us.

So while they fight that distraction, we can FIX this country.

[sandnsea]

19. No, we need to transfer it to Republicans

We need an ad campaign. 25 years of being rammed up the ass, how many more times are you going to believe the new batch of Republicans are going to be different.

Sorry to gay friends if this is offensive, but I couldn't think of anything to make the point as effectively.

[The2ndWheel]

9. I wish ecowackos had that much pull, nt

[leftyladyfrommo]

11. Boy, me too.

[NI4NI]

30. Sure they do!

Didn't you know that it was only the enviormental whackos who were all part of little Dickie Cheney's secret energy policy meetings in 2001. LOL!

[newportdadde]

12. Whats with the Missouri comment?

Our state flips back and forth from blue to red regularly, Clinton won here twice etc. If anything we are a good barometer for the country neither side dominates for long.

Right now we are right especially in state gov but I expect that to change this fall.

[leftyladyfrommo]

16. Just because it's Blunt saying something so stupid.

I can diss my own state. It's allowed. We are the ones who tried to make Christianity the State Religion for God's sake. How embarrassing was that?

[newportdadde]

26. Hey and we got his son for our govenor too!

I missed that I was listening to the pain of a fellow Missourian :toast:

[leftyladyfrommo]

34. Our governor is just just pathetic.

I think our whole state government is just kind of pathetic.

[ComerPerro]

13. The right wing has been saying this for a while

The high prices are because of taxes (imposed by Democrats, of course) and environmental regulations (imposed unfairly on businesses by wacko environmentalists who hate big business)

[sandnsea]

21. For 25 years? 50?

Same old same old. The problem isn't that we didn't listen to Jimmy Carter and create alternative fuels. Nah, that can't be it.

[mrcheerful]

24. Hate to break the news to you all

but this is nothing new pukes have been blaming ecowackos for high gas prices and oil shortages since 1974. When stations went dry in 74 it was all the Arabs and ecowackos fault.

[insane_cratic_gal]

36. repealing the tax as the dems suggested only lowers it

by 18 or 19 cents.


We have to accept that Gas prices are never going to go back to cheap. You'll never see 1.65 a gallon again. If it's not the War raising prices it's some terrorist farted in the wrong direction that does.

[Kansas Wyatt]

20. Why did RoyOldBoy Blunt leave out

Those Liberal Democrats always demanding higher gas mileage from the automakers?

He squandered a perfect opportunity to blame Democrats for forcing Big Oil to raise prices to keep up with higher gas mileage. Hell it's bad enough that those poor oil companies have to produce cleaner fuels, and Big Oil execs are forced into retirement. Oh, those poor oil execs' families, how will they survive? Those Leftist Communistic Democrats just want punish Big Oil for good ole' fashioned legalized republican theft of the American people. Those people chose their lot in life, and deserve what they get, they should have pulled themselves up by the boot straps and work harder.:sarcasm:

[Jack Rabbit]

22. Be prepared for anything: the Democrats need a rapid response team

Lies and half truths are the order of the day for the Republicans. Today, Republican Congressmen are taking the floor and blaming Democrats for their ties to "environmental extremists" for high oil prices. Expect this kind of thing and worse between now and early November.

The only Democratic candidate in recent years who really knew how to handle the Bush leaguers was Bill Clinton. In 1992, when first running for president, Clinton had a rapid response team ready and put his side of the story out to the media any time the Bush leaguers distorted facts.

Al Gore should have been ready with this in 2000 and was not. How many people still think he claimed to have invented the Internet? John Kerry should have been ready with this in 2004 and was not. How many people still think the Frat Boy had a better service record in Vietnam than Kerry?

Lies, half truths and distortions will be believed if they go unchallenged. The Democrats cannot afford to assume that just because what the Bush leaguers say is utterly ridiculous that it won't be believed. Just ask Predient Gore and President Kerry.

[Coexist]

25. HA! I just started another thread on this silliness!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=1021276&mesg_id=1021276

[pa28]

27. Only a complete zombie would buy into this.

It's absurd and they know it.

Blaming us is a tactic to stabilize the few remaining scraps of their political base.

[NI4NI]

32. It's clearly obvious

that the people who have believed and supported republicans during the last six years are zombies and will believe this crap just as much.

[BurtWorm]

31. And lefties are responsible for the disastrous state of the world

since Bush was installed, I suppose. :eyes:

[cureautismnow]

33. It's Clinton's, Carter's, LBJ's, JFK's, Truman's, and FDR's Fault.

Oh, and Woodrow Wilson should share in the blame, also. :eyes:

For crying out loud, these idiots control all 3 branches of gov't and they're attributing the negative direction of the country to the minority party. They are in desperate need of a reality check or a significant increase in the dosage of their medications!

[insane_cratic_gal]

35. that's how they are spinning it

They don't take into the fact that the supply in the US was lower then projected.
Or someone sneezed in Iran so some trader decided to raise the barrel a few extra bucks because the barrel was in danger of getting cooties on it.

The Republican party says everything but the truth. They are too busy try to deflect blame to the Dems, they are drowning and now trying to drag the Democrats down with them.

It's all pathetic