Texas Republicans Press Conference Backfires

[proud2BlibKansan]

Oh, this is precious. Go watch the video, where even FOX calls bullshit on these guys, then come back to read on.

Incumbent Republicans are just tripping over themselves trying to push the same old insane policies that have gotten us into this awful $4 a gallon gasoline and $5 a gallon diesel. They stupidly decided to hold a presser on it.

Michael Burgess (R-TX 26), Joe Barton (R-TX 6), Kay Granger (R-TX 12), and Pete Sessions (R-TX 32) showed up at a CLOSED Tom Thumb grocery store in Arlington to demagogue to the media about their sophomoric ideas about economics. According to this bunch of bozos, all we have to do is "start drilling" and prices will "drop overnight".

Typical Republican for these folks to hide from their constituents and conduct this dog and pony show in a closed grocery store where the public can't get in there and ask about things like:
- The Enron Loophole causing massive unregulated speculation and inflating prices.
- Speculators paying a lower tax rate than people who work for a living.
- $14,000,000,000 (14 billion) in Republican corporate welfare and tax breaks to Big Oil that haven't gotten us anywhere.
- Record low values of the dollar due to a $9,000,000,000,000 national debt and record budget deficits and trade deficits run up during the Bush administration.

Michael Burgess will be holding an "Energy Expo" on June 28th. I think people need to turn out and ask Michael Burgess why he puts big banks like Morgan Stanley and UBS above the interests of his own constituents.

What really gets me is how these folks can stand there with straight faces and try to blame Democrats for this, when after a decade of Republicans calling the shots on energy policy (if you want to call it that), the chickens finally come home to roost. Republican Phil Gramm inserted the "Enron Loophole" which has allowed commodity market speculators to do to the rest of us what Enron did to California.

Allow Republicans just "a little more time" to fix it? That's like trying to extinguish a fire by smothering it with gasoline. Not only will it not work, but you can't afford it.

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[skooooo]

1. Am I missing something??

I don't see anything about how this "backfired."

:shrug:

[geckosfeet]

2. I know. They are going to keep beating the "land giveaways" to the oil

companies drums until after the election.

Come on people - record profits for oil companies for the last 6 years? Each year more profits than the last? And who gets screwed?

How about cutting these bastards off instead of giving them everything we own!

People are just so freakin stupid.

[Lasher]

3. Sure it did.

It's pretty lame when even Faux Noise mocks Republicans.

[proud2BlibKansan]

7. Listen to the narrative on the video

The reporter pretty much laughs at their "photo op".

[stephinrome]

8. see link to video at top of post

I made the same mistake. Started reading the text of the post before I realized there was a link to the video.

[Fire Walk With Me]

4. Bush once made a living doing exploratory oil drilling.

Funded by his Saudi friends. Profiting even when he failed.

Then he and his Saudi friends created an oil monopoly and the gas companies profited wildly, and continuously, with no end in sight and no checks and balances whatsoever.

Today he wants to do more oil-related business, based upon the fact that he and his OPEC friends have monopolized and over-priced the oil.

It's a good thing that they cannot yet monopolize oxygen and water (although they're trying with water- Niven named such an enterprise a Hydraulic Empire).

Someone please impeach and prosecute him now.

[Super Soaker Sniper]

5. Right now Republicans are

pointing to the Democrat's Windfall Profits Tax plan and the moritorium on drilling saying that it will do nothing to lower prices and will only punish the oil companies. The American public needs to have illustrated to them how the Windfall Profits Tax will lower the price they pay at the pump before they support it. Right now, Americans are being raped at the gas pump and they do not care how much money the oil companies make as long as they pay less for gas tommorow than they did yesterday. If they can't see the Democrat's plan doing this this, they will buy into Republican lie.

"Drill Here! Drill Now! Pay Less!" is concise, simple and easy to understand. Democrats need to reduce their own plan to something as easy and understandable as this. Remember, these people bought into Iraq was behind 9-11, for Christ's sake.

[Subdivisions]

6. That crazy MSM! Anna Nicole's draws and all!!!!!

The snooze gets better every day!!!

And, about the video...