Bush Press Conference: ANWR and Economic "Magic Wands"
By SilentPatriot Monday Apr 28, 2008 5:32pm
During his nonsensical press conference today, President Bush argued that the best way to help the struggling economy and the staggering price of gas was to either start drilling immediately in ANWR or to get him a magic wand.
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Somehow if you mention ANWR it means you don't care about the environment. Well, I'm hoping now people, when they say "ANWR," means you don't care about the gasoline prices that people are paying.
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I think that if there was a magic wand, and say, okay, drop price, I'd do that.
The sad reality is that this President has done nothing over the past 8 years to reduce our dependence on foreign oil, leaving us beholden to the skyrocketing prices -- which are due in large part to the instability we have created in the Middle East. It's a truly vicious circle.
Imagine if we had invested a fraction of what we spent in Iraq on sustainable energy. Gasoline could be well on it's way to being a relic of the past instead of one of the primary causes of the current recession. Considering both Bush and Cheney's extensive ties to the oil industry, I guess this shouldn't come as a big surprise.
Full transcript below the fold:
Q Mr. President, you have spoken today about opening ANWR for drilling and also refineries. But these are clearly long-term solutions to the problem of rising gas prices. What can you tell Americans about what your administration is doing in the short term? And secondly, have you been briefed on tomorrow's GDP numbers, and are you concerned --
THE PRESIDENT: No, I haven't been.
Q Okay -- and are you concerned that they will show us to officially be in a recession?
THE PRESIDENT: I think they'll show that we're -- it's a very slow economy. I can't guess what the number will be, and I haven't been shown, truly.
And by the way, opening up ANWR is not long term, it's intermediate term. But it sends a clear signal, is what it does. It sends a clear signal to the markets that the United States is not going to restrict exploration; the United States is going to encourage exploration.
And in the meantime we have done, increasing CAFTA, for example. But the market is going to do as much for encouraging conservation as anything else is now. And so I firmly believe that -- you know, if there was a magic wand to wave, I'd be waving it, of course. I strongly believe it's in our interest that we reduce gas prices, gasoline prices. I mean, it would be like a major tax cut for people. And --
Q But what --
THE PRESIDENT: Let me finish, please, Sheryl. Strike one on the exclusive. (Laughter.) Excuse me, strike two. (Laughter.)
That -- you made me lose my train of thought, of course -- maybe that's what you were attempting to do. No, I think that if there was a magic wand, and say, okay, drop price, I'd do that. And so part of this is to make -- set the psychology right that says to the world, we're not going to become more beholden on your oil, we're going to open up and be aggressive and have an aggressive energy policy. Secondly, we're going to send the signal we're going to be building new refineries.
But there is no magic wand to wave right now. It took us a while to get to this fix. That's why I told you that if Congress had responded -- matter of fact, Congress did pass ANWR in the late 1900s -- 1990s -- and the 1900s -- (laughter) -- 1990s. But it didn't go forward. And it's my considered judgment, given the technological advances, to say this is -- we'll destroy the environment is just -- I don't think it's an accurate statement.
And so I think it's very important, Sheryl, for Congress. The other thing Congress can do, if you want to send a good signal during these uncertain times, is make the tax cuts permanent, is to let people -- send the signal that people are going to be able to keep their money. And I think that will help the psychology of the country.
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That's right...you tell 'em Chimpy. We're 'murikuns...and it's our God-given right to pay $1.99 a gallon for gas until the end of time.
How about some investment in mass transit?
Screw Big Oil! The stuff's gonna be so expensive by the end of the century it will literally cost $100 per gallon of gas in the US which says a lot about the rest of the world. Not only this, but the civilization created around petroleum is by nature unsustainable with heavier and heavier population growth and other nations wanting to live like our gluttony. Petroleum-based civilization is going to have one hell of a crash, if we don'r find some cheaper source. Nuclear power would do great for electricity. What about people who have to commute four hours to work in places with little or no public transportation? Such things need a solution, before this whole house crashes down on our heads and we're buried in the rubble. And that's just the oil stuff. I'm not even mentioning what the water wars of the future and the Holocene Extinction Event and AGW are gonna do.
The sounds of Washington DC - sirens.
This asshole is the most stupid motherfucker ever shit out.
All the GOP/Chimpy nut huggers who post here , should be deported immediately after being smacked with a shovel handle ................His definition of the economy as being "very slow" (much like his brain synapse) , is manifestly different in what way compared to the rightful term "recession" ?
He did do something. He danced around like a monkey for his bestest oil buddies in the Middle East.
Was it a magic wand that made us invade Iraq, destabilize the Middle East and make the oil companies rich?
Lets round up these criminals and ship them to the great North West where the trees have been destroyed. Give them orange jumpsuits an ankle bracelet and tents. Let them spend the rest of their miserable existence planting trees. They can do their own cooking, even grow their own food. This would also include the members of the press corpse and their owners. In this way they might begin to repay humanity for their many transgressions. Oh well, it's a nice fantasy.
Nationalize the fucking oil. I am sick of paying big money to fuck heads that buy Ferrari's. I need oil to go to work and pay for my kids to survive.
I wish I had a magic wand to wave and make the president go away!
We need Harry Potter with his magic wand to make bush disappear.
Widespread @ 7:
But, but...He's the first MBA President!
*snark off*
My mom likes to refer to people like Stupor Mundi as "winners of the sperm lottery." In her career as a fundraiser for charities, she knew a lot of people like this guy- dumb as boxes of rocks, but rich and powerful.
How fucking sick is this. Oil is now the 4th most important commodity after
1.Oxygen
2.Water
3.Food
Why doesn't the government step over and control the price like they need to.
More divisive bs from the oil man.
Go back to the Carter years, what if we had put into law the cafe standards, where would we be? Sure, it would have hurt but if the average car was getting 40-45+ mpg we would have been a wholle lot better off....now it is GONNA HURT!
Bush has a ranch? What does he raise there?
I knew this jerk was going after ANWR,one of the last pristine areas of Alaska.
Tell Bush that he can drill in ANWR when Exon pays up for their "spill of the century." Maybe he can take his magic wand to pay for the eco-carniage that happened to the people of St.William Sound when the Exon Valdiz trashed the coast.
By the time any oil would be produced in ANWR,Bush will be long gone.
Bob KASPRZAK hates rethuglicans and wimpocrats @ 8:
Send em to Oregon. We have lot's of gun nuts here in Oregon.
How can he blame congress for being out of touch with "the peoples of 'Merica" on the economy when he was questioned about gas reaching $4 a gallon a month ago and he had no idea what the reporter was talking about, he "hadn't heard that."
Drilling in Alaska is not the answer.
Bush is lying to the American Peoples faces about the precipice we are teetering on due to Bush Co's economic and diplomatic malfeasance in the hopes he and his gang can escape to the brown brown grass of Crawford and their other shining hideouts on a hill next January. Then they will deny accountability and repeat "it's not our problem" over and over and over.
We are constantly being told that if we drill for our own oil the price will come down. But if you look at coal the theory is challenged
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We have all the coal we want but the price goes up because of the world market....
stevo @ 15:
The American people need to take responsibility for their choice of vehicles. 7,000 pound SUVs and mega-pickups driven at 80+ mph getting 11 mpg have helped to make this situation much worse than it should be. Peak oil, if not already here, is fast approaching. Americans need to get over their addiction to these land barges, or else the shock of astronomical energy prices will devastate an economy with very little room for recovery.
ANWR -- Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Oil development threatens the continuation of the Gwich’in traditional way of life, by stressing the Porcupine Caribou herd. This tradition of a caribou based lifestyle goes back many hundreds, if not thousands, of years.
MSNBC
Opening an Alaska wildlife refuge to oil development would only slightly reduce America’s dependence on imports and would lower oil prices by less than 50 cents a barrel, according to an analysis released Tuesday by the Energy Department.
The man is trying to make crimes and criminals appear normal.
John C. Yoo, the former assistant deputy attorney general, and David Addington, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff
Millions of all people from all parties are united to stop these criminals and traitors.
American Freedom Campaign
To: Conyers
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2165/t/1027/campaign.jsp?campaign_K...
30 years ago Jimmy Carter called for us to reduce our dependence on foreign oil through energy conservation as well as by investing in alternative energy sources. Then Reagan was elected, and short-term greed won out over long-term planning. Think of where we would be today had we worked to conserve energy and invested in solar and wind energy. We wasted 30 years, and the world is a more dangerous place because of it.
Bush has been trying to get at that oil since he took office. He's running out of time. He has favors to repay. What better way to turn public opinion than hit the American consumer in the pocketbook? This is what happens when you fill the White House with oil executives with an agenda.
Conspiracy? Hell, yes!
Look at the fact that he gave this bs photo-op-for oil at 10:30 am. That says something to me about his hush hush secrecy.Publish the minutes of the Cheney et., al.,energy thugs in Bush`s first term.We`will find out exactly what heinous energy plan they hatched.National Security,my ass.
bush is partially correct about one thing: drilling in anwr would definitely reduce our dependence on foreign oil.
and if people here, on this forum, are totally serious about reducing our dependence on foreign oil, and yet DO NOT want to drill in anwr, better not be driving, or drivers, themselves. or flying. or doing anything that requires oil.
it's pretty simple: if we continue to drive, we either drill there, or drill here.
or both.
if we stop driving, well.....
This is the colossal idiot that has been running our country for eight years.
God, I hate Bush, but he does make sense. You can cry about the environment and cry about oil dependency, but there must be compromise to solve problems with the way the governmental branches are set up. We live basically in a 2-party democracy. I'm a liberal democrat. I believe in alternative fuel exploration as well as oil exploration. How could a logical person not be for both?
If I were a political cartoonist I imagine my next piece would be to draw shrub and a few of his oil buddies standing over a pristine Alaskan wildlife and laughing while they watch shrub "write in the snow" using a gushing oil well in place of his teeny weeny... well you get it... and what is he writing? Basically "PWNED".
What an oaf.
The insignificant amount of oil they want to take out of ANWR in comparison to the cost (direct from development) of procuring it (indirectly the damage to the environmental disaster that will be created and left behind) does nothing to help us become independent of foreign countries as to our energy needs, President Asshat Bush.
i don't think it's that simple to claim that, had bush and cheney not been in office, that we'd be well on our way to driving hybrids or electric cars.
the democratic party is wholly complicit in the destruction of the planet. the greatest democrat ever (not), bill clinton, was a huge proponent of free trade, neo-liberalism, etc.
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Not to mention how this government as weakened the dollar with it's deficits and the Federal Reserve cuts, which has allowed oil to become so cheap, thus sending the price skyrocketing further, and caused the food crisis too...but forget about all that, WHAT'S THIS ABOUT HANNA MONTANA BEING NAKED????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
giving Bush the undeserved benefits of the doubt, he's not entirely responsible for the skyrocketing price of oil and its ripple effect on the economy. Yet he's hardly the one to have in the problem solver's chair, either. High oil prices are not "a problem" to him or his core supporters. Just more Free Market Magic.
jwf @ 21:
Not only that, but how much driving they do. A prius driven 30 highway miles will use about as much gasoline as an expedition driven 10 miles. If people would live closer to work, carpool, ride a bike, use mass transit, that would make a huge difference. Peak oil may be here, and if it's impossible to pump oil out of the ground faster, price controls will just result in a shortage, because there's less incentive to conserve.
For the same reason, the idea of a federal gas tax holiday is a dumb one. Lowering the price will increase the demand, which will send the price right back up. At the same time, there will be less money available for road maintenance and we'll see more bridges collapse like 35W in Minneapolis.
Let me at that magic wand, I will make Bush and his bastards disappear off the face of the Earth.
If fact, if you get me a good one I will turn the clock back to at least early November 2000…
and then make them disappear.
This shouldn't come as a surprise?? It's (oil) the only thing they truly care about and have been working on since entering politics. All the rest is bullshit.
Someone's bitter and dreaming of a Dallas retirement.
Bush thinks he is the fairy oil-baron.
Funny how there's no "conserve" in any conservative.
As if Dubya or Cheney would do anything to stop their Corporate profits?!
I like Pie @ 41:
Victor Ashe and Jim/Jeff Gannon/Guckert would probably agree.
I guess he thinks we are 3 years old. I used this line on my kids when they were whining about something when they were very small. It worked with them... not sure that it works with grown adults who can think, though.
I watched king goerge's press confernece this morning. All I can say is welcome to what the rest of the G8 pays for gas. Where I live gas is now $1.35 a litre, that converts to $5.10 a US gallon. Yes I do understand the hardship of high gas prices,but as Bob Dylan once sang "the times they are a changing"
I forget who said it but someone once said "a little revolution now and then is a good thing". I hear and see your politicians taking shots at each other but don't they need to forget that and work on what they were sent to washington for?
why is the price of gas so high?
so repubes and their oil men can put pressure on the country to relax all the controls that have kept them from raping and pilaging the land for their personal gain. they want no rules for coal, no rules for nukes and no rules for drilling.
and today, yet one more oil company announced record profits.
There is no way I can watch any more of the presser clippings. I saw the whole thing this morning and made comments on the other thread. The only comment I can make now is:
What the hell is up with that tie he's wearing. It's gotta go!!! I'd never let my husband out of the house with that around his neck. Then again, it's prolly his way of saying he's puking on us lowly people.
It is a widely published estimate that 10.4 billion barrels of oil are in ANWR. United States consumption in 2004 was 20.7 million barrels per day. Why on earth would we destroy a pristine wildlife refuge for 500 days worth of oil? The reality, is that the price of oil in dollars has tripled in the past 3 years, the price in euros has doubled. What is Bush's plan for the falling value of the American dollar? I wish this prez-nut would DIAF.
Doug @ 16:
warts on his ass!
bryancri @ 28:
Troll.
ANWAR after being totally developed AND at maximium capacity is a drop in the bucket.
Since your going to call me out anyway, here's the facts. I know it's Wikipedia - follow the links and they're all back to respected primary sources like the USGS.
The U.S. consumes about 20 million barrels (3,200,000 m³) daily. If the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge oil reserves were used to supply 5% of the U.S. daily consumption -- most is imported from Canada (19%), Mexico (15%), Saudi Arabia (11.5%), Nigeria (10.5%) and Venezuela (10.5%)[12] -- the reserves, using the low figure of 4.3 billion barrels (680,000,000 m³), would last approximately 4300 days, or almost 12 years. Using the high estimate, the reserves would last approximately 11800 days, or 32 years. If the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge was used to meet 100% of U.S. demand, it would last for 215 days under the low estimate, and 525 days or just 1.4 years if it contained 10.4 billion barrels (1,650,000,000 m³).
Telling us sheeple that ANWAR is part of the answer is like saying to me to tear down my garage and my roof won't leak as much.
Bush... the most powerful greedy moron of all time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
All you commuters out there,,,go fuck yourselves!!!
"What is Bush’s plan for the falling value of the American dollar?"
bush administration persued a dollar of lesser value as a way to increase exports in the short term.
bryancri @ 28:
oh bullshit all of anwars oil is sold in asia!
willie @ 47:
When I see those "clean coal" commercials it is everything I can do not to put my fist through the television.
Clean coal. Holy farging shmidt I know people are stupid but are they THAT stupid?
Is it really hoping too much to think that people will reject this ridiculous lie outright? It is isn't it?
I come from coal country. The town we live in is literally undermined. The current strip mine is a half a mile from our back door. You can see the openings to the old mine shafts in it when construction allows us to peek over the verge.
I'm sure that there are plenty of available reports on how a new technology makes burning coal a percentage or so less deadly than it used to be and I've no doubt these reports have been "enhanced" by shrub-like "scientists". But there is not now, nor will there ever be anything clean about coal.
bryancri @ 33:
big oil squashed the development of electric cars under a repig administration!!!!!!
Giving a wildlife reserve the vaguely Arab-sounding name "anwar" may make it easer for Republicans to convince Kansans that jeebus put it there specifically for us to destroy it, but we decent non-Republicans should call it what it is, the arctic national wildlife reserve, and fight to protect it.
You might think that someone that was so adept at drilling dry holes in the ground when he ran "Arbusto Oil", that the "sure fire" solution to rising oil prices is the insane notion that we can drill our way out of this mess.
There's a rampage going on to grab all remaining oil wherever it may be and sell it at the highest possible price. Things like.. other countries, tax, and the environment only get in the way of this and must be eliminated. In addition the cost must be as high as possible as this immediately allows all of those borderline resources to all of a sudden become profitable. Everything Bush&co has ever done makes perfect sense once one inserts oil as the motivation. A tax break is nothing but a further windfall for oil companies. It does nothing for poor people. The whole thing is just unbelievably sick.
#57 tyree: 'big oil squashed the development of electric cars under a repig administration!!!!!!'
Big oil has quashed more than electric cars, and their conduct predates Republican administrations. They've been behind the dismantlement of mass transit, wind power, solar power and everything else green and forward thinking in this country.
C'mon people; he doesn't have a magic wand. If he had a magic wand, he'd make everything all right. I guess we fucked up when we thought he had a magic wand in 2000 and 2004.
Dhalgren @ 40:
I'm bitter and dreaming that his retirement is in the Hague (at least through the sentencing.)
To make it a fully just enterprise (not to mention a carbon-neutral one), I'm envisioning a Roman slave galley being rowed across the Atlantic to The Netherlands, 100% Neocon-Oilman-Indictee-powered. (Bush, Ashcroft, Rumsfeld, Rice, Gonzales, Yoo, Feith, Negroponte, Addington, Libby, Mukasey, and Card chained to the oars.)
On second thought, I take that back. The vision of a bare-torso, leather-bound Cheney hammering that drum on the poop deck just made me seasick.
It would be interesting to know what% of American oil consumption is going to fuel our occupation of Iraq. My guess is 50% or more. We are having to compete with our own military for fuel, and our military can out spend us.
That makes those flag pin wearers real patriots!
You don't suppose that the Repocons pushing to continue the Iraq war has anything to do with keeping oil prices up, for their financial benefit, by wasting as much as humanly possible, do you?
why do they keep bringing up anwar...which even if it was all for domestic use would do nothing to combat what is occuring at the pump
why is it that an oil producing state like california has the highest gas prices in the nation? because the majority of crude pulled out of cali is sold overseas....the oil companies care more about their own personal profits than they do the american people
in 8 years, bush has paid lip service to alternative energy...remember his state of the union where he mentioned hydrogen?
never needed a magic wand, just an administration that cared a little about the future
he doesnt give a shit....he is a traitor to his people and his country...he should be tried, convicted and put up against a firing squad
Thanks, sir, for reminding us Americans what a true failure of president and leader you really are. And trust me if there was a 'magic wand' we would wave it so YOU and CHENEY would no longer be making all of us sick as you continue to take this country into the ground. You are being judged now, in the present, and it's not pretty. Time doesn't need to pass for everyone to agree you are the worst, ever.
BlueStateSam @ 25:
In 1979 my mother bought a Volkwagen Diesel Rabbit that got 50-55mpg.
We have been looking for a car for her for 2 years now and are still looking for milage like that.
America is so screwed.
ER can someone explain how drilling in Alaska will HELP GAS PRICES NOW. Could it be that if bush gets congress to let the big oil companies drill in Alaska they will drop the prices of gas now????? Hmmmm that's probably the only way to get relief NOW>
Chris @ 2:
How about some investment in alternative fuels?
For the past 8 years, this SOB has been conjuring up a witches brew of fiscal irresponsibility that is directly related to and the primary cause of the run up of oil prices in this country.
The first 5 seconds of this vid.......oh man what a stuttering prick
JR @ 30:
Are you kidding me? Where the hell has this country been for the last 30 years? We knew this was coming. So don't tell me that these f*cking corporations who didn't build cars that got good milage and put money into researching better engines and paid barely anything back in royalties for oil coming out of public lands and didn't think that one day the oil would be turned off again should get another chance to f*ck us and environment over royally again.
bryancri @ 28:
Did Bush really say there are 27 millions gallons of diesel and gasoline in ANWR? That's not enough fuel to get Americans through one 5 o'clock rush hour.
But let's be generous as suppose he meant 27 billion barrels of crude oil. That number is on the high side of the most optimistic oil company estimates, and it includes oil that may or may not be in place that is unrecoverable by today's technology. But let's wave our magic wand and say it's true because Bush meant to say it was, but then confused millions with billions, and gallons with barrels, and diesel with crude oil.
The US uses about 24 million barrels of oil a day. At that rate, 27 billion barrels is enough to get us by for three years, if oil consumption doesn't rise, which it will if prices fall.
Somebody please wipe that fucking smirk off his face. Thanks.
Rico @ 61:
Big Oil and GM conspired to use lead as a no-knock additive in gasoline even though ethanol was cheaper and safer.
There Will Be Blood!
I swear this man is pure evil.
For everything he has done to the USA and the rest of the world he will surely burn in hell for all of eternity.
gB @ 76:
No kidding.
Bush and his buddies remind me a lot of the main character in that movie.
Bush, much like Hitler in the end, could care less about this country, its resources or its people. The man is insane. He belongs somewhere much worse than any right-winged imagined hell.
Every time this walking feces talks it's a slap in the face to the average person.
Its too late to mitigate the high prices for Energy.
P E A K O I L
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Its always darkest before its pitch black.
another bag o maggots moment!
The U.S. needs the oil to dominate the world for the next 30 years. The oil the US uses every year is 146 billion gallons a year. One barrel is equal to 46 gallons. Between 5.7 (95 percent probability) and 16.0 (5 percent probability) billion barrels. A mathematical estimate of 2622000000000 gallons represents between (.17 to .27 )about 25-30 years of foreign oil supposedly lie in ANWR. ANWR will put off the question of oil for another three to five generations. Then what? Energy consumption and fuel costs are already rising along with the prices. We already use too much energy getting off oil is the only solution. Bio-fuels need larger areas to sustain, harvest, and produce. The damage to ANWR is inestimable. Groups like the Venetie and Gwich'in are opposed to the drilling, while the Katovik agree with drilling to benefit a comfortable life and modernize. Does the United States need the development of Katovik? Yes, if they want to develop. But at the cost of the other two native groups and their way of subsistence, I don't think so.
These are great articles. Also Bush's Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton was a paid shill put into place by Rand Corporation and Grover Nordquist to create the Astroturf environmental organization known as the Council of Republicans for Environmental Advocacy (C.R.E.A.), and likely ties to the Nature Conservancy groups. The monied know the gas tank is running on fumes and are trying to alleviate pressure.
http://www.concierge.com/cntraveler/articles/detail?articleId=5811&pageN...
http://outside.away.com/outside/features/200302/200302_anwr_1.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/630195/posts
http://www.alaskool.org/projects/ancsa/articles/ongtooguk1990/anwr_ongto...
Remember Bush, going after Clinton in 2000 because gas was (gasp!) going on $1.00 per gallon!
''I would work with our friends in OPEC to convince them to open up the spigot, to increase the supply,'' Mr. Bush, the presumptive Republican candidate for president, told reporters here today. ''Use the capital that my administration will earn, with the Kuwaitis or the Saudis, and convince them to open up the spigot.''
The president is in so good with the Saudis, why doesn't he just get them to "open up the spigot"? Maybe his wand is broken.
tyree @ 50:
You mean brain tumors.
brians @ 85:
jes jessssssss
Can anyone explain to me how he can make the connection between Gas prices / drilling in ANWR, and making the tax cuts permanent. I don't think making sure that the rich get richer will make the pain at the pump feel any better. What an idiot.
t he only gas reduction in this country is when
bush checks for farts out of cheney's ass.
why are none of the media pundolts suggesting bush do what even their hero, ronald reagan, did; put a cap on gas prices to prevent this gouging we're getting.
oops, forgot... this is bush we're talking about.
Watching him talk is like witnessing a violent crime; I'm in a horrified disbelief for the entire event and just want to see it end as fast as possible.
Every time he talks that is how I feel, both in the content of his message and in his dismal delivery of the message. I keep waiting for someone to get up and hit the gong and a hook from the backstage to yank him off.
lafin gas @ 69:
How about both?
HeraldHusseinBlog @ 73:
Not only that he said has increased CAFTA (Central American Free Trade Agreement) for CAFE.
I was WONDERING when he'd get to the "Make the tax cuts permanent" as a method of lowering gas prices. I'd almost given up hope...
(But when are we going to get the "Make the tax cuts permanent" as a method of fighting terrorism speech?
He also said Congress did pass Anwar in the late 1900s. (faint giggle giggle)
He is the face of what America has become. Arrogant and willfully ignorant. And just plain ignorant.
When this idiot mentioned "CAFTA" didn't he mean to say CAFE standards?? And WTF does he always bring up "making the tax cuts permanent" when it has NO correlation to the subject at hand... What a blithering wanker.
Chris @ 2:
If there's a need for that, the corporate infrastructure will take care of it!
Oh no! The Decider having a bad day at the office. Poor Baby!
"This asshole is the most stupid motherfucker. . . ." from #5:
First of all, if he's so stupid how come he's gotten everything he and Cheney and Feith and Rove and Wolfowitz and Kristol and Rice and Rumsfeld and McCain and all of those war profiteers ever wanted in their wildest dreams? Something to do with no checks and balances from the "opposition"? Something to do with the pliant and paid media perhaps?
This man is not stupid. He is a tool, and a very effective tool. The American people have been totally manipulated by him and his puppet masters. He is not the President. But he is nominally in charge of all the disasters perpetrated in our names over the last 7 years. And the American people are to blame for letting it happen. Sorry, but if I know this, the Democratic members of congress should be all over it, reporters should be all over it. But no, we keep getting the BS of the day, and we are all transfixed. Can nobody in this country listen to anything and make a considered judgment anymore? Do we have to have Charlie or Wolf or Larry or especially anyone on Fox tell us what to think? I know there are better people out there. Better people, like me, with many more important things to do. But we don't seem to have any candidates willing to tell the truth and tell all of these people to just STFU. I had hope. I don't anymore. That is what Obama has lost in the last week or two, and it has little to do with Jeremia Wright.
enough @ 97:
The Democratic candidates have learned from Howard Dean speaking truth to power. He wanted to help America. They want to be president.
Why do they let this moron out to give pressers? Sure, there's oil in ANWAR and there is plenty of wind off Nantucket, but the nimby crowd ( not in my backyard ) say hell no. What's a president to do? I was amazed that when it came to innovation and technology which this country used to export like there was no tomorrow, the president barely mentioned alternative technologies.
This country has pissed way the last eight years killing people on the other side of the world because we want what they have. Those trillions spent on a useless war could have been placed into a Manhattan project that could produce new and clean forms of energy. If we had the manpower and minds back in the 1930's to create the bomb, why lord is it so F&%^*ing hard to turn those weapons into plow shares. New industires could be created to replace those that have long since left the rust belt towns, but no. Power, greed and politicians that go begging hat in hand on K street seems to be their most important objective. Pathetic!
"The Democratic candidates have learned from Howard Dean speaking truth to power. He wanted to help America. They want to be president."
And they will lose, again, because they do not address the real issues or question the power structure that keeps us all barefoot and pregnant. That is a metaphor, but timely, and so true of our society. If people would speak up, write to their local newspapers, not put up with this crap, write to their reps and candidates and actually vote in huge numbers, then maybe we would not be a country that tortures people, that allows true economic development needed to sustain the people on this planet. Instead we allow anyone with money to dictate our agenda, our needs. Sorry, I can't buy into the old patterns. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over, and over, and over, expecting a different result. And last I heard, Howard Dean is the DNC chairman--thanks to many people who insisted. Unfortunately, the elections will still be fixed because those more powerful than Dean wouldn't mention election fraud in 2004. And now the supreme asses have made suppression of the vote national policy.
The apathy that has been talked about around the world with regards to the Nov. election is a result of people just not being able to listen to this doorknob anymore.
The jig is up America. You've pulled off the giggest scam ever by putting a clown in office "TWICE". Now the rest of the world is worn out, gone to bed and hoping to wake up on Nov 12th with something that resembeles a leader. Fucking Alfred E. Newman would be an improvement.
Walk Proud America.
I look at this lying prick of a thief in his $800 suit and $100 tie and think, this asshole is about 10 times richer than he was before he came to office, at the cost of 4,500 of the bravest people he'll never know.
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BUSH LIES, AMERICANS DIE.
How very revealing that George Bush would love to offer a magical solution to rising gas prices, but in practical terms he has done just the opposite of what was needed to prevent this crisis.
That leaves signing statements. Those are magical, right?
Interesting fact- the money Bush has spent on his war on Iraq would have paid for all of America's imported oil for THIRTY YEARS. Makes drilling for oil in Alaska seem even more idiotic, doesn't it?
President PNACcio @ 105:
Where are you getting that fact?
The only factoid I saw regarding that was from the Boston Globe (is that the name of Boston's paper?) which said that the cost of the Iraq war could have paid for gas for all Americans for 3 1/2 years.
This ignorant son-of-a-bitch is such an idiot. His logic is totally beyond reason. I want to just slap his silly ass face. What a neocon pig!
jwf @ 22:
You can put a water splitter on your car and get some better mileage. At least we can start there.
If we spent just 30% of what we have spent on the war in Iraq, we could be nearly half way to completely replacing fossil fuel usage for electrical generation... all by using Concentrated Solar Power.
See: http://tinyurl.com/4aa2uo
(I'm the author of the above article.)
Good lord...
Let's drill more!!!!!... instead of spending our money on alternate energy sources. Reduce gas prices as equating to a major tax cut? We should be opening up with NO OIL!!! (well lots less oil) :) If we had spent the 7 trillion dollars that we had spent in Iraq in the past years on alternative energy (and corn is NOT the way to go. ) then we wouldn't be in this quandary right now.
Sad moment of truth... nobody is going to get out of this scott free..... we have allowed ourselves through our own apathy to weaken America instead of strengthening it... This year we have a chance to give another way a chance... Vote Obama 08!!!
YES, he is a politician... they all are.. but this guy has got a vision of where I want to go in this nation... and the fact that he speaks to me like I am adult... well, that is a big plus... Knowing what his character and values are... it's not a wonder that his negative ads fall flat... because he isn't a negative "glass half full" person...
...and were making progress.
said President Augustus Gloop again and again as he was being pulled toward the large tube sucking up all the chocolate.
jimbo92107 @ 104:
He uses signing statements as toilet paper. He wipes his ass with them and then staples them to the laws he signs.
There is a magic wand! Bush has been filling the strategic reserves as fast as he can at $110+ per barrel. We now have 4 times as much as we need. If he dumped one-fourth of the strategic reserves on the open market the price would drop to $80 per barrel, he could restock the reserve slowly at that price and we could all breathe a sigh of relief.
That would cut windfall profits to his friends, though.
What I don't get about the US attitude towards oil is that all they have to do is to guarantee a price of, say, $50 per bbl for twenty years and they would have all the supply they need.
There are very large resources of alternative fuel sources - oil shale, tar sands, orinoco bituminous deposits, lignite deposits, low grade coal - that can be converted into oil. Problem is that most of these projects are very capital intensive, and though many would make good money at $50 per bbl, the financiers are not willing to fund them given the volatility in the oil price, which after all hit a low of around $12 not so many years ago. If there were a guaranteed price available, then the capital would be available, which would result in supply. In fact, the big problem with this scenario is that it is likely to generate oversupply which would result in low prices, which wouldn't be regarded all that favourably by you know who!
Cut his mic.
Seriously, there is so much in this three-minute clip, I could write a novel. So grant me some liberties.
There's 27,00,000 gallons of gasoline in ANWAR. I told you that (stoopid)!!!!!!!!!!
He seems to have jumped on "the psychology bandwagon" now, too. Let's send out lotsa signals... m'kay??
What a fuckin' dork. I watched it twice and laughed both times.
"ANWR will fix our problems" and "If I could wave a magic wand" and "late 1900's I mean the 1990s"...?
At the beginning of the clip with the sirens roaring in the background I thought, "It's about time they take this insane man away from the mic!"
Looks like Jon Stewart just got his allotment of material for this week. (I'm beginning to thing that he must be giving Bush KICKBACKS to come up with this stuff.)
My favorite psycho moment was where the reporter asks him a question, he rambles, rants, stutters, meanders and obfuscates for ten minutes, until he loses his train of thought, and then accuses the reporter of trying to confuse him.
It kind of reminded me of that caricature of GEORGE STEINBRENNER that they used to do on Seinfeld!
Doug @ 16:
Stupid , drunken children like himself .............
He stated there are 27 million "gallons" of diesel and gas in Anwar. We use more than that in 1 day.
Is this Bush person a mental retard or a dummy with a wonky battery?
Doug @ 16:
Stupidity, ignorance and some of the worlds finest no-nothing-ism.
OH MY GOD!!! That man is CLEARLY drunk!!! Does no one else see that?
Magic wand for Bush? I don't think so - he's not as "special" as he thinks.
Besides - these PNAC power-hungry egomaniacs don't need a magic wand beyond the one they're already wanking in their pants.
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Doug @ 16:
29%'ers.
I'm stuck working in Texass for a couple of days. Going to take a few hot showers to wash all the shame off me.
If we gave him permission to drill in ANWAR - they wouldn't have any results for 10 years. I heard an analyst say oil from ANWAR would lower gas prices by about 10 cents a gallon. Others point out that they would sell ANWAR oil overseas anyway.
He's holding the entire country hostage so he can get his grubby-little hands on the oil in ANWAR? What an callous, unmitigated, irretrievable, brain-dead POS.
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You wave your "magic wand" at me and I'm calling the vice-squad buddy.
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jwf @ 22:
They should be taxed out of existence.
The simple fact is that ANWR would have zero effect on prices. It's a literal drop in the bucket on the world market. And the oil companies don't want more refineries. It's not profitable. They've already been taking refineries off line.
You know, he could just sign a law that puts temporary price controls on gasoline. And he could arrest people who break that law. It's not a magic wand. It's just responsible government.
I've recently been studying the possibility of installing solar panels on my house.
It apparently costs about $37,000 for a 5000W installation, which could pretty much eliminate my electric bills.
$3 trillion (the cost of the current wars in Afghanistan and Iraq) would pretty much pay for a full installation on every house in America.
Just sayin'
Idiotland @ 128:
But they are given a tax break that lets people write most of the price off. I kid you not these Republicans thought of everything.
The Bush adminstration has done absolutely nothing for the economy in the last 8 years. Except:
1) U.S. dollar at record low
2) U.S. deficit at record level
3) War spending could have been used to improve the country and the economy
4) War has distracted the country, while other like China and India continue to improve
5) Zero on energy policy to reduce the economies dependence on high oil price
6) Probably a good $20 or $30 of oil price a result of geopolitical risk - Iraq and U.S. policies to Arab world play into this.
7) Housing and mortgage market collapse result of no oversight on the mortgage industry.
8) Zero on healthcare, which is an increasing burden on the majority of people in the country, both the insured and uninsured.
Etc. etc. etc.
The absolutely only thing this Bush adminstration can point to is tax cuts for the rich...
If you are working class lunch bucket voter you are absolutely crazy to vote for the Republicans.. they will do absolutely nothing to help improve you standard of living... I think the economic well being of your family is the "most" important family value...
Doug @ 16:
Bush has a ranch? What does he raise there?
Brush it seems like. He is always clearing the brush. It must be the favorite joke about the Traitor-in-Chief. He is out back "clearing brush" [snicker, snicker.] Must be because the horses are on the other side of the "ranch." Gawd how I loathe this sack of protoplasm
What.A.Stupid.Fuck.
Who is he trying to kid with that green tie ?. Does he want us to think he really cares for the environment ?.
Party at my house when this guy leaves Washington...
Way to go Bush! Use the national oil crisis to push the Neocon agenda of drilling in ANWR. Fuckhead.
Idiotland @ 129:
There U.S. Geological Survey has published estimates of 4.3 billion barrels of oil (95 percent probability) in ANWR. Americans consume about 20 million barrels of oil a day. If we substituted it for the oil we get from Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, and Venezuala, the ANWR oil would last only about 22 months. So much for ANWR being the answer to getting off foreign oil.
The sickest part of this so called press conference was the storied representatives of the fourth estate yukking it up with this idiot. They all look like losers.
Frybread @ 139:
I should add that even the highest estimates of the U.S. Geological Survey -- 10.4 billion barrels (5 percent probability) -- would only make the ANWR oil last for 3 years, 9 months if we substitute it for the oil we get from S.A., Nigeria, and Venezuala.
These Con douchebags sure love that "magic" wand line. Sums up their condescension perfectly :
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/04/20080424-9.html (Perino - Super Liar - April 24, 2008)
http://archives.cnn.com/2001/ALLPOLITICS/05/17/bush.speech/ - (Hastert the sweaty wrestler uses the line)
http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110011009 - (Huckabee)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/04/20050420-4.html (Bush Apr 2005)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/05/20050505-19.html (Bush May 2005)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/briefings/20010516.html (Fleischer - May 16, 2001)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/briefings/20010209.html (Fleischer - Feb 1, 2001)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/03/20010301-6.html ( Bush - Mar 1 2001)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/ask/20060808.html - (Samuel Bodman - Secretary of Energy - Aug 8, 2006)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/ask/20060425.html - (Samuel Bodman - Secretary of Energy - Apr 25, 2006)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/ask/20050808.html - (Samuel Bodman - Secretary of Energy - Aug 8, 2005)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/06/20070618.html - (Tony Snow - June 18, 2007)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/04/20060424-5.html - (Bush - Apr 24, 2006)
And on and on.......
This is definitely an administration-wide GOP talking point.
Makes their "wishes" a little less genuine and heartfelt, no?
Wake up America, before it is too late for all of us on this planet!
studiotodd @ 122:
yeah, he seems to be. but it's hard to tell the intoxication from the neurological disorder he seems to be suffering from. i really mean that, there seems to be some kinda short circuit up there. some kinda early-stage dementia or something.
Feh. Drunk AGAIN! Fuggin loser.
boosh ain't drunk
Just hitting on the pickle juice.
"...if there was a magic wand..."
"...you made me lose my train of thought..."
"...in the late 1900's...uh...uh in the 1990's..."
You can smell the desperation on his breath.
Is this really our president???
"Asymmetrical warfare" does not mean "killing innocent people". What galactically stupid fuckwit that man is.
"Asymmetrical warfare" is code for "army vs. populace".
Pounding the podium, shouting... if he were speaking German, I don't think anyone would still miss the Hitler comparisons.
Do you all realize how much fuel every damn town is spending on Police protection from no one. In order to make it look good they show crime 24/7 on TV. Ha Ha Lookl what they are doing your local news will show you crime from all over the country and soon they will be showing you illegal ciggerette smugglers in South pole. Fear Fear Fear and to give the auspice of dangerous world they are arresting people outside with no where else to go, saying you are violating curfew, or whatever because they know homeless can't afford a lawyer.
Drilling in ANWR will send a clear message! To the... the caribou! Yeah! Those fucking terrorist caribou!
Here's an idea. If drilling in ANWR is such a vital thing for our national interests, and considering it's public land, and the oil companies are making record profits...
Let's let them drill there, but disallow all profit from the venture. It's just their patriotic duty.
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