call them out Mr. President!

Great one, GC. I completely agree. Bush can solidify his legacy by taking the fight straight to those that would take our liberty and way of life from us.

Scoring political points by an Oval Office address outing the Ds is not an end in itself. I also recommend reading Hugh Hewitt’s latest column at TownHall.com If Drilling is that important act that way

An excerpt from the article:

I interviewed both White House Communications Director Ed Gillispie and Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne this week. I pushed both men on the need to get stand-by leasing of the outer continental shelf under way. Stand-by leasing would award the tracts to oil companies for set terms, conditional only on the action by Congress to remove the ban or allow it to lapse. The bidding process, which is normally managed by the Department of the Interior Minerals Management Service, should be directed by the president to prepare a plan within 30 days on how the areas offshore would newly authorized for leasing would in fact be leased, and on how to include incentives in those leases to get the oil above water and into pipelines much more quickly than normal. The opportunities to expedite new supplies are enormous: Offer a lower royalty rate for oil pumped within two years of the lease date, or extend the lease term as a bonus for early delivery.

Voters know the score, and they know more oil is better than less oil.

But they won’t fall for a political ploy. The offshore and ANWR oil is important. But if it is that important, shouldn’t the Bush Administration be doing more than talking about getting to it and blaming Congress for blocking the effort?

So I am not disagreeing with you. I’m just saying join Hugh Hewitt in calling for the Oval Office to do more.

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this brilliant tour de force by his Roosterness. Nail…meet hammer.

(So…when do you declare your candidacy. And can I come out to Gamecock land to be your campaign manager? Wouldn’t need to do a lot; just grab a big box of popcorn and enjoy the show)

The last time someone took on the attitude of “let them eat cake”, that someone wound up being beheaded. Now, I’m not saying that someone’s going to behead the Speaker or any other Democrat but, at this point, all they’re doing is making people angrier… which is pretty much the response of the bourgeousie in the French Revolution.

If the Dems keep this up, I believe they’re going to see just how evolved their constituents really are. Human nature tends toward freedom, of thought and deed. Socialization gives us a modicum of civilized behavior but there’s a breaking point. We are fast reaching that breaking point… and I’m not talking just about conservatives, either. It’s people all over regardless of political affiliation.

When inflation outpaces wages, the bourgeousie has problems. It’s not the $4 gallon for gas per se. It’s the whole package of rising prices versus static wages. It’s not the plant closures here and there per se but the fact that the only jobs replacing them are lower wage ones… which the illegal alien population will snap up first anyway… and what the illegals don’t snap up are going to the teens, who incidentally enjoy a 60% unemployment rate regardless of what the adult population is sitting at.

So, if Pelosi and the Dems wants us to eat cake, then they’re going to have to back off their “share”. I don’t see them doing that any more than did the nobility before the French Revolution which resulted in a lot of beheadings.

Perhaps, this time around we’ll have some more beheadings, although I hope they will be more figurative, as in voting them out of power than actual physical acts. We are supposed to be civilized, after all.

last week, and said exactly what you have suggested. Also, he’s been calling on Congress to lift the ban on offshore drilling. etc. He’s constantly talking about this.

The American people need to do something, and that is get behind the President.

I made a comment in another thread, I think it was last week, that we needed to frame the drilling debate in this very way. I am in total agreement…the Dems are saying “let them eat cake” or in it’s modern form “let them drive less”. Only problem is the majority have to drive in order to earn the very same money that ends up in the hands of Nancy P and Harry R….the comparisons to the French Revolution are sureal.

Great job Money…It’s true, I’ve never seen an Impact as great as whats happening now.

I live in the OC…It is Crippling the economy here…GAS PRICES EFFECT EVERYTHING…

Decent beer is now 9.00 a 6′er….Act now!!

as he enemy they are and pursue them accordingly. He’s had seven years to learn that lesson, they’ve pummeled him at every turn and he just smiles and notes that they are “good, patriot Americans” who see things differently. He doesn’t have will or the backbone to take your recommendation, and you are 100% right. Actually, I’d like to see him go on the attack with a demand for network TV time when the messiah goes to Europe. Make it a coordinated attack with him and every Republican member of Congress holding media events all week.

McCain needs to launch his own attack and take his “good friends” to task. Now is not the time for comity. Now is the time for nasty personal attacks.

Don’t hold your breath. I’m afraid the best we will get is a hanful of Congressmen who are willing to step up do the right thing.

Where are the 527s when you need them most.

I hear what you are saying and agree somewhat.

More drilling buys more time, it’s not permanently solving the problem.

If I thought we would be as motivated (by pain, greed or “save the world”) to use this time to develop the technology to actually solve the problem, I would be in favor of more drilling.

If the pain of high energy costs goes away and the urgency/financial payoff for solving this goes away, I’m not in favor of it.

After the last two oil crisis, we did nothing once the pain went away. Will this time be any different?

$150 barrel gas makes some new energy ideas feasible that aren’t at $75/barrel. If there is enough profit, the market will solve the problem. And solve it longterm so we aren’t dealing with an oil crisis every 10 years or so.

Maybe we need to suck it up and fight through this. Whatever country’s marketplace figures this out first will dominate the next century.

I totally agree with Gamecock. When did common sense become politically incorrect?

I think it was Hannity on the radio earlier this week who said he didn’t get it and he’d rather have cake than bread, but I know this is one most people don’t understand. Cake being so tasty, after all…

What you need to keep in mind is that Antoinette purportedly said this all the way back in the late 1700s in France. In French. The “cake” is, I think, merely bad translation. However, she was referring to something you would Not want to eat.

The “cake” is the baked on, burned overflow from cooking in an oven or sloppily on a stove. You know that stuff you wipe off with the help of industrial strength cleaners or that you look for a self-cleaning oven to get rid of. That stuff.
Don’t have bread? Eat that.

*”Do the common people know this exquisite emotion of love? If so, it is entirely too good for them. That being said, GC, you can drop by at my palace any day!”-M.A. *

What a heartfelt and beautiful speech, Mike DeVinne. Thank you so much! If only President Bush will hear your pleas. Perhaps he will now.

the corn subsidies. A bipartisan effort to convert the current corn crop yield to ethanol by 2022 that was signed in Dec 2007, and then the floods came to the top corn producing states this spring, another major factor that contributes to the let them eat cake scenario.

• To Bush’s credit this past week, he did lift the executive ban on offshore oil drilling and if MS 9% Pelosi’s little temper tantrum this week isn’t evidence of Bush’s counter punch, what is? I crave more partisanship from the oval office myself, but looks we the people get to lead the charge on that theme.

• September 30 is the appropiations deadline for continuing the ban. ht to ibdeditorial.com page.

• Even the Santa Barbara Get Oil Out now have struck a deal with oil companies to drill 4 miles offshore. The tide has turned and hopefully turn into a tsunami that will make the anti oil types disappear from the face of the political landscape. ht to the blog “The Conspiracy to keep you Poor and Stupid” July 12th entry.

My take on the Dem’s refusal to expand oil exploration: it does not involve the Feds spending any money, and thus they will get no credit for it. Money will be spent on the jobs involved, and all will come from private companies, not the FedGovt. GOP and Pres. Bush must push the fact that jobs will be created by private companies for currently out-of-work Americans. Our economy will be boosted, and less money will flow to the countries that support groups that are trying to destroy our civilization here in the USA.

This is a no-brainer, which makes it a perfect match for the Democrats.

   By the end of the day, I think we really have to keep the pressure up on this issue.  While I’m not exactly in dire straits myself, I could be, were I supporting a family and paying bills for property, taxes and utilities.  I’ve been hearing about my sister and brother-in-law having trouble down in Florida and being forced to give up one of their stores and having trouble selling it and the half-million dollar house that they had built some eight years ago when things were going great for them.  I can see exactly who is being affected by the (Socialist-) Democrats’ antics here.

   I could still feel more pain than simply not being able to afford more than the one or two trips down to the shore or across the Chesapeke Bay to Baltimore.  If this continues, especially if the President and Congressional Republicans back down, I expect crude prices to surge with a vengeance and the industry for which I’m currently contracting (in banking, but with a project readily affected by fuel prices) to really take a hit.  It’s already experiencing something more than what the regulars consider a normal cyclical slowdown.  At worst, I could be back out of a job and possibly unable to do more than part-time work a little closer to home, if the companies that might hire me even want to do so…

   So… yes, I think we ought to be mounting a charge towards the Washington Establishment types over this one.

After all of the nay-saying by the Dem’s & MSM they finally got their wish; control. And look at what they have done with it!

While Rome burns, Nero fiddles (or fiddles around).

I agree, Pres. Bush should take this straight to the people. Not as D’s or R’s, but as a problem facing Americans.

The issues are reaching plateaus of significance and a failure to do nothing (in the House or Senate) is an abdication of responsibility afforded to them by the people. If the people don’t say “That’s enough”, this will continue until the election. Can we afford this?

A strongly worded message delivered to the people by Pres. Bush may well prove to be the catalyst required to get people off their butt and voice their displeasure at the do nothing Congress.

“Broadly speaking, liberalism emphasizes individual rights and equality of opportunity. … Including extensive freedom of thought and speech, limitations on the power of governments, the rule of law, the free exchange of ideas, a market, or mixed economy.”

This is what liberalism used to stand for. Now it is all about control, political correctness, speech codes, newspeak, paternalism, and state socialism. They have turned public education into public indoctrination.

If they are successful in nationalizing health care, their dream of a welfare state is well on its way.

Several political figures claim that political correctness is a serious movement aiming to change the nature of Western society. Thus, Peter Hitchens has written in his book The Abolition of Britain, “What Americans describe with the casual phrase …. Political correctness is the most intolerant system of thought to dominate the British Isles since the Reformation.” Lind and Buchanan have characterized PC as a technique originated by the Frankfurt School. According to Lind and Buchanan, the work of the Frankfurt School aimed at undermining Western values by influencing popular culture through Cultural Marxism.[18] [19] Buchanan, says, in his book The Death of the West; “Political Correctness is Cultural Marxism, a regime to punish dissent and to stigmatize social heresy as the Inquisition punished religious heresy.” [1][2]

1• ^ William S. Lind states Political Correctness is a form of cultural Marxism
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2• ^ Buchanan interview on Fox News
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PLEASE TAKE OFF TYHE PULLING A GAMECOCK BLOG!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AND GET YOU SOME HELP

PLEASE TAKE OFF TYHE PULLING A GAMECOCK BLOG!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AND GET YOU SOME HELP

“As JKF said in from the Oval Office as Blacks were being bloodied on bridges and hosed down in cities bridges led to, the issue is essentially a moral one, as old as the scriptures.”

I would like some help from scriptures. Where? On point better than generic. I am no scholar.