Both parties are responsible for high fuel prices, as well as many other factors such as the dollar's devaluation and China's purposeful misrepresenting the value of their currency.

Environmentalists are Democrats...so, yeah....


Democrats consistently oppose drilling for more oil and building refineries.

Duh...

Well, it's better than "Vote Christain - Vote republican."

I'm also noticing weird traces of idiocy leaking from Florida across the Gulf of Mexico into Texas. Or is that just me?

Haha, these farks are D-Luded

If there's one thing Republicans are good at, its projecting their own failures and shortcomings, e.g.

Blame Democrats for high gas prices!
They are fiscally irresponsible!
Liberals want to take all your freedoms!
Obama's wife is a racist!

Wow, that's sad. Even aside from the sentiment, when the sloganeering is that pathetic, we're looking at a massacre.

"High gas prices? Thank a Democrat politician this November"

That is all.

Bush's war and market speculation is responsible for high gas prices.

It's Bush's economic policies that have killed the value of the dollar. In 3 years the price of oil in dollars has tripled. In Euros, the price has only doubled. What is the republican plan to combat the falling value of the American dollar? We're waiting.

How about "Got nuthin"?

3_Butt_Cheeks: Both parties are responsible for high fuel prices, as well as many other factors such as the dollar's devaluation and China's purposeful misrepresenting the value of their currency.

How can you blame the dollar devaluation on the Democrats when the Feds are printing money as fast as they can? Who decided to no longer release the M3 figures? And China tying their currency to the dollar is a bad thing?

WHAT?

Crude: Environmentalists are Democrats...so, yeah....

Democrats consistently oppose drilling for more oil and building refineries.

Duh...

Do you believe that if we drilled every hole in this country that might produce oil the price of gas would go down? Are you really that uneducated as to how it all works?

Come on, tell me that was a troll.

And by the way, if you want to make a comment on that article you can email some guy named Aman Batheja - which sounds like a terrorist to me.

That doesn't even make any sense. Bush was in office for the last 8 years and if they're talking about congress, gas prices were rising before they got their tiny majority.

Party Boy: another slice of rising oil prices, in here

"War at Any Cost? The Total Economic Costs of the
War Beyond the Federal Budget," written testimony for the Joint Economic Committee, February 28, 2008.

Crude: Environmentalists are Democrats...so, yeah....


Democrats consistently oppose drilling for more oil and building refineries.

Duh...

Crappy troll is crap.

Random Reality Check: 3_Butt_Cheeks: Both parties are responsible for high fuel prices, as well as many other factors such as the dollar's devaluation and China's purposeful misrepresenting the value of their currency.

How can you blame the dollar devaluation on the Democrats when the Feds are printing money as fast as they can? Who decided to no longer release the M3 figures? And China tying their currency to the dollar is a bad thing?

WHAT?

Crude: Environmentalists are Democrats...so, yeah....

Democrats consistently oppose drilling for more oil and building refineries.

Duh...

Do you believe that if we drilled every hole in this country that might produce oil the price of gas would go down? Are you really that uneducated as to how it all works?

Come on, tell me that was a troll.

And by the way, if you want to make a comment on that article you can email some guy named Aman Batheja - which sounds like a terrorist to me.

I believe many factor contribute to this mess. The American consumer and the willingness to go into such debt without means or a plan to get out of the red. American mortgage debt accumulation of the past 6 years equals the combined mortgage debt accumulation of the previous half century.

The outlook investors have for the future of the market.
The United States, the world's record debtor, is at a massive relative disadvantage to the nations of the world which have a stronger productive base due to marketable exports. ie : We import more than we export.

A (R) President and a (D) congress have done little to fix these issues.

that is a google

Rovian: It's Bush's economic policies that have killed the value of the dollar. In 3 years the price of oil in dollars has tripled. In Euros, the price has only doubled. What is the republican plan to combat the falling value of the American dollar? We're waiting.

If you believe this was unintentional, read Ben Bernanke's thesis where he talks about hyperinflation as being our friend and even makes the claim that we would be able to nullify our national debt if our currency crashed.

I see the hillaryis44 crowd was in Florida last night writing slogans of their own.

Crude: Environmentalists are Democrats...so, yeah....


Democrats consistently oppose drilling for more oil and building refineries.

Duh...

More oil drilled here in the US would go right into the global market, and would only drop prices by a few cents. By around 2025...

Republicans had plenty of time to deal with the speculation market, and did nothing. Unless half the oil drills stopped working in the last few years, the supply chain is not the reason why prices are so high.

Crude: Democrats consistently oppose drilling for more oil and building refineries.

Which would basically drop prices by what, $15/barrel at most?

Random Reality Check: Rovian: It's Bush's economic policies that have killed the value of the dollar. In 3 years the price of oil in dollars has tripled. In Euros, the price has only doubled. What is the republican plan to combat the falling value of the American dollar? We're waiting.

If you believe this was unintentional, read Ben Bernanke's thesis where he talks about hyperinflation as being our friend and even makes the claim that we would be able to nullify our national debt if our currency crashed.

welcome to my favorites list, i only wish i'd noticed you sooner friend

you walk the snark line, you walk it well

RRC


If you believe this was unintentional, read Ben Bernanke's thesis where he talks about hyperinflation as being our friend and even makes the claim that we would be able to nullify our national debt if our currency crashed.




O'Wrry?

PC LOAD LETTER: Crude: Democrats consistently oppose drilling for more oil and building refineries.

Which would basically drop prices by what, $15/barrel at most?

which wouldn't change anything at the pump. the oil companies have seen that we'll pay $4+ for gas. they're not going to change that now.

besides, it's not a supply-and-demand issue anymore. supply is up. demand is down.

no, prices are high because of (1) speculation, (2) a weak dollar, and (3) tensions in the middle east.

Ahhh, FarkWorld- where every problem is because of environmentalists and unions.

Why is it the 26%ers are so much louder and stupider than the rest of America? I guess it's because crazy/stupid people both have lots of energy, and plenty of time since they can't hold down a job. Being stupid and crazy. And 7 or 8 alts.

3_Butt_Cheeks: I believe many factor contribute to this mess. The American consumer and the willingness to go into such debt without means or a plan to get out of the red. American mortgage debt accumulation of the past 6 years equals the combined mortgage debt accumulation of the previous half century.

How does any of that relate to the devaluation of the dollar? Did I miss something?

3_Butt_Cheeks: The outlook investors have for the future of the market.

It's their job to predict where the market is going - and almost uniformly we are going down. A few of the contacts I have in Europe believe that we will see another 18 months or so of steep decline and they are not investing in anything here.

3_Butt_Cheeks: The United States, the world's record debtor, is at a massive relative disadvantage to the nations of the world which have a stronger productive base due to marketable exports. ie : We import more than we export.

We do, but that doesn't necessarily impact the value of the dollar either. If our country is, for example, making the world's best software and selling it by the shipload, we don't really need to be "manufacturing anything "tangible" and in fact it is probably in our best interest to allow manufacturing to happen elsewhere. This is only an example, and a poor one at that - but you get the point.

3_Butt_Cheeks: A (R) President and a (D) congress have done little to fix these issues.

Kind of a stretch to blame the Democrats after they have only been in marginal control of congress for about a year and a half. What's worse is that really can't get any legislation passed that the president won't veto so the blame goes right back to the Republicans on this one.

To be fair, all the other slogans are pretty lame too.

SushiJoe: Random Reality Check: Rovian: It's Bush's economic policies that have killed the value of the dollar. In 3 years the price of oil in dollars has tripled. In Euros, the price has only doubled. What is the republican plan to combat the falling value of the American dollar? We're waiting.

If you believe this was unintentional, read Ben Bernanke's thesis where he talks about hyperinflation as being our friend and even makes the claim that we would be able to nullify our national debt if our currency crashed.

welcome to my favorites list, i only wish i'd noticed you sooner friend

you walk the snark line, you walk it well

Why thank you.
The pleasure is all mine.

Rovian: O'Wrry?

Wheelwy.

Hmmmm... how about:

"McCain? Ya. Because you were so "right" the last two times."

I smell desperation...

I'd like to see republicans keep passing the buck until they don't have any seats left. Good government means taking responsibility - and republicans have shown themselves completely unable and unwilling to do so. The only thing they do well is come up with stupid slogans.

KeatingFive: Ahhh, FarkWorld- where every problem is because of environmentalists and unions. unicorns.

FTFY

Partisan: If there's one thing Republicans are good at, its projecting their own failures and shortcomings, e.g.

Blame Democrats for high gas prices!
They are fiscally irresponsible!
Liberals want to take all your freedoms!
Obama's wife is a racist!

Its going to be like that in November. If Obama wins, they will lambaste him with EVERY fault in the country, blaming him for everything that has happened in the past 8 years.

If McCain wins, they will blame everything on Congress because of them, everything couldn't be rubberstamped like before.

People are going to vote for whomever they choose but fark please tell me that at least some Texans can see past this pedantic GOP bag of shiat.

Ahh, too bad most Americans are not going to believe you GOP. You can only fool them three or four times you know.

Rovian: Good government means taking responsibility

Indeed.

for good or for awesome: Ahh, too bad most Americans are not going to believe you GOP. You can only fool them three or four times you know.

26% or so excepted...

TheOther,

That is very not cool.

Intentionally skirting the filters is one sure way to piss off the ModAdmins.

And to be honest with you, it is kind of a disrespectful and immature thing to do.

The Reverand Smith

Pelosi is doing her job by keeping Bush out of impeachment hearings.

Rovian: I'd like to see republicans keep passing the buck until they don't have any seats left. Good government means taking responsibility - and republicans have shown themselves completely unable and unwilling to do so. The only thing they do well is come up with stupid slogans.

I agree with most of this sentiment, but I want them to keep some seats.

The democrats aren't republican, but they are politicians. If they have no real opposition, do you really think they won't screw us over?

bush has proven quite skilled at making decisions which tend to diminish the nation. The republican legislature helped him until a couple of years ago. He's still having his way with our future, but he isn't as successful at the moment.

To me, the best situation is a democrat in the white house, and a slightly republican congress. Let the democrats keep congress this time to get us out of Iraq, then bring on the gridlock.

For the bumper sticker crowd that likes to hearken back to the halcyon days of the 90s...

what was the price of gas in 2006 before the Democrats took Congress?

Texas GOP announces finalists for anti-Obama slogan contest. "High gas prices? Thank a Democrat this November" made the cut. No, reallly

Abso-phuccin-LUTELY it did. Republicans aren't responsible for draconian environmental policies that restrict energy producers' abilities to bring affordable energy to market.

/would YOU want to build a refinery if it was prohibitively expensive, and you ran the risk of local laws changing with the way the wind blows?

Mrbogey: For the bumper sticker crowd that likes to hearken back to the halcyon days of the 90s...

what was the price of gas in 2006 before the Democrats took Congress?

Well on it's way to the levels of today, thanks to the republicans.

I shudder to think where it would be if the republicans still controlled congress and the white house.

Texas is making a strong case for their very own tag.

Mrbogey: For the bumper sticker crowd that likes to hearken back to the halcyon days of the 90s...

what was the price of gas in 2006 before the Democrats took Congress?

What the hell has that Red Herring got to do with it?
If you're really interested, may I suggest Google?

thalidomide new and improved: Texas GOP announces finalists for anti-Obama slogan contest. "High gas prices? Thank a Democrat this November" made the cut. No, reallly

Abso-phuccin-LUTELY it did. Republicans aren't responsible for draconian environmental policies that restrict energy producers' abilities to bring affordable energy to market.

/would YOU want to build a refinery if it was prohibitively expensive, and you ran the risk of local laws changing with the way the wind blows?

Are you another idiot who is going to try and tell us that more drilling ot refineries will lower the cost of gas?

Supply isn't the problem jackass.

Random Reality Check: Are you another idiot who is going to try and tell us that more drilling ot refineries will lower the cost of gas?

Supply isn't the problem jackass.

Hannity is braying this talking point literally hundreds of times each show. And some folks, bless their hearts, just can't think for themselves.