Thursday, August 14, 2008
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Bureaucrats Required For Auto Maintenance?
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Posted by:
Michael Medved at
9:31 PM
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New York Times columnist Gail Collins and other commentators have spoken out against what she calls “a weird Republican attempt to make fun of Obama for saying that if people kept their tires properly inflated it might save as much oil as we could gain by drilling.”
Actually, the GOP message isn't that Americans should neglect tire inflation—it’s that this shouldn’t be a governmental concern. We don't need a new federal department of tire inflation, or a president to tell us how to take care of our cars. What we do need is for government to get out the way of new drilling for oil by dropping ill-considered bans on developing our vast untapped energy resources.
In dealing with the energy crisis, as with most other challenges, the best solution is less governmental interference, not more.
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Deepest appologies--top oil cos make only 8 cents on the dollar. http://rove.com/articles/12
Surely gov't must step in on these gross excesses, as Obama sayeth.
PS yes I said rove.com |
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If you think about it, the average Dem is too stupid to know how to use a tire pressure gauge, so this is obviously a thinly veiled attempt to bring more illegals into the country to do those jobs that (Democrat) Americans can't or won't do.
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You are so right, Michael. I am so tired of Congress trying to micromanage our lives. This is just the latest in recent months. How about the congressional hearings on steroids, Spector on the New England Patroits "Spygate", and bringing one slaughterhouse owner from California to question him on his place's inhumane treatment of some cattle that were sick? I do think that all of these thing should have been investigated but Congress needs to let the local law enforcement and others do their job and get back to doing their job. |
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I am hearing Democrats speak scornfully about big oil, and their profits, and Barack Obama has even mentioned looting profits from oil companies to give it to someone else.
Doing the math: they say we spend $750 billion per year on foreign oil. They also complain that oil company profits are at $10 billion for one quarter. In a very very rough guesstimate (and I mean rough, for the sake of argument), they have a 14-cents-on-the-dollar profit, all the while providing jillions of jobs. And that is too much? Remember, leftists despise Walmart profits, and it only makes 1 cent on every dollar.
Not only that, these same oil companies are standing ready to SPEND their profits to supply more oil to Americans, and neither is that acceptable to these liberals. This is outrageous. Let's just find out how much profit is too much according to these big gov't loons, and how much is too much for Americans to pay for gas. I am just seeing a pattern of hatred toward the American economy!
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A Department of Inflation will be greatly expanded by Obama's hot air. |
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Michael:
You are correct, but unfortunately all those Left coast Liberals like Dirty Little Nancy, Houseshoes Pattie, Maria Can't Vote Well, and Barbara B. keep screwing over the country to kiss up to their Move On supporters. Figure out a way to vote them out of office and the Left Coast states of Cal., Oregon, & Washington might actually join the rest of America. |
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It takes the Government to really screw things up! How many government employees does it take to put gasoline in a car? Don't know because no government employee drills for, ships, processes, and delivers gasoline! |
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Laurelei you have to understand that liberals think that everyone drives while underinflated and also thinks that everyone else is mentally underinflated. Come hither with the new department of inflation! We shall inflate! Tires, economy, egos, government spending.
Poor Laurelei. You must think you are the head momma by judging all that may oppose you as childish. What do you do with a candidate that disses his grammy? Calls her racists after raising the boy, sending the boy to all the best schools that money can buy and rasiing him in an elitist environment. Momma better teach her boy some manners and dont diss grammy, cause anyone who disses their grammy will surely diss his constituents. |
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Laurelei wrote: "The backpedaling now being attempted on the Right to cover the childish tracks makes this even more amusingly obvious."
-- Uh, WHO is backpedaling? Care to prove this false assertion?
Oregon Elephant wrote: "Obama never proposed a government program in relation to tire inflation."
-- Not only that, but NOBODY has said that he did so.
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a government program in relation to tire inflation. He was asked by someone in a question-and-answer "what can we do as citizens" about energy costs. So he talked about inflating your tire properly as one thing a citizen can do. His reasonable response has been completely distorted.
By the way, I'm a McCain supporter. I just like the idea of the truth being told. |
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The GOP message was to mock and demean, by way of claiming that tire inflation was Senator Obama's only policy - and it didn't work. Once again, Senator Obama proved the adolescent McCain smear machine to be out of touch AND ridiculous. Thanks to NASCAR and Bush's own Energy Dept., the shenanigans on the right were soundly thumped.
The backpedaling now being attempted on the Right to cover the childish tracks makes this even more amusingly obvious. Perhaps "the maverick" should think a little longer and harder before he dives into the Rove sewer.
But quite frankly, I think that what we are seeing in this election year is the REAL McCain: jealous, nasty and totally unfit for office. |
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why this is funny, is funny.
Guess what, most people when faced with $4+ take conservation a lot more seriously than they do at $1.50 a gallon. That is normal. But tire inflation is not going to save us any more than any single issue will save us. Do them all! |
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Obama's just warming up; practicing for when he gets in-charge and can tell us what to do on a variety of subjects. Actually, this works out perfectly -- he's poised to take Bernie Mac's place:
-- America? You need to chew your food 30 times.
-- Ain't that about a b*tch, America? You're automatically signed up for a retirement plan UNLESS you choose to opt out.
-- America, I want you to be successful. But don't you go crazy now. For if you do . . . the tax man cometh. |
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