’)As I said, the Miers pick was a pick of weakness. Bush’s internal numbers must be telling him that he’s in the crapper, and this CBS poll continues to reflect that trend.
This CBS News Poll finds an American public increasingly pessimistic about the economy, the war in Iraq, the overall direction of the country, and the President. Americans’ outlook for the economy is the worst it has been in four years. Most expect the price of gas to rise even further in the next few months.
A growing number of Americans want U.S. troops to leave Iraq as soon as possible, rather than stay the course, and the highest percentage ever thinks the U.S. should have stayed out of Iraq. When given a set of options for paying for rebuilding the hurricane-racked Gulf Coast, only one taking money from the Iraq War gets majority support.
President George W. Bush’s overall job approval rating has reached the lowest ever measured in this poll, and evaluations of his handling of Iraq, the economy and even his signature issue, terrorism, are also at all-time lows. More Americans than at any time since he took office think he does not share their priorities.
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Ah yes, frameone.
The same Democrats who have been pushing for the drilling of ANWR? The same Democrats who have been lobbying for increasing the number of nuclear power plants? The same Democrats who have tried to get more oil refineries built? The same Democrats who tout hydroelectric projects even if the 2-nosed snailfarter’s territory may be pushed 2 miles to the south? And hows abouts those wind farms off Nantucket, Teddy?
Energy Policy Hypocrites, thine name is Democrat.
$3/gal gas? That all you got? Doesn’t that put us closer to the price the vaunted socialist Euros pay for gas? That’s a good thing, right?
damn them
Yes those would be the Democratic liars running all over town changing gas station signs to read $3/gal.
I wonder where people are getting the idea the economy is in the tank? Democrat liars?
Nah.
You have yet to provide evidence of any connection between Bush’s purported weakness, and his choice of Meiers. I’d love to raed it.
LOL! I am a Democrat, but rightisright cracked me up with his tirade. LOL! LOL! @ “snailfarter”!
Still have not seen any evidence that the economy is going south.
Moving up to a thread more comfortable………….
RiR;
Actually, if you adjust the amount of gold necessary to purchase a gallon of gas, in say, 1960 ($.20) and adjust for the rise in gold value, gas should be at about $4 per gallon. The closer the price gets to that amount the quicker the public is going to take charge of the issue of alternative fuels.
Oh please RIR. ANWR? That’s all you got? That’s your long term energy policy? Nuclear power? Where are you going to put the waste and spent fuel? Oh and what about that proliferation thing? NP has a lot of issues that need to be more carefully worked through than simply building them all over the country. And don’t even start with refineries. Your boy Bush has done a bang up job encouraging new refineries. From Bloomberg:
Gas Price Surge Under Bush Follows Unchecked Refinery Mergers
May 17 (Bloomberg) — President George W. Bush allowed an increase in oil refinery mergers to go unchecked since he took office and may have contributed to the highest gasoline prices in 20 years as the November election approaches.
The Bush administration approved 33 takeovers totaling $19.5 billion, on top of 21 deals worth $7.3 billion under President Bill Clinton, Bloomberg data shows. Reduced supplies were already pushing up gas prices in Clinton’s term, according to a Federal Trade Commission study conducted after pump prices rose to more than $2 a gallon in Milwaukee and Chicago in 2000.
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aI43GNSYkDDQ&refer=news_index
Sound government investment in alternative fuels would do a lot to relieve the energy crunch but whenever someone brings up biofuels all we get are “Oh look at the hippies driving in their canola oil VWs. Ha ha, stupid hippies.” Meanwhile Bush helps his oil industry cronies close more refineries and drill in ANWR. But no, it’s democratic liars that are ruining the country.
Hey, Righty! Republicans control the White House *and* both houses of Congress! The right wing had it’s shot at enacting a competent energy policy. Instead they’ve been too busy sucking off lobbyists, committing crimes, and covering it up. But keep up the shrill hatred by all means!
Preznit 37%
CBS sez…
Does anybody have any evidence of any connection between Bush s purported weakness, and his choice of Meiers?
Apparently Oliver doesn’t. I d love to read it.
also, frameone: {from the same article}
The FTC reviews regional concentration when considering refinery mergers, said general counsel William Kovacic.
“It may be possible in selected markets for individual firms to unilaterally increase prices, particularly where there are specific supply disruptions, but the capacity to do that is a separate question from the question did the mergers make it easier,” Kovacic said. “We think, and again it’s a fair point for debate, the mergers haven’t contributed to this.”
Kovacic said regional fuel requirements that prevent some types of gasoline from being sold in different markets may be more to blame for crimping supply [empasis added - fd]. Different states have their own requirements for additives such as ethanol used to meet federal pollution rules. California, for example, won’t allow the use of gas blended with an ethanol alternative, methyl tertiary butyl ether, or MTBE, because of concerns the petroleum-based chemical will foul water supplies.
“We have suggested in our comments to other agencies that it would be helpful if there were a more integrated approach to competition policy,” Kovacic said.
Flailing…………..
For trolls who must have an answer or else they get all pissy;
Eroding support within his own ranks=weakness
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9598551/
Leo: The article you cited is old news…
Is this evidence that some Republicans are unhappy with Bush’s choice?
It sure is evidence of Bush’s weakness.
The only “evidence” of Bush’s weakness so far is Oliver’s say so. Can’t somebody, anybody find a newspaper or magazine article? And informed (i.e., with citations) blog entry or editorial?
Some shred, some scintilla of evidence? Please!!
NEW NEWS; Old news is not evidence to Frank and weak evidence is no evidence at all !!!!
Weak evidence, indeed, and not corroborated by anything.
If Bush wasn’t feeling weak he would have nominated Owens, or Brown or other psycho right-winger. Instead he picked one of the Bushwomen.
Oliver: Just so you can tell one thing from another, here’s an article about Bush’s “fatigue” — read weakness — from the right. Notice that there is no mention of the Miers pick
http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.23311,filter.all/pub_detail.asp
We’ve been hearing from Oliver, of all people, about more and more Republicans having misgivings (to say the least) about the Miers pick. I have read, and seen on TV, nuch more. That makes Republican misgivings about Miers “old news”, in my book.
Also, those misgivings have nothing whatever to do with Bush’s purported weakness.
Oliver’s “case” hinges on what Bush might have done if he were not weak. Interestingly, he is the only one saying it.
Therefore, when I introduced a simple requirement for evidence — a newspaper or magazine article… informed (i.e., with citations) blog entry or editorial — he was unable to do so. Oliver might as well be (as Edward R. Murrow put it) “Shouting from the end of the bar.”
So the evidence is somewehere between weak and nonexistent. (Nota bene: I am not saying that Bush shows no signs of weakness — I am asking for evidence that the Miers pick was evidence of weakness)
Now, if you have an argument to make against what I said, make it.
Now is the time for you to stop gainsaying me, and contradicting me, and SAY SOMETHING!
Frank;
What would satisfy you? How about Bush ’shouting from the end of the bar’; “I picked her because I am weak !”
I’m sorry you just don’t get it; that’s not my problem…
I think the point is; hes’ weak
Let’s let the historians decide how he got there
Let me give you a hint:
Here’s my evidence that the Miers pick was not out of weakness.
I think the Miers pick was not motivated by Bush’s weakness.
Now I know you’re convinced, just as you expected me to be convinced by Oliver’s statement.
I know what you’re thinking: But, Frank, what evidence do you have?
Aha…
I was just sayin’
Yet another left wing un documented, unsupported, unproven assertion..