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Merged The Perry meltdown

MaGZ said:
We should remember Perry was recruited by the Jews to stop Romney. Once Perry announced, he went to New York where the Jews (including Israelis) loaded him up with money. When they saw his performance in the debates they realized he was a mistake. Now their hopes are on Newt.
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This post is, of course, absolute nonsense. But thank you for showing your true colors. Tell me, are you also a holocaust denier?
 
AlBell said:
Biscuit said:
By all accounts I am in my right mind and I think it is doing something effective. Such as regulating and controlling the National oil reserve.

What do you see as the alternative once the DoE is eliminated? Does anything replace it? Are the task and duties farmed out to a state level? What is the plan beyond eliminating the DoE?
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Restart it with some Regulations on it that make a bit of sense; no more venture capital ploys (with other peoples money) ala Solyndra.

Or killing jobs: http://finance.townhall.com/columni...as_new_job_plan_kill_400,000_jobs_immediately
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http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/white-house-email-energy-secretary-chu/story?id=14934698#.Tr6KiIR0r8C

New internal White House emails reveal that a scathing critique of Energy Secretary Steven Chu by a former Obama political advisor was widely circulated at the highest levels of the administration.

The Feb. 25, 2011 email that sparked the deliberations landed on West Wing desks just as the solar energy firm Solyndra was starting to show outward signs of financial trouble. It was sent by Dan Carol, a former Obama campaign staffer and clean energy advocate who was described by Obama's then-Chief of Staff Pete Rouse as someone whose views "reflect the President's general philosophy on energy policy."

Carol's four-page proposal to restructure the Energy Department included the blunt recommendation that Chu be fired, and that his leadership team also be replaced, calling it time for "serious changes, even if they are uncomfortable to make."

"I would respectfully suggest that the president be strongly encouraged to make major leadership changes as soon as possible," Carol wrote.

Carol also predicted the political fallout that would result from what he saw as inevitable failures of the Energy Department's now-embattled loan guarantee program. He made the dire predictions when advising that Obama replace Chu with someone who was not "too associated … with [the] Silicon Valley business elite."
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DOE with Chu is a disaster.
 
Hmmm. Maybe H&HS was the Department 3 (if not 4 is better than 3).

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-smallpox-20111113,0,4293298.story

Over the last year, the Obama administration has aggressively pushed a $433-million plan to buy an experimental smallpox drug, despite uncertainty over whether it is needed or will work.

Senior officials have taken unusual steps to secure the contract for New York-based Siga Technologies Inc., whose controlling shareholder is billionaire Ronald O. Perelman, one of the world's richest men and a longtime Democratic Party donor.

When Siga complained that contracting specialists at the Department of Health and Human Services were resisting the company's financial demands, senior officials replaced the government's lead negotiator for the deal, interviews and documents show.

When Siga was in danger of losing its grip on the contract a year ago, the officials blocked other firms from competing.

Siga was awarded the final contract in May through a "sole-source" procurement in which it was the only company asked to submit a proposal. The contract calls for Siga to deliver 1.7 million doses of the drug for the nation's biodefense stockpile. The price of approximately $255 per dose is well above what the government's specialists had earlier said was reasonable, according to internal documents and interviews.

Once feared for its grotesque pustules and 30% death rate, smallpox was eradicated worldwide as of 1978 and is known to exist only in the locked freezers of a Russian scientific institute and the U.S. government. There is no credible evidence that any other country or a terrorist group possesses smallpox.

If there were an attack, the government could draw on $1 billion worth of smallpox vaccine it already owns to inoculate the entire U.S. population and quickly treat people exposed to the virus. The vaccine, which costs the government $3 per dose, can reliably prevent death when given within four days of exposure.
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Just ... wow. How many of these wastes of taxpayer money are there?
 
BenBurch said:
I'd cancel all future manned fighter programs. The next generation will be AI and no human will stand a chance.
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If nothing else, our 30+ year old fighter systems are proven and still able to beat anything our most likely enemies could throw at us. Why are we constantly blowing billions on bleeding edge tech that doesn't work?
 
Dog Town said:
How many States in the Union?

BTW- Anyone have a picture of Obama visiting the 56th one? No? The 57th? :D
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What's ironically funny about this meme is the Conservatives who think they're so clever when they say, "Obama thinks there's 57 states". They forget the rest of what he said where he referred to having 3 more to visit, i.e. 60 in total.

Silly wingnuts can't even get their insipid meme correct. :D
 
SezMe said:
Congressional pork. The popular synonym these days for that is "jobs".
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The 400,000 jobs mentioned in the article I linked to above is the tip of the iceberg of how many jobs Obama is blocking in the US. The formation in CO, UT and WY referred to is called the Green River Formation and is contains the same type of reserves as the Kreal in Canada from which the oil slated to flow through the Keystone Pipeline will come. Most of this lies under Federal Land so the production from this formation would also pay a handsome royalty to the US Treasury if it were produced. At a 20% royalty on 4 trillion barrels at today's prices that amounts to $72 trillion dollars in revenue without raising taxes on anyone. We would also save more than $540 billion per year in foreign oil purchases and keep the jobs and the money here.

But who would want to do that? If one does, neither Obama, nor any democrat, should be the voters choice in 2012.
 
Nope, thanks for asking.

I wouldn't vote for a national office Dem if you paid me.
 
AlBell said:
Most of this lies under Federal Land so the production from this formation would also pay a handsome royalty to the US Treasury if it were produced. At a 20% royalty on 4 trillion barrels at today's prices that amounts to $72 trillion dollars in revenue without raising taxes on anyone. We would also save more than $540 billion per year in foreign oil purchases and keep the jobs and the money here.
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Where are these numbers coming from? Its my understanding that the royalty rates vary greatly based on numerous factors. Each lease is negotiated separately.

Further more the entire royalty collection of 2011 is 11 trillion. Thats oil, coal, gas - EVERYTHING!

I think you need to look at your numbers a little closer.
 
Biscuit said:
Where are these numbers coming from? Its my understanding that the royalty rates vary greatly based on numerous factors. Each lease is negotiated separately.

Further more the entire royalty collection of 2011 is 11 trillion. Thats oil, coal, gas - EVERYTHING!

I think you need to look at your numbers a little closer.
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I think he is correct, though, we need to increase the royalties 600%. Best idea a conservative on these boards has had in, well, ever.
 
BenBurch said:
I think he is correct, though, we need to increase the royalties 600%. Best idea a conservative on these boards has had in, well, ever.
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In that case I am all for this new conservative plan to increase taxes on the companies that profit directly from the commons.
 
Uh oh. The meltdown has reached the earth's core and is headed for China:

Perry said he would "uproot, tear down and rebuild" the three branches of government as president:
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Right Rick. All by yourself, you're going to rip up the Constitution and rewrite it more to your liking. But I must admit, you've done something I didn't think possible: Made Michelle Bachmann look relatively smart.
 
Tricky said:
Uh oh. The meltdown has reached the earth's core and is headed for China:


Right Rick. All by yourself, you're going to rip up the Constitution and rewrite it more to your liking. But I must admit, you've done something I didn't think possible: Made Michelle Bachmann look relatively smart.
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This is Perry's Hail Mary. A desperate attempt to regain relevance by appealing to the Tea Party. I'm guessing he feels if he can get the crazy anti-government faction of the tea party excited he can get some momentum.
 
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