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September 17th 2008

Mixed Messages

Barack Obama, “Mr. ‘Present,’” may not know enough to cast a vote most of the time, but he doesn’t need no stinkin’ commission to get to the bottom of all the shaky financial products and greedy financial players that combined to trash the American investment economy:

Campaigning in the critical battleground state of Colorado, Obama said,

“This isn’t 9/11. We know how we got into this mess. What we need now is leadership that gets us out. I’ll provide it. John McCain won’t.”

Meanwhile, leader of Dem congressional incompetency NanPo has her own ideas:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has ordered a broad, swift investigation of Wall Street and will demand testimony from Bush administration officials and captains of finance, congressional officials said.

House Democrats plan to aggressively look at the administration’s role in the meltdown over the weekend and to explore further regulation and government structures that would be taken up under the new president.

So, Dems, which is it?  Do we know what’s going on and are already all set to push the blame onto the GOP, or do we need hearings – in effect a commission held by congress – to push the blame onto the GOP?  The truth: Obama is lying saying things the MSM should dig into but won’t.  His party wants to investigate, wants to dig into the mess, wants to do the work of a commission, but he doesn’t want to call for a commission because it wouldn’t be unbalanced enough for him.  And worse, it might take time.  With congressional hearings in a Dem-controlled Congress, he’ll be able to count on results that will damage McCain coming out in late October or very early in November.

And therein is the Dem deviousness.  Obama can scoff at McCain’s call for a commission, all the while hiding behind NanPo, who does the dirty work of calling for another Dem kangaroo court.

Which of the three solutions sound best to you:  Obama’s head-fake towards no study, NanPo’s Star Chamber, or McCain’s commission?

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July 29th 2008

Quote Of The Day: Crusader Nan Edition

“I’m trying to save the planet; I’m trying to save the planet. I will not have this debate trivialized by [the GOP's] excuse for their failed [energy] policy.”
- Nancy Pelosi, House Speaker and Dem Demigod

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adame Speaker has become adept enough politically to stonewall all GOP efforts to force a vote on dropping the federal ban on offshore drilling, and based on this explanation of why she’s doing it – given in an interview to Politico - she’s going to continue her obstructionist policies.

Energy policy statements are highly politicized, so I’m not exactly sure what the GOP’s supposedly failed energy policy is, but if I can hazard a guess it’s this: Try to break through the Dem/Green logjam and create some new energy sources while giving some serious lip service to alternative energy. It contrasts with the Dem position, which goes something like this: Protect the earth from Demon Warming, fight oil at every turn, put your full faith in the unfulfilled promises of alternative sources.

The last month should have been an eye-opener to Madame Speaker. After talking about it taking 10 years for new oil leases to impact the market, we’ve seen an immediate drop in oil prices upon President’s Bush’s rescinding of the federal off-shore drilling ban. And we’ve seen public opinion shift dramatically – now even more liberals are supportive of off-shore drilling than are opposed to it, and 67 percent of voters support it.

So maybe, just maybe, we should trivialize the debate a bit, stepping off the global warming pedestal to discuss things like the impact of high oil prices on the economy and the poor, or the amount of doubt and disproof that’s been heaped upon global warming theory, or the wisdom of fighting for theories when it’s reality that really sucks.

But NanPo is fighting to save the planet.

Even though the Dems’ historic constituency of the poor and working class is hurt most by rising oil prices.

Even though whichever side wins the energy policy debate, the planet, which doesn’t need her help, will just keep doing what its doing in its long and ageless cycles, oblivious to the grandiose and flighting egos of Capital Hill.

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July 10th 2008

NanPo: “9% Favorability Is Not Bad Enough!”

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ancy Pelosi must be staying up late, struggling to think of ways to make Congress even less popular than its current favorability rating of nine percent. And by gumbo, she’s hit on it!

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said this morning that the House Judiciary Committee may hold hearings on an impeachment resolution offered by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio). …

Pelosi has said previously that impeachment “was off the table,” so her comments this morning were surprising, and clearly signaled a new willingness to entertain the idea of ousting Bush …. (Politico)

Meanwhile, Bush’s popularity is shining brightly at a comparatively wonderful 32 percent.

NanPo, my dear, may I suggest that if this moves forward you name the resolution, “Resolution of the House of Representatives Calling for the Pot to Call the Kettle Black.”

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