Quote of the Day… 7/29/08
The Bear on Jul 29 2008 at 8:32 am | Filed under: Political Quote of the Day
Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) had slated for expedited passage through the Senate. With the legislative session drawing to a close, Reid has now bundled all of these bills into one massive package that he plans to cram through the Senate with one single vote. Learning of Reid’s plan, Coburn spoke from the Senate floor:
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That bill is coming about because myself and several other senators have refused to allow those bills to go without debate on this floor and without the ability to amend them. Now, some of them are very good things we ought to be about. But we should not be about it until we are going to inculcate and act as senators the same way every other family in this country has to act; that is, by making a decision based on priorities. …
By historical standards, this is supposed to be the greatest deliberative body in the world. In the 110th Congress, 890 bills have passed — 890. Fifty of them have had debate. Only 50 have had debate. And for most of those, the debate has been extremely limited and shortened through the power of the majority leader. …
So is it any wonder that only 9% of the American public has any significant confidence in the Congress to put forward their interests? We are going to be doing this at a time when the No. 1 issue in this country is energy security and energy prices, but we are going to put a bill on the Senate floor that grows the government, that creates 70 new programs, and spends somewhere between $25 billion and $50 billion.
I would tell my colleagues that most people sitting down to their dinner table think we have our priorities messed up, and they are right. We do.
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Leadership needed. President and minority leaders should explain this to America in prime time!
And just exactly how are the Democrats NOT liable for this one, dad? Any idiot knows that “speculators” is just a hateful term for investors, because everyone who buys anything for resale later is a speculator, including those tanker captains, those captains of industry in the oil business, and the corner gas station. Speculators in the sense that Harry Reid is talking about, those guys in the pit trading contracts everyday (of which I’m one, by the way, though I, like most these days, do it from the comfort of my home) make a liquid market. Imagine the price of oil if it wasn’t set every few nanoseconds. It would spike, shortages would happen, gluts would come when people thought it was dry. Look at any commodity that DOESN’T have a liquid market, and you’ll understand why those “speculators” Reid is talking about aren’t the real speculators, those guys are nowhere near New York…those guys in New York on the floor are called Market Makers, because they make a liquid market where anyone can go and sell their oil anytime, even months in advance, in order to lock in prices and assure profits. Otherwise, we would have a much harder time drilling and shipping it not having it sold first. But then again, anyone with any common sense and a basic knowledge of capitalism and the free enterprise system should have been able to point that out, and since Harry couldn’t, and since I won’t bother calling him stupid or willfully ignorant, neither of which he is, he MUST be corrupt.
Supply and demand, dad. That’s the only story. The Dems/Greens stop every refinery, every rig from drilling, etc., then go and try to SUE Saudi Arabia for doing the same thing. How hypocritical do they need to be before you’ll stop carrying their water?
They say ten years, but I haven’t heard one single oil man (and I’ve heard dozens, now, most with experience drilling in Alaska, two of them drilled just a few miles from where we’re talking about) who thinks it will take more than two years to get ANWR oil into an SUV somewhere, and most think they can do it within six months to a year.
What about all the producing wells they have capped because they shut down production in 85% of the KNOWN reserves off our coasts, including many wells that were already producing, in total, more than they wanted Saudi Arabia to pump?
What about not allowing nuclear plants not to be built in thirty years, even though it is the MOST GREEN of all the energy?
The excuse? The Dems are hand in hand with the CFR/TC/etc., trying to destroy America in order to bring about a World Government.