Moved to the front page because it dovetails so nicely with pilgrim's piece, below. - DocJ
The rise in the price of energy is hurting the economy. It is pushing up the price of necessities like gasoline, heating oil and food. It is greatly reducing the standard of living for low income families and the middle class. It threatens to push the US economy into recession.
Very soon, the Democratic Party will seize upon this issue and propose policies that they claim will help the poor, but which will actually hurt them. They will play class warfare politics and they will demonize heartless republicans and the media will help they play this game as they have for over 75 years.
Again, the GOP is looking at a softball they could hit for a home run and go a long way towards refuting the lie the liberals have make conventional wisdom, i.e. that the GOP doesn't "care" about the poor. Of course, the results of our policies refute the charge. But the perception persists because we are too polite and wait to react.
GO ON OFFENSE FOR ONCE FOR GOD'S SAKE!
To whom does the rooster crow?
President Bush, John McCain, Mitch McConnell and John Boehner in the District. All GOP governors in the States.
Please beat the democrats to the punch for once.
End all taxes on gasoline and heating oil. End subsidies for ethanol.
State and federal.
And while you are at it, push for opening up new areas for oil drilling and reducing regulations on nuclear power and oil refineries.
Americans face the possibility of $4 per gallon oil.
CALLER: Rush, I've been in business for 30 years. I've been successful. I have been delivering food to the state of Delaware economically, spectacularly, winning awards. My credentials are impeccable. I can't bring the food any more to the table at the price I'm bringing it because of Delmarva Power & Light, which is really not their fault, it's our governor. It's Joe Biden. These people are out of their minds, Rush. We don't need free health care. That is not the problem in this country. We're being crippled with energy. We can't bring oil out of ANWR, we can't drill off your estate at Palm Beach. No one wants to look at a derrick.RUSH: I wouldn't mind.
CALLER: I know you wouldn't mind. But there's something crazy taking place. The price of my kilowatt is a dime because they want to take the CO2 and put it into a cave and save it. They can deliver it at three cents. American Electric Power has been in business for a hundred years. They know what to do. Governors telling them what to do, how to build the plant, not to use coal, demonizing oil, a woman named Jane Fonda sits on a cannon and stops an entire world from delivering nuclear power with this movie she made --
RUSH: Exactly right. In fact, I watched a little bit of that yesterday. It was on HDNet movie --
CALLER: How does this happen, Rush? How does this happen?
RUSH: Fear.
CALLER: How do intelligent Americans allow -- why can't we build nuclear? We can create 40,000 jobs by bringing oil in from ANWR. We bring it by a pipeline, not with a tanker, no spill, no Exxon Valdez. What is going on, Rush?
RUSH: What's going on, it is --
CALLER: Twenty-nine states with 29 different grades of gasoline? We're paying over three dollars for regular. Rush, I don't care. I got the money. I drive only 12-cylinder cars.
RUSH: Thank God.
CALLER: I wouldn't put my grandchildren in no little mini-boxes. But I'm not talking about me, and I'm not talking about you. I'm talking about working America. They think they need free health care? They need two dollar a gallon gas, this country will explode. They're heating their houses. You think there's a subprime crisis, Rush? Yes, there's a subprime crisis. That's not the problem. People bought a house they thought their energy was going to be $250. They get a bill, it's $385. They go to the gas station, they spend another $40, so they stop coming out to my restaurant. They stop buying 24/7. They don't buy a newsletter. Rush, there is a domino effect taking place. It's energy. We bring down the price of a plasma television set. I bought one for $10,000, a Fujitsu. It's now $1,100.
RUSH: I've been there.
CALLER: We bring down the price of phones. We bring down the price of computers. Why do we bring up the price of energy? Why do you allow the Sierra Club to run this country? What is going on? These people are walking through the country and telling us to go on a bicycle? I need Larry David to drive around for four years in Curb Your Enthusiasm with a Prius? What is going on, Rush? We're out of our mind. People are calling up and saying he's liberal, he's conservative, he's this, he's that. They're driving themselves into a barrel. They're not going to get out, the Bo Snerdleys of the world. I'm talking about young couples. I've got two boys. They're trying to bring children up. They're getting energy bills that are knocking their homes out of sight. Nothing, nothing is more important than to bring -- energy is what makes this world tick. We're beholden to Chavezes and Castros and Putins; we want to go dig here, dig there. Can you dig in Alaska? Oh, no, we're going to kill a caribou. This is nonsense. This doesn't make any sense. How do we allow these idiots to get on television and talk about foreign oil? There is no -- Rush, you have got to lead a charge. It is not that McCain is reaching over the aisle, he's a global warmer
Redstaters, our prosperity is at risk. We can't wait till January 21, 2009 to address this. Action is vital now.
Mike Gamecock DeVine @ The Charlotte Observer
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"One man with courage makes a majority." - Andrew Jackson
They ought to be down at the gas station with the press just like Reid and Pelosi did when gas was less than now....there is just no good fight in these people...why...why? They make this person Jaded and crazy :-)
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