While they're losing, they're winning.
This is unbelievable -
"Exxon Mobil Corp. had a quarter for the record books. The world's largest publicly traded oil company said Thursday high oil and natural-gas prices helped its third-quarter profit surge almost 75 percent to $9.92 billion, the largest quarterly profit for a US company ever, and it was the first to ring up more than $100 billion in quarterly sales"
Even as the current Administation is under fire about Valerie Plame, the War in Iraq, the bungling of the Katrina relief effort, the withdrawl of Miers for Supreme Court, the total stalling of thier Social Security overhaul - all of it - even as things look the bleakest, they are still winning.
What was all of this for if not to get the results of the above quoted paragraph?
"Exxon Mobil Corp. had a quarter for the record books. The world's largest publicly traded oil company said Thursday high oil and natural-gas prices helped its third-quarter profit surge almost 75 percent to $9.92 billion, the largest quarterly profit for a US company ever, and it was the first to ring up more than $100 billion in quarterly sales"
Even as the current Administation is under fire about Valerie Plame, the War in Iraq, the bungling of the Katrina relief effort, the withdrawl of Miers for Supreme Court, the total stalling of thier Social Security overhaul - all of it - even as things look the bleakest, they are still winning.
What was all of this for if not to get the results of the above quoted paragraph?
posted by Angry Democrat at 10/28/2005 09:50:00 AM
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There should be some rule of law that applies, where if you're an 'oil man' or a former oil man, you're not allowed to run the government and you can't have anything to do with oil profiteering. You, nor your companies, nor your alliances, past and present.
Some type of stop gap that would prevent you from profitting from a commodity like oil or gas, or from profitting from a war fought conveniently, in an oil producing country.
This way, maybe greedy people would stop running for public office, if it were impossible to profit unjustly and unfairly in that position, and only people with altruistic intentions would want to get involved in government.
Damn Angry, you sure now how to spoil Fitzmas....
That idiot that used to comment here made some comment about none of this being about oil, gee I wish he was back so I could slam him.. Nah, I don't.
PLUS some of the old Repugs talked about how great Jeb Bush was at managing disasters, and now people are angry at him for the slow Wilma response...
my how things change..
In terms of oil, yeah they took from all of our pockets while we were hit with Katrina, that's for sure. And I don't want any Repugs saying that Cheney's stock is in oil services not oil..these are all their CLOSE FRIENDS and associates.. Any money made by Oil men now will come back to Bush and Cheney in the form of future business ventures, partnerships, CEO posts, and other investments.
Now if I can look at it somewhat more optimistically, I believe they took too much too fast and they will pay politically for every short term dollar they aquired through the bilking this year.
Anyone out there still think we should give tax cuts to the wealthy?
Son of a bitch that pisses me off! Believe me this is the mild version of what I was thinking. Polisci you are right on about how they should make it so government officials can't turn a profit on these types of things. THEN just maybe we could get some decent people with decent morals in office. People that would actually serve the people instead of having them served. Bastards
Ok that really bothers me. I've been worried sick about our upcoming gas bills this winter, last year they were over 200.00. for 3/mos straight.
I also heard that the reason some of the stores are putting out their christmas hoopla early this year was to encourage people to buy before they get their first big gas bill.
I wonder if my kids would mind if I bought them heat for christmas?
MRSJG, okay that last sentence pissed me off more than I already was. Your kids WILL get Christmas! This you know.
Uhhh let me clarify that... I'm not mad at you MRSJG, was directing that at the morons in charge.
Thank you DL, but don't worry...my kids will get Christmas. I was just making a point about how it will probably be for some people. Maybe Bush will send out more tax checks so we can pay our gas bills this winter.
I don't get it. At all. It's as if they're bullet-proof. Frankly, I wish something would finally bring them down!
::creeps in:: BOOOO! :)
Happy Halloween guys!
Boo
Happy Halloween.
Well today we "HAD" to change the wind as Friday was a shit storm (FINALLY) for Bush.
Ever notice how this admns lets bad news fall on Friday because we forgetful americans will have afurgit come monday?
I have oil here - so it will be a tight winter.
There will be Christmas -
Cheney made $8 Million alone on his stocks with the big H rebuilding Iraq and the Gulp is a beautiful thing for him.
Stay out of the candy. BE good.
Wait, can you define good?
Asking the media to finally be accountable to the citizens of the United States-I have to say, as bad and evil as I believe this administration to be, I blame the complacent and complicit mass media almost as much, in most of it's forms, for not ever reporting the real truth. If we knew about this stuff in the beginning, there might have been so much of a public outcry, that it would've been impossible for them to steal the elections, and hopefully, I won't leave chocolate fingerprints all over this page:
Ending the Fraudulence
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: October 31, 2005
Let me be frank: it has been a long political nightmare. For some of us, daily life has remained safe and comfortable, so the nightmare has merely been intellectual: we realized early on that this administration was cynical, dishonest and incompetent, but spent a long time unable to get others to see the obvious. For others - above all, of course, those Americans risking their lives in a war whose real rationale has never been explained - the nightmare has been all too concrete.
So is the nightmare finally coming to an end? Yes, I think so. I have no idea whether Patrick Fitzgerald, the special prosecutor, will bring more indictments in the Plame affair. In any case, I don't share fantasies that Dick Cheney will be forced to resign; even Karl Rove may keep his post. One way or another, the Bush administration will stagger on for three more years. But its essential fraudulence stands exposed, and it's hard to see how that exposure can be undone.
What do I mean by essential fraudulence? Basically, I mean the way an administration with an almost unbroken record of policy failure has nonetheless achieved political dominance through a carefully cultivated set of myths.
The record of policy failure is truly remarkable. It sometimes seems as if President Bush and Mr. Cheney are Midases in reverse: everything they touch - from Iraq reconstruction to hurricane relief, from prescription drug coverage to the pursuit of Osama - turns to crud. Even the few apparent successes turn out to contain failures at their core: for example, real G.D.P. may be up, but real wages are down.
The point is that this administration's political triumphs have never been based on its real-world achievements, which are few and far between. The administration has, instead, built its power on myths: the myth of presidential leadership, the ugly myth that the administration is patriotic while its critics are not. Take away those myths, and the administration has nothing left.
Well, Katrina ended the leadership myth, which was already fading as the war dragged on. There was a time when a photo of Mr. Bush looking out the window of Air Force One on 9/11 became an iconic image of leadership. Now, a similar image of Mr. Bush looking out at a flooded New Orleans has become an iconic image of his lack of connection. Pundits may try to resurrect Mr. Bush's reputation, but his cult of personality is dead - and the inscription on the tombstone reads, "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job."
Meanwhile, the Plame inquiry, however it winds up, has ended the myth of the administration's monopoly on patriotism, which was also fading in the face of the war.
Apologists can shout all they like that no laws were broken, that hardball politics is nothing new, or whatever. The fact remains that officials close to both Mr. Cheney and Mr. Bush leaked the identity of an undercover operative for political reasons. Whether or not that act was illegal, it was clearly unpatriotic.
And the Plame affair has also solidified the public's growing doubts about the administration's morals. By a three-to-one margin, according to a Washington Post poll, the public now believes that the level of ethics and honesty in the government has declined rather than risen under Mr. Bush.
So the Bush administration has lost the myths that sustained its mojo, and with them much of its power to do harm. But the nightmare won't be fully over until two things happen.
First, politicians will have to admit that they were misled. Second, the news media will have to face up to their role in allowing incompetents to pose as leaders and political apparatchiks to pose as patriots.
It's a sad commentary on the timidity of most Democrats that even now, with Lawrence Wilkerson, Colin Powell's former chief of staff, telling us how policy was "hijacked" by the Cheney-Rumsfeld "cabal," it's hard to get leading figures to admit that they were misled into supporting the Iraq war. Kudos to John Kerry for finally saying just that last week.
And as for the media: these days, there is much harsh, justified criticism of the failure of major news organizations, this one included, to exert due diligence on rationales for the war. But the failures that made the long nightmare possible began much earlier, during the weeks after 9/11, when the media eagerly helped our political leaders build up a completely false picture of who they were.
So the long nightmare won't really be over until journalists ask themselves: what did we know, when did we know it, and why didn't we tell the public?
My Husband and I were driving back from Montgomery and listening to some radio show that said "Halloween is a Republican Holiday because they scare people to death and then gobble up everything while they can".
DL- I can not define good.
Ever.. just don't OD on the chocolate - and ever think Bush "is the smartest man you ever met"...
Have you ever been here?
www.bushwatch.com
Unfortunately I can't OD on chocolate because my daughter passed most of it out to trick or treaters...wah!
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