CJ: Mitch is a “FRAUD”
Joe Sonka July 27th, 2008
(crossposted at Barefoot and Progressive)
Well done, Courier-Journal, couldn’t say it any better:
Protecting speculatorsWhat a fraud Mitch McConnell is, when it comes to the ruinous gasoline price hikes that have hit consumers across Kentucky, and America.
Senate Democrats tried to curb the rampant speculation that experts say is part of the reason gas prices are so high. They were blocked by Mr. McConnell and his GOP followers.
“I’m with the guy at the pump,” Mr. McConnell claimed.
That’s not true. He’s with the oil guy in the White House.
He even tried to blame his 2008 Democratic opponent, Bruce Lunsford, for the gasoline price hike, which of course is a national phenomenon. How desperate is that?
Kentuckians know full well that gas has gone up everywhere, for many reasons, including the energy appetite of quickly developing nations like India and China, a shortage of new refinery capacity, instability in oil-producing countries and years of chaos that kept Iraq’s oil production stuck below prewar levels.
Mitch McConnell and his White House friends have done little or nothing about other major causes, like our national refusal to swear off the oil economy and to develop alternative energy sources. They have done little to effectively move Detroit toward building fuel efficient vehicles and getting out front on hybrids.
Last week there was a chance to do something about the oil speculators, who have played the situation and made it worse. But Mitch McConnell said no.
He and the oil industry crowd around George W. Bush propose that we drill our way to lower prices by opening up fragile areas. But such help would be years in coming and have little impact.
There is a critical domestic issue, and the Senate had a chance to start doing something about it, by handcuffing the speculators who have milked this crisis for all it’s worth — to them. But Mitch McConnell and his crowd said no.
- Mitch McConnell
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There was an interesting program on KPFA AM about the price of oil which aired at 14:00 on July 8, 2008. Dr. Michio Kaku interviews Thomast Mast author of “Over a Barrel” and Dr. David Goodstein author of “Out of Gas”. Both of these men seem to think that there my be some over statement of the world’s oil reserves to keep investment up in the oil industry. Mitch McConnell says that the United States has 30% of the world oil reserves. Dr. Goodstein says that the United States only has 2% to 3% of the world oil reserves. Perhaps McConnell’s claims will cause higher investments in oil companies and create more jobs, but I doubt that there is that much more oil to be found. The link to listen is: http://aud1.kpfa.org//data/20080708-Tue1400.mp3
Mitch Mcconnell’s last political ad was a piece of shit. Terrible stuff. I hope he didn’t pay anyone to put it together.
Heck, this is small potatoes compared to the almost half a TRILLION dollars deficit that the Smirking Chimp Bush has left in his final budget. McConnell and the Republicans have ruined this country. How can a patriotic American actually vote for McConnell???
Initiatives and resolutions put an issue directly on the ballot. Since Mitch was the first US Senate candidate to use Roger Ailes to craft his ad campaign years ago, what about a Kentucky Proposition to limit Mitch’s ability to become a lobbyist:
Ban Mitch for five years as a lobbyist.
Ban him or his staff from Floor access in the US Capitol.
Ban him from the House and Senate Office Buildings in Washington, DC.
Ban him from representing a foreign government.
Ban him from representing any of the interests he represented as Senator: oil, China, health care. Any other interest you want to add.
Let him have a five year cooling off period. If Kentucky starts the trend, perhaps other states will pick up on it. Remember Proposition 13 in California and Proposition 200 in Arizona.