Roanoke Times takes a look at Nefarious Bob Goodlatte
By: VTYogi
Published On: 5/27/2008 9:30:17 PM
Check out this editorial by the Roanoke Times. We need more scrutiny of Bob Goodlatte's intimate relationship with George Bush. It's time to through the bum out!
Editorial: Gasbag politicking
Fuel prices too high? It's all the Democrats' fault, says Rep. Bob Goodlatte
Paying too much at the pump? U.S. Rep. Bob Goodlatte says you should blame House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. He sure does.
Goodlatte on his re-election campaign blog wrote an entry, "The Pelosi Premium," that basically scorns her and Democrats in Congress because they "have failed to show leadership.
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Comments
Three things (Lowell - 5/28/2008 5:43:55 AM)
1. I agree with you that Goodlatte is awful and needs to go.
2. This needs a link to the editorial.
3. Per our posting guidelines, please don't reprint the entire editorial; that's a copyright violation and is subject to deletion by the editors.
Thanks.
Sorry... (VTYogi - 5/28/2008 5:02:56 PM)
I was thought that block quoting was enough. Here is the link. Thank you for the correction.
http://www.roanoke.com/editori...
No problem... (Lowell - 5/28/2008 5:05:15 PM)
...just a friendly "heads up" for future reference.
GOP Blame Flame (hereinva - 5/30/2008 3:11:53 PM)
It is repeated on conservative blogs:
"Blame Congress for high oil prices" . Google the phrase and you will see it posted all over the web with a link or reference to a WSJ Op-ed piece by Mackubin Thomas Owens.
Blaming the U.S. Congress doesn't explain the WORLDWIDE phenomena of high oil prices.
Lowell has written extensively on the oil market with lots of excellent info. Not certain all the reasons why oil prices are high..but they are a-plenty:
market speculators, weak dollar, surging demand, lack of refineries, sub-prime financial crisis, geo-political instability, market monopolies and manipulation, and of course-congress.
Expect more of the "blame congress" rhetoric from desperate GOPers. Just waiting for the "rolling black-outs" a la 2000
The United States has not had (Lowell - 5/30/2008 3:14:42 PM)
a serious energy policy for decades, if ever. Republicans can try to blame Congress, and there's some truth to it, but they should take their share of the blame as well. Of course, they won't, but since they controlled Congress for much of the period 1995-2007, and since they've controlled the White House since 2001, that would make logical sense.
The oil business ... (j_wyatt - 5/30/2008 3:25:23 PM)
has controlled the White House since 2001.
And it's the oilmen in the White House who have set both a disastrous foreign policy -- Iraq -- and the non-policy that passes for a domestic energy program. It's all about what's good for the fossil fuel business in the short term.
Good points. (Lowell - 5/30/2008 3:34:13 PM)
I suppose we HAVE had an energy policy under the Republicans -- anything and everything for Big Oil, nothing to kick our oil addiction.
Yep. (j_wyatt - 5/30/2008 3:46:44 PM)
And their big solution is more domestic drilling: ANWR and off California and Florida. (The latter takes the NIMBY hypocrisy sweepstakes -- when Jeb Bush via his big brother vetoed Clinton policy to open the Gulf Coast of Florida to drilling.)
What are we spending monthly in Iraq -- $ 16 billion, is it? And that's the money they cop to that they can't hide in some other drawer.
Hmmm ... what would $ 1 billion a month for a Manhattan-type crash alternative energy project accomplish?