Comments on: SHARP LEFT TURN AHEAD

By: funny man

funny man — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 22:35:30 +0000

thought this was interesting but slightly off-topic. (sorry Rick, but I did tead your post)

http://www.amconmag.com/article/2008/nov/03/00024/

By: Robert Wegrzen

Robert Wegrzen — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 22:11:18 +0000

“Profits are evil and the only way to redeem this dirty money is to “go green” and slavishly adhere to an arbitrary set of rules about how much a company is allowed to make, what it must do with its profits.”

Enron to the rescue!

By: Chuck Tucson

Chuck Tucson — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 21:29:07 +0000

bizjetmech,

Meh. Congratulations on your eight year run. I simply can’t fathom why we’re not living in a republican utopia right now. Or maybe that’s what this is.

By: Larry, your brother

Larry, your brother — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 16:08:37 +0000

Only time will tell what direction this President and Congress take us, but, honestly, people that write on this blog have to take it a little easy for now. We’re 4 days after the election and someone is talking about revolution. Wait until he does something to get freaked out. As for Emmanuel, read the WSJ editorial–I couldn’t agree with it more (and I never, I mean never, agree with the WSJ editorial board). This is a guy who’s best friend in the house appears to be the retiring Republican rep from Peoria. Again, wait until he does something WITH THIS PRESIDENT before you freak out. And I have to agree with the poster who talked about the makeup of this Congress. Yes, it’s going to lean left–more people across the country voted for Democrats this year that Republicans. But look at who those Democrats are. They are not the wild eyed, 60s liberals you apparently fear. These are pro-life, pro-second ammendment, Iraq war vet Democrats (at least some are). The agenda will have issues like healthcare that the peopele are apparently worried about. But that doesn’t mean that, sometime in the next couple of months, you’re going to wake up in Sweeden.

By: Two Dogs

Two Dogs — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 07:22:47 +0000

I think that I have a plan for the future.

The Republican future.

By: bizjetmech

bizjetmech — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 04:03:51 +0000

For Chuck and you lefties out there…..

I have always gotten a kick out of you people claiming the 2000 and 2004 elections were “stolen” when you lost. I actually got into quite a long argument with one commenter on this site in about it…..the Diebold voting machines and Ohio and, well you know, those nasty repubs stole the election.

“Answer me this” ….where were all those nasty repub thieves in this election…what, they just gave up supporting their cause, decided not to rig the machines this time? decided not to screw with the ballots this time? Lost the code to reprogram the computers this time, couldn’t find Ohio? ?

Oh,I know, maybe ACORN scared them off…..

oh, I know, they tried, just weren’t able to pull it off this time…..

Or….maybe, just maybe, the elections were close and NOBODY….ya know, NOBODY stole anything?

Your lefty idiocy is breathtaking.

By: sknabt

sknabt — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 03:32:03 +0000

I don’t know if Barack Obama is going to be overwhelmed by history like Dubya and make the equal horse’s ass out of himself or he’ll be one of the great memories to inhabit the White House and they’ll find some way to carve his mug on Mt. Rushmore. Likely in between.

But, IMHO, the lefty netroots are going to be disappointed both by Congress and Obama.

“Impeach Bush!” The netroots have been screaming for it and the right-wingers have tied themselves into hysterical knots expecting it. Yet, Pelosi, Reid, and Company roll into DC with a majority and quietly kick it to the curb.

Yet, the right-wingers keep on bashing them as extremist nuts; the left-wingers think they see the promised land.

Sure, Congress will be left of center but centrist it will be and Obama will keep them steady on that course. It’s their only safe course to remain in power for the long haul.

Health care will be a compromise bill, if it passes at all.

Like Bush, Rove, and Company shamefully used the social conservatives, particularly evangelicals, Obama will use the lefties. They’ll whine and whimper but they’ll stomach it because the alternative is unthinkable.

The far right and the far left while composing the critical base of party support are too radical to rule for long. They get on their knees each election to be used as a stepping stool for party bosses climbing to power.

By: J in Stl

J in Stl — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 01:03:38 +0000

Just a note on the article. Hydrogen is not an energy source. It does not exist in free form on Earth. It has to be made. Primary source of H2 is natural gas. Electrolysis is about 12% efficient. Unfortunately, most of the “alternate energy” concepts are about as well founded. This may explain why so little progress is made. Can we say “corn based ethanol”?

By: Harriet Hopkins

Harriet Hopkins — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 23:54:18 +0000

Its times like this makes you wish the South had won the Civil War.

By: Chuck Tucson

Chuck Tucson — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 23:19:52 +0000

I didn’t say they were.