en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/1477346 Comments by hayate1 http://biggovernment.com/sberry/2012/02/24/obama-targets-gingrich-in-energy-speech/#IDComment300906302 That's because he makes statements of fact that are actually based on the facts. Fri, 24 Feb 2012 23:48:50 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/sberry/2012/02/24/obama-targets-gingrich-in-energy-speech/#IDComment300906302 http://biggovernment.com/sberry/2012/02/24/obama-targets-gingrich-in-energy-speech/#IDComment300905334 Domestic crude oil production has increased over the past few years, reversing a decline that began in 1986. U.S. crude oil production increased from 5.1 million barrels per day in 2007 to 5.5 million barrels per day in 2010. [Energy Information Administration, 1/23/12] To date, 111 new shallow water well permits have been issued since the implementation of new safety and environmental standards on June 8, 2010. Just 7 of these permits are currently pending; with 12 having been returned to the operator for more information. [BSEE.gov, accessed 2/24/12] [American Petroleum Institute's Rayola] Dougher said that if all federal land was open to oil drilling -- not just offshore but Alaska's wildlife refuge and all federal land in the West that isn't a national park -- the country could produce an extra 2.8 million barrels of oil a day by 2025. Being that she represents the oil industry, Dougher gave the idea a hard sell. She said it would create another 500,000 jobs, add $150 billion each year to government coffers and shave a significant chunk off the country's foreign trade deficit. But one argument she didn't make was lower prices. "How would that play out in the market, what impact would that have on prices," she said, "we just don't know." [CNNMoney.com, 4/25/11] Fri, 24 Feb 2012 23:47:26 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/sberry/2012/02/24/obama-targets-gingrich-in-energy-speech/#IDComment300905334 http://biggovernment.com/whall/2012/02/17/cbo-real-unemployment-is-15-percent/#IDComment300128645 Well, people know things arent getting better for everyone bc of ongoing cutbacks necessitated by the tax cuts. But things are getting much better for the top 5-10% as the numbers show. Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:05:19 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/whall/2012/02/17/cbo-real-unemployment-is-15-percent/#IDComment300128645 http://biggovernment.com/whall/2012/02/17/cbo-real-unemployment-is-15-percent/#IDComment300127517 Of course they won't speak up. The adjusted real numbers look bad before Obama took offic e and clearly jumped under Bush. Furthermore, the Repubs are now in charge of the House and can filibuster the senate at will so pointing out those numbers makes them culpable in many ways. Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:03:16 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/whall/2012/02/17/cbo-real-unemployment-is-15-percent/#IDComment300127517 http://biggovernment.com/whall/2012/02/17/cbo-real-unemployment-is-15-percent/#IDComment300124725 Me! I am 'spewing' facts from the report cited in this post. Which part of my 'spew' is fertilizer, exactly? Thu, 23 Feb 2012 23:58:10 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/whall/2012/02/17/cbo-real-unemployment-is-15-percent/#IDComment300124725 http://biggovernment.com/whall/2012/02/17/cbo-real-unemployment-is-15-percent/#IDComment300112086 Yea, Bush this....lets just get over the facts and blame the whole thing on the guy who stepped into the shi..storm. Thu, 23 Feb 2012 23:35:38 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/whall/2012/02/17/cbo-real-unemployment-is-15-percent/#IDComment300112086 http://biggovernment.com/libertychick/2012/02/23/big-labor-money-unites-media-matters-and-the-white-house/#IDComment300109830 What a bunch of nonsense! The DC report is devoid of substance and full of innuendo, conspiracy crap and accusations. Oh no, MMfa feeds facts to the media and, those liberal pinheads actually use the data in their reporting! What a story! Media watchdog influences the media by using real facts and exposing propaganda. The unions, liberal fat-cats and Obama are conspiring to ruin this country with their pesky support of journalistic objectivity and factual reporting! How dare they point out lies and misinformation . Dont they know that facts make politics complicated and hard to understand? Better to just stick to theories, lies and dogma that sums up everything in a few words. We understand that so it must be true. Jeeesh, show me data supporting some meaningful thesis, say, along the lines that MMfa is feeding compliant journalists falsehoods and political talking points. You know, like Fox does in concert with the repubs, the Kochs, the heritage etc. Then you have a valid basis for complaint. Thu, 23 Feb 2012 23:31:33 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/libertychick/2012/02/23/big-labor-money-unites-media-matters-and-the-white-house/#IDComment300109830 http://biggovernment.com/whall/2012/02/17/cbo-real-unemployment-is-15-percent/#IDComment294918922 The high rate of unemployment began under Bush and has edged down under Obama. The report you site also points out that the policies needed to further reduce unemployment include more stimulus spending to deal with the lack of demand plaguing our economy. An approach that Obama has pushed on with very limited success bc of conservative opposition to stimulus spending. The policies that caused the unemployment levels and recession preceded the Obama admin. The policies needed to turn things around have been vigorously undercut by those who support policies that caused this mess. At least according to the report you cite. Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:59:04 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/whall/2012/02/17/cbo-real-unemployment-is-15-percent/#IDComment294918922 http://biggovernment.com/whall/2012/02/17/cbo-real-unemployment-is-15-percent/#IDComment294908535 The high rate of unemployment began under Bush and has edged down under Obama. The report you site also points out that the policies needed to further reduce unemployment include more stimulus spending to deal with the lack of demand plaguing our economy. An approach that Obama has pushed on with very limited success bc of conservative opposition to stimulus spending. The policies that caused the unemployment levels and recession preceded the Obama admin. The policies needed to turn things around have been vigorously undercut by those who support policies that caused this mess. At least according to the report you cite. Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:45:10 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/whall/2012/02/17/cbo-real-unemployment-is-15-percent/#IDComment294908535 http://biggovernment.com/jpollak/2012/01/02/ron-paul-is-no-more-pro-israel-than-barack-obama/#IDComment254756297 Well, Halliburton is now a foreign company so it seems that we chose foreign. Halliburton has many competitors here and abroad. 37 or so in all. I think that you are missing the point, which is that Halliburton did slipshod work, over-billing , graft, embezzlement and unfinished projects that they fully charged for, not to mention the CEO found guilty of taking bribes. To avoid further problems they left the states. Good ole American company? I am saying that had the bid been awarded competitively then we , the taxpayers , would have gotten a better deal or at least not had 10s of billions of our dollars stolen by Halliburton and it's subs. Halliburton is 100x bigger than the Solyndra thing. Wed, 4 Jan 2012 08:51:27 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/jpollak/2012/01/02/ron-paul-is-no-more-pro-israel-than-barack-obama/#IDComment254756297 http://biggovernment.com/jpollak/2012/01/02/ron-paul-is-no-more-pro-israel-than-barack-obama/#IDComment254276870 A man of character and integrity is a man who says what he believes is true and correct whether it is popular or not. Whether he gets vilified or offered payola or threatened makes not difference to that man. Such a man is unbending, unless he is shown a error in his thinking that is proved with facts and reasoned argument. Then, his core integrity forbids him any other option except the truth. Blind adherence to theories, even as they are proven wrong , or blind loyalty to people who he knows to be doing harm and /or acting against his core principles , is a also not a man of integrity. I am not a Ron Paul supporter, but he clearly is the only candidate for President currently that can be called a man of integrity--albeit still with some issues. Which off the others says what they really think and believe, supported by reality? Who is more of a loon, the man responds to something like violence with more violence even though it begets more and more response and more and more, never creating positive outcomes, never anything but more death and destruction, or the man who challenges this sad status quo by advocating a different approach? Tue, 3 Jan 2012 23:58:31 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/jpollak/2012/01/02/ron-paul-is-no-more-pro-israel-than-barack-obama/#IDComment254276870 http://biggovernment.com/jpollak/2012/01/02/ron-paul-is-no-more-pro-israel-than-barack-obama/#IDComment254260233 Well, there certainly are a lot of aggressive statements made by those players against Israel. But i think that a declaration of war is something that they avoid as a matter of survival. To my thinking, and I may be wrong, a declaration of war is followed by actual war or is the result of being attacked. It is a formal statement not made lightly or for rhetorical purposes. Iran and the others often seem to say that they want Israel gone and killed as well as all manner of hateful rhetoric, but always just short of declaring war. All of those countries know with certainly that to declare war on Israel will all but ensure their destruction. To declare war on Israel is to declare war on America as our military support is unquestioned. Not to mention that we are already active in multiple theaters and from multiple bases in the ME. AND, and this is a big AND, the Israeli military is considered to be one of the toughest, if not THE toughest , battled hardened military in the world. The Israeli military is considered to be the equivalent of a super power. Meaning there really are 2 superpowers in the world in military terms--and we work together. I doubt Syria or Iran want a piece of that action. America supports Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates unequivocally. This support supersedes democracy, human rights and sovereignty. It is stronger now than ever, according to Bibi and Ehud. Tue, 3 Jan 2012 23:39:33 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/jpollak/2012/01/02/ron-paul-is-no-more-pro-israel-than-barack-obama/#IDComment254260233 http://biggovernment.com/jpollak/2012/01/02/ron-paul-is-no-more-pro-israel-than-barack-obama/#IDComment254248628 Oh, I get. FDR praising Stalin as a likeable Christian gentleman is like the Israeli Prime Minister praising Obama as a dependable ally, one who keeps his promises. Not really the same thing for a number of reasons. First, I believe that Stalin, as a wartime ally of ours in the defeat of the Nazi's, was just that--a wartime ally. What he had done and did subsequently were not relevant to the position from which FDR praised him. After a long and ugly war those three sat together, victorious and determined to put in place programs that would rebuild and renew Europe and Russia without punishing the vanquished. It was not about taking a hard look at more conflict and enmity, it was about peace. What happened later was not foreseeable nor FDR's fault. Also, the way in which information flows around today is orders of magnitude different from the 40's, thus making it much harder and less likely that FDR knew alot, if anything about what Stalin may have been doing at the time. Secondly, FDR was talking about Stalin's nature in personal interactions and negotiations. He seemed to be a nice, upstanding sort of guy to FDR. To say that Bibi is praising Obama , even though he knows him to be a murderous, repressive dictator, as similar is absurd. The situation is exactly the opposite in that Bibi doesn't seem to really like Obama, but he grudgingly admits that Obama is a very good friend of Israel. Tue, 3 Jan 2012 23:26:56 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/jpollak/2012/01/02/ron-paul-is-no-more-pro-israel-than-barack-obama/#IDComment254248628 http://biggovernment.com/jpollak/2012/01/02/ron-paul-is-no-more-pro-israel-than-barack-obama/#IDComment254231434 Which President are you referring to? Tue, 3 Jan 2012 23:08:09 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/jpollak/2012/01/02/ron-paul-is-no-more-pro-israel-than-barack-obama/#IDComment254231434 http://tv.breitbart.com/bachmann-to-cnn-anchor-social-questions-are-gotchas-coming-way-out-of-the-past/#IDComment254221354 Challenge the media's strangle hold on information by not giving them any information! Good strategy to help the brainwashed American's better understand the candidates and the issues. After all, the media is not America, liberals are not America, Obama is certainly not America and anyone who looks like they are not America is not America. Question is then who is America? Tue, 3 Jan 2012 22:56:30 +0000 http://tv.breitbart.com/bachmann-to-cnn-anchor-social-questions-are-gotchas-coming-way-out-of-the-past/#IDComment254221354 http://biggovernment.com/capitolconfidential/2012/01/03/red-alert-new-unconstitutional-presidential-power-grab-may-be-eminent/#IDComment254165163 People. This thing is small patatos when compared to the much more important and egregious violations of the 4th and 5th by this Admin!! The military can now arrest and detain without due process or trial no less probable cause and a warrant , Americans if so ordered by Obama. That is the biggest issue of unconstitutional action and it barely gets mentioned. This consumer regulation hubbub is actually something that will help us a bit. Anyway, I agree that this admin is acting unconstitutionally but so is the congress and it is not this NDAA issue that concerns me. Tue, 3 Jan 2012 21:50:03 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/capitolconfidential/2012/01/03/red-alert-new-unconstitutional-presidential-power-grab-may-be-eminent/#IDComment254165163 http://biggovernment.com/jpollak/2012/01/02/ron-paul-is-no-more-pro-israel-than-barack-obama/#IDComment254151876 Hmmm, a good point. Since I don't really read many of the writers here I will say that I may be wrong, based on your explanation. Probably wont spend the time to validate it so you wont hear back from me on this matter. However, I will no longer make the general claim that this site is a narrow conservative propaganda network. thanks for the insights. Tue, 3 Jan 2012 21:33:03 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/jpollak/2012/01/02/ron-paul-is-no-more-pro-israel-than-barack-obama/#IDComment254151876 http://biggovernment.com/jpollak/2012/01/02/ron-paul-is-no-more-pro-israel-than-barack-obama/#IDComment254145619 Well, they are all very much intertwined. One cannot separate one or two and claim them as standalone reasons for anything. I think that this vastly oversimplifies the discussion and both sides, or rather many sides, tend to pull out one thing to buttress and argument. It doesn't mean that when they mention another thing later that it's somehow making a new excuse. Iraq has the 2nd largest known reserve of oil in the world. Bush's dad was and oil man, friendly with the oil sheiks in the Kingdom of S.A, family friends with the Bin Ladens and supportive of Israel over all others. He pushed Iraq out of Kuwait and afterwards Saddam attempted to have him assassinated and put his likeness as the entryway to a hotel. Bush the second was also and oil man, his VP was president of Halliburton who was the recipient of many large, non-competitively bid contracts in Iraq awarded by the VP who continued to collect his salary while in office. When the large scale corruption of Halliburton was being exposed little by little, the company moved from Texas to Dubai to avoid prosecution for their crimes. The CEO was found guilty of accepting bribes and was punished but the rest of the crimes are unpunished and the contracts are still going. The US's unqualified support for Israel and the House of Saud are the primary causes of the terrorist activities against us. So which is it? All. Tue, 3 Jan 2012 21:25:29 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/jpollak/2012/01/02/ron-paul-is-no-more-pro-israel-than-barack-obama/#IDComment254145619 http://biggovernment.com/jpollak/2012/01/02/ron-paul-is-no-more-pro-israel-than-barack-obama/#IDComment254134947 I see. My bad. I jumped to a conclusion about your question and was wrong. Since I didn't even make the statement which you questioned and I answered I operated under the assumption that he was referring to this blog and it's sister blogs. They are not pure propaganda but they clearly are political platforms for conservative views. Tue, 3 Jan 2012 21:13:09 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/jpollak/2012/01/02/ron-paul-is-no-more-pro-israel-than-barack-obama/#IDComment254134947 http://biggovernment.com/jpollak/2012/01/01/democrats-brain-trust-hit-by-antisemitism-accusations/#IDComment254118219 How is discussing general policy issues regarding Israel antisemitism? Further, how is calling someone an anti-Semite can be anything other than a personal attack? Policy: Are we providing too much or too little monetary support for Israel? Well, lets do a thorough evaluation of their needs and our capabilities after we first ask them for their views. Responses: !. I think that this discussion should be postponed for another year... 2. What are you, a Jew hater? Which one is a personal attack, 1 or 2? Tue, 3 Jan 2012 20:52:19 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/jpollak/2012/01/01/democrats-brain-trust-hit-by-antisemitism-accusations/#IDComment254118219