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Bob Dole Goes Freakin’ Nuclear On Scott McClellan

Posted by On the Right on Friday, May 30, 2008 11:44:22 PM
see-dubya  •  May 30, 2008 01:26 PM [Michelle Malkin's site]

Whoa, nelly!

“There are miserable creatures like you in every administration who don’t have the guts to speak up or quit if there are disagreements with the boss or colleagues,” Dole wrote in a message sent yesterday morning. “No, your type soaks up the benefits of power, revels in the limelight for years, then quits, and spurred on by greed, cashes in with a scathing critique.”

It gets better. Nicely done, Senator.

UPDATE: Commenter Iamsaved cautions “Don’t be surprised if the money trail [for McClellan’s book] leads to George Soros or one of his ilk”.

Oh, I wouldn’t be surprised at all.

Allah’s got some more questions about the book’s financing.

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Me Generation: Perpetual Adolescents

Posted by On the Right on Friday, May 30, 2008 11:35:59 PM

Here is how our baby-boom generation solves problems: Recently, George Bush went to Saudi Arabia to ask the ruling House of Saud to pump more oil.

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For the past five years, we fretted over a "housing boom" that had priced an entire generation out of the market. In response, government and lending agencies got "creative" by relaxing standards to allow shaky "first-time" buyers into the red-hot market of high-priced homes. Home-improvement TV shows proliferated on how to "flip" houses and buy "no-down-payment" properties.

When the bubble inevitably burst, cries of outrage followed about how "they" (never "we") caused a "depression" in housing. Our leaders shrieked about greedy lenders and incompetent regulators who foreclosed on us — never that the American people themselves caused much of the speculation problem, or that housing prices are finally becoming affordable again for new couples.

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Cap-And-Trade = Cap-And-Tax

Posted by On the Right on Friday, May 30, 2008 11:31:39 PM

We'll have to discard the old adage, 'Everyone talks about the weather, but no one does anything about it.' In this era of global...

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What Recession?

Posted by On the Right on Friday, May 30, 2008 11:28:59 PM
Many (if not most) pundits, economists and policymakers seem to think the U.S. is in a recession. And if polls are to be believed, so do the American people. Funny, the data just don't show it, at least not yet.

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On McClellan's New Book

Posted by On the Right on Friday, May 30, 2008 12:05:23 AM
• Couric: Nefarious Talking Point Coordination by McClellan Critics

• What Happens When the Ex-Press Secretary Doesn't Trash His Boss

• ABC's Raddatz 'Disappointed' McClellan Didn't Bash Bush Sooner

• CNN's Roberts:McClellan 'Articulates What We All Came to Believe'

• Couric: Iraq Coverage: 'Most Embarrassing Chapters in Journalism'

• Kurtz on CNN: 'Anti-War Voices Had Limited Access' to Media
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An Epidemic Of One-Sided Journalism

Posted by On the Right on Thursday, May 29, 2008 11:49:37 PM
Per Ed’s post below on the Washington Post’s climate activism -- the disease is widespread.  In Detroit last night -- that’s May 28 -- temperatures plunged to 39 degrees, just missing the record set in 1966 by half a degree. The Midwest is experiencing its latest spring in well over a decade, as . . . Go
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Brought To You By Those Brilliant Politicians In Washington

Posted by On the Right on Thursday, May 29, 2008 11:44:11 PM
Why are oil and gas prices soaring? Look no farther than Washington, D.C. “The U.S. Energy Catastrophe”
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Which Is It?

Posted by On the Right on Thursday, May 29, 2008 11:36:54 PM
Scott McClellan has done injury to the truth. “Scott’s Truth vs. Reality”

I have a few preliminary thoughts about Scott McClellan and his new book. I want to draw particular attention to a paragraph that appears in his preface:

Writing it wasn’t easy. Some of the best advice I received as I began came from a senior editor at a publishing house that expressed interest in my book. He said the hardest challenge for me would be to keep questioning my own beliefs and perceptions throughout the writing process. His advice was prescient. I’ve found myself continually questioning my own thinking, my assumptions, my interpretations of events. Many of the conclusions I’ve reached are quite different from those I would have embraced at the start of the process. The quest for truth has been a struggle for me, but a rewarding one. I don’t claim a monopoly on truth. But after wrestling with my experiences over the past several months, I’ve come much closer to my truth than ever before. (p. xi)
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What About The Constitution?

Posted by On the Right on Thursday, May 29, 2008 11:30:51 PM
“I think this a primary document of American history”
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Lost

Posted by On the Right on Thursday, May 29, 2008 11:27:22 PM
Where did the island go?  How did Ben and Locke get off the Island? Can't wait till next season.
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Doing That Voodoo That He Did So Well

Posted by On the Right on Thursday, May 29, 2008 11:15:39 PM

Harvey Korman, RIP

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Climate Debate Rejects Science For Ideology

Posted by On the Right on Thursday, May 29, 2008 11:10:35 PM

I'm not a global warming believer. I'm not a global warming denier. I'm a global warming agnostic who believes instinctively that it can't be very...

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The Carbon Curtain

Posted by On the Right on Thursday, May 29, 2008 11:08:35 PM
Czech President Vaclav Klaus warns that environmentalism is becoming a new totalitarianism. There is still a bear in the woods, but it's no longer the Russian bear. This time, it's a polar bear.

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Getting Oil From A Stone

Posted by On the Right on Thursday, May 29, 2008 11:04:33 PM
Exxon Mobil's CEO says his energy company's "corporate social responsibility" is to produce more energy. While Congress wants to tax oil profits, he wants to spend them to find more oil. What a concept.

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Speaking to reporters after the annual meeting of Exxon stockholders Wednesday, CEO Rex Tillerson shoved political correctness aside and insisted the science on climate change is not settled and "that to not have a debate on it is irresponsible" and that to "suggest we know everything about these issues is irresponsible."

He spoke of Exxon spending $8 billion of its profits on the Kearl oil sands project in Alberta, Canada. This project alone is aimed at recovering between 4.5 and 6.5 billion barrels of oil.

Finding such oil takes money and expensive technology. That money comes from profits.

Kearl is part of the Athabasca oil sands located in the northeastern corner of Alberta, near the city of Fort McMurray. The Alberta government's Energy and Utilities Board estimated in 2007 that about 173 billion barrels of crude were economically recoverable based on current technology and 2006 prices.

But oil prices keep rising and technology keeps advancing. These oil sand deposits cover about 54,000 square miles and contain about 1.7 trillion barrels of crude.

Oil is trapped in the shale in the Bakken Formation, straddling western North Dakota and Montana. The oil is trapped in a thin layer of dense rock nearly two miles beneath the surface.

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A Bleak Future

Posted by On the Right on Thursday, May 29, 2008 10:37:22 PM
Imagine an America where the government decides what profits are acceptable. Imagine our country with the oil industry nationalized. Impossible? Not with Democrats in control of Washington.

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"This liberal will be all about socializing, uh, uh . . . would be about . . . basically taking over and the government running all of your companies," Rep. Maxine Waters told oil executives on May 22 during yet another show-trial congressional hearing.

Meanwhile, Waters' colleague from Pennsylvania's 11th district, Rep. Paul Kanjorski, is proposing a federal "Reasonable Profits Board." Its members would be charged with determining when oil and gas companies' "profits are in excess."

Meanwhile, Waters' colleague from Pennsylvania's 11th district, Rep. Paul Kanjorski, is proposing a federal "Reasonable Profits Board." Its members would be charged with determining when oil and gas companies' "profits are in excess."

Skeptics who want to check the data need to search no further than the eight-year 1980s run of the energy industry windfall profit tax. During that time, domestic oil output fell to its lowest level in two decades. With domestic companies unable to extract more crude, the country's dependence on foreign sources rose by 8% to 16%, according to the Congressional Research Service.

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