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Monday, June 14, 2010 | 2:02 a.m.
What are our senators in Washington doing? Why would our elected officials let control of greenhouse gases go to the Environmental Protection Agency? The EPA doesn’t have to answer to the voting public and it will do as it pleases. It will cost everyone more.
The Gulf of Mexico oil spill had something to do with their thinking when they said it made no sense to undermine efforts to curtail greenhouse gas emissions and reduce dependence on oil and other fossil fuels. But this country needs oil and you just wait and see, the EPA is going to do everything in its power to stop all oil drilling.
This cap and trade bill is a disaster. Before long the government will be telling everyone what they can and can’t do. Before you sell your house, you will have to meet EPA standards, and they will cost more and get worse every year. Fuel will be sky high until this country can convert from oil.
In the meantime, drilling rigs will be shut down — they are shut down in the Gulf now — putting thousands of people out of work. Look at all the families who will be affected. We will be buying more oil from other countries and the cost will go up.
Our government is out of control. We need to replace everyone in the Senate and House. They do what they want to and are not looking out for the best interests of the United States.
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Not every member of Congress is up for re-election. Moreover, you only get to vote for the open slots in Nevada. You obviously can't mean Dina Titus, who spent all but the 2 last years of her life in Education and who did replace a career politician in 2008. Could you mean Dean Heller in Reno? If so, good luck. He'll be there forever. You can't mean John Ensign. Sure, we'd all like to send him home, he embarrasses us, but his term is not up yet. So you must mean you want us to vote out Harry Reid. Why don't you say so? Why don't you come out and say that in your opinion, we should kick out the majority leader of Congress and rely on the combination of pariah Ensign and freshman Angle, both members of the minority party, to represent the best interests of the state of Nevada.
I know why you can't bring yourself to say it. It sounds pretty stupid when you even think it, and someone you know might read it in this paper.
If Harry "Pinko" Reid gets beaten out of his throne by a political lightweight and crude libertarian, Candidate Angle, then this state needs to turn over the keys to all the crazies left in it.
Well said StanG, kudos!
Gene we have been paying the same high prices for oil that we were paying when the majority of the oil was coming in from the mid-east. 30% of our oil has been coming from the gulf of Mexico, and we have been paying the same price as we have paid when the mideast was our only main supplier. Our government could care what we are paying becaused many of them are involved with the oil companies.
Just think of it this way, when a bill is passed and it costs the citizens more in taxes, there probably are politicians making profits on that same bill. Would it be nice if we all had the power to pass a bill knowing the profits of that bill was feeding your retirement account?
StanG, you are The Man.
Right on, brother.
And, um, "Pierre"... Noregard... though it pains me greatly, I ah, AGREE WITH YOU. 100%.
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Harry ... a man of all seasons, a great U.S. Senator !
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Integrity and quality and class seems not to be on the list of some writing here today .... they seem to like ' wingnuts' and ' perverters' .... need I mention the names of two who are way off in outer space and wrecking homes and screaming for privatizing this and that ?
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Bring each and every troop home today ... each and every one. The Palin Spill is a good reason to enact stronger regulation on the oil drillers and refiners and add Wall St. to that list and as fast as possible before China gets all our cash.
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Thanks For Reading My Post
Gene Grabau sounds as if he is parroting Sharron "Dubya" Angle's wacko ideas.
What happened in the Gulf was indefensible. BP has a long history of taking short cuts and not even following their own regulations.
They have committed murder by dregulation, greed, and downright incompetence.
The totalitarianism, corruption, and incompetence started in the reagan mis-administration and continued with bush Sr., and really went off the cliff with Dubya bush.
These narrow minded radical extremist wingnuts have tried hard to manipulate, dominate, and control the thoughts of the people while at the same time they let the corporate community do what it desired with no restraints.
Gene Grabaus needs to form his own opinion and form them as true as he can, but no, he will not do that. Is he is a petty propagandist, or is he so mentally lazy that he does not want to look for the facts/truths?
Anybody but Reid. Let's clean up Wahington, one politician at a time.
BP needs to be left alone.
I guess integrity, quality and class means to lie, cheat and bribe using tax dollars to get what you want. If Harry is so good for Nevada, why is our unemployment 13%? If harry is so good why is our education at the bottom nationally. If Harry is so good, why do have to come up with $800 million to extend medicaid? If Harry is so good, why is he for amnesty for law breakers? Why did he vote against e-verify? why is he using Nevadas federal dollars to bring in out of state companies to build here, giving tax breaks and any profit goes back to their states, not Nevada? No different than his support for mining. If Harry is so good why is he not at the forefront to make mining pay from their profits from the minerals they take from Nevada? If he was once great for Nevada, he has over the last 20+ years, lost that sight and is now for what fame and fortune Harry can get. He may call Searchlight home, but he lives in Washington DC. He must have Nevada residence to hold Nevada office, he could care less about Nevadans, except at election time.
The key thing to consider is that Obama wants to support his friends. One of them is George Seros. He has huge oil fields in Brazil. Obama asked Hillary Clinton to tell us how wonderful Brazil economy is and how bad the United States economy is. Obama has sat on his hands...and done little...about the oil disaster in the gulf. Yeah - he visits - but he has failed to help. He could have done a lot more the first 10 days of the crisis. The people who comment here seem to be "paid" Reid supporters. They want US economy to suffer and have families who work for the oil industry suffer - yeah, throw them a few scraps of unemployment insurance as the government TOOK their jobs for 6 months to a year or longer. Obama does not care about the American family and its time for Nevadans to wake up and realize why so many of you are unemployed. Remember Obama telling the country NOT to visit Nevada - well, a lot of you make your living from the tourist industry. Obama's wife visits Reno - but yeah - its more a photo opportunity for Harry Reid. Its time to wake up and yes - vote all these people out of office. They are keeping so many people unemployed...and NO - Obama is NOT doing a good job. He might be doing the best a LAWYER can do - and remember Obama is a LAWYER and a rich one at that. He and his wife made over 5 million dollars last year - he has no idea what it feels like to be a true American family...and he is destroying the value system of America. Vote Reid out of office ...
I am amazed that the radical extremist wingnut supporter are advocating economic suicide for themselves, their families, their communities, their state, and their country by adopting and propagating the lies dished out on a 24/7 basis by their fake leaders that have proven time and time again they are failures, miserable failures.
Are they stupid, are they mentally lazy, or are they bent on destroying the USA?
I am amazed that the radical extremist wingnut supporter are advocating economic suicide for themselves, their families, their communities, their state, and their country by adopting and propagating the lies dished out on a 24/7 basis by their fake leaders that have proven time and time again they are failures, miserable failures.
Are they stupid, are they mentally lazy, or are they bent on destroying the USA?
They probably just hope to get paid someday-- mouthing the party line.
Have you ever heard of "Hire Expert Bloggers," or "Need Bloggers to get it done?" the whole thing is being ommericialized, and comments have no real meaning anymore.
Teabaggers are sad because their pick, wacky Angle, is scaring the beegeebees out of the normal folk.
No question about it, Angle provides much rich soil for Harry and Co to dig in.
Sharron "Dubya" Angle want's to eliminate the IRS and taxes. Tell me, why is she running for the Senate when by her own expressions she wants to eliminate government. Does she not realize that the Senate is part of the government?
This person is more than wacko, she is crazy as a loon, and completely out of touch with reality.
No she doesn't!!!!! You are listening to Harry and his followers and not looking at the issues yourselves. She has expressed how silly Harrys statements are. She explains SS and she also explains medicare. She also knows that Harry and this admin are desperately trying to filter out both, because they are broken and have been and instead of fixing them, the dems through their healthcare bill will destroy both SS and medicare, so the accusations Harry throws out there, should be pointed straight at him and this admin. Her comments are based on the healthcare plan and what dems are doing and she wants seniors to be prepared because they will go away under Harry and Obamas watch.She's a conservative, she doesn't want to get rid of govt she naturally wants reduced govt control as does most all conseratives. If you are going to bash the woman, at least get the facts straight when you do it. Harry is a whack job,killing our state and needs to go. Last poll..60-Angle, 39-Harry.The deal with Harry though, is money talks, thats how he got votes for the healthcare bill through bribery, so dirty politics is not beyond him, I see him buying votes, making promises for votes, dirty Harry-dirty politics-dirty votes.
lipton, let us see some facts!
From what Sharon "Dubya" Angle has said tells me that she could not pass a psychological test. She has shown all of us Nevadans that she is not in touch with the Nevada citizens and wasn't in touch with state legislators when she was there.
The only reason Russo, Marsh, and Rogers a consulting firm in Sacramento, CA, gave Angle a lot of sup[port is because they know she is very good puppet material. That is what the radical extremist wingnut puppet management company wants.
She has already made her pilgrimage to Fox Propaganda News so they could teach her to talk like them. Next , she will be going to a radical extremist wingnut where they teach candidates how to obfuscate, to beat around the bush, and to tell lie upon top of lies.
Fellow Nevadans, who do these radical extremist groups think we are? We are not dumb and we will not be suckered in by sugar coated and even crazy lies.
Replace the party of NO.
Vidi, where are your facts? you have given your opinion. Shall we discuss Harry telling lie upon lie and beating around the bush? Radical extremists? Shall we make a list of the democratic agenda for the last year and a half and the radical extreme moves they have made? teamster, you got it right. I am saying absolutely "no" more of this radical spending, no more telling other countries how sorry we are for being americans,strong, free and wise. No more giving illegals all the rights and privileges americans and legal immigrants recieve and have earned.No more lying to us that their new healthcare will not cost us anything.No more lying that Harry does great things for Nevada.The proof he doesn't is in the numbers where we stand nationally.You really think Harry,Obama or Pelosi has not sugar coated,lied or right out decieved us? Talk about supporting a party even when you know and theres proof they are wicked and corrupt, you must blame someone else.
viti, didn't you watch your very own Jon Ralston,liberal extraordinair, interview Angle? Maybe you got the answers straight from her instead of the snipits Harry takes out of context and publicizes expecting you to believe and follow like sheep just as you did with Obama. Wait a minute, I think I heard Obama say it was Bushes fault.