Sinking SCHIP
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Submitted by lambert on Mon, 09/08/2008 - 1:51pm
Well, I'm sure I'd feel much worse if I weren't under such heavy sedation.
As upperyernoz remarks in comments:
what possibly could be gained by bringing a popular bill to the desk of an unpopular president so that he can veto it just days before his party tries to win another term in the white house?
Like, totally [bangs forehead on desk].
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Energy Prices
I've been stunned that we haven't had any show hearings on energy prices. Perhaps dragging some traders out to discuss potential manipulation or other trading activity driving oil prices. Witnesses talking about all the areas not currently being drilled and how ANWR drilling would do nothing except up the share prices for the oil companies.
I know the Dems aren't going to do anything to Wall Street or Big Oil, but have they never heard of a show trial?
Instead, of course, they simply caved on drilliing, which was always going to happen because the Dems never developed a compelling counter-narrative. Something they could've done if they'd gotten everyone on the same page with the media and backed with Congressional hearings.
Do these folks not remember having to vote on flag burning every two years?
they did have them--CEOs showed up
and nothing happened-- May 08 --
http://money.cnn.com/2008/05/21/news/eco... --
Don't blame us for prices - oil execs
A Senate Judiciary Committee seeks answers from Big Oil execs for rising oil prices on day that crude crossed $130 a barrel. ...
Biden, Durbin, etc-- all there.
Airline Industry
I was actually thinking a bit differently, which is to have hearings on the trading markets in oil. The idea being that the big price hike in California, when everyone said what was needed was deregulation and giveaways, turned out to be manipulated.
The airline industry has raised this issue. And nothing says good times like pitting industries againist each other. Let them and others make their pitch for why transparency in oil trading is needed.
But I suspect you're right and nothing would happen. The only way it happens is if the hearings are designed to coincide with a huge push from the Dems across the board. Something they seem incapable of.
Would someone please pry my comment out of the spamcatcher
Please, and thank you.
According to the system logs...
... the last comment you made is this one, which is published. There is nothing in the queues.
Thanks for looking
having some kind of problem, I'll come back to it later.
Meanwhile, there is this little tidbit:
A suspicious person might wonder if AP knows something they're not telling us.
The AP Knows
What we all know: that Bush is jamming a stake in the ground that a Democratic president wouldn't be able to pull out of the ground until at least February of 2009. I'm pretty sure he's given Petraeus a talking-up letting him know that he effectively controls our policy on Iraq, even know it's the civilian leadership that's supposed to make these decisions.
On SCHIP, this is what happens when your party's running narrative is that the problems of Washington are due to partisanship. Once you take that off the table, is there really any logic that allows you to get back to where you could play and issue for political gain? That party has painted itself into a corner, and gotten on a train its going to have to try and ride to its destination.