Is there an idiots' test to become a member of Congress or did we just get lucky?

Drill, Baby, Drill

Palin, Baby, Palin

There is NO excuse for this! Someone needs to put forward an expert that says this is a good idea, or otherwise explain in detail why they would have such an opinion about what overwhelmingly agreed to be a falsehood! If there is information to the contrary, tell me. If there are other reason for your opinion, tell me! I'm not simply going to back you in the face of contrary evidence but I am willing to listen to your reasoning. If the only thing you have to tell me is that you are loyal to your lobby money, or if you have no answer for me and I find your oil lobby money...pack up your desk and get ready to lose your job.

My good Morgan,
We are not lobbyists. We are people trying to get to work and take our kids to school. We don't live in the city where we can just pop down to the tube and for a mere two bucks be dropped off a block away. We live in flyoverland where things are spread out. We grow your food, we bake your bread, we make your shoes, or at least we used to. The narrow view of people who are insulated in a world of ivory towers doesn't mesh here in flyoverland. We need independent transportation to live. This isn't about a lifestyle choice this is how it is. We need relief to exist. If we don't exist, guess what? Those scones down at Starbucks aren't going to show up. One thing we know out here is how to plan. If you want to eat next year, you plant your garden today. I want to have gas tomorrow and next year and in seven years. I can't depend on the nutcases in the Mideast (see Libya's threat yesterday). So, until you come up with something better, we want, no we demand more plentiful oil. If we don't get it, we also know how to raise our prices. We make and grow things out here in flyoverland, see how long you survive eating the "policies and ideas" you make where you live.

Nice try, drum up a little sympathy... Try again. I live in a town of about 6000, the next nearest town is about 30,000. There is a city bus stop within walking distance of my home. You don't bake or make my anything. I, like most Americans, cannot afford American shoes or much American anything. I don't need to come up with something better, there are thousands of people and companies doing that for US right now. You may need oil, but since you're asking me for technology I'll guess that's because you've blocked out all news of advancements and are gonna stick with gas no matter what. The rest of us, we're going to move on, shift the money to the companies that provide us the product we want. And as for lobbyists,
Lobby
1. an entrance hall, corridor, or vestibule, as in a public building, often serving as an anteroom; foyer.
2. a large public room or hall adjacent to a legislative chamber.
3. a group of persons who work or conduct a campaign to influence members of a legislature to vote according to the group's special interest.
–verb (used without object) 4. to solicit or try to influence the votes of members of a legislative body.
–verb (used with object) 5. to try to influence the actions of (public officials, esp. legislators).
6. to urge or procure the passage of (a bill), by lobbying.

Why aren't you a lobbyist? Why don't you think it is your responsibility to try to influence your government? Perhaps if you were a lobbyist, you could convince your government to stop allowing chemicals in your fields that are not healthy for your kids, how 'bout you ask them to stop chemical companies from bio-engineering your crops and then copyrighting them, what say you convince them to give more weight to small family farms instead of unsustainable factory farms? I might start buying your bread if you did. You'll have to talk to the Chinese about the shoe thing.
You, Sir, are missing the big picture. Your selfish reluctance to change your day to day methods fly in the face of current information, technology and the public good.

Experts say drilling offshore will not help your gasoiline issues, Experts say 30% of the price of gas today is due to speculation trading, Experts say we have the technology to be mobile without gasoiline if it gets the same support the oil companies did, Experts say your kids will be healthier without oil based products in their lives.

So you go on with your bad self, and start working on that speech to your kids about how you fought off clean alternative energy for their sakes.

Oh, and for not being a (L)obbyist, you sure have their "Standard Alternative Energy Answer #34" down pat....should we ask what corporate desk you are sitting behind writing your comments?

I would say they grow your weed in flyoverland, but it is clear you have your own supply.

Look, Dr. Einstein, we have to live until IT is invented. I am not a lobbyist. I have not stopped anything. You are howling at the moon about lobbyists.

It is very simple, pal, we have to survive out here. I don't care where you live, I care where I live and there's no bus stop within two miles of here and the bus doesn't go where I need to go. Do you want my 91 year old Aunt, who gets around fine in her car to have to walk two miles to the bus to get her groceries? We need every drop of oil to get us to something better. Your government has let you down. Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton and Bush have done nothing. That includes your God, Al Gore...he's done nothing. The free market will make it happen before the government does.

No, you wouldn't grow my 'weed', because you have failed to convince your government, through in-action, that a weed crop would provide low maintenance, low chemical, low water crops that would produce highly nutritional food (hemp milk, more omega's than fish, you could use that in flyover land eh?) textiles, building materials and bio-diesel just to name a few. Canada, that's who is growing MY weed crop. I don't smoke weed, i eat, drink, wear build and move with it.
I'm no Einstein, I have an adult high school diploma. So you see, the information gushing forth from my keyboard is available to anyone, including the fact we are no longer 'waiting' for things to be invented, we are 'waiting' for them to be produced. We are waiting for your precious (faulty broken never would have and never will work freakin) free market system. The oil companies are taking the money from the support, and from the profits and dumping them back into convincing YOU that you still need oil and that there is no other alternative. It's workin' on you, but not the rest of us. Your hope system depends on genuine unadulterated manipulation free ebb and flow of supply and demand. Have you watched TV lately? Read up on the lobby money pouring into government? Free....
Shame on your local leaders for not building you a public transit system (because it's not your responsibility to, you're not a lobbyist), shame on you for not visiting your granny more than once a week and offering to bring groceries. Pity you and yours are too busy to figure out a cooperative shopping and errand schedule with your family and friends.

More's the pity, that apparently you do not have an internet connection that provides you to the same sources of news, science and information that I have, or a library, or a method of addressing your local government regarding your issues, Or I guess even TV, it must be just awful out there in flyover land.

And it's ever so nice to see that in the face of statistics and facts, expert opinions and public outcry, you resort to name calling, personal integrity attacks and worst of all, make jokes about God.

Signing off on this, I'll see about dropping a care package next time I flyover your little corner of 1952.

If I were in Court, I would simply say, "Your Honor, the prosecution rests." Someday, you libs will come to understand that public transportation isn't viable in rural and suburban environments. The mass transit agency here loses 68 cents for every dollar it takes in. Using that business logic if everyone rode mass transit, it would bankrupt our economy. Do you want everyone to live in Gulag style concrete box apartments or collective farms? This is a huge country and it cannot be managed by mass transit if you want to eat. It is much easier for this country to develop alternative means of independent transportation than to move everyone into Soviet style gulags. I do not intend to give up the lifestyle I have worked very hard to achieve. I am going to drive a car anywhere I want, anytime I want, get used to it. Once people understand, as they are starting to, that this eco-wingbat BS is going to cost them their lifestyles, socialists like BHO are not going to have a chance to be elected. Moreover, I am willing to bet you the following: I will make my identity known to an agreeable third party. If that party deems me to be a current or former lobbyist, I will donate the maximum allowable donation to the Obama campaign. If I am not, you will donate the same to the McCain campaign. I believe the maximum is $4600. Your move.