Gingrich said his expectation was to be in Tampa and have an open convention, and that taking the nominating process all the way to the convention would be "good for America." Gingrich said that he and Santorum staying in the race would be helping conservatives because "Santorum and I are stopping Romney."
Political rhetoric aside, how much can the president really do to control gas prices?
Not all that much. The major cause of the recent spike—gas rose to $3.80 a gallon this week—is the increasing tension with Iran, most analysts say. That's making traders nervous about a possible conflict in a crucial oil-producing region, which could have the effect of cutting off a significant source of the world's oil. In addition, Japan has been using much more oil since shutting down virtually all of its nuclear power plants in the wake of the Fukushima disaster last year. And various conflicts in Sudan, Yemen, Syria and Libya have choked off some production in those countries.
Republicans say opening up the United States to more domestic drilling would bring prices down. Newt Gingrich has been hammering on that theme lately in his quest for the Republican presidential nomination, saying he has a plan to reduce gas to $2.50 a gallon. But American consumers are part of a global market for oil, and crude oil accounts for about three-quarters of the cost of a gallon of gas, according to the Energy Information Administration. So increasing domestic production wouldn't do much to ease prices. Not to mention, it would take years to come to market and start bringing prices down even marginally.
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Some Democrats have argued that unscrupulous speculators on Wall Street are driving up prices in search of short-term profits, and that the administration could ease the pain at the pump by cracking down on this activity. But even if that is going on, most experts say that global oil markets are simply too large for regulators to police. "If you go and put a position limit on [contracts in the New York Mercantile Exchange], fine," energy analyst Stephen Schork told the Washington Post last week. "But a significant amount of trading is in the Brent Market, which isn't in New York. You'll do nothing to relieve volatility."
...he's lucky they didn't drag him from the bumper of a pickup truck to the state's border.
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You know what worries me about all this, the hatred, the visceral hatred of the cons for Obama, that could propel Ricky into the White House.
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You know what worries me about all this, the hatred, the visceral hatred of the cons for Obama, that could propel Ricky into the White House.
Everytime Ricky sees the brass ring, he gets just a tad crazier and more emboldened,
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There were actually 4 contests last nigh. Mitt won Hawaii and American Samoa -- that pushed himthroughover the Gas and Santorum to get the most delegates for the night.
Considering what a pompous blowhard he is, the term "Gingrich Gas" is just way too funny.
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There were actually 4 contests last nigh. Mitt won Hawaii and American Samoa -- that pushed himthroughover the Gas and Santorum to get the most delegates for the night.
The GOP caucus in Samoa is done in a bar! I American Samoa for that!
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There were actually 4 contests last nigh. Mitt won Hawaii and American Samoa -- that pushed himthroughover the Gas and Santorum to get the most delegates for the night.
The GOP caucus in Samoa is done in a bar! I American Samoa for that!
In Hawaii, all the Republicans there are haoles who'ved moved there from elsewhere.
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There were actually 4 contests last nigh. Mitt won Hawaii and American Samoa -- that pushed himthroughover the Gas and Santorum to get the most delegates for the night.
The GOP caucus in Samoa is done in a bar! I American Samoa for that!
In Hawaii, all the Republicans there are haoles who'ved moved there from elsewhere.
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Caption time!!!
Two in the pink, one in the stink!
Rep. Peter King ‘Manhunters’ Video Sparks U.S. Marshals Probe
A video posted to the YouTube account of Rep. Peter King (R-NY) has sparked an investigation by the U.S. Marshals Service into why a videographer accompanying the New York Republican was allowed to film inside private residences against a federal policy.
Shortly after noon on Tuesday, a tweet from King’s account linked to an eight minute video of a ride-along with a “fugitive task force†including U.S. marshals on Monday. It showed King, the chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, joining police as they broke down doors and arrested a suspected fugitive. The video carried the logo of the “Manhunters†reality TV show and featured one of its stars, marshals commander Lenny DePaul.
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Caption time!!!
Two in the pink, one in the stink!
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Caption time!!!
Two in the pink, one in the stink!
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As a total aside....
Titanic in 3-D? That might be a bigger fail than it's voyage....
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Suck it Bawsten.
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Hal is coming to DC this weekend? Hmm... Hello arlington Drafthouse!
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Hal is coming to DC this weekend? Hmm... Hello arlington Drafthouse!
GO! He is hilarious. I saw him on Rapture day last year. 90 minutes of comedy gold!
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Hal is coming to DC this weekend? Hmm... Hello arlington Drafthouse!
GO! He is hilarious. I saw him on Rapture day last year. 90 minutes of comedy gold!
We saw him at the original Sexy Liberal Show in NY
In Birmingham, Ala., Romney was endorsed by Randy Owen of the popular country band Alabama. But Romney raised eyebrows when he asked Owen to sing a few lines of “Sweet Home, Alabama,†the iconic hit for a rival band, Lynyrd Skynyrd. Owen gamely obliged.
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Wow. That was really fascinating. I'm floored at what they walked into.
Floppy drives? Little to no Data recovery? FAXES????
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Wow. That was really fascinating. I'm floored at what they walked into.
Floppy drives? Little to no Data recovery? FAXES????
Seems to me that the Bush admin didn't bother to update the infrastructure they inherented from Bubba.
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Amina Filali, who swallowed rat poison on Saturday to protest her five months of marriage to the man who raped her a year earlier.
Article 475 of the Moroccan penal code allows for the "kidnapper" of a minor to marry his victim to escape prosecution, and it has been used to justify a traditional practice of making a rapist marry his victim to preserve the family's honor.
"Amina, 16, was triply violated, by her rapist, by tradition and by article 475 of the Moroccan law," tweeted activist Abadila Maaelaynine.
The victim's father said in an interview with an online Moroccan newspaper that the court pushed the marriage on her.
"The prosecutor advised my daughter to marry, he said 'go and make the marriage contract,'" said Lahcen Filali in an interview that appeared on goud.ma Tuesday night.
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*sigh*
I'm missing Thom.
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Wow. That was really fascinating. I'm floored at what they walked into.
Floppy drives? Little to no Data recovery? FAXES????
Seems to me that the Bush admin didn't bother to update the infrastructure they inherented from Bubba.
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Wow. That was really fascinating. I'm floored at what they walked into.
Floppy drives? Little to no Data recovery? FAXES????
Seems to me that the Bush admin didn't bother to update the infrastructure they inherented from Bubba.
It sorta amazes me, when you take into consideration the (rightfully so) concern about the Bush WH spying on Americans... What were they spying with?
This?
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As you know, I am big zombie enthusiast this, however is taking it too far.
The zombie right campaign, however hits just the right notes.
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As you know, I am big zombie enthusiast this, however is taking it too far.
The zombie right campaign, however hits just the right notes.
btw - did you watch?
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As you know, I am big zombie enthusiast this, however is taking it too far.
The zombie right campaign, however hits just the right notes.
btw - did you watch?
I've given up, but the Twitterverse exploded when Shane died! On Walking Dead and Eastbound and Down.
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Rush is now claiming Obama (via Anita Dunn) set him up to open his bigoted yap.
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Rush is now claiming Obama (via Anita Dunn) set him up to open his bigoted yap.
Oh that conniving Obama! He manipulated Rush into doing something he's done time and time again! We hatessss POTUSsssss!
Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly believes he’s found the smoking gun in the liberal plot: The public relations firm that represents Fluke, SKDKnickerbocker, counts White House alum Anita Dunn among its partners. “A-ha!†O’Reilly declared triumphantly. “So this whole deal comes back to the White House.â€
SKDKnickerbocker says its dialogue with Fluke began only after she became a household name, but even if that weren’t the case, here’s what O’Reilly’s theory boils down to: The White House secretly enlisted Dunn to convince a woman to testify at a House Republican hearing about contraception, in the hope that she’d be rejected, receive lots of attention for it, later testify at a Dem hearing, get called a “slut†and “prostitute†by Limbaugh and thus embarrass senior Republicans who would be hard-pressed to unequivocally rebuke him.
An Afghan rammed through a fence and crashed a stolen vehicle on a runway in a possible attempt to attack the plane of Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta at a military airfield in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, but Panetta was unharmed and carried on with his visit as planned, U.S. officials said.
Pentagon officials said they could not immediately confirm that the incident was an attempt to attack Panetta or that it was linked to his visit. They said the driver’s motives are under investigation.
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I almost forgot!
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I almost forgot!
Thank you! I had forgotten it was pi day.
I might have to head over to the Double R for a damn fine slice of cherry pie!
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Randi is talking about Newt and the gas thing today, and she asked if people knew that companies are closing refineries.
Well, yes, people know if they read FourFreedoms! Pain in the Gas!
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Side note about pi(e) my favorite is blue berry
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Randi is talking about Newt and the gas thing today, and she asked if people knew that companies are closing refineries.
Well, yes, people know if they read FourFreedoms! Pain in the Gas!
We all can do a the superiority dance together!
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:shudder: The hold music again! Sweet Home Alabama! :weakly crawls to fainting couch: Please put Southern Man by Neil You on the blog stereo!