BO Out of Touch

Jim Rutttenberg, New York Times, is shocked that John McCain is painting BO as ill-informed, arrogant and out of touch:

WASHINGTON — After spending much of the summer searching for an effective line of attack against Senator Barack Obama

• Hey, Bruce… I would argue they ARE in fact consumer driven, and have been so, all along. Consumer demand for Altoids boxes on wheels has simply not been there, and so they didn’t get built.  Couple that with the idea

• Look, left-o-shere… if you’re that pissed at the Democrats in Congress over FISA and whatever else,  that you’re going to waste all our time and bandiwth with your screaming, does that mean you will be doing America a favor and

“$4 a gallon is the best news this country has had in a very long time. Here’s to $5. It’s the only way Americans will ever learn.”

Sullivan: “The Joy Of $4 A Gallon”. It’s just wonderful that

Fox News:

For the second day in a row, gas prices nation wide have ticked down. The decrease isn’t much, but it’s enough to give motorists hope that more could be on the horizon.

The average per-gallon price stands at

So, President Bush has now joined John McCain’s call to eliminate the federal ban on offshore oil drilling. He’s even asked Congress to do so. This strikes me as a smart move, both in the political world, and the

The ‘rats to have a plan to combat four dollars a gallon gasoline — yet higher texes, Daniel Whittenberg:

June 10 (Bloomberg) — Senate Republicans thwarted Democratic-supported legislation that would increase windfall- profit taxes on oil companies such

• I complained last night that Memeorandum had been pretty much ignoring BitsBlog. Apparently, someone there is reading, and they reacted. The post complaining about being ignored, got featured status. Gottena  few links through since then, a well. Nice to

I’ve posted this before, but I think it bears revisiting… here’s how to raise fuel prices should you want to do it…

* Create shortages in the oil markets by ensuring domestic oil supplies can never be used. This will

• Been getting downright crazy traffic the last couple months, and none of it bigger than the last week or so. No particular reason I can see. Usually when we get traffic spikes it’s due to one article or another that

• From Boortz, a vid of Obama telling us how he wants to disarm America. Apparently, he hasn’t leaned the lessons of Viginia Tech. Disamring people is only going to make situations like that worse… and there’s a lot

This is huge. The Souix City Journal is reporting:

By a solid 58 percent to 42 percent margin, county voters approved Hyperion’s request to rezone 3,292 acres of farm land for a new classification, Energy Center Planned Development.

“What happened

Doctor Krauthammer:

Only Monday, a British parliamentary committee proposed that every citizen be required to carry a carbon card that must be presented, under penalty of law, when buying gasoline, taking an airplane or using electricity. The card contains your

• Create shortages in the oil markets by ensuring domestic oil supplies can never be used. This will force us to get oil from the least stable spots in the world, thus forcing not only higher prices, but forcing us to

The audacity of stupidity and being too young to remember the Carter Administration.

May 1 (Bloomberg) — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama‘s proposal for a windfall profits tax on oil companies could cost $15 billion a year at