Bin Laden a long time ago said he was going to bankrupt our nation, and with all the chaos that’s been going on with oil and housing and food and all these things.

Bin Laden did say he wanted to bankrupt America. This is before 9/11, I believe, and he hoped that 9/11 would do it. He hoped that taking down the World Trade Center would do it. They had some other plans, too, that went awry. But Bin Laden did, I think, also suggest that he hoped to be able to get the worldwide oil price up to $144 a barrel, which it has been.

The oil price dropped like eight bucks instantly today, started creeping back up. But nevertheless, this stuff happening in the United States right now, is not happening because of Osama Bin Laden.

This is the problem with it. It’s a very complicated thing. I read an analogy today that perhaps is a good illustration of what happens.

Take a water supply for a city, for example, and let’s say somebody very slowly but surely starts poisoning it, not enough for it to be noticed any time soon, but the poison continues to build up and build up and build up, and finally a bunch of people start getting sick.

That is what’s happened here.

The government, because of unbridled growth and tampering with free markets, with things like Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae and insuring mortgages and lending money to people or directing money be lent to people who couldn’t pay it back, what’s happening is that a financial system has been poisoned.

The problem is that just as when the water supply of the fictional city has been poisoned what people didn’t do then was go, “Okay, who put the poison in here?”

What they did was blame the water.

Right now people are blaming our system rather than figuring out and understanding why the hell this happened.

This happened because the government got involved, government grows, government knows no limits, government knows no bounds, and we have been papering over credit problems for years and years and years and pretending that we didn’t have them, and now all of a sudden a lot of institutions that we thought were solid and had assets backing their worth, don’t. And we don’t have the money in this country to put every American in a 3,000-square-foot house.

Bob Casey, Senator from Pennsylvania, before a Senate committee with the fed chairman today read a letter he got from a constituent named Tammy May. She is a working mother, a single mother with two kids, and she wanted Casey to re-prioritize things: House first, day care second, gasoline third, food fourth.

Note what’s not on there.

No climate change. No global warming. No health care. No Iraq war.

We can’t put everybody in a 3,000-square-foot house in this country and pay their electricity and pay everything else and yet the government has sought to make people think that’s what the government is there for because people in government want to get elected, they want people’s votes.

So the financial system here, the analogy is flawed a little bit, but it’s been poisoned and right now we’re not looking at who poisoned it, we’re blaming the system. There’s nothing wrong with the system. It’s like campaign finance reform, McCain said, “The system is corrupting us, we are good politicians.”

No. The system is fine. People corrupt themselves. The system doesn’t reach out and corrupt anybody.

President Bush is now announcing the lifting of the executive order banning offshore drilling. It won’t mean anything. Congress still has to act, but he is announced today!

HOWALUYA…OIL in the US REBORN

Finally, America you can drill… where the oil actually is.

If Congress will get off their fat asses and get something done about accessing the domestic supply here in our country.

All you that believe, “War in Iraq was for oil.” Well, as history already shows (Kuwait is another prime example of the fallacy of the statement) This war has continued the safe and free follow of oil from the mid-east, violence continues fail 85%/90% last time I checked.

But I am getting off topic.

You don’t need to look far to see the obstacles: Congress/Senate/Environmental wacko Groups, Democrats, Liberals, etc…

The percentage of voters who give Congress good or excellent ratings has fallen to single digits for the first time in Rasmussen Reports tracking history. This month, just 9% say Congress is doing a good or excellent job. Most voters (52%) say Congress is doing a poor job, which ties the record high in that dubious category.

US Congress Approval Rating

The new Democrat Congress, came in on the wonderful plan they were to announce in the first 100 days, or whatever, never materialized (gas prices have doubled) and now all they do is blame Bush, Business, Foreign countries (…even though they demand greater production from foreign countries, while stopping with all might our own production), ah… and don’t forget they want to sue OPEC for not producing enough… please…

Typical liberal solution: do nothing… except obstruct.

It was just a few weeks ago that the Democrats in Congress were railing at Big Oil, telling us that Big Oil was responsible for high prices and that Congress would be taking charge. Remember Maxine Waters? She let the cat out of the bag, said she wanted to nationalize the oil companies.

Well, what happened to that solution? What happened to getting even with them? What happened to taking it to those guys, hmm? What happened to that solution?

Isn’t it amazing, my friends, that the scapegoaters in Congress have literally dropped the issue of attacking oil companies now in lieu of oil speculators?

So guess who won the debate when Congress debated the oil executives a few weeks ago? The oil executives, they manned up!

The oil executives grew a set and they finally told Congress the facts of life when it comes to supply, demand, and overregulation, and look what happened? Congress was embarrassed, Americans figured out who the real enemy is, and Big Oil is off the hook because they got the facts out. As a result, Big Oil was dropped as a bad guy faster than a negative Lord Obama story. And oil speculators were instantly declared public enemy number one. Meanwhile, the speculators were simply reacting to fake news out of Iran, fake news promulgated by the US Media.

I just find it amazing, folks, how quickly members of Congress and the Democrat Party dropped blaming Big Oil for the prices of gasoline and have moved on to the speculators.

What a breathtaking quickness took place here, shifting blame from Big Oil to the oil speculators. It’s a given that Democrat policies will never be examined regarding that or any other issue, so there’s always going to be a distraction and the Democrats are always gonna need a demon. So does this mean that the decades of endless investigations and public rebukes and condemnations of Big Oil have been wrong? Seriously, folks, these are our members of Congress. These are the guys that pass the laws and then act like spectators. These are the guys that gave us the subprime problem. These are the guys that create all this. These are the guys that won’t drill for oil. These are the guys that cause runs on banks, like Charles Chuck-U Schumer. They sit around and get to act like spectators. Now all of a sudden they drop the hot potato of Big Oil. Does this mean they’ve been wrong all these years? Does it mean it’s been a total waste of taxpayer money to go after Big Oil all these years?

How many millions of taxpayer dollars have been wasted on investigations and big show hearings, show trials targeting Big Oil? I think they were going on in the 1970s. How many hundreds of millions of dollars has it been? How many millions have the oil companies had to spend defending themselves and the countless hours of favorable news coverage at the same time devoted to Democrats showboating on TV, acting as prosecutor, judge, and jury with their declarations that Big Oil was ripping off Americans and getting filthy rich with their ill-gotten windfall profits.

Whatever became of all that?

Is that now just inoperative ’cause it’s the speculators’ fault? Big Oil was guilty until proven innocent, and there would be no innocents.

There are no innocents in oil prices. Somebody is guilty. They’re going to find somebody to get you mad at, and now it’s the speculators.

About Obama and his suggestion that you start teaching your children Spanish, fine and dandy, but I have some other languages I think they should learn first. And your kids should have learned it from you, if they’re not learning it in school.

The odds are pretty good they’re not learning it there: the language of economists, to be able to translate phrases like, “supply and demand,” and understand their meaning.

The language of scientists and climatologists, to be able to listen in on their conversations when they talk about water vapor being by far the number-one greenhouse gas and that carbon dioxide is necessary for plant life and makes up less than .04% of the atmosphere.

They need to learn the language of mathematicians, so we can understand ’em when they tell us that Social Security is a shell game and it’s going broke.

Your kids need to learn the language of terrorists so we don’t get fooled again into thinking America is responsible for their endless thirst for mass murder and that we take them seriously when they make their promises.

We need to teach them the language of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, which is a subset of terrorism. When Ahmadinejad says he’s going to nuke Israel, he means it. He means he wants to.

We need to teach them the language of Obama so that when we hear him talk about change, we know that sometimes he’s speaking the language of liberals, socialists, and Marxists, and we need to then teach them the language of liberals, socialists, and Marxists.

I got something to report to you, yesterday during one of the news breaks, the report was out of Colorado that the legislature is considering raising tolls on roads that previously didn’t have tolls because of the revenue drop with people driving less.

Reuters had reported back on June 20th the amount of Americans that are driving less and in the Rocky Mountain News it reported that between I-70, the main road going out to all the ski areas from Denver, were considering major tolls coming up in the future, things that didn’t previously exist.

Comment from a Coloradan:

“I’m going to encourage all my fellow Coloradans to go out and buy more sport utility vehicles and trucks and any kind of gas-guzzling vehicle they can get because if we continue buying the higher mileage vehicles they’re going to impose tolls on places to keep those revenues up in the coffers of the state. So basically an imposed tax, a shoot-from-the-hip tax because we’re driving less… —

Let me take the occasion to point out that this is happening in many states all across the fruited plain. The first place that I am aware that this happened was here in the great state of California. What happened was that in California, Governor Schwarzenegger and all of the glittering jewels of colossal ignorance in the assembly out here, started demanding people, —

“Hey, you need to clean up this state. This state’s got smog, pollution, you need to drive smaller cars and get more miles to the gallon. You need to do it for yourself, it’ll reduce your travel budget,”

…all these great things.

So a lot of people went out and did it because of course people are loyal to their governments and if they believe their trusted elected officials, then of course they’ll do what they can to help, which is why so many doofuses buy the stupid manmade global warming hoax.

Anyway, it didn’t take long for the state of California to realize out there that with all these new little lawn mowers disguised as automobiles getting a lot more mileage that the fuel tax was not producing as much revenue because people weren’t buying as much. The gasoline tax out there was not generating what it had been projected to be in the budget, and California is like 76 gazillion billion in debt out there, and so guess what?

They raised the tax, wiping out every saving that the dutifully patriotic citizens of California had matched and enjoyed by following instructions.

In North Carolina, they put water restrictions on because of the drought. So people, by law, could not water their lawns as much. And guess what?

The municipal water supply was not used as often, and thus sales of water and tax revenue declined and so local communities decided to raise water rates, while less was being used.

Everything in government happens the exact opposite of supply and demand, and the reason for it…

There is not one government and there’s not one media person who understands the concept that government can do with less, too.

Where did this notion come from that government can never do with less, that government by fiat has to have more every year? You and I need more every year, but we don’t just by fiat, wave a magic wand and get it. They can, and do.

It’s an interesting explanation, too, in terms of how they sell it.

Any time a state bureaucracy faces a cut, they caterwaul, they moan, they cry like babies, and then they tell people, “Well, if your house is going to burn down, too bad, our budget’s been cut and I don’t have enough money to get the fire truck to your house where you live,” and of course the citizens go,“You can’t do that!”

What they never do is lop off the top-heavy bureaucracies. They never get rid of useless policies; never get rid of useless people; they never get rid of redundant things.

They always seem to go out with their PR offensive where they gotta cancel, quote, unquote, “essential services,” and hence they rope in people with fear.

Bureaucracies: “Yeah, we’re going to have to cut a couple fire departments out there. We’re going to maybe even close one of the police stations.”

Citizens:“You mean if my house gets robbed, I got burglar in there, you’re not gonna come?”

Bureaucracies:“That’s exactly right because of budget cuts.”

Now, who in their right mind who is a genuine public servant, state or federal or local, when budget cuts come along, would have the audacity and the mean-spiritedness to tell citizens, “Guess what? We’re cutting the essential services that you need,” rather than look for places other than that to cut, and there are plenty of them.

They don’t need to build the panda exhibit at the Wayward Zoo 25 miles out of town. They don’t need to build the latest art expo with the latest liberal cultural rot on display for $5 million. They don’t need to build a testament to some wacko liberal politician, some honorary monument somewhere…

They never cut the junk.

They always claim to have to cut essentials, so that you caterwaul and moan to higher authorities canceling out the budget cut.

Calling Obama a flip-flopper is not going to be enough to win. It’s just not. It’s going to be better over the course of the next weeks and months to proclaim and describe his inexperience and his incompetence and to say that these flip-flops are really just the result of incompetence and inexperience, which are leading him to make goofs, which are leading him to lie, which are leading him to flounder around.

All of these flip-flops have got to be referred to as the result of inexperience. He just doesn’t know what he’s doing. When he’s off a prepared speech, when he’s off the prompter, when he’s on his own, when he doesn’t have some campaign aide, then he’s off the beaten path and as such, he’s on his own and so this has to be chalked up to inexperience.

And how little experience does he have?

Cheri Jacobus, who is a brilliant woman, a Republican strategist, she lives in Washington, she’s worked on Capitol Hill, posted a little blurb:

“Just how much Senate experience does Barack Obama have in terms of actual work days? Not much. From the time Barack Obama was sworn in as a United State Senator, to the time he announced he was forming a Presidential exploratory committee, he logged–”

How many days experience, from the time he’s inaugurated in the Senate, sworn in, until he announced his presidential exploratory committee, how many actual days of work experience in the Senate for Barack Obama?

It’s 143.

“After 143 days of work experience, Obama believed he was ready to be Commander In Chief, Leader of the Free World, and fill the shoes of Abraham Lincoln, FDR, JFK and Ronald Reagan. 143 days -”

I keep leftovers in my refrigerator longer than that…

“In contrast, John McCain’s 26 years in Congress, 22 years of military service including 1,966 days in captivity as a POW in Hanoi now seem more impressive than ever.”

So there you go, 143 days.

So this is the key. All of these so-called flip-flops, all these changes in position, they are due to his inexperience. His inexperience and his incompetence lead him to make goofs, to lie, to flounder around. I think if people see Obama as dangerously incompetent and floundering, it might lessen his appeal.

Calling him a flip-flopper, you know, been there, done that with John Kerry. He owns that.

You look at Kerry and you see a sandal, a flip-flop.

So you can’t tag that to Obama. It’s gotta be incompetence, it’s got to be inexperience.